THE specter of
ISSUE 6!
Words from the Authors: Yasin E:
I DID SAY BEFOREHAND THAT ISSUE 4 WAS MY FAVORITE TO WORK ON... WELL WE HAVE A NEW CONTENDER! I HAD AN AMAZING TIME WORKING ON ISSUE 6 FROM DEVELOPING MY STYLE MORE, ADDING PLOT POINTS I’M EAGER TO SEE GROW AND HAVING JUST ANOTHER SIMPLE, FUN VILLAIN! AT THE TIME OF WRITING THIS, ITS THE START OF DECEMBER, ITS CRAZY TO THINK HOW ALMOST A WHOL YEAR HAS PASSED SINCE ME AND SPENCE STARTED WORKING ON THIS WHOLE SERIES. WE STARTING BRAINSTORMING THIS IN OCTOBER OF '24 AND DIDN’T ACTUALLY START WORKING TILL APRIL (’25) AND WE MANAGED TO PUT OUR FIRST ISSUE OUT IN EARLY MAY OF THE SAME YEAR. vIT’S BEEN AN INTENSE 7 MONTHS AND I’M EVEN MORE EXCITED TO PUSH HARDER, FASTER, AND STRONGER THROUGH THIS SERIES! SO GO ENJOY ISSUE 6, THE SPECTER OF SIMIAN STOCKBROKER!
Spencer J:
Thank you again for reading this. We’ve been working hard on developing the next 5 issues of Caustic, and you’re in for a wild ride! Enjoy the introductory issue for the next awesome arc of Caustic: The Specter of Simian Stockbroker!
Written by: Penciled and inked by: colored By: Lettered by:
Spencer Julewicz
Yasin Elkwisni
YASIN ELKWISNI AND SPENCER JULEWICZ
YASIN ELKWISNI
morning, jada!
Oh! morning ray... how’s it going...?
pretty good, pretty good. i moved a cubicle closer to the microwave so i can get there before anyone else!
yeah, that’s uh, cool man. catch you later
um... yeah. see you later
okay, i don’t have anything planned today
so i have the perfect oppourtunity to practice speaking!
no want go. want eat peanut butter and watch kung-fu sibyl 6
how’d you like to go to the laundromat, harvey!
and if they ask your name?
harvey jackson and they ask how you’re doing? very good, weather is nice today pretty good, but you gotta work on your vocab
okay, so before you go deal with... that, try and keep it from romita street
we’re still going to the laundromat what?! no!
listen, if you wanna get good at talking you have to practice. no excuses!
now go take care of the monkey, champ
What! who did that?!
'ya expect me tuh know who you are. i’m a busy ape, kid
yeah yeah, that’s a good one. but you can’t the market, kid fortune favors the bold, and nothings bolder than usin’ a black market chrono-traveler to get a couple stocks up in the future!
then go back to zoo
here comes the crash!
WHAM!
see, kid? i’m from the future. there’s a reason nobody knows 'ya!
GAHHH!
here comes the short squeeze!
Here’s the thing, kid i got all the time in the world to make this happen...
how’s that for a short squeeze!
i don’t need to beat you, i just need to break enough stuff in the past so that it ripples up and makes a couple stocks go up
be my guest...
nice line, mind if i take it?
you stupid @#!$!
you tanked me! you tanked me!
you destroyed the time portal!
Listen, kid. i’ma be straight with 'ya.
i made a few bad investments so this stock needs to pay off. i bought it so low that if i went back and finnicked with time a little, i could get enough cash to pay off big quokka and his gang.
you help me fix the chrono-traveler, i’ll cut you in on it. i swear it. whaddaya say?
go back to zoo
don’t think this makes up for you being a stretchy freak!
they hate me. i am monster
no, they just think that you’re the monster noxious turned into
no. i am still monster. no human. freak...
that doesn’t matter. i don’t care if you’re a human or a shapeshifting blob or a damn goldfish. you’re a hero, and that’s all that counts. And one day real soon, they’ll realize that too...
now come on, let’s go wash my dirty shirts...
or is it?...
“by day he is ray diamond, cowardly office coworker nobody...”
“yes, mild-mannered, timid ray diamond. no one suspects a thing about him. but no one knows about his secret life...”
“But by night he dawns a new persona...”
“a benevolent and humble protector of good. He becomes...”
and here comes the evil dr. dictavious!
here he goes whoooooosh he’s destroying the whole city! AND HERE COMES AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
ALL IN A DAYS WORK
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
HOORAY FOR AXIOM!
KABOOM!
HEH...
harvey, get the popcorn!
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