image text translation
“DFADF
YES
JUST NEED TO GET
MY SPECTRAL
I’m here
HA4
OuT hey THESE ASTRAL
MERASMUs,
It’s okay
BINDINGS! STALL
CAN’T SEE YOU’
THEM SOLDIER’
QUICKLY!
REBALL
THEM BEFORE THEY
TORTURE NEA
YOU
GGT
HEy YOU
KOREANS
HEARD
YOU’RE TERRIBLE
TORTUPING!
sOLDIER!
MEANT STALL
WHO
KENZI!
THEM AWAY FROM
TOLD
TORTURE THIs
TORTURING
THIS?
MAN:
You’
TORIfRE
STYLE I5 KMOYN
THROUGHOUT
THE LANDS!
Tner AT 15
NOT THE ROCK
JUST PUSHED
DOWN THIS
HILL
For reference, the last TF Comics comic was set in 1979.
Pauling and the Engineer ran out of money after stealing all the Australium in Soldier’s cave, so Soldier borrowed money from a Korean gangster and took the name Merasmus.
Merasmus eventually died after being tortured by a Korean gangster.
So Korea appears in the last comic.
Soldier: “Hey Koreans! I heard you guys aren’t good at torture!”
Merasmus: “Hey, Soldier, what if I encourage these kids to torture you!”
Kenji: “Who said that? The whole world knows about our Korean torture methods!”
image text translation
HE OWES
Us 12,000
WON.
NOBODY
LEAVES UNTIL
THE DEBT Is
CLEARED.
12,000
WON. THAT
SEVENTEEN
Us
DOLLARS
Korean gang leader: “Soldier owes 12,000 won. No one can leave until the debt is paid.”
Heavy: “12,000 won is equivalent to 17 dollars in American currency.”
image text translation
YOU
CAPTURED THESE
NATURALLY.
IF THE
MEN FROM
MAXIMUM
WE HAVE
KOREAN MAFAA
SECURITY PRISON, FLEY
REPUTATION TO
WOULD DO ALL THAT
THEM TO GANGJU AND
CONSIDER
FOR
SEYENTEEN
TORTURED THEM
DOLLARS,
DEATH
FOR
IMAGINE
SEVENTEEN
WHAT OUR ENEMIES
DOLLARS
BELIEVE WE WOULD
DO FOR REAL
MONEY.
Heavy:
“Then they kidnapped two men from a maximum security prison in the United States, brought them to Gwangju, Korea, and tortured them.
“Why did you kill one person for only $17?”
Korean gang leader:
“Of course we have to take into account the reputation of gangsters,
If a Korean gangster would do this for 17 dollars,”
“Imagine what our enemies will think we would do with so much money.”
image text translation
You BREAK
TWENTY?
CANNOT
SEEMS WE ARE
OMCE NGAIN AT
ANIMPA
JUST
KEEP IT
Heavy: “I guess I’ll have 20 dollars in change, right?”
Korean gang leader: “I have some change left.”
Heavy: “Just keep it.”
image text translation
ARE
YOU GOING TO
THEN
HIT ME WITH
SURE
IT?
I DON’T
THINK SO
THERE
BUT NOW WE’RE
EVEN
EVEN?
Merasmus had already been tortured to death and became a ghost, so he decided to possess the brick and went with Soldier.