Surprise Attack!

"I don't care if they're Hell's Own Special Forces, he'll go through them like a Buzz-saw". Punisher Max, Issue 2, Garth Ennis.

Sometimes, you're waiting for the right moment to start spanking the bad guys with takedowns left, right and center. There's some key, indefinable moment where, all of a sudden, someone says something - does something - that issues the IT'S GO TIME signal in your brain and before you know it, you've fired out a whole pile of "bin it now, k thx bye" requests in an extremely co-ordinated and systematic fashion.

Remember, the effect you're going for is to start with the bottom feeder sites, herd all the cattle onto the main and final target - laugh at them saying "WTF HAPPENED TO ALL THE SITES" for a while, before dropping the final bomb on their heads.

Now, as far as our Punishing Pal goes, there were certain Myspace related events taking place in regards to forum trolling that forced my hand and compelled me to release my Punisher writeup earlier than I'd have liked. It did certain people a favour, so I'm cool with that. However, there was always the risk that flipping the switch would tip off other undesirables and blow the sequence of takedowns before I could set them all off.

Colour me surprised, then, that one of the main players from the forums (with his own useless website) was presumably Googling their script kiddy webpage defacements and came across my Punisher article. Next minute, he's worked out where I took the Punisher posts from and dives into a stunning Instant Messaging showdown that lasted all of, oh, twenty seconds.

Unsurprisingly, he left the chat right after this. Also, hahaha etc. For some reason, he reminds me of the guy that came up with this wonderful page of Paperghost love (warning, swears a-plenty).

Ladies and Gentlemen, a big round of applause for Hell's Own Special Forces.