It's time I get back to showing what FLICKERFLAME can do.  The Next Level are fascinating, but showing them all at once is going to be hard, and the title of the strip is FLICKERFLAME, not THE NEXT LEVEL.

He could have become one big boa constrictor---but I thought a hundred and sixty pounds of assorted smaller venomous snakes would be even more effective.

It's too bad, but Frost is going to have to repeat that---snakes are deaf.