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WCDT: 2338-2342 (10-14 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Hugh B Hayve:
Hi QC readers, I've been reading the strip for a couple years now and saw a reference to one of my favorite fantasy series'(unless there is something else that I don't know about in which that reference was made), and felt the need to comment as nobody seems to have mentioned it as one of the 'callbacks' Jeph talked about on his tweety thing. The lead-lined box at the bottom of the ocean refers to something that happened in the final book of a series written by David Eddings called the Elenium in which the 'jewel of power' of which the story revolves around gets locked in this box and tossed in the ocean at a remote location to prevent the protagonists from gaining it's power. the lead lining of the box was supposed to stifle the jewels magic powers . The box ends up getting recovered in the next series the Tamuli. Talking about it now makes me want to try and find those books because it was a really good couple of series' and deserves rereading.
riccostar:
henceforth
twitter = the tweety thing
Schmorgluck:
Tss, cats and dogs are not our friends, they just pretend, they just pretend.
Schmorgluck:
--- Quote from: Hugh B Hayve on 15 Dec 2012, 17:20 ---lead-lined box at the bottom of the ocean
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Except that, for the Bhelliom, it was iron-lined.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 15 Dec 2012, 07:23 ---Momo no longer has The Pugnacious Peach tossing her in the air like a toy, but Emily played with her belly button and Clinton objectified her and intruded into personal space so much that we saw the first use of her taser against a human.
Winslow is treated more respectfully than Pintsize despite looking like an iPod. There's a dark possibility that Momo was mistreated because she's female. There might be a deepseated human weakness of disregarding non-human consciousness, but while animal cruelty is way too common most people are decent with cats and horses.
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Considering how off even the other characters consider them, I don't think Emily or Clinton really count as baseline examples.
I think Winslow may be treated more respectfully because he looks like an ipod. At the very least, he doesn't have a skirt like Momo does.
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