Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - NEW COMIC! - October 2014
Kugai:
Well, someone has to maintain them
The Wind Turbine you filthy minded people you!
Carl-E:
We have a wind turbine plant nearby. When I was commuting, I frequently wound up behind parts of them on the highway.
I mention this because these things are fucking huge!! The exit ramp from the highway to get to the windfarm had to be widened to get these trailers around the bend...
When you go up to service one of these, you go up an elevator through the base, ending with a climb up a steep ladder-like stairwell through the base pivot into the generator housing. Maintenance is done from the inside; no one is on top of these things, they're over 300 feet (about 100 meters) tall! The only time someone's on the outside is during construction.
Not trying to bitch, but... well, it just bothered me...
Barmymoo:
Maybe she's constructing it.
Loki:
Okay, Carl's post made me realize there is something I hadn't mentioned, because I had subconsciously assumed everyone thought the same as me.
Does anyone else feel like the world is slightly... I dunno... supernatural? It feels a bit like a dream sequence, with the unimportant parts filed off. It reminds me of xkcd's "Time" (a movie I yet have to watch, by the way). The title of the comic seems to reinforce that - Alice Grove sounds like a "special" place, akin to "World of Amelie" or "Sophie's World".
Such a world need not necessarily operate on the same principles as ours.
pwhodges:
For me it's more that it's pared down, simplified if you like. But we don't yet see what else there is in this world which in time we will assume as a background for what we see in-frame.
Jeph is starting it very differently from the start of QC. Whereas QC began as (and largely remains) a gag-a-day comic, here we have three initial strips which are entirely scene-setting in preparation for whatever interaction will shortly occur.
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