Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2952-2956 (4-8 May 2015)
hedgie:
--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 06 May 2015, 22:03 ---I know imagine a rival coffee shop called the "Tannhäuser Gate"
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It was lost, in time, like tears in the rain.
Timemaster:
Yay, more robots! 8-)
The spider-aPC is a nice runnig gag. Iīm missing the toaster though.
"I make bread fun. But I wish I could toast a bun now and then."
May is quite mellow in this strip, but she is hardly the central person in this storyline. Itīs ok if she only looks appalled, because thatīs how she feels. So in my oppinion she is perfectly in character here. Iīm pretty sure that she doesnīt hold back on commenting on the other aPCsīs in her unique way. But this strip is reserved for the itsy bitsy spider pun. :-D
Iīm enjoing this week very much. It doesnīt always have to be drama. This is light and funny. And I think Jeph ist having a lot of fun too drawing these strips.
TM
BenRG:
Now, this is an interesting wrinkle. It seems that some AIs find dealing with us fleshy types stressful enough that it causes psychological problems! I suppose that this is an indication of just how complex that their psyches are - it can even become flawed with sufficient stress!
I empathise with May here. There is nothing worse than having to go to something like this - supposedly for your benefit but you really don't want to be there. It's in character for Momo to volunteer for something like this. What is interesting is how much May is like Faye. Is she avoiding optical contact because she doesn't want to cooperate or is it because she's afraid of her fellow AIs' scorn if she tells them her story and how she feels about herself and where her life has gone?
Also, someone needs to give Gordon a hug. I hate spiders but he's big enough not to trigger a response and there's no doubt that he's a nice guy! It isn't his fault that some joker thought that a headcrab was a suitable template for a brain-scanning chassis!
anahata:
They are described as sentient AIs, so they have feelings - it's almost inevitable that would include stress, fear and anxiety.
It's good to see the AIs back in the comic too. In the earlier days, Pintsize was a major character, Winslow was the straight man to Pintsize's gags, and Momo was philosophical about the political status of AIs. Then, apart from the arc in which May appeared on the scene, it's been mostly conventional human soap-opera for ages.
I can't help wondering whether all this autobiographical stuff from Momo is leading somewhere, or whether it's just a device for giving us a differently-lit overview of the main characters.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 06 May 2015, 23:09 ---Yay, more robots! 8-)
The spider-aPC is a nice runnig gag. Iīm missing the toaster though.
"I make bread fun. But I wish I could toast a bun now and then."
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Much like Lister, I'm not a big fan of talking toasters
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