Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT August 2015
mikmaxs:
Whelp. Alice Grove just went full-on PG-13 Adult Audience Star Wars Episode III, didn't it?
ReindeerFlotilla:
When Jeph surpasses the raw carnage of Schlock Mercenary, I'll consider him to have gone Adult audiences.
I remember the old days when Tayler would repeat that SM was a family comic, and I'd think, "Howard, these people casually rip each other's head off. And this among friends."
Sorflakne:
Hmm, unsure if I approve of Alice not offing Ardent, or disappointed that she didn't off him.
On the one hand, the one panel makes it seem she had a large hand in the carnage and destruction of the wars before the Blink, and that the experience broke her in a way, which would indicate that by sparing Ardent, she doesn't want to reawaken the monster she once was (though you can see it here and there in the comic). On the other hand, by offing Ardent, it would've shown that she's willing to do what it takes to prevent any harm from coming to the world she's tried to rebuild.
Of course, the second option assumes that Ardent is indeed a pawn/sleeper agent.
BenRG:
Called it!
Killing enemies and threats to the innocent? She can do that and even enjoy it on a disturbing level. Kill an innocent pawn who is willlingly offering himself to death? That's something totally different and I don't think that Alice has ever been that able to disconnect her conscience from her actions to that extent.
About those images...? I think that Alice was remembering the next few steps down the path to hell that starts with killing the innocent 'for the greater good'. Pogroms, genocides and all the horrors that come from radical eugenics. Something tells me that things got bad just before the Blink. She's seen just where well-intentioned extremism goes to. She can't be part of that, let alone the start of it... she won't.
improvnerd:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Aug 2015, 23:22 ---Something tells me that things got bad just before the Blink.
--- End quote ---
According to Alice: "This led to a series of regional conflicts that escalated to all-out war. It lasted for years. Billions died." (6/11, panel 6)
The art for that panel looks a lot like panel 1 of today's strip.
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