Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT August 2015
Sorflakne:
Main characters have been killed off for less.
(click to show/hide)Take Tom Builder in Pillars of the Earth for example. First character in the book you're introduced to and pretty prominent and central to the story, and out of the blue, is killed during a raid. I had to read that part a couple times because there was no lead-up to it, just one second he was alive, the next second, he's run through and dead.
Method of Madness:
Ok, I don't know what that's a spoiler for. And I don't mean that it wouldn't have been enough of a reason to kill him, I mean Jeph wouldn't kill him in a "did I kill him?" way.
And now I know what it's a spoiler for in a way that made it unavoidable to know what the actual spoiler was. Eh, I probably wasn't gonna read it anyway.
Carl-E:
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--- Quote from: Loki on 21 Aug 2015, 08:25 ---Can you elaborate? I don't think I know any of those images.
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Panel 1 looks like a mass burning of heretics or some mass-cremation or it could just be the fires of total war such as those that consumed large parts of London, Berlin, Hamburg, Coventry, Tokyo and dozens of other cities during WW2.
Panel 2 is a loose adaptation of an iconic photograph of a mass grave of Jews, Slavs and other 'subhumans' at a Nazi extermination camp at the end of WW2 in Europe.
Panel 3 is a bloody hand, the universal and seemingly instinctual symbolic visualisation of murder.
It is... disturbing at times just how terrifyingly efficient and enthusiastic the human race is when it turns its collective mind to the mass eradication of life.
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I believe the first is from a photo of the firebombing of Dresden, although it's hard to tell. The second is right on the money, though it could be any mass grave, there were several well known photos of trench graves from the holocaust. And I seem to recall seeing the third before - on first look, I thought it was the hand of a person who'd been lynched, but on a second look BenRG may well be right.
Kugai:
Welcome to Canada Jeph
Method of Madness:
Eh?
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