Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - October 2016
brasca:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 08 Oct 2016, 14:21 ---Without a doubt he's big, but what's interesting is how someone that size continuously sneaks up on people. Is it super speed or can he fly?
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Seriously.
Sedna, assuming basic tactical competence, would have checked on Mr. Bad News's whereabouts before she started.
There's a story behind how he surprised her.
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Maybe he has a cloaking device. I forgot to consider that possibility. It seems likely enough if Alice can generate some kind of shielding around her body then having some ability to bend light and possibly negate soundwaves seems possible.
BenRG:
I'm still convinced that he something designed specially to take down super-soldiers. I which case, he may have some type of adaptation that specifically defeats their enhanced senses. Not a 'cloak' in the common sense but, rather, a jammer. It would probably not have worked on Ardent or Gavia.
jheartney:
In Sergio Leone's classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, there's a convention that if the camera cannot see something, then neither can the characters in shot. On multiple occasions, this allows surprise entrances by characters who logically should have been seen approaching. Roger Ebert explains:
--- Quote ---In these opening frames, Sergio Leone established a rule that he follows throughout "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." The rule is that the ability to see is limited by the sides of the frame. At important moments in the film, what the camera cannot see, the characters cannot see, and that gives Leone the freedom to surprise us with entrances that cannot be explained by the practical geography of his shots.
There is a moment, for example, when men do not notice a vast encampment of the Union Army until they stumble upon it. And a moment in a cemetery when a man materializes out of thin air even though he should have been visible for a mile.
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Jeph doesn't need to explain how Bad News materializes out of thin air either. The old storytelling adage is "show, don't tell." Keep showing Bad News doing this, and it'll just be part of the character.
FunkyTuba:
For those interested in Jeph's conceptional continuity, "quietly looming" has appeared as a character trait in QC's Elliot: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1868
He's also intimated that it's a phenomenon he knows first-hand because of his own size.
FunkyTuba:
doh. I just noticed a little inconsistency in Pate's wagon... 4 wheels/2 axles when it first appeared and 6 wheels 3 axles now ...
unless Ellie's got a mechanic's shop at the site that works on late model carriages and I should Really Just Relax :-)
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