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zmeiat_joro:
I just talked to an acquaintance who has PTSD and partial amnesia and he said he does not want to get back those memories,  it isineresting that Bubbles wants them back, but I guess it's a different case -- I imagene hew memories were purged more thoroughly.  He mentioned he had to fight child soldiers.

JimC:

--- Quote from: riccostar on 11 Jan 2017, 01:13 --- I think it will end up bringing sweeping and irreversible change to the comic.  The direct intervention of this superhuman entity in the lives of the cast changes the entire genre of the work.  Farewell slice-of-life comedy, hello sci-fi adventure.  Now that Faye is tangled up in a situation of this gravity, the shadow of these events will never allow things to go back to "normal" for the gang.
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I dunno. Life isn't like that. There's a fault - at least I see it as a fault - that many creators get caught up in of constant escalation. Every new volume has to see the hero in greater peril, a new and more powerful supervillain, you've all seen it. But in real life its not like that. Arguably the most intense and dramatic part of my father's life was 40 odd strike missions at the age of 23 from an aircraft carrier in the Korean War, and, thank goodness, nothing else had that level of intensity. And yes, those few months and the loss of some of his comrades did leave a shadow, but nevertheless things did get back to normal.

I don't find a need for the constant escalation. I can go and read earlier volumes in a series  of books without thinking, gosh I wish this villain was as OTT as the later one.  So if our writer takes this particular arc to its conclusion and never feels the need for something quite so extreme again, that will be just fine by me. If readers grow older with the author then perhaps there are a whole new lost of concerns and slices of life to explore for them without needing an even more puissant and ambiguous character than our current putative hivemind in gray.

Is it cold in here?:
@stibbons,

Welcome, new person!

An electrical shock across the lower spinal column might do what Albino Creepatron did to Faye.

I don't think her group is the equivalent of Anonymous. They refer to someone with an orbital railgun as "less puissant". The attitude and a subset of the capabilities are similar.

What worries me is that AC seems to feel no concern or friendship toward squishies. Something to the effect "they seem to like us" was how the characters reconciled themselves to the Singularity.

thedevilissix:

--- Quote from: jaquio on 10 Jan 2017, 13:48 ---
Honestly?

As someone who's followed QC for near eight years, bought books, bought my wife a bear monster shirt, and owns Pintsize and Winslow plushes.... yes.  This story arc does feel like a jump the shark moment.


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I blame Alice Grove.  :-D
Nah, joking aside, I welcome the leaping of this here Hammerhead hurdle. As far from the comic's starting premise as it seems to me to be, I find it quite exciting!

Morituri:
It's my guess that the colloidal-silver overdosed person here has an agenda which includes getting corpse witch the hell out of the way and (possibly) setting up something even worse than her business.

And we haven't seen how they propose to do this yet; for all we know he's going to give Emily something like a way to hack into Corpse Witch's memory and get the key to Bubbles'.  'Cause I bet they don't mind a bit if CW winds up lobotomized.  It just eliminates some potential competition (?).

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