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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 09 Jan 2017, 22:39 ---Anyway, this whole developement seem to be a classic deus ex machina and I must admit that Iīm not a big fan of that. When thereīs drama, it should be somehow resolved by the protagonists. The drama can turn out to be a comedy or a tragedy, but either way itīs their own story. Now this kinda becomes the story of someone else.
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Yeah, I am not crazy about the Deus Ex Machina, either. The new character* is super cool and I want to see him/her more, but the introduction was kinda iffy to me.
I wonder if paralysing Faye was the new character's disregard for her and Woland just didn't care, or perhaps it was a calculated move to show "see? I can do awesome things" to lead more credibility to the offer. I suppose we'll know when we see the plot develop and we know the new arrival's personality better.
*I'm gonna call him/her "Woland" in my head, I have absolutely no idea why, but she reminds me of the "Master and Margarita" character with her attitude, if not looks, and people in the forum are already drawing comparisons to Satan, so I'm gonna go with that.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: Case on 09 Jan 2017, 21:06 ---Hmmmmh - This comic kinda reminded me of a group of (Space)ship-AI's in one novel of Ian Banks' Culture-cycle, the so-called 'Interesting Times Gang'. Sort of the good guys (of the 'Veteran Special Forces'-variety), but ... you wouldn't always know from the way they operated.
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There's also the fact that they used the word "brainfucker" which is parallel to "meatfucker" in the Culture novels.
JimC:
Out of the frying pan, into the white Hot blast furnace is a phrase that occurs to me...
BenRG:
Here's one possibility that I've sketched out in my head of where things might go for the rest of the week:
Wednesday
Alucard continues to push Bubbles, who makes it very clear that she doesn't trust her. When Faye chimes in and demands to know 'the price', Alucard paralyses her voice-box. She then hits Bubbles with something about 'not worrying about other's opinions when your desires are so easy to achieve' and 'setting yourself free of all other concerns except your own self-actualisation'.
Bubbles punches her head off. Literally punches her head off (the bits inside look a lot like the inside of a Aliens-verse androids).
Thursday
Starts with a progressive sequence of panels of Alucard walking over to her head and picking it up. Her completely functional head then makes a crack about "that's the spirit we were hoping for!"
Bubbles is settling a panic-stricken Faye on her chair as Alucard tries to press more of Bubbles's buttons, acknowledging that her 'employer' may require 'a favour' in the future but that ultimately, whatever they want to do, Bubbles will enjoy. There are many benefits to working with them.
"If you really do like her so much, we can even arrange that for you... her collar and leash thrown in for free, if you're into that sort of thing!"
There is a shout of "That is ENOUGH!" from off-panel. The last panel is Hannelore glaring at Alucard
Friday
Alucard and Hannelore are facing off. Alucard insists that this does not involve her and calls her 'Daughter of the Creator'. Hannelore tells Alucard that she 'isn't welcome here' and orders her to leave. When Alucard sneers that she doesn't obey orders from 'the likes of her', Hannelore responds thus:
"Unit Bravo-Three-Dash-Six-Six, One-Delta-Slash-Six-Niner-Five! Master Override; reset to factory settings, authorisation One, Lima, India, Six, Two..."
"NO!" Alucard looks terrified. "Very well; this location is off-limits." She turns back to Bubbles. "Just remember, Bubbles; we are the only way you can get what you want. Everything that you want. Just consider what price you pay for your ethics." Then she fades out of existence.
Next week will be a Hannelore exposition dump about the direction some AIs have gone in post-Singularity.
zmeiat_joro:
Come to think of it, if this is a cross between the Endless and the Interesting Times Gang, that would be very interesting.
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