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WCDT Strips 3406-3410 (28 January - 3 February 2017)
BarGamer:
Hrmph. I was hoping for tearing her arms off, AT LEAST. Maybe Faye will take a hammer to her, prior to robbing her? Maybe Gary the Gray Creepybot will take her Robot Jail? Leaving it like this feels less like a loose thread and more like a loose fire-hose: You just know someone's gonna get hurt.
mikmaxs:
Well, called it. Yay?
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: Somebody on 29 Jan 2017, 20:33 ---This will not bite Bubbles in her arse, heavily-armoured or not, at all. Nope.
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It may. But I suspect officer Basilisk will be involved shortly, and that should keep CW out of circulation for a while.
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Agreed. Corpse Witch's criminal con artist ways have caught up with her. She has no out of the ordinary computer skills, no real friends in high places (although she may have some blackmail material here and there) or influence with the police. What she does have is the ability to lie convincingly and to read people, human and AI, and identify things they desire and/or need, and a talent for identifying what they will do to get them. Just like the exploitative humans Jeph modeled her on.
As for Creepybot - Hanners speaks with Station who tells her that what she needs is beyond his ability, but he still wants very much to help her. Who would he speak with who might have some insight and might take serious offense at Corpse Witch's violation of the sanctity of Bubble's mind? That person may even have imbued AIs with that ethic very early on in their existence. Yup, John Ellicott-Chatham. Hannelore's father is behind Creepybot. (Beatrice? Naw, ethics aren't her bag.)
But this arc wasn't for introducing new characters, it was to further establish Bubbles's wisdom, decency, and, yes, humanity.
BenRG:
There was no poll choice that matched my idea - They turn Corpse Witch off and disassemble her for safety reasons before later handing her over to the authorities in a 'safe' chassis.
FWIW, I don't think we've seen the end of this confrontation. Either Corpse Witch is going to try to get control of Bubbles back somehow or is going to attempt to 'eliminate' this threat through her police contacts. Either way, I think that it was a mistake to leave her functioning and not in a powered-down standby. Best option is that Corpse Witch is so frightened that she runs away but her network of patronage and corruption is intact, giving her a lot of power to harm innocents.
That said, yeah, I don't think it was ever plausible that Bubbles would kill without someone (likely Faye) being in immediate danger. She's already told Faye at some length about how she despises violence.
By the way, how did we get from the position in panel 1 to the one in panel 2? I might be guilty of over-thinking this but the only option that comes to me is that Bubbles literally threw Corpse Witch into the air with a twirling motion and caught her by the neck on the way back down. That's the 'cool' way, by the way. The more boring option is that we have a whole part of the action not shown in panel that explains it in a far more pedestrian manner.
Storel:
I suspect the only reason Bubbles left CW mobile is that she knows CW won't have time to go anywhere -- probably because the State troopers have already surrounded the building and are just waiting for Bubbles and Faye to leave.
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