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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)
ZoeB:
Gary Jeremy will be forewarned.
pwhodges:
Angus will return for a brief cameo with his fiancee and their baby child, to ask for Faye's blessing on the way his life has gone. Three strips and done.
Tawdry Quirks:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 08 Feb 2017, 19:20 ---Now that is a Deus Ex Machina.
Hi Ho Silver etc.
Officer Basilisk knitting? Darn. I've managed teams of Israelis, Germans and Australians on a seriously clsssified defence project. I've helped get a spacecraft to Mercury and have it transmit images intact. I've been on a team of two on another project that was directly instrumental in saving 250,000 lives.
But neither I nor the other gal on that team can knit. The ability to take two sticks and some string and make fabric by tying knots will forever be as much of a mystery to me as Special Relativity theory is to many.
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If you want to knit, don't hold your needles how Officer Basilisk is holding hers...that's not a valid knitting position at all. Notice how the piece isn't even on the knitting needles. And although there is a valid knitting style that does involve needles pointing down like that, which is called 'Parlour Style', it is freaky rare. I've only seen one photo of actual Parlour style knitting, and I have never found video of the technique.
The reason I'm disappointed by the depiction of knitting in today's strip is because the depiction of knitting hands in strip #2904 is absolutely fucking perfect.
Ravenswing:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 08 Feb 2017, 21:07 ---In reference to this being a Deus Ex Machina:
Yeah, it totally frikkin' is. Just because Spookybot could eventually end up causing problems later, and just because things aren't entirely perfect, doesn't make it *not* a Deus Ex Machina. Within the current storyline, we were presented with a problem, told that it was insurmountable, and then an all-powerful being with effectively infinite resources and power showed up and singlehandedly resolved the problem, dispatched the villain, and neatly tied up every subplot that might have come about from this arc.
Yeah, sure, Bubbles wasn't magically cured of her PTSD, but when Zues shows up and kills the sea monster for our plucky hero, that doesn't magically end his quest either - It just ends the interesting conflict in the most boring way possible.
The only difference between this and a traditional Greek myth is that in the myth, people at least knew that the gods existed and were mucking about *before* they showed up and saved the day.
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A couple weeks ago, when Creepybot showed up, I made a jump-the-shark post, and a few people saw fit to make jeering responses nasty enough for an admin to poke a head in.
Permit me, this snowy morning, a small satisfied smirk.
osaka:
Jeremy's three new limbs will actually be tiny motorized wheels so he can move around the compound because he loves being an assembly arm.
Also, while we can discuss about the Deus Ex Machina nature of how everything was solved, let's stop a minute and think what would be the logical succession of events after CW confesses. Mercedes would obviously have the information to make a report and hand it to the authorities, CW would be in no position to keep managing the skate park and passes ownership to the one thing that will always stay there, and the last two panels are just suggestions. I would consider an even more convenient thing that Punchbot is one half of Punchbot & Punchbot accounting tbh, who would've guessed.
Shit maybe both punchbots used to show up at the rink for some punching.
Looks like a ton of job done, but really it's nothing more than the results of somebody confessing and going to jail.
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