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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
Zebediah:
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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 26 Sep 2018, 20:49 ---You can't fix a broken system with the tools of that system. A "good" cop is not going to fix the department from the inside. It's rotten to the core. The whole thing needs dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.
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But is the whole department of QC's Northampton really that broken?
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Exactly. If this was a city like Baltimore I’d understand completely, but is Northampton really that hopeless?
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Speaking for RL Northampton: as I have said before, our city police have a pretty good reputation. The state police (which was Roko’s force) have their problems but they are not hopeless, and there is an effort underway led by the state attorney general’s office to deal with those problems. Of course, there remains the issue of how police act, and are perceived to act, in American society as a whole.
So assuming the same situation exists in QC Northampton: Maybe Roko could have made a difference if she had stayed where she was. But at what cost to herself? The environment she was in was making her miserable. Can you really ask someone to sacrifice her own mental health in the hopes that she might, somehow, make a minuscule difference in one of society’s more intractable problems?
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Drunken Old Man on 26 Sep 2018, 14:14 ---OK, been holding this in since the very first "Spookybot" run since I figured it was gonna be a one-and-done. But now it's back so....
Jeph, drop this annoying obnoxious literal deus ex machina POS character in the "do not reuse EVER" file immediately. It's very existence diminishes ever other character in the series.
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More than a super-genius who can summon hell through a laptop?
Or another genius who has orbital railguns available on demand?
The strip has plenty of over the top characters and elements in it already, and has done for quite a while now. Spookybot's not really any worse than the others in terms of what they can do to impact a story; the main difference is they're willing to actually do it.
I don't see the character as inherently bad or a problem. Just a question of how and when Jeph chooses to use it.
comicalArchitect:
It's interesting how Jeph keeps finding reasons to have Roko interact with the main cast without really having integrated her into the social circle (Melon being the only character she's been shown to be that good friends with). I suspect that's going to change rather soon.
Is it cold in here?:
Roko is state police
If Roko wants to change society she should get in touch with Momo forthwith.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 26 Sep 2018, 05:09 ---Those hoping for an Australian accent, do be aware that it has been specifically stated as a Boston accent. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3695
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Aha, so it has. "She gets a Boston accent when she's angry." Jeph has spoken!
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