what would've happened to the lambskin?
Thanks for saving us with your technology. By the way, we hate technology.
Ehhhh...I dunno if I believe him."I AM THE LORD THY GOD... and I don't know shit about this universe I just created."
We now know Alice Grove doesn't take place in the QCverse, via the note with the latest QC.
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There are much quicker ways to get humanity to try and kill each other.
So a windmill doesn't cause an energy imbalance, but indoor plumbing does?
So a windmill doesn't cause an energy imbalance, but indoor plumbing does?
The pump is nothing; Alice is just saying that it is a bad precedent that led to cultural and social (and, ultimately, economic and political) problems in the past. Specifically that too much technology-enabled wealth and ease can lead to a runaway chain-reaction of greed and acquisition that inevitably leads to a major war.
We could just take Jeph at his wordThat'd be a silly thing to do.
If Ardent is infested with undesirable nanobots, why would Alice think the bots would be affected by killing him?
"Ideological grudge"? Alice may be projecting here.
Killing children is not her style? She was going to beat Gavia to death shortly after they first met, for what is actually a lesser danger in her mind. Gavia was only threatening to burn down the town and had already been pretty much neutralized by Alice's anti-nanotech-tech.
Question: Why didn't the Praeses send down, like, thirty people? To different towns? Or just send Ardent literally anywhere except where Alice is?
Question: Why didn't the Praeses send down, like, thirty people? To different towns? Or just send Ardent literally anywhere except where Alice is?
I hope the Praeses don't nuke her from orbit.
I'd actually expect she can't be easily killed, if she's not paranoid. That would imply the space trees have been trying to kill her for thousands of years.
That's why I said "hurt." Remember. If you can't kill them, cripple them.
"Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going? Do you have anything worth living for?"
-- Lorien
-- Babylon 5 - The Hour of the Wolf
That's why I said "hurt." Remember. If you can't kill them, cripple them.
I'd agree that Alice's threat to Ardent isn't genuine, and that she's trying to provoke a reaction. Turning the strip's only Hero into a psycho killer doesn't really make sense; remember that Alice has already conceded that Ardent isn't malevolent, and her reason for attacking him is this far-fetched conspiracy theory. For her to sincerely attack Ardent now basically destroys the comic.
Just thought of something. What if the Praeses aren't unified? We have no reason to believe that they have a unified motive. What if there's internal conflict of some kind among the Praeses, and Alice is partially right?
Killing children is not her style? She was going to beat Gavia to death shortly after they first met, for what is actually a lesser danger in her mind. Gavia was only threatening to burn down the town and had already been pretty much neutralized by Alice's anti-nanotech-tech.
It's not that she wouldn't kill someone who is attacking her or her charges (child or no), but I find it hard to believe she'd kill an innocent. She didn't kill either of them, even though their existence posed a massive risk to balance and tranquility. She was pounding Gavia's face in because Gavia was attacking first her town, then her. Ardent is dangerous, but he's not belligerent.
Another question I just now considered: Why couldn't the nanobots come down on their own and be flown around via remote control?
How else would Ardent be able to repair his tail but with nanomachines?
I interpreted that comic as "Ardent doesn't use nanotech for daily stuff but he does carry it with him and uses it to rebuild his tail and make his skin blue or other delightful body modifications and he'd use it to get out of a jam if necessary".Yeah, I think this as well. I don't think there are any spaceborne without nanotech, just the extent they use it differs.
That being said, I still don't think Alice has any, I think she just has superpowers.
Or you know, she was in emotional distress....while they confuse the hell out of poor Margaret Wheelwright.
Next strip, Ardent's body is dead, but he is now in Alice's body. Because nano magic. They are quite an odd couple.
Caught in one body.
She is a cynical being of unprecedented power.
He is a wacky hormone-driven teenage boy.
Together, they fight crime.
I wonder why Ardent didn't run away.He was actually quite clear on why he didn't run away. He is many things, but whether or not he died, a coward is certainly not one of them.
Gavia floats over to her, hugs her from behind and says something like: "You've been alone for too long, haven't you?"
Next week: Jeph announces he's taking a three month hiatus from Alice Grove to re-evaluate the plot...
Next week: Jeph announces he's taking a three month hiatus from Alice Grove to re-evaluate the plot...
Next week: Jeph announces he's taking a three month hiatus from Alice Grove to re-evaluate the plot...
So basically Jeph is a GM in a pen & paper game and Alice's player just broke his plot with wanton PvP?
I wonder if Alice dug those mass graves herself.
Those were some really cheerful images I had to look up for reference, let me tell you
Something tells me that things got bad just before the Blink.
No, she has our cultural memory. Those are (or should be) some well known images of the world's greatest atrocities.
Can you elaborate? I don't think I know any of those images.
Starting to get a strong Jones vibe (Gunnerkrigg Court) with her now.
It is... disturbing at times just how terrifyingly efficient and enthusiastic the human race is when it turns its collective mind to the mass eradication of life.
There comes a point where even the greatest Warrior says "No more!!"
"If I'm right, you're being used as weapon. That's a terrible thing to be. I should know. I was a weapon too, once."
Alice is a person, and she's killed a lot of people. But probably never one who allowed himself to be killed.
Called it!
Called it!
(This is not aimed at you individually)
Don't you people think that this "Called it" meme has got more than a little out of hand? In this case, there were two options - she killed him/she didn't. Guessing the right one is hardly an achievement, as even if there was no indication a 50:50 chance is no big deal. And I'm not sure that so closely identifying one's thought processes with those of the cartoonist is entirely healthy.
I'm not saying you are a sexist racist homophobe. I'm implying it(mod)*cough*(/)
I'm not saying you are a sexist racist homophobe. I'm implying it(mod)*cough*(/)
Considering the fact that I am a "cartoonist," I'd call it what it is. Practice. Storytelling is the fine art of taking a situation and figuring out what happens next. Analysis of another storyteller's story is how you practice that. Practice makes perfect.
Did anyone actually think Ardent was dead?*raises hand*
QuoteDid anyone actually think Ardent was dead?*raises hand*
Yeah, I'm a bastard.
QuoteDid anyone actually think Ardent was dead?*raises hand*
Yeah, I'm a bastard.
*also raises hand*
Long time Joss Whedon fan here...
Can you elaborate? I don't think I know any of those images.
Panel 1 looks like a mass burning of heretics or some mass-cremation or it could just be the fires of total war such as those that consumed large parts of London, Berlin, Hamburg, Coventry, Tokyo and dozens of other cities during WW2.
Panel 2 is a loose adaptation of an iconic photograph of a mass grave of Jews, Slavs and other 'subhumans' at a Nazi extermination camp at the end of WW2 in Europe.
Panel 3 is a bloody hand, the universal and seemingly instinctual symbolic visualisation of murder.
It is... disturbing at times just how terrifyingly efficient and enthusiastic the human race is when it turns its collective mind to the mass eradication of life.
She's seen things Ardent and Gavia wouldn't believe.