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Jack.

1 (2.1%)

Alice Grove

10 (20.8%)

Jack's Uncle.

1 (2.1%)

Ardent.

11 (22.9%)

The Wind Turbine.

5 (10.4%)

The Poking Stick!

15 (31.3%)

The Silo!

1 (2.1%)

ALL OF THEM!

1 (2.1%)

Uh, what?

3 (6.3%)

Total Members Voted: 47

[Zebediah]

It is the sound of an inelastic collision between two rigid bodies.

[Rghfrgl]

For those looking, he put the new comic on HIS tumblr and not the comics tumblr.

[Storel]

I dunno, so far the whole thing feels like a dream sequence to me. It starts out with him running frantically down a road through a forest, with nothing visibly following him, then he finds a huge wind turbine with a person on top, he waves frantically at the person, she starts to come down by rope but the rope snaps, he looks away, and after he hears the impact he looks up and she's safe and sound on the ground.

Doesn't that sound like a dream/nightmare? You feel like you're being chased by something but you don't know what, you see oddly surreal things, and the laws of physics are defied... Feels like a dream to me, anyway. We'll see.

[Schmorgluck]

Okay, in light of the new comic, it makes sense that she has unusual abilities.

Now, about that blue fellow, the bets are open: ET, fairy, extradimentional being?

[Rghfrgl]

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It's just Nightcrawler, we've been sucked into whatever the latest Marvel crossover event is.

[BenRG]

I'm with Rghfrgl on this one. However, I'm more interested in this:

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Alice is a witch?!? Or at least is perceived as being thus by the locals.

It definitely explains the 'fly' mis-impression but it doesn't change the fact that it massively increases the chances that she has metahuman abilities of some kind.

[edit - Another thought]
Here's an alternative; it looks like she might be in Latin America somewhere. Maybe she's just a brilliant engineer - you name it, she can build it. That's including really weird Girl Genius-level stuff. So, naturally, the locals assume she's supernatural in some way.

[Carl-E]

With the comment on flying, when I saw the blue guy, my first thought was Wizard of Oz style flying monkeys.  Then I noticed, no wings. 

So just blue monkey-people, I guess.  Also, I hope it's just sleeping. 

Also, red undies? 

[Fig]

Definitely a supernatural setting.  Alright, I'm officially interested now.  Also, if there isn't a BAMF! sometime in the future I'll be a little disappointed.

[Pilchard123]

There is - she survived falling from halfway up a wind turbine. :V

[Mafarfloune]

It's quite obviously a Na'vi refugee/invader.

[Kugai]

Or a native of the planet.

(There's nothing to say that this is actually Earth )

[FunkyTuba]

I'm reserving opinion until we get more info... there's very little to go on.

[kleinnak]

Wait... Alice Grove is a witch...? please tell me that's a rhyming reference to Steeleye Span's "Allison Gross," please oh please oh please!

[Kugai]

I wonder if she'll marry a Mr. Cooper.

[Pilchard123]

Is your toilet broken, FT?

[reicreature]

Aaaand I am officially hooked on the new comic...

[BenRG]

This is random but... Maybe a Minecraft story but done in a non-cubed world? You can build wind turbines with some mods, after all...

[TinPenguin]

With every new comic, this story makes both more and less sense. I like it.

(also, continuity error: in panel 3, Jack's uncle is to his right, but in panel 4, he is to his left)

[Method of Madness]

To be fair, the continuity's been so wonky already it might be intentional.

[Loki]

I thought the fourth panel was a flashback/a change of scene.

[Method of Madness]

It is, but so's the third, and the fourth is right after it. Looking down at the blue guy, the uncle should be on the right, but he's on the left in the fourth panel.

[NilsO]

The setting starts to look like some country in Central America. The natives speak English, but perhaps Jeph just translates the dialogue for our benefit. Their reference to "the witch" indicates Alice has performed magic before, and the natives are used to ask her for advice whenever something extraordinary occurs.

The clothes and the wind turbine looks contemporary. But the blue alien and Alice's survival tells us that we are definitely not in Kansas anymore. I would guess that we are in a parallel universe, perhaps a low-tech version of Earth, and Alice has arrived from our world as a kind of foreign aid worker.

The blue boy with the monkey tail might come from another universe, where primate evolution took another route. There might be some kind of vortex facilitating easy crossing between universes at this site. This might also explain why gravity failed to kill Alice.

[Method of Madness]

we are definitely not in Kansas anymore

Of course not, we're in Massachusetts

[HauntingPoem]

So does Alice weigh the same as a duck?

[Neko_Ali]

I don't know. Is she made of wood?

[Pilchard123]

She did fall from some height. Obviously, she got better.

[HauntingPoem]

I don't know. Is she made of wood?

Possibly, she can probably float!

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

A post apocalyptic setting wouldn't be a surprise at all.

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

Continuity wonkiness in this strip... can be explained away if we assume that there's more than just two people looking down at the sleeping blue guy. Also, witch? Things keep getting odder.

[Kugai]

We're hooked

[BenRG]

A post apocalyptic setting wouldn't be a surprise at all.

Yop , like the classic novel "Canticle for Leibowitz" with technology equated with magic and even devil-worship.

[Loki]

I don't know. Is she made of wood?

Possibly, she can probably float!

We have already established she can fly!

[ysth]

What would be the correct  onomatopoeia [pl] for a 68kg bag of mostly water hitting various solid and semi solid surfaces at speed?

That would be a question for What If.

What days/times does Alice update?  I haven't been trying regularly enough to detect the pattern.

[Rghfrgl]

Tues/thurs(Or mon/wed night), same time as qc.

[Channelore HellicottAtham]

Well, I wasn't expecting that. So many questions filling my head, and the twice weekly updates mean that it'll be a long time before they're even close to being answered.

After QC's generous week day updates, twice a week is excruciatingly slow...

[HES]

Colour me interested

[Zebediah]

Comic's up. Explosions seem unlikely.

[Neko_Ali]

Hang on, lemme get my poking stick first.

[Is it cold in here?]

Is yours Swedish designed?

[Kugai]

Yelpin' more likely.

[BenRG]

BLUE: "It's a good thing that you didn't poke me with a stick! We explode if that happens!"

ALICE: "Oh for crying out loud!!!"

UNCLE: "See? Don't know everything, do you?"

[SubaruStephen]

We need a betting pool (or at least a Poll) as to what Blue Boy is.

Alien?
Mutant?
Cursed by a witch?
Cursed by a old gypsy?
Clumsy kid with birth "defect" who was painting a house?*
Night Crawler cosplayer who got rolled at bar near Comi-con and dumped into a field?

Suggestions?



*defect in parenthesese because I think having a prehensile tail would be cool, provided the rest of Humanity had them too.

[Skewbrow]

The clothes and the wind turbine looks contemporary. But the blue alien and Alice's survival tells us that we are definitely not in Kansas anymore. I would guess that we are in a parallel universe, perhaps a low-tech version of Earth, and Alice has arrived from our world as a kind of foreign aid worker.

This is close to my guess. May be Alice is a tech-savvy lady from present day Earth who somehow ended up in this place that is either temporally or astronomically distant from us. Alice been giving them help with engineering and stuff. The locals fail to distinguish this from magic and call her a witch.

I'm aware that this does not explain her escaping the nasty fall unscathed. Nor the blue boy with a tail.

JWHouk, All: Will this evolve to a series of Monthly Comic Discussion Threads?

[NilsO]

If you are afraid to touch, use a pokin' stick. Better losing your stick than your hand. Still, I think it is a bad idea in this case. I guess Alice will sort things out, by trying to touch and speak to him. Probably this will wake him up. Now, for the big question: Does the blue boy speak English? If not, perhaps some extraterrestrial language? Or perhaps he is using telepathy? (I am not sure how telepathic speech bubbles should look like.)

This looks like a very rural setting. I guess the nearest coffee shop is very far away.

[Neko_Ali]

I don't think we are in a particularly low tech setting here. The wind turbine Alice was working on is decidedly modern day, and the barn and silo in the background of the current comic would be right at home on a farm of our time period. Their clothing looks pretty up to date. Leaving out the turbine, the setting could be anywhere from the 1900s to modern day or slightly beyond. The only things out of place so far is Alice being unharmed from her high dive and a blue kid. Even Alice being refered to as a witch doesn't mean much of anything. There's just so little information to go on yet.

[BenRG]

I still wonder if Alice may be a 'visitor'. Like several people have said before, the general feel I've got so far is a relatively primitive/isolated agrarian community into which Alice and high-technology have come. She's perceived as a witch because of her ability to use technology and her understanding of the sciences.

I still wonder if it's something like a de-cubed Minecraft world with the farmers as Testiculates (the native villagers) and Alice is a feminised Steve who is busy building up her resources and tech base prior to an attempt to take down the Ender Dragon and then Galacticraft her way home.

[jwhouk]

JWHouk, All: Will this evolve to a series of Monthly Comic Discussion Threads?

I'm thinking yes.

[drewdane]

I'm still getting spotty access at best to this.  Looks nice, but desperately needs more bandwidth.

[Pilchard123]

Testiculates

Should this be "Testificate"? Testiculate is rather different.

[BenRG]

However it's spelled, it's the AI characters with the big noses.