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Your favorite Character so far?

Jack.
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Alice Grove
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Jack's Uncle.
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Ardent.
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The Wind Turbine.
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The Poking Stick!
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The Silo!
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ALL OF THEM!
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Uh, what?
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Author Topic: Alice Grove MCDT - NEW COMIC! - October 2014  (Read 140557 times)

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #200 on: 09 Oct 2014, 18:04 »

It is the sound of an inelastic collision between two rigid bodies.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #201 on: 09 Oct 2014, 18:40 »

For those looking, he put the new comic on HIS tumblr and not the comics tumblr.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #202 on: 09 Oct 2014, 19:07 »

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.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #203 on: 09 Oct 2014, 19:12 »

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?
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #204 on: 09 Oct 2014, 19:17 »

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #205 on: 10 Oct 2014, 02:58 »

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

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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.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #206 on: 10 Oct 2014, 08:17 »

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? 
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #207 on: 10 Oct 2014, 08:47 »

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.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #208 on: 10 Oct 2014, 10:43 »

There is - she survived falling from halfway up a wind turbine. :V
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #209 on: 10 Oct 2014, 10:49 »

It's quite obviously a Na'vi refugee/invader.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #210 on: 10 Oct 2014, 14:17 »

Or a native of the planet.

(There's nothing to say that this is actually Earth )
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #211 on: 10 Oct 2014, 15:07 »

I'm reserving opinion until we get more info... there's very little to go on.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #212 on: 10 Oct 2014, 19:24 »

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!
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #213 on: 10 Oct 2014, 21:09 »

I wonder if she'll marry a Mr. Cooper.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #214 on: 11 Oct 2014, 01:44 »

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #215 on: 11 Oct 2014, 02:49 »

Aaaand I am officially hooked on the new comic...
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #216 on: 11 Oct 2014, 07:47 »

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...
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #217 on: 11 Oct 2014, 09:54 »

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)
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #218 on: 11 Oct 2014, 09:58 »

To be fair, the continuity's been so wonky already it might be intentional.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #219 on: 11 Oct 2014, 11:19 »

I thought the fourth panel was a flashback/a change of scene.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #220 on: 11 Oct 2014, 11:23 »

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.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #221 on: 11 Oct 2014, 13:10 »

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.

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« Reply #222 on: 11 Oct 2014, 13:14 »

we are definitely not in Kansas anymore
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #223 on: 12 Oct 2014, 14:03 »

So does Alice weigh the same as a duck?
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #224 on: 12 Oct 2014, 14:14 »

I don't know. Is she made of wood?
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #225 on: 12 Oct 2014, 14:20 »

She did fall from some height. Obviously, she got better.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #226 on: 12 Oct 2014, 14:22 »

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

Possibly, she can probably float!
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #227 on: 12 Oct 2014, 17:25 »

A post apocalyptic setting wouldn't be a surprise at all.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #228 on: 12 Oct 2014, 21:42 »

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.
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« Reply #229 on: 12 Oct 2014, 21:55 »

We're hooked
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« Reply #230 on: 12 Oct 2014, 23:11 »

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.
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« Reply #231 on: 12 Oct 2014, 23:19 »

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

Possibly, she can probably float!
We have already established she can fly!
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #232 on: 12 Oct 2014, 23:27 »

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.
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« Reply #233 on: 12 Oct 2014, 23:39 »

Tues/thurs(Or mon/wed night), same time as qc.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #234 on: 13 Oct 2014, 05:54 »

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...
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« Reply #235 on: 13 Oct 2014, 12:41 »

Colour me interested
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« Reply #236 on: 13 Oct 2014, 19:03 »

Comic's up. Explosions seem unlikely.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #237 on: 13 Oct 2014, 19:12 »

Hang on, lemme get my poking stick first.
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« Reply #238 on: 13 Oct 2014, 20:05 »

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #239 on: 13 Oct 2014, 22:32 »

Yelpin' more likely.
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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #240 on: 13 Oct 2014, 23:30 »

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #241 on: 13 Oct 2014, 23:56 »

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?



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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #242 on: 13 Oct 2014, 23:58 »

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.

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #243 on: 14 Oct 2014, 00:01 »

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.

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Re: Alice Grove CDT - NEW COMIC!
« Reply #244 on: 14 Oct 2014, 03:51 »

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.
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« Reply #245 on: 14 Oct 2014, 04:10 »

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.
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« Reply #246 on: 14 Oct 2014, 07:05 »

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

I'm thinking yes.
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Re: Alice Grove MCDT - NEW COMIC! - October 2014
« Reply #247 on: 14 Oct 2014, 08:28 »

I'm still getting spotty access at best to this.  Looks nice, but desperately needs more bandwidth.
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« Reply #248 on: 14 Oct 2014, 10:48 »

Testiculates

Should this be "Testificate"? Testiculate is rather different.
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« Reply #249 on: 14 Oct 2014, 14:16 »

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