I just see it as one of those procurement errors when he needed “hacking tools” for breaking new characters into Arkerra. Those happy little errors that prove useful later.
Or, he’s had that hacksaw ever since “hacking” was a good thing, and meant hacksawing apart old machines and electronics to make something new with the parts.
What’s now call “hacking” used to be called “cracking”
you’d think they would have another underground facility for this kind of thing… maybe they do, but now that his assistant knows about this one, he can’t afford to pretend the guy just vanished
That it is. I like how H.R., having snapped temporarily back into something like sanity, is all Corporate-Speak with his “The damage is done, we’ll just have to do better,” as if he were addressing his staff after a bad quarter.
Take note, kids. Stealing a car is much worse than cutting up the body of someone you’ve just murdered. I mean, really, what kind of person takes something from someone else?
The lack of an ID and wallet was why HR doesn’t know his name; he would have been ‘dealt with’ in exactly the same way even if he had them.
–Ah, come to think of it, the only plausible difference would be to identify him as an employee rather than an outside spy, but HR’s ‘job termination’ speech indicated that he was fully aware that he was an employee.
That’s strange. In the previous comic with HR it seemed as if Ferris’ head (or face, at least) exploded, judging by blood spots on HR’s face. Now it looks as if Ferris was just strangled and the back of his head bled as he hit the floor.
Actually, on the page where HR kills him, there are action lines indicating that HR was repeatedly smashing the back Ferris’ head into the tube. So, apparently it was massive head trauma what killed him.
To quote Robespierre in Gaiman’s The Sandman, “Where do you hide a book? In a library. Where do you hide a flower? In a garden. Where do you hide a severed head? […] amongst other severed heads.”
I guess we can ass-ume he won’t get his severance pay now, not even a leg up. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say he’ll be the butt of many office jokes in his absence.
Nah I don’t think tomorrow’s strip will be dark at all. Prolly be colorful. Ya know. Frigg makes another pass at E merl. Or Syr’nj thinks of a snappy comeback for Embraisch’nj. The Savage races plan their next move on Bragadacio. Just sayin. Maybe have mo sepia next Month.
GOD grant me the
SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, the
COURAGE to change the the things that i can, and the
WISDOM to hide all the bodies of the people I had to kill today because
THEY PISSED ME OFF.
Oh, you REALLY should go and hang the body up in a tub first and let some of the blood drain out, otherwise it’s just going to make a huuuuge mess.
And a hacksaw? Good lord man, just get a carving knife and circle the joints, far easier then trying to saw through bone.
Honestly… This is just shabby murder’n right here.
the funny thing? your either a cook or surgeon for knowing the “circle” the joints trick, but how would you go about dealing with the sliding joints like the nee? a wee bit different.
Gotta love how the real world is now about ten times darker than the fantasy world… then again, having people in test tubes was probably the first hint of that…
Having now read your conclusion to our previous conversation, I think we understand each other better. I think it’s because you’re a true fan that I take your comments more personally than most others, but I still appreciate them.
I also, however, reserve the right to counter snark with snark.
Pfff… missing a perfectly good reason to have a corpse in your building.
Unauthorized person walks into a high security elevator. Manipulates the controls and causes it to accelerate rapidly into the sub-floor. Idiot employee suffers massive head trauma from the impact.
PERFECTLY GOOD ELEVATOR TO GET RID OF.
Get something in gold next time, silver is so mainstream.
Well, sure, if you’ve got a few hogs. Honestly, you can get this done with a small box full of beetles. They’ll eat every scrap of flesh. Then just grind the bones down and fertilize your garden with them. Nobody will ever know.
Carol – ok sir i flushed the acid dissolved parts down the bathtub
HR – WHY!?!
Carol – Why? why not, whats the difference, he’s gone!
SPLASH!, SIZZLE!
HR – “I’m sorry, what were you asking me? Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won’t eat through plastic; it will however dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So there’s that.”
You know, they could just use Ferris’ car to transport the body. Less risk than stealing one, and his keys are presumably around somewhere. Unless he drives a tiny Nissan Micra or something.
… I still don’t get why he killed the dude.
Sticking him in one of the extra tanks he has been setting up would make far more sense.
In fact, all sorts of things would be a better idea than killing your own employee… especially when you don’t even know what purpose he serves. ¬_¬
Are we to assume as Oamu suggested that he has gone right off the deep end? … Or is there some sort of higher purpose behind his actions that somehow evades notice? … Or is it something else entirely?
He just… he just keeps a hacksaw lying around, just in case, does he?
^This
I just see it as one of those procurement errors when he needed “hacking tools” for breaking new characters into Arkerra. Those happy little errors that prove useful later.
Or, he’s had that hacksaw ever since “hacking” was a good thing, and meant hacksawing apart old machines and electronics to make something new with the parts.
What’s now call “hacking” used to be called “cracking”
Easier to handle and less messy, though also less efficient than herding a few pigs in the basement.
…I think I’ll pawn off my hacksaw and head to the nearest pig farm now.
Prolly uses it to shorten shotgun barrels.
I am guessing that this isn’t the first time he had to use it. And not the first employee he had to use it on.
you’d think they would have another underground facility for this kind of thing… maybe they do, but now that his assistant knows about this one, he can’t afford to pretend the guy just vanished
You don’t?
It was filed under D for dismemberment
Well, he’s a hacker.
He’s a graduate from the Patrick Bateman School of Business
Wow, this is probably the darkest page thus far…probably gonna be even darker tomorrow.
And yet quite humorous! :D
That it is. I like how H.R., having snapped temporarily back into something like sanity, is all Corporate-Speak with his “The damage is done, we’ll just have to do better,” as if he were addressing his staff after a bad quarter.
If this is his SANE mode, I think I might prefer the other one.
I think you meant “humerus”.
Take note, kids. Stealing a car is much worse than cutting up the body of someone you’ve just murdered. I mean, really, what kind of person takes something from someone else?
Ok. So he has killed Ferris. He wasn’t wearing his employee ID and didn’t have his wallet, so he had to be dealt with. Perfectly propotionate, I see.
Wear your badge! It could save your life!
I don’t even think a badge could Save Ferris.
Thank you for that F:NV flashback FoolishOwl. XD
The lack of an ID and wallet was why HR doesn’t know his name; he would have been ‘dealt with’ in exactly the same way even if he had them.
–Ah, come to think of it, the only plausible difference would be to identify him as an employee rather than an outside spy, but HR’s ‘job termination’ speech indicated that he was fully aware that he was an employee.
Zack Tilly: Ferris was still going to be dead, HR just couldn’t tell Carol who he killed
Two gaming company execs. One unexpected corpse. What wacky misadventures will ensue! It’s…Weekend at Ferris’s!
you did not just make that reference/parody. who do you suppose would play the good voodoo doctor?
That’s strange. In the previous comic with HR it seemed as if Ferris’ head (or face, at least) exploded, judging by blood spots on HR’s face. Now it looks as if Ferris was just strangled and the back of his head bled as he hit the floor.
Still, IT’S MAGIC!
Actually, on the page where HR kills him, there are action lines indicating that HR was repeatedly smashing the back Ferris’ head into the tube. So, apparently it was massive head trauma what killed him.
I got the impression that HR bludgeoned his head into the tube, which this strip pretty much confirms.
Especially the upper right of panel 4.
No kidding… O_o
Which begs the question of why HR doesn’t just magically (arcanometrically?) make the corpse go away.
Because he doesn’t know the spell?
What kind of Evil Mastermind worth his salt doesn’t know Disintegrate?
Bah they have a tube, just dump the body in with and fill it up with sodium hydroxide solution.
You just… keep a tankful of sodium hydroxide lying around, do you?
Why yes, doesn’t everyone?
It’s handy for the rats.
Well, he does have a hacksaw lying around… why not go all the way?
It’s actually fairly common to have in bulk for various industrial processes such as cleaning. It is one of the primary components of soap.
Best place to hide a body? In the vault UNDER another body and their casket. I mean, I’ve heard about this.
To quote Robespierre in Gaiman’s The Sandman, “Where do you hide a book? In a library. Where do you hide a flower? In a garden. Where do you hide a severed head? […] amongst other severed heads.”
nice:) talking about orpheus i presume?
That is correct.
I’m sorry officer but I never saw anything.
Man, don’t be a hack about this. I’m sure we can pick up the pieces and salvage this situation.
we need to cut to the chase. he’s a head of us in tracking this down. so just give us a hand, alright?
I guess we can ass-ume he won’t get his severance pay now, not even a leg up. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say he’ll be the butt of many office jokes in his absence.
Soon he won’t have a leg to stand on.
These puns are like pounding your head on a glass tube.
stop the puns before we all go to pieces!
Quite the cutting remark, I’m not sure I can hack it; posting to this comment thread.
Ok, well this pun line is now dead.
It’s not dead until the fat lady cuts it apart with a saw
Puns are a saw point for you aren’t they?
If we’re done hacking the old saw, time to bag it up and pig it deep.
It’ll never be done, now that we’ve sunk our teeth into it!
Nah I don’t think tomorrow’s strip will be dark at all. Prolly be colorful. Ya know. Frigg makes another pass at E merl. Or Syr’nj thinks of a snappy comeback for Embraisch’nj. The Savage races plan their next move on Bragadacio. Just sayin. Maybe have mo sepia next Month.
This is right off the deep end. I’m really shocked by the developments.
I’m sure Ferris will be rolling in his drowned car at all these jokes about him…
GOD grant me the
SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, the
COURAGE to change the the things that i can, and the
WISDOM to hide all the bodies of the people I had to kill today because
THEY PISSED ME OFF.
Might want to keep your mouth shut over the phone, Big Brother might be listening. ;D
Oh I’m sure the NSA has some creative suggestions to dispose of Ferris’s corpse. They might even chime in and suggest them!
Oh, you REALLY should go and hang the body up in a tub first and let some of the blood drain out, otherwise it’s just going to make a huuuuge mess.
And a hacksaw? Good lord man, just get a carving knife and circle the joints, far easier then trying to saw through bone.
Honestly… This is just shabby murder’n right here.
the funny thing? your either a cook or surgeon for knowing the “circle” the joints trick, but how would you go about dealing with the sliding joints like the nee? a wee bit different.
He could be a butcher too!
I can’t be the only one here who really loves where this is going, can I?
Gotta love how the real world is now about ten times darker than the fantasy world… then again, having people in test tubes was probably the first hint of that…
Was…Was his tie always striped?
No, no it was not.
Hunh.
it became striped when it became possessed by the unholy spirit of Barney the Dinosaur
now now no crossing the 4th OwO wall, metagaming ruins EVERYones fun… you mean to say “blarney” also.
It was striped when we last saw him and when Carol met him when she came into work. If he wore a non-striped tie I think this is just a different one.
Payet Best: The Untold Story.
That face in panel 5 is the same one made to calmly explain anything to anyone freaking out on the phone.
Well, guess this catagorically rules out Ferris being GM Perrsons :( (still say they looked the same, just Ferris had glasses)
Ah, “crazy” as a motive. Why’d he kill that guy? Cause he crazy!
You can tell how scary bad a man he is cause he killed that guy! But why would he do it? “HE’S JUST CRAZY ALL RIGHT”
You sure are quick to draw conclusions.
Having now read your conclusion to our previous conversation, I think we understand each other better. I think it’s because you’re a true fan that I take your comments more personally than most others, but I still appreciate them.
I also, however, reserve the right to counter snark with snark.
I love snark. You will never hurt my feelings with snark, so go nuts.
HR is an incompetent hack. I hope Carol is smart enough to just bring the police in before this situation deteriorates even further. Fingers crossed.
Would you say she is the “Fine-Cut Saw” to His “Hack Saw”?
This situation sure stinks, I hope the body of the matter gets resolved before things become more grave
Pfff… missing a perfectly good reason to have a corpse in your building.
Unauthorized person walks into a high security elevator. Manipulates the controls and causes it to accelerate rapidly into the sub-floor. Idiot employee suffers massive head trauma from the impact.
PERFECTLY GOOD ELEVATOR TO GET RID OF.
Get something in gold next time, silver is so mainstream.
DIBS ON A DRUMSTICK!!
HR wouldn’t happen to own a pig farm, would he?
After all that’s the best way to get rid of a body…
Well, sure, if you’ve got a few hogs. Honestly, you can get this done with a small box full of beetles. They’ll eat every scrap of flesh. Then just grind the bones down and fertilize your garden with them. Nobody will ever know.
Ever.
How about some morally ambiguous goats?
just when I thought he crossed the moral event horizon, he finds a way to cross it a second time.
Man, has anyone ever noticed just how much HR looks like Walter White?
Shave his head, and he’s a dead ringer.
Carol – ok sir i flushed the acid dissolved parts down the bathtub
HR – WHY!?!
Carol – Why? why not, whats the difference, he’s gone!
SPLASH!, SIZZLE!
HR – “I’m sorry, what were you asking me? Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won’t eat through plastic; it will however dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So there’s that.”
cris gots it going on
First kidnapping and now murder? You’ve gone too far, Mr. Lundegaard.
Who has he kidnapped? The people in the tube volunteered to test them out
…I lost it at the rollover text. My sides now ache from laughing. Thank you, dear Guilded Age – I needed that.
You know, they could just use Ferris’ car to transport the body. Less risk than stealing one, and his keys are presumably around somewhere. Unless he drives a tiny Nissan Micra or something.
“Do what you have to do” ? That would have been call the police, and tell them to bring the SWAT.
… I still don’t get why he killed the dude.
Sticking him in one of the extra tanks he has been setting up would make far more sense.
In fact, all sorts of things would be a better idea than killing your own employee… especially when you don’t even know what purpose he serves. ¬_¬
Are we to assume as Oamu suggested that he has gone right off the deep end? … Or is there some sort of higher purpose behind his actions that somehow evades notice? … Or is it something else entirely?
I think he has a use for the current tubes already planned.
and i was pretty sure bro was getting forced into the second tank to shut him up leaving her to run the company
Am I the only one thinking this scene specifically and the entirety of the comic could be a really great theatric play?
I love the fact that H.R. thinks Carol is apologizing to him. It’s subtle details like that, that make this story so believable.
“No, you don’t need to bring a shovel. I have a real shiny one. I can’t remember where I got it, but it has ‘The Shoveler’ engraved on it.”
http://mysterymen.wikia.com/wiki/Eddie