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OK, Shanna. If that’s what you really want.
H.R. needs a uterus to go along with the arm, anyway.
Interesting strategy there. She must believe pretty strongly that Carol’s better nature will win out.
If she’s smart, and from what I know of Shanna she is, she’ll have arranged things properly. If anything happens to her, there will be a clear trail back to Carol and Hurricane.
What if she’s recording this whole conversation?
CM, Grenaid, those are mightily intelligent comments. Just gotta say that.
Or for that matter, one of the other patrons is secretly listening on her behalf. That’s what I’d do if I foolhardily insisted on direct confrontation with a suspected murderer; bring a friend and have them hang back.
I also wouldn’t be surprised at all if Carol doesn’t expect Shanna to be prepared that way.
Ooooh, I can’t wait for the thirty-gambit pileup.
Yep. Batman gambit. She did look up Carol’s background, especially her college years.
That said, this is amazingly compelling dialogue! :-D The Guilded Age team should do movies (it’d be a fair improvement).
that’s exactly what I was thinking. Batman Gambit.
Well, thanks for saying so!
Fun fact: My formal education in scriptwriting actually was screenwriting. Conveniently, those skills are directly applicable to comics writing.
Literally the only difference is that you note pages and panels in a comics script and not in a movie script.
There is one thing to remember about Shanna, in any universe. Woman has big brass one’s when it comes to her convictions.
I mean… this CAN’T be Faans!verse, right? Because if it was, Masters would know that you do not fuck with Shanna Cochran, because she has done and seen more than pretty much anyone you know.
Or it’s the “whelp, I’m boned, time to aim for pity” gambit.
Yeah, me too. Pain? Fuck that shit.
+1!
Somehow I think she is bluffing, she doesn’t seem like the kind of person who fears very much. Otherwise she wouldn’t be digging.
I never see you comment on the Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition forums any more.
Well if I knew I had a stalker I’d make more of an effort.
To be honest I grew disillusioned with BG:EE over time. I let my love for BG blind me and I regret pre-ordering it. Not to say it won’t be up to scratch in like another year but definitely not worth the full price for me.
Try the new patch that recently released. It really improves the UI, fixed a lot of bugs, and added the multiplayer client Overhaul originally promised.
From a young age, Carol had the aspiration to become one of the world’s greatest ventriloquists. Her Uncle was in the business, and showed her the tricks of the trade. She had fun with it and became quite skilled, able to perform even the trickiest of ventriloquist feats. Unfortunately, Carol lacked the ability to create passable humor, and after numerous rejections from audiences, threw in the proverbial towel and looked for employment elsewhere. A few stints in various low-paying jobs eventually landed her in an assistant position at Hurricane Software, where she worked hard to earn her way into the position she has now. Her ventriloquist years are behind her, but she lapses into the familiar art when her concentration wavers–a memory of happier times.
^My explanation as to how Carol is sipping her coffee and talking at the same time.
You burble a bit when you lie while sipping.
Just so you know.
That or she said it before Shanna started speaking and sipped her coffee while listening to the woman with her mouth open.
Occam’s Razor says that I’m going with ventriloquism.
Unless she’s never taken even the smallest sip from her cup before (and we see her sipping 4 pages ago) there is no way any liquid is entering her mouth in panel 3
Er, what? The sudden plea for a merciful execution seems really weird.
She’s recording. She’s trying to get Carol to say something that actually implicates her in something.
And more generally she’s trying to get Carol to say things, because she feels she’s got a good enough read on her that anything Carol says is useful information, true or false.
It could be taken in a lot of ways, one of which is how Karishi explained it, I see it has Shanna trying to lure out Carol’s good side. She’s already taken her off guard by her direct approach, now she’s going for the kill (Or lack thereof) to try to get her to confess.
Yeah. I just can’t see Carol reading it straight.
“Tell you what: We’ll give you the Supervillain Special. We’ll take you back to our evil lair and show you the whole story, possibly with a monologue about how right our evil ways are for good measure, and THEN kill you.”
“Hmm, a drawn-out death…but I am a sucker for getting to the truth. Tough call.”
Aw snap. I bet Shaunna is going to get put into a pod.
SHANNA COCHRAN IS BEST’S ALT
Knew there was something shit about her
Umm, she can’t be Best’s player, seeing how Best was one of the 5
GET INTO THE BAG SHANNA!
tank
TANK THEN!
and here comes the next person to go into the game. i love it! don’t worry Shanna, it won’t be painful…
Great Idea! Kidnap Shanna and then put her into Arkerra!!!!
*forehead slap*
She wants into the game. She has all along. Her goal is to get in the tube.
… Interesting tactic, Shanna.
Well she knew she wouldn’t have a clear way out depending on who showed up. Luckily she knows Carol, at least on paper, and she is doing her best to keep her off balance by playing to her weaknesses.
If I missed this being answered before, I apologize, but is this pre-Fans Shanna, mid-Fans, or an alt-Shanna that doesn’t necessarily fit into the known Fans timeline?
E-merl seems to be equally perplexed by my query.
I’m pretty sure it’s alt-universe. A cameo, not a continuity-merge.
It is, indeed, an alternate reality Shanna.
what is Fans?
http://faans.com
It’s one of T’s previous works, and one I like a lot, to the end that I wanted to collaborate with the guy.
It’s gotta be alt. If it was the Shanna we already know, Masters would know who she is (probably the entire world knows all of the members of the Science Fiction Club) and know that she is not to be fucked with.
Shanna won a point in badassery.
“Would you like to play a game?”
She really is fishing: last page it was ’5 missing persons cases opened up after the Big Reveal’, now it’s ’6 corpses’
That’s not fishing, mate. After Hurricane revealed their Bubble program, the 5 were reported as missing persons. The sixth ‘corpse’ is Ferris, who Shanna believes has been killed. She doesn’t know the 5 are still alive, in their tanks, so she assumes they’re dead. 1+5=6!
No, it’s fishing. She has some evidence that the Five are connected to Hurricane, and that something bad has happened to Ferris. That’s as far as it goes. If she had more than that, she’d have already published, or gone to the cops (I think attempting to do both would get her into hot water). She’s made logical (but wrong in 5/6 instances) inductions from that, now she’s fishing for evidence for them.
Totally feel the same way as Shanna does about pain: pain itself? can handle that, the idea of pain? scares the shot-hobgoblins out of me, can’t even watch someone else getting hurt (the aftereffects? again, no problem, bring on the gallons and litres of blood and organs and junk, just don’t show me it actually happening)
I have a cat, so I’m used to “claw right in the nipple” type pain. I assume if I ever suffer real pain I’m going to find out I greatly underestimated it, but until then it doesn’t really make me nervous. Not that I’d ever want to be tortured, but I can’t keep secrets so the only worry of that is if someone didn’t believe me.
The Lifetime (all men are scum) Channel?
Not the best comparison… unless we’re talking about Frigg when she’s in one of her fouler moods.
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And yeah, Shanna’s probably wearing a wire; her comments are way too leading. Also, as cute as it might be to stick the nosy reporter in a tube, that ain’t gonna happen… Cochran’s appears too smart to engage in a confrontation without a ‘Plan B’.
And her disappearance would be the trigger…
(Unless the author of this comic *wants* her in a tube, in which case… Shanna’s screwed.)
I love Shanna’s look in the last panel.
*cough* … IT’S A TRAP!!!!!!
I love Carol, I mean even if she is an accessory to murder she only seems to be trying to hide it to save H. R. and the whole real fake video game universe thing.
If the journalist already figured out she was hosed, then are only two choices left. Bring her in on it, or kill her as she has assumed you will.