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New Comics Every M/W/F - Written by T Campbell & Phil Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'He IS? Oh, well, carry on then.'

Chapter 27 – Page 16

on November 13, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 27
└ Tags: Carol, Shanna
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  1. Nonsensicles
    Nonsensicles
    November 13, 2013, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    When someone asks if your boss is a god, you say yes!

    • Téléphone banane
      Téléphone banane
      November 13, 2013, 11:53 am | # | Reply

      I don’t.

      • Duall
        Duall
        November 13, 2013, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

        Appropriate avatar.

        • Djinn
          Djinn
          November 13, 2013, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

          It’s like they know.

          • Zombie_Spacer
            Zombie_Spacer
            November 13, 2013, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

            Okay, that is just uncanny.

            • Bob
              Bob
              November 13, 2013, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

              Hmmmm…

              • Dualgunner
                Dualgunner
                March 15, 2014, 2:06 am | # | Reply

                Jesus, this is fucking accurate O-O

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    November 13, 2013, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Oh – I mean, he’s a dog. Damn lysdexia.

  3. Berius
    Berius
    November 13, 2013, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Man, Shanna’s ruthless…and I love it.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      November 13, 2013, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      Being good is not necessarily being nice.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        November 13, 2013, 11:49 pm | # | Reply

        And she is neither

  4. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    November 13, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Well, he IS God.

    Just not in YOUR world, Shanna.

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      November 13, 2013, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Workin’ on it.

      • RougeMagenick
        RougeMagenick
        November 13, 2013, 8:55 am | # | Reply

        That works with your avatar

        • Dragonbrain
          Dragonbrain
          November 14, 2013, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

          Every comment somehow manages too

          • Dragonbrain
            Dragonbrain
            November 14, 2013, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

            *to

  5. Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    November 13, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Silly Carol, that was a translation error: H.R. is actually a god.

    #ignorantviewsofjehovahswitnesses

  6. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    November 13, 2013, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    It’s a god eat god world out there.

  7. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    November 13, 2013, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    That last panel challenges the assumptions I’ve had about Carol: that she was the reasonable, conventional foil to HR, that she has been willing to overlook HR’s outrageous actions because she’s an ambitious, somewhat amoral corporate climber, that she was willing to cover up the murder because at this point, she’d be implicated, but she’s about hit her limit.

    That last panel, though, suggests she may have had her own madness, in her reverence for HR, all along.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      November 13, 2013, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s more along the lines of her personally witnessing his godlike acts, which may or may not include bringing an entire universe into being.

      Whether he actually created Arkerra or, as he fears, merely “discovered” it, remains to be seen. Even in light of that, however, he has unquestionably performed godlike acts, even if they aren’t quite as all-mighty — and certainly not as all-knowing –as the followers of Abrahamic religions may be led to expect.

      • FoolishOwl
        FoolishOwl
        November 13, 2013, 1:45 am | # | Reply

        What “godlike” acts has she seen him do?

        The two had a conversation about the nature of Arkerra, in which she insisted that it was just a computer game, albeit one behaving strangely, and she was dubious about HR’s claim that he “discovered” it.

        • infr
          infr
          November 13, 2013, 2:42 am | # | Reply

          well she does know of some of his antics, right? Even if she did say it was just a game, it’s not like she is unaware of the world he seems to have nearly infinite control over. Nearly infinite, as there was that time he tried to kill off the players but they lived on anyways…

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      November 13, 2013, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      Frankly, I’ve always thought she was motivated by a bit of hero worship mixed with a little bit of suppressed romantic feelings; I’ve never gotten a read off of her as being ambitious except in the pursuit of the same ambitions she shares with H.R. It’s pretty obvious that she near worships him as a visionary, but this was a step further than I though she went.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 16, 2018, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

      Or… you know… it could be she’s absolutely correct… and H.R. really is a god…

      To gods, paradise and the abyss would just seem ordinary. The world(s) they rule would be like MMORPGs.

      What if the difference between Olympus and the Underworld is the color palette? Are all of us living on Olympus? Is Sepia World actually the Underworld? (Am I depressing myself?)

      If the Arkerrans could see us, would they think of us as gods?

      After eating boiled desert moss, I bet Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks would be the Arkerrans’ version of Ambrosia, the food of the gods.

  8. thumb
    thumb
    November 13, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Shanna’s going in a tube. Or killed, but I would prefer the tube.

    • RougeMagenick
      RougeMagenick
      November 13, 2013, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      She can be a gnome

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      November 13, 2013, 9:15 am | # | Reply

      I would prefer killed. I don’t need Shanna in Arkerra; and if she already has a well-known (to us) PC there, losing them will be worth losing her.

      • Téléphone banane
        Téléphone banane
        November 13, 2013, 11:56 am | # | Reply

        Killed ? But … but … why ? I’d prefer her to completely flush out those mofos at Hurricane. They must pay for their crime(s).

  9. BarGamer
    BarGamer
    November 13, 2013, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    Bah, at best he’s a small god. Now, the turtle who dropped from an eagle’s claws onto the bald head of a prophet, THAT’S a god I can get behind. ;)

    • Sharkie
      Sharkie
      November 13, 2013, 2:43 am | # | Reply

      I love you forever for this reference.
      Take my babies. Just take them all.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      November 13, 2013, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      It’s been awhile since I read the book, been catching up with Tiffany Aching, but I think ‘dropped’ is a bit of a tame word for the physics that went into that event.

      Still, awe beyond belief.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        November 13, 2013, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        Found the paasage!

        “…two pounds of tortoise, traveling at three meters a second…”

        Not all that good with conversions but the math comes out to roughly 20 miles an hour I think.

        • Borg
          Borg
          March 22, 2017, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

          Off the top of my head I’m getting roughly 13.

          • tyersome
            tyersome
            December 6, 2017, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

            ~6.7 mph – I think you forgot to divide by two :-)

  10. Sharkie
    Sharkie
    November 13, 2013, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Just the other day he did this trick where he put his hands together and pulled off his own thumb then put it back on without any bleeding and he can totally tell which card I pulled out of a deck!
    If that’s not godhood, I have no idea what is!

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      November 14, 2013, 12:00 am | # | Reply

      HR’s got your nose! HR’s got your nose!

      SORCERERY!

  11. Mr. Mister
    Mr. Mister
    November 13, 2013, 3:44 am | # | Reply

    What about Tesla, the geniuser than Eddison, and whose life the latter destroyed?

    Would you judge someone who, still to this day, holds the record for the longest man-made lighting, at about 40 meters?

    There’s Galois, too. Look up that one.

    Ahh… why must fortune always let is taste only a fraction of what they could truly do…

    • Asterai
      Asterai
      November 13, 2013, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

      Tesla was geniuser than Edison, less assholish than Edison, and CRAZIER than Edison. Sure, Edison fucked him over good, but I don’t think that accounts for all of Tesla’s foibles. Like the pigeon thing. Did you know Tesla was in love with a pigeon, and convinced it was mutual?

      Genius is always open to judgment. Knowledge, authority, age, power, singularity of vision, moral certitude… there is no trait that makes you immune to the facts, better than the truth, inviolably correct, beyond judgment.

      Or as I like to say it, if (hypothetically) God Himself told me the sky was orange, I’d look outside and then say, “No it isn’t!”

      • Dean
        Dean
        November 13, 2013, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

        Sure Tesla was a genius, but he had OCD so bad that sometimes he could barely function, and he believed in sterilization of the eugenically ‘unfit’.

        • infr
          infr
          November 13, 2013, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

          you’re right, but that’s not really a bad thing. We wouldn’t (or rather, we shouldn’t >.>) turn to Tesla to get his opinion on who should and shouldn’t be allowed to procreate, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be respected when it came to his thoughts on what he was actually an expert on.

          It’s like one of the other webcomics I read said: Just because a person is a genius in one subject doesn’t mean you have to take their word on all subjects. Don’t ask a chess master about war tactics “Send in the clergy! They can move diagonally!”.

    • Borg
      Borg
      March 22, 2017, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

      Galois just reinforces her point. I’ve never heard of a more insufferable person; why do you think he was killed in a duel?

  12. Karishi
    Karishi
    November 13, 2013, 4:03 am | # | Reply

    His face, Cochran?
    You think there was still a face?
    You want a story? I saw a story once.
    It was a story about a man who believed in a higher power, who carved a beautiful world out of numbers and sigils and blood
    So very much blood
    It pools, you know, in the head
    When there isn’t a face to hold things together
    And an arm was gone
    And Ferris was the lucky one.
    Yes, Ferris died. But he didn’t have to see what’s going to happen.
    He won’t see what happens next.
    Well, Ms. Cochran? You’ve got me all figured out.
    You’ve got such a perfect read on me.
    Did my voice raise that time?
    Was I lying?

    • Asterai
      Asterai
      November 13, 2013, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      Beautiful. I tip my internet hat to you.

  13. Karishi
    Karishi
    November 13, 2013, 4:07 am | # | Reply

    I keep seeing that piercing stare and equally piercing schnoz and imagining a red scarf over that mouth.

    Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shanna Knows.

  14. █████
    █████
    November 13, 2013, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    Aaaand scene change.

  15. Nicolas Rei
    Nicolas Rei
    November 13, 2013, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    Really Carol? Texting during a covert meeting? For shame!

  16. Bartimaeus
    Bartimaeus
    November 13, 2013, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    ticktickticktickBOOOOOOOOOOOM!

  17. Hatman
    Hatman
    November 13, 2013, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    Clear delusion or crazy plot twist? You decide!

  18. dwbapst
    dwbapst
    November 13, 2013, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    I think I’m beginning to comprehend why T and Phil chose to use Shanna. In some sense, it *had* to be Shanna; if it was any other character playing this role, saying this sort of dialogue in any production involving T Campbell, we’d immediately be thinking “Ah, it’s a Shanna duplicate!” anyway. As it is, using Shanna means those of us who read FANS are already convinced of her abilities in certain areas, such as this, lending credibility, which I suppose is a considerable bonus. After all, we really haven’t seen anything else shake Carol’s belief in HR for longer than a page or two…

    Well, maybe this was their reasons, maybe it wasn’t, but either way I’m enjoying the ride!

  19. Torint
    Torint
    November 13, 2013, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    Wow, Carol’s actually shaking her fist at her. Like, actually shaking it. I think some of H.R.’s love of melodrama has rubbed off on her.

  20. Téléphone banane
    Téléphone banane
    November 13, 2013, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    Sooo Carol … you say he hasn’t killed anyone ? What about Ferris, huh ?

    • Aleister Crow
      Aleister Crow
      November 13, 2013, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      He wasn’t “killed”. He was terminated.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        November 13, 2013, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

        Possibly even exterminated.

        • Seth
          Seth
          November 13, 2013, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

          They rehired him?

          • Speedy
            Speedy
            December 16, 2018, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

            They rehired Ferris at a lower tier. Now, instead of department head, he’s just a hired hand.

            (Actually, I can’t remember what his title was)

  21. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    November 13, 2013, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    Carol’s gonna spill the beans and, if this Shanna is anything like the Shanna I’ve been meeting in the Fans universe, she might get caught up in it as well. But probably in some role subversive to HR, such as trying to protect the 5 as they gather the information to accuse him. She’s moral, so the possibility of destroying a universe for the sake of the story will probably stop her.

  22. Thinker
    Thinker
    November 13, 2013, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm… I dunno why but Shanna really, REALLY annoys me… Especially her earlier smug-faced appearences. That said, the point at which Ferris died was probably a point during which I no longer enjoyed the Real World segments of the comic… It became really …different? I guess thats the word. On the subject of tubes, I think one is for Ferris and one is for Shanna.

  23. Kwaj
    Kwaj
    November 13, 2013, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    It’s great, the way she keeps taunting Carol with her own impending elimination. Those are ten-pound balls, right there.

    “I found out the secret. NOW WATCH ME DISAPPEAR.”

  24. ThreeEyedCrow
    ThreeEyedCrow
    November 13, 2013, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

    Ferris was demised by the company so he could pursue new job opportunities in the afterlife

  25. Thinker
    Thinker
    November 13, 2013, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

    …Welp that was my mistake. Meant Carol, but wrote Ferris. Buuut… That may be an interesting twist if it was someone else’s body/I doubt Carol looked into that bag too much to find the head being there or not. Now imagining Ferris’ head floating in a tank.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 16, 2018, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      That harkens back to another jarred head…

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/e/e1/Faceofboe1.jpg

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