Its an thoroughly educated and monied southern English accent you’re thinking about probably.
(Welsh accent is a British accent. Scottish + northern Ireland also.)
So are Yorkshire accents, Manchester accents, Liverpudlian accents, Geordie accents, West Country accents, cockney accents, Lancashire accents, Birmingham (Brummie) accents, and Chav accents.
Yup. But usually when American Tv has an ‘English’ character its usually an educated monied stereotype. Or Cockney I guess. Rather than any of those.
Lol. Chav as an accent.
To be fair, the ever-mutating lingual tone of the average London chav is quite distinct from the more classic cockney (which is becoming rarer with each passing year). There is a lot of international influence in there for one thing.
Great, I’ve now got her stuck in my head with a west country accent, complete with a straw hanging from her mouth.
And for everyone else, it goes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zwwqEm5YhQ
I make no apologies for the loss of brain cells caused by drinking cider or listening to the Wurzels :-)
Do British newscasters not use a Mid-Atlantic accent? It’s designed to be very understandable to all English speakers, so I assumed it was used in Britain as much as in America.
In Fans!, she started out as a self-styled Serious Reporter who tried to look older than she was (and succeeded all too well) and was allergic to all kinds of nerd culture. She was near intolerable.
She gradually got over all her issues and evolved into one of the most awesomest awesome characters ever. As for violent games, at one point she’s shown to regularly play WoW with her friends.
And now I’m conflicted. Up until this page, this Shanna seemed like the genre-savvy sleuth I know and love, just not openly nerdy. If what Carol says is true, though, there’s a little too much of the old prejudiced half-neurotic Shanna in her for me to sympathize with her.
Oamu, I’m honestly curious here and not attempting to bait. Have you ever liked anything that wasn’t high fantasy/sci-fi world? Or are you the very genre-specific type?
I like ALL sorts of things (Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens, Crichton, Asimov…) and this subplot bores the shit out of me too. Let’s not make any broad assumptions about people’s taste when they complain that something is not to their taste because it’s not very good. Overall that was a positive comment: Oamu says we’re finally seeing some inkling of plot advancement in a region where it was lacking. That’s not to say I’d be happy spending any more time in Sepia World than the bare minimum necessary for the writers/artists to tell their story.
I keep reading because it’s important for creative types to have their creative freedom, so the writers (Campbell & Kahn, who I assume are behind this?) have every right to do (almost) whatever they want with their work, and it’s provided free after all. The good parts of the comic mainly make up for these dull-as-hell self-indulgent unpaid-product-placement experiments. Who knows, maybe some readers are even still into this? Good for them.
When Sepia world first appeared in the comic.Me and many others didn’t like it but the writers said that it would be worth it to endure it.Many chapters later i still don`t see it and i am still annoyed from the whole -its all a big Etertainment-game and Magicworld fusion- concept. Thats just my opinion and the writers can do what they want of course.
Also seeing how the Sepia World is drawn/colored it makes it look like it is really the Fake world and not the game world.
I do like Shanna though but that might be because i was a big fan of the “FANS!” Webcomic.
Maybe you’re right. Maybe Sepia World is the fake world, and Arkerra is the real one.
Maybe Sepia World is a prison, created by magic users of Arkerra, to trap Tectonicus, and keep him from remembering his own identity. The cult is breaking through to Sepia World, though, and H.R. is beginning to discover his powers, and clues to his true identity.
It would be like if the wizards of Middle Earth created The Matrix to imprison Sauron.
Maybe the Arkerrans used a “snapshot” of our world, as a template, to create the artificial Sepia World.
(There are probably tons of reasons this idea can’t be true, but at least it’s another angle to ponder, before giving up on Sepia World entirely)
Hmm on rereading my comment I kind of took it to a negative place. My main point is that of course the creators have the right to do what they want, but I still inwardly groan every time I see one of these pages, so I hope the conflict escalation in this chapter means it is heading towards the promised payoff that Hellhound mentioned. It’s like reading two webcomics, one of which I like a lot and one I really don’t but occasionally appears instead of the one I like.
Naw, I like lotsa stuff. I guess in terms of webcomics I mostly read fantasy, but I think that has to do more with what quality strips I’ve found than what I would prefer to read. I think comics (of any sort) lend themselves to the fantastic more readily than the mundane. There may be a really tightly engineered webcomic about a down-on-his-luck small-town lawyer trying to navigate a case too big for him, or one about interoffice politics at a medium-sized liberal arts college in New England, but I haven’t run across any.
Well, I, for one, enjoy the sepia world. I don’t really understand why people are so annoyed by the fact that the fantasy world is a game. Especially since the main cast is not aware of it. To them, this is as real as things can be.
I’m hoping that we might see real life players of Bandit and co in the sepia world, to see how they consider their adventures with the Five when not in the game. Do they feel that there is something off ? Or do they think that the five are some sort of central NPC/DM, or just that everything seems normal to them once they log out ?
I feel the same about Sepia World. But then I thoroughly enjoyed .//Hacksign and am looking forward to seeing where the lines between the two worlds blur.
If you don’t understand why people are so annoyed by sepia world, you could try reading what they say when they explain themselves, maybe. It seems like people are pretty clear about their reasons, being disingenuous doesn’t add anything of value to the discussion. I thought Davegrust’s sentence earlier summed it up really well:
“It’s like reading two webcomics, one of which I like a lot and one I really don’t but occasionally appears instead of the one I like.”
That’s a really concise explanation. On one hand, I’m glad that Sepia world hasn’t integrated more fully into the fantasy storyline (because I dislike its premise, and don’t identify with any of it’s characters), but on the other, that’s not really a good strategy for making me grow to like it. It’s a shitty position to be in, for the writers (fortunately, my opinion isn’t everyone’s).
If it remains this cul-de-sac that the audience goes to every month or two, and look at the tubes, as a reminder that hey, none of the other strip is real, then that doesn’t really negatively impact the main story for me. The creators are still at a point where they could release a special, leatherbound “no sepia world” edition of the comic, that excises every reference to Sepia World (I even hate that name, it’s like in C.urvy, where earth is referred to as “boring world”–super appropriate) and everything that has occurred so far in the main storyline would still make sense. As of yet, Sepia World is entirely uncritical to the “main” storyline, like two train lines that run parallel, but never cross (Events in Arkerra affect Sepia world, of course, but so what?)
That is not a viable position in which to remain. We know, because they kinda have remained there, for more than two and a half years. They have to tie these threads together if people like me are ever going to stop complaining about how pointless sepia world is. That puts me in a weird spot, where I’m kinda advocating more sepia world content, because I know the only way It’ll ever stop feeling like it’s a chore I have to plow through before I get back to my Saturday morning Cartoons.
H.R.s narrative arc has to go somewhere, it has to leave the tube room, and it has to affect Arkerra in a real way that’s obvious (if not understood) to all the protagonists.
I disagree on that the two are unrelated and the sepia world (or the real world, if you prefer) hasn’t affected Akerra so far. It’s been establish so far that most of the critical event were designed by HR with the specific intent to “kill” the Five, so that might free them of the game (or, at least, allow him to get rid of them in some other way). The whole wood elves arc was an attempt in that regard, that somehow escaped HR’s control, leading them to falling more into madness and to the current situation.
The cultist arc was another one, though not really designed, but the gate actually opening seemed to be HR’s doing.
Sure, you could cut away all the sepia world bits to have yet another fantasy webcomic, but that wouldn’t mean it’s real if the author decided otherwise. They could have kept the secret even longer than they did, we would be thinking that it’s all “real” (in comic), but the truth of it would remain unchanged.
And personally, I like the “two for one” aspect of the comic. But hey, that’s a matter of taste, I guess.
So you’re citing HR’s repeated and explicitly depicted inability to affect the narrative of Arkerra (as of yet) as an example of how HR is able to affect Arkerra? That’s, uh, not a good argument.
He did affect the narrative of Arkerra. He set up the Five and their guild to go to the wood elves, the staff being stolen and the war to follow. That events escaped his control soon after doesn’t change the fact that he had some hand in the whole thing. And hey, if you see HR as a typical GM, plans not surviving the contact with players is kind of “normal” anyway. XD
HR doesn’t have absolute control, that’s a fact and a good thing, or the story would already be wrapped up since they died in the arena. But he has some ability to mold events so they happen, so we could see that he can’t control it entirely. From the dialogues, it might be because Akerra does exist and is not just a game. Or it did grow beyong being just a game.
And then Masters sputters artfully, leaves, and then the tape record of a certain Ms. Shannon Cochran professing knowledge of the murder of Mr. O’Leary goes to the police. Who then discover that Ms. Cochran has tried, at least once, to infiltrate Mr. O’Leary’s workplace using a false identity.
… then the cops are sent to investigate Masters’ responsibility in this. And jail her too. And she’s sent in the same cell as Carol. ^^ Now THAT’s a twist. ^^
If you’re implying what I think your implying… I don’t think Campbell has it in him to to write her being killed. At least not quite that ignobly cause two pages isn’t a lot of time for anything more then that kinda death.
Hmmm, that does seem like a bit of a leap … no I think Shannon’s got the wrong idea about what’s happened to the Five. If she doesn’t join them she’ll figure out Ferris later.
How…is that a leap? Ferris’ house, Carol’s words here, all of this points to Ferris having been murdered. Shanna would have to be a blithering idiot not to connect the dots.
I think the key to Shanna’s analysis is saying that Carol will be arrested for murder “in a month”. Either she has genius-level detective abilities to determine when a body bag will wash up from the ocean carrying enough dismembered parts to make an ID on Ferris, or in one month enough time will have passed for The Five to be declared dead in absentia, at which point Shanna will have the police launch an investigation into where they were last seen – testing an experimental VR system for Hurricane Software.
Reminds me of an old Tales of the Crypt episode where a woman receives a fortune telling that a somewhat unpleasant man who eyes for her will receive a fortune and then die soon after. So she starts romancing him and marries him only to find out he has no clear link to any money at all. She then wins the lottery and tries to leave him only to have him kill her, technically inherit her fortune and then be executed in prison.
This is one of those moments when I’m puzzled about the sequence of events implied in a static image. Where is “Carol sipping coffee” in relation to “Shanna accuses Carol of murder”? Because it would say a lot about how confident Carol feels right now if she manages to continue calmly sipping coffee when she hears that accusation.
After Carol’s reaction, Shanna will explain that she meant the company will be tried for murder. You know, since violent video games cause murder… or some false garbage. I actually enjoy these subplots!
Yeah, but Nosy girl there would still be WRONG about her ! She thought she killed Ferris, but she only dispose of the body ! AH ! IN YOUR FACE, you damn know-it-all nosey bitch !
“Only” dispose of the body ? You mean like in covering up evidence, covering up a murder, not telling a soul to the police ? She’ll definitely get busted in. Period.
Hmm … Claims to have responsibility to the company alone : check
Claims it gives her ressources to do whatever she wants : check
Threatens a whistle-blower with death : check.
That’s it … Masters is FUBAR. She became downright evil.
“My responsibility is to my company” is not quite the same as “My only responsibility is to my company”
She did not say it gives her the resources to do what she wants, she says it gives her the resources to solve problems the company comes up against. Any higher up manager is going to have more ways to deal with complication. As a Delivery Clerk, I can tell you I’d get a stern reprimand if I tried to give an upset customer a discount or made promises and starting going beyond my access, but that is fair territory for the people at the top of the heap.
And lastly, it is a threat, but not a death threat. Shanna is a problem. She is obviously looking for something incriminating about Hurricane and as much as we like to think that shouldn’t be anything bad, I doubt any of us would like someone going through our trash and hanging around our house twice a week because they think we might have something to hide.
““My responsibility is to my company” is not quite the same as “My only responsibility is to my company” ”
In that case, we’d have to be pretty obtuse not to see it is almost the same, if not directly the same.
“she says it gives her the resources to solve problems the company comes up against”
In that case, it clearly means she’s threatening with death. Seriously, in that context, if what Carol says isn’t a barely-hidden death threat, I don’t know what is. I mean, she’s looks awfully ok with her boss having murdered someone, so far.
And when someone from a big and rich company is calling you a problem (s)he has the means to solve, it doesn’t exactly mean (s)he’ll remain in legal stuff, right ?
Okay, I know that Ferris disappearing is the current thread Shanna is following but I’m having some trouble recalling why she originally started looking into Hurricane..
Okay yeah, looking into the Five disappearing. Maybe that could be another shot Shanna is going for with the murder claim? I am sure since she was expecting trouble she brought as much ammo as she could.
In this particular case, it’s a pretty good bet that Hurricane is associated with violence… including the kidnapping and illegal experimentation of five people specifically used to make a video game.
It just so happens that Sepia World may be the one alternate world in the multiverse where the “video games = violence” crowd are actually correct.
In an infinite universe, it had to happen somewhere once.
I’m not entirely sure if it is kidnapping. I may be fuzzy on the details but I believed the Five were basically selected beta testers who signed up to try out the tubes. I am sure we can all imagine the lawsuit if it ever went public that Hurricane put players basically into a coma with their new game. From there I think H.R. has just been trying to keep things quiet, maybe grease a few palms and send a few letters congratulations the family and friends on the long term testing contract the Five have been ‘rewarded’ with and doing everything he can to get them the heck out. Sadly, down that path lays Madness.
But again, I might not have the right details on this.
You’re close, but it seems instead they decided to cover up the experiment and deny they had anything to do with the five missing beta testers. And it seems H.R. is more interested in making himself a god in the game than really getting them out of the game.
Who says Shana actually believes it? So far, this is actually going the way she wants it.
When Shana sent that PM to Ferris’ facebook account, she knew that she could end up “flushing out” someone who was monitoring his account. Not only did she manage to do exactly that, said flushed-out person has already unwittingly admitted to improper actions (logging in to the private account of an ex-employee) less than a minute into the meeting.
There’s a good chance Shana is throwing out that accusation just to see how Carol reacts, perhaps hoping she’ll implicate herself even further than she already has.
Am I the only one or are other people totally rooting for Carol..? I feel like I shouldn’t be, but I definitely want her to tell Shanna to gtfo and also make sure she STAYS gone too. =/
Miss Masters seems like she needs a British accent to go with that snark.
Its an thoroughly educated and monied southern English accent you’re thinking about probably.
(Welsh accent is a British accent. Scottish + northern Ireland also.)
its a*
Damnation.
*it’s a
So are Yorkshire accents, Manchester accents, Liverpudlian accents, Geordie accents, West Country accents, cockney accents, Lancashire accents, Birmingham (Brummie) accents, and Chav accents.
British accents, all of ’em.
Yup. But usually when American Tv has an ‘English’ character its usually an educated monied stereotype. Or Cockney I guess. Rather than any of those.
Lol. Chav as an accent.
To be fair, the ever-mutating lingual tone of the average London chav is quite distinct from the more classic cockney (which is becoming rarer with each passing year). There is a lot of international influence in there for one thing.
Great, I’ve now got her stuck in my head with a west country accent, complete with a straw hanging from her mouth.
And for everyone else, it goes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zwwqEm5YhQ
I make no apologies for the loss of brain cells caused by drinking cider or listening to the Wurzels :-)
I would’ve thought they were U.S. (south midwest or Appalachian, maybe) from the accents.
What is that tune? Did they steal another song or did another artist steal their music and make a proper song out of it?
The tune is very very familiar (kinda like Ice Ice Baby stole the beat from Under Pressure)
aye, I can see that being hilarious in a Manchester accent, or mayhaps west country
though I suppose you meant RP accent, which is something only found in America or newscasters :P
Do British newscasters not use a Mid-Atlantic accent? It’s designed to be very understandable to all English speakers, so I assumed it was used in Britain as much as in America.
RED RUM.
If this journalist is another of those ‘Violent games cause people to go on killing sprees’ types, I’m siding with Carol here…
Seriously, Shanna sounds like someone who writes for the Daily Mail, and how can one not be fond of something the Daily Mail despises?
Whoops, was supposed to be a new comment, not a reply, silly phone…
In Fans!, she started out as a self-styled Serious Reporter who tried to look older than she was (and succeeded all too well) and was allergic to all kinds of nerd culture. She was near intolerable.
She gradually got over all her issues and evolved into one of the most awesomest awesome characters ever. As for violent games, at one point she’s shown to regularly play WoW with her friends.
And now I’m conflicted. Up until this page, this Shanna seemed like the genre-savvy sleuth I know and love, just not openly nerdy. If what Carol says is true, though, there’s a little too much of the old prejudiced half-neurotic Shanna in her for me to sympathize with her.
No, no, you’ve got it all backwards.
I suppose she has choose… poorly… er, otherwise.
The “poor” choice would be “gentle”. That would most likely involve bribery, and longt-lasting mean of pressure against Shanna.
This subplot still bores the shit out of me, but at least it’s breaking out of its two-and-a-half-year stasis.
Please. Arrest her. Arrest everyone. Whatever you can do to keep the wheels on this narrative upright.
Oamu, I’m honestly curious here and not attempting to bait. Have you ever liked anything that wasn’t high fantasy/sci-fi world? Or are you the very genre-specific type?
I like ALL sorts of things (Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens, Crichton, Asimov…) and this subplot bores the shit out of me too. Let’s not make any broad assumptions about people’s taste when they complain that something is not to their taste because it’s not very good. Overall that was a positive comment: Oamu says we’re finally seeing some inkling of plot advancement in a region where it was lacking. That’s not to say I’d be happy spending any more time in Sepia World than the bare minimum necessary for the writers/artists to tell their story.
I keep reading because it’s important for creative types to have their creative freedom, so the writers (Campbell & Kahn, who I assume are behind this?) have every right to do (almost) whatever they want with their work, and it’s provided free after all. The good parts of the comic mainly make up for these dull-as-hell self-indulgent unpaid-product-placement experiments. Who knows, maybe some readers are even still into this? Good for them.
When Sepia world first appeared in the comic.Me and many others didn’t like it but the writers said that it would be worth it to endure it.Many chapters later i still don`t see it and i am still annoyed from the whole -its all a big Etertainment-game and Magicworld fusion- concept. Thats just my opinion and the writers can do what they want of course.
Also seeing how the Sepia World is drawn/colored it makes it look like it is really the Fake world and not the game world.
I do like Shanna though but that might be because i was a big fan of the “FANS!” Webcomic.
Man, when the plot takes us to dustbowl Kansas and then post-twister Dorothy joins the guildies, I am gonna be so psyched.
Maybe you’re right. Maybe Sepia World is the fake world, and Arkerra is the real one.
Maybe Sepia World is a prison, created by magic users of Arkerra, to trap Tectonicus, and keep him from remembering his own identity. The cult is breaking through to Sepia World, though, and H.R. is beginning to discover his powers, and clues to his true identity.
It would be like if the wizards of Middle Earth created The Matrix to imprison Sauron.
Maybe the Arkerrans used a “snapshot” of our world, as a template, to create the artificial Sepia World.
(There are probably tons of reasons this idea can’t be true, but at least it’s another angle to ponder, before giving up on Sepia World entirely)
Hmm on rereading my comment I kind of took it to a negative place. My main point is that of course the creators have the right to do what they want, but I still inwardly groan every time I see one of these pages, so I hope the conflict escalation in this chapter means it is heading towards the promised payoff that Hellhound mentioned. It’s like reading two webcomics, one of which I like a lot and one I really don’t but occasionally appears instead of the one I like.
Naw, I like lotsa stuff. I guess in terms of webcomics I mostly read fantasy, but I think that has to do more with what quality strips I’ve found than what I would prefer to read. I think comics (of any sort) lend themselves to the fantastic more readily than the mundane. There may be a really tightly engineered webcomic about a down-on-his-luck small-town lawyer trying to navigate a case too big for him, or one about interoffice politics at a medium-sized liberal arts college in New England, but I haven’t run across any.
Well, I, for one, enjoy the sepia world. I don’t really understand why people are so annoyed by the fact that the fantasy world is a game. Especially since the main cast is not aware of it. To them, this is as real as things can be.
I’m hoping that we might see real life players of Bandit and co in the sepia world, to see how they consider their adventures with the Five when not in the game. Do they feel that there is something off ? Or do they think that the five are some sort of central NPC/DM, or just that everything seems normal to them once they log out ?
I feel the same about Sepia World. But then I thoroughly enjoyed .//Hacksign and am looking forward to seeing where the lines between the two worlds blur.
I’m in the “yay sepiaworld” camp. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the quality of the writing and the art all through the sepia strips.
If you don’t understand why people are so annoyed by sepia world, you could try reading what they say when they explain themselves, maybe. It seems like people are pretty clear about their reasons, being disingenuous doesn’t add anything of value to the discussion. I thought Davegrust’s sentence earlier summed it up really well:
“It’s like reading two webcomics, one of which I like a lot and one I really don’t but occasionally appears instead of the one I like.”
That’s a really concise explanation. On one hand, I’m glad that Sepia world hasn’t integrated more fully into the fantasy storyline (because I dislike its premise, and don’t identify with any of it’s characters), but on the other, that’s not really a good strategy for making me grow to like it. It’s a shitty position to be in, for the writers (fortunately, my opinion isn’t everyone’s).
If it remains this cul-de-sac that the audience goes to every month or two, and look at the tubes, as a reminder that hey, none of the other strip is real, then that doesn’t really negatively impact the main story for me. The creators are still at a point where they could release a special, leatherbound “no sepia world” edition of the comic, that excises every reference to Sepia World (I even hate that name, it’s like in C.urvy, where earth is referred to as “boring world”–super appropriate) and everything that has occurred so far in the main storyline would still make sense. As of yet, Sepia World is entirely uncritical to the “main” storyline, like two train lines that run parallel, but never cross (Events in Arkerra affect Sepia world, of course, but so what?)
That is not a viable position in which to remain. We know, because they kinda have remained there, for more than two and a half years. They have to tie these threads together if people like me are ever going to stop complaining about how pointless sepia world is. That puts me in a weird spot, where I’m kinda advocating more sepia world content, because I know the only way It’ll ever stop feeling like it’s a chore I have to plow through before I get back to my Saturday morning Cartoons.
H.R.s narrative arc has to go somewhere, it has to leave the tube room, and it has to affect Arkerra in a real way that’s obvious (if not understood) to all the protagonists.
I disagree on that the two are unrelated and the sepia world (or the real world, if you prefer) hasn’t affected Akerra so far. It’s been establish so far that most of the critical event were designed by HR with the specific intent to “kill” the Five, so that might free them of the game (or, at least, allow him to get rid of them in some other way). The whole wood elves arc was an attempt in that regard, that somehow escaped HR’s control, leading them to falling more into madness and to the current situation.
The cultist arc was another one, though not really designed, but the gate actually opening seemed to be HR’s doing.
Sure, you could cut away all the sepia world bits to have yet another fantasy webcomic, but that wouldn’t mean it’s real if the author decided otherwise. They could have kept the secret even longer than they did, we would be thinking that it’s all “real” (in comic), but the truth of it would remain unchanged.
And personally, I like the “two for one” aspect of the comic. But hey, that’s a matter of taste, I guess.
So you’re citing HR’s repeated and explicitly depicted inability to affect the narrative of Arkerra (as of yet) as an example of how HR is able to affect Arkerra? That’s, uh, not a good argument.
He did affect the narrative of Arkerra. He set up the Five and their guild to go to the wood elves, the staff being stolen and the war to follow. That events escaped his control soon after doesn’t change the fact that he had some hand in the whole thing. And hey, if you see HR as a typical GM, plans not surviving the contact with players is kind of “normal” anyway. XD
HR doesn’t have absolute control, that’s a fact and a good thing, or the story would already be wrapped up since they died in the arena. But he has some ability to mold events so they happen, so we could see that he can’t control it entirely. From the dialogues, it might be because Akerra does exist and is not just a game. Or it did grow beyong being just a game.
I find this narrative interesting.
And then Masters sputters artfully, leaves, and then the tape record of a certain Ms. Shannon Cochran professing knowledge of the murder of Mr. O’Leary goes to the police. Who then discover that Ms. Cochran has tried, at least once, to infiltrate Mr. O’Leary’s workplace using a false identity.
… then the cops are sent to investigate Masters’ responsibility in this. And jail her too. And she’s sent in the same cell as Carol. ^^ Now THAT’s a twist. ^^
Sounds like a sitcom just a tad.
It’s more of a drama: Sepia is the New Black
I’ve got about twenty bucks that this loose end will get tied in the next two comics.
If you’re implying what I think your implying… I don’t think Campbell has it in him to to write her being killed. At least not quite that ignobly cause two pages isn’t a lot of time for anything more then that kinda death.
Starbucks customers are steamed, when the new speed bump in the parking lot causes them to spill scalding hot coffee in their laps.
Confused baristas respond, “That’s no speed bump. Speed bumps don’t have such nice shoes.”
*Gasps* SHE … KNOWS!
Also, there will be an attempt at tying up this loose end, then a cumuppence, but I wouldn’t lay money on it.
She knows nothing!
Let me guess, Shanna thinks that Carol murdered H.R?
She saw Ferris’ house, and his Facebook private messages were answered by the person in front of her who is now implying she could have Shanna killed.
I think she knows who’s dead.
Hmmm, that does seem like a bit of a leap … no I think Shannon’s got the wrong idea about what’s happened to the Five. If she doesn’t join them she’ll figure out Ferris later.
Damn you autocorrelate
How…is that a leap? Ferris’ house, Carol’s words here, all of this points to Ferris having been murdered. Shanna would have to be a blithering idiot not to connect the dots.
I think the key to Shanna’s analysis is saying that Carol will be arrested for murder “in a month”. Either she has genius-level detective abilities to determine when a body bag will wash up from the ocean carrying enough dismembered parts to make an ID on Ferris, or in one month enough time will have passed for The Five to be declared dead in absentia, at which point Shanna will have the police launch an investigation into where they were last seen – testing an experimental VR system for Hurricane Software.
One month later, in a delicious twist of irony, Carol gets arrested for the murder Ms. Shanna Cochran.
Reminds me of an old Tales of the Crypt episode where a woman receives a fortune telling that a somewhat unpleasant man who eyes for her will receive a fortune and then die soon after. So she starts romancing him and marries him only to find out he has no clear link to any money at all. She then wins the lottery and tries to leave him only to have him kill her, technically inherit her fortune and then be executed in prison.
Carol shann’t stand for this. It’s clobberin’ time!
Maybe we’ll get to this a fight between them.
*Cues the Duel of the Fates*
Is it just me, or does Carol’s right eye in panel four need to come up a couple centimeters?
Carol is played in that panel by Shannen Doherty. (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5ll45o5Ll1qbn1vmo1_500.jpg)
This is one of those moments when I’m puzzled about the sequence of events implied in a static image. Where is “Carol sipping coffee” in relation to “Shanna accuses Carol of murder”? Because it would say a lot about how confident Carol feels right now if she manages to continue calmly sipping coffee when she hears that accusation.
I figure Carol started taking a sip right after the end of panel three.
So the next strip could begin with either a spit-take or Carol calmly finishing her sip before responding.
After Carol’s reaction, Shanna will explain that she meant the company will be tried for murder. You know, since violent video games cause murder… or some false garbage. I actually enjoy these subplots!
Only an accessory to a murder ? That still makes you an accomplice? That still makes you fair game for the Courts. And the jail …
Yeah, but Nosy girl there would still be WRONG about her ! She thought she killed Ferris, but she only dispose of the body ! AH ! IN YOUR FACE, you damn know-it-all nosey bitch !
*goes take her pills*
“Only” dispose of the body ? You mean like in covering up evidence, covering up a murder, not telling a soul to the police ? She’ll definitely get busted in. Period.
Hmm … Claims to have responsibility to the company alone : check
Claims it gives her ressources to do whatever she wants : check
Threatens a whistle-blower with death : check.
That’s it … Masters is FUBAR. She became downright evil.
I like my current avatar. ^^
Getting a little liberal with her wording there.
“My responsibility is to my company” is not quite the same as “My only responsibility is to my company”
She did not say it gives her the resources to do what she wants, she says it gives her the resources to solve problems the company comes up against. Any higher up manager is going to have more ways to deal with complication. As a Delivery Clerk, I can tell you I’d get a stern reprimand if I tried to give an upset customer a discount or made promises and starting going beyond my access, but that is fair territory for the people at the top of the heap.
And lastly, it is a threat, but not a death threat. Shanna is a problem. She is obviously looking for something incriminating about Hurricane and as much as we like to think that shouldn’t be anything bad, I doubt any of us would like someone going through our trash and hanging around our house twice a week because they think we might have something to hide.
““My responsibility is to my company” is not quite the same as “My only responsibility is to my company” ”
In that case, we’d have to be pretty obtuse not to see it is almost the same, if not directly the same.
“she says it gives her the resources to solve problems the company comes up against”
In that case, it clearly means she’s threatening with death. Seriously, in that context, if what Carol says isn’t a barely-hidden death threat, I don’t know what is. I mean, she’s looks awfully ok with her boss having murdered someone, so far.
And when someone from a big and rich company is calling you a problem (s)he has the means to solve, it doesn’t exactly mean (s)he’ll remain in legal stuff, right ?
“Yeah? Well, your mom should be arrested for murdering your face! So there.”
I was going to go with, “Your NOSE is going to be arrested for murder!”
Okay, I know that Ferris disappearing is the current thread Shanna is following but I’m having some trouble recalling why she originally started looking into Hurricane..
Time to hunt through the archives!
Okay yeah, looking into the Five disappearing. Maybe that could be another shot Shanna is going for with the murder claim? I am sure since she was expecting trouble she brought as much ammo as she could.
Oh, wonderful. Now I hate Shanna even more.
Like I said, she probably does freelance work for the Daily Mail…
i predict that Shanna will either wind up getting into the bag, or into the tank at this rate.
Hate Shanna? What for? She’s probably one of the better people, and more proactive characters in the comic right now.
Because judging by Carol’s comments, Shanna is the type of Journalist who attributes video games as the cause of violence and school shootings.
You know, like the type you see on Fox News or writing for the Daily Mail.
In this particular case, it’s a pretty good bet that Hurricane is associated with violence… including the kidnapping and illegal experimentation of five people specifically used to make a video game.
It just so happens that Sepia World may be the one alternate world in the multiverse where the “video games = violence” crowd are actually correct.
In an infinite universe, it had to happen somewhere once.
I’m not entirely sure if it is kidnapping. I may be fuzzy on the details but I believed the Five were basically selected beta testers who signed up to try out the tubes. I am sure we can all imagine the lawsuit if it ever went public that Hurricane put players basically into a coma with their new game. From there I think H.R. has just been trying to keep things quiet, maybe grease a few palms and send a few letters congratulations the family and friends on the long term testing contract the Five have been ‘rewarded’ with and doing everything he can to get them the heck out. Sadly, down that path lays Madness.
But again, I might not have the right details on this.
You’re close, but it seems instead they decided to cover up the experiment and deny they had anything to do with the five missing beta testers. And it seems H.R. is more interested in making himself a god in the game than really getting them out of the game.
“Solve me harder! Harder! YESSS”
Great. Now I imagine both of Carol and Shanna in BDSM regalia … XDDD
…oh, she’s that sort of moron is she. we should interupt her to HR! :D
also, woman, your thinking this person commited murder, and now your openly threatening her to her face. that’s… not the smartest move
Who says Shana actually believes it? So far, this is actually going the way she wants it.
When Shana sent that PM to Ferris’ facebook account, she knew that she could end up “flushing out” someone who was monitoring his account. Not only did she manage to do exactly that, said flushed-out person has already unwittingly admitted to improper actions (logging in to the private account of an ex-employee) less than a minute into the meeting.
There’s a good chance Shana is throwing out that accusation just to see how Carol reacts, perhaps hoping she’ll implicate herself even further than she already has.
Enjoying the alt-text for this one.
“For murder…king the competition when the Thanksgiving season comes around!”
“Nah, I’ve made my peace with that one. It’s not really on my list of problems.”
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Hurricane Studios? The Shanna’s nose!
Am I the only one or are other people totally rooting for Carol..? I feel like I shouldn’t be, but I definitely want her to tell Shanna to gtfo and also make sure she STAYS gone too. =/
*reply to alt text*
And boy does she know how to accessorize . .
‘it empowers me with certain resources to solve it’s problems’
..resources like H.R.s magic, alternate universes, and H.R. himself if needed..
Here we are. Now, entertain us.
“Oh Ms. Masters, you should know I like being solved very, very roughly.” Winky face.
Every time I see Shanna, I wonder where the rest of her comrades are.
In this universe, I mean.