Chapter 49 – Page 24 & 25
THAT THING WHERE YOU EXPECT MOVING TO GO PERFECTLY FINE AND NOTHING WILL GET IN YOUR WAY BECAUSE OF COURSE IT’S NOT THE MIDDLE OF WINTER OR ANYTHING A CONCEPT CALLED A SHITLOAD OF SNOW EXISTS HA HA HA
Sorry, gang. Here’s the comics. Please enjoy.
“Let’s see … I need to have a strong, intelligent, master stroke of a comeback to these players, these underlings … What grand statement shall I make? Quote Shakespeare? Plato? Kissinger? Jobs? The Bible? Desiderata?
… I KNOW! I’LL USE A KINDERGARTEN INSULT!
When you’re a god everything sounds profound. And confronting them with their Earth selves was probably something they didn’t anticipate.
I’m stuck on the metanarrative there though — the whole comic led up to that
we’ve been so trolled :D
“He was rubber. They were glue. Together, they fought
crimethe governmenteach otherthe multiversedust bunnies.”Given that our friends don’t remember their existence in Earth, are they likely to recognize any of the sources you mention?
They do look very Similiar to their “Real” World counterparts. If nothing else it’ll probably be confusing as heck
*shrug* One does not have to know from where a profound quote comes to understand the quote ‘s meaning and recognize that meaning’s profoundness.
Well, he is dealing with Frigg here among other things.
I think it’s perfectly fitting. HR is pretending to be more than he is. He’s not a god. He’s not all. He’s not even a scholar. He’s a computer nerd with lots of money. And it’s showing.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with being a computer nerd… per se. I happen to be one myself.)
How do you know if you’ve mastered the program, or if the program’s mastered you?
What you say is what you are!
*You’re* a shadow!
No, YOU are!
I’m telling!
Well yeah, because he didn’t just insult them, he insulted their intelligence!
I read the first page and then spent several minutes trying to figure out what the hell it has to do with Paul Reubens….
Augh! I have been trying for EVER with this tablet to read the alt-text and only NOW near the end of its life and near the end of this comic I finally get it to show. Nope. I’m not doing anything any differently than before.
*Sob* all those puns gone ungrokked
There are two alt-texts. It’s a double strip.
Yes, and they’re mixed-up, is my point.
More like the first being a set-up for the second. They’re not just switched; the order reversed wouldn’t make sense.
You are right as Hell.
Take it from me, friends: Don’t ever move and try to publish comics at the same time. Just pick one hovel to live in forever until you die.
SOK they’re late. These comix are always worth waiting for. I’m gonna miss them when they are gone but I can’t wait to see what’s next.
Wait a minut. Isn’t there some kind of immovable law against meeting yourself face to face? I guess that only applies to time travel. I so did not see this twist of plot coming. I am going to predict a change of scene to see how Tectonicus is doing on old four eyes purple beast.
I think they might not recognize those “other” people, but since Weo told them what they needed to know, they’ll be able to piece it together.
Also curious about the super-pensive Best expression in its own panel.
He thought he had a destiny, trained himself believing it in, turned out to be a little different than what he expected.
I thought we’d start seeing that soon, here. But I’m thinking it’s like Weo said and he can still have a great destiny and the basin didn’t lie either. I’m super curious to know how it can be that he has a lonely grave but a great destiny. Is this really it? Will he die spectacularly? Or fizzle out in the last few moments, most un-greatly?
I am still banking on his great destiny somehow being sacrificing himself to get the others out, thus leaving him behind in the game, which might indeed be great AND result in a lonely grave if he’s the only one who dies in this process.
He can have a great destiny by saving the world… but a lonely grave when no one remembers his sacrifice. It’s the ultimate hero’s act. A combination of “What you are in the dark” and “The greatest story never told.”
Hasn’t he already been established in said “lonely grave?” H.R. was frantic that he couldn’t revive Best in the tube when his avatar bit it and couldn’t be found in-game. It’s just that Best (and co.) doesn’t know it yet.
Not sure; simply because Weo still acknowledged it after the fact in such a way that it sounds like it’s still incoming.
Alternately he instructs them to hide his body and build a starue in his honor in the nearesr town.
Shit just got real.
The snark is strong within HR here.
Poor HR, being super rich just wasn’t enough for him.
Yeah, being rich is its own super power, but he chose to become a villain rather than a hero.
Reminds me of Taro…
Reminds me of a Civic Protection episode where one of the characters points this out. Batman is rich. And unlike Superman or Spiderman, doesn’t need to get up and go to work.
Best? What the heck is that Face you’re making. You’re doing me a concern Best.
“A CONCEPT CALLED A SHITLOAD OF SNOW EXISTS”
I was assured that was no longer the case.
Literally, there was a front page newspaper headline and everything. “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” – the Indepedent, March 2000
I suspect that the good folks living in the Maritimes have a range of responses from dour grumblings, laugh-in-your-face paroxysms to downright filthy sailor-cusses.
Every single year.
I am afraid to go there.
It must be beautiful, though. In the manner of forest fires and tsunami.
Speaking as one who lives in the Boston MA area, it is. And it’s only a pain if you need to be an adult in it.
The cold… that’s another matter.
I wish you and yours the best of healthy and safety and minimum of loss.
The mind recognises the loss of material things to be immaterial, but the heart knows these to be the holders of our histories. A memento is the file folder to our past, to be picked up and perused; a refresher course to who we are. Our homes are filing cabinets we have built with our love.
I hope you are among the lucky.
Best has experience travelling from one “reality” twice, from Arkerra, to Cyberia and back again.
My guess is this experience will be a factor in defeating HR, saving the Adventurers and Arkerra, but at the cost of his life.
Dead at 27, but leaving a beautiful corpse.
I’m actually impressed by the protagonists’ argument in favor of mortality as the necessary cost of having a self.
HR’s comeback is also pretty impressive — though arguably, he’s responded by changing the subject.
I’m guessing we’re going to hear a critique of “Plato’s cave” pretty soon.
Well, more likely, an argument about what’s the cave, and what’s the outside.
I rather like that argument as well. And my guess is that Frigg busts up Plato’s cave.
Everyone else has coherent, intelligent comments and all my brain can come up with is:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STUFFS HAPPENING NOW
THE END STUFF
IS HAPPENING
I AM VERY EXCITED
Same, but swap “VERY EXCITED” for “GOING TO HAVE A FUCKING CORONARY.”
Poor Best, aware he’s about to die.
Gosh just noticed we got two episodes at once. See, two different alt texts.
Two literary techniques I can’t stand in villains:
Monologuing and demigod-ding.