Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Episode 0039

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Ariana — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:18:53 -0800

It's Friday, it's FREAKANGELS.

Morning, Whitechapel. We're a week off from xmas, so I'd imagine some of you are probably preemptively medicating, broke, and/or looking for ways to fake your own deaths. Alternatively, I'm sure someone's in a good mood and looking forward to family. Freaks. How's everyone, anyway?

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Brad McLoughlin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:25:19 -0800

I love Christmas! I am broke though...

I also like how my work lunch ties in with Freakangels releases.

Wondering! Is this referencing internet trends ('All your forthcoming bone fractures are belong to us'/'I can has vodka?') just netnerd injokes, or is it it part of the cultural future Warren's created in Whitechapel?

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brycemidas — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:25:54 -0800

Oh man, that last line is amazing!

I'm liking Luke as a character, it's still really unclear to me as to where he's coming from. Very interesting. Again to Mr. Ellis and Mr. Duffield: Kudos.

Also, I am leaving Austin tomorrow for my big Christmas journey around the Gulf of Mexico. Dive bars all along the southern Seabord are already trembling with fear.

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nigredo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:27:10 -0800

Well, after a line like "all your forthcoming bone fractures are belong to us" the world makes sense again. I think the temperature went up a few degrees too.

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lordmitz — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:34:05 -0800

we approve of net culture references!

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Pfilip of Everywhere — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:34:21 -0800

My lovely Sirkka is going to nail Luke's ass to the wall (figuratively speaking)... :)

Also, great final shot of KK and Caz against one of said walls--edit out the speech balloons and it would make an excellent desktop background.

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hmobius — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:42:16 -0800

@nigredo. Indeed - now I want Llamasoft references in there too. It can't be too difficult to get Space Giraffes or Mutant Camels in there, can it?

As for this episode, a small eddy of calm before next episode - good to take a breather.

@Ariana. Is Ep40 coming out Jan 2? Or are you putting it out on auto-pilot next week?

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Ariana — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:51:22 -0800

Not quite sure what's what yet, Dan. I'll likely be around over the holidays, either way -- but then I'm always on a bit of auto-pilot come 4am PST...!

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buddharhubarbbutter — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:01:35 -0800

Great closing line from KK.

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Ariana — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:03:13 -0800

I'm so sad none of you are giving Caz credit for -- oh god I'm so sorry -- setting KK up the punchline.

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indysleaze — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:04:21 -0800

FA makes me tingle with excitement. I think I'm falling for Alice a bit, even if she is a dirty red Manc.

Life is alright. Christmas is near and I might go to Moscow for the second time ever in February. Life~!

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Lazlo23 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:08:01 -0800

Luke is in trouble. I think he did something fundamentally bad. I believe the mortar launching assault team are just a distraction to cause confusion while the real threat is deployed.

Next week will be explosive, no doubt... can hardly wait.

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pi8you — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:11:04 -0800

Ha-hah! was not expecting that last panel, well played.

Time for a shower and then the maddening final prep and wait for my mother to pick me up en route to Rapid City, SD for my brother's college graduation tomorrow, he's a crazy-ass Chemistry/Food Science nerd that makes many delicious foods and has procured miracle fruit for us to try.

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johnjones — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:11:48 -0800

Next week will be explosive, no doubt... can hardly wait.

Next week will be Christmas and a skip week, from what I understand. January 2 will be stick figures and hungover rambling. Freakangels will probably not return until January 9, but will be well worth the wait.

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William Christensen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:15:59 -0800

@john - Oh you might be wrong, so wrong. Me thinks we have a few surprises up our sleeves for the Holidays...

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bairdduvessa — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:26:52 -0800

exciting as always

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johnjones — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:33:39 -0800

Interesting how the "most intellectual Freakangel" is a little dumb on some fundamental level. He's just pushing for a beatdown. Poor Conner, Alice is cutting him apart with every memory she shares, isn't she? How do explain to the woman you love that you and your buddies destroyed her entire civilization because you got tired of running from some tiny covert military-science portion of it?

I'm guessing that last part as it strikes me as unlikely that the British government would make a general public announcement that the Freakangel kids were deadly psychics. For one thing, no one in Whitechapel knows about that part of them and surely Whitechapelers had access to television before the Splash. It also seems to fit the situation. The 'angels were born into their little village. Eventually the government investigated them and took them into custody. Then they escaped and spent time running from the secret forces pursuing them. They got sick of the running and broke the world to make it stop.

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AtomicSloth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:52:43 -0800

OK is anyone else seeing a BIG SCARY FACE in the sky on the last page? It's not just my monitor, or the shakes and I havent taken my meds this morning. I cant work out who it is, Mark maybe? Its freaky and awesome and SCARY.
Damn I'm hungover...

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twitch_ramirez — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:10:43 -0800

good morning ariana,

i think whatever happens will be massive. the worry wart in me got a kick out of 't p' being a thing of the pass. the good old days ha!

not a lot to do about christmas this year. just hoping to have a warm meal and some time with family. i will be in treatments yet again so not all that excited.

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sinnick — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:00:28 -0800

Somebody set up them the bomb.

@johnjones - do you think Connor is in love with Alice? My impression was that it was always more of a protective instinct on his part.

And his pained body-language in this episode seems to be a bad case of lack of exercise, possibly combined with smoker's lung? Not surprising for a guy who lives in his head most of the time. :)

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mister hex — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:02:36 -0800

Just as I start jabbing my foul and corrupted veins with the drug that is Freakangels, we're "taking a break. For Christmas." To be fair, the Internet Jesus can do as he likes, can't he? That's why he's the Internet Jesus and that's why we love him (well, one reason, anyway.).

Very good episode. That Luke's a bit of a bastard, isn't he? Mark might have a friend soon.

I am, as mentioned of Holly Martens in the opening of the Third Man, "happy as a lark and without a cent."
Happy Christmas to all, Whitechapel.

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wishlish — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:16:55 -0800

I want some sort of clothing apparatus with the last panel blazing on my chest.

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cjtremlett — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:43:09 -0800

We're having the snowpocalypse here. It's a lovely morning to stay inside and read things with the name Ellis on them. (Our comics shop -finally- was able to scare up a copy of Doktor Sleepless #9, just in time for #10 to come out!)

That last panel is a beautiful thing indeed! That'll have me chuckling for hours. I'm easily amused. Especially during the snowpocalypse.

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forkfork — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:53 -0800

seconds on that snowapocalypse. the midwest us is shutting down for the weekend. warm things and oj

but really i thought the "i think one of my...lung...bag things...burst" was fantastic
i thought being a freakangel made you superfit and able to run for miles
as always huzzah for freakangel friday

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MagicSword! — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:02:12 -0800

Seriously, how many times do you see glowing eyes in comics? And how often are those eyes treated as an actual light source casting shadows of their own? Duffield you're a wonder.

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Saprophyte — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:10:56 -0800

I laughed so hard at the last line that I almost got into trouble at work.

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diello — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:28:04 -0800

I always precede the ALL YOUR BASE line with HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN when I make the delivery ;) Yay KK and Kaz!

I still love Luke, even though he is a total asshole.

And I absolutely LOVE Connor and how he's got this history of bad health (with weight) behind him affecting his present state of mind (and lung). hahaha.

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Rootfireember — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:54:19 -0800

Goodmorning. Loved the internet culture references that appear now and again throughout the comic. It helps remind us that these guys aren't that old, that they once lived in a world like ours, etc., but it's not over-done to the point of becoming really annoying. Good epp.

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stsparky — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:44:08 -0800

Fun. Luke's interrogation worked.

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Miranda's Eyes — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:50:59 -0800

On the personal side, it's a little bit of both. I'm looking forward to vegging out with family at Xmas and getting together with a friend visiting from overseas. Until then, though, it's lack of sleep and madness time trying to find speakers for a small event when everybody's away for the holidays.

On the FREAKANGELS side, it's wonderful awesomeness. Alice's mourning the past and accepting the present has pushed me away from my earlier suspicions of her and made me like her. The KK and Caz snark team hit one out of the ballpark with that unexpected and hilarious Internet culture reference line.

Thank you, Internet Jesus for that wonderful setup. Christmas is coming up and you and Paul Duffield's next installment (whenever it comes) promises to gift us with something I'd appreciate: attractive women delivering well-deserved scumbag beatdowns.

I'm amused by the idea of an "All your future bone fractures" T-shirt. However, I hesitate because I worry about putting a gleam into William Christensen's eye about developing more ways for sucking out more of my money for Ellis goodness. Not that I'd say no. It could be worse. Christensen could tempt me with a postcard book featuring illustrated quips from Ellis comics.

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Indigo Rose — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:54:49 -0800

Beautiful, as always.

I have the feeling that Luke is going to have to make himself very valuable to the group, very quickly, or get lost in a hurry. If he was behind the mortar, I'm sure his intention was to blow up the Freakcave and not actually the FreakAngels, just shake them up because he's angry with them. Not that that is a good excuse, but it's Luke. It would please me if the mortar was just the annoying normal people, and not the work of a FreakAngel, or Ex-FreakAngel, at all.

Prep for the Holidays is fine, though I'm running out of time to finish up gifts. I'm making some of the gifts this year, so I have to hurry it up, but I couldn't stay away on a Friday. If it weren't for the Holidays, I'd be around more (like in the remake/remoddle thread), but I've no time. Ah, well, such is life in this season.

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johnjones — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:38:52 -0800

@sinnick

do you think Connor is in love with Alice? My impression was that it was always more of a protective instinct on his part.

Okay, love is probably overstating it, but I think he is attracted to her and is somewhat protective of her. How or whether that'll grow into a true relationship depends on future events, I think.

On another point, I like the way that Alice can think ahead and problem solve. She realizes that she can effectively replace Kirk at the Watchtower. She can still coordinate the 'angels because she's in their mass mind and deliver another 'angel into the search below. Plus, she can also set up that rope she's been wanting in case things go wrong (and you know they almost certainly will).

@ Indigo Rose

If he was behind the mortar, I'm sure his intention was to blow up the Freakcave and not actually the FreakAngels, just shake them up because he's angry with them.

I just don't see it. The morter attack would take planning and work. Luke isn't much for either. I think he is brilliant, but his brilliance strikes me as more the "wondrous idea that strikes a mind fully-formed" than anything else. Luke's 99% inspiration, 1% perspiration. He's getting in serious trouble right now because of it. He had the sudden, brilliant idea to mind-control his girlfriend and "set things straight." He executed that idea without thinking through or planning for the possible consequences. Sirkka's taking him apart because he never even considered what would happen if the others detected his actions. And this even after Arkady specirfically warned him that Sirkka and detected him and what would transpire because of it.

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orwellseyes — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:44:22 -0800

That was a nice slice.

I just finished "A World made by hand" this week, by the gent who did "The Long Emergency". It's about a world where peak oil, a spot of terrorism and economic collapse have moved people back to smaller communal life. The bit with the new girl recalling the way things used to be put me in mind of that book.

It snowed here overnight. Heart Attack snow, wet and heavy and awful. I fucking hate winter. Summer is shit for me too. A land of perpetual Autumn? Wonderful.

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Indigo Rose — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:06:30 -0800

@JohnJones - I know, that's why I phrased it the way I did; "If he was behind the mortar..." and added at the end "It would please me if the mortar was just the annoying normal people, and not the work of a FreakAngel, or Ex-FreakAngel, at all." I suppose I could have done the IF in bold, italics, or caps to get my real point across, but I got lazy, sorry. I agree, I don't think it was he, though I don't want it to be Mark either, because then he'd be behind everything... that's just annoying. Mark as big threat is great, but as source of all threats, not so much. In my opinion.

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infomancer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:22:06 -0800

Hi Whitechapel.

I'm starting to really enjoy the fact that the FreakAngel package doesn't come with any sort of specific ethics. The 'Angels seem to be just kids with more power than they know what to do with, which makes them more three dimensional.

In other news, after three days of being coated in a sheet of spine-threatening ice, southern IN is finally dry again. In fact, it's almost 60 degrees today. That's almost nude frolicking weather. Makes me wish for an early spring, but I'd settle for just getting the holidays over with.

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PaulGrahamRaven — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:22:48 -0800

Ah, the internal group dynamics are kicking up a notch; good stuff! Yet again the Angels bring a ray of light to a dull grey day in Velcro City; kudos, gentlemen.

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Gekko — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:04:16 -0800

"What's the point? It's not where we live now is it?"
The whole sequence is moving. Who'd think Warren can be so soft-hearted. Sissy in disguise. No, seriously, in order to 3D the characters, a remembering of things past, a lost children passage was totally required. We've been given it. Plus a great cliffhanger (and a laugh, *gentlemen*) Well, thank you, Paul and Warren (and everybody else concerned)
I guess we're getting so very fond of you we'll remember that period when we're old goats.

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johnjones — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:26:33 -0800

@Indigo Rose

I don't think it was he, though I don't want it to be Mark either, because then he'd be behind everything... that's just annoying. Mark as big threat is great, but as source of all threats, not so much.

Sorry if, my earlier post came off arrogant. I have a tendency to go windbag if I'm not forcibly subdued.

For my part, I think that Mark (or another Freakangel who is not Luke) is behind the attacks, especially the morter attack. Alice outlined the reasons for that in episode 36. Besides, "everything" isn't as much as it looks like. By my count, less than twelve hours have passed since page 1 of episode 1 (I figure KK woke up around 10 AM and it's probably around 8 or 9 PM as of the end of Episode 39). It's enough to make me wonder if the true progenitor of the Freakangels was a psychic Jack Bauer.

For my part, I'm not sure that Mark is the Big Threat. I think it's probably going to be related to whatever Arkady was checking on in Episode 27.

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PenguinGeneral — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:16:13 -0800

@infomancer

I agree. The thought that they all focus on different in no apparent way makes this series work, not just superhero wet stories. Makes them humans. That's why Luke and Mark aren't "bad" guys to the strictest sense in my opinion. The Freakangels have a code on power usage because they know how out of hand it can get and have to enforce it, but they didn't kill mark, and arkady didn't permanently veg luke because you can always see the good in those your tied to, at least enough to be reluctant to kill them. Let's not kid ourselves, if any of us had the power of a Freakangel we wouldn't all be using our powers for the good of mankind or even with any sort of ethics. Some of us sure, but no one can claim that they would never slip. That's why I think they didn't flood the world out of self-defense really. They would feel more justified, it's psychology to make yourself believe the reasons behind any hard action you take. I think they felt a little pressure but really mostly curiosity. Curiosity at what would happen if they concentrated their mass mind on a single effort. Unfortunately for them the world ended.

On a separate note, noticing a lot requests being made for things on merch, can some of that stuff find it's way on hoodies? Ones that zip, have pockets, and come in Black, lavender, and charcoal grey, the Freakangel colors so to speak? It's winter time, popular item, and blankets are as wearable. I'll personally buy one of each color! Make sure to get the logo on there:)

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Lazarus99 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:52:38 -0800

@AtomicSloth

??? No, I think you might need some sleep or something. I see no face...

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VoxDraconae — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:01:34 -0800

@johnjones

are you referring to her quote about it being worse, whatever "it" is?

My assumption on that was that she was trying to expand her perspective, "go wider" and see more of the world. sort of the way paul atreides describes his "race consciousness"- a length of gauze undulating in the wind- i think that arkady is trying to see the future. somewhere in the 'angels' near future, there is another calamity sneaking up on them, and she tries to prevent it, but she can't even understand what it actually is. that, i think, is her work. and if the FA package allows her to pop herself in and out of whatever undulation she likes, then theres a lot more going on under the pale skin and purple eyes than even they suspect.

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abstrustication — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:16:34 -0800

@ Ariana - In an odd synchronicity, I read the post on your blog about your divorce yesterday and my wife just left me last week. Although we're getting along better now than we ever did while married, I probably won't be attending her family's XMas celebration. Rather, I'll be alone in a stupid, empty house, as my side of the family all lives very far away. And, as I stumble drunkenly around, I'll now be thinking of the booze as medication. So thank you for that.

@ Brad - I think that the reference to vehicle GPS, along with "i can has" and "all your base", is a good hint that Warren's getting at culture, shared memory, and also utilizing intarnets memes. So, yeah. Both.

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razrangel — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:38:50 -0800

Took me most of the day to get to FreakAngels and then all night to get through WhiteChapel. But it beats getting actual shit done or sleeping.

More and more I do love Alice. This is a very different way if introducing a world setting and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. There isn't any stranger in a strange land. A hapless soul having to learn the ropes in a new land. It isn't a single person possessed of a mystery that requires rethinking everything he thinks he knows. It's a story, progressing at top speed in a very different setting from our world but with just enough memory of our world to toss out comments that give us (poor hapless readers) some context. I like that Alice, when her mind is free, is a smart girl with a lot of determination. Yes, the clever lines got me to laugh, but I can't stop thinking about Alice and her former life.

I am heading home for Christmas. Snow is grand and all but I currently can't share it with anyone I love. I miss Los Angeles so much it aches. The ache just gets searing and bad when I think about friends I haven't seen in months. Family is exciting too because we haven't had a full house in years. It'll probably only be cool for a day or two and then we'll get on each others' nerves. But fortunately I haven't sold my car yet, so I can still get away.

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numpty1979 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:53:58 -0800

I did not get that reference at all. A bit of interweb research and now the veil is lifted from my eyes. Must have been living under a rock....

Great episode, the plot's been brilliant of late. Loving the zippy pace.

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cjstevens — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:41:16 -0800

I didn't get the reference either. Initially thought it was a spelling mistake, then thought there was no way I.J would make such mistakes.
The original Zero Wing transcript is actually on Wiki and funny as hell, my fav line: 'You are on the way to destruction...'

Anyway still wikid every time W and P.

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eDave — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:38:38 -0800

i almost spat a mug of tea over the screen at the last line. ace.

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HylianHearts — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:55:29 -0800

You know, compare the first picture we have of Alice to the panel on page four. She's getting prettier. And more loaveable in a strange sort of way. Think She'll fin out about the "angels ending the world? How will she react? Hm....

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PenguinGeneral — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:41:04 -0800

@razrangel

Nice Robert A. Heinlein reference. I like that aspect of her as well. It's almost like she is inadvertently teaching Conner about how the world actually is for normal people as he is teaching her about the freakangels and whitechapel.

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diello — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:25:25 -0800

@Hylian
I'd wager that ought to be a secret they rarely utter amongst themselves, let alone anyone else... but then again, I'd wager that Warren loves that sort of drama, and it's bound to come up sooner or later ;)

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AtomicSloth — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:17:29 -0800

ok ok maybe I am seeing things and going mad but I looked again and I still see it, and I am 45% more sober now, so I had to do this, sorry all I have on this machine is MS Paint (my awesome laptop melted)

It might need to be clicked on to see clearer

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HylianHearts — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:20:59 -0800

I see it, but thats a long stretch, Atomic, lol.

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Paul Duffield — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:44:31 -0800

@AtomicSloth

I'm afraid it's just a bit of pareidolia, but I can see what you mean.

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deckard — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:30:57 -0800

Interesting the way the framing echoes Bourdieu's analysis of social space and the power relations across the interstices - the wider framing of single page and half page city scenes has something of Foucault about them - panoptican surveillance perhaps? - group punishement?

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deckard — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:31:22 -0800

.... or even punishment....

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rickiep00h — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:02:36 -0800

'allo chapelers. been moving. still relegated to phone-internets. haven't called comcast yet. but at least i am fully moved now. fort wayne,in, to those interested or that weren't paying attention (for like a month...)

anyway... this week's ep was great exposition on the part of alice, someone's gonna get fucked up, etc. for some reason this week seemed to jump in an odd way to me. just as soon as i got involved in one conversation, we'd skip to another part of town. said conversations were good, i just wanted more. always more!

it's now christmas eve, and raining (which is a new christmas experience for me) and we're trying to get shit unpacked, so i better get on that. and maybe venture out and find a LCS... it IS wednesday, after all...

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Doctor_Six — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:28:05 -0800

OK

Loved warren ellis' work for a long, long time (counter x a classic and ghost boxes might be best x-men ever. ((Cyke, don't do it!)))

hated the "all your base/ fractures" ref on last freakangels.

Why would you quote some "mildly amusing at the time" internet fun, after the apocalypse?
"yeah, we have a serious cholera problem to sort out - but those early 21C internet gags still really rule!"

This was only thing i've not liked in FA - but it did suck! please make this a good plot point to compensate

looking forward to final Planetary

LH

i felt it spoilt the carefully constructed

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Ariana — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:53:46 -0800

I reckon when the world ends, people that can't remember how to joke better go ahead and die early. Really, you people with no sense of humor are just not invited to my apocalypse, thank you.

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PaulGrahamRaven — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:28:11 -0800

Is this time to trot out the old aphorism about all science fiction not actually being about the future, but about the time in which it was written?

No? OK, then, I'll be quiet.

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diello — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:39:26 -0800

@Louie:
because it was probably only "mildly amusing at the time" to you. Far more people than just you LOVED it, and still do. I agree with Ariana- a good sense of humor will get you far. It's good to have one if you want to LIVE in the apocalypse and not just survive it.
And they DON'T have a serious cholera problem to sort out. They have clean, drinkable water, so it's not much to worry about unless you're not drinking the clean stuff. Not like you can seek it out and battle it with your powers, anyway. I think they'd have figured that one out by now.
Gah.

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Doctor_Six — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:21 -0800

@Ariana / Diello

Yeah, I'm with you girls - thanks!

The whole "growing strawbs to restore some sense of normality" attitude is very cool!

imagine when global meltdown happens - should we pick out cockroaches singing the chuffing hamster song? Or that dancing baby>

altogether now, KK; "Hooga chacka, hooga hooga, Hooga chacka, Hooga hooga, Hooga chacka;......."

could i wangle a late invite to yo apocalypse party after all?

chin-chin

LH

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diello — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:51:42 -0800

You have totally missed the point. It's about a sense of humor, not "let's out-date each others' internet references".

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warrenellis — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:47:45 -0800

Also, you now know when the Freakangels first got on the internet.

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mister hex — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:44:38 -0800

Can't wait for the next episode. And the next trade. Any solicitation news yet?

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johnjones — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:43:49 -0800

Also, you now know when the Freakangels first got on the internet.

How do we know? Freakangels doesn't seem to have anything that references a specific date or year, unless I missed something, which is easily possible. Paul's artwork is so brilliant and nuanced that I find myself spotting things on second, third and forth viewing that I missed on my first look. In any case I tended to figure that the story was taking place sometime in the 2010s or 2020s. Far enough into an alternate future not to stumble over current events but not so far that the basic architecture of London would've dramatically changed (no gleaming obelisks or "future-buildings"). Assuming that Freakangels is taking place in alternate now (ie, 2008-2009 or so), that places the 'angels accessing the 'net at around age 14-15. Which seems a little unlikely. I'd've figured that they'd've gotten onto the net by age 6 or 7. Luke probably did it at age 5 because he was brilliant and really into porn.

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Gekko — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:29:57 -0800

no gleaming obelisks or "future-buildings"

That's why Freakangels is so mesmerizing, the setting is already there hence all its elements stabbed right into our percepetion. The "all your base" stuff works also in that scheme. With all the "possible future" stories we come to read, such elements show our suspension of disbelief is not taken for granted and make Freakangels stand above many others. So many.

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johnjones — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:47:29 -0800

Honestly, I find it easier to suspend disbelief by viewing Freakangels as occurring in an "alternate near-future" than as an alternate now. For one thing, if it's in an alternate near-future I don't have to keep pretending that it's still an alternate Feb 15, 2008.

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ZJVavrek — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:19:01 -0800

I never even gave any thought to when FreakAngels took place. I just assumed that the "end of the world" was either now, or not too far in the future, hence the skyline not having any future-buildings.

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Methiel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:47:53 -0800

all I have to say to the first panel of page four is OMFG!!!! well done man, well done:)