Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:48:36 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148913#Comment_148913 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148913#Comment_148913 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:10:15 -0700 Ariana FREAKANGELS.

Good morning, Whitechapel. How's everyone? After a weird and UNPLEASANT heat spike this week in NorCal, it's back to chilly dark here. Yes, it really was hot. If I wanted Arizona weather, I'd live in Arizona. (Also, it managed to momentarily flash fry my tech which is really the measure of how much trouble _any_ weather is in. Don't fuck with my tech.) But I prevailed. Everyone else make it through their own weeks? ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148914#Comment_148914 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148914#Comment_148914 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:20:02 -0700 Kradlum But... What's happening with stomach-sliced-open man? Enough with the suspense!

We've had a warm and sunny week in London, 7 degrees above average I believe.

Joe is 6 months old next week so I have booked the day off. If the weather is nice we will take him to the zoo. If he behaves we will bring him home again.

Now I have had my Friday FreakAngels fix I can go on my comic pick-up run. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148915#Comment_148915 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148915#Comment_148915 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:26:24 -0700 JP Carpenter
That was quite a scary episode in one way - the lamp comment was chilling - would we collectively be so crap after a fall of civilisation? Really? We'd not get it together to put lights up, and just be reduced to a feral existence eating dead rabbits? I don't want to believe that, I don't believe that, but what if it's true? ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148919#Comment_148919 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148919#Comment_148919 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:46:29 -0700 severian
If I hadn't had flashbacks to chemistry & physics classes where we had questions framed in the format "Civilization has collapsed. You have x,y & z; make n and estimate yield over time/amount"...this did it. Caz couldn't have had an easy job acquiring appropriate equipment for the fuel cells (via Jack) to make it really efficient.

Our local power company had some blurb on public radio yesterday morning that they now have an operation solar array, and it's actually working better then estimated. Wonderful synchronicity.

Starting to move back to the normal hot & humid southern weather. Work has been to busy to go outside & enjoy the nice weather. Still haven't had to turn the AC on at home; I was one of the remaining holdouts still clutching his CRT/boat anchor & switching to an LCD has made it where I don't have to have a small fan blowing on me full time.

Been reading Frank Herbert's The White Plague. Wonderful starting point & reminds me way too much of the good Doktor as well as what might have happened years ago to the 'angels. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148920#Comment_148920 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148920#Comment_148920 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:46:41 -0700 Dan Kelly
Here also. Decorating the house has finished. Oven is fitted in a little over 3 hours, bathroom done tomorrow. Meanwhile boxes are being filled and we move in a week. Into *our* house (Sorry JonCarpenter).

(As for boxes DVD as Graphic Novels were packed last night, so I'm good to go :)) ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148922#Comment_148922 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148922#Comment_148922 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:05:23 -0700 hank FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148923#Comment_148923 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148923#Comment_148923 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:06:01 -0700 Adam
This week was HOLY MOTHER OF BISCUITS STRESS STRESS ARGH, but surprisingly productive anyhow. The designer went overseas to be present for his girlfriend ushering in another screaming lifeform made in his image. She gave birth to it on Wednesday morning. Coincidentally that afternoon the designer's computer decided that, of its 160Gb hard disk space, only about 2Mb was left and I had a 4.5Gb print file that had to be printed urgently.

This is why I for one would quite welcome the freakangels wiping all computer technology from the face of the planet. The rest of civilization collapsing with it would be acceptable collateral damage. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148929#Comment_148929 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148929#Comment_148929 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:22:43 -0700 Zaratustra FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148932#Comment_148932 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148932#Comment_148932 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:29:44 -0700 Gekko "This is Radio Freak tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales"

I saw (and thus discovered) "An Experiment On A bird" on stage and was stunned. I guess I'm the last one to find out about them. They're three girls, they're great, and they impose respect right from the first tune. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148936#Comment_148936 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148936#Comment_148936 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:43:07 -0700 Pooka my father's crazy due to pain meds, and everyone kept expecting me to do things I couldn't do...meh...i'm good now so it doesn't matter.
I got in contact with an old friend from highschool, and found out both my school friends ended up gay musicians in new york...
and we think we've already found a perfect building for my new comic book store. yay!
by this time next year I may be back in business...yay! ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148938#Comment_148938 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148938#Comment_148938 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:46:21 -0700 hellisforhipsters Today, I have hangover. Curse you, special offer snakebite! And it wasn't even proper snakebite, just cider n' black.
Girlfriend gone away for the weekend, so I am reverting back to primal male mess. Snakebite. Pies. Big pile of silver age Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four reprints to read. Bad 80s goth records on the turntable. Ha! Sing This Corrosion to me... ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148943#Comment_148943 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148943#Comment_148943 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:19:02 -0700 bairdduvessa FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148946#Comment_148946 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148946#Comment_148946 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:26:44 -0700 LokiZero
And christ those are some beautiful panels, Mr. Duffield! ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148986#Comment_148986 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148986#Comment_148986 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:29:19 -0700 Martin Johnstone FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148996#Comment_148996 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=148996#Comment_148996 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:51:29 -0700 Jay Kay
Whew. Okay. Had to let that out.

Also:

Everyone else make it through their own weeks?


Barely by the skin off me arse, but yeah, I think it's safe to say I prevailed as well.

And yeah, if you want Arizona weather, come to Arizona right now. It's just started to get hot as fuck since Monday. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149036#Comment_149036 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149036#Comment_149036 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:42:30 -0700 thenewscum
Glad Chief Mechanic Ariana got the new issue up. Still waiting to find out more about dude with stomach sliced open but we're not in any hurry... right? haha. Alice has really turned out to be an awesome character. I like her more and more every issue. She really seems to be adjusting well to her entire life being turned upside down. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149038#Comment_149038 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149038#Comment_149038 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:48:58 -0700 Spiraltwist
Thanks for the story. :) ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149047#Comment_149047 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149047#Comment_149047 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:33:24 -0700 notaboyscout FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149053#Comment_149053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149053#Comment_149053 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:49:25 -0700 Alan Tyson
I do wonder if alternating storylines every six pages is easier or harder for Warren and Paul. Its interesting to see how the webcomic formula influences the storytelling process - in fact, I'm curious if the format affects the story itself. How would Freakangels be different if it began and ended as a print comic?

Still ticking along, and glad to hear the rest of you are, as well.

Lesse: I've been pulling at least one all-nighter a week to keep up with my Visual Storytelling class, and while my body regrets it every morning after, it's still heaven, just drawing and telling stories the best way I know how, surrounded by people I love doing the same thing. This last one more so than usual. Of course, it might be affecting my immune system, as I've just come down with a back-of-the-throat cold. Drinking tea and cayenne pepper to kill it.

Also worked out what I'm doing after school - namely moving to Philadelphia with two lovely girls whom I know I can spend 48-hour periods in a small, cramped room with, because we've been doing it for the past year. The future, for once, looks like bright cyan hope. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149055#Comment_149055 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149055#Comment_149055 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:19:13 -0700 razrangel I get the concept but even in high school didn't work much with electricity. And they don't make theatre majors take any real science. So it may as well be a magic hamster for all I know making my lights turn on. All the same, I *heart* geeks. I *heart* 'em good, so this was fun to read. Kept a dopey grin on my face the whole way through.

Interesting to me: I understand the 'Angels have different strengths and, for wont of a better phrase, job descriptions. So I wonder what the traitor's job was (and I wish I could remember his name but I'm to lazy to go check). I was just thinking about what if something unthinkable happened to one of the 'Angels. There would be a huge gap in their resources, in addition to the tragedy. What did the traitor do, and therefore what gap was left by his expulsion? How are they getting around it? I haven't noticed too much of a gap, myself, but I'm neither a genius nor trying to get by in a post-Apocalyptic London. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149060#Comment_149060 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149060#Comment_149060 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:47:40 -0700 Adam they're good at. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149061#Comment_149061 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149061#Comment_149061 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:50:06 -0700 Flabyo
Well, I'm not anyway. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149064#Comment_149064 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149064#Comment_149064 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:56:45 -0700 Adam me pick up the occasional stray, too, against better judgement... ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149070#Comment_149070 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149070#Comment_149070 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:19:31 -0700 razrangel
Ah. I meant Mark. What did he do, besides exploit his powers to control people en masse? Luke is supposed to be a genius but it comes out as asshole. The others haven't tossed him out, yet. So presumably he's still supplying...whatever he does/has. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149072#Comment_149072 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149072#Comment_149072 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:44:55 -0700 Adam FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149076#Comment_149076 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149076#Comment_149076 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:54:05 -0700 razrangel FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149080#Comment_149080 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149080#Comment_149080 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:59:54 -0700 Jay Kay
In this near-future world, the flood pretty much destroyed everything, leaving only very scant electricity fueled by one of Kaz's cells, yes?

If that's the case, then how are they able to create such pretty, custom T-shirts with their own logos like that? ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149083#Comment_149083 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149083#Comment_149083 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:03:48 -0700 warrenellis FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149086#Comment_149086 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149086#Comment_149086 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:07:46 -0700 Ariana JonCarpenter: That was quite a scary episode in one way - the lamp comment was chilling - would we collectively be so crap after a fall of civilisation? Really? We'd not get it together to put lights up, and just be reduced to a feral existence eating dead rabbits? I don't want to believe that, I don't believe that, but what if it's true?
DarkKnightJared: how are they able to create such pretty, custom T-shirts with their own logos like that?

So... yeah. Totally true. Screwed like whoa. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149110#Comment_149110 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149110#Comment_149110 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:50:25 -0700 arf
However, as a first time contributor, can I utter one teensy gripe about this episode?
In the first panel our resident genius, Kaz, appears to have the panels facing away from the sunlight.
(But it still works, so maybe she *is* a genius!?)
Sorry if I've just ruined the whole episode now, but It might explain why Whitechapel was dark, I suppose.

Also, her water cracker would produce twice as much hydrogen as oxygen, but I'll put that one down to learning curve.
(As to the man with the stomach ache... well, where did those 'chikkens' come from?) ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149116#Comment_149116 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149116#Comment_149116 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:26:25 -0700 mister hex
And Freakangels. Lotsa tech stuff. It's great and all but I'm more interested in chickens and murder. (Two great tastes that taste great together!) And I don't like Caz. I don't HATE her but she's not my favorite. More chickens and murder!

What DOES Luke do? What's he good for? As Warren helpfully pointed out and as my learned roommate would say, he's the "escape-goat." (Seriously- I've had to correct him on this several times. But I always chuckle at the image "escape-goat" creates. Oh well. He's a good guy but too much book-learnin' ain't his sin.)

What did Mark do? I'm voting soldier. (And I realize this is not a democracy and I don't get a vote. BLAM!) And Luke was his buddy. And now that the Freakangels are creating, not destroying, soldiers are surplus to requirements. Why do they need GREAT FUCKING GATLING GUNS and pistols if they have "the Package", whatever THAT is? Couldn't Arkady teleport out and fuck up any intruders? Do their powers have a range limit? If so, how did they destroy the world? (Combination of minds being more powerful has been mentioned.)

Paul, amazing work again. And it's Warren Ellis, man. How can it be not good? Also, Ariana, Queen of All Correct-Thinking Humans. And let's hear it for Big Bill Christensen, Raygun Proprietor and Publishing-Type Guy! Kudos, I say. Kudos! Not Brickbats! ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149135#Comment_149135 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149135#Comment_149135 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:38:04 -0700 E0157H7 FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149200#Comment_149200 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149200#Comment_149200 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:52:44 -0700 johnjones FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149289#Comment_149289 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149289#Comment_149289 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:08:53 -0700 cjtremlett
Of course, this speculation is subject to change with future information. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149312#Comment_149312 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149312#Comment_149312 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:32:33 -0700 mister hex
One mind can change two, two can change four, four can change six, six- twelve. BOOM. And the World gets destroyed.

And, at first, they didn't realize they did it. At first. (Or did they?)

More and more, Mark was a soldier*. And KK was his girl. And that's why she's shagging boys from Lambeth Road. And she doesn't know Kirk and Karl had something to do with Mark Going Away. (Or does she? This IS Warren Ellis we're dealing with. He gets paid to make things up.)

*-AND LUKE WAS HIS BUDDY. And that's why Luke's the escape-goat. Tarred with the same brush. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149323#Comment_149323 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149323#Comment_149323 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:06:14 -0700 stsparky
Radio Angel sounds nice. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149326#Comment_149326 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149326#Comment_149326 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:41:22 -0700 darkpinky
technical question, how do the bubbles know which tank to go into? in case i'm ever in the same situation and that's the only problem i've got left. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149354#Comment_149354 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149354#Comment_149354 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:30:00 -0700 Savantis
What DOES Luke do? What's he good for?


I think he probably the best for getting into people's minds and messing around with the wiring inside. Probably influencing people subconsciously or through their dreams.

However, I don't think the Freakangels are keeping him around because they need his help, they don't really seem to care if he is around or not. Having him around is good in a way - at least they can keep watch on his "evil deeds" and repair anyone he's damaged.

I don't like him around, he is too self absorbed to the point that he doesn't care who he hurts to get what he wants. =(

I'll vote soldier for Mark too! Some sort of military strategist. The Freakangels probably needed to defend themselves a lot in the past. ^_^ ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149391#Comment_149391 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149391#Comment_149391 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:00:28 -0700 Scrymgeour Basically two charged pieces of metal are placed in water. One has a positve charge the other (unsurprisingly a negative). As Hydrogen ions are positive they are attracted to the -ve and you get the rest, The bubbles will therefore form at each Cathode (or anode) and rise upwards to its own discrete canister.
Im not sure what charged metals you should use though. I think its zinc and something else. Or maybe carbon, or iron, or... (studied this about 7 years ago so im a little hazy)

That was a chemistry lesson in two lines but it gives the idea. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149418#Comment_149418 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149418#Comment_149418 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:47:16 -0700 Kosmopolit
So questions may be even dumber than usual:

1. I would've thought the electrolysis would work even better with salt water due to the higher conductivity rather than needing to use desalinated water.

2. come to that, how are they desalinating the water in the first place?

3. Wouldn't it make more sense to burn the hydrogen in a modified internal combustion engine to run a conventional generator? Fuel cells are fussy and heavy and generally require Platinum-group metal catalysts and/or operating temperatures of several hundred degrees. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149420#Comment_149420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149420#Comment_149420 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:57:59 -0700 warrenellis 2. come to that, how are they desalinating the water in the first place?

Magic.

3. Wouldn't it make more sense to burn the hydrogen in a modified internal combustion engine to run a conventional generator? Fuel cells are fussy and heavy and generally require Platinum-group metal catalysts and/or operating temperatures of several hundred degrees.

MIT disagree. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149440#Comment_149440 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149440#Comment_149440 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:44:16 -0700 Don Hilliard
@warrenellis: Doesn't have to be magic. If KK and Caz can design and build things like the steam cannons, a decent reverse-osmosis distilling plant is well within their capabilities. (And in fact would be one of the first requirements for the steam cannons, KK's bike and anything else steam-driven to work with any reliability - not to mention providing potable water for Whitechapel.) ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149451#Comment_149451 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149451#Comment_149451 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:42:45 -0700 warrenellis @warrenellis: Doesn't have to be magic.

I was being...


...oh, I give up ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149466#Comment_149466 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149466#Comment_149466 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:13:54 -0700 Don Hilliard FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149581#Comment_149581 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149581#Comment_149581 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:38:54 -0700 Dee_Noir
Within the world of the novel, the Russians have destroyed one population of such children in one of their own towns by invoking the extreme step of obliterating the entire town by 'atomic cannon'. The Russian government, Wescott reports, 'calls upon all governments everywhere to ''neutralize'' any such known groups with the least possible delay'. Another character, Leebody, insists that killing them is not murder, since 'they have the look of genus homo, but not the nature'. Zellaby sums up, just before his suicide bombing: 'it is our duty to our race and culture to liquidate the Children' or 'their culture... will extinguish ours.' These queasily evasive euphemisms ('liquidate' 'neutralize') are painfully familiar. Moreover, Wyndham's description of the children seem almost egregiously Semetic: they all share 'browned complexions', 'dark golden hair' and 'straight narrow noses', and they carry the sense of 'foreignness' about them.

The momentum of the novel exists, we might say, in order to barrel us along the line of reasoning and emotional force, until we reach the same place that the Nazis occupied: these children must be killed to protect our race. This is not in the least to suggest the the humane, considerate Wyndham was a Nazi; indeed, something the reverse. His novel is a brilliantly contrary ethical cipher: it interprellates us as a camp guard: 'here, you must not only kill these children' (or not kill, but liquidate, neutralise) 'but believe that you are still doing good'. Wyndham's satire on the western ideology of 'civilisation' and 'race' still has a contempory bite and resonance in these modern times. It's a catastrophe, but certainly not a cosy one. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149765#Comment_149765 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149765#Comment_149765 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:28:30 -0700 Kosmopolit FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149931#Comment_149931 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149931#Comment_149931 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:11:29 -0700 Paul Duffield :) I see what you're saying about Midwich Cuckoos, although I think you're stretching for traction with the holocaust references... I'm of the opinion that Midwich Cuckoos steers clear of deliberate allegory of that kind. I'm not sure what your point about Freakangels is though? ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149998#Comment_149998 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=149998#Comment_149998 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:51:07 -0700 BrianKellett
Another lovely episode with one of my favourite Ellis 'tropes' of throwing information at the reader while still making it interesting and funny and not feel like I'm reading a block out of a textbook.

How long is it until Friday? ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150184#Comment_150184 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150184#Comment_150184 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:11:36 -0700 thenewscum
goodnight Whitechapel. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150638#Comment_150638 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150638#Comment_150638 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:22:05 -0700 phorgan1 FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150715#Comment_150715 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150715#Comment_150715 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:43:50 -0700 johnjones
We know KK's whole name: Kolfinnia Kokokoho Titching. We also know that KK will try to stab anyone attempting to use it to mock her. Or possibly even just saying it aloud. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150752#Comment_150752 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150752#Comment_150752 Fri, 01 May 2009 01:23:44 -0700 UrbanAngel FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150753#Comment_150753 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150753#Comment_150753 Fri, 01 May 2009 01:27:32 -0700 UrbanAngel FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150760#Comment_150760 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150760#Comment_150760 Fri, 01 May 2009 02:08:08 -0700 razrangel FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150764#Comment_150764 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=150764#Comment_150764 Fri, 01 May 2009 02:20:37 -0700 UrbanAngel
Phorgan1 - yes, it's Alice Shona Mahoney - see episode 2. ]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=151680#Comment_151680 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5677&Focus=151680#Comment_151680 Mon, 04 May 2009 23:15:27 -0700 nexus594
FA Newbie here. Just finished reading all FA webcomics in two sittings within the last 12 hours.

When I finished ep 53 and notice 6 and saw the empty block that eventually will read "Episode 54" - I thought "Shit, NOOO! Not already?!"

I've read Ellis' costumed superheroes stuff and his Fell detective series from Image. Still, I was surprised how this webcomic hooked me, but deep.

Help me make it through to the next episode?

- another laid-off Noo Yawker ]]>