Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Episode 0065

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Ariana — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:07:18 -0700

It's Friday, it's FREAKANGELS. For those of you just now joining us, here's your catch-up recap: Kait's fucking mental.

Morning, Whitechapel. I feel like a blunt instrument has been punched at speed into my head. How's all of you?

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Cat Vincent — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:10:55 -0700

Pretty good thanks, Ariana. Had a few days away on the Welsh coast, stayed in a lighthouse that has its own Dalek. Hope your head improves.

Mental Kait may be, but she certainly knows how to handle a tonfa! (It's one of the delights of Paul's art for me that he draws physical violence so well, and so accurately.)

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mister hex — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:18:13 -0700

Wonderful. Kait's not mental. That cunt had a knife. He deserved everything he got.

I hope you feel better, Ariana.

It's Friday! It's Freakangels! Yay! Y'know what I feel like? I feel like that Leo Sayer. Thank God I don't look like him.

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Purple Wyrm — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:20:12 -0700

Not bad thanks Ariana. Looking forwards to a good sleep in on the morrow followed by a day of mild debauchery on the sabbath.

As for the episode, nice. Freak Flashback on page 1 (I can't decide if that's KK or Miki in the bell). I didn't notice (as I'm sure was intended) the knife on page four panel two until it went flying in panel three. Page six, panel two - was our murder victim a cannibal? And "some bloke" outside town?... I've been reluctant to jump on the "Mark around every corner" bandwagon but I can't stop a little voice in the back of my head...

Which is probably exactly what Warren wants :)

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moali — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:21:36 -0700

Morning, I feel like the blunt instrument.

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Noogies — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:26:29 -0700

Fuck.... I´m starting to like Kait more and more, she´s fucking mental :D

Lousy weekend up for me now, work work work :s But i´m gonna make up for it with a zombie movie night with my friends, and maybe a few beers and a smoke.
Hope you all have great weekends!

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Welland — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:31:54 -0700

You don't want to mess with Kait fact.

Not bad week, going back to Jersey (not new jersey the real Jersey) for a mates wedding next week so get to see my family and friends which is great.
Finaly convinced my brother to help color the preview for are comic so all in all a great week

Gutted about Les Paul, but at 94 not a bad age to dust it at all, hope I make it that far and achive as much.

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severian — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:31:54 -0700

I'm sharing the Friday morning brewing of caffeine ritual. Too much beer last night, work has been one computer snafu after the other but my new one finally has no issues aside from a dead chicken and obscure alsa incantations.

All my head needs now is a cup of water & then plenty of caffeine before the dread of "Do I still have a LAN at work?" must be faced. The blunt instrument might feel better then figuring who to maim first. You have to love clueless remote admins that can barely type in their login without handholding. I still wish I could hire your shade or a couple of Warren's eels to avoid dipping into my "This is a warning voice. You are 5 seconds from pain. 4...3...2...1..." mode.

Kait may be mental, but you have to love the girl. She doesn't exactly play fuck around, and ohh what's that? More calmly asked questions (next week) before a blow to the temple? YAY!!!!

Once again, I have reasons to go into work on Friday with a smile. A maniacal smile that scares little children, but a smile none the less

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Pooka — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:33:04 -0700

Morning folks...
had a shit pile of a few bad days.
My good old tom cat Goblin got hit by a car two days ago. I almost caught him before he darted into the street, but my stupid fingers couldn't grab him. We rushed him to the vet immediately and from there had conflicting reports on how he was doing. At one point we though that he just broke his tail and leg, then he had spinal injuries, then he was showing improvment, then he had no hope...so on the third day we had to go say goodbye to him and they put him down. I don't think I've cried harder than during the last few days, even when my buddy will got shot. At least will didn't suffer.
The asshole who hit him was flying at at least fourty mph down a one lane residential road. He stopped and asked if Gob was okay, but when I asked him to drive my hubs to the vet with Gob he just made an excuse. I didn't let him finish I just ran to get the car keys...asshole. He drove off and didn't come back.
I can't wait to move out of this fucking town.

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JP Carpenter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:35:17 -0700

Someone's been munching the Longpig? Cool... Chikkinz and Cannibalz.

Moved house on Monday, still more tired than I ever thought possible, every muscle aches but luckily have next week off to get over it. And unpack. And get used to having a house and garden you can get lost in, which is something I never allowed myself to believe would really happen. So all in all, very, very happy.

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hmobius — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:37:00 -0700

Morning. Well that ep went with a bang, didn't it? Yet another week where we are left waiting to understand whether or not the killing is connected with either Luke or Mark, or some other maniac. Sad about Les Paul, but Leverage 205 was the best of the season and I got Windows 7 up and running two nights ago, so on balance the week has been good, albeit wet.

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JP Carpenter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:38:30 -0700

Aww, Pooka, that's horrible. Stupid bastard. I'm paranoid about hitting cats when driving in the morning, they just move so fast, but there's no excuse for driving like a prick - and what a dumb question, of course a cat you've run down isn't fucking OK. Hope the fucker gets reincarnated as a tapeworm.

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Will Ellwood — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:41:39 -0700

Pooka- That's horrible news. My cat was put down a few hours ago; except he had been ill for a few weeks and it was the right thing to do.

This week's been okay. Nothing too terrible despite the Cat being bloody ill. I'm off to Scotland next week. So this time next week I'll be in the car on the way to Edinburgh. But really I need a coffee before I can parse this week.

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AndyMcGregor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:01:25 -0700

Hmmm, a dystopian future where people eat people? Guess it makes logical sense and I'm sure Mr. Ellis will handle this well (and there'll be more to it than that), but I am really tired of this sort of development. That's probably my fault for the things I read, of course.

Liked the black and white sections here and am interested to how that future glimpse will play in, if relevant. Art as gorgeous as ever.

@Pooka really sorry to hear that. I've lost two cats to cars, one to a friend that couldn't avoid him, which made it more tragic. Still miss the tyke.

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Berserker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:19:08 -0700

So..they were wandering out of town, talking to some bloke...and they started acting odd, to boot?

That sounds a little like someone we've all heard talk about, doesn't it?

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rickiep00h — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:22:24 -0700

Oh fucksticks. (That's for suspense ratcheting up.)

I don't think Kait's mental. I think she likes people to think she is, though.

And I could hear every panel this week, just on the art alone. Fantastic crunching noises. A symphony of painful noises.

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cjtremlett — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:33:17 -0700

I just wind up liking Kait more and more. Don't know if that makes me sick and twisted. In this crowd, probably not.

The hubby and I celebrated our thirteenth anniversary this week. Went to "District 9" last night and it was good stuff. Much better than the crap Hollywood churns out. Having a bad movie night on Saturday. Life is good.

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Empsk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:42:35 -0700

Ah, Pooka, that's terrible news about your cat. And what a shitheel driver, to be such a bastard.

Heh, I was chatting to my girlfriend about this episode, and she said 'I love Freak Angles, but I'm not used to reading installments... Man, the Victorians had it hard'. Why was that the closest analogy she could make? Who knows, but man, I love her.

This week's installment was, as always, excellent. Kait is fast becomming my favourite Freakangel.

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bjacques — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:59:47 -0700

I hope yer day improves. Shame for a Friday to be crappy *all* day. It's a good week for me. I got my indefinite residence from the Dutch government. Now I only have to give them a new photo every five years instead of turning up as a supplicant, my €200 in my sweaty hands.

If even a relatively loose cannon like Kait is hiding being a Freakangel, I can see her playng the tough cop. When she reads someone's minds, they'll just assume some other desperate character dimed them after a session of wall-to-wall therapy. Is one of the suspects dressed like a peasant?

@Pooka: sorry to hear about your cat. I've been lucky enough that my last two cats lived to a ripe old (if undetermined) age. Doesn't make it any easier.

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Professor Imagine — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:04:13 -0700

this week's fine. ups and downs, strikes and gutters. "sometimes you eat the bar", and all that....

"some bloke outside of town" eh? could it be? will Tino actually show up to band practice?

@AndyMcGregor the B&W were flashbacks, not future

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LBA — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:07:12 -0700

@Pooka - sorry to hear about your cat. loosing a pet is always difficult

@Ariana - what kind of blunt instrument are we talking about? A hammer or a soft and fluffy pillow?

forget i asked

Even if Kait is fucking mental, she can still be right. And mental, not mental... she's the one with the gun (and knives and whips and ropes and chains and torture chamber)

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remotepush — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:07:21 -0700

i think she did what she had to do, no messing with that.

i'm working on a sympathy headache. can a headache be sympathetic? hmm

spent the day moving office for the third time this year. though first time its been to an entirely different building.
bastards short strawed me, so half of them can see my monitor all day and shit all i can do about it. bye bye surfing.
(though i am a cunning and persistent bastard)

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Yegwa — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:25:55 -0700

Pooka - sorry to hear about what happened to your cat. I lost one like that a while ago and know it sucks big time.

Loved the episode. Wasn't expecting Kait to hit who she hit and seeing it rendered in such a way just made it even better. I am going to join the 'It's Mark!' camp and wait to be proven wrong by Mr. Ellis...probably.

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Gekko — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:39:53 -0700

@Pooka: sorry, really.

@ariana, hope your head will get better after a nice cuppa (of what the Italians call caffe corretto)

Paul's art is getting crazier and crazier, like, more and more intense. My jaw seems to fall off every time I click to another page. The coloring is so amazing. I'm wordless.

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Spiraltwist — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:13 -0700

@Pooka - My condolences to you on the loss of your cat.

Kait isn't crazy, she's a cop. That's a whole nother level of crazy. (I'm married into such a family, so I know)

I am tired, wired and fried. This afternoon I get to wear this on stage (and I mean the hat, not the bag). And get drunk later. I have a small town bar that's knows I'm coming, knows me personally and I can't wait. Only thing I'm dreading it showing up and there's a shitload of people there. A few drinks will solve that problem.

Here, picture of last minute artistry:

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arvandor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:40 -0700

Nice moves, Kait.

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Empsk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:00:53 -0700

Is one of the suspects dressed like a peasant?

Yea, I noticed that. I though it was a poncho/tunic combo, but looking closer the tunic might actually be in two pieces (or belted). It's an interesting outfit, especially as most people we've seen have been wearing heavily patched scavenged/recycled modern clothes. I liked the bagy trouses that are bound below the knee, although they must be a bitch to get on and off. It reminds me of when my brother and I would play 'Ninja', a game that consisted of winding mum's fabric scraps around our wrists, ankles and anywhere else, and then try and cause bodily death to each other on the trampoline. Good times.

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warrenellis — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:01:57 -0700

Hmmm, a dystopian future where people eat people? Guess it makes logical sense and I'm sure Mr. Ellis will handle this well (and there'll be more to it than that), but I am really tired of this sort of development.

Hardly a "development," more a nod to historical fact. Cannibalism is always a fallback in times of dietary pressure.

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LBA — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:14:24 -0700

@Spiraltwist - I would have loved to have made a mortarboard like that when I graduated B school

too bad it was before DS...

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JaredRules — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:24:17 -0700

Knife in the background. Very slick.

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BOODOFFSTAGE — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:24:47 -0700

Police brutality!! See the violence inherent in the system!

That was my first reaction, until someone pointed out the knife I missed in the first viewing.

Oh. Well, that's okay then.(I feel like a cunt) That was my second reaction.

Two real kneejerk reactions from a fictional story.

Also, I wondered why I didn't see the knife the first time around, and that's when I realized how the panel was set up. The focus is the bright red blood spurting, the rest of the colors in the panel are dull in contrast, even the knife, so all my attention was at the violent act itself, the metal pipe, the glazed facial expression of the suspect. All occuring at the left side of the panel, while in the far right side, the knife looks like its flying out of the panel, almost 3d like. almost detached from the panel.

Great job Mr. Ellis:) Great job Mr. Duffield

And, as always, the art is amazing.

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Fan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:26:57 -0700

> Kait's fucking mental

It's a hard thing to do to someone with a knife like that, but proportional.

I like the black and white: that really worked.

I didn't like every detail of the pistol handling, but this fight really worked, the way that Kate handles her baton and the girl's arm and throat. Two continuity problems:

Between the last two panels of page 4, I don't quite see how Kait gets inside the girl's raised knife hand, given that she started outside the girl's lowered knife hand

At the top of page 3, it looks good to hold the baton so that she's pointing it like a pistol, but instead perhaps she ought to be holding it upside-down so that on the next pages it can rotate to lie along the outside of her forearm.

Also I don't see exactly where on her face the girl was hit.

I'm happy that Kait opened up at least a little to Mikki about her investigational techniques: as if Mikki's at least is one person whom she's able to trust, if not like.

Nifty dialog/interrogation, too, in this episode. Have you ever had the feeling that the person questioning you knew the answer as soon as they asked the question?

"Say it out loud." Heh. Being able to get answers, she still needs to do the leg-work as a policeman, but that must make her pretty darn effective/relentless.

If these are refugees from Shoreditch Park, they're looking well recovered now. I suppose more than a few weeks must have passed since then. How can you talk to some guy outside of town? I've just realized I don't know what Whitechapel's borders look like. One border is the flooded Thames, I suppose; is the rest of the perimeter (towards the North, e.g. between Whitechapel and Shoreditch) all land-based, porous, and unguarded? Such that the refugees can all be marched in, those two can wander in and out, and Alice can walk in with a shotgun? And people can come in with a mortar? I suppose the answer is yes. I wonder why they don't get more refugees than they do, then.

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Empsk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:34:08 -0700

I can barely gut a fish, so I don't think I'd know how to dress a person for dinner. Maybe hack a leg off between the hip & ankle and boil it in water? And an onion for taste? Human seems like it should be well cooked before eating, like chicken or pork. An earth oven, like a hangi, would be nice, although hard to do discretely.

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bairdduvessa — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:42:29 -0700

fucking a is she mental, but fucking a is that ever so awesome!

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elricj — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:38:31 -0700

Yay!

great panel w/ the knife flying away.

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bjacques — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:59:40 -0700

Yeah, it took me a second read to figure out why Kait hit the girl instead of the guy.

@Empsk: I understand "The Road" and those Foxfire books from the 1970s would make a dandy HOWTO guide. Are people halal or kosher, or do we taste too much like pork to make the cut? Does it count if Soylent Green is packaged to taste like, say, chicken?

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PPJJ — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:26:21 -0700

On the side that Kait isn't mental for striking, that's self defense. However, overtime she may go overboard.

I will just have to keep reading ^_^

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Miranda's Eyes — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:35:17 -0700

@Ariana--My sympathies. Hope you're not in a part of town where loud annoying construction noises/loud rocking out neighbors make your headache worse.

@pooka--Ah shit, sorry to hear about Goblin. And losing Gob to a dick who didn't even attempt to make amends...

Seeing Kait take down a knife-wielding attacker and explain telepathic police work is always a win. My worry on the initial read was that Kait would be too distracted by the possible witness to notice the knife being pulled out.

The issue of cannibalism in the FREAKANGELS future makes me wonder how our titular gifted characters deal with the phenomenon. I don't think they intended to create worldwide Alive scenarios (i.e. trapped in the Andes without any food except corpses of fellow passengers) when they acted to end our world. But what responsibility do they bear for the appearance of cannibalism and what should they do about it?

FREAKANGELS aside, the week felt like I need more hours in the day to honor my commitments and those commitments I do make time for feel like they're yielding half-assed results. I've got a 2-hour meeting to set up in a couple of weeks and I don't have any speakers. My current writing project has been a mess of false starts and vaguely unsatisfying paragraphs. The looming deadline so far hasn't delivered a jolt of instant creativity. The only thing that keeps me sane is knowing that I'm aspiring to something more than catching the next TV show coming up that evening.

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rickiep00h — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:02:33 -0700

I'm happy that Kait opened up at least a little to Mikki about her investigational techniques: as if Mikki's at least is one person whom she's able to trust, if not like.

I think it's because Miki and Kait are similar in that they deal with concrete reality. Not necessarily "thinkers" but "doers". That's not to say that they don't have philosophies (obviously), but they're significantly more concerned with the physical world in their day-to-day activities.* Furthermore, Miki's process is similarly procedural to Kait's: assess the problem, determine the cure, enact said cure according to predetermined processes. So it would make sense that a procedural question would come up.

"Say it out loud." - I love this as both intimidation and cover up. "Mind reading? That's crazy! He had to tell me, didn't he?" Crazy like a fox, that Kait.

*And yes, KK and Caz are engineers, but engineering is at least as batshit-crazy creativity as it is actual labor. More thinking-outside-the-box than the other two.

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VertigoJones — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:15:53 -0700

I think Kait is nuts, in the way a lot of completely operational people are nuts, its in the details. Shes all about Kait, self-appointed protector of the people. I'm pretty sure she has no idea, nor intention of understanding how "The world not according to Kait" goes. I think Kait operates like clockwork - winds up, goes to work. I think that part of is surfaces in her "loner" vocation, shes just inherently outside of the pack.
Also, for Personal reasons, the idea that "Mark Fox" might have something to do with the demise of "Tom Norris" made me giggle like a total cunt.
I loved the disarming panel. really dramatic snapshot.

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Fan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:30:40 -0700

> I think it's because Miki and Kait are similar in that they deal with concrete reality.

Yes, and they're both people-oriented.

But I think it's nice for Kait to be able to believe that one person, at least, Miki, is not a potential 'perp': I think that Kait is willing to disclose her techniques because she believes that Miki has an ethos.

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diello — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:44:21 -0700

I am in love with Kait now. Didn't like her for a long time.

Can we PLEEEAAAASSSSE have this shirt????

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bettareckognize — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:49:25 -0700

I didn't see the cannibalism thing coming, but it makes perfect sense. Pretty much every post-apocalyptic tale where there are wandering bands of survivors make mention of cannibalism.

RE: the Jack the Ripper connection: "On October 16th George Lusk, the president of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, received a three-inch-square cardboard box in his mail. Inside was half a human kidney preserved in wine, along with the following letter. Medical reports carried out by Dr. Openshaw found the kidney to be very similar to the one removed from Catherine Eddowes, though his findings were inconclusive either way. The letter read as follows:

(Transcription)

From hell.
Mr Lusk,
Sor
I send you half the Kidne I took from one woman and prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer

signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk"

Source: http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/

So there's that. The weird thing is, though, they've made no mention of any of the dead guy's organs being removed. He wasn't eaten, he was murdered. So there's that, too.

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bettareckognize — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:55:35 -0700

And, and I forgot to add:

Kick-fucking-ass. Admittedly this wasn't an action scene, per se, but still good stuff. I have to admit I expect the odd bit of random violence from ol' Warren, and he doesn't disappoint. Not that there was a lul in the story, it was really intense, but last episode was all moody and atmospheric and stuff. Which is great. But sometimes I want to see a superhero beating a random person half to death.

And, really, would any of you be here if you didn't?

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stsparky — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:56 -0700

Insightful. No one messes with Kait.

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Val A Lindsay II — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:07:44 -0700

Kait definitely does what she feels is necessary, eh?

A good easy week in the Bay area. Haven't gone out much, but when I have, I've scored nicely digging in the local bookstores!

I got these two for just under 10 bucks. Good times...

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Rootfireember — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:37:31 -0700

Hrn. The shirt reminds me....
Kait seems to get psychic impressions on deaths via touch, mostly. The no-hugs rule might be a bit of self defense, not merely her being 'mental', sort of warding off unwanted information before it can be given to her.

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diello — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:25:27 -0700

@Root
Oooooh, didn't think of that :)

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IMCL — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:30:32 -0700

I could be wrong, but I have a suspicion that A) Mark is dead and B) There is one more Freak Angel lurking out there.

But then again, if Luke is able to heal himself, then who's to say Mark didn't do the same exact thing after getting shot.

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PatrickBrown — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:19:15 -0700

She's not that mental. Somebody comes at you with a deadly weapon, there's no sense messing around. It's the control that's scary.

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bettareckognize — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:23:43 -0700

@IMCL

Unless things're really gonna get turned on their heads (which is entirely possible), the only other possibility is Luke, and that just seems far-fetched to me. The guy's a rapist piece of shit with poor impulse control, not a serial killer. If this is a serial killer. The Jack and Ripper thing leads me to believe that there will be other murders, but perhaps that is a red herring or a diversion tactic by whoever committed the murder.

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razrangel — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:13 -0700

@IMCL there's no info (I think) on how exactly they went about killing Mark. Don't think they shot him.

I have Amanda Fucking Palmer's "Guitar Hero" stuck in my head, which is nice - far preferable to other things that could be in my head - just, you know, it's going round and round.... Anyway, there's the possibility that I don't totally grok what you mean by "mental". Always assumed that it meant "nuts" "wacky" but neither psychotic nor violent. I don't think Kait is psychotic and the violence was easily justified. Also, I don't think she's nuts. Perhaps terse and unconventional but so far only the dungeon was shocking, but swiftly easy to understand. And this is from the peacenik in the crowd.

Maybe it's my own hangup. I've had to deal with people who are genuinely cracked and need to take meds or live in facilities and so I get a little twitchy about overlaps in labeling someone with odd habits with terms related to mental imbalance. So if Kait is mental - nutty - and odd in her way of solving problems then I see a lot of this being pretty standard in high quality police work (yes, I know "standard...high quality"). Thanks to TV shows, such as the one Kait is modeling herself on, we assume that police do stuff like this when investigating perps, even though we know interrogation isn't supposed to be so violent - civil rights, etc. But we love our shows when the officers push the line and get in trouble but know they are doing what they need to. We expect officers to follow their hunches over SOP. We don't think famed fictional detectives can read minds, but we do assume they can guess accurately and are aware that their guesses won't stand up in court. Ergo, a cultural grant of leeway letting detectives find evidence that bolsters their hunches.

Making someone say something out loud is way, WAY more than cover for telepathy. It solidifies the intel, it makes the perp(s) know Kait knows, and if they haven't faced it before, it makes the perps face that what they were doing was wrong, hence bringing the law on their heads. She's not there for shits and giggles and doesn't want them leaving the scene feeling like she's merely persecuting them.

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chris g — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:18:58 -0700

This week's FA is hardcore! Kick ass and take names ^_^

Hi, Ariana. Hope you are well and running at full capacity.

Week makes my mood go up and down. Been working all through the weeks this summer w/ only Sunday as my day off. Sundays are pretty worthless, so I really fucking want a REAL day out of the week. So I can do shit.
But last night I bought new comics, so I felt happy. And then I laid out a few new pages for my Team Dracula story. Man, I started it in 07-08, I think. But then I drew other stories that would eventually build up to it. And now everything caught up to me so I get to finish it. It's more exciting for me now because I've gotten marginally better with my drawing skillz so everything feels very f*cking fun ^_^

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Indigo Rose — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:55:08 -0700

I would buy the Kait shirt.

Frankly, I don't think she's as mental as most everyone else does. A few people here have pointed out that she has reasons behind her behavior, she has logic and it makes sense. She's extreme, and there's obviously instability there, but "fucking mental"? Nah. Of course, I'm still hoping she pulls a Malcom Reynolds with Luke; just walking up and shooting him, without discussion, then getting on with business. But we'll see what happens with Luke eventually.

If it wasn't Warren Ellis writing this, I might be more inclined to believe the guy outside of town is the long awaited Mark...

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Indigo Rose — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:01:09 -0700

@IMCL - We already have been told how many FreakAngels were born, so there can't be another out there, unless Warren is going to go against what he's previously written. The only other possibility is a similar, though not FreakAngel clan, psychicly gifted individual. That is, if you're looking for a "Mark" that isn't really Mark and not just a normal person.

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J.S. Hardin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:14:29 -0700

Gah, I just discovered that letting my PC sit idle while I'm composing a post is not a good idea >.< Having written this once, I'll truncate and just say that Kait is easily my favorite at this point, and that I would perform any of many sexual favors for that t-shirt of her. Its that fucking cool.
@razrangel: If'n I recall correctly, Kirk talks about how after Mark was run out of town, he followed him and fried his brain with his mental kung fu mind bullet attack...or something like that :P
Thanks to the brilliant FA team for making my Friday not suck!

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Fan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:49:23 -0700

> Anyway, there's the possibility that I don't totally grok what you mean by "mental". Always assumed that it meant "nuts" "wacky" but neither psychotic nor violent.

The Urban Dictionary gives about nine (different) definitions, one of which is "wacky": two others are just "violent", and "strong-minded".

> officers push the line and get in trouble ... and are aware that their guesses won't stand up in court

That is true, but Kait's situation isn't American: she's the judge as well as the investigator. Maybe there is no court, and she convicts and punishes too (which might be why some people here see her a vigilante).

> Making someone say something out loud is way, WAY more than cover for telepathy.

Yes. "Confess!"

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Berserker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:08:07 -0700

Some additional thoughts, now that I've digested this a bit:

The relationship between Kait and Miki makes sense - Miki acts as a coroner, so Kait depends on her in her investigations. It was, in fact, Miki who noticed originally that there were no defensive wounds on the body.
Miki also keeps records on everyone who comes into Whitechapel. It was, again, her who had the information on who his friends were.

I think it was interesting that Miki also noted that he 'lacked the usual survivor guilt' of the others. That possibly implies that he wasn't really running his show? It's how Alice got to Whitechapel...why not a few others, who might report back to him?

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frexels — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:27:36 -0700

@ Fan

I think I see how she got inside her arm. You can see that Kait's raising her left hand at the same time as the baton. Kait twists/steps to face the girl, while using her empty hand to shove the girl's knife hand away from her body. At that point, Kait went from perpendicular to her to parallel, which is why they line up like that. Then, Kait finishes her 180, taking knife-girl the last 90 degrees. The pulling on the girl helps bring Kait inside her arm. I'm imagining how my chemistry professor did an Akido throw in class, just more, um, baton-y.

As for how she's holding the baton, no idea. Maybe she can twist her forearm in a circle, or she rolled the baton over her fingers to change her hold. She points it from a better hold on the last page. If we saw the backs of her fingers instead of the palm side, I'd say she just rolled the baton inside her grip.

If the Shoreditch guys have only been there a week, then this weird dude they're seeing outside of town has probably been there awhile, has really good timing, or is one of the refugees and this dude didn't know it.

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mister hex — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:51:08 -0700

@ Frexels - it's a police baton. It's got a wee handle. Shaped like an 'L;, kind of. Fantastic weapons. Very useful.

Kait's not mental. She's GORGEOUS. OMFG. I have a crush on her.

"Do you know who I am?" Yes, miss.

And her rationale vis a vis mind-reading makes the psycho-drama of the "Torture Chamber" all the more plausible. Not that she DOESN'T torture people, perhaps. As a telepath, she can torture them without touching them. Especially if they're Out Of Their Minds with Fear.

Miki also keeps records on everyone who comes into Whitechapel. It was, again, her who had the information on who his friends were.

Miki is Alfred. Bet she knows more about Kait's One-Woman War On Crime than anybody else.

I thought it was KK in the flashback. (I'm not that bright, though.)

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Fan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:51:53 -0700

> You can see that Kait's raising her left hand

Yes: and therefore, the girl shouldn't have raised her own knife hand over her shoulder for a downward stab (which lets Kait step "inside" between the girl's body and her knife). Maybe the girl did, though.

I also didn't see where the knife came from, nor see the girl cross from the man's left-hand side to his right.

> she rolled the baton over her fingers to change her hold

I think there's a risky way to roll it, to change the grip from the handle to the shaft. I don't know how to reverse the grip just on the handle, though.

I fear I've been complaining, which would be dumb. It's that the choreography is so well depicted that I was trying to see it as real.

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Dee_Noir — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:17:12 -0700

My predictions: Mark turns up with his own brainwashed army, rescues Luke, and the two elope together and have lots of gay sex which is described in graphic cock-jizzingly-slurpish detail for the entirety of volume 4.

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Lani — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:43:47 -0700

Fantastic pacing - last week's time for quiet contemplation, and then this week's burst of violence. And Paul, I reread past episodes and find new little details that you included every time. Absolutely gorgeous.

Pooka, I am so sorry to hear about your cat. That must have been devastating, especially so soon after your friend's death. I hope life eases up on you now.

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bettareckognize — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:53:30 -0700

It's that the choreography is so well depicted that I was trying to see it as real.

I was thinking the same thing. I've studied brazillian jujitsu and krav maga for a few years (a weekend thing, I'm not a badass). I think it might've been from jujitsu, but the first panel of page five looks a little like a sweep I've been taught. Admittedly we don't see what Kait's feet do, and the whole control the arm and neck thing is pretty standard, but Duffield put at least a bit of thought into it.

I've always wondered about that. It's gotta be hard just to draw a person moving normally, and you do that all day every day. I bet it's really difficult to draw a person doing something technical like martial arts, especially if you're trying to be realistic and not totally superhero.

Perhaps Mr. Duffield would like to chime in, if he reads this. When you do action scenes, how do you choreograph the different "moves?" Or does Ellis do that, giving more specific descriptions than "Kait throws her to the ground?" Have you yourself ever studied any martial art? Do you feel more comfortable drawing a certain "style," or does it change?

Maybe this question has been answered before. If someone would let me know, I'd be appreciative.

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stsparky — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:34:14 -0700

I think Paul does Iaido. And I want the knife our dimbulb lady tried to use on Kait.

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warrenellis — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:32:01 -0700

I also didn't see where the knife came from, nor see the girl cross from the man's left-hand side to his right

SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN IN BETWEEN PANELS

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Prof Structure — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:50:56 -0700

'Sometimes things happen in between panels' - sounds like a decent enough sig/motto/advice to the young n feckless!

As has been said, wonderful pacing this week and further intrigue raised - this is fast becoming a 'classic'.

The goodness of my week is entirely derivative upon the temporal fact that it leaves me with only two more before I step down as dept. head. And I actually saw the surface of my desk after 3 years of steady accretion of paperwork.

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Pooka — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:59:45 -0700

mmm cannibalism....
In dire circumstances would you or wouldn't you?
I've always been kinda curious..

It's kinda not fair that Hufu was a fake ;p

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overand — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:13:58 -0700

> SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN IN BETWEEN PANELS

Like, for example, costume changes! The girl switches from her patched short-sleeve shirt into an unpatched tank top... but I think the quick repair work she did on her trousers was more impressive!

OH PAUL, et al. - I am just being a silly continuity pedant - I'm still consistently pleased with the art in this series.

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Paul Duffield — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:18:37 -0700

"SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN IN BETWEEN PANELS"

Haha, thankyou Warren. I was about to say just the same thing.

What happens from one panel to the next was whatever needed to happen to connect the two, even if it's improbable or tricky to pull off.

Of course if the transition is too improbable, or actually approaches impossible, it might be a problem, so I direct all wannabe editors to the thread I made for just such a purpose a while back: clicky.

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Paul Duffield — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:21:46 -0700

@overand
Oops, looks like you caught a genuine continuity error there >< It'd be great if you could plonk that in the appropriate thread so I remember to deal with it later. Thanks :)

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diello — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:49:04 -0700

@Pooka
I totally remember Hufu! I included it in a school project about cannibalism :)
I'd try it. In dire circumstances.

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Dee_Noir — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:44:51 -0700

I wouldn't have noticed that, shall we say, speedy costume change, unless it had been pointed out. I think that for every one thousand people who read the comic, only one of them, someone with a fastidious and Holmes-like attention to detail, would have noticed. When you remove the impossible, whatever remains MUST BE Freakangels.

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mister hex — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:57:27 -0700

Things happen between the panels. (Or gutters, as they're also known.) She took off her sweat-shirt. All the better to get at the knife. Cop's coming, get ready. Look busy. Distract her. If I saw Kait rolling up on me, I'd do a fucking costume change, too. Like Mary Tyler Moore. Maybe I'd make it after all.

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Tanuki — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:22:53 -0700

@Pooka Coming from a fine New Zealand heritage (One of the suburbs near where I grew up translates as 'burnt buttocks') I was crushed to find hufu was not real. As were my fellow Kiwi housemates. We had a menu planned, though maybe we'll just call it on hold...

Sorry to hear about your cat, commiserations.

The Kait being mental thing continues to be intriguing. I guess her black & white, Quincy inspired view of justice is mental,but then again it's an extreme world they're in. In such an enviroment imposing order would seem a necessity but Kait also seems disinclined to allow others to help in her crusade. She doesn't seem to be interested in setting up a working society so much as roleplaying.

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Tishbite — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:31:44 -0700

Hello everyone,

Wow, its amazing how much story can be packed into a few pages. We find out that Kait is more than a little paranoid (we also find out that to a point her paranoia is justified), we are shown the powerful link between Miki the healer and Kait the police. Isn't interesting that even in this setting these two professions are required to work together and come to understand the other's ethos. But the big shocker, the one slipped in almost casually, is that the Freakangels have inadvertantly taken in a couple of cannibals. Great storytelling, looking forward to next week.

@Pooka: I'm very sorry to hear about your cat. I lost mine a year ago to cancer. I've not yet worked myself up to adopting another cat from the shelter, but I will eventually. I'm sure that Goblin had a good life and knew you and your husband did the best you could to protect and care for him.

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Pooka — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:38:17 -0700

thanks guys, I miss that goofy bastard so much.....on the up side, I managed to get Goblin's fatass mentally handicapped brother Gremlin back in the house, so he's safe now, and my half skunk filth cat Steamshovel is gaurding and taking care of him... And in the short time that Goblin was outside, we're pretty sure he managed to impregnate one of the neighbor cats, so his offspring will be running around here in about three months.
As soon as I get a new laptop I'm going to start writing a Richard Adamsesque story about Mad Jack Fluffkins, Goblin's first offspring. Gob will be in a big section of it, because he raised the hellbeast.
my ex's dog is in a children's book she had published through school called Sparks Do Art...we were thinking about doing Sparks do Math next involving him and the cats...

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NoCleverUserName — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:40:10 -0700

@ Pooka

*Adds condolences to list for your beloved feline*

@ Warren and Paul

Wonderful week. Seriously, I am full of wonder at the amazing amount that you guys can convey is just six pages. Between the action and the flashbacks, it comes across so much more clearly what is going on. BEside plot points, I never feel like I'm in the dark as to how or why something is happening.

Thanks for this.

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city creed — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:39:58 -0700

another awesome ep.
panel 3, page 6 my favourite for a while.
love those b+w flashbacks
"I'm not fucking around."
Indeed.