Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242598#Comment_242598 2010-06-04T04:00:43-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Ariana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1 It's Friday, it's FREAKANGELS: in which Luke is still going on. Good morning Whitechapel I have no Red Bull in the fucking house ALL of you are to blame consider yourselves alive by accident until ... FREAKANGELS: in which Luke is still going on.

Good morning Whitechapel I have no Red Bull in the fucking house ALL of you are to blame consider yourselves alive by accident until I'm caffeinated enough to sort you out. How is everyone else?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242599#Comment_242599 2010-06-04T04:02:31-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Dan Kelly http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3084 Woo! Looks like Luke is making the connection I made - killing them makes them stronger. Now will he go out and shoot himself in the head a few more times to try his hypothesis? Weather is ...
Looks like Luke is making the connection I made - killing them makes them stronger. Now will he go out and shoot himself in the head a few more times to try his hypothesis?

Weather is fine. Pub lunch is beckoning. DIY this weekend.

Woo]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242602#Comment_242602 2010-06-04T04:08:38-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Killing them makes them stronger... that is just weird. I'm totally confused now as to where Warren is headed with this... and I love it. He he he 'whippetminge.' FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242604#Comment_242604 2010-06-04T04:13:43-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 bjacques http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2157 I'm loving this too. So is he no longer the Luke who slips psychic roofies to non-Freakangels? If so, his air of injured pomposity is a small price to pay. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242605#Comment_242605 2010-06-04T04:15:25-07:00 2010-06-04T06:22:49-07:00 thud http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7510 0099: Is he done yet? I would swear he has been reading this blog, what with his comments. "Luke! We all know this already! Shut up you wanker!" edit: oh. right. - "... bloody ... "Luke! We all know this already! Shut up you wanker!"

edit:
oh. right. - "... bloody wanker!"]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242606#Comment_242606 2010-06-04T04:17:11-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 staticgirl http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8537 Sex Popeye and Alice Whippetminge It was fucking KK giving me shit from beyond time hahahahahahahahahahaha! Beautiful and funny. I love how the others cannot resist puncturing his ... Sex Popeye and Alice Whippetminge

It was fucking KK giving me shit from beyond time


hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Beautiful and funny. I love how the others cannot resist puncturing his pomposity.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242607#Comment_242607 2010-06-04T04:18:17-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Kradlum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3664 Hmmm... Well, if this is the case then we can't expect any FA's to die in future episodes. Of course, Luke could be just wrong, although he's not the first to see the other FreakAngels during a ...
Saw the Pixies last night. Feeling a little tired today and still too much work to comprehend where to start. I'm off to pick up FreakAngels Vol 4 from GOSH! (BTW - the side bar on the comic is still saying that Vol 3 is coming in November?)]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242608#Comment_242608 2010-06-04T04:19:59-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 johnjones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1052 So is he no longer the Luke who slips psychic roofies to non-Freakangels? I'd think that if anything he'd be more that Luke since he now knows that he's a Nietzschean superman who literally cannot ... So is he no longer the Luke who slips psychic roofies to non-Freakangels?

I'd think that if anything he'd be more that Luke since he now knows that he's a Nietzschean superman who literally cannot die permanently and that if he does die, he'll just come back stronger.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242611#Comment_242611 2010-06-04T04:44:42-07:00 2010-06-04T04:44:54-07:00 aeddan http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8928 Interesting thought - how badly does a FA body have to be mangled before they don't come back? don't come back?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242612#Comment_242612 2010-06-04T04:52:20-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 luckycreature http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7444 KK calling him a Zombie. Classic. Sex Popeye. Haha. I got a feeling he could drop then any minute, and then the last two weeks would just be a big joke. I'm surprised none of them haven't shot ...
I got a feeling he could drop then any minute, and then the last two weeks would just be a big joke. I'm surprised none of them haven't shot him again to test his theory.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242613#Comment_242613 2010-06-04T04:57:02-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 hanjean http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8930 If this fits any mold of traditional storytelling, there is a loophole. But then again, this is Warren. I guess this explains Mark...
But then again, this is Warren.

I guess this explains Mark...]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242614#Comment_242614 2010-06-04T05:07:10-07:00 2010-06-04T05:10:17-07:00 digitalscream http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8834 Phew...looks like we were all pretty prescient about this. However, while he's probably got it right about the bodies being containers for the package...and their silhouettes from the future are ...
However, while he's probably got it right about the bodies being containers for the package...and their silhouettes from the future are the shape of their current bodies....how does that work? Will their bodies not age at all? I think it's more likely that they'll go post-physical and no longer need their bodies to contain the package. The silhouettes in the visions are then a residual self-image (or even just a projection for the sake of familiarity to the recipient), so they're obviously not going to age at all.

Doesn't bode well for Luke's hypno-sex prospects, does it? :)

EDIT: Is it just me, or are all the FAs in the vision nekkid?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242615#Comment_242615 2010-06-04T05:11:56-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 twitch_ramirez http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2478 What a great line: ...DUE TO HAVING BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE BRAIN BY SEX POPEYE AND ALICE WHIPPETMINGE. another word rich episode, thanks Warren; and Paul...the blood is really good. I am thinking ...
...DUE TO HAVING BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE BRAIN BY SEX POPEYE AND ALICE WHIPPETMINGE.

another word rich episode, thanks Warren; and Paul...the blood is really good. I am thinking your have a blast lately with this little world. Good job.
Ariana; the damn thing works. I get up on Friday('s) and there it is. Flawless! Thank you for the sufferings I am sure you endure in the Pacific Time Zone. Much o Red Bull to you. Avatar and Mr. Ellis are blessed beyond deserving by your efforts.

My head hurts today. The sim scan went well. I can endure the pressure and looks like my third bout of Radiation shell commence soon. Probably in a week or two. I wish I could say I was excited and hopeful; but I won't lie, Cancer Sucks.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242616#Comment_242616 2010-06-04T05:15:06-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 kperkins http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=456 Well the sun is actually going to shine today, but I'll be inside working on the house, and doing artwork later (I hope). Loving what Paul did with the artwork on this one. I have had coffee, thank ... I have had coffee, thank FSM, but I just realized: JEEZUS Ariana, are you actually up at 4AM making sure Freakangels is up, and starting this thread? (I know that the comic can be set to post itself, of course, but don't believe this thread can.) So, anyways, just thank you for that.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242622#Comment_242622 2010-06-04T05:33:10-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 fa4ever http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8509 Good episode, confirmed a lot of the theories on here (or at least supports them, purely luke's theorizing) but while informational, not a lot actually happened. Gotta love KK giving him shit from ...
@aeddan I'm not sure if mangling would be very effective other than giving them a defective meat-suit. I'd probably go with complete dismemberment, for luke at least, bury his arms and legs 50 feet down in 4 distant corners of nowhere, and burn his head (to shut him up) and scatter the ashes in the floodwaters somewhere. If that doesn't kill them, it will at least slow them down as they try to reassemble themselves. We haven't actually seen anyone reattach severed limbs, so who knows if they actually can? Would at least mess up their whole day lol.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242624#Comment_242624 2010-06-04T05:39:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27 This falls right in line with my Freakangels Theory. Either that or my thoughts are being stolen as I think them, and they're fueling this little venture. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242627#Comment_242627 2010-06-04T05:46:19-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Noogies http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4617 Page 1 panel 3... That look, priceless!! FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242632#Comment_242632 2010-06-04T06:04:45-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 Luke's rant reminded me of something I'd read somewhere: my post from last week's thread. I'm beginning to suspect that the 'package' is in some way an extremely enhanced electromagnetic field - ...
I'm beginning to suspect that the 'package' is in some way an extremely enhanced electromagnetic field - rather similar to what Luke was going on about.
For normal people, it's a barely there sort of murmur in the meat. For Freakangels, it's more there THAN the meat - so even with some form of brain death that electromagnetic field continues on just fine, because unlike normal people it's independent of that 'framework' - their 'minds' exist far outside of it.
I think that might explain why they can do the things they can do, too. They can affect real world change by thinking about it because their minds are unavoidably interwoven with the most basic fabric of it. In essence, I guess it's rather a bit like quantum entanglement ... but that's getting into esoteric stuff I can't really explain properly or better than this.

And it's probably just a shitty guess at best anyway.


So, maybe not such a shitty guess?

If anything, this episode made me laugh more than the previous. The way Luke picked up after being interrupted on page one killed me, right back into the same pose, expression, even repeating himself.

As for myself, I'll be without the wife for the next week since she'll be half a continent away with family. I've have also been bawled out after being awake and upright this morning for all of 50 seconds, for something someone else might do...because it is not possible for me to get a good night's sleep even once without the universe exacting immediate and horrible vengeance.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242633#Comment_242633 2010-06-04T06:07:36-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 alsofish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2066 I'm imagining a Luke Chainsaw Merry-Go-Round and I thought I'd share. I haven't been awake very long. Gooood update, guys.
I haven't been awake very long. Gooood update, guys.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242634#Comment_242634 2010-06-04T06:07:41-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jenny Creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8773 Damnit, why did he go and have a good idea? I bet it's right too. I don't want to have to like Luke! It's like my grandma used to say, "You can always forgive a man, but you must never forgive ...
That doesn't make any sense at all, does it? I'm still trying to work it out. But anyway, here's hoping the bastard has enlightened up and changed his bastarding ways. Or if not that his betters can make better use of that idea of his while also putting his body to use in a compost heap.

Actually, what would happen if our purple-blasting friends' bodies were destroyed? I'm guessing they'd live on as creatures of pure energy transcending time and space, that is, that's how they become those future selves. I can only imagine this would be an improvement in Luke's case. He wouldn't have any parts to stick into girls you see.

Mark though, he'd become really dangerous.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242636#Comment_242636 2010-06-04T06:17:47-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 JaredRules http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=374 I've been up for about 21 hours so far. There is no way I'll get to sleep til at least hour 30. Today is so fucked. It is likely that today's issue was really interesting, and full of time skipping, ... It is likely that today's issue was really interesting, and full of time skipping, zombies, and immortal electromagnetic brain patterns.
But it is entirely possible I just imagined the whole thing.

And now back to this stupid fucking paper I have to write.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242637#Comment_242637 2010-06-04T06:19:09-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726 So, Luke finally catches on. Will he have the guts to repeatedly kill himself to level up? Or was being dead and dumped in a shopfront for the rats just too shit? Long weekend here in the west. ...
Long weekend here in the west. Will be leading some friends on a cryptic treasure hunt through the city. Should be fun (well, maybe not so much for them...)]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242638#Comment_242638 2010-06-04T06:20:34-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 An eternity in each others' presence? Sounds more like hell than heaven... This is the final conflict, then. How do the rest of them accept this new information about their fate, and can they ...
This is the final conflict, then. How do the rest of them accept this new information about their fate, and can they change it?

Awesome artwork. Can't compliment it enough.

PLUS! More fun identifying the kids! My probably wrong guess:

Counter-clockwise from left: Mark, Kaitlyn, Connor, Kirk, Karl, Caz, Miki, Luke, KK, Arkady, Sirkka, Jack.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242639#Comment_242639 2010-06-04T06:24:42-07:00 2010-06-04T06:25:18-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 @ Jenny Creed: i hope Luke HASN'T changed his bastarding ways. cause, what, he got shot, KK called him a wanker and then he rebooted? how's that for a lesson? there isn't a single thing that would ...
i'd love to see what Mark would say when he wakes up...

page 1, panel 3 surely is full of WIN!

@ digitalscream: yep, i think they're nekkid. or wearing very tight spandex. xD

yeah, i sure am growing fond of Luke. in the oh-you're-so-funny-in-your-narcisist-ways-blast-your-head-off-if-you-touch-me way. :}

p.s. i wonder if he becomes a self-harm-inflicting junkie now? to get moar juice? :}}} i am loving this webcomic! thank you, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield! ^__^]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242640#Comment_242640 2010-06-04T06:27:00-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 krel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8533 This was great. I wonder if they can level up by killing themselves, or being killed. There may be a difference. What will #100 look like. 100! That's just amazing! rain... cold... It's almost ... What will #100 look like. 100! That's just amazing!

rain... cold... It's almost fucking summer and we've not even hit a day at 70° yet. Seattle weather blows. Otherwise, I'm happy; can't you tell?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242642#Comment_242642 2010-06-04T06:30:57-07:00 2010-06-04T07:58:35-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712 'Either that or my thoughts are being stolen as I think them' I felt pretty much the same when i saw the line 'KK is a horrible girl' in 0097. Different KK though. Mr Ellis has many strange and ...
I felt pretty much the same when i saw the line 'KK is a horrible girl' in 0097. Different KK though. Mr Ellis has many strange and terrifying powers and i would not at all be surprised if he sometimes peeks surreptitiously into places he shouldn't.

So they're all still around in 20 or 30 years time? And they can't be killed? (incineration could be interesting). I do hope this doesn't turn out to be some sort of VR gaming scenario. Surely even the merciless eel master wouldn't be that evil...

As for me, i envy you your caffeine, booze and fags, having had to give up all three recently for health reasons. I'm now waiting for the end of the month and test results that will tell me if i can carry on driving. Still, the weather's nice and now i've got time to enjoy it so not all bad.

My thanks to Messrs Ellis, Dufield and the rest of the crew for another fine episode.


Edited after realising how that might read to some people.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242645#Comment_242645 2010-06-04T06:38:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 arf http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6120 I have a vision, in which 'Kady comes skipping in brandishing a game of Risk... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242646#Comment_242646 2010-06-04T06:47:45-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jenny Creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8773 ~lis? He could have had an epiphany he hasn't mentioned, I'm thinking. People who have near death experiences always talk about their consciousness expanding with vast wisdom and stuff. Luke even ...
I'm an optimist. :)

@longtimelurker: See they'd have to be enlightened like freaking Buddhas to enjoy spending eternity together, so why would they do that if they weren't?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242648#Comment_242648 2010-06-04T06:50:48-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 @ Jenny Creed: maybe he did... doesn't sound like it for now, though. we'll see. :}} FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242649#Comment_242649 2010-06-04T06:51:23-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4411 Luke is still a cunt. A charming cunt, maybe but still a cunt. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242650#Comment_242650 2010-06-04T06:57:23-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jenny Creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8773 I suppose mind control is a kind of charm. . . No, I don't really believe he's changed, but there's always hope.
No, I don't really believe he's changed, but there's always hope.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242652#Comment_242652 2010-06-04T07:01:39-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 cjtremlett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1855 I love how he gets momentarily deflated when Miki and KK snark at him and then goes right back to his rant. I wonder when he's going to heal enough so the blood stops dripping? Although Paul does ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242653#Comment_242653 2010-06-04T07:04:41-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 rickiep00h http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2930 What if it's just nigh-invulnerability? Dismemberment/beheading seems pretty permanent to me. Although the idea of a floating shouty Luke head gives me all sorts of giddy nightmares.
Although the idea of a floating shouty Luke head gives me all sorts of giddy nightmares.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242657#Comment_242657 2010-06-04T07:10:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075 Now, in the interests of pseudo-science, I just want to see what a FA body can take and still be in full use... Obviously they still get sleepy, though I guess they don't need to sleep. They don't ...
A hole in the head should mean death or at least serious vegetable-dom. What would sliced tendons mean? Being underwater is problematic, but not getting shot in the chest. Hmmm. And just how much blood can Luke spurt until there isn't enough pressure anymore? Or does his body continue regenerating blood...?

Hehehe. Thanks Warren, Paul, Ariana. Today is looking like it'll be utter crap for me. Long, lame and expensive. But I have good fiction to crunch. }:>]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242659#Comment_242659 2010-06-04T07:35:07-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 @Jenny Creed "I suppose mind control is a kind of charm..." ROFLMFAO. The enlightenment of Buddha... snarky sarcastic Buddhas, perhaps? Actually sounds kind of ...
"I suppose mind control is a kind of charm..."

ROFLMFAO.

The enlightenment of Buddha... snarky sarcastic Buddhas, perhaps? Actually sounds kind of cool...

@razrangel

Maybe it's a psychological deficiency not a physiological one. After all, they've always been telepathic, and that's not possible. They control weather and teleport, and that's not possible. Maybe they feel pain because they believe they are supposed to feel pain, and fall unconscious and die for the same reason, because 'til now they believed they were just a weird sort of human, and that's what humans are supposed to do. Remember they're only 23. The human brain doesn't fully develop until about 26.

Lots of people have walked after they've been told they'll never walk again. Lots of athletes have made astonishing recoveries. I'm not saying what the FA do is possible, but it's very common for people with advanced abilities to underestimate themselves, and that makes the work authentic to me. It's a logical step forward for the myth of the superhuman. Instead of Captain Wonder falling into the prism and discovering magic powers that he immediately has complete command of, the FA experience a maturation process much closer to actual human development.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242660#Comment_242660 2010-06-04T07:40:15-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 "Remember they're only 23. The human brain doesn't fully develop until about 26." hmm, thinking this int he light of events that just happened to Luke... ROFLCOPTER. hmm, thinking this int he light of events that just happened to Luke... ROFLCOPTER.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242664#Comment_242664 2010-06-04T07:46:51-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Doctor_Six http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5028 @longtime lurker: I'd go along with your identification (maybe swapping Karl and 'Kady), but it is necessarily based on hairstyles, and assuming that everyone keeps their current barnets. (the ...
Now this could kill off a lot of drama if we know that all the FAs will survive 20 - 30 years; it sounds like KK still is in the gang, but is it possible that the package could find a new owner if its host body disintegrates?

And maybe one of the sihouettes (eg Mark, Sirkka) is actually someone else? Like a new girl?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242665#Comment_242665 2010-06-04T07:55:28-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 GRB http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8561 since things are going so near how many have predicted so far, i cant help but expect Mr Ellis to throw in a curve ball very shortly to prove us all wrong (or atleast play with our minds a little ...
maybe something along the lines of shortly before or just after finishing his rant, Luke's strings are gonna be cut like a puppets, since Jack pulled the plug and Luke's package is draining out the GIANT HOLE IN HIS HEAD!

that or someone (Arkady or Mark) will come along with some very insightful information as to how the package works

we are at the beginning of a new volume so we can expect some kind of conflict to develop whatever it maybe. although a whole volume looking at the inner workings of the package does have some appeal!

oh yeah and the first page was a winner!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242667#Comment_242667 2010-06-04T07:58:18-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 @Louie Huwie Based on hairstyles and the sizes and shapes of the bodies. The girls have hips and slim waists. Some are intentionally vague, which is good as it keeps us guessing. No, still ...
Based on hairstyles and the sizes and shapes of the bodies. The girls have hips and slim waists.

Some are intentionally vague, which is good as it keeps us guessing.

No, still plenty of drama, I think. It may be their fate but I'm not convinced all of them will accept it. Half of them still want to kill each other. And even if they do accept their fate, will they undo the big push or simply expand what they've built in Whitechapel and take it global?

Alice still doesn't know Mark is back.

Plenty of drama left.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242669#Comment_242669 2010-06-04T08:16:23-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Graizur http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5669 I am going to continue to say that just because you walk in on a a girl get strangled(psychically) and screwed in an alley way doesn't mean she is being raped. They never asked the girl her take on ...
The hypocritical hipster demi-gods can go rotate.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242672#Comment_242672 2010-06-04T08:29:23-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 diello http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3575 Dear Santa Ellis, Can page 2 be the cover for volume 5? Paul did an amazing job on that beauty! Love always, diello PS: I didn't take Ariana's Red Bull. Can page 2 be the cover for volume 5? Paul did an amazing job on that beauty!
Love always,
diello
PS: I didn't take Ariana's Red Bull.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242673#Comment_242673 2010-06-04T08:31:51-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 I somehow get the impression that if a Freakangel were to have their body utterly destroyed, they'd make themselves available by whatever electromagnetic means were available. The idea of Luke ...
And no doubt, he'd not want to settle for less than another Freakangel, which I don't see going over all that well.

@longtimelurker - Alice at the least knew that Mark was still alive. What I'm really looking forward to reaction-wise is how she handles meeting Luke again!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242674#Comment_242674 2010-06-04T08:35:03-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 steevo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2415 Bring on the slaughterhouse, where Freakangels go to train for the future! FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242675#Comment_242675 2010-06-04T08:38:37-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 Heh, "whippetminge". A nice episode allround. I am fine. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242676#Comment_242676 2010-06-04T08:38:49-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 bairdduvessa http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=397 luke's facial and bodily responses are hilarious FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242678#Comment_242678 2010-06-04T08:44:07-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Professor Imagine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4110 whoa! I got a serious full body chill at the last there. and never has an expositional info-dump been so damn beautifully bloody!!! Paul, did you have a model soaked in corn syrup deliver ...
and never has an expositional info-dump been so damn beautifully bloody!!!

Paul, did you have a model soaked in corn syrup deliver several monologue poses to draw from, or is your imagination sufficiently gory?

Four Volumes of build-up..... and.... WE'RE OFF!!!! Now this roller coaster is f'ing going somewhere!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242679#Comment_242679 2010-06-04T08:49:54-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 counterpower http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4258 I am very very afraid of the idea to which Luke is building...namely, "offing" Freakangels to jumpstart them. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242682#Comment_242682 2010-06-04T08:59:53-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jenny Creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8773 Graizur, I'm afraid you're mistaken. If the Angels are actually superior to ordinary humans as Luke believes, it's impossible for us to consent to sex with them to begin with, and either way mind ...
Not that I approve of the erasing of her memories without asking either. Though what with the psychic abilities it might just be possible Sirkka knows for a fact she wants to forget.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242683#Comment_242683 2010-06-04T09:01:10-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 mind controlling doesn't exactly help his case as that in itself is essentially rape: Physically dominating a person, superimposing his free will, dignity, personal integrity and ditto space on hers, ... mind controlling doesn't exactly help his case as that in itself is essentially rape: Physically dominating a person, superimposing his free will, dignity, personal integrity and ditto space on hers, for his own pleasure. The intercourse in itself means little, it's just the ultimate expression of his dominance over the woman. Unless you can prove she wanted to be brainwashed, and of her own choice and not as a desperate measure to escape her misery, I'm going to call it rape.

Case closed.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242686#Comment_242686 2010-06-04T09:07:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 DatDude http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7190 Two things was the mushroom bit a SUPERGOD reference? And I honestly can not tell you the shit I'd probably do if I was half as un killable as a freak angels. Things get worse now I think . . .
And

I honestly can not tell you the shit I'd probably do if I was half as un killable as a freak angels. Things get worse now I think . . .]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242689#Comment_242689 2010-06-04T10:04:13-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 D.J. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3196 Warren, you are a madman and I love every bit of it. Paul, I think I mentioned last week that you were grossing me out, and continuing doing so is just brilliant. It's stuff like this, these crazy ...
Anything special for the 100th episode next week?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242690#Comment_242690 2010-06-04T10:05:03-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Business as usual. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242691#Comment_242691 2010-06-04T10:05:32-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 darrylayo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6359 You've finally done it, Mr. Ellis. You've gotten me to thoroughly *like* that son of a bitch. Shudder, shudder. He's still a bad dude though.
You've gotten me to thoroughly *like* that son of a bitch.

Shudder, shudder.

He's still a bad dude though.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242695#Comment_242695 2010-06-04T10:23:44-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ShannonC http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7313 If the FA are containers for the package, I'd be willing to bet you could zap them into dust and they'd still pull themselves together somehow. If these future-selves are electromagnetic entities, I ...
Maybe this means they all have to grow up and learn to play nice together for the sake of everyone?

It is somehow comforting, regardless of what is going to happen, that KK still thinks Luke is a tit.

Loved Luke's double take this episode. Hah!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242700#Comment_242700 2010-06-04T10:44:47-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311 I'm with KK. He's still a wanker. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242706#Comment_242706 2010-06-04T11:00:06-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 "Maybe this means they all have to grow up and learn to play nice together for the sake of everyone? " oh, yeah, i definitely see Kirk and Luke holding hands and dancing in the ...
oh, yeah, i definitely see Kirk and Luke holding hands and dancing in the flowerfields.
i would've said that they could split, cause the world is huge, after all, but there's this problem - Caz, Miki, KK and Karl are the ones that actually sustain the Whitechapel community. i don't know if the rest can manage living somewhere without them.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242720#Comment_242720 2010-06-04T11:39:53-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 TAL http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8643 This weekend I'll be starting to pack. Going to Las Vegas for 3 weeks on Tuesday. So this might be the last episode I read this month. Or ever, depending on how the trip goes. More talking Luke is ...
More talking Luke is a really nice way to end the double digits.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242731#Comment_242731 2010-06-04T12:20:01-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Paprika http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8000 Just found out my server has been haxored, god knows if they have been reading my email. At least its freak angels friday.
At least its freak angels friday.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242736#Comment_242736 2010-06-04T12:37:06-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ErikCJones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8341 The entire "Luke risen from the dead" monologue has easily been my favorite thing to happen in Freak Angels so far. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242739#Comment_242739 2010-06-04T13:02:33-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 neftones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7475 Yeah this entire sequence with Luke has really showcased the strengths of Warren and Paul. Just incredibly entertaining stuff. Luke pausing to consider Miki's insult on the first page, and then ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242754#Comment_242754 2010-06-04T13:40:27-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 MrMonk http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6192 I got the strong impression that they were reaching back from deep time, a good twenty or thirty years from now. You all caught onto "Alice Whippetminge" and missed this? Maybe I just ... I got the strong impression that they were reaching back from deep time, a good twenty or thirty years from now.

You all caught onto "Alice Whippetminge" and missed this?

Maybe I just lack perspective.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242760#Comment_242760 2010-06-04T14:04:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ConTrick http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3122 Warren, If I understand this correctly, you've just turned Russian roulette into an actively beneficial form of trepanning. As counterintuitive cures go, this ranks as a fairly straightforward ...
If I understand this correctly, you've just turned Russian roulette into an actively beneficial form of trepanning. As counterintuitive cures go, this ranks as a fairly straightforward "duhwwwwaaaah?" Bloody well played, that man.

Bloody. Well played.

Accidentally skipped the splash of Luke in the light and the twelve ascendant Angels the first time I read this, and it was still magnificent (sorry Paul - it was the most wonderful surprise second time round, though).

I think - and this is utterly ungrounded speculation right here - that Luke has got to be wrong about something. He may have nailed most of it, but one detail just didn't quite fit for me. He estimated the uber-Angels were from twenty or thirty years in the future, but I'd wager they're *much* further than that. If the package becomes more potent with each 'lethal event', I'd bet twenty to thirty years is just how long it takes them to get beyond physical bodies and time.

These guys live pretty fast, after all. Plus, if its their *individual* deaths that cause the package's expansion, I don't think they'd all reach beyond at the same time - unless they all decided to link hands and punch Time in the face (which is conceivable).

Then again, we may get a more detailed picture of the 'inter-life' scenario that proves me wrong. If word gets out about the suicide count jackpot, what's to stop the more maniacal FA's (i'm looking at you, Mark) self-prescribing death - whilst resurrection seems so cheap.

This also answers my personal quizzling about why the Angels didn't seem all register Luke's 'death' at the time - something I found odd given their other communal communicative abilities. Surely a death in the vicinity would cause a ripple of some kind, no? However, if this episode's revelations are basically true, then the reason they didn't register it is because he wasn't really dead - which I can live with. Mark was an exception, but we can now safely assume that his increased power came from a post-mortem package boost, and that he probably used that to hide himself, what with not being the most popular man at that time.

Aaah Luke, this episode I learned the thing I like most about him: you can hate him all you want for being the monumental cuntbag he is, the type of cuntbag this world could do very well without - but you have to admit, he *is* the smartest.

Smart people connect dots others don't even see.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242762#Comment_242762 2010-06-04T14:12:13-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 kperkins http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=456 @ConTrick says: Smart people connect dots others don't even see And crazy people.
Smart people connect dots others don't even see


And crazy people.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242768#Comment_242768 2010-06-04T14:27:01-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Adam Lucas http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2623 They're Saiyans! I knew it! Once you defeat them they only get STRONGER! Ka - Me - Ha - Me HAAAAAA! First FreakAngel to commit suicide wins! Loving it. Love Luke.
Ka - Me - Ha - Me HAAAAAA!

First FreakAngel to commit suicide wins!

Loving it.

Love Luke.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242773#Comment_242773 2010-06-04T14:49:48-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485 Bloody brilliant, and loads of lovely visual touches FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242777#Comment_242777 2010-06-04T15:05:49-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075 I wonder if that hole won't ever heal. Eventually the bleeding will slow to a trickle, occasionally spurt if more blood is made, but that's it. No healing because the body is just the vessel - a ... is made, but that's it. No healing because the body is just the vessel - a broken one in Luke's case. the package keeps him moving & talking, not his physiology. His head will always be as torn as his t-shirt.

I base this on Arkady being um... I don't know, a space case? She was definitely much more together and coherent - and mature - before the punch. It's hard to pin down exactly when her OD was, but I'm given to thinking it was after the punch. If the drugs damaged her physical brain matter it could account for her personality change. But *sigh* so could the psychonaut adventures she puts herself through.

I kind of hope it doesn't heal. In the first place it's *something* in the way of a disadvantage and in the second, it's the best "LOSER" sign one could hope for Luke.

Other thing I've been pondering: "Luke you're still a wanker." The tense of the sentence, given it's a quote, keeps me going back and forth. The 'Angels may be speaking to Luke from the future and telling him that even in the future he hasn't changed much. OR...there might have been something in the past that 'Angels don't realize, like where they looked into the future, saw a drowned London and saw that Luke had gone from prat to utter prick. In which case, they were saying it to themselves, more than to Luke. *shrug* Again, I'll take the narrative at face value. But keep in mind that the person narrating this episode is a complete wanker.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242783#Comment_242783 2010-06-04T16:02:32-07:00 2010-06-04T16:03:20-07:00 GRB http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8561 @razrangel http://www.freakangels.com/?p=31&page=5 second panel http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23 Arkady ODed when she was 15, and they broke the world when they were 17 however much fun ... http://www.freakangels.com/?p=31&page=5 second panel
http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23

Arkady ODed when she was 15, and they broke the world when they were 17

however much fun speculating is, we just have to wait and watch as the story progresses. Warren has already stated that events through volume 6 have been outlined, so we still got a while before ALL of our questions are answered (and even then im sure people will come up with some more)]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242785#Comment_242785 2010-06-04T16:50:51-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 NakedCelt http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7835 I'm enjoying this so far, but I can't help thinking what you might call the Kryptonite problem is just over the horizon. Superman could do anything. Logically, he was undefeatable, and it turns out ... Superman could do anything. Logically, he was undefeatable, and it turns out that drama comes from the risk of failure. So they had to invent a rock that he was vulnerable to just to bring drama back into the story.
If the FreakAngels can't be killed, what's next? Of course, there are the vulnerable people of Whitechapel to worry about, but they've pretty much been extras so far; I can't say their fate moves me much. I'm afraid the "baby farm for food" failed to shock me, because I can't believe in it. (A pregnant woman needs food or she miscarries and dies; why not just eat what they were feeding to the victims?)
My main interest in following this story has been watching Alice gradually slot in to the FreakAngels' world, but she seems to be absent in Luke's and Arkady's visions of the future.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242788#Comment_242788 2010-06-04T17:22:49-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Savantis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4880 Actually, I'm more interested to find out what happens when their bodies get burnt up. Does their electromatic field of conciousness regenerate an entire body from the DNA in the ashes, or are ...
Does their electromatic field of conciousness regenerate an entire body from the DNA in the ashes, or are they now lost and have to possess things to move about?

That will be so invincible - imagine a cloud of moving ash, Luke shaped, walking about. imbal.. You can hit it, shoot it, and it will just go right through him. =(

Or possessing objects at will - like the God in Lain - all those snaking wires - whoohoo.

Imbal.

There has got to be a weakness, somewhere. Hm.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242794#Comment_242794 2010-06-04T17:49:23-07:00 2010-06-04T17:49:37-07:00 D.J. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3196 Well, your brain is basically just one big glob of data and electrical impulses, right? What if they just have such control over that, that even if they die or their brain shuts down or ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242795#Comment_242795 2010-06-04T17:50:49-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Superman could do anything. Logically, he was undefeatable, and it turns out that drama comes from the risk of failure. So they had to invent a rock that he was vulnerable to just to bring drama back ... Superman could do anything. Logically, he was undefeatable, and it turns out that drama comes from the risk of failure. So they had to invent a rock that he was vulnerable to just to bring drama back into the story.

Superman is never two-thirds through the entirety of his story.

FREAKANGELS is.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242806#Comment_242806 2010-06-04T19:29:46-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Greasemonkey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4625 Hmm. Looks like the original push created a naked singularity that punched through into the future and screwed up the local laws of physics. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242833#Comment_242833 2010-06-04T23:20:01-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Fishelle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854 Superman is never two-thirds through the entirety of his story. FREAKANGELS is. I just have to say, this makes me sad. I don't ever want it to end. Ever. But I understand that it must. Also, ... Superman is never two-thirds through the entirety of his story.
FREAKANGELS is.

I just have to say, this makes me sad. I don't ever want it to end. Ever. But I understand that it must.

Also, great episode. Timing on everything was what impressed me this time around. That pause on the first page is fantastic.
I don't know if Luke's got it right, but it seems as plausible an explanation as anything. I wouldn't mind it if they shot him again to test his theory. Although his rant has been entertaining, he is still a bloody wanker.
It was interesting seeing them all together and omniscient like that. My thought was, what killed them? I mean, if they all had to die to gain these powers, something had to happen that was pretty intense. And something big has got to be coming that would make them choose to spend their time together, pulling their past selves out of trouble.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242839#Comment_242839 2010-06-05T00:14:03-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 gjemmott http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8960 If this fits any mold of traditional storytelling, there is a loophole. What if it doesn't fit any mold of traditional storytelling? since things are going so near how many have predicted so far, i ... If this fits any mold of traditional storytelling, there is a loophole.
What if it doesn't fit any mold of traditional storytelling?
since things are going so near how many have predicted so far, i cant help but expect Mr Ellis to throw in a curve ball very shortly to prove us all wrong (or atleast play with our minds a little longer)

So what if Warren is using these Whitechapel forums in real-time to generate the story line. OK, unlikely, given what he's said about having the story line blocked out up through the sixth volume...

The idea of real-time audience-generated (unbeknownst to the audience) content is similar to a fun mind-game that goes well along with lateral thinking puzzles: get someone (or a group?) to try to figure out a dream you had (or a vague riddle or whatever) only by asking only yes or no questions, but rather than actually relating back to a dream you've had, just answer each question "randomly" according to some rubric (for example, if the last letter of the last word they ask is within 'a' through 'm,' yes, if it ends between 'n' and 'z', answer no). Especially if done after similar yes-no-question riddles or other lateral-thinking puzzles, the game can go on for quite some time. "My friend's" dream ended up being about how he killed the devil and god, among other things... not sure what that says about my psyche, but I digress.

So if Warren were doing this, what if it were "the third feasible suggestion in any thread for a future event must be written into the story." He would have quite a backlog of content (up through the 6th volume?) by this point... and that would be the sort of twisted technologically-advanced art idea Warren might like... and he did start this whole story in medias res, so he could be making up the back-story and the future as he goes...

As I say though, this whole idea is unlikely re: FreakAngels, so if he's not toying with us that deeply, I hope someone does some day. I mean, what if the future included...
"What if it's just nigh-invulnerability? Dismemberment/beheading seems pretty permanent to me.
Although the idea of a floating shouty Luke head gives me all sorts of giddy nightmares."

:-}]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242841#Comment_242841 2010-06-05T00:46:15-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 reading speculations about Warren's story telling methods is almost as fun as reading FA. xD FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242849#Comment_242849 2010-06-05T02:27:26-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jeff Owens http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1150 Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I get the feeling the white background when it shows Luke has something to do with the fact that he has died and had a vision (or whatever happened). Like ...
Either way, it looks great, and these have been two of my favorite episodes. As Jay and Grant, the Ghost Hunters would say, "On to the next!"]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242873#Comment_242873 2010-06-05T07:05:07-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Citizen Freak http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6863 My guess: They have to find an island and protect it. Just kidding. Great episode, I like how (and by whom) we finally get some solid information about the package. Now, with the tension of them ...
Great episode, I like how (and by whom) we finally get some solid information about the package. Now, with the tension of them killing each other and being killed by others gone, how will their story evolve?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242876#Comment_242876 2010-06-05T07:48:09-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 Random stab of speculation: What if dying and 'levelling up' isn't the gift it first appears? What if each death brings them closer to subliming, being trapped in the ether, with only themselves for ...
Well, it won't be, but I do love a spot of second guessing and tinfoil hatting :)]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242892#Comment_242892 2010-06-05T10:51:43-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 johnjones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1052 Superman is never two-thirds through the entirety of his story. FREAKANGELS is. Do you have some other ideas in mind for this format? Experiment aside, was the free online to purchased paper ... Superman is never two-thirds through the entirety of his story.

FREAKANGELS is.

Do you have some other ideas in mind for this format? Experiment aside, was the free online to purchased paper model able to bring in enough money to justify its continued use for other stories?]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242901#Comment_242901 2010-06-05T12:01:42-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Miranda's Eyes http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1443 So if you can't keep a rogue Freakangel in check by physically killing him or her, then Kait at least will wonder what can you do when a Freakangel crosses a moral/ethical line. Try to overcome that ...
Also, is it just death or near-death experiences that will cause the package to kick in with a Freakangel 2.0 (or higher) upgrade? I guess that means that Jack wasn't close enough to dying back in Book One to get a power boost, unless he's doing the poker player thing and keeping his new powers under wraps. Aside from that, shades of Luther Arkwright!

That aside, the past week has been rough primarily financially, which bled over way too quickly into emotionally. No miraculous recovery today, but at least the hints of a way forward to wherever have presented themselves. Talking to a couple of good friends have helped. Also a great morale booster is the very longshot possibility that a piece I wrote may be read by Steven Spielberg.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242904#Comment_242904 2010-06-05T12:26:56-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 DatDude http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7190 " Do you have some other ideas in mind for this format? Experiment aside, was the free online to purchased paper model able to bring in enough money to justify its continued use for other ...
Id be interested how the " Freak Angels Experiment " turned out my self.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=242973#Comment_242973 2010-06-05T18:19:30-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 libberation http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8254 I'm reasonable sure I'm not alone in ardently wishing luke would stop fingering his head hole.... other than that WOW so freaking glad i stumbled upon this comic!
other than that WOW so freaking glad i stumbled upon this comic!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243063#Comment_243063 2010-06-06T05:26:07-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ConTrick http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3122 @kperkins says: @ConTrick says: "Smart people connect dots others don't even see" And crazy people. A fair point, but on the Freak-scale of insanity there's also 'Mark-crazy', ...
@ConTrick says:

"Smart people connect dots others don't even see"

And crazy people.


A fair point, but on the Freak-scale of insanity there's also 'Mark-crazy', 'Kait-crazy' and 'Arkady-crazy'. By these standards, I see most of the others as (relatively) sane.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243079#Comment_243079 2010-06-06T08:04:41-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 NextThursday http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8047 I like your idea @curb and it seems that unless Mr. Warren (hi) plans to do a major skip in time ie "20 years later..." the future FAs Luke and Arkady saw are not too far in the future ...
So, for the count (and because lists are good):
Arkady: 2 known 'rebirths'
Luke: 1
Mark: 1? or 2? did they just knock him out with the house or did they kill him?

Perhaps when they "level up" too many times they become so self-aware and mentally inclined (focused on their own mental powers) that they are unable to relate to/really see the rest of the world. For example; Arkady we know was the first to hit Death and bounce back (HEY THAT'S CHEATING. terry pratchett reference? anyone?) and the general consensus was that she was a bit loopy/wrapped up in her own head. Side effects of 'leveling up'? Are they all going to get to a point where they're so nirvana-esq that they end up floating naked in purple light talking to their past selves?

I guess those side effects beat the usual "may cause nausea, vomiting, high fever, dizziness and in some instances death".]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243179#Comment_243179 2010-06-06T16:03:36-07:00 2010-06-06T16:04:27-07:00 Pupato http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6150 this is far better than many weekly tv crap WOOOW!!! i´ve just finished reading the all comic from the begining up here... Took me two days, two days without lift my bottom from the chair (have ...
WOOOW!!! i´ve just finished reading the all comic from the begining up here... Took me two days, two days without lift my bottom from the chair (have no portable) not because i wanted... because i couldn´t!!! couldn´t pick up the phone nor get out to the street, couldn´t prepare even a hotdog nor going to pee; i couldn´t even scratch my nose, for Moebius sake!!!

but now i´m depressed & so sad... i can´t belive its over... can´t belive is finished by now; can´t be true i have to wait 3 days for 6 new pages... no way man... I WANT MORE!!! MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...& i want it now... MORE! MORE! MORE! MMMOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wanna thank you guys, Ellis, Duffield (talented bastards) & all the crew, thankyou,thankyou,thankyou,thankyou,thankyou : )]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243186#Comment_243186 2010-06-06T16:56:11-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 St3ph3en http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8962 I just discovered this comic, it is awesome! I cannot wait for more. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243256#Comment_243256 2010-06-07T03:39:34-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Zatoichi http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3699 Since its just Luke and he's still a wanker, let's do a little experiment - chop his head off and see how that affects his package. just Luke and he's still a wanker, let's do a little experiment - chop his head off and see how that affects his package.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243477#Comment_243477 2010-06-08T00:16:16-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Silhouette http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7593 I hope that episode 100 will be epic. =D If only because it's a milestone number. Maybe Luke won't be such a jerk from now on. It seems he's been 'enlightened', in a way, because he's rambling ...
Maybe Luke won't be such a jerk from now on. It seems he's been 'enlightened', in a way, because he's rambling like Arkady. I do like the idea of their futureselves talking to them. I mean, with their super powers why not broach the subject of time travel? I'm all for it. =D]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243488#Comment_243488 2010-06-08T03:06:12-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Lmanningvines http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8869 well, 2 things...love this twist, but i hope this isn't a signal of Freakangels jumping the shark a bit, cuz i kinda liked it when they were actually worried about the normal human stuff like dying ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243571#Comment_243571 2010-06-08T11:44:28-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Gekko http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3435 Shall we celebrate the 100th episode? A SPIT special or a remodel special even for those who can't draw? I wish we did something special for Paul, Warren, Ariana and evryone else on Whitechapel who ... I wish we did something special for Paul, Warren, Ariana and evryone else on Whitechapel who provide us so much pleasure.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243649#Comment_243649 2010-06-08T17:03:55-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ZeroDrop http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6628 I'm curious about: - OK, a shot that make a whole tunnel through his head isn't enough to kill him. So, what's needed, then? Decapitation? Someone will try to discover what's needed? - Will ...
- OK, a shot that make a whole tunnel through his head isn't enough to kill him. So, what's needed, then? Decapitation? Someone will try to discover what's needed?

- Will Luke stop bleeding sometime? Or regrow his brains out?

- Will Arkady faint out seeing Luke in this state?

- Why everyone seems to be too calm seeing a very talkative should-have-been-dead Luke,as if it was a very normal thing?

Don't miss the next FREAKANGELS episode!]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243662#Comment_243662 2010-06-08T17:57:00-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949 i've been away to long..Need to get to the city and buy all vols..must. forget food!! FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243692#Comment_243692 2010-06-08T22:08:34-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 rickiep00h http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2930 " Do you have some other ideas in mind for this format? Experiment aside, was the free online to purchased paper model able to bring in enough money to justify its continued use for other ... " Do you have some other ideas in mind for this format? Experiment aside, was the free online to purchased paper model able to bring in enough money to justify its continued use for other stories? "

Id be interested how the "Freak Angels Experiment " turned out my self.While Warren has been pretty forthcoming on other wacky ideas (like Shivering Sands), I doubt we'll see concrete numbers on how successful it is. I would think that running for 600 pages when many print books can't manage more than 100 is concrete enough.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243696#Comment_243696 2010-06-08T22:58:13-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Jeff Owens http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1150 I still say there's something to the stark white backgrounds when it shows Luke. I'm also all for some sort of 100th episode celebratory dealie-bobber.
I'm also all for some sort of 100th episode celebratory dealie-bobber.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243709#Comment_243709 2010-06-09T01:15:53-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284 SPIT special for #100, YES! FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243792#Comment_243792 2010-06-09T10:01:57-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 @NakedCelt "I'm afraid the "baby farm for food" failed to shock me, because I can't believe in it. (A pregnant woman needs food or she miscarries and dies; why not just eat what ...
"I'm afraid the "baby farm for food" failed to shock me, because I can't believe in it. (A pregnant woman needs food or she miscarries and dies; why not just eat what they were feeding to the victims?)"

The sacrifice and consumption of the infant is the ultimate expression of dominance over the female in society. Read FROM HELL chapter 4. It's the next step downward after organized rape: not only does the woman have no purpose in life other than as an object of the man's pleasure, even the product of her childbirth (the ultimate expression of her power to create as a woman) is used merely as sustenance for the man. It's a horrible ancient practice.

But that was a long time ago, and people are different now, you might say. Well, maybe. But the BIG PUNCH altered a lot of things. The FREAKANGELS wanted to do something that had a big impact. Not all of the FREAKANGELS are saints, as we're finding out now, and the one who really pushed for the changes is probably the worst of them now. Stands to reason what was left remaining would not be utopia.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243817#Comment_243817 2010-06-09T12:38:28-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949 finally up to date with story..my eyes are fooked from reading on a cell phone.. the pain.. FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=243840#Comment_243840 2010-06-09T15:04:14-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 ~lis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8946 @longtimelurker: you're right on your explanation of the baby farm for food thing as "the ultimate expression of dominance", but that still doesn't explain if people can survive on it. i, ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244000#Comment_244000 2010-06-10T13:09:33-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 bobsyuncle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8982 Why are you people asking for the baby farm concept to be made 'more' shocking and 'real'. What the hell is wrong with you when you think eating babies has to be made somehow more horrifying to be ... FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244013#Comment_244013 2010-06-10T14:17:30-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 fod_xp http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6499 Never has Luke been so entertaining, he's definitely winning me over with his "Road to Spacetime meets infinity Damascus presented with such lovely theatrics." FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244106#Comment_244106 2010-06-11T00:03:40-07:00 2010-06-11T02:39:10-07:00 NakedCelt http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7835 @longtimelurker: What @~lis said. No real-world instance of cannibalism has ever involved the practitioner detaining and provisioning the victim. Meat is wasteful, resource-wise. Typically about ...
EDIT: And, @bobsyuncle: I'm certainly not asking for eating babies to "be made somehow more horrifying". For the vast majority of the time, FreakAngels is a thoroughly absorbing story, one I can completely "believe" on a visceral level. As in, my "willing suspension of disbelief" takes zero effort. The baby farm bit spoiled that for a moment: it yanked my horror lever too hard and broke it off.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244352#Comment_244352 2010-06-11T13:48:43-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 Graizur http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5669 @Warrenellis You say case closed. So case is closed. Too bad the characters never gave the girl a chance to speak. At all. Not even a whisper. But since the God of the freakangels universe says it's ... You say case closed. So case is closed. Too bad the characters never gave the girl a chance to speak. At all. Not even a whisper. But since the God of the freakangels universe says it's case closed then it's case closed. Wow. Never thought I would get such a clear image.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244790#Comment_244790 2010-06-14T09:30:00-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 @NakedCelt You are using non-fictional evidence to disprove what people would do after a fictional time-and-space-changing event. You could just as easily say STAR TREK's not possible because ...
You are using non-fictional evidence to disprove what people would do after a fictional time-and-space-changing event. You could just as easily say STAR TREK's not possible because warp speed can't go faster than light. That's fine. But is STAR TREK really ABOUT whether warp speed is possible, or is it a story about people in unique, never-seen-before situations, and how they deal with them? That's how I approach it.

@Graizur

You're remembering the scene wrong. It was actually LUKE who didn't give that girl much chance to talk, not even to introduce herself. The author is simply letting us know that there isn't more to the scene than what we saw on the page.

Luke has his fans. So did Lono in 100 BULLETS. A villain is a hero who crosses the line.]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244886#Comment_244886 2010-06-14T22:49:57-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 NakedCelt http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7835 @longtimelurker: Telepathy and psychic powers aren't possible either (Luke's babble about "electromagnetic fields" is a load of hooey; the mind is a dynamic information-structure), but you ... Star Trek -- they're part of the set-up. I accept that the FreakAngels' world, like the Star Trek universe, has rules that are different from ours. However, fantasy should be an inspiration, not an excuse. There's a difference between presenting telepathy and psychic powers as something new and strange to be investigated, as FreakAngels does, and presenting an impossible situation as if it was the sort of thing one could naturally expect, as with the "baby farm".
Put it this way. Suppose we were to introduce, as a fantasy premise, the idea that humans could genuinely be domesticated for food. A good science fiction story should then follow up on that premise. What does it imply about the local biology and physics? Either that pregnant women in this world draw sustenance magically from the air and earth or some such, or that in this world you can break the laws of thermodynamics and get something out of nothing.
In the latter scenario, the question still applies -- if you can break the laws of thermodynamics, why do you need to eat babies? For that matter, why do you need to eat anything? The whole horror of the post-apocalyptic situation vanishes, because there's no reason why people should be in poverty.
The magic-pregnancy scenario could make a promising fantasy setup, although it jars somewhat with the gritty hard-science feel of FreakAngels. But you would have to draw it out, play with it, explore its implications, as has in fact been done with the FreakAngels' powers.
I suppose you could imagine a ghastly other-world where human flesh is a delicacy and humans can be farmed economically because their meat brings such high prices. But such cannibalism would be a symptom of decadence, not desperation. Jeffrey Dahmer, who might be seen as an exception to my claim above that no-one has "ever" detained and provisioned human victims for food, was getting something out of it other than sustenance (namely, sexual satisfaction).]]> FREAKANGELS Episode 0099 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8362&Focus=244919#Comment_244919 2010-06-15T04:16:08-07:00 2013-05-24T12:58:21-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Wow. Never thought I would get such a clear image. Yeah, we all got a pretty clear image of you, too. Wow. Never thought I would get such a clear image.

Yeah, we all got a pretty clear image of you, too.]]>