Fri, 24 May 2013 01:35:40 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286359#Comment_286359 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286359#Comment_286359 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:08:18 -0800 Ariana FREAKANGELS.

Morning, Whitechapel. I've got people in Hawaii I'm keeping an eye out for (they aren't in an evac zone), and people in Japan that've already checked in (safe). I hope everyone here, and everyone here's friends/families anywhere in the quake/tsunami zones, is safe. For some lighter news, how was everyone's week? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286360#Comment_286360 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286360#Comment_286360 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:19:18 -0800 longtimelurker
Hope everyone is safe from bad weather.

The picture of Alice's house got to me. And Luke with a blood halo and psychic "wings." Thank you for making images like nothing I've never seen before. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286363#Comment_286363 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286363#Comment_286363 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:26:33 -0800 Carla Speed McNeil Luke was 'just' a rapist. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286365#Comment_286365 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286365#Comment_286365 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:34:58 -0800 smileyfish
Alice, you rock. Finding strength from a place of hurt and vulnerability is an amazing thing. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286366#Comment_286366 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286366#Comment_286366 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:36:20 -0800 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286368#Comment_286368 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286368#Comment_286368 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:03:21 -0800 draxxx
Hope friends, family, and residents in Japan and Hawaii and West Coast are okay. Jokes about Gojira are being officially frowned upon this am. Thanks for a lovely episode. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286371#Comment_286371 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286371#Comment_286371 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:22:18 -0800 staticgirl
Mother Nature is frightening me again today. I hope casualties as are low as can possibly be... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286381#Comment_286381 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286381#Comment_286381 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:46:38 -0800 UrbanAngel This week has been one huge mindfuck. I don't know how things will go from here.
Fortunately 3/4 friends in Tokyo & Sapporo are all right, the 4th hasn't replied yet but he's in Tokyo so am assuming he's fine. One has to walk home as the trains have stopped running and it will take him 3 hours.
Take care everyone. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286388#Comment_286388 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286388#Comment_286388 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:18:49 -0800 WaxPoetic
I am Awake! and yesterday bought tickets to the show of a guy that I've known since I was 6 and haven't seen in 20 years or more.

And Freakangels proves that Alice is win, and level-headed and very (sadly) good at compartmentalizing when in need.

Also - brilliant image on the last page.
Brilliant.

Have we heard from all our Pacific WC'ers? Best wishes to all! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286394#Comment_286394 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286394#Comment_286394 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:50:22 -0800 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286397#Comment_286397 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286397#Comment_286397 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:05:59 -0800 mc2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286404#Comment_286404 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286404#Comment_286404 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:06:20 -0800 icelandbob
Afternoon there. I'm laid at home, feeling unwell and a little sorry for myself. A good episode this week. Luckily don't have any friends on the pacific rim.

Alice definitely is what you call in life a "Do-er", and that's what the Freakangels need. when they are not putting psychic razors through each other minds.... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286410#Comment_286410 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286410#Comment_286410 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:45:09 -0800 SoftSpot
The stream of piss... I never saw the still wet stain of piss being yellow: in the beginning it only shows as a wet, dark section of cloth, nothing more. The yellow only may appear when it dries up. If you don't believe me: just pee in your pants and check it out. ;-)
Their modus operandi is... not very pleasant though, with all that blood splatting around, I don't think Luke enjoys this very much. Suits him good though, he did act wrongly. And it makes me wonder how they're going to deal with Mark, and what that will be like...

My week was a nightweek, so: being active by night and stumble like a zombie by day. The news of Japan only reached me this afternoon, I hope the damage (both in human toll as in material damage) will somehow not be as bad as one can expect from disasters like this... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286416#Comment_286416 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286416#Comment_286416 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:29:52 -0800 Jack the Rapper
I feel much like Alice in this episode. Go, Alice!
Poor Luke, I hope they find something more worthy doing than torturing him... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286421#Comment_286421 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286421#Comment_286421 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:13:04 -0800 Amhuinn
I missed the stream of piss, but went back to look! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286440#Comment_286440 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286440#Comment_286440 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:24:12 -0800 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286453#Comment_286453 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286453#Comment_286453 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:37:29 -0800 razrangel
i've found myself suddenly incredibly busy...sort of. My nights and weekends are completely gone as I have two classes (Japanese & voice) and have taken on stage managing a cabaret. Weekdays I'm free but that's my time to administer the play via email & Google docs, study Japanese, set up my new microphone and learn how to use Audacity and practice reading out loud and scouring ad copy for my voice class. At the very least it keeps me from noticing how poor I am....

FA was a little bit of a vacation from it all, but unfortunately due to the above stress a little bit out of tempo for me. It was interesting looking it over and then feeling lost when the coloration of the trees seemed very odd, as if through a haze. I'm guessing that's what the world looked like to a mind-controlled Alice. She's a good girl, and if I can't quite get her Action Jackson attitude, she does get it done. But I still really like Miki. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286454#Comment_286454 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286454#Comment_286454 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:58:23 -0800 dddrum
Oh, and apparently Luke dresses right. Someone make a note of it, in case we need to find him a new tailor.

(P.S.: That's not a house where younger Alice inhabits the entranceway to despair. The crumbling sign indicates a business ...restaurant? motel? Can you help an ignorant Yank out? Red block letters on white squares... L __ T T ___ -?- _ _ U S E. And a fallen I. Paging Vanna White! ) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286457#Comment_286457 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286457#Comment_286457 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:11:17 -0800 Darkest http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286465#Comment_286465 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286465#Comment_286465 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:51:15 -0800 FC
I was going to go to sleep until I caught wind of the quake pretty much while it was happening, since a friend who lives in north-eastern Japan was tweeting about it. Then there pretty much wasn't anything i could do to get to sleep. I caught footage from NHK via UStream for a while, then switched to the BBC's coverage. It's been a stressful day and I've gotten a bit irritable hearing of small petty dramas and non-news items on news sites in light of this tragedy.

I was relieved to find that all of the folks i knew were over there are safe, but dread to think of the long road ahead of them. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286474#Comment_286474 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286474#Comment_286474 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:08:56 -0800 Purple Wyrm
Regarding the comic I have a creeping sense of doom that Alice is going to burst into the basement, see what's going on and open fire - wrecking everything. And there's still the big threat of whatever scared Mark so bad...

@dddrum - I believe the letters are "L_TT__ _HEF" which would make it a Little Chef. They're usually found beside motorways, so that could be a flashback to Alice's journey south. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286482#Comment_286482 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286482#Comment_286482 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:00:43 -0800 buddharhubarbbutter
Hoping the body count is as low as possible in Japan. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286497#Comment_286497 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286497#Comment_286497 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:53:23 -0800 katrina http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286529#Comment_286529 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286529#Comment_286529 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:04:38 -0800 Paul Duffield Bang on the money on every count! :D Although technically that exact building is now a Starbucks, it used to be a Little Chef, and that felt right. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286539#Comment_286539 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286539#Comment_286539 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:13:04 -0800 chris g \m/ ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286550#Comment_286550 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286550#Comment_286550 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:56:39 -0800 snafu http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286575#Comment_286575 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286575#Comment_286575 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:57:39 -0800 Jack the Rapper If it ends badly, not sure i'll buy book six... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286579#Comment_286579 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286579#Comment_286579 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:22:29 -0800 Purple Wyrm Starbucks Chiswell Green

The disturbingly obsessive Google Earth file has been updated :) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286622#Comment_286622 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286622#Comment_286622 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:17:23 -0700 ceallachan http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286630#Comment_286630 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286630#Comment_286630 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:37:52 -0700 Clarkthehomonculus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286633#Comment_286633 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286633#Comment_286633 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:51:56 -0700 Clarkthehomonculus
Given, our band of psychic misfits can't die, I could see Alice getting fed up and trying to waste the crew for what she perceives as the betterment of Whitechapel...or at the very least Mark, of whom she has a personal disdain for...these guys just can't seem to do anything right...granted,the 'Angels each have separate useful talents beyond their supernatural gifts,Jack's a scavenger/resource provider, Miki's a doctor, Kaz is an engineer, and Arkady does...things...then you have a few who are not in to the greater good thing, just into themselves and such, like Mark and recently Luke, but he seems harmless since they neutered him, and Sirkka, who runs a harem...actually, she is providing a great service that our society seems to frown upon for some reason; calm the masses with orgies! Despite these things, I feel there's a strong case for Alice to stage a coup and to try to usurp the role of leader, through force or reasoning, seeing as how our purple-pupil-protagonists can barely get along enough to tolerate each other, much less act as an organized political junction...they just don't seem mature enough to be in charge of rebuilding society, they certainly seem to be out-of-touch with the general population, that is, with the exception of Sirkka...I see the Freaks more as a peace-keeping or enforcer unit rather than lawmakers...but then again, as we've seen with Arkady and Luke, when traumatic "deaths" occur, the package seems to instill an enlightenment of sorts...so maybe there's hope for our little Republic of Whitechapel after all haha! They could just play a nice game of Russian roulette with a loaded gun, or a literal game of hangman, or even machete tag with each other until they've all reached omniscience...

Also, just HOW powerful is the package? Would they perchance be able to transfer their abilities to "normal" people if they were to reach a powerful enough state? Even if only temporarily...seems a shame not to let Alice in on the noggin faculties if it were a possibility, because she seems in my eyes to be the only take-charge, no nonsense leader-type in the whole assemblage ...Conner was able to upgrade all the 'Angels collectively and from a distance, so they may be able to reach a powerful enough state to where they can "wake up" a normal person's brain...but, then again, maybe the package itself just turns you into a pretentious cock-knocker capable of self aggrandizing and general douchbaggery with a savior/hero-complex...

No really, their efforts are noble and honorable, but without some kind of cohesiveness and leadership, they seem destined to be the architect of their own demise...maybe Mark had the right idea, but his selfishness kept him from realizing that goal...

...ah, just like Mr. Ellis to prod MY brain into doing some actual thinking...and for that I thank him, because between the sex, drugs and rock and roll that my life is embroiled in, I sometimes forget to use that grey matter that is lodged in my skull ...

As for myself, being on the eastern U.S. coast, I guess I have little to fear from the earthquake/tsunami, so thank Odin for that! As for what I been dong, I just returned from an out-of town gig with my band, where, after our set, we were told what I thought was one of the best compliments I've heard about my music; a member of the opening act stated to me that our music seems to be a cross between Tool, Soundgarden, and Pantera! Wow! My ego has officially been stroked...though it is taboo and most musicians frown upon critics and fans comparing their sound to more prominent acts(the case being that most musicians thrive for originality in content,and want their sound to be distinguishable and recognizable from other artist, or at least in my experience it seems to be the general consensus, with the exception of cover and tribute bands... and Puff Daddy), but I'll take that comparison any day...I take all compliments and criticism from anyone, it's all publicity to me in the end...

(Edited to add other thoughts and rants) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286799#Comment_286799 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286799#Comment_286799 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:12:43 -0700 Kealan Really enjoying it, for a while I thought a 13th would show up somewhere. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286836#Comment_286836 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286836#Comment_286836 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:48:44 -0700 Kian
I wasn't disappointed because of anything wrong with the comic itself, but rather the way Luke was treated made me mad at the other FAs. Which itself is commendable of the authors, getting me to actually care about the characters. Kaz's comment that she was bothered that Luke would be healed without punishment is what bothered me the most, I think. Followed by everyone else apparently agreeing shortly afterward.

Now, I admit I had little sympathy for pre-bullet-to-the-head-Luke. At least until... the guy who was watching over him shot him for the lulz (new, don't recall all the character's names yet). I don't care for rapists, or mind controllers, but torturers aren't much better. They're actually about the same, really. They're all deriving satisfaction from exercising some measure of control over another.

Things just go downhill from there. I can understand Alice taking things personally and looking to kill Luke. She got to experience being mind controlled first hand. But what possessed everyone else? Continuing my list of things that just aren't cool, murderers don't get a free pass either. And Jack chose to be that when Luke had done him no wrong and was no longer a danger to anyone. If Luke had a gun, it was because Jack gave it to the other guy, and the other guy was dumb enough not to listen when Luke explained how little danger the water represented.

So Luke gets killed, and drags his body back to Miki's. A changed man, willing at least to recognize how fucked up he was before, and how fucked up he still is. Now I'm not crazy about (helicopter lady, forgot her name too), but she reaches a new low when she breaks a chair on the guy's head because he was 'annoying to listen to'. Holy crap. The guy wasn't even being insulting to others, but sharing the insights that having a hole blown through his head had given him. You'd expect someone could stand through the overly long speech given the circumstances. Maybe there was something of value there.

Then Miki joins in the abuse, and neuters the guy.

So after the guy has been tortured, killed and neutered, Kaz figures he's still not been punished. Up to this point Luke's crimes have been being kind of a dick, two charges of mind control and one rape (and shooting helicopter girl down, I suppose. But apparently she doesn't mind so much, since she refuses to learn how to teleport later). And despite how terrible those crimes are, there is such a thing as too much punishment. And there is such a thing as the wrong punishment.

By this point, why are they even punishing him? It's not about anything he did anymore, but about how they feel. They're punishing him not because what he did was wrong, but because they're not satisfied. They want some closure. The torture might have been enough, only he managed to escape. Death would have been enough, but he lived trough that. Castration should work, but hell, Miki had all the fun with that one. No, they need closure, and a fun group activity.

So what do these morally upstanding, happy shiny people who are trying to learn to solve their problems rather than perpetuate them decide? Let's rape him, repeatedly. Because rape is the best medicine. And it is rape. They're inflicting the experience of rape on him. What's the difference between raping someone with a dick and raping them in the head directly? The experience is literally the same for the victim. Do some people deserve to be raped, so that makes it ok? Even if he deserved it, it still makes rapists of the perpetrators.

Which is why I have mixed feelings going forwards. I can grasp that the characters are flawed, given to excess, not necessarily fair or wise. But I draw the line at 'the protagonists are ten rapists'. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286840#Comment_286840 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286840#Comment_286840 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:29:38 -0700 Amhuinn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286904#Comment_286904 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286904#Comment_286904 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:05:31 -0700 Jack the Rapper http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286914#Comment_286914 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286914#Comment_286914 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:07:16 -0700 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286951#Comment_286951 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286951#Comment_286951 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:32:48 -0700 Kian http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286963#Comment_286963 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286963#Comment_286963 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:19:38 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286971#Comment_286971 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286971#Comment_286971 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:13:13 -0700 Kian
:D ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286981#Comment_286981 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286981#Comment_286981 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:32:54 -0700 Amhuinn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286983#Comment_286983 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=286983#Comment_286983 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:41:53 -0700 razrangel
Glad to know that the creator(s) enjoy our wacky theories, though. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=287012#Comment_287012 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9639&Focus=287012#Comment_287012 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:02:42 -0700 Carla Speed McNeil
Their decision to put Luke through this is a pretty harsh approach to criminal reform, but the alternative is to give him a selective lobotomy. This is how he's wired. You can't just install a completely new mental matrix. It will have to grow from this point forward, with this event existing to slam the door as hard as possible on his past behavior.

It is also entirely your fault, Warren, that I'm dragging out all these old QUINCY episodes. ]]>