June 17th, 2009
Probability of being struck by lighting: extremely low. Probability of being struck by an EMP gun: low. Probability of being struck by an EMP gun operated by an angry, unpredictable girl after you’ve punched her: extremely high.
But, is it an act induced by resentment or a strategic decision? Can EMP rays kill humans or just force a visit to your hairstylist? And did anybody doubt the (now) Christmas tree guy would hack the biggest, more menacing robot? Questions, so many questions. And so little processing power. Does anybody have a spare photonic brain?
See you next Friday, when a new page will be published.
Pencils and inks below. Click to be able to detect photosynthesis in extrasolar planets.
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Well, nobody that saw the drawing preview of the cargo robot doubted he’d hack the biggest one, anyway. Bravo on breaking cliche, by the way, it seems too often the protagonists forget about their real opponent when faced with something big instead. Shoot him first, THEN deal with teh hy00ge.
True. But I have the impression that nobody scrolls down, anyway. And, it was mainly a rethrorical question after all
Glad you like Witty’s reaction. I’m not particularly aiming for a cliche-free story (as it’s been obvious so far) so this scene is mainly the result of having a character like Witty involved. A more “normal” character would probably have dealt with this in a more usual way. Witty, on the other hand, uses to do unexpected things, like that one. She, in fact, uses to surprise even myself, so it’s great to have her around as a character.
edit: And thanks for all your comments. It’s usually quite quiet around here
I don’t find many webcomics with the comment section this integral, and I didn’t have to sign up to post. Most of us have no idea just how many sites we’ve registered for. Name, password, e-mail (which may or may not get passed around due to having to agree to allow it to be shared with third parties for anything to work right at all). I just know that I’ve done it enough that I regard it as an annoyance to be avoided wherever possible.
I see where you’re coming from. Online identification just for commenting can be a pain or too intrusive for some. I tried to simplify this by only forcing you to provide a name, so this may help on that regard. The drawback: it’s more sensible to spam and other trash input. But, so far, the feedback is so extremely minimal that I don’t care (and spam is efficiently stopped by Akismet).
Anyway, I’ve used your comment as an excuse for me to improve this area of the site (which I didn’t pay too much attention so far -code wise-, to be honest). You’ll see quite a bunch of changes and improvements, but probably the most related to your concern is the implementation of OpenID (if you have an account in gmail, yahoo, msn, myspace and almost anywhere you probably already have one). You can still comment with just your nick, though.
I’ll post about this in the News section later, so everybody is informed about the changes and new features.
It probably needs further tweaking, though
With this method you still need to enter your desired name if you want to avoid weird naming.
The identification process is maybe now a bit over the top, but I’ll keep it this way for a while.