Seems that this administration _will_ negotiate with terrorists. Thank Cthulhu for that, because I didn’t saw any other solution to that bacteriological attack (other than self-immolation, of course)
Not terrorists. They were minding their own business, when they got kidnapped and held prisoner. They might not have even realized that their worlds were intelligent, until they were taken prisoner. Imagine if humanity suddenly realized that Earth was intelligent, and pissed at the damage we were doing. Welcome to the virus’ point of view.
Pretty sure his change of wording had nothing to do with Jared being black and everything to do with wanting to, uh, “dehumanize” the enemy. Which is a dumb word to use considering the enemy was in fact not human, but you get what I mean. Make them seem like targets instead of people. And here, Jared apparently has stopped thinking of the virus as a thing, and started thinking of it as a person.
maybe it wasn’t human but it was humanoid. look in any D&D book for there list of races and many of them aren’t human even if they can hook up with humans.
He _is_ doing his duty. Got a smarter than usual thingy — try negotiating. It might be able to coexist with humanity. Or it might be able to make us smarter.
Interesting thought – is there a limit to how much smarter this thing becomes as it mutates? Or is it about to pull a Blood Music* manoeuvre? In which case we’d avoid the super-flu-is-now-our-teammate scenario as it achieves a viral Singularity and ascends to a higher plane, it’s last act in this universe being to fix all the harm it did by pressing Ctrl+Z a few times on reality, rendering this whole arc cannon-but-redacted-from-time… hence the line numbers.
*Blood Music is a story by Greg Bear, in which virally-engineered white blood cells become sentient. Heartily recommended reading, even if it turns out not to have been the inspiration for this arc!
Bouncing off of Kim’s and Dan’s idea – even if its a short term truce, Jackalope might just be an incredible cure for ever disease you could think of – our bodies are reactive to invasion – I bet Jackalope can be much more proactive about something else invading its host. That maybe how they try to cure Rick.
It also may be that Jackolope-as-Rick is the betrayer in question…
Yup, he was gonna say “races” but stopped – I believe that was Jones’ way of convincing himself that the beings he killed and imprisioned were just monsters, sentient or not. You know, like soldiers in war try not to think of the “enemy” as another soldier with a family waiting for him back home.
They’re just going to recruit everything they can into AEGIS from now on. Just you wait, this time next year, the team will consist of a blind old women, one possessed toaster, a sentient sponge, and a talking dog. Campbell’s going to blow our MINDS.
Seems that this administration _will_ negotiate with terrorists. Thank Cthulhu for that, because I didn’t saw any other solution to that bacteriological attack (other than self-immolation, of course)
Ok, this is awesome really awesome! Love seeing new insight into Jared’s past and state of mind.
Was his cousin “Johnny Cognomen”? Okay short story. Lousy film adaptation.
“5 of 2”
Now that is funny.
Not terrorists. They were minding their own business, when they got kidnapped and held prisoner. They might not have even realized that their worlds were intelligent, until they were taken prisoner. Imagine if humanity suddenly realized that Earth was intelligent, and pissed at the damage we were doing. Welcome to the virus’ point of view.
I’m curious what word Jones almost said instead of paranormal beings. Was it races?
Wait. Hold on. He FEELS BAD for the DISEASE? What in the flying trapezes of hell? This is definitely not a development I saw coming.
If the intelligent supervirus gets RECRUITED AS A MEMBER OF AEGIS, I will shit my pants.
BAM.
Most likely Animaniac.
And that’s a bad word to use around an African-American, considering the whole Civil Rights Movement and the Separate but Equal Doctrine.
Pretty sure his change of wording had nothing to do with Jared being black and everything to do with wanting to, uh, “dehumanize” the enemy. Which is a dumb word to use considering the enemy was in fact not human, but you get what I mean. Make them seem like targets instead of people. And here, Jared apparently has stopped thinking of the virus as a thing, and started thinking of it as a person.
He might actually get along well with MechTech.
“It’s >out< duty to…"
Typo. 😮
maybe it wasn’t human but it was humanoid. look in any D&D book for there list of races and many of them aren’t human even if they can hook up with humans.
That’s what i keep saying – racism should’ve died out by now and got replace with specieism
He _is_ doing his duty. Got a smarter than usual thingy — try negotiating. It might be able to coexist with humanity. Or it might be able to make us smarter.
Interesting thought – is there a limit to how much smarter this thing becomes as it mutates? Or is it about to pull a Blood Music* manoeuvre? In which case we’d avoid the super-flu-is-now-our-teammate scenario as it achieves a viral Singularity and ascends to a higher plane, it’s last act in this universe being to fix all the harm it did by pressing Ctrl+Z a few times on reality, rendering this whole arc cannon-but-redacted-from-time… hence the line numbers.
*Blood Music is a story by Greg Bear, in which virally-engineered white blood cells become sentient. Heartily recommended reading, even if it turns out not to have been the inspiration for this arc!
Dan, I think you’ve just had read T’s mind!
He was probably going to say Rejects.
Bouncing off of Kim’s and Dan’s idea – even if its a short term truce, Jackalope might just be an incredible cure for ever disease you could think of – our bodies are reactive to invasion – I bet Jackalope can be much more proactive about something else invading its host. That maybe how they try to cure Rick.
It also may be that Jackolope-as-Rick is the betrayer in question…
Also, this page makes me miss Desmond. Especially later-days, Hawaiian Shirt-wearing, Here’s All Our Stupid Secret Documents Desmond.
Yup, he was gonna say “races” but stopped – I believe that was Jones’ way of convincing himself that the beings he killed and imprisioned were just monsters, sentient or not. You know, like soldiers in war try not to think of the “enemy” as another soldier with a family waiting for him back home.
@LockeZ: “If the intelligent supervirus gets RECRUITED AS A MEMBER OF AEGIS, I will shit my pants.”
If it DOES happen, let it not be forgotten that I totally called it back in the comments for the last strip.
They’re just going to recruit everything they can into AEGIS from now on. Just you wait, this time next year, the team will consist of a blind old women, one possessed toaster, a sentient sponge, and a talking dog. Campbell’s going to blow our MINDS.
Locke, if they were effective at all, the team you just came up with would be one of the awesomest things ever.
Also, I’d approve if T used it as a background brick joke. Keep you eyes peeled in about 7 months, or until we timeskip.