Dresden Codak

What, no discussion for Dresden Codak? Well, here we go then.

I actually have a question that's bugging me. What Year Is It? The end of the Hob storyline seems to imply that they're still decidedly modern day. But the recent story has them going to some sort of "Earthship" full of cyborgs?

And here I would've thought Kimiko was the only cyborg, because she was maybe one of the few with sufficient knowledge and technology to be able to even build the prosthetics.

edited 11th Dec '10 5:47:54 PM by Jaabi

We had one a while ago; did it get "archived"?

Yeah, there was a link to one from the discussion page in the wiki, but it 404s.

Haven't read it recently, The Hob arc confused me a little bit but damn is the art sweet.

I get the impression that they are something like 20 Minutes into the Future. The new city is some sort of tech meca where prosthetics (and robots, and weird cats) are more common, but outside that city they are strange enough so Kimmy gets self-conscious about her arm.

So much win in one guest strip.

I laughed until I cried.

I see skeletons.

I don't get the joke in Blondie (besides the pun) or I, Horrible.

But that is pretty awesome. I like how they bothered drawing Pig delivering pizza and saying his name.

^That was more or less a normal Blondie strip.

Blondie: the guy's Gaius, the woman's the Cylon agent in his head trying to mindscrew him. But then it turns into a normal "Blondie" strip.

And I think "I Horrible" might be referencing this scene from the film:

edited 16th Dec '10 5:30:33 PM by Haven

I'm racking my brains, but no appropriate scene from the book is forthcoming.

edited 16th Dec '10 6:05:53 PM by HungryJoe

^^Oh. Yeah, that seems possible.

^...what, I, Robot? They're pretty much unrelated.

Sorry for my simple-mindedness, but can anyone explain to me the last part of the Hob storyline (since about where she says, "you really have no idea how it works")? I'm afraid it left me a little confused.

^I'd answer your question, but I need to read the comic again...

and the site is going really slowly. Is anyone else having trouble loading the comic?

Well she's a post-human from a post-singularity society, so in theory nobody from before could understand.

no no no, kim was talking to the time colonists. She was surprised that a post singularity society would have lost it's grips on technology instead of doing the (in her mind) logical thing and merging with it.

Yeah, but I meant, what's up with tiny Hob snake and Kim later as a demigodess or something? Right at home in NGE, that.

She was part of the machine. Another brick in the wall.

By altering the timeline kim hadn't reached that final stage in her research where she began to become "The Mother" but when she fused with Hob her alternate future memories were suddenly accessible and she could see everything. That is what caused her disappointed spiel at the end. as for the Quetzalcoatl the other Hob became, it was him "Reverting to his original form" and regaining access to his own memories and abilities, which if you remember he could access at the time Kim found him.

Tl;DR: "Weird Time Shit"

edited 7th Jan '11 3:12:06 AM by Lanceleoghauni

New, enigmatic page.

And we may get another one soon.

This is exciting.

Clever use of negative space. Also, I kind of want that bag.

What? Dark Science will have two updates within the span of a month? That hasn't happened since the first two pages!

:/

Is this a new Webcomic?

I wonder why nobody's talking about it. It's really good (haven't read it yet)

Nobody talks about it because we're lucky if it updates once a month. When it does update, it's really good.