It could be a good way to get the catatonic survivors to flee towards their ship.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Ha, wasn't intentional, I assure you.
Okay, the Pazcats
are starting to look a little too much like Villain Sues.
That could be quite cool actually. Remember how Reality is basically a reconstruction of Mary Suetopia? Doing the same with Villain Sue would be perfectly fitting.
I guess your saccharine idealistic heroes need suitably vile villains to fight. But the odds are looking a wee bit too hopeless here. There's a reason we have the trope Only the Author Can Save Them Now.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hmm, Heroic Sacrifice from Stripe? She's certainly something of a tragic hero, it would be fitting.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"You know, for a webcomic supposedly on the far Idealistic side of the Sliding Scale, it sure is capable of some of the bleakest situations
I've ever seen. You know, the kind that you'd never throw your own characters into unless you knew the only way they could get out of it.
edited 7th Dec '11 7:08:25 AM by Tropernovan
Hey, buddy! Play this game!Well, based on the latest update
, it seems that the Pazcats are not going to just Kill Em All, but they plan an unnecessarily elaborate and cruel torment For the Evulz. This will hopefully give our heroes a chance to turn the tables. I imagine that the ultimate point will be to see if the Realists can maintain their faith in the face of what is essentially an entire race of Complete Monsters.
edited 7th Dec '11 7:08:17 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I wish this comic was more widespread, because I would love to see some comics Follow the Leader with the way it gets laid out. Clicking to go from one panel to the next works really well, especially for a comic like this.
On another note, I expect Big Damn Heroes.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.Hey! That's sexist! >:(
Reality, I am disappoint.
Also, I kinda sorta want it to go back to the whole social commentary thing juuust a little more, that was one thing setting this comic apart from the rest. I can get a rag tag bunch of heroes fighting unlikely villains and surviving deathtraps anywhere.
TBH, the fact that this comic not only does that but also throw its social commentators into dangerous bleak perils meant to test how much they uphold the ideals they preach gives it a whole niche of its own. It did this back in the Magic World arc, and it did it again with the summit disaster too.
Aha.
That's the break we were hoping for. And at least it isn't a Deus ex Machina like I feared.
Ah, far less hopeless. Interesting to see how AV's examination before going to Reality was too.
Hey, buddy! Play this game!Yeah, really seems like the Paczats are pretty decent towards their own. Nice touch, undermining their Always Chaotic Evil standpoint like that.

Why, no, I don't think she wants to walk away from Omelas.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)