Oh what the fuck. I've got exactly zero clues as to how this will unfold. Getting proved wrong every other comic during 4U City Red made me give up on predicting.
Likes many underrated webcomicsIt seems like she should have had better opportunities to thwart Torg's plans for Hereti Corp than this, but this arc has drawn on so long I'm not positive on that.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.So... just catching back up with Sluggy, and I run by this
. (I then finish the comic before coming to comment on it, so no spoiler worries on my account.)
Scenarios running through my head include:
- "Two Zoes!" plus "Where's Gwynn then?"
- "Ancient History Girl picked up modern culture and friendships awfully fast."
- "Gwynn and Zoe just changed places but then Zoe's reaction makes no sense...."
- "Wait, did Gwynn go back in time and then live on for like millennia?"
...so I'm really not sure where this is headed.
I do hope it runs past and clarifies/deals with (in an interesting way) the Cloning Blues I've felt from the Zoe death arc. I mean, yeah, you can often just replace a character with a clone and move on in a story with as much comedy and out-of-nowhere elements as Sluggy, but Sluggy is still a bit too centered on continuity and character drama for that to work here.
My understanding of that arc goes like this:
- Zoe honestly dies, but her body is maintained.
- Her physical mind gets replaced with an identical copy of what her physical mind had been a short time prior.
- It's the Transporter problem all over again. Zoe has been replaced with an identical copy that is not the Zoe we have grown to love. It's little different from if she were replaced by a copy from another dimension. (I can't seem to find the right EGS strip to comment on this.)
- However, the Sluggy universe demonstrably has souls, which might mean that the real Zoe has been there all along, but her physical brain got repaired enough to get the soul back to its job of being Zoe. This actually makes the situation more hopeful and more confusing at the same time.
Anyway, I'm not sure what to think but it looks like the conversation here has been stagnant for a few months so hey, let's give this a shot.
(By the by, I liked (and still like) Sasha too. Which made her arc all the more gripping. And I'm hoping this isn't the end of it... but I really like how things have gone so far, avoiding Easily Forgiven.)
edited 12th Apr '13 11:23:05 AM by Kilyle
That's more-or-less what I've been thinking about this arc, yeah, although honestly at this point I'm just waiting for the story to finally, finally, conclude. I mean, I honestly believed that after Zoe was back we'd finally start moving towards a conclusion, but...
deviantArt | TwitterIt's honestly not that popular here, or really anywhere anymore; I can't speak for the entire fandom, but it feels at this point like most of the people still reading are just waiting for it to end, you know?
deviantArt | TwitterDunno, I enjoy it. The three month Archive Binge was fun when I first started reading it 2-3 years ago. I hope it lasts. :D I was sad to find out that Oceans Unmoving was cut due to fan dislike.
edited 6th Jun '13 7:05:51 AM by googlebot
“You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and embarrassment to others.” -Mark Manson.It's weird how this is a huge Long Runner but it has little fanbase outside of its own forums. Personally, I have to catch up. I kinda dropped it sometime after Sasha's betrayal.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.But that's the thing, isn't it? Will it end? I mean, back when I started university the comic was at the point where Pete was talking about how the ending was in the foreseeable future—no more than two, three years is what I remember hearing. But here we are, five years later and...I don't know, sometimes I just think that this is one Gordian Knot which'll never get fully unraveled.
deviantArt | TwitterThen again, how is "end" being defined? I mean, as I recall the K'Z'E story was supposed to have been ended, but Vowely is popping up again in the current storyline.
With the in-universe acknowledgement of multiple universes, it's not exactly difficult to drag something back into play if a whim calls for it.
^^ Pete implies he has a really long endgame, but that we are very slowly inching towards a conclusion. What with all the plot threads starting to tie together into one big plot, I'm starting to believe.
^ I don't think the KZK storyline was ever really over. Even in the older strips it was always made clear that their defeats of KZK weren't permanent and that there were more fragments all over the place. The last time he showed up there's a conclusion where his allies point out that even though he's been annihilated here, they can still raise him and it'll just take more time.
edited 6th Jun '13 9:16:28 PM by KnownUnknown
Yeaaah, its kinda bizarre how this comic seems to have fanbase on its forum only .-. I read it and enjoy it and only reason to not read it I suppose is that its reaaaaaaally old comic. It was fun archive binging it long time ago and I was sad when I reached new updates since I couldn't do that anymore.
In tribute to Robot Chicken, Sam shall arise from the sewers. (After a monsterish BRB.)

...WELP.