Hmm! In that case maybe he should have not bothered to bring the topic up. Or is this a hint that Predestination may also be a part of the Narbonicverse? o_O
OTOH, perhaps he foresaw that the student loans would be more trouble then they’re worth and did this as a way of opting out? O_o
Limited Predestination. Apologies for Narbonic Spoilers (at least there is little context for them).
Dave still got dumped by Majel (I think that was her name) at the dive place where she decided to run off with Dave (later of the Council of Five – leaders of the Dave Conspiracy).
HOWEVER – He never started smoking, memories of which was retconned for everyone except him.
Additionally – Artie didn’t die because Dave filled the pool, and thus Helen was never bottled brains at the expanded Arctic Base formerly operated by Madblood.
I could never decide if they were truly canon or not.
I really do wish that the ‘Culture’ Sunday interludes stories had been published with the collections or on their own though. That was referenced on several occasions in the main strip so I’m pretty sure it’s canon. As was the “Helen makes Dave a sandwich”.
Colomon is right, but in “Choose” it was established that they were within much easier driving distance of Carbondale than Fairfax, in a suburb do a major city, and not in Philadelphia, so the most likely places for them to live near were Pittsburgh, which is four hours away, Buffalo, which is four hours away, or New York, which is two hours away.
Ah, but which Carbondale? Nick, coming from Virginia, was between two and three hours away which suggests Colorado or Kansas. (California was under 5 hours. That doesn’t seem realistic for an Osprey, but Nick is an A-Sig upgrade.)
Mummy’s freelance coding gig was in New York [City?], so they weren’t in commuting distance. Of course, with her arsenal and evident personality, the Vivaldis may have found it necessary to move from state to state at least once a year, so they could be most anywhere by now.
They would have to have convinced Jonah’s parent to move as well, but yesterday’s strip establishes that that would not be difficult.
Nick wasn’t coming from Virginia. (He wishes!) He was coming from Florida, where he was in the field with the team for negotiations with the Zombie Queen of the Florida Keys.
UNLESS its a Duncan Idaho blended clone Ghola a’la the books completed by Brian Herbert via his father’s notes. After all – ‘can’t be seen by the seers’ was established by Sonja Atraedies (spelling) and the Duncan Idaho variant who assassinated Leto II at her bequest.
No, he’s not going to work at a grocery store. He’s going to work for an actual giant eagle. The giant eagle believes his tale of time travel, you see.
I read the Choose storyline like two months ago and now the characters are suddenly [from my perspective] the same age as me instead of cute little kids. That’s pretty wierd.
Given his experiences, I’m surprised that he hasn’t upgraded to a wrench multi-tool to provide options for any possibility. Or impossibility, as the case may be.
Mind keeps on trippin’ (trippin’ trippin’ …)
All through the time stream …
Freezer is drippin’ (drippin’ drippin’ …),
Moppin’ up ice cream!
CHORUS:
I work nearby, Giant Eagle!
Mopping floors!
Ay, Giant Eagle!
There’s a clean-up, Aisle Four!
I’ll work at my Giant Eagle
’Til I’m sore …
Nera’s heading to college!
Got rejected!
They didn’t believe in me!
‘Twas expected!
They couldn’t belive I see
Time projected,
Perceived non-linearly!
I get glimpses of knowledge! (repeat CHORUS)
The fact he got flashes of his whole life together with Nera implies that, nope, even if/when he dies of old age he’s going all the way back to the lab for another loop.
(It’s somehow *less* horrifying if I consider that each Jonah dies and it’s only the experience that gets transferred to the next. He’s not trapped in the loop forever, it’s only going to feel like it… er… maybe it’s still horrifying…)
Horrifying? Seriously? The idea of dying and ceasing to exist to me is way more horrifying than going back to my youth retaining all my experiences. In fact, I totally wish I could do that, I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about getting “trapped” being alive.
The only bad part about the whole deal is having to escape from Anasigma, IMO.
I believe he transdated the hydrogoggic wemulator on the panametric fam, causing the hagzon postducer on the vorpal crodite to go into a overse state of romni-torphal flusp
I think his abilities changed after he got out of Anasigma for some reason. Maybe because he’s no longer working towards the same goal [getting out alive] as he was when he got zapped, or maybe because he finally got to the best possible outcome of that set of alternate timelines [due to making the best possible choices], or maybe t’s just a distance from the zappy-portal-thing thing or something. Whatever the cause, it would appear that Jonah now get’s flashes of the outcomes of his decisions instead of getting do-overs. Or maybe that was just a one-time thing indicative of the time powers “leaving his system”. But, even if his powers have stayed exactly the same, the way Sergio explained it, Jonah should only reset if his death is caused by his choices, and then he would go back to the point at which he could change the outcome by choosing differently. So, if Jonah dies of natural causes, it should stick.
Hmm! In that case maybe he should have not bothered to bring the topic up. Or is this a hint that Predestination may also be a part of the Narbonicverse? o_O
OTOH, perhaps he foresaw that the student loans would be more trouble then they’re worth and did this as a way of opting out? O_o
Limited Predestination. Apologies for Narbonic Spoilers (at least there is little context for them).
Dave still got dumped by Majel (I think that was her name) at the dive place where she decided to run off with Dave (later of the Council of Five – leaders of the Dave Conspiracy).
HOWEVER – He never started smoking, memories of which was retconned for everyone except him.
Additionally – Artie didn’t die because Dave filled the pool, and thus Helen was never bottled brains at the expanded Arctic Base formerly operated by Madblood.
Not to mention the “Little Nemo”-style strips.
I could never decide if they were truly canon or not.
I really do wish that the ‘Culture’ Sunday interludes stories had been published with the collections or on their own though. That was referenced on several occasions in the main strip so I’m pretty sure it’s canon. As was the “Helen makes Dave a sandwich”.
Read the ending again. They were canon.
Giant Eagle! Woooo! Did we know that they were from Pittsburgh before this?
Giant Eagle doesn’t even narrow it done to Pennsylvania — have shopped at one repeatedly visiting my wife’s grandfather in Ohio.
Colomon is right, but in “Choose” it was established that they were within much easier driving distance of Carbondale than Fairfax, in a suburb do a major city, and not in Philadelphia, so the most likely places for them to live near were Pittsburgh, which is four hours away, Buffalo, which is four hours away, or New York, which is two hours away.
Ah, but which Carbondale? Nick, coming from Virginia, was between two and three hours away which suggests Colorado or Kansas. (California was under 5 hours. That doesn’t seem realistic for an Osprey, but Nick is an A-Sig upgrade.)
Mummy’s freelance coding gig was in New York [City?], so they weren’t in commuting distance. Of course, with her arsenal and evident personality, the Vivaldis may have found it necessary to move from state to state at least once a year, so they could be most anywhere by now.
They would have to have convinced Jonah’s parent to move as well, but yesterday’s strip establishes that that would not be difficult.
Continuity? Who needs continuity?
I have no idea about US geography, but if it helps, this says Jonah’s house is in the east coast.
Nick wasn’t coming from Virginia. (He wishes!) He was coming from Florida, where he was in the field with the team for negotiations with the Zombie Queen of the Florida Keys.
Nick and Unity were back from Florida before the Once and Future arc. In Choose, Nera traced him to Virginia.
non nova sed nove — 21 balloons! Ah, the memories.
“Those who remember the future are condemned to repeat it.”
Those who see the future are seen by the future.
UNLESS its a Duncan Idaho blended clone Ghola a’la the books completed by Brian Herbert via his father’s notes. After all – ‘can’t be seen by the seers’ was established by Sonja Atraedies (spelling) and the Duncan Idaho variant who assassinated Leto II at her bequest.
No, he’s not going to work at a grocery store. He’s going to work for an actual giant eagle. The giant eagle believes his tale of time travel, you see.
You say that flippantly; but remember where you are. With this crew, that is an actual possibility.
Well, he is a “Dave”
Why not work at a grocery store owned by a giant eagle?
Union problems. The UFCW won’t negotiate with birds of prey.
I read the Choose storyline like two months ago and now the characters are suddenly [from my perspective] the same age as me instead of cute little kids. That’s pretty wierd.
He still has wrenchie!
Of course. He even eats breakfast with it.
Given his experiences, I’m surprised that he hasn’t upgraded to a wrench multi-tool to provide options for any possibility. Or impossibility, as the case may be.
Maybe he’s too broke to pay his way through college.
“I went time-travelling and forgot the damned lottery numbers”, maybe?
(TUNE: “Fly Like An Eagle”, Steve Miller Band)
Mind keeps on trippin’ (trippin’ trippin’ …)
All through the time stream …
Freezer is drippin’ (drippin’ drippin’ …),
Moppin’ up ice cream!
CHORUS:
I work nearby, Giant Eagle!
Mopping floors!
Ay, Giant Eagle!
There’s a clean-up, Aisle Four!
I’ll work at my Giant Eagle
’Til I’m sore …
Nera’s heading to college!
Got rejected!
They didn’t believe in me!
‘Twas expected!
They couldn’t belive I see
Time projected,
Perceived non-linearly!
I get glimpses of knowledge!
(repeat CHORUS)
I wonder if he is still dying and “resetting” (and having to escape over and over), or if he’s just referring to his past ability to do so?
I think he either can’t do it anymore, or he gets levels through some technobabble like ‘local nodes of quantum temporal entwinement’
The fact he got flashes of his whole life together with Nera implies that, nope, even if/when he dies of old age he’s going all the way back to the lab for another loop.
(It’s somehow *less* horrifying if I consider that each Jonah dies and it’s only the experience that gets transferred to the next. He’s not trapped in the loop forever, it’s only going to feel like it… er… maybe it’s still horrifying…)
I really finds another save point soon
Sorry, that was supposed to be “I really hope he finds another save point soon”
Note To Self: Re-read and then post
Horrifying? Seriously? The idea of dying and ceasing to exist to me is way more horrifying than going back to my youth retaining all my experiences. In fact, I totally wish I could do that, I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about getting “trapped” being alive.
The only bad part about the whole deal is having to escape from Anasigma, IMO.
I believe he transdated the hydrogoggic wemulator on the panametric fam, causing the hagzon postducer on the vorpal crodite to go into a overse state of romni-torphal flusp
Oh no! You mean he forgot to reverse the polarity?
I think his abilities changed after he got out of Anasigma for some reason. Maybe because he’s no longer working towards the same goal [getting out alive] as he was when he got zapped, or maybe because he finally got to the best possible outcome of that set of alternate timelines [due to making the best possible choices], or maybe t’s just a distance from the zappy-portal-thing thing or something. Whatever the cause, it would appear that Jonah now get’s flashes of the outcomes of his decisions instead of getting do-overs. Or maybe that was just a one-time thing indicative of the time powers “leaving his system”. But, even if his powers have stayed exactly the same, the way Sergio explained it, Jonah should only reset if his death is caused by his choices, and then he would go back to the point at which he could change the outcome by choosing differently. So, if Jonah dies of natural causes, it should stick.
Don’t point out sad Fridge Horror to me unless you want me to fix it with careful analysis and the power of logic~!~
How exactly do you think the universe is going to distinguish between a death “caused by his choices” and one that isn’t?
Oh I’ve definitely seen weirder students on college campuses.
Maybe he just had trouble getting a scholarship.