That happens a lot as the subject gets farther away from the viewer. We saw it even when we had first met Virginia. It’s not that eyes are hard to draw at that distance, since the drawing is done on a much larger scale than the image here, but such details get blurred and obscured when it’s shrunk down to this size, so there’s not as much reward for the time it takes to do it. And unless their eyes are doing something expressive, it doesn’t add anything to the scene.
Y’ever watch the movie The Avengers, where Uma Thurman is stuck in the Escher-like stairway, and no matter which way she goes, she ends up back at the same landing?
…which is lifted from the original Avengers episode “The House That Jack Built”, where the same thing happens to the actual Emma Peel, Diana Rigg.
Talking of classic British TV, similar ideas have been used in Doctor Who a few times (my favourite versions involve two TARDISes being inside each other, or one TARDIS being inside itself).
This isn’t tempting fate. This is standing in the lightning storm wearing aluminum foil with a target painted on your front yell “come and get me!!!”. She already tempted fate with her lunch “buddy”, this is just acknowledging the consequences.
One of the most effective torture techniques is to lock someone in a small room for at least six months, with a neon light constantly on. Nothing else.
The subject can not complain about the treatment, as nothing is actually done, and it doesn’t leave any scars either.
But do remember to keep them fed.
For extra points you can ask them if they are mistreated in any way or have any other complaints at increasingly infrequent intervals.
They are sure to forget their own name or where they are after a while.
Sounds like Dr. Lee recognizes the environment as some sort of VR?
Honestly mymoney is on “something weirder than just VR” at this point.
Makes sense. You don’t make the same kind of tree for an environment, you make 2-3 species of tree. But an orchard? Same tree.
she’s starting to realize it’s a VR!!!!
How long before Whimsey’s smiling, homicidal minions reveal themselves.
Look for the Cheshire Cat in one of the trees.
At which point she gets hit with a walnut, distracting her.
Extirpation is carefully planned.
someone was LAZY programming the environment
Did they at least get the moon in the right direction?
Yeah, but the stars are obviously just a tiled repeating texture
And show through the dark portions of the moon.
https://xkcd.com/1738/
And does the moon phase change correctly as days pass?
in programming, that’s called “efficiency”
Gasp! Panels 1 and 4! Her eyes are gone!
It’s starting!
Or maybe it’s just an art choice.
That happens a lot as the subject gets farther away from the viewer. We saw it even when we had first met Virginia. It’s not that eyes are hard to draw at that distance, since the drawing is done on a much larger scale than the image here, but such details get blurred and obscured when it’s shrunk down to this size, so there’s not as much reward for the time it takes to do it. And unless their eyes are doing something expressive, it doesn’t add anything to the scene.
Wild guess: she wanders through the Forest of DOOM, and all paths lead back to the beach, even those that are directly away from it.
Y’ever watch the movie The Avengers, where Uma Thurman is stuck in the Escher-like stairway, and no matter which way she goes, she ends up back at the same landing?
Another comic I read does something similar:
http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=875
So did one I read.
(Junji Ito, Uzumaki)
…which is lifted from the original Avengers episode “The House That Jack Built”, where the same thing happens to the actual Emma Peel, Diana Rigg.
Talking of classic British TV, similar ideas have been used in Doctor Who a few times (my favourite versions involve two TARDISes being inside each other, or one TARDIS being inside itself).
Cloister Bell!
The Cliffs of DOOM would no doubt be worse: start at the bottom (or top), make a heroic effort to climb up (or down), and get exactly nowhere.
It would be a break from the tedium if there were a Doom Minigame of DOOM. I’m sure she’s up for killing a bunch of demons.
Aisle 666, the saltwater taffy and sea shell store.
Oh Virginia… You should know better than to tempt fate at this point.
This isn’t tempting fate. This is standing in the lightning storm wearing aluminum foil with a target painted on your front yell “come and get me!!!”. She already tempted fate with her lunch “buddy”, this is just acknowledging the consequences.
Extirpation isn’t torture in the CONVENTIONAL sense, it just frustrates you to death.
One of the most effective torture techniques is to lock someone in a small room for at least six months, with a neon light constantly on. Nothing else.
The subject can not complain about the treatment, as nothing is actually done, and it doesn’t leave any scars either.
But do remember to keep them fed.
For extra points you can ask them if they are mistreated in any way or have any other complaints at increasingly infrequent intervals.
They are sure to forget their own name or where they are after a while.
This is why solitary confinement, as routinely practiced in American prisons, is torture.
For a variation see “The Borders of Infinity” by Lois M.Bujold.
Perhaps, instead of VR, this is some sort of Daphne and Apollo/Forest of the Suicides scenario.
They never promised her a rose garden. Just walnuts.
At least polishing her shoes is now optional; at least it appears so.
I’ll tell you now
No ifs, ands, or buts
Newton had his Apples
and Lee has her nuts.
Hah, hah!
I see she chose “due east”
Given her choices, I’d have chosen the forest too. Then again, I live in a forest, so it’s a little bit different.
“If I were king of the forest…”
I think Virginia should open up the husk, just to check that there isn’t a comments form inside it.
“To provide you with quality extirpation service, please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 6….”
“It has to do with walnuts.” Dang, how does this comic manage to feel like an even longer game of dominos than Narbonic?
Ok i have to admit, she was told the truth.
Extripation is just trying to figure out what extripation is BUT WITH WALLNUTS