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2018-09-14

by shaenon on September 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. David B Huber
    September 14, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like Dr. Lee recognizes the environment as some sort of VR?

    • K. Iceclaw
      September 15, 2018, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      Honestly mymoney is on “something weirder than just VR” at this point.

      • Sir Kay
        September 17, 2018, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

        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.

  2. Tuiteyfruity
    September 14, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    she’s starting to realize it’s a VR!!!!

    • bergerjacques
      September 14, 2018, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      How long before Whimsey’s smiling, homicidal minions reveal themselves.

      • Robert Nowall
        September 14, 2018, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

        Look for the Cheshire Cat in one of the trees.

    • Daibhid C
      September 14, 2018, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      At which point she gets hit with a walnut, distracting her.

      Extirpation is carefully planned.

  3. Tuiteyfruity
    September 14, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    someone was LAZY programming the environment

    • OneUniverse
      September 14, 2018, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Did they at least get the moon in the right direction?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        September 14, 2018, 6:00 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, but the stars are obviously just a tiled repeating texture

        • soft
          September 14, 2018, 10:21 am | # | Reply

          And show through the dark portions of the moon.
          https://xkcd.com/1738/

      • waynezombie
        September 14, 2018, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

        And does the moon phase change correctly as days pass?

    • Frank
      September 14, 2018, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      in programming, that’s called “efficiency”

  4. Owlmirror
    September 14, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Gasp! Panels 1 and 4! Her eyes are gone!

    It’s starting!

    Or maybe it’s just an art choice.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 14, 2018, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      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.

  5. Owlmirror
    September 14, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 14, 2018, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • soft
        September 14, 2018, 10:27 am | # | Reply

        Another comic I read does something similar:
        http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=875

        • jy3
          September 15, 2018, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

          So did one I read.

          (Junji Ito, Uzumaki)

      • Daibhid C
        September 14, 2018, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

        …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).

        • David B Huber
          September 14, 2018, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

          Cloister Bell!

  6. Owlmirror
    September 14, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Bruce A Munro
      September 14, 2018, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Aisle 666, the saltwater taffy and sea shell store.

  7. Urlance Woolsbane
    September 14, 2018, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Oh Virginia… You should know better than to tempt fate at this point.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 14, 2018, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  8. irdburns
    September 14, 2018, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Extirpation isn’t torture in the CONVENTIONAL sense, it just frustrates you to death.

    • BRGR
      September 14, 2018, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • matt w
        September 14, 2018, 7:43 am | # | Reply

        This is why solitary confinement, as routinely practiced in American prisons, is torture.

      • Jim Baerg
        September 14, 2018, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        For a variation see “The Borders of Infinity” by Lois M.Bujold.

  9. Urlance Woolsbane
    September 14, 2018, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps, instead of VR, this is some sort of Daphne and Apollo/Forest of the Suicides scenario.

  10. Robert Nowall
    September 14, 2018, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    They never promised her a rose garden. Just walnuts.

    • OneUniverse
      September 14, 2018, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      At least polishing her shoes is now optional; at least it appears so.

  11. Dr. Steve
    September 14, 2018, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    I’ll tell you now
    No ifs, ands, or buts
    Newton had his Apples
    and Lee has her nuts.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 14, 2018, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Hah, hah!

  12. Frank
    September 14, 2018, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    I see she chose “due east”

    • awgiedawgie
      September 14, 2018, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Given her choices, I’d have chosen the forest too. Then again, I live in a forest, so it’s a little bit different.

      • Robert Nowall
        September 14, 2018, 10:00 am | # | Reply

        “If I were king of the forest…”

  13. s854
    September 14, 2018, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    I think Virginia should open up the husk, just to check that there isn’t a comments form inside it.

    • waynezombie
      September 14, 2018, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      “To provide you with quality extirpation service, please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 6….”

  14. vitupera
    September 14, 2018, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

    “It has to do with walnuts.” Dang, how does this comic manage to feel like an even longer game of dominos than Narbonic?

  15. Codebracker
    September 14, 2018, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

    Ok i have to admit, she was told the truth.

    Extripation is just trying to figure out what extripation is BUT WITH WALLNUTS

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