Comments on: Undying forces for good

By: alecho

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:28:43 +0000

hahahaha, zombies can bring lots of things together. Loving your comics!!!!

By: Richard Mongler

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:33:49 +0000

You oughtta watch Maury Povich. The talk show always has 13-15 year old girls who desperately trying to get pregnant.

Yeah, talk about drive to reproduce.

Though Maury sends em to bootcamp always and they always change their minds afterwards.

By: Roo

Sat, 09 May 2009 17:23:06 +0000

HAHAHA.

By: Xia

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:33:34 +0000

If all else fails; I’ll fornicate with myself and beat that record of 9 orgasms in a day. Then my little friend would definitely be sore and hand numb.

By: Matt`

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:34:54 +0000

I’m not sure multiple timelines helps – consider the original films in terms of multiple plot lines.

Original timeline: Skynet rises, John Connor leads the resistance, Skynet dispatches the Terminator to kill Sarah Connor, John sends back Reese to protect her. Each trip through time creates a branch in the timeline, and since they don’t travel together there must be 4 timelines after the 2 branches (1 split where the Terminator arrives, and a split in each of those where Reese arrives… assuming he gets sent back in the future of both branches). So you have the original timeline (no Terminator, no Reese) 2 timelines that each have only one of the time travellers, and one with both of them in.

First off there’s the slightly annoying loose ends left by the timelines that only have one of the two, but that’s ignorable – the movie just happens to be set in the timeline with both of them in. A more serious problem is that Reese arriving from the future puts him in a separate timeline from the one where he was sent back.

This does mean there’s no need to worry if he creates conditions such that he wasn’t sent back in the future of the branch timeline, because he came from the original timeline regardless of the branch’s future, but look back to the original timeline – who fathers John Connor to start with if Reese is in the branched off version of events? John Connor can only cause himself, and close that causal loop, if the whole thing is in one timeline. If the effects of time travel are walled off in branch timelines in a way that makes non-paradoxical sense in most cases then he can’t exist.

Terminator makes no sense, QED. Now, who wants to watch them again anyway?

By: Matt`

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:25:11 +0000

I know, it’s pure plot device. The story needs it, the characters do it, and to hell with what makes sense. They just build so much on top of it that I at least have to respect their balls (founding the whole franchise on something that makes no sense).

On the other hand, the story contains time travel, murderous computer systems and robotic assassins, heavily interspersed with explosions and fighting. If you enjoy that kind of thing (and I have to say I do) then the little niggle of a stupid bit of plot-machination is excused.

By: Ben

Fri, 08 May 2009 07:04:55 +0000

It is part way explained away in the Sarrah Connor Chronicles, which aired on Fox. In the SCC, there are multiple time lines, which results in some characters being killed and others not. Bens last post..Swan River at Night

By: Roo

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:23:44 +0000

And that, Joe, is good writing.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:10:54 +0000

That's my problem with it exactly, the whole story depends on Kyle Reese fathering John Connor by impregnating Sarah Connor in the past. We know that, but Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor DON'T. They don't know when they get to humping that they're closing a massive causality loop, they just think they're supposed to be trying to kill and avoid being killed by a killer cyborg from the future. It's sloppy writing I think, the emotional states of the characters at the moment they decide to bump uglies aren't properly developed, they just have an awkward moment and it's hop on pop. You can't just make your characters do something because it has to happen for the story to work, you have to get them to the point that they'll do it on their own. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post

By: Matt`

Fri, 08 May 2009 01:20:48 +0000

Of course it’s a plot device, it’s the central piece of time-twisting paradoxy to the entire Terminator series – John Connor is the leader of the Resistance, so Skynet sends back a Terminator to kill his mother. To protect his mother, Connor sends a human fighter back to fight the robot, who then becomes his father.

John Connor essentially causes his own existence by sending his father into the past… a closed loop of causality, yes, but equally as possible is the scenario where Connor just doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s his time-bending origins that make him so effective… for that matter, it would explain why the rise of Skynet is supposedly inevitable – if it never happens then no machines are sent to kill Sarah Connor, so John never exists.

Not that any of the Terminator time travel things really make sense, but it’s fun to try and get them into some kind of sensible shape… multiple timelines might fix things, if it weren’t for how 2 people sent back in time end up in the same timeline, instead of separate “branch” timelines… it could be that the film just happens to follow events in the branch of a branch where they both arrived from the future, but it’s a tad unsatisfying when you think of all the other possible worlds where only one arrives (and either Arnie kills a Sarah Connor who would never have fathered John anyway, or the Resistance fighter shows up without there being a Terminator to fight against)

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:31:16 +0000

It always bothered me that in the first Terminator they're running from a killer cyborg and they stop making pipe-bombs to have a sex break. It just seems like a plot device. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post

By: JD

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:32:41 +0000

Hmmm…the only thing I have to add to this is that, yes, I agree it does seem innate within us to want to “get it on” in times of crisis, but I dont necessarily think its with a mind to actually, you know..procreate! Sex is meant to (I say “meant to” here) be the ultimate proof of life, so when faced with death, we choose the other as an affirmation that we want to live. Saying that, a lot of films have fallen to this horses**t and been perfectly ruined…If theres a guy with me, and im surrounded by Zombies..know what I’m gonna do? Use the nearest shotgun, save us both..and THEN have fun !

By: beemoh

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:54:05 +0000

Gunther von Hagens exhibition criticised over corpse sex display
An new exhibition by controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens showing two corpses having sexual intercourse has met with criticism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5289311/Gunther-von-Hagens-exhibition-criticised-over-corpse-sex-display.html

By: Roo

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:15:33 +0000

But it was still hilarious!

By: DmL

Thu, 07 May 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Okay, you grossed me out, great jearb. DmLs last post..iBrawl by Gourami

By: Ben

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:42:41 +0000

I dreamt of bloody zombies last night, and romance. Tho, I must say, it wasn't the normal romance amongst the hordes of undead. Bens last post..Swan River at Night

By: Ben

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:31:50 +0000

Happy Birthday Justine!!!! Bens last post..Swan River at Night

By: Ben

Wed, 06 May 2009 15:27:42 +0000

"Come to the end" Gold. Bens last post..DO Uses cutlery for pizza

By: Ben

Wed, 06 May 2009 15:14:45 +0000

I read this book of short stories once. The subject was mostly death and disasters. One story was centred around a massive subway train accident during a major earthquake. The "main" characters met each other whilst climbing (the train carriage was tilting up) thru torn bodies. They were opposite genders and proceeded to fuck each other amongst the innards of the other victims. If it were the zombie apocalypse, would you prefer to fuck or get fucked? There will be only reason I will be heard screaming "BOOM HEADSHOT!!!!!" during the end times. Bens last post..DO Uses cutlery for pizza

By: Tia

Wed, 06 May 2009 04:22:01 +0000

….
gkthch! AAAAAAH!
GAAAAAH!

By: beemoh

Tue, 05 May 2009 18:39:56 +0000

Just be sure not to mix the two- necrophilia is where baby zombies (or “Zombabies”) come from.

By: Roo

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:12:06 +0000

“…ride out the climax…”

HA HA HA HA

These double entendres are killing me. Though I agree, if I’m gunna be eaten by zombies in the next few days, I’d certainly like to be with someone special to watch the fireworks, as we come to the end.

By: Brandy

Tue, 05 May 2009 16:58:58 +0000

Being a part of a romantic storyline in a zombie movie vastly improves the chances that at least one of you will make it into the sequel.

It’s natural for people to seek comfort in each other in times of crisis. And if those people are sexually attracted to one another, that comfort may come naked. There are worse ways to ride out the climax of civilization.

By: Matt`

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:59:20 +0000

I thought the baby boom was caused by the _end_ of the war – during the fighting all the men were otherwise engaged, and those left behind were probably more likely to not want to bring a child into a world at war (or a world where they’d lost the war).

Once the war was won and everyone came home… well, got to celebrate a thing like that.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 05 May 2009 03:50:58 +0000

Okay, first of all, The Brain was totally giving it to Pinky. It's SUBTEXT people. And to the topic at hand, as awkward as I am, when I'm writing I tend to throw characters at one another and have the universe and a mountain of mutual character flaws keep them apart. I'm currently building a graphic novel around two characters, one who is immature and infatuated with the other who is sadistic and eats people. But of course when the end is close at hand all the complexities of human relationships go out the window and the basest of instincts kicks in, particularly when procreation itself is unlikely, because all the other aforementioned complexities of human relationships evolved in order help people select genetically superior mates. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post