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Post by Sky Schemer on May 31, 2024 22:15:50 GMT
"I am free! Free from the chains of...my own...creation...Ah, CRAP!"
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Post by arf on Jun 1, 2024 1:47:52 GMT
Getting vibes:
"Such free. And move. Are all distortions like this?"
"Like... what?"
"So much bigger on the inside."
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Post by hp on Jun 1, 2024 2:05:36 GMT
It's amazing how (IMO) Tom Siddel started the comic in a more cartoonish/expressionist style, went more realistic along the years (as he honed his skills I suppose), and now is going back to a somewhat more expressionist/ economic style.
I wonder if it's a common thread of artists an people who like art. I'm also an illustrator and designer (and a lifelong comic fan), and I noticed both in craft and reading I started by liking hyper-realism and trying to mimic it (not very succesfully I admit LMAO), then "outgrew" that taste.
Take Death of Superman for instance. When it came out in the 90s I used to love Dan Jurgens', Tom Grummet's and Jackson Guice's art but hate Jon Bogdanove. The dude had a heavy expressionist style reminescent of "mature" Romita Jr, way before his wild years LMAO.
Nowadays I look at that comic and I consider Bogdanove the best of the bunch. Not sure if he aged well or if it was myself
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Post by blahzor on Jun 1, 2024 13:50:56 GMT
first thing she did as a NP was go drink some oil |
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Post by sgleysti on Jun 1, 2024 22:04:24 GMT
One interesting data point on whether Omega is a new person or just looks like one is how the new people and Omega look in the ether. In 2825, you can see the chips in the new people, near where the heart would be. In 2853, Omega doesn't have one. That makes sense, since she never was a robot...
"my body has long since died, but the distortion allowed me to form a new one." –Omega ( 2947) This makes me think that she didn't go through the process that the new people underwent to obtain a body. |
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Post by Hatredman on Jun 2, 2024 2:27:15 GMT
So Omega is free, does that mean she has been being used against her will for a period of time? Does she wish to stay in this distortion and not go back to the real world where she is being used for whatever purpose? I think it's not the "being used" part that bothers her, it's the "i can hear everything" (just like Zimmy). |
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 2, 2024 14:02:56 GMT
Renard does not understand. Fortunately this time the explanation is not cut short by Annie injecting "No... I understand."
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Post by Hatredman on Jun 2, 2024 16:38:48 GMT
Getting vibes: "Such free. And move. Are all distortions like this?" "Like... what?" "So much bigger on the inside." TARDIS? |
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Post by arf on Jun 3, 2024 3:56:52 GMT
... Idris. (who is, in case someone doesn't know, the personification of the Tardis in 'The Doctor's Wife.')
Omega's situation has a similar feel to it.
The questions I can see coming is whether and how she will act to preserve her new found freedom.
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Post by blahzor on Jun 3, 2024 4:59:16 GMT
Unrelated to all of this but where is King Robot. The world needs to know
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Post by Hatredman on Jun 3, 2024 7:06:51 GMT
Nobody seemed to like it, but I did: the art in this page is superb. Omega's hair is gorgeously blow by the wind.
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Post by laaaa on Jun 3, 2024 8:55:36 GMT
And I'm wandering if this was all an extremely patient attempt on her part so she could live normally, although that seems unlikely. I'm wondering that too. In the flashback scenes, she was dead-set on living long enough to " reach the event." Nothing was said about why she wanted to. At first glance, the phrasing "should not be" suggests disapproval, but maybe it's just a statement of fact rather than a judgment ("this breaks causality in several different ways, interesting"). I guess it is a stretch to think that Omega knew how the distortion would affect her, since by definition it's an event that was impossible to predict accurately... We'll see. I'm thinking it's a stretch mainly because I'm under the impression that the distortion is a temporary thing. Unless she has a way to make it permanent, I don't see much point to it. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 3, 2024 15:15:52 GMT
I'm wondering that too. In the flashback scenes, she was dead-set on living long enough to " reach the event." Nothing was said about why she wanted to. At first glance, the phrasing "should not be" suggests disapproval, but maybe it's just a statement of fact rather than a judgment ("this breaks causality in several different ways, interesting"). I guess it is a stretch to think that Omega knew how the distortion would affect her, since by definition it's an event that was impossible to predict accurately... We'll see. I'm thinking it's a stretch mainly because I'm under the impression that the distortion is a temporary thing. Unless she has a way to make it permanent, I don't see much point to it. The cruise ship's new body wasn't finished, but what was finished was permanent without any further actions from Zimmy. It's not the exact same situation, but I think it counts as a precedent. |
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Post by Gemminie on Jun 3, 2024 15:54:29 GMT
I'm thinking it's a stretch mainly because I'm under the impression that the distortion is a temporary thing. Unless she has a way to make it permanent, I don't see much point to it. The cruise ship's new body wasn't finished, but what was finished was permanent without any further actions from Zimmy. It's not the exact same situation, but I think it counts as a precedent. Yes, Kat destroyed it after the distortion was over, so it persisted after the distortion. |
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Post by Gulby on Jun 4, 2024 14:28:31 GMT
Also - I am wondering as the "future" got more erratic from Omega's "omniscient" view - what did she know of Robot? Of Shadow? She triggers Robot's confession by saying " I want to see" and her curiosity took her off the sidelines to run up to make the statement. If it is a statement of genuine curiosity - what did she know of Robot ahead of time? Or is Robot ALSO a major blindspot for Omega? I would think this is related to the fact that if Antimony had died that night, Robot would have been, probably, destroyed (again). So no Kat worshipping, no New People, no nothing. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 5, 2024 6:07:23 GMT
So Omega is free, does that mean she has been being used against her will for a period of time? "I am free! Free from the chains of...my own...creation...Ah, CRAP!" Free of her original situation. A physical equivalent would be falling into a very noisy and near-bottomless chasm, with impact at the bottom being the only visible way out. When an option to try and steer from this into an unknown (and less noisy) path by grasping convenient vines eventually presents itself… well, at some point being cut to the bone in process may not look like too high a cost. I'm under the impression that the distortion is a temporary thing. Unless she has a way to make it permanent, I don't see much point to it. It’s repeatable, however. |
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Post by yellowb on Jun 5, 2024 14:53:57 GMT
Also - I am wondering as the "future" got more erratic from Omega's "omniscient" view - what did she know of Robot? Of Shadow? She triggers Robot's confession by saying " I want to see" and her curiosity took her off the sidelines to run up to make the statement. If it is a statement of genuine curiosity - what did she know of Robot ahead of time? Or is Robot ALSO a major blindspot for Omega? I would think this is related to the fact that if Antimony had died that night, Robot would have been, probably, destroyed (again). So no Kat worshipping, no New People, no nothing. Robot's body was made into paper clips after that, but his CPU was saved. "Criminal behaviour is to be studied." So maybe Kat would have broken into the robot storage place and got Robot's CPU. |
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