chapter 9, page 19
In which Doc reminisces about the 2030s. Did you know he’s technically Gen Alpha? Do you think he’s ever used the word rizzler, or do you think laurence was more likely to have when he was a child since he’s a younger zoomer. If Larry was real he’d be like an annoying little kid on roblox/fortnite right now. Also, Doc’s mom is a millennial. lmao. Well anyway don’t think too hard about this, it’s just a comic.
“just a comic”: Keep in mind, if the universe is infinite and random, then all these characters and the histories you create for your comic *actually exists* somewhere. So really, storytellers aren’t creative, they’re just plagiarizing histories from parts of the universe that aren’t accessible to the rest of us (until they came along to create the link).
I’m sorry to be such a nitpick, but this specific thing is just something that gets me every time. That is not how infinities work. If we take the set of real numbers, we have an infinite set. If we take out all even integers from that set, we *still* have an infinite set, but nowhere in it are you gonna find an even integer. An infinite universe does *not* need to contain all possible events. It doesn’t even need to contain *most* possible events.
Even better: Compared to the possible events the set of the events that do happen in an infinite universe may actually work out to be infinitely smaller — the Lebesgue measure of the natural numbers in the set of real numbers is 0. And the Lebesgue measure of the real numbers inside the real plane is also 0.
I don’t understand this comment, but it’s the most wonderfully nerdy thing that I’m going to compliment you anyway.
Great comment. This always makes my eyebrow twitch as well. Infinite realities ≠ literally everything has happened.
The “Multiverse” theory is entirely and exclusively extrapolated from some exotic math stemming from the quantum slit experiment, and has had absolutely no other evidence for it whatsoever, and there’s other ways to look at the math that don’t require a multiverse. So don’t write so blasted certain about it. Beyond that, it is just the most overused maguffin for lazy writers ever. It was cool in the original “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, but by “Zero Hour” had more than worn out it’s welcome in comics.
” Do you think he’s ever used the word rizzler” – I mean, I think he used every new and old cringe term he could find. After seeing that anti-harassment video from chapter 1 I think? Yeah, yeah he used every cringe term there was for the past 30 years at-least.
Damn, more Doc trauma from his past
To be fair to his daughter she’s probably hyped to have an infamous ancestor, not knowing the full extent of the situation like the fact he is still alive and doing dastardly deeds that any ethics committee would faint over XD The current feelings would change when she is face to face with him lol. Imagine finding out the kind old guy you were talking to is a mass murderer with a past involving biological warfare.
If you look at panel 2 at the wrong angle, the shine looks like a bald spot
Anyway, how is it both a “virus” AND a fungus at the same time? Is this really a new organism altogether that has been engineered with properties of BOTH?
I wouldn’t worry about it. I don’t think he’s being literal. virus just sounds scarier
“How would you like it if I forced you to climb to the tops of tall places where you with cling with a literal death grip until your arse falls apart spilling deadly fungal spores everywhere!”, IS a bit verbose.
How does the quarantine account for the crazy winter weather that comes off from Lake Michigan? Did Orville engineer it with heavy spores in the later generations of the fungi to keep it local, or has something been done to keep the fungi spores from getting into the lake?
I don’t know man, it’s just a cartoon. I’ll leave it to other people to puzzle that out.
Oh goddamnit. Only took me a few days to binge-read the comic again and now I have to wait for updates like some pleb (just kidding I’ll ignore it for a bit and then binge the whole thing again).
Hey Mr. Grundy, if I may be vulnerable for a second I’d like to extend a heartfelt thanks for creating a story that I not only got to discover during a formative time but also return to several years, and then several more years down the line. As someone with an anxiety-riddled memory who’s moved around a lot, having a constant like that is comforting, to say the least.