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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#751: Oct 4th 2017 at 7:28:16 AM

Oasis tank revelation and nude puns.

I think that Oasis's innocence depends a lot on what part of her exists before decanting. Do they start with a template? Is it imposed upon them after being removed?

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#752: Oct 11th 2017 at 11:48:34 PM

D'awwwww...

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#754: Oct 16th 2017 at 3:58:39 AM

I think most people wasn't expecting that huh [lol] Agreeing with "I can't believe that worked"

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#755: Oct 16th 2017 at 7:19:26 AM

Oh, I totally expected that. The last thing Torg wants right now is another Oasis running around... not to mention that who knows what the system would do in that case. The worst case scenario Torg had for that was just the door not opening, in which case he could try the desperation ploy.

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SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#756: Nov 2nd 2017 at 5:09:36 AM

Geez, Chen is most annoying magnificent bastard, as long as that lasted [lol]

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#757: Nov 3rd 2017 at 7:18:13 AM

In some ways, I guess that was inevitable - the running question really was which of the victims of Chen's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder would finally be the lucky winner of the "who gets to kill him" lottery.

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SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#758: Nov 5th 2017 at 9:11:50 PM

Huh on inspiration behind Marcus [lol]

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#759: Jan 8th 2018 at 9:41:27 PM

Huh, Oasis is freaking out on background while they are discussing the satellite thing

TwinBird Dunkies addict from Eastern Mass Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#760: Jan 9th 2018 at 2:24:17 AM

So the only emotion they can make her emulate is envy, but we clearly saw something else while she was collecting Riff...

...is Sluggy frickin' Freelance about to do the Power of Love thing?

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#761: Jan 10th 2018 at 2:14:26 AM

Well, as the latest comic shows, she was really going rather far with that loophole abuse [lol]

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#762: Jan 10th 2018 at 6:43:04 AM

You know, stepping back and looking at the comic as a whole, I'm starting to wonder if all of this is the grand plan of K'Z'K'... ahem, I mean Poopy Pants. Because the more I think of it, the more this looks like the actual end of all things... and it all stems from a future version of Dr. Schlock jumping back in time to run from K'Z'K'. What if Schlock wasn't running per se, but instead was herded there by The Destroyer in the first place? K'Z'K' deliberately set it up so that Schlock only had one direction to go, trusting Schlock to take things too far due to his very nature. If all that is true, the comic has been one long Xanatos Gambit (or maybe Xanatos Roulette) to destroy all of reality, and it's just in a much different form than pretty much anyone (except for Riff, thanks to the 4U dimension) expected K'Z'K' to do it. And I wouldn't put it past Pete to have done it.

Also, if that's all true, Zoe's time has come again... after all, she is The Stormbreaker.

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#763: Jan 10th 2018 at 7:45:56 AM

Hm... interesting point. Note that 4U City's version of Zoe was dead, so she wasn't around to break that storm.

TwinBird Dunkies addict from Eastern Mass Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#764: Jan 16th 2018 at 9:10:33 PM

Wh... Sasha is "innocent"?!

edited 16th Jan '18 9:10:55 PM by TwinBird

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#765: Jan 16th 2018 at 10:42:34 PM

Torg notices that before, I suppose its because they are clone bodies controlled by a satellite so they can't really be themselves guilty [lol]

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#766: Jan 17th 2018 at 1:49:13 AM

[up][up] That's not really a spoiler. We've known that "Kusari" was innocent enough to activate Chaz for what I think has been a few years now. Oasis is too.

[up] More likely it's because both she and Oasis have no control over their own lives and thoughts, and are thus literally innocent because they have no agency.

Chaz, I believe, gauges the content of character rather than the blood itself.

edited 17th Jan '18 1:51:12 AM by KnownUnknown

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#767: Jan 17th 2018 at 2:18:21 AM

[up]Well, Oasis was innocent. She just ran someone through with a sword entirely of her own free will.

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#768: Jan 17th 2018 at 6:28:49 AM

Eh, given how Kusari works that isn't necessarily a dealbreaker. She's killing one of the clone bodies, but that doesn't really kill Kusari permanently right? There's a second one in the room even, and an endless supply of clone bodies to follow her; given that maybe it's closer to just knocking someone out than to actual murder.

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#769: Jan 17th 2018 at 10:43:10 AM

That would kind of go against the idea of Chaz. He kills the thing he hits, no matter what it is. If it could regenerate somehow, it doesn't. If it's somehow immortal, it's not any more. It's gone.

My guess has been that as he kills Kusari clones, that consciousness fails to regenerate as its supposed to (to Schlock's astonishment) until at the end of the conflict there's conveniently only one Kusari-at-any-time left.

edited 17th Jan '18 10:43:37 AM by KnownUnknown

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#770: Jan 18th 2018 at 3:01:48 AM

Honestly, I suspect that Chaz is another name and form for K'Z'K (both are destroyers with many names) and that everything not affiliated with K'Z'K is innocent. I could be wrong.

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#771: Jan 19th 2018 at 7:48:04 AM

Huh... intriguing idea. I can think of one potential issue, but even then it requires hair-splitting - when Torg fought zombies, none of them activated Chaz' power... but then, do they even have blood in the first place?

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#773: Jan 24th 2018 at 5:52:11 AM

Huh, ya know this is technically first time in years we see real Oasis now that she is no longer under control of the orders tongue

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#774: Jan 24th 2018 at 6:51:31 AM

Arguably, it's the first time ever.

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#775: Jan 24th 2018 at 7:28:01 AM

And, after the last panel teased that Oasis was still in love with Torg, reality sets in and she's just enjoying a good joke. Or maybe her poor heart is breaking inside as, finally free, she chooses to set free another rather than force herself on him.

edited 24th Jan '18 7:28:41 AM by FuzzyBoots


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