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A birthday party! Jesus, I've been saying it all along.
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Sep 13, 2014 20:56
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The box is a cooler filled with Mountain Dew.
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Sep 13, 2014 21:03
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The evidence for that is pretty damning at the moment.
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Sep 14, 2014 22:22
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All you people saying she's going through all these stupid hoops just to kill some mooks should be supervillians. And never, ever be writers.
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Sep 14, 2014 22:24
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Poison Mushroom posted:All you people saying she's going through all these stupid hoops just to kill some mooks should be supervillians. And never, ever be writers. I'm gonna quote that if she ends up killing them.
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Sep 14, 2014 23:34
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Please do. If I am proven wrong, and her killing them ends up happening, AND well-executed, I will eat all the crow I deserve. But I'm pretty sure that's not what's going to happen. It's just far too much of a detour and pacing slowdown just to accomplish "yes, Moonshadow is evil".
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Sep 15, 2014 00:07
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Did anyone else read the alt-text as a continuation of the last panel?
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I'm an idiot, news at 11.
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Sep 15, 2014 00:46
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Poison Mushroom posted:Yes, the alt-text that's always either author comments or a joke is definitely a giveaway of what's about to happen next. 
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Sep 15, 2014 00:50
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Poison Mushroom posted:Yes, the alt-text that's always either author comments or a joke is definitely a giveaway of what's about to happen next. Yes pointing out that the Alt-Text that is literally the artist asking us to visit her at SPX, which just happens to coincide with Moonshadow revealing that she's super famous is definitely saying that someone thinks that that's what is actually going to happen.
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Sep 15, 2014 00:53
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I don't know how, I just somehow completely misread that post as "didn't you guys read the alt text in the previous page?". I have no idea how.
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Sep 15, 2014 00:57
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She could just be showing off to make them to the line as well, but I am still going for "Outright murdering". Also, it's probably the artist, but she seriously does not look like she is in shape, unless he meant training and getting in shape with cupcakes.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:13
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Hollismason posted:Also, it's probably the artist, but she seriously does not look like she is in shape, unless he meant training and getting in shape with cupcakes. Really? To me she looks like she's muscular but wearing a track jacket.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:29
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Hollismason posted:She could just be showing off to make them to the line as well, but I am still going for "Outright murdering". I've seen a fat dude who liked to do long distance running run down a skinny dude and beat his rear end for messing with him. Just because you don't have a low enough body fat percentage for well defined muscles doesn't mean you're not in shape. Roy Nelson could probably beat up most of the posters in this thread without a significant delay in his scheduled cupcake consumption. 
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Sep 15, 2014 22:12
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Hollismason posted:She could just be showing off to make them to the line as well, but I am still going for "Outright murdering". It looks to me like that's what her body-type looks like when she's really fit. Athletic bodies don't all look alike, we've just become conditioned to expect them to look a certain way.
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Sep 15, 2014 22:15
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Maybe she's giving them some of her cupcakes.
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Sep 15, 2014 22:24
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Yeah, it looks to me like "stocky, but in good shape". The panel where she's folding her arms makes her look a bit floofy, but I think that's just supposed to be the suit. Keep in mind that Moonshadow used to look like this, too: 
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Sep 15, 2014 22:31
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New page http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-5/page-46-3/ She's just going to murder them all
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RickoniX posted:She's just going to murder them all "From a guy who mowed down a family of five in Fallujah?" They're all so dead.
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Sep 16, 2014 12:49
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Yep, they're hosed.
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Sep 16, 2014 12:57
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Poison Mushroom posted:Please do. If I am proven wrong, and her killing them ends up happening, AND well-executed, I will eat all the crow I deserve. I haven't said anything about it being well-executed. This chapter's going to be #KillAllMen: the webcomic.
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Sep 16, 2014 13:01
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Moonshadow's justification (which is pretty much what we assumed it would be) is easy to juxtapose with Alison's recent conversations with Brad and Pintsize. When giant robots are attacking the city and demolishing buildings with their pincer claws, it does seem like a good idea to have a bunch of people visit them with some extrajudicial beatdowns. But that activity isn't fundamentally different from what she's doing right now; she's deciding who represents a threat, selecting an appropriate punishment, and dishing it out without consulting anyone. The main difference is in the degree of threat and the proportionality of the response, which is something that's kind of down to the individual anyway - maybe Moonshadow thinks teenage rapists are actually MORE dangerous than the giant robots in the long term. I wonder what Pintsize is going to think when he finds out. He and Alison could easily end up blaming each other, since she's using Pintsize's methods (vigilante justice) to attack some of Alison's targets (social ills).
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Are you guys just completely ignoring everything she's saying? When you compare yourself to the people you're talking to, it's generally not because you're about to kill those people. Most serial murderers don't have that kind of self-awareness. For one thing, her entire schtick is that someone has to ask her to murder the people. She wants to make 100% sure that whoever she's killing deserves it. As a government agent, she's had to kill her fair share of people too. She outright says it in the final panel of the last update, she's killed terrorists without a trial. She is comparing herself to these men, who also have had the experience of being government agents, who also have a history of doing what needs to be done despite the rules, and who she's just demonstrated are good without being good enough to take her down. All that just so she can kill them? No, no, I'm afraid the truth is much simpler. Birthday Party. 
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I still think it's fifty-fifty on being murder-time or recruitment pitch.
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Sep 16, 2014 13:47
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" And now that the moral philosophy of what I am doing is out of the way, let us enjoy some post battle cupcakes"
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Sep 16, 2014 14:02
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I really hope she just has a good sense of humor and didn't just pull a serious "all men are rapists".
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Pavlov posted:I really hope she just has a good sense of humor and didn't just pull a serious "all men are rapists". I think she's saying that calling rapists innocent boys is a misframing of the situation
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It is different because a family of 5 in Fallujah is a family of brown people, they don't count; 4 young white male local football star players do (maybe just one had a varsity jacket on, I'm not going back to look).
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The guy didn't say innocent. He just called them boys, which they absolutely were. By saying they are rapists and not boys, she is dehumanizing her victims. I am sure the soldier dehumanized that family, quite possibly through racism as Molybdenum suggests.
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This is what happens when a bunch of impressionable teenagers start kicking in faces and get government funding and unending media fawning for it. Edit: I don't think she's calling them rapists because they were dudes. She's calling them rapists because they raped a girl. That was a whole big thing. Alopex fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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Pavlov posted:I really hope she just has a good sense of humor and didn't just pull a serious "all men are rapists". "You think the police would let me just run around killing people indiscriminately? That's their job!"
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It's interesting how vocal she's being in this scene. From everything we've seen before, she's supposed to be the quiet one. Maybe that doesn't apply when she isn't with the team.
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She's been taking a few speech classes at the local community college. It's really helped her self-confidence.
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Pavlov posted:I really hope she just has a good sense of humor and didn't just pull a serious "all men are rapists". Man I can't believe that there are people who actually managed to read that line like that. She said that because "boys" carries an connotation of innocence to it, whereas "rapists" does not, which makes it more accurate. Jackard posted:Also this Well that one's for real, but she lives in America so it's mostly pretty accurate.
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I like how this is unfolding so far.
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ChairMaster posted:Man I can't believe that there are people who actually managed to read that line like that. She said that because "boys" carries an connotation of innocence to it, whereas "rapists" does not, which makes it more accurate. Well, she's being pretty strangely tongue-in-cheek this page, its hard to tell exactly how serious she's being about any of it (except, perhaps, for the last bit). If she's serious about the cop bit, its not too much of a stretch to think she might be serious about the "boys, rapists, technically different" bit.
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howe_sam posted:I still think it's fifty-fifty on being murder-time or recruitment pitch. Yeah, I'm still not sure which way this is going.
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I think it's more interesting that of course she'd be a complete psychopath since apparently she's been killing people for the last few years. I found that pretty interesting, I wonder if Allison has killed anyone.
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Hollismason posted:I think it's more interesting that of course she'd be a complete psychopath since apparently she's been killing people for the last few years. I found that pretty interesting, I wonder if Allison has killed anyone. Yes, she's killed intentionally and accidentally in the course of this strip, we don't even know her full body count from her mercenary work.
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