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[PA Comic] Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - Sand, Part Eight
Geth
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Hurrah for a sentient spaceship keeping it's shit together for once.
Just kind of lost...
I'm probably wrong but that's just my read right now.
It seems like it's all about to come together.
Well, the next panel will probably be the ending and will probably tie it all up. The space part happened before the "old west" part. The "old west" is actually an alien planet, and something that happened between the crash and the cowboy's arrest has something to do with the AI. I don't know everything in specific detail, but there have been a few people in other forum topics for previous pages that explain some of what happens.
It has been mentioned before. This "separate thread for each day" makes keeping all the questions answered difficult.
This seems like a pretty tenuous connection, given how prevalent the various elements are ("wild west in space", "leave earth to find a safer home", "cryogenic sleep to travel great distances"). Heck, Firefly could be argued to be about "people leave earth in search of new homes, only for terraforming to fail and things become the wild west". I'm not denying 100% the possibility of inspiration, but I do see a trend with animes where people claim everything with a similar aesthetic is a copycat, despite it being a tried-and-true formula being used by both (This got ridiculous in the case of Pacific Rim).
The arcship with its passengers in cryosleep crash-landed on this desolate planet...or it seems in this comic like the ship ejected its cargo of sleeping passengers and that was what crash-landed. The controlling AI went nuts or was damaged in the crash and began creating bizarre messiah-like figures as a result of misinterpretation of the Bible.
Also thanks for the kind comments I'm really happy so many of you are enjoying it:)
I was just coming in to see if someone had pointed it out. Though I doubt our hero(?) has three guns, the spaceship, ai, and sand planet are all really similar. Good to hear it was by accident
Yea, If you're at all down with Anime, I'd highly recommend watching Trigun. It's one of my favorites and is a short concise 1 season long (on netflix too).
It's good to know that you haven't seen it since this arc does seem to have a lot of similarities. I'm excited to see where your story goes.
We are! (And you should read Trigun. In your copious spare time.)
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Hahaha, so you guys just accidentally duplicated the basic premise of a popular 90s anime?
That's pretty great, actually.
In any case, I'm excited to see how this all ends up. It's really great so far!
Some of the best storytellers of our age got their rep not by doing anything "original", which is actually a damn high bar to clear, but by combining the familiar in new and interesting ways.
Given this, it's inevitable that some people are going to end up having similar ideas without being at all aware of each other, just by drawing on the same common reference pool.
As many as you need! You're making me love the Sand world as much as I already love Lookouts and Automata.
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