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Penny Arcade - Comic - Ultraswine
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Ultraswine
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a hyper pig in possession of a mercy sphere, must have survived the conflagration."
"Call me Hyperpig."
She only holotransfers creds to his account if he begs on his neograv knees.
But I have no idea what a hyperpig is. Cystypig makes sense - it's a pig with meaty cysts you can eat. What's so hyper about a hyperpig?
Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
Well, I talk about it, talk about it
Talk about it, talk about it
Talk about, talk about
Talk about movin'
Gotta move on
Gotta move on
Gotta move on
A-won't you take me to Thinkytown?
Won't you take me to Thinkytown?
Won't you take me to Thinkytown?
Won't you take me to Thinkytown?
That's my main problem is it often gets abused as a crutch in the stead of proper world building by someone that wants to skip to the "cool explosions" part of the story.
Alastair Reynolds' books have a genetically engineered species derived from pigs to serve as organ donors for some group of humans. At some point some got away. They're also cops in a lot of places.
I personally don't like them but the books are well done IMO. There's no unified humanity but instead lots of different governments, organizations, tribes, etc all doing their own thing across space. Different books are set in places and times that can be thousands of years and light years apart.
That said, I did laugh at the comic.
Jerry talked about Chasm City a long time ago.
So the issue is indeed Gorb starting with a book that's best read after having read previous books featuring the pigs.
Pretty sure Mike has read Reynolds' earlier works. But apparently not Gabe.
This is the third book of a prequel series in the Revelation Space Universe. I know a hyperpig featured heavily in the second one (the main character was his mentor). And I'm pretty sure Mike read the other books in the universe before this series.
Though Gabe has, if you believe in Dreaded Continuity:
Edit: Ah, yes, in that newspost and the comments it definitely sounds like Jerry never read the but Mike has probably read them all:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/05/09/books-and-their-covers
Edit: But apparently he jumped into this prequel series at the end! From Mike's post: Still, I find it hard to believe he read many of Reynolds books and missed the hyperpigs in the other ones. But maybe he didn't read as many as the above makes it seem.
Scorpio isn't in the first of the Inhibitor Sequence books (Revelation Space), but is a significant major character in all the books after it. Remember he's the one who