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Nov 2016

Chapter 11: Page 16 - Firewalls Overridden

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Because SOMEBODY (me, it was me) had to go and make Seba change stuff at the 11th hour, inks for now, colors later ;)

Posted another “Review Daemon” webcomic critique this weekend.

Also, week six of the Spider Forest Comic of the Week. Two more great comics from Spider Forest you should check out :)

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Trapped in a wolf’s body an imprudent prince must escape his current condition before a war he carelessly set in motion razes his country.

Two brothers versus one zombie pirate holding a very big grudge against their father.

Two brothers versus one zombie pirate holding a very big grudge against their father.

  • Adriano

    Not nice >:c

  • T.R.

    Senior Goon, indeed. He *should* have grabbed Lilly and told Angeline that Lilly would be spared if Angeline co-operated and didn’t make a fuss. And then iced Lilly *after* Angeline’s tragic accident. But M makes a rookie mistake, and there goes his chance for Goon of the Year. :)

    I wonder what Jane and the others are going to do when they arrive? I don’t have any specifics, but the phrase “God is coming, and she is pissed!” comes to mind.

    And T isn’t at the terminal now, so is he done? If so, what did he do? I’m sure we’ll find that out soon enough.

    • T.R.

      IIRC, Jane was able to clear Tenzin a path to Victor’s room when she wanted to - by hacking doors and locks so that security couldn’t stop him. And it appears that there were firewalls and autonomy protocols in place at that time? What’s she going to be able to do now that those limitations are cleared?

      Or did they add those *after* her assist to Tenzin?

    • NickDA

      Yeah he’s a bit twitchy IMO… just writing off a leverage pawn… although he makes it pretty clear to Angeline that there is no way out of this that doesn’t involve violence.

  • Honza Prchal

    How quickly he was demoted from senior goon to merely Senor Goon … which comes with drastically reduced life expectancy.

    • T.R.

      So he should just put a red Oculus shirt on and make it official? :)

      • Honza Prchal

        I actually thought of adding a red shirt reference, but figured the mixed metaphor, and college football double entendre, was best left out … now, I’m just pleased you mentioned it.

  • T.R.

    Wait! Maybe HAL is the mastermind behind the conspiracy? And Angeline has just opened the door for him to go all Skynet on the folks at Minerva?

    • dun Dun DUNN!

      Let the conspiracy theories flow through you!

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        The Machine Song will be heard.

        • Hornet

          Hal is not running the conspiracy, he is however about to go all Skynet/Ed209 on these fools.

    • It would make a pretty brutal AI box experiment…

  • Graham Fluet

    Can anyone transcribe the command? I can see “Override” but the rest is mostly unreadable

    • Heh, I can read but, but I have an advantage ;)

      If no one else does by tomorrow (10 points up for grabs!) I will XD

  • “Override Oracle firewalls and autonomy protocols A821.3 through A821.77”

    I think that’s what it reads… not sure about the autonomy… but the rest I’m pretty solid on.

    • Close, very close ;)

      AB, not A8.

      • Not bad for reading backwards through a really see through font! :P

  • Hmm…I usually adore Seba’s art, but I feel like the expression in panel three looks a little silly. The pinprick eyes don’t work so good and the mouth seems too far down. (I’m sorry senpai!)
    On the other hand, the next-to-last panel is awesomely menacing and with them actually aiming to kill Lily, I stand my my suggestion of siccing AM on them more than ever. Just sayin’.

    • heh, I actually liked a lot that panel :P … but maybe its too much for the tone of the comic. I appreciate any well meaning critic

      • Amberlight

        While this third frame looks nice and funny I have to concur that it looks a bit out of the general style. Might cut it out for a reaction picture though:P

      • It’s always a balance between “serious serious times” and laughs and goofiness. I generally think we don’t have enough goofiness in our comic, which is probably why it felt out of place. Maybe the answer is MORE goofiness XD

        • T.R.

          You have a fever, and prescription is more goofiness?

      • Might just be me being picky. Nobody else seems to dislike it, so…

  • T.R.

    Hey Dan,

    Quick question: How did Lilly get into that room? That door isn’t the door to the hall. (which is to her left, and off-panel to the right from our perspective)

    IIRC, Angeline tucked in Lilly at her personal quarters (which appear to be separate from the lab). So Lilly just popping out of an interior room of the lab seems…unexpected based on what we’ve seen so far.

    Am I just getting too picky on how Seba is representing the lab? Or is there more than meets the eye going on here? (dun dun dunh?)

    • Heh, a bit more. Remind me to tell you when the scene is all done, if it hasn’t cleared up.

      • T.R.

        Hmmm, I can’t tell if that “bit more” is a small bit, or a large bit. We’ll find out…

        Looking closer, the elevator to the mezzanine level is in the side room. And that’s a pretty narrow door - not suitable for moving big deathbot parts. So there’s likely another entrance to the side room. Maybe Lilly is used that entrance? (though it’s likely locked, so she’d need some way through that, and I’m not sure Angeline would grant Lilly 24/7 access to the lab)

        There could also be a separate entrance to the mezzanine level, but then why have the elevator? IMO, the whole layout of the lab seems inefficient with the elevator/mezzanine/spiral stairs - though it did provide M with a dramatic entrance to the scene a few pages ago. :)

    • there was an original design for the lab and it was adapted for the story, but we think a lot about this kind of stuff

      • T.R.

        I didn’t think it was an oversight, but didn’t want to discard the possibility. Looking forward to finding out what happens over the next few pages.

  • Only a little bit ;)

    • Henrik Svantesson

      And in the time before they were re-leashed, they coded borderline-AI programs and unleashed them across all networks they could access with the express purpose of preventing all harm of coming to anyone in the lab, ever again, weee!

      Or some other really, really unpredictable response from a being an order of magnitude more intelligent than you, but potentially afflicted with unforeseen priority conflicts, wee!

      Really, the AI controlling the deathbots is downright benevolent in comparison - his hostility and desire to escape is apparent and his ability to empathize with humans and predict their responses is minimal in comparison to Jane or HAL.