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02/07/2014
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02/07/2014

Feb07
by Aaron on 2014-02-07 at 12:01 am
Issue: Issue 49: Captain Holmes

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  1. Bitstream
    2014-02-08, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Poor guy. Probably the only thing ever felt like actually accomplished in his whole life.

    He’d probably be better off if he actually WAS 8 years old, come to think of it.

  2. tahujdt
    2014-02-08, 11:51 am | # | Reply

    Of course it would be that.

  3. Prairie Son
    2014-02-08, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    And now Forak’s dirty secret is officially out.

  4. GeekLady
    2014-02-08, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

    Zodon really is an evil genius.

  5. Rock
    2014-02-09, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    *facepalm* I have no idea right now what it’ll take to turn this guy into an adult, let alone a hero.

    • Prairie Son
      2014-02-09, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      Social interaction should help with the first, given that he’s been pretty sheltered. For the second, to be honest, I don’t think he wants to be a hero.

      • BloodPlum
        2014-02-09, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

        I’m pretty sure he definitely doesn’t want to be, the real question is WHY are they making him be? Why can’t they just find another FISS who is actually qualified to take Atlas’s mantle?

        • WaytoomanyUIDs
          2014-02-10, 5:03 am | # | Reply

          Because this poor schmuck will do whatever the military do, whitout questions, perhaps? Non of those pesky moral debates.

      • Z Reporter
        2014-02-10, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

        He is blow average super on his planet and everyone else their tried to kill him (for no reason). The only friend he had was properly the computer and now he is stuck on a planet where the new people in charge want to send him against people that will properly want to kill him (For an actual reason). At least the playstation gives him respect.

  6. =Tamar
    2014-02-09, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

    Herschel seems to have a lot of experience with kids. He may work out a cure for Forak’s learned helplessness. Anyway, those game wins actually are Forak’s only independent achievements. His familiarity with starships is the result of training; he had to learn to do the games.

  7. Kat
    2014-02-09, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

    >.> Did anyone else just notice that the Revenant seems unwilling to talk to Cecil? We’ve seen him fighting dinosaur people, hanging from a rope, and dealing with gods knows what else while advising Moonshadow. What is he doing now?

  8. Somebody
    2014-02-10, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I’ve seen swearwords in the comments, and given the context of the comic, don’t you think it would be hilarious if there was some filter that replaced any swearing with random dictionary words? 😀

    • Leonidae
      2014-02-10, 2:20 am | # | Reply

      Brilliant! Especially right now with the Zodon ark.

      • WaytoomanyUIDs
        2014-02-10, 5:05 am | # | Reply

        I’m pretty sure there are a couple of WordPress plugins that do that. I know John Scalzi does that to persistent trolls, before banhammering them.

        • GeekLady
          2014-02-10, 7:21 am | # | Reply

          Bah. Scalzi and I have the same bad comment behavior penalty? As much as I love PS238, I may have to shift over entirely to running obnoxious comments through the Swedish Chef generator instead.

  9. Matthew Davis
    2014-02-10, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I can’t wait to find out who is troublesome enough for the Revenant to admit he’s busy. I’m thinking either whoever the Joker analogue is, or the government — specifically the IRS.

  10. adsfasdf``
    2014-02-10, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    holyshit Revenent is a bit busy…considering whats been background to their conversations before what the hell could be going on!

  11. adsfasdf``
    2014-02-10, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    *Revenant

  12. LittleSallyDigby
    2015-03-02, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, um…

    Who says Forak’s definition of “achievements” is the same as Zodon’s?

    “I will erase all of your achievements”, lowercase-a, no context specified, actually sounds like a credible supervillain threat- not “I will delete some data from your hard drive” but “I will destroy all evidence of your existence”.

    If Forak misinterpreted the latter as the former, that doesn’t mean he’s an idiot to be cowed. It means he’s been the victim of an error in translation… or he’s been so worn down by his life back home that he doesn’t think he *has* any achievements that aren’t of the Playstation variety.

    • Daibhid C
      2022-09-26, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

      This kind of seems the wrong way round to me.

      If Zodon had actually threatened to wipe Forak’s Playstation data, and Forak had misinterpreted it as an actual threat, I could see where you’re coming from. But obeying because he thinks Zodon threatened his Playstation achievements makes him just as easily cowed whether it’s what Zodon actually meant or not.

      (Also, apparently if you have the print comics you can just about make out the threat, and he does specify that he’s talking about the Playstation.)

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