All right, it’s the end of a chapter and I have a few announcements.
First, I need my customary day off between chapters, so the next comic page will upload next Thursday, June 2nd.
To overshadow that I should mention that I’ve plotted out the end of the story, and I’ve shortened it from my original intentions due to life events. (The original plan was for Burning Day to kick off The Morphology War, which was the title of the third volume. I’ve found a way to skip over most of that war and still end things the way I want them.) The Genocide Man comic will end with chapter 20. Kasey is already drawing pages from that chapter and he’s stepping up to another level for them, which is great.
So thank you all for reading this far! Hold on and ride with me for a little longer — about a year — and we’ll see the ultimate conclusion for Jacob and the gang!
Ah this has been a wonderful ride so far and I look forward to seeing what happens next with the story!
I have to ask, as a big fan of both Indefensible Positions and Genocide Man, will you be doing another comic after GM finishes?
I agree that this has been a great comic.
While I realize that having a bomb go off in a country’s capitol city is typically a bad thing, in many of the locations around the world today it’s pretty much something that happens everyday. Did I miss the scope of how BIG the bombs were? In other words, did Kentaro actually wipe out those cities, or did he just destroy the parliamentary building / dictators palace / presidential estate?
Because in what’s going to sound incredibly insensitive (and probably is), but on a global scale, with 195 countries in existence today, and another 70 some odd disputed regions that consider themselves countries even if they’re not officially recognized as such, depending on who it was, you could probably blow up 30 of them today and on a global scale not have it matter unless it was one of the larger economies. (And depending upon WHICH country you blew up, in the long run it could be a good thing as far as global peace / improving human relations.)
Oh, and I’m not politically correct in any way, shape, or form – just realistic.
Capital: city that functions as the seat of government
Capitol: a building occupied by a state legislature
So those bombs go off on Capitols or on the Capitals? Quite a difference there…a building or a major cities?
Generally, unexpectedly destroying a capital city will collapse the country…Just the 9/11 event froze the whole United States for a week…32 Capitals would lead to total collapse.
Well the political repercussions would be the largest. 9/11 cost money, but it shifted the entire world into a more xenophobic, militant footing. Plus the whole GUS drones committing acts of terrorism/war or worse the “leader of the genetic deviants” doing it…
And just the general loss of life is big in a densely-populated capital city, the follow-up filling of power vacuums leading to a civil war or two, and quite possibly at least one country succumbing to the melty virus because their government collapsed right when they needed it to be efficient and competent to distribute gene-fix pods.
I would not mind seeing the expanded “original” version if your life ever allows for it, but do what you need to.
Saddened to hear this great comic will end in a year. However, thanks a million so far for making this comic this good for a time this long :D!
Nice to have a comic end neatly, so many that I have enjoyed ended with versions of “Have to go to the hospital for an operation, hopefully I’ll be back to work on the comic soon”. And then the years go by with no change.
http://eecomics.net/ for one example 🙁
Hope your life goes well, we’ve enjoyed the comic so far.
Thanks for all the responses, folks! Maybe I’ll change that to say “capitol buildings”.
It should be noted that Roger is referring to aerial bombing from drones. So there’s probably some damage to the surrounding cities.
I don’t expect to do more comics after this; I want to focus on my sci-fi novels, maybe start self-publishing them. But never say never. I’ll have more news about that before the comic ends.
(Are you *that* Nezumi? If so, I’m a fan. 🙂 )
So, this is the explosion Girii was talked my about, right?
There is something to be said for perpetual comics – I’ve enjoyed the hell out of some of the mainstream characters (Iron Man, X-Men, Teen Titans, and the like). But all it takes is one writer who wants to run roughshod over established continuity and make major unjustified changes to ruin that experience. Then there’s the artist / writer who has a great comic, gets a taste of success and drags it out in order to milk it for all its worth (Rumiko Takahashi and George R. R. Martin, I’m looking t you).
I’m finding I’m starting to like “limited” stories more and more – Terry Moore’s work, where he has a story where the main character is utterly new but one or two characters from an earlier comic tiptoe through a few scenes in the comic, is sort of like this.
Failure to Fire was a fun strip but it ended without any warning, which kinda harshed my buzz. The Fox Sister is pretty much over and there’s clearly more story to tell – a splendid example of life overwhelming art.
Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully we can get the whole series into dead tree format at some stage (it deserves it). Eagerly awaiting the closing pages to see how this all ends up.
Oh, and nice touch, adhering to the rule that all AIs go crazy. I’m sure that a lot of folks were pulling for K, but sometimes that tension and foreshadowing has to play out within the “cosmological constants” of the world in order for a story to make sense. It’s also needed to drive home the point of Jacob’s life – just a little too little, a little too late.
Which “that” Nezumi? It’s Japanese for “mouse” or “rat.” It’s a common nick, but one I’ve been using for so long across so many things, I have little cause to change it or discard it.
And sorry for the delayed response, things have been weird for me lately.
There’s a comic creator named ‘Nezumi’. Who mostly does porn. If you’re not her, then nevermind. Welcome to the comic, and thanks for reading!