Reality’s twisted around this thing like spaghetti round a fork.

— Quantum Toast
Chapter 13, Page 9

Chapter 13, Page 9

All right, let’s end this brief trip to the Undernet with a little joke.  Last chapter was difficult to get humor into, what with the mass slaughter and the atomic bomb and everything.  There’s a lot of serious stuff in this chapter, but I hope you’ll find a chuckle or two also.

↓ Transcript
Jacob: If you want me on that plane, I'll need you on it also. Or someone high-value. Just to prove that it's not going to crash and kill us.
Zoey: I'm...being told that will be no problem. I'll meet you at the airstrip. But isn't this a bit paranoid, boys? You really think that someone would crash a plane to get you?
Jacob and Roger: Yes.

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Discussion (4)¬

  1. Sonja says:

    Is she serious about that? They threw an atomic bomb on them!

  2. Zarylo says:

    a plane crash would be a rather quick way to end the comic. I love how they agree unconditionally.
    Now, how would they recognize the editor in person on the airstrip. I doubt they know what she really looks like.
    If they were going to crash the plane however, I don’t see why they couldn’t have made up a destination on the previous page.

  3. Darls Chickens says:

    So, Roger’s _not_ the kind of journalist that reports news stories, that his own editor is so uninformed? Is he just collecting material for his bestseller? And where is Zoey’s news radar? The world focused when just one plane crashed in Ukraine.

    The data tsunami looks pretty cool.

  4. I like to believe that with the very poor network connectivity they have, the *objective* experience here is just a text terminal and the characters are imagining themselves as being in “cyberspaaaace”.