Argh, I should have clued in about the fact that the page with the doctor wasn't posted, but I was up against the page limit already. I did figure it was something like that with the authorities, though.

That's a useful insight about the similar but subtly different title and line about dreaming machines.

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"That's a useful insight about the similar but subtly different title and line about dreaming machines."

It's a shame I kind of missed some of the differences, as per runespoor7's comment below.

"I did figure it was something like that with the authorities, though."

I said that assuming that the cops and SWAT teams you refer to between scans are legitimate and knew what android-Spirou was. It's kind of a dark thing to do in a Spirou story, isn't it? Having authorities be evil by philosophical error?

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Best I can figure, the cloning was justified simply as "the march of science" and progress and so forth. Not really sure what they were doing with the clones, presumably studying them and then destroying them. The scientists didn't seem to recognize him as human, and even the cop who was Spirou's fan showed no hesitation in trying to shoot the Spirou look-alike on sight.

I like the volume, but I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be the new direction of the series.

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Well, they're not calling replica-Spirou as clone (even Spirou), they use words such as 'replica', 'android', and IIRC there are points where the art calls into question his being a living being of flesh and blood - his 'blood' looked like there were tiny particles in it.

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In the scene posted with the lab, it gave me the impression that the things in the tubes are 'blank android' shells, rather than growing clones.

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That all makes a lot of sense. I guess I shouldn't have used "clone" as shorthand for "duplicate" after all.

Still makes more sense for a Clone Saga than the Spiderman version.

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"The scientists didn't seem to recognize him as human, and even the cop who was Spirou's fan showed no hesitation in trying to shoot the Spirou look-alike on sight."

Something that's nicely summed up by the "machine that dreamt" line. What I meant to say was that even if that's not a portrayal of those people as consciously evil, it's still pretty dark.

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