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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-22 21:43:00

Entry tags:

char: deathblow, creator: alan moore, creator: jim baikie, publisher: wildstorm, series: when alan moore was crap, title: deathblow byblows

When Alan Moore was crap (Deathblow: Byblows, Part 2)
And here's the second half of the mini-series that introduced Moore's new Deathblow to the Wildstorm universe.

To recap, a bunch of people, all with the last name Cray, find themselves waking up on an alien planet. None of them have any memories of a previous life.

The little kid Cray leads Geneveive to the empty town he found so that she can get some clothes.

In town, they have run-ins with a Cray who's a teenager (I think. It's not too clear) and the cyborg Cray again. The teen runs away, while the cyborg is knocked out.

She chases after him. Just as she has him cornered though, someone comes up behind her.

The two find some decapitated heads.

Judgment Cray wants to add their heads to his collection, and he's too powerful for them to take on, so they run for it.

Caleb gets killed. Still being hunted, Geneveive flees through the PEPCO man-hole thing we saw earlier.

She gets into a skirmish with security guards, during which Judgment shows up.

Not sure what just happened there. Not sure what the liquid is, but how dangerous can it be if it's being pumped into the clone tanks?

Geneveive escapes the facility. It turns out to be underground and to lead to a walled-up construction site on the surface.

Okay, I do like the ending, on these last two pages here. If they had happened at the beginning of the mini-series or at the end of the first issue, it would have made for a much better story, I think

Oddly, there's never any explanation for why Geneveive experiences the original Deathblow's memories in her sleep.

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	(Anonymous) 2009-08-23 06:30 am UTC (link)
	This situation seems like something Picard would have wrapped up within 50 minutes... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xamda 2009-08-23 07:20 am UTC (link)
	I had to. It was just so relevent! (Reply to this) (Parent)

box_in_the_box
2009-08-23 07:44 am UTC (link)

Of course he would have. Clones aside, this is, in many ways, yet another THE HOLODECK FUCKS UP episode, and since roughly 90 percent of what went wrong with the Enterprise-D was the Holodeck, I'm sure it would feel like familiar ground to him.

On that note, if I were Fleet Admiral of Starfleet? First order of business would be to remove every fucking Holodeck from every fucking ship. Yes, it's a nice stress-reliever, but so is Internet porn, and Internet porn comes with the added bonus of not becoming sentient and trying to kill the entire crew once every five fucking episodes.

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	interrobamf 2009-08-23 07:51 am UTC (link)
	Internet porn comes with the added bonus of not becoming sentient and trying to kill the entire crew Stranger things have happened in Star Trek. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-23 07:54 am UTC (link)
	The future equivalent of Internet porn actually HAS put the entire crew at risk, but once again, only because it was being filtered through the Holodeck, which was basically an Ego Masturbation Chamber for everyone from Barclay to LaForge to Picard to even Data. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xamda 2009-08-23 08:50 am UTC (link)
	Remember when Janeway slept with that Holodeck character? And other people were in the Holodeck at THE SAME TIME? I'd say that counted as actual porn. Flippin' 'decks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-23 08:53 am UTC (link)
	... I had actually forgotten that shit, but thank you for fucking reminding me. I masturbate to porn of Spider-Man's Aunt May, but Janeway is such ANTI-sex that imagining her naked is like the mental equivalent of Salt Peter. I'll post some more May pr0n soon, and dedicate it to you, just for that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xamda 2009-08-23 09:02 am UTC (link)
	noooooooo~ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-08-23 11:15 am UTC (link)
	It was her angsting about having sex with a holodeck character, when Chakotay is all "Well, it always works just fine for me", that raises that episode to new levels of... "Eeeewwww" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xamda 2009-08-23 11:31 am UTC (link)
	So.. who do you think has to clean up the spills left behind? Eeeeeeewwwww. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shanejayell 2009-08-23 07:53 am UTC (link)
	LOL Tho one wonders how often this happened on OTHER ships. Maybe the Enterprise was just jinxed? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

box_in_the_box
2009-08-23 08:10 am UTC (link)

Or the other ships didn't report it, either out of embarrassment or because having their masturbation fantasies manifest as tangible holograms was not deemed a "malfunction."

As either Mike Judge or Scott Adams said, a Holodeck would be the worst invention ever, because it would be guaranteed to be the LAST invention ever. A VR joy-can that can simulate any experience you could ever want? Why the fuck would you EVER do anything else?

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	dimesfornickels.wordpress.com 2009-08-23 08:15 am UTC (link)
	“If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.” -Dennis Miller (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-23 08:37 am UTC (link)
	Even better: Star Trek takes place in A MONEYLESS FUTURE. It wouldn't even cost $19.95. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-23 11:17 am UTC (link)
	Unless you're Ferengi, or are a member of Starfleet which somehow manages to deal with an economically obsessed culture like the Ferengi, and somehow does it without money. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blakeyrat
2009-08-23 03:03 pm UTC (link)

The funny thing is that the Federation doesn't have money (apparently), but in like half the episodes where they need something, they end up trading for it. And in at least one episode, they trade sex slaves for it (Mudd's Women.) So they don't use money, but they *do* use barter, the thing money replaced... hm.

It seems like it would save a whole lot of trouble if they would just carry money around in the first place.

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	icon_uk 2009-08-23 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	The existence of replicator technology precludes any standard economy being functional. And they never did explain why replicating "gold-pressed latinum" wasn't viable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blakeyrat 2009-08-23 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	IIRC, the original series didn't have replicators; those were invented before Next Generation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-24 12:04 am UTC (link)
	There's a hint that they had something akin to replicators in "And the Children Shall Lead Them", when a simple data card instantly produces very specific flavour combiantion of ice-cream And the holodeck debuted in the Animated Series. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-08-24 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	Holodeck malfunctions are just the equivalent of Evil Sentient Computers in the original series--whatever technological bugaboo is circulating around at the time. Now, you'd probably have Evil Sentient Twitter menacing the crew. Also, there are plenty of porn sites out there with trojans, browser exploits etc. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shanejayell 2009-08-23 07:05 am UTC (link)
	I'd assume some of Cray's memories were implanted in each clone. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-08-23 07:38 am UTC (link)
	One of her memories was of the original Deathblow's final moments before his death, so I don't think that would work. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-23 08:50 am UTC (link)
	... Wow, Alan Moore. I mean, I know you were writing this for a paycheck and all, and I don't blame you, but I never realized that, in one plot point, you'd actually been outwritten by the scriptwriters of The Sixth Day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-23 11:20 am UTC (link)
	There's another fairly recent movie the scenario of the mindscape is also reminiscent of, but since the reveal is a major twist of the plot, I'm slightly scuppered by not being able to mention it by name. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-08-23 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	Just use the blackout text mentioned in the profile http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/profile (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blakeyrat 2009-08-23 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe the city is still in the VR and this is all a replay, so the computer running the whole thing has access to Deathblow's memories and there's a bug and-- ok I've officially spent more time thinking about this than Moore did. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-08-23 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	Unless of course they had something in his head that recorded everything until he died? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dimesfornickels.wordpress.com 2009-08-23 09:35 am UTC (link)
	As it has been said: "You can't polish a turd, Beavis." I think this series of posts is proof that even Alan Moore lacks the ability. (Reply to this)

	taggerung301 2009-08-23 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	huh . . . i kinda found this interesting dunno if this is really crap work from Moore (Reply to this)

	silvercatmon.livejournal.com 2009-08-24 07:24 am UTC (link)
	Woman wears dress and it rips and no T&A?! I'm stunned. (Reply to this)