548 | When the President Talks to God

548 | When the President Talks to God

September 18, 2011 | 9:30 pm, by Pascalle Lepas

Too late.

Next week is a scene change! Who do you think we’ll be joining?



Comments

  • Kiwi

    They look like they’re holding Super Soakers :p

  • Guest

    Man, I was just reading the old archives, and the GEF uniforms sure have changed! Too bad we didn’t see the secretary bot being beheaded again. They just don’t last long, do they?

  •  These are light-combat uniforms. William wears a similar one. The GEF battle armor is alive and well.

  • Steriema

    Ow noes!
    I hope the President can wake up in time to tell them not to worry, as in, before the building collapses. Now the only mystery now is why his fembot would explode by eating hot dogs with Maximus and Feonix, and dropping ketchup on his vest… 

  • Lightsabermario

    They don’t seem to have good eyesight if they didn’t notice the decapitated robot.  I wonder, would either one of them happen to be GEF soldier #347?

  • Kiefler

    Do we get to vote? I vote we cut to Zap, coming back!

  • Astralfury

    Awww the poor robot! That was uncalled for!

  • Whoa, the comic’s going a bit dark side here! All the president wanted was acceptance of his robosexual lifestyle, was that so much to ask?

  • Cromell

    That’s a major security reflex fail :D

  • Hoolo

    Poor Mr. President. That’s one less plot to follow on his side. Though, there should now be a bigger plot for the hijackers.
    I’m thinking we’ll go to either Efrem/Zap or William. Seems appropriate.

  • Wingnut

    Is it just me, or does the pres here seem to have purple blood? A side effect of the dark and cool blue lighting I assume?

  • Psionicost

    And thus ends the reign of Julias Dumbass I

  • Stabbed through the heart!
    And you’re too late!
    You give love, a bad name…

  • I love you.

  • Max played his part
    Feonix played his game
    You give love, a bad name …

    ;)

  • Ramification

    Willst du bis der Tod euch scheidet, treu ihr sein für alle Tage?
    NEIN!

    I guess El Presidente found out.

  • Anonymous

    We are all very surprised by this turn of events.

  • Angela Griffin

    Totally saw this one coming, like four strips ago…
    YAY! He’s FINALLY DEAD! He was such an incompetent president, it was embarrassing just WATCHING him…

  • Amy Thoren

    Yes they do.

  • Safyrejet

    I’m pretty sure we all knew this was coming, but great lead up to the reveal Chris and Pascalle.  I think the blue light sets a good tone and the long shadow from the chair in the window may be a bit of an overused cliche bit, but that’s because it works so well. 

  • Fun Fact: in 2200 Super Soakers got into the laser rifle racket.

  • Grimlock13

    Well, he was still more competent than president Skroob.

  • Abd Al-Azrad

    I’m sure that some will say he died of his stab wounds, but really…  I think he died of a broken heart…  Poor guy.

  • Ok! I’m actually loving the story taking a more darker turn. This should be really interesting.

  • He did die of a broken heart. It was broken by a knife.

    :P

  • Thanks! The last two arcs are a bit more serious. There’s even a couple more deaths in this arc.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure we can put it down as a suicide…

  • Abd Al-Azrad

    That was the joke.

  • Neveko
  • Kaiyenberak

    Not the secretary bot! NOOOOOO!!!!

  • Guilty Carrion

    When the president talks to god…I hope they enjoy a nice long and silly conversation. R.I.P. ya crazy old coot.

  • Zwagon

    Stabbed in the heart? Shouldn’t… it be in a slightly different spot?

  • Neveko

    I think a better question is: why isn’t his jacket ripped if he was stabbed? Art flub? Or perhaps he wasn’t killed by a knife…

  • He wasn’t stabbed with a saw! There would be a single blood-soaked tear in the jacket, obscured by the blood.

  • Neveko

    I didn’t say ripped to shreds, did I? No need to take offense. There just isn’t an obvious rip.

  • Um. Sorry you thought I took offense? I was just explaining. :P

  • Stev

    There’s a lot of death in the comic now… I wonder who’s next to go… could be you, could be me, could even be Chris himself… or Pascalle… hi Chris :D 

    And that, ladies and laddies, was my William Shatner impression. 

    Pres is dead (and we don’t get to see him dying or even what the generals had to say, I’m sad now) and now we get to see Zap being endlessly tormented :D … ;(

    I kind of agree with Neveko and Zwagon in the fact that the bloodstain looks a bit odd. Looks like it was just kinda stuck on top of a picture of a sleeping Pres. The heart is actually close to the centre of one’s chest, it’s just kind of angled to the left. Bit of biology homework for you :)

  • Aside from the president, who seemed to have been oblivious to how many people were going to betray him, I’ve been under the impression there are three major factions:The rebels, who want to overthrow the government.The psychic military, which wants to overthrow the government from the inside.The regular military, which also wants to overthrow the government form the inside.Things I wonder include whether anyone actually isn’t trying to overthrow the federation, why the two military forces seem to not know about each other’s plans despite their leaders working so closely together, or why either of them bother fighting the rebels.
    In fact, before the president got killed, I was pretty sure the president was somehow making his own plans to to disband the nation.
    It seems like once the news gets out that the president is dead, everyone else is going to reveal their plans to dispose of the federation to each other at the same time, realise they all wanted the same thing, and a picnic together to celebrate. Except the president, since he’s dead. And those members of Naveed’s team, who’re also dead. Also, I guess Naveed would still be mad at Gunner, though I think he didn’t actually expect any of the team to get killed, but rather expected them to come back in the roomier ship they were meant to capture.

  •  Oh, just because the President is out of the picture doesn’t mean the GEF is gone. The generals will continue about their merry power-grabbing ways.

    What this really does is pit the GEF forces under the generals against Gunner and his psychic army.

  • Zwagon

    No, considering the lighting and the amount of blood, a hole in his clothes made by a small knife would be difficult or impossible to see at a glance. 
    …But I’m still curious to know if his heart was stabbed as the stab seems a little too far left.

  • Troll-olo

    Without being a total jackass… I say we let ‘Calle write the story, yeah? And if you have a question, or an interpretation, ask. Don’t assume. Otherwise, great story ‘Calle. I enjoy the fact that it’s going to the darker side now :)

  •  Nice sentiment … but I think it would be better if we let Chris keep writing the story.  I’m sure Calle would be a great writer, but I’m content just to see her art.

    ;)

  • Troll-olo

    >< Dammit. I meant Chris… But apparently my brain insists that I make myself look like an idiot in public.

  •  Don’t sweat it, we’ve all been there.  Though some of us made the same mistake before the old comments were wiped out, so we now have plausible deniability …

    ;)

  • I’d have slit the throat, personally.
    Somewhat of a safer bet than a simple stabbing.

  • I am honestly surprise. i figured he’d suddenly reveal himself to be a hyper compatant badass.

  • Crestlinger

    Alternative after effects:
    ‘He’s DEAD?!’
    ‘Escort him anyways.’
    ‘But, but, DEAD!’
    ‘We can say we didn’t notice; Look nobody takes guards seriously anyways, Let’s go’

  • Speedy Marsh

    Was that before or after they licensed their water gun technology to the Aquarians?

  • Speedy Marsh

    Yeah, the Rock’em Sock’em Secretarybots (TM) do seem to lose their heads a lot…

  • Speedy Marsh

    Oh, please, that lifestyle has been accepted since the electric massager was invented.

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