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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mikeās sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed itās been a couple years since weāve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update Iāll ever share.
So the alien blood makes the human characters invulnerable but not the aliens… fascinating. NOTE: I specifically left the nazis out of the ‘human’ category despite their all too human behavior.
or he was immortal before…
I thought so too, but then I checked: the alien did break his arm (or at the very least his skin) when grabbing it.
BTW, last panel: is that small trickle on his face blue, or am I seing colors that are not there?
it is blue! i didn’t think so at first, but i have a magnifier gadget on my computer, and if you zoom in enough, it is blue! whah! new theory: they’re turning into alien pheasants!
No, that’s definitely blue… Perhaps it was a case of “eat its heart to gain its power”?
It’s blue
I’m seeing blue also.
Likely, they were already … how they are. Now I’m beginning to wonder what relevance the alien had, if any. Was it just what they ate on one particular night?
Could be that bronze happens to get past their skin?
He has the same blood. Perhaps the alien stuff makes a body stronger as it ages, and the explorer from the crash was young.
Or he ate and cooked more than one explorer. You forget. He did use the spear to open the hatch on the pod.
Uh oh, Someone’s made him angry.
That’s right, Fritz! I always eat my alien pheasants. That’s why my bones deflect your boomsticks! (comical rumble ensues) Remember kids, the alien pheasant is good for your mouth and for your bones!
i just saw your comics today and read through every piece of article and clicked through every piece of art you have. you sir have an amazing talent i am in awe on how amazingly detailed these drawings are.
Probably not, the Alien pretty much broke his arm when he went after it with the dagger.
But that same alien’s advanced weaponry had no effect on him. Some readers were saying ‘non-lethal weaponry’ and that could indeed have been the case. when you look at page 16 however, he seems only minimally concerned about his wound, and even then only the pain is bothering him – he never voices any concern about its proper healing.
They are both probably the same type of aliens.
Possibly, but when Dad’s arm was broken by the alien, he bled red, not blue. Now he has blue blood trickling from his face.
Well, that explains why they havent changed their clothes in a millenia or two. Invulnerably attached to them! Who’d’ve thunk that alien pheasant meat and exposure to e.t.’s hvac would grant that! š
@ SrPilha, yes it’s blue š®
Thousands of years go by, they update their house, but not their clothing? Curious.
I’m reminded that the story arc is called Exiled. My take is that they were already like this and that they’re slumming in primitive Earth. Maybe they’re aliens, fallen angels, highlanders, whatever. Someone mentioned that the girl is like Artemis. Of course if she really is Artemis, then dad is Zeus, so if they’re exiled then who exiled them? At any rate, the alien was a red herring. Father and daughter are immortal toughies.
Joel: Hmmm . . . as I understand things, “Ćbermensch” translates to “Superman” and was used by the Nazis to justify their atrocities. Claiming to be supermen, they further claimed that they had the right to do anything they wanted to the so-called inferior races.
Servo: I think these guys are about to discover who the real supermen in this neighborhood are, and it ain’t them.
Crow: I guess alien pheasants work like Popeye’s spinach, but better.
I think we’re about to find out of german soldiers taste like pheasant too.
Really enjoy the artwork and quite a few of the stories. If the nazies turned out to taste like pheasant it would be pretty funny. I am just surprised that in the time that one assumes passed since the ate the alien they have not changed wardrobe however?
You’d be amazed at how set people can get in their ways. In the beginning of the story, it appeared that the father and daughter were living far off from other people. No society around them to encourage changes in fashion. If they spent another hundred years or so hardly ever seeing anyone, why change in the next hundred years.
Of course, in the time-lapse montage of their dwelling, it looks at times as if it’s fallen into ruin before being repaired. Perhaps they did go out into the world for one reason or another, and then came back to resume an existence familiar and comfortable to them, retreating from a changing world, even in the manner of their dress.
Maybe they _like_ things the way they are.
Would not be at all amazed š I am some habits I am stuck into, but same toga after centuries. even though the house could come w/plumbing?
But whatever. Minor thing.
Awesome. One of my favorite aspects of False Positive is the way the stories are told visually. I think showing the man’s broken arm was part of telling the journey progression visually. Blue blood and a bullet hitting him in the face were also ways of progressing the story visually. If False/Positive stays to true to form, we will probably not have the details spelled out for us… clothes, blood, total scope of powers, etc. I am hooked. Mr. Walton, you are a talented story teller. I expect a prosperous and distinguished career for someone with your talent.
his blood wasn’t blue when he broke his arm.
eating the alien changed his physiology and made him immortal.
The alien was vulnerable to humans and human weapons, seemingly…so why would eating it confer invulnerability to those same things?
Organisms don’t enjoy the benefits or misfortunes they carry as nourishment or toxins they might impart when consumed and digested secondarily.
Maybe the alien bacteria in the alien’s blood that, when cooked and introduced to human digestion, caused seeming invulnerability in the human hosts.
it’s science! (and science-fiction)
why do you all keep saying the architecture is “advanced?” there is nothing about the final structure’s outward appearance that’s more advanced than ancient greek architectural achievement.
go google: “ancient greek houses.”
the house was rebuilt and improved. but it didn’t become more “advanced.” when you realize you have 100 years to reconstruct your house, you might make some improvements too. i don’t know if they live on mt. olympus or what, but the structures and the fashion are from the influence of ancient greek culture with little to none other influence.
I suspect that eating the cyclops alien isn’t responsible for these changes, but rather having spent decades/centuries sleeping in the interstellar pod. The pod would have to keep its passenger alive for the long voyages somehow – perhaps time-dilation and physiological maintenance… which would have been designed for the alien occupant, and possibly causing the transformation. Sleeping in the pod, Rip Van Winkle style, would explain the house’s decay and rebuild, and the father’s apparent lack of understanding how a firearm works. I suspect he was/is Spartan, and is used to living a, well, spartan lifestyle – thus explaining his simple and rugged ways.
Fascinating artwork, awesome stories, and as a german reader I appreciate that you used actual german sentences and not various combinations of “oktoberfest”, “schweinhunds” and “fuhrer”. I really love your comic š
Ah, thats gonna hurt.
And Ia gree to Wesker btw. Seeing Marvel still did not manage to teach Nightcrawler either English or let him talk real German (as his Mutant Ability is clearly not “Speaks in Babelfish” this is even more impressive. š