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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.
Thus began the wondrous travels of the skullpunching girl and the urination man.
Well… usually I like the open-ended stories because I have at least some idea what happened and it’s nice not to have every answer, but this one’s tantalising because I get the impression that this one *has* been completely spelled out but I don’t know enough about Greek myths to get it. Can anyone shine a light on this?
I felt like it would be irresponsible to post this on the previous page, so…
I’m almost wondering if this pair is The Wanderer and the scientist/doctor from Detained. I’m specifically referring to Page 17, which caught my eye when I went back for a second look.
http://falsepositivecomic.com/2012/07/30/detained-page-17/
The woman isn’t one-for-one what the girl looks like, but we do know that the Wanderer’s color is blue and he an appear as anyone, sooo…
(that failing, maybe this is the child of the woman from that… or the child of that version of the Wanderer, take your pick)
I know it’s supposed to be smoke coming out of the building, but at first I thought it was some sort of weird biological growth reaching up to the sky. This comic has really warped my already off-center brain. Good job, quasilucid, good job indeed.
Same here O__O I thought it was some odd alien lifeform reaching to the sky. It was ghastly! But upon closer inspection…oh, smoke.
I think it is an exobiotic monster, tasked with destroying the house, which is trying (not entirely successfully) to disguise itself as smoke.
Arkahon – It’s an interesting theory, but I don’t think their circumstances are quite right. The father/daughter relationship is very strong here – not just a front, I’d say – and then there’s this anguish over having been ‘banished’…
It was more just a random thought than anything.
I’d be more inclined to believe that the girl is the daughter of a Greek/Roman goddess after that last comment, but everything is vague enough that I don’t think we’ll ever have a real answer.
Yeah, I guess that’s right. I love it that we know the Wayfarer was later “Detained” (through the “great and terrible marvels” phrase) so it would be really fun if at least Exiled was an origin story of sorts for the Wayfarer, assuming she’s the daughter here. I know it makes more visual sense for MacReady to be the daughter of Exiled, since we saw her change into a small dark-haired girl towards the end of Detained, but that’s a bit too much of a reach for me (that they go back in time, and swap roles of seniority, and there’s a banishment somewhere).
I can go with Exiled’s father being the Wayfarer’s real father, and perhaps both of them were already gods prior to consuming the alien; perhaps that’s how they recovered their powers? The Wayfarer in Detained mentions Tartarus, and I do remember banishment to Tarturus featuring in some Greek myths: Cronus, Apollo, etc? To Google!
My bet is that this story and its characters are in no way related to “Detained” and/or “Wayfarer.” The only reason those stories were connected is because Mike let his audience choose which story to continue and the audience chose “Wayfarer”… and so “Detained” was born. But who knows… time will tell.
HUH?
Joel: Y’know, I get the impression that Urination Man’s banishment occurred some time during the early days of civilization, and the terms of his banishment were something like, “Get lost, and never come back!” Then he became immortal and the word “never” took on real meaning instead of an emphatic way of saying, “We don’t want to see you again.”
Servo: Isn’t there some statute of limitations that says that no sentence can last longer than the civilization that pronounced it?
Crow: Are you kidding? If there were, too many people would have an incentive to destroy civilization.
They could have been exiled for not aging or changing. It would have freaked people out after a while. In the strip which shows their building in different stages of occupation, abandonment and then being occupied again, they probably tried a few times after the people who drove them out had died and the memory faded, but the cycle begins again because of their immortality.
ok I ont get it either, if this is related to another one of the stories on here I wish he would let us know.. cause I don’t get with.. who are they? where are they? when are they?
not every dot connects to another dot.
the story is fairly straight forward. readers are given enough information to follow the story. things are kept vague enough to keep us engaged.
if you “ont get it,” š :try going back and reading it through without trying to connect it to other stories and don’t read any the comments.
I think an ancient father and his daughter were banished from an ancient civilization. They witnessed an alien crash land. They killed an alien and it gave them powers including longer life and strength.
One of the best parts of False Positive is that everything is not spelled out. For example, why were the Father and daughter exiled? From what civilization were they exiled? What year did the story begin? Who is the mother? Are they really immortal? What other powers did they gain from eating the alien? We are not left with all of the answers… just as the two characters in this story don’t have all of the answers.
They live until the age of interstellar travel. One or both crash land on a planet in its adolescent development. He/she is eaten by a member of a ‘strange’ race of people. The cycle lives on. Just a thought.
BTW, I so love these stories.
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen this mentioned in the comments section yet; if it has been previously stated then please forgive my repetition.
Perhaps the name of the series, ‘Exiled’, refers not directly to a physical exile (at least, not entirely, due to a comment by the man a couple pages back), as in from a place, but an exile from time and the general limitations/rules of “normal” society and civilization. Just some food for thought.
Note that in one of the previous strips, when the alien broke his arm, his blood was red. Now it’s blue. Eating the alien changed them. I assume they were normal humans previously, and that he was simply in exile for something he did in the past. I don’t think there was anything paranormal about them prior to eating the alien.
I like that the pigs were released. I’d love to see how that’s affected the local ecology in a few decades. :p