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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mike’s sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed it’s been a couple years since we’ve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update I’ll ever share.
You know it would have been funnier if he had transformed into a lemming before jumping off the cliff. Just saying.
that was a good one!
Lemmings jumping off a cliff is a fabrication. “…a 1958 film in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration. An investigative documentary found that the lemmings used for the film were flown in from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable.”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=29b_1342834029#BzzwtUFqo1CBUgRm.99
Ye-e-es, it’s a fabrication. That’s what would have made it so funny!
I can see the words in the thought bubble as he goes over the cliff: “A lemming, Yes! That’ll keep the nerds arguing for years!”
Fabrication it may be, but it’s older than 1958. Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Possessed,” published 1953, involves lemming mass suicide.
That’s cause they will jump into water during a mass migration but they can swim and they do it to move to greener pastures so to speak. Along the way, some of the lemmings may die in the water but that doesn’t mean they mass suicide they way the popular myth suggest they do.
The myth started before the movie because people in those areas would find the dead lemmings washing up to shore and mass suicide is the easiest to explain answer than to say some the lemmings got tired of swimming and died.
Absolutely. Disney didn’t invent the lie, he just ran with it for drama’s sake.
Well, when life gives you Lemmings, make Lemming Meringue Pie.
But if you made Lemming Aide you might have saved some lives that would have otherwise been lost…
He wasnt kidding about depth! is he going all the way to becoming a deep ocean creature?…oh wow, what if he goes further? what if he turns into some unknown digging creature to join a pack of devils in the center of the earth? =O
it’s really amazing how you managed to turn this around yet again, I was ( and I suspect we all were) expecting humanoid forms as you progressed =D
Deep One. Calling it!
I’m a shaaark! Suck my diick!!
I didn’t realize he was transforming, I thought he was jumping into different animal bodies (until I saw the one with the legs dissolving today).
Is he a bad guy?
Yeah.
How can you tell?
Because he’s a shark.
There’s no good sharks?
Sharks are chaotic neutral, at best.
Nah, I’d figure him to be more firmly in the Neutral Hungry alignment.
I’m loving how this story handles the reveals. As always I’ve been amazed at the artwork, and pleasantly surprised by the story’s twists. I’ve been reading these stories since almost day one, and have never been disappointed.
Cheers!
Surprised he didn’t absorb the legs. Hmm…
Poetic license. Visual poetry, in this case.
Legs? Where we’re going we don’t need… legs.
Magic works in mysterious ways.
may be easier or faster to mold new limbs and extremities from the core of the body then it is to reabsorb or recalibrate bone/cartilage structures in this case
Or this is all spirit/energy. No body required.
its beast boy!
“So, I need to stab myself, turn into a rat, a rabbit, a deer, a shark, and jump into the sea… all because you don’t like crowded flights? Why can’t we have a normal holiday for once?”
I gotta say, that was a pretty good incantation….
paying a visit to cthulhu or going to the end of the world? both?
Good stuff Big Mike… very good stuff. I am anxious for the fairy-tale ending.
He’s still not going to escape his student loan…
So true. You win one Internet.
He’s literally jumping the shark.
A significant minority of Great Whites go deep … deeper than Basking Sharks do when they hit the Carribean.
i have no idea where this is going… but since its FP its not gonna end well
I like the second panel showing the legs fall off! Nice!