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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.
Touch it!
It’s harmless.
Sure it is, I’ll just bet.
As a designer, I really enjoy this idea of the aliens “communicating by color”. Keep up the excellent palettes in your work!
Based on Mr. Walton’s previous work, I am confident this ball and these aliens will somehow bring tremendous joy to this man and we, the readers, will smile and feel warm and fuzzy as we celebrate the “feel good” ending.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. I could be reading this for a happy ending too. Fortunately, I read this comic for the horror, and the satiric sarcasm of readers like you. LOL. Although to me, poetic justice is a “happy ending.” So I really liked “Newton’s Apple” and “Frenzy” in particular. Those did make me feel all warm and fuzzy, with comeuppance granted.
I though Ache had a rather sweet and touching end myself.
Yep, this is where the puppies and rainbows come in!
Yes, I’m sure he’ll just love the cyborg implants they’re going to give him, despite their complete and utter failure to use anesthesia of any kind!
Please don’t end this in your traditional way. Please make it a happy ending. Pleasepleaseplease!
Fyodor, they’re all happy endings. Happy isn’t exactly an objective term… (: š
Oy, “Sentinel” had a happy ending. In a way. Kind of… yeah. At least they flew together into starlit space š
You know they may not even consider his vocal distortions to even be a form of communication!
Likewise, why would he assume their hue dilatations are communication.
We can tell the colors are communication because of the speech bubbles.
This is a clean example of a concept being communicated to the reader in a way unique to the comic form. It’d be an entirely different experience trying to read this story in prose or watch it in a film and convey this simple communication barrier concept.
I approve.
Oh my god. Hue language is best language.
So creative! My dad would love this one–he’s big into science fiction.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the red one wants to kill him, the blue one wants to spare him, and the yellow one wants to keep him as an experimental pet.
Oh dear, it’s the Mass Effect ending all over again!
Prediction: He fails to “redeem” himself and gets tossed back out into space.
I am going to go with this guess.
Allow me to translate for everyone- Left side alien-“Greetings human! We have placed you in this perfect copy of your natural environment- an empty room with very little oxygen.” Middle alien-“Now look! We have given you a mate. Is she not beautiful with her curves? Not a hint of bumps to ruin her perfect features.” Right side alien-“Show us how you procreate…..now….”
Why oh why am I reminded of behavioral experiments we humans like to conduct on our fellow creatures? “Through it a ball, see what it does with it. Next, let’s see how it reacts to other kind of sensory ‘stimuli’. And then let’s dissect it.”
Ooooh …. Interesting concept!
DO NOT TOUCH HAPPY FUN BALL
It’s a trap!
I really Enjoy that the middle alien looks like it has a button down dress shirt collar. The rest seem more relaxed in their business attire.
Oh. They are going to kill and re-animate him a bunch of times just to see what happens.
Redeem. They are on a holy mission…he will pay the price for some kind of perceived blasphemy, i bet.
English. Mandarin. Russian. And Esperanto?
Alien on the left: What an amazing find! Alien in the middle: I thought these creatures only existed in fossil form. Alien on the right: It fills me with awe and humility to think our ancestors were mere jellyfish when he walked the Earth.
Personally I believe they are descended from spaghetti with meatballs.
Ack! The pastafarians were right!
A-are we all just going to ignore the little ‘lizard brain’ thing? I mean, nobody really states anything like that when faced with something not seen before. It just strikes me as odd.
You’re right, when I Bing the term, I only get 6,060,000 entries.
Just kidding. I used Google. Just giving you an example of a phrase no one really uses.
-Look how cute it is! Can I please keep it? I’ll promise I’ll take care of it! Please pleeeease please?!
-No
-We’ll have to talk about it.
Something “red” is gonna happen…
You know, I’m thinking the aliens aren’t dangerous at all. They look rather friendly, actually!
Is the part where the aliens open a Fried Human store using a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices?
They speak in colors?
I would go further to say that the *pattern* of colors is how they speak. Like Morse Code can use a binary pattern of sounds, one short, the other long, with a short silence to denote the separation of letters from each other.
interpreting the colors & the patterns (even in written form on this page) is the difficult part: Would we āreadā their speech first starting with columns (going up or down), or first from rows (going left or right)? Do the rows & columns carry equal significance, since the colors form irregularly-shaped blocks? Certainly the āoverlappedā colors in the first speech bubble signifies a more complex āword/conceptā than individual & distinct colors have.
I would not be surprised to learn that Quasilucid actually *created* (at least, in part) a new language just to do thisā¦
first comment in 5 years?