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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.
It’s the only way to be sure
…now do it again.
I can think of a billion people that I would enjoy nuking these days…Ah! The good old days on planet Mongo!
If I remember correctly.. you Most High Excellency… you’re specialty was dropping lunar bodies on planetary surfaces… or was it sex-madness ray guns? I forget which… er.. oh.. “HAIL MING!”
Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.
The Emperor Ming: Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness… If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless – I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory…
[leans forward, smiling]
The Emperor Ming: … and for our mutual pleasure…
[leans back again]
The Emperor Ming: … I destroy it utterly.
Doctor Hans Zarkov: You’re saying… it’s my fault the Earth is being destroyed?
The Emperor Ming: [grinning] Precisely… Doctor!
The Emperor Ming: Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness… If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless – I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory…
[leans forward, smiling]
The Emperor Ming: … and for our mutual pleasure…
[leans back again]
The Emperor Ming: … I destroy it utterly.
Doctor Hans Zarkov: You’re saying… it’s my fault the Earth is being destroyed?
The Emperor Ming: [grinning] Precisely… Doctor!
Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.
…and now its free of the trapping facility… and radioactive! Man is it pissed-off now!! 🙂
Yeah, radioacttive snowfallout. It’s worse than eating yellow snow.
Aaaaaaand the mushroom cloud just turns out to be a giant ball of Alien gook
Mutatated alien gook spores! I hate when that happens. Cough! Cough!
Of course, he would not have been allowed to escape unless he was contaminated or himself being the core or father of the monster…
Turns out it’s the creature from Evolution and the fire just made it reproduce hyper fast.
Over and under of it being on his face?
Calling it – while Brown’s enjoying his victory, a piece of the alien, propelled by the explosion, lands smack-dab on his face. Que transition.
(Brown may or may not exclaim “Curses!”)
The only thing I would add is in the second panel, a tiny sound effect for ‘skwee’ around where the hatch would have been.
We all know this will still be ending badly for this schmuck… and yet I hold hopes that the author is wanting to pull a fast one on all of us, jaded readers.
Who knows, he might even become the last survivor once the rest of humanity is assimilated (if the sample in Johannesburg tries to pull something similar, it will have a better chance in the middle of a city and spread from there, but it won’t go to Antartica quickly).
“Bad news everyone, the creature loved that.”
(Ten points if you catch the reference.)
Hey! Hey! The target is way over there. You missed, fool!
and boom goes the dynamite
Perhaps now he gets to become the “specimen”…
This page makes for a nice ending, though I doubt that hazmat suit is going to keep him warm for long.
Duuude. Bad idea to look at the pretty mushroom cloud.
And no, I don’t think it’s dead either. It’s NEVER that easy.
I think this one is dead. But there’s another one in Johannesburg.
Even if this one is dead there is still another sample in Johannesburg.
Another sample is in Johannesburg, Capetown, Pretoria, Vereeninging, Standerton . . .
The question is what kills poor Dr. Brown first- the monster miraculously surviving, the government “cleaning up” or the elements