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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.
This is why your tank should always favor mitigation over dodge, because they may not take damage most of the time, but when they do they really do.
welp
A fatal head-womb. š
Carrying a litter of monsters on your brain sure can make a person crazy hungry.
Iām going to take back what I said back on page 14. Abe was eating for more than twoā¦
That makes for a very hard to kill monster…
Oh, man. This just keeps getting worse and worse.
I guess that’s the end of that.
What if…what if spiders could do that? First thing I thought of -shudder-
What?! Bullshit death, GTFO.
You know what, it’s my own fault that I actually allowed myself to believe any of them would survive this story.
She might have survived, if only because at tthis point, it would have been the most shocking plot twist imaginable.
I mean, before this page, that would have been a reasonable argument. She’s a goner now; wouldn’t want anyone thinking I was suggesting that she might not be.
IMO even as False Positive goes, miniature monsters bursting from the burning, decapitated head of an infected mage to devour the last survivor of the group feels just a little TOO deus ex machina. I hate to see a character be genre-savvy and do almost everything right only to die anyway.
I’m mad, bro.
That said, I anxiously await the next story.
This was not at all Deus Ex Machina. The entire story was leading up to this after Abe got his face impregnated. This is what the story was all about.
We all bring our own expectations.
Unlike you, I love to see a character be savvy and still die in the end. In horror, I want to see blood.
I can’t believe so many people get on here to complain. This story is beautiful.
That’s fine. You are entitled to your opinion as well. We will just have to agree to disagree.
Yes, I freely admit that I dislike this particular twist to this particular story but in general I thoroughly enjoy Mr. Walton’s work and have frequently said as much.
I take offense to ‘you get on here just to complain’ because that just isn’t true. My comments aren’t any worse than yours or anyone else’s.
Trouble is, they were savvy about the wrong genre. This was a horror story, and they were acting like characters in a run-of-the-mill fantasy. This (probably) could have been prevented if they had acted on the early suggestion of amputating Abe’s eye, and so I agree with Cornelius that this was not deus ex machina.
Okay, that’s gross, and highly disappointing. I’m used to False Positive stories having happy endings.
Happy endings!? Have you been reading the same comics I have?
Can’t tell if trolling, or didn’t read every other False Positive story… >_>
Seriously, though, there is still plenty of room for a twist ending here. Don’t be disappointed JUST yet.
Sarcasm detector is off the scale.
Curses?
You are being consumed alive by hordes of voracious piranha crabs and all you can manage is “curses”?
That was my first thought, too. As last words go, it’s surprisingly mild.
She’s just not a very imaginative swearer.
It was, after all, exactly what she said on page 2 when she was about to be consumed by a single Giant voracious piranha crab…
It’s what she always says.
Next on False Positive: in an obvious cautionary allegory for the future of humanity, the maws continue to reproduce at an alarming rate, overrunning their ecosystem and exhausting their food supply, thereby ensuring their own eventual extinction.
I’m going to go ahead and say that one ends with the maws eating each other; the true moral being that cannibalism isn’t maintainable.
I like the idea of educational horror.
Also; that pinky finger oh god why
This ending does seem more like a RPG with the GM throwing one last monkey wrench in just to beat down the heroes with.
But could be wrong.
Either way, now we HAVE to see what Monday brings.
Well played sir, well played.
She reeeeally should have seen that coming. Granted, I didn’t, but I’m probably just dense.
frakking xenomorphs
That’s really disgusting, but expected.
I hope there’s some sort of bright side out of this, whatever it may be.
The mawlings devour each other till only one is left. Is that bright enough ?
A bit disappointed in the sense that it’s really a cheap death. She may as well have tripped over her own axe.
Yeah, it’s table-top.
There was never any way this was going to end in puppies and rainbows. Pity, she had a nice rack.
Yep, right there. T.P.K.
Queue next scene where their souls stand before their various deities sitting around a table, dice in hand, cold pizza and warm Mountain Dew scattered about like their slowly cooling corpses…
That answers the question in the comments a few pages ago… The reason this ‘well trained party’ has never heard of this type of creature before is because IT NEVER LOSES!
And they’re only three days from the nearest village…
and this is why you must always salt it and pump it with poisons (much like walmart’s discount jerky) before tossing it in the fire.
The… WHAT? AGH!!
Jeez, good work. Nobody saw that coming. I think we all thought that the guy was somehow turning into a copy of the monster, not incubating its eggs. Gah.
should have put it monster end down, after all š
Folks, just remember that it’s not over until the credits roll and the lights go up. This might not be the end.
That said, I scared my roommate awake laughing at this
interesting symmetry that the first and last words you see her use are the same also does anyone else see a problem with her face having no emotion in the second to last frame?
This is not going to end well is it?
Love the artwork.
This fantasy just went Rogue-like.
Ah, you see our problem was thinking they were playing a D&D style game. Actually this was a fantasy version of Cthulhu…
Everybody goes insane or dies or both…
…and that’s the way the story ends? No epilogue, no coda, no nothing? Weird.
Love the ending.
Who has two thumbs and totally called it?
This guy.
Good story, but overall, disappointing. You’d hope she’d at learn learn something from all these horrific resurrections. Run like hell!
I agree with the posters who said this one was disappointing. Every once in a while, I’d like to see the humans WIN against world-ending horrors.
“Win” is relative. I’d argue most FP stories offer a sort of ‘win’ for the protagonists: Newton’s Apple, Yolk, Wayfarer, cops n robbers, Cleanup, Detained, Exiled.
But you might need to brace for more disappointment, just in case.
This should be tragic, but her reaction is simply too comical for that.
A great people seem to die in your stories in Oops-a-daisy ways.
OOOOOOOOH, ITS JUST GETTING BETTER AND BETTER!!!!
I legit let out a general sound of disgust and surprise at that first panel–not quite “EWW!” but not quite an “AAAAH!” either. :p
Donāt you just hate it when the new-born kids wake you up in the middle of the night to make you feed them?