Where is this place?
on July 6, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Location: I See Dead People
A byproduct of “Roomies! is essentially populated with fundies, even if not otherwise specified” is that Ruth gets to be the religious/spiritual stand-in in this strip, versus Dina. It’s kind of a weird part to play for her in retrospect, after having written her Dumbiverse counterpart for nearly a decade. (Dumbiverse Ruth’s not so much atheist as she is aggressively agnostic, if only because it doesn’t effing matter anyway.)
Walky is the audience stand-in for panels 1 and 2. Dina’s death is still fresh, and it was not a fun time! Hug her, Walky! Hug her! We need this catharsis!
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You know what Walky is right. I get tired of this argument enough being alive and sure as he’ll wouldn’t want to listen to two mooks argue about it again and again on loop for eternity in an infinite Dark void. Especially when it doesn’t even matter anymore on the account of your all dead, I think I’d rather fade out of existence entirely then put up with this BS.
I think you just defined “Hell.”
Hell is other people.
“Jean-Paul Sartre said Hell was being locked forever in a room with your friends”
“Holly, all his mates were French!”
I’m on the side of Ruth, honestly. Regardless of the science, it’s Limbo.
Soul Forge vs Quantum Field Generator.
For that matter, I find it odd that Dina ASSUMES that Ruth means limbo as in “afterlife in christian mythology” rather than the more colloquial “an uncertain state or condition”. Because the later certainly applies.
Meanwhile there appears to be some kind of problem with comments back on the DOA site. At least for me.
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Poor Walky. What’s the use in being dead if you can’t enjoy it.
I just checked DoA, and yeah, the comments aren’t working right for me as well.
For me it shows how many comments are, but they don’t appear at all.
I wonder if all those comments are variants “Hey, we can’t see the comments!”
The puns, the muzak… Gone! It’s all gone! You maniacs!
Guessing from a peek at the rendered page’s source, it looks like there’s some kind of error around when it parses the comments to render the comment section. The last thing to show up is a code comment, which looks like it’s the paet where it decides to either post comments or write the “there are no comments yet” line. I can only speculate that Hiveworks updated WordPress and goofed somewhere along the line.
I look at other Hivework comics like Widdershins and the comments are working okay. It looks like comments on the older pages of the DOA site are not available and when I look down through the list of past blog posts the top is frozen at 5 comments you can’t see and the rest say “Comments Off” where the link should be. At this point I’m inclined to believe that they were turned off due to Willis not being able to monitor them due to health issues. I hope that it’s not serious and that he’s just not up to it right now. — Be well, Willis!!!
Well, they normally close after about a month or so anyway.
He said on Twitter that he doesn’t know what happened either, but reported it to Hiveworks. Hopefully one of their nerds can fix it!
https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1147383180594491392
Thanks!
A casino where I always win? that’s boring, I must really be… in hell!
No, Mr. Smith, you’re not in heaven or hell. You’re on an airplane!
Instrumentality is other people.
The Third Impact was an inside job.
Mother is the last other.
You are, number nine.
While I prefer Dina’s explanation, I would find it annoying having to listen to her and Ruth argue about it.
In Panel 1, that is definitely a very spirited hug.
….
*flees for dear punning life*
And a spirited argument, now that you mention it.
too bad he doesn’t have a ghost of a chance of escaping pun-ishment
Since Dina is alive again, Ruth is all alone there now.
Given Dina’s explanation is the correct one and the fact that Ruth was not an abductee or otherwise special, the assumption is that there are a lot of dead people’s brainwaves energy signatures bouncing around the cosmos, Ruth and Dina were simply the ones most closely attuned to Walky. Ruth herself says, “If you’re going to hug ALL the dead people, you’ll be busy for awhile.” So if it’s any consolation, after the Martian machines recall Dina’s energy signatures, Ruth will still have plenty of people to argue with.
Also, Dina will eventually be back. Unless, of course, she dies in an alternate universe while fleeing the Soggies.
Not if Becky has anything to say about it she won’t.
I always tear up when I read today’s and yesterday’s comics – dina and ruth back again, and walky having that moment of catharsis, is definitely one of my favorite moments in the final arc. The bathos in dina and ruth arguing about whether or not they’re in purgatory is the icing on the cake.
This is a really nice sequence too, I think. It’s nice to see this chance for the dead to speak once more.