…and that’s how you make a comic with a pregnant woman getting kicked in the stomach as the punchline. I’m only responsible for making it; if you found it funny that’s on you. What happens the next instant after the last panel is what I want to know.
I want to thank everyone for all the comments! I love comments! Thank you!
But– what about the chain reaction?
lol awesome
@Eric. do you realy think you could be personaly responsible for over 200 years of slavery? I would rather die than have to do that… or as he did make sure i never existed
That final panel reminds me of the unused graphic for the childkiller reputation in Fallout 2. The only one to be cut from the game before release: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/File:Childkiller_Unused.jpg
Oh god, grandfather paradox.
I guess it would just be called, mother paradox in this case.
Wait, hasn’t slavery already happened by the start of the strip (as evidenced by the fact that both refer to it), thus ensuring the continuance of civilisation? Still I suppose, RIP Charles, he died for our political correctness.
@hidely ho: That’s what always bothered me about “we have to fix history” stories – it’s already happened, right? I’ve never seen Dr. Who but Voyagers! was a kick-ass show although it suffered from this flaw (as I see it). This comic came from me thinking about when the ends justify the means and if there could ever be a justification for slavery — I decided I’m glad I don’t have to be the one to decide, although if you pressed me I guess I think a humankind that requires slavery to survive may not be worth saving.
Charles: the respectable human individual.
Of course he can’t exist!
I just discovered this comic. I LOVE IT! I hope you do well, but I fear this work may be too good to succeed.
Or maybe it will “succeed” in an empty way… like, everyone will have a stuffed Charles hanging on the inside of their car window from suction cups, or they’ll have Charles on their coffee mugs, and everyone will think it’s hilarious how he’s always kicking people, or hate him because of all the flaws inherent in a time travel story… so they are inspired to make a “better” time-travel story that doesn’t have any holes that they can see or acknowledge…
I go on too long. The point: your work is awesome on many levels. I don’t know how you do it, but keep it up!
@ hidelyho
couldnt the assumption here (intended or not) be that if the government has the capability of time travel, other people might as well, and those would be the danger imminent to slavery as a necessary evil? In which case, those would apparently be people who just wished to do good things with the technology, (ie kill Hitler, end slavery, save Ghandi, steer the Titanic away from an iceberg) and poor charles here would have to kill a basically innocent, well-intentioned savior-to-be at the same time as he is perpetuating 200 years of forced servitude that this country is still trying to wash off its hands.
in which case, this comic deals with some really messed-up moral issues, if the government is just sending soldiers hopping around the timestream trying to make sure atrocities and suffering happen so that we can all just stay alive. so charles probably did the logical thing.
anyway, great job, b.patrick, i dig it.
Nabokov would be proud.
so… rather than confront a moral dilema, he 1. assaults his mom 2. commits suicide and 3. wipes out the entire human race. smooth move, ex lax!
Incredible comics!