Friday's comic

[kelkyag]

I am actually pleased to see you! What a strange future this is!

Apologies for the html error in the initial post!

Comments

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[turbobeholder]

The odd apparatus behind the Baron is a time machine.

It’s not pulp, it’s a pastiche of pulp. :]
Also, spectrum_09 identified it in the last thread as a cloning jar. Whether for himself or “SKEERY CLENK LADI” (and which one), remains to be seen.

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[murgatroyd_666]

Thank you! Happy to be corrected.

Too bad we can't see who or what is in it ...

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[jbwoodford]

Not cloning, or Olga's body would have had a brain. The Baron's description of what he did, from HERE:

"Fortunately, I decided to attempt revival....it was tricky--to rebuild the body when it was so badly damaged. The brain was a total loss, of course."

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[turbobeholder]

Her recovered body did not.
What Klaus said was ambiguous. As was whose opened skull he was toying with.
Also, that’s how she looked like after zap and the grave. At this point growing a body from scratch would not be harder, and the only part that makes an important difference between restoration and cloning was ruined anyway, so…

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[jbwoodford]

Sure, but he goes on to say "Even a substitute brain in a Heterodyne body would be of some use." The implication seems to me to be that the rebuilt body would lack a brain. OTOH, there's the skull he's holding. (OTOOH, he's a Spark...he probably has all kinds of things in his lab that are only useful as props when he wants to rant about something.)

Re: WARNING! RAMPANT SPECULATIONS AHEAD!

[murgatroyd_666]

Oy! Rich and confusing possibilities if a previously deceased character is being regenerated ... and with mind transfer technology *and* time travel, you could even install the personality of the dead character!

I wonder what happened to Madame Olga's regenerated body. Long ago, Klaus had said that she might be useful ...