Comic for Monday, Apr 14, 2025

[mlooney 3,690]

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Please, Voltaire, kill the 3 Stooges.  I'm sure you can find a way, you're an evil immortal, you can twist the laws to let you do that.

[ijuin 601]

I think it’s more likely that he makes a corrupt bargain with them, because it would amuse him to stir up their side of the world by letting their “Royal Uryuom” plan succeed.

[mlooney 3,690]

27 minutes ago, ijuin said:

I think it’s more likely that he makes a corrupt bargain with them, because it would amuse him to stir up their side of the world by letting their “Royal Uryuom” plan succeed.

Yeah, but that doesn't solve my issue with the Stooges.  I'll grant that this turn of events does solve the “they are boring” issue.

[Darth Fluffy 354]

Voltaire is a loose cannon among a class of beings that are all loose cannons.

Ideal scenario, they steal his magic, then leave, never to return.

[Amiable Dorsai 70]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Ideal scenario, they steal his magic,

My first thought. Just what can this wand do? 

[mlooney 3,690]

2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Voltaire is a loose cannon among a class of beings that are all loose cannons.

He's worse than Pandora was.  She, at least, had the idea of making the world a better place for her son.  Voltaire just wants personal power.

[mlooney 3,690]

2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Ideal scenario, they steal his magic, then leave, never to return.

That would solve numerous problems all at once.  Before Hope started rapid fire ending open plot threads, I would have said the Dan(a) would not do that, but they have shown a tendency to just wrap up issues in one or two panels of late in the current arc.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,630]

I'mHow sad. 

Voltaire can not simply kill any one who he personally finds annoying or offensive.  No.  He needs to find someone the Immortal laws will allow him to kill and then decide if he wants to kill that person. 

He vowed to not harm Elliot directly,.  But is it possible or even likely that someone adjacent to the primary cast meets Voltaire's qualifications? 

 

[mlooney 3,690]

3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Voltaire can not simply kill any one who he personally finds annoying or offensive.  No.  He needs to find someone the Immortal laws will allow him to kill and then decide if he wants to kill that person. 

Not a good thought.  I'm hoping that Edward's protection expands to Tedd's friends.

[Southern Cross 5]

If what Voltaire said is true, immortals can only kill people who have killed others.  And for all we know, they have to kill using magic to qualify being killed by an immortal. Susan killed aberrations,and possibly Grace might qualify(though Damien self-destructed,so he probably doesn't count).

[mlooney 3,690]

1 hour ago, Southern Cross said:

If what Voltaire said is true, immortals can only kill people who have killed others.  And for all we know, they have to kill using magic to qualify being killed by an immortal. Susan killed aberrations,and possibly Grace might qualify(though Damien self-destructed,so he probably doesn't count).

If Grace counts, then Jay might as well.  Also, given at least some immortal's feeling about aberrations, would killing one of those trigger the law?

[Darth Fluffy 354]

If killing time counts, they are all in danger.

[mlooney 3,690]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

If killing time counts, they are all in danger.

[Darth Fluffy 354]

20 hours ago, mlooney said:

I saw that; it was also a subtitle in Predator II, "He's in town with a few days to kill." In that case, it meant people.

[Don Edwards 571]

The assassin has a deadline?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,630]

5 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

The assassin has a deadline?

You don't pay someone to wait for natural causes. 

 

[mlooney 3,690]

5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

You don't pay someone to wait for natural causes. 

 

Allow me to introduce you to the US medical system.

[Amiable Dorsai 70]

I'm more concerned ab

[Don Edwards 571]

13 hours ago, mlooney said:

Allow me to introduce you to the US medical system.

Medical care is never free. Cannot be free. Who pays for it, though, varies - with varying results.

The sort of system that has produced great results in MANY fields is to have the costs, the benefits, and a large chunk of decision-making authority all land on the same person.

Naturally, hardly any government in the world permits that sort of system to be the norm in regard to medical care.

The resulting horror stories vary, in part based on the form and extent of government meddling, but every country has them.

At least in the US we don't get "this condition will kill you in six months unless we do some surgery... oh, we can schedule that surgery for eight months from now." Which sort of thing, I've heard, is not that unusual in Britain.

Instead we get insurance companies denying coverage for treatment that would alter a condition from debilitating to a nuisance.

(And a few years ago I was on a medicine that my insurance covered, with a $15 copay for a month's supply... and was also available without prescription, for $6 for a month's supply.)

[mlooney 3,690]

5 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

Instead we get insurance companies denying coverage for treatment that would alter a condition from debilitating to a nuisance.

I got my monthly Blue Cross statement.  The covered 100% of the two PSA tests costs.  This is a good sign that the $0 insurance payment on my hospital bill is just they haven't gotten around to paying it yet.  Of course, the cynic in me says, of course they are going to cover it, it's an old male issue, therefore is important.