Dave
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From their website description:
edit: Damn! Forgot the link! www.angels2200.com
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
edit: Damn! Forgot the link! www.angels2200.com
Big welcome to Angels2200!
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Dusty668
Wow, I'm used to comics I like changing forums and having to follow them, not so used to having them come to me...
That having been said....
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!
WB been too long!
That having been said....
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!
WB been too long!
North_Ranger
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Awwww, Shego's already made friends ^^
Welcome, welcome! Please come in, have some snacks, don't touch the smoking baby
Welcome, welcome! Please come in, have some snacks, don't touch the smoking baby
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Hansagan
Thanks all, and many thanks to Dave 
I've put the word out and hope to have a gradual influx of people shortly.
I've put the word out and hope to have a gradual influx of people shortly.
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Dusty668
Hey that was Cora, Kid's sister in the monster feet slippers right?
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RocketGirl
I'm used to the old webboard, but I dig this comic like a backhoe, so...here I am!
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Hansagan
Damn you're fast RG.....do you ever sleep?
Yes that was Cora
Yes that was Cora
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RocketGirl
I actually JUST woke up. Got your message while I was having my morning cup of internet.
It's true. I'm a biter.Awwww, Shego's already made friends ^^
Welcome, welcome! Please come in, have some snacks, don't touch the smoking baby
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rabbitgod
It's true. I'm a biter.[/QUOTE]Awwww, Shego's already made friends ^^
Welcome, welcome! Please come in, have some snacks, don't touch the smoking baby
The trick is to dangle a cigarrette in front of his face with one hand. With the other hand you have about 1.2265 seconds of back pat time. No rubbing/stroking/scratching. And god help you if you make any suddenm movements.
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Kimmers
Yup! I'm here! I'm here! I've been following you for this many years, I might as well drag my butt over here as well!Thanks all, and many thanks to Dave
Hello Half Forums!!
North_Ranger
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Hmmm... I just took a look at the comic proper.
While admittedly the idea of all men dying makes me as a member of the dangly-bit sex a little bit frightful... I'm likin' what I'm seeing so far.
I'll be reading on, and I just might bookmark as well
While admittedly the idea of all men dying makes me as a member of the dangly-bit sex a little bit frightful... I'm likin' what I'm seeing so far.
I'll be reading on, and I just might bookmark as well
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RocketGirl
...which brings up questions I've had for quite some time, actually.
I mean, I came to this comic kinna late; only found out about it because I was on the Star Wars Fan Film board over at TFN, where Hansagan posted the Angels2200 prequel movie, and by that time the comic had gotten pretty far. It's possible the questions I have about their disease were answered outside the comic, but I wasn't around to hear 'em.
Like...how is the distinction made between males and females? Does the disease go after chromosomes, does it go after hormones, what? Would, say, a eunuch be spared if it went after hormones instead of chromosomes? Or is it simply having XY genetics that makes one die? (Come to think of it, if it's genetics and not hormones, I wonder how many cross-dressers and transsexuals were suddenly dead and outed by the plague! Hah!)
It seems at least ONE male survived on Earth--Whiskey's father--and certainly a male has survived on the colonies...what was the difference that caused such an immunity, I wonder...
...maybe I should start asking this in it own thread, neh?
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Soliloquy
Sounds like a plan to me!...maybe I should start asking this in it own thread, neh?
Shame on all of you!
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RocketGirl
What...you don't think that's a possibility? Seems to me that it'd come up at some point. Even if they weren't killed off, it makes you wonder what the reaction would be to that fact, yanno?
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RocketGirl
Well, who would? I'm sure folks with diabetes or sickle cell anemia or whatever don't much care for it either. (Actually, I'm not sure if diabetes is genetic, but you get the idea...)
Doesn't make it any less of an interesting question, I'd say.
Dave
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One thing you should know, that question is pertinent to a few members of this board. We have some transgendered users and a number of gay/bisexuals. So your question is very thought provoking and worthwhile to explore.
I wonder how much of the science they've fleshed out behind the scenes.
I wonder how much of the science they've fleshed out behind the scenes.
fade
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Actually I think she made a damn good point. The 50% of the population born with the right genitals don't really want to die just because of that either.
Dave
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Actually I think she made a damn good point. The 50% of the population born with the right genitals don't really want to die just because of that either.[/QUOTE]
^ This.
My penis and I want to go on living, TYVM.
Dave
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Actually I think she made a damn good point. The 50% of the population born with the right genitals don't really want to die just because of that either.[/quote]
It is a point, sure. No one wants to die. But my point was that I'd hate to have everything I've done and worked toward be in vein because of simple genetics. The one thing I cannot change no matter how many hormones I take or surgeries I undergo. That this 'killing device' would deem me male regardless of what I've done and how I view and portray myself. I know that it is a simple scientific fact, but it still makes me sad.[/QUOTE]
You'll always be a lady to us, Ame.
figmentPez
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I'm honestly surprised you haven't already read Angels 2200.Oh I'm liking this already.
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RocketGirl
Well, hell, I'm a lesbian my own darn self, so...I'm not indifferent to LGBT issues, I assure you!
And I certainly wasn't bringing up the question in order to offend or hurt anyone...hell, it was basically an afterthought, really; it occurred to me while I was wondering about the other question, the hormones-vs-genetics question...it was a natural progression that I'm surprised hadn't occurred to me before, actually.
Heck, I'm still wondering about the colonies and their history. I seem to remember a timeline being mentioned, but... Well, it doesn't come up much in the comic itself, so I don't really know much about why they're out there and what they stand for.
Yeah; a plague like this is gonna be unfair to someone, no matter how you look at it.
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Cuyval Dar
I can get behind this, presuming that this plague can't kill off male fishheads.
:ackbar:
:ackbar:
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Hansagan
Actually I did ask resident Biologist Chaz if he could come up with some science behind the disease....I may try to reword it into our histories.
And post said histories at some point
And post said histories at some point
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RocketGirl
Roly-poly fishheads?
RG is kinda renowned for her "subtle as a brick through plateglass" approach to most things, bless her l'il pointed head. *grins*
I dig the philisophical conversation that popped up though. It raises a point that I've considered a couple times during the course of reading the comic: if one were transgendered (post-op, just as a study), would the virus be lethal? Less lethal? Potentially disfiguring (The one fan-comic that's been accepted as more-or-less canon showed an image of a man, covered in HEINOUS boils and whatnot)?
... In retrospect, I might have been more morbid than I thought...
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RocketGirl
Aww, there've been times when I've been quite subtle...and people miss it entirely.
Bah! Humans! *spit*
Roly-poly fishheads?[/QUOTE]
I took a fishhead out to see a movie
didn't have to pay to get it in!
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Dusty668
It would actually be fairly straight forward to put a killing trigger on something like the gene to produce testosterone instead of androgen. Have it do something like weaken the vascular system, or perhaps shut off the marrow system. Something like this could allow a "lucky few" to survive under very protected conditions to have a few last children with families.
The medical side of the comic was not explored much other than prosthesis and first aid for jail breaks.
However, the prosthesis side would show a much advanced understanding of the human bodies rejection of foreign implants than we have now, so a standard immune system shut off would not seem to be as deadly as it is now. Depending on how you handle it, that may be what you want though.
Boils would indicate a sloughing of the dermal layer, this would be a great terror weapon, and with possible limited guys with prosthetic skin, this would work great.
The medical side of the comic was not explored much other than prosthesis and first aid for jail breaks.
However, the prosthesis side would show a much advanced understanding of the human bodies rejection of foreign implants than we have now, so a standard immune system shut off would not seem to be as deadly as it is now. Depending on how you handle it, that may be what you want though.
Boils would indicate a sloughing of the dermal layer, this would be a great terror weapon, and with possible limited guys with prosthetic skin, this would work great.
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