One page from New Mutants 32 - It's as easy as 01, 10, 11

[icon_uk]

The various members of the team discuss what to do in the wake of Regenesis





I love these two, and that smug little smile of Doug's in that last panel (Though one has to wonder what he was saying in the second one)
 

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

doug needs to eat something... that soup will not do... he needs some meat and potatoes....

[icon_uk]

Some people are naturally skinny, Doug appears to have grown into such a person.

[shadowpsykie]

yeah but he doesn't look skinny, he looks gaunt. shallow cheek bones, shadows under the eyes. i seriously looks like he hasn't eaten or slept since Hell/hel.... it's not very attractive... i can only imagine his tooshie has gotten so bony.... and we all know how much you love tooshie :D

[icon_uk]

Third panel, maybe a little, but the others... not seeing a problem. Besides it'd just make him easier to cuddle.

[sinisterlink]

That third panel he seems to be turning into Peter Cushing.

[espanolbot]

There are worse people to turn into. Tommy Wiseau for example.

[magus_69]

You are TEARING ME APART, ESPANOLBOT!

[newnumber6]

I wouldn't mind it, I could even like it, if pretty well every appearance since his resurrection hasn't been super-buff. It just seems odd to suddenly switch.

[evilsneak]

Just had to say I love the icon.

[icon_uk]

Thank you, courtesy of the inestimable M Parkinson

Whose work can also be seen here

[sinisterlink]

There conversation reminds me of when I go into comic stores and guys are in there talking about the different card games and stuff that I'm not into. Sounds like a foreign language. :p

Hey, he didn't say anything!

[bestiasono]

Bah, such a small number of 1s and 0s wouldn't convey any useful information. Should have been far more of them, in smaller text, with a ... at the end to indicate there were many more being said.

Silly non computer people.

Only if you rule out...

[icon_uk]

Only if you exclude the likelihood of one HELL of a compression algorithm, which in their case (these guys have shared genetic code so know each others ins and outs (or 1's and 0's)) seems quite likely.

Re: Only if you rule out...

[outlawpoet]

yeah, or worse, they could have pre-generated "vocabulary" with phrases and concepts uniquely referenced. So they're not talking in binary so much as reciting binary tags to stuff they've already shared, like a monster version of shrinking strings using base256.

Re: Only if you rule out...

[icon_uk]

The text IS the metatext! :)

Re: Only if you rule out...

[newnumber6]

Or the old joke about the scientists who know all their favorite jokes and so number them and when they want to tell one of them, they just yell out the number.

Re: Only if you rule out...

[outlawpoet]

"it ain't corny, it's compression!"

Re: Only if you rule out...

[icon_uk]

Or it could even be tonal. Since we can't hear them, they might be 0-ing and 1-ing in different pitches (Think the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" communication with the mothership sequence)

[shadowpsykie]

hmm they should hook up with Madison Jeffries... take that as you will :D

[icon_uk]

Forge, Cypher, Warlock, Madison Jefferies and Danger

"Toys" like you wouldn't BELIEVE!

[terrykun]

No Nemesis?

[icon_uk]

He's more biology and biochemistry than technology isn't he?

[featheredserpent]

+ Aaron Stack and Jocasta

[sir_mikael]

Aaron is full of very useful devices.

[causticlad]

Being a gigantic nerd, I tried to decipher (ha!) Doug's first speech bubble -- it's not even gibberish, if you try to decode it to ASCII. I didn't bother with the other ones after the first failed.

Too bad. If it had been me writing this I totally would have put in U-U-D-D-L-R-L-R-B-A-S-T-A-R-T.

[icon_uk]

Or a Johnny O'Binome routine

[kiev4am]

That's adorable. There's not enough Warlock and Doug just hanging out together and being geeks. Love Warlock's smug 'I won' face in the last panel :)

[icon_uk]

Agreed, it's lovely to see them interacting and just talking.

[silverzeo]

DO those mean anything, like Reboot's "Take My Wife" joke, or was that just pointless numbers?

[icon_uk]

Our resident geeks elsewhere in the replies say it's meaningless.

But numbers are never pointless, at least not to Doug or 'Lock, who probably have more than one form of private binary shorthand between them.

[proteus_lives]

Best friends/self understand each other!

It's a thing of beauty.

[icon_uk]

Oh just you wait, I have something coming in the post to me which will.... but I say too much. ;)

P.S. You Scanblocker!

[proteus_lives]

I picked this up today after work and was reading NM and thought, "Oh cool, I'm so going to post this Doug/Warlock page on SD if icon_uk has beaten me to the punch."

But I got home and you already had.

Scanblocker! :D

Re: P.S. You Scanblocker!

[icon_uk]

Hee hee! :)

[pallas_athena]

Judging by Warlock's pose, the binary in that last panel translates to "Self/friend want to come round to self's place? Bouncy, bouncy!"

[icon_uk]

In other words, a night like any other...

[ian_karkull]

I do love Warlocks goofy, cartoonish facial expressions.

[eyz]

Me too :'3
Such a fun charact er to look at/feature in a story.

[icon_uk]

I always assume that Warlock and Cypher were introduced at much the same time because of their balance. Warlock is absolutely an artists character, Cypher is absolutely a writers character. I can imagine Claremont and Scienciwicz making a deal on it! :)