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Dark Science #157 - Puppet Theater (Patreon)

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2024-12-02 09:59:41
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2026-06
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I'm sure this is fine. Definitely. Probably.

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Dark Science #157 - Puppet Theater - Dresden Codak

Prepare for trouble, and make it double! I'm still alive, despite the rumors. If you're looking for gifts this holiday season, check out my store, I've got a few new goodies!

Comments

Arianod

Vonnie chose soup :3

Orion Rhine

So *THAT"S* how they do it! I was wondering how people could be "recast." Volo just takes their archetype card and attaches it to someone else, right? And everyone just sees them as whatever the card is instead of themselves? This is getting more interesting by the minute. I wonder if Balthazar is going to be recast or discarded.

Stephen Wells

The good guys have got as far as Be Gay Do Crimes and the bad guys have now become *literally too gay to do their crimes*, this is amazing :)

Alex White

Stunning revelations to our favourite villains (Melchior doesn't count), and I adore your backgrounds here! A gorgeous nighttime cityscape in particular.

Torabi

I feel like crying, and I don't even know why. So many subtle, beautiful things just crept up and hit me in the feels, one after another. This was definitely a page worth waiting for.

Charles Wilkinson

Asmodea 1 just got a heck of an influx of epiphanies all at once. I suspect if Vonnie had waited but a moment then it would have been explained to her that Elith (Lilith/Asmodea 3) would also get the memory udpate and know whats going on.

Orlet Soir

Soup is *so* much better than violence :)

Sn4ptr4n

Absolutely 100% this

MJ

how is this straight and gay at the same time, are you a witch?

Hugh Eckert

This is cute and wholesome and also creepy. I love it.

PLM

The first half of this page looks slightly different from the usual style: there's black outlines and starker cel-shading. I don't think I've ever seen this before in Dark Science, does it mean anything...?

Benny Factor

The art style changes because of the shift in tone of the conversation - the first half is all business, so no need for anything else but basic shapes and colouring; by the end of it the characters have reconnected to their more human aspects, so the art style shifts back to a more vivid and nuanced approach like the rest of the panels. The art matches the tone of the conversation, and shows how Vonnie and Asmodea start off thinking like Dark Scientists, but end up closer to their human side by the end of the scene. (Which I think has been done very well here, great work Sen 🙌)

James Churchill

It explains Bogan's face heel turn - it was so abrupt, and so total, he was a caricature afterwards.

dresdencodak

This is just one of Volo's powers, presumably the one Asmodea used on herself to split into three people, splitting an individual into different personas. The casting/recasting subjected to Valerie and Hayakawa is, while currently mysterious, just institutional. As for Bogan, I'm afraid he's always been a shitbird. He's introduced as someone tricking and stealing from Kim, and the only instance of him helping Kim was after coercion by Melchior and being backed into a corner. He's also constantly rude and dismissive toward her, and the moment he doesn't think she's useful in attaining his goals, he rats her out. Bogan's not really more shitty now, it's just that someone like that will be more overtly shitty when they're in a position of authority.

dresdencodak

The short answer is that Thematic Extraction, in the case of Volo, is a Dark Sciency coping mechanism for being cast as Asmodea in the first place.

dresdencodak

This is the reality/realm of Volo when doing Thematic Extraction. We first see it way back in Dark Science #107, when Asmodea #1 is invading Kim's dream, using Thematic Extraction to isolate the Dark Equation in her mind.

Stephen Wells

The way Asmodea's speech bubbles have gone wobbly by the end of page, combined with the way they have dark speech bubbles when they're mask on/in character and light speech bubbles when they're mask off/out of character, is somehow causing me a little bit more psychic damage each time I look at the strip again. I think I need soup.

Stephen Wells

(looks back to 107 because of this) (reads a few strips forward from there) (freshly traumatised again, dammit Sen!)

Charles Wilkinson

I only just realised something. Vonnie calls Kim "The Cyborg" at the beginning with Volo asking her about it. Then at the end, Volo asks about "The Cyborg" and Vonnie says "KIM can wait".