A Death at the Gates of Heaven – Page 8
Still alive, but barely.
About A Death At The Gates Of Heaven:
This story first appeared in 2018 in the Spiderforest Webcomic Collective anthology Threads: A Gallery of Rogues, which is available in print for the impatient among you by clicking on the image below. It appeared alongside fifteen other graphic short stories in full color, and so for my money it’s a good buy for entertainment during the current time! You can also find other volumes of our anthology, and the work of a lot of other great Spiderforest artists worth looking into.
And of course, please give Ally’s spectacular Wychwood a look as well!
And as always, thanks for the continued support! The notes and emails I’ve received have all been so positive and encouraging, I can’t tell you all how much it means to me. God bless!
That you did – the order of extinction.
Though that is some next level of hypocrisy on S’s side – it’s the wolf that is a victim, not a sheep it ate. Something tells me there will be a centran next leaving through airlock for a walk – without any protective gear.
Notice how S is the first to get violent.
This highlights something important, to the Cent folks we’re savages that needed order, this sounds like a galactic form of Imperialism. Realistically if you kick over a fire ant mound, you don’t get to complain when they sting you.
I bet they even have a CLM movement.
Easy now.
Seriously can’t see living with that prick as preferable to extinction. Can they feel pain I’m sure many would like to find that out the long way.
Unintentionally inspired a dialogue, hmmm?
Well given that this dialogue dates to 2011 originally, not really. Actually it was inspired by an exchange in the book “Fatherland.” But like the fella says, there’s nothing new under the sun.
“Fatherland” was an interesting novel, also made an interesting movie, starring Rutger Hauer. Harry Turtledove did a similar alternate history with “In the Presence of Mine Enemies.”
Did the centrans not figure out how to make nukes or did they choose not to? The way he doesn’t specifically name them seems like they’re not as much of a known factor for centrans and the fact the the humans ended up needing to use them sure seems like the war was not going well
Barbarians use indiscriminate weapons. It’s far more civilized to use regular weapons indiscriminately.
The Sci-fi novel Footfall actually has a similar argument. The humans use atomic bomb to stop the invading alien advance and the aliens are horrified by the fact humans where willing to irradiate their own planet.
This is precisely why we have that saying about not cornering an animal.
Just checked in here after a long time of not seeing updates. It’s great to see this interlude, although I’m sorry things have been so rough for you. Hang in there, and I hope you’ll be well. Enjoying what I’m seeing so far. I’ve been wondering what’s happened to your old personal site at the viciousprint.com root; it’s not been accessible for a while.
Thanks for coming back! As to my old Viciousprint blog, it ran its course and I lost interest in updating two sites at once so I archived it and pulled it down. This was maybe three or four years ago. All the stuff is saved but it became one of those “shouting into the void” exercises I’ve been less and less interested in as time has gone on.