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Charlie 04
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Charlie 04

by Jon Cairns on August 11, 2011
Chapter: Charlie
Characters: "Diver", Bravo, Charlie, Foxtrot, Hotel
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  1. Kiolia
    Kiolia
    August 11, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    I hope “Whiskey” turns out to be another “person”!

    • Lethal MD
      Lethal MD
      April 2, 2012, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      you need to watch joss wheedon’s “doll house”. You all do

  2. dahdahdah
    dahdahdah
    August 11, 2011, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    This entire comic reminds me of a point and click/escape the room type of game. finding objects and trying to figure out how to use them properly.

    It’s very exciting :D

    • Jon Cairns
      Jon Cairns
      August 11, 2011, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      That would be a blast. Probably confusing and frustrating, but a blast nonetheless.

      • Erin
        Erin
        August 15, 2011, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

        AF would make a pretty ultimate graphic adventure without having to change very much about it at all; disorientation is practically a genre staple without being half so interesting most of the time. GET ON IT, CAIRNS.

  3. Erin
    Erin
    August 11, 2011, 5:59 am | # | Reply

    I’m really dense, I think; I never equated the fact that Charlie’s fairly small, physically, with what he represents until now.

    • Jon Cairns
      Jon Cairns
      August 14, 2011, 4:03 am | # | Reply

      People don’t think I’m being serious when I say his crazy abs are thematic.

      (How can someone not be serious about the thematic appropriateness of ridiculous abs?)

      • Josh Pryor
        Josh Pryor
        August 16, 2011, 3:25 am | # | Reply

        Also;

        his jacket is made entirely out of abs.

  4. Kent
    Kent
    August 11, 2011, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    The (gimick?narrative device?) where Charlie can read the narration is really interesting. It makes the diver feel distant from the events that are happening. Maybe it’s his defense mechanism or something??? Whatever, it’s a cool thing good job this comic rocks.

  5. Kathleen
    Kathleen
    August 11, 2011, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

    I have a theory- the bird is “Kilo: wish to communicate”

    • MrGraves
      MrGraves
      August 15, 2011, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm. The only really consistent connection I’ve seen between the aspects and their associated signal flags are the colors. Sometimes they also match up with their name (Charlie, Hotel), but others don’t really seem to match up. The maritime meanings don’t seem to match up at all; there doesn’t seem to be anything about Hotel or Vague Memories that translates to having a pilot on board, and maybe there’s some way of tying them together but the other meanings don’t seem to match up that much with their aspects either. Then again, maybe November turns out to be the anti-Charlie, heh.

      One thing that I have noticed is that of the five we’ve positively identified so far, they’re all in the first half of the alphabet. Based on the bird’s coloring, and assuming that it’s also an aspect, there are three likely candidates for which one it is, and they’re all in the first half of the alphabet as well. Makes me wonder a) if that’s intentional, and b) what spurred the decision to assign any particular aspect to a particular letter, beyond aesthetics and the obvious name-matches like Charlie and Hotel.

      • MrGraves
        MrGraves
        August 15, 2011, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        I was also going to point out that they’re all consonants, but given that there’s only five vowels that seems much more like just a coincidence, heh.

        So I ran some numbers. Even counting Y as a vowel, the odds of the first six aspects chosen at random being consonants is 20%. 35% if you throw out the thematically named Hotel and Charlie. Odds on the first six (or four) being in the first half of the alphabet at random though is only 1.5% (or 6%). But then, it could just be they were selected to be in a quasi-alphabetical order based on appearance, so naturally ones like Bravo and Charlie show up first while we may not be seeing Yankee until near the end. *tries not to double-post too much in the future, heh*

        • Jon Cairns
          Jon Cairns
          August 15, 2011, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

          (Feel free to double post!)

  6. Flay
    Flay
    August 12, 2011, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    Just caught on everything to this page. The atmosphere is great and the concept is really intriguing. I’m excited to see where this is headed!

  7. V4V
    V4V
    August 17, 2011, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    The flags are starting to make sense… that is, the way madness makes sense to the insane.

  8. Jeaneai
    Jeaneai
    September 9, 2011, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    I like how the diver just looks apprehensive in this. Also, don’t Charlie’s abs ever get cold?

  9. Tesiantitesi
    Tesiantitesi
    October 6, 2011, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    I just tought about the palette shifting of charlie…
    those panels expecially makes me read him like Echo.

    However awesome choices as ever plus wonderful colors’ composition.

  10. Wazzelbe
    Wazzelbe
    May 19, 2012, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

    Why can’t I trust Charlie? The guy’s too… confident. I guess it’d be pretty lame if he threw up his hands and wailed on the ground in front of Diver. Then Bravo would probably fall to the ground and turn to dust, and then the story’s over. SO I guess Diver and I have to follow Charlie’s foolishly cocksure abs into probable danger.

    • Renee
      Renee
      May 23, 2012, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      who doesn’t want to follow charlie’s abs everywhere though?

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