Skip to content
Explanations. This is for you. The joke in this one was thrown in there because this is the inevitable aftermath of a plot twist. I made that second panel very deliberately, as a reference to the third comic (chronologically of course) where we first meet Mort. As you probably noticed (hey where's my stupid joke for Saturday morning?) the comic was late. My only excuse is How to Train Your Dragon. If you've seen the film, then I need not explain more. It was great and the ending really knocked me out. Very brave.
But on to the comic. John (the Official Writer yadda yadda) and I bounced this one back and fourth to figure out the detailed writing on that first panel. I came up with the holodeck line so we could show that the Mort we've been watching (and therefore the whole arc up to this point) is real. If we left that ambiguous, the whole arc falls apart. It would be all a dream, and Moriarty would just be floating off forever into a hologalaxy. I hope this sums it up nicely and I hope it's not too heavy handed an explanation.
[caption id="attachment_685" align="aligncenter" width="594" caption="So Mort, what atrocity are you committing in the name of your godless science today?"]
[/caption]
2 thoughts on “Holodeck..”
Matt
Look, I know this whole inter dimensional world stuff is confusing as it already is, but for the sake of avoiding a brain overload, what exactly is going on here? A)Have we, the fans, been following red shirt mort from the beginning, or B)are we now listening to a version of Mort who happens to be traveling across the multiverse and ended up in the one we’ve been around with the longest? This better not be some anti-twin crap, however. That gets old pretty fast. No offense ^^;
Tomcat
The Mort we know and love is the one in the green shirt (you can see his five o’clock shadow). The Mort that is dating Posey is different. Don’t worry. The reason for the holodeck line in this one is to state the fact that this isn’t some fantasy, or dream or some cheap thing like that. Heh. He’s not an evil twin, if anything the Mort we know would be the evil one.