Abby and Norma #757

28 July, 2010 - Posted by: erika

Yes, Abby WAS just saying that to start an argument. She's kind of a jerk.

I suppose if you accept the premise that your only choices are immortality in heaven or immortality in hell, then you'll probably want to go to heaven even if you do believe that immortality would get totally boring after a while.

Still, interesting to see that Chrissy is such a glutton for pain and penance that the only thing about hell that she couldn't bear would be Abby's presence. I don't know if that means she finds Abby enjoyable, or if Abby's the one thing unpleasant enough to break her.



TEXT OF COMIC:
Isn't it wonderful that science will someday let us live forever in robot bodies?
You're saying that just to start an argument with me.
Oh, come on. You're no fun. Robot bodies would be awesome, you know. We'll eventually be able to make them with all the abilities and senses that organic bodies have.
Who would even want to live forever? You would eventually get tired of it.
You don't really believe that. If you did, you wouldn't want to go to heaven.
The only reason I want to go to heaven is because you won't be there.
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Louis Bouchard - 28 July, 2010 - 06:03:19

Or maybe that would be her hell, to have to be with people like Abby for eternity.

Erika H - 28 July, 2010 - 07:53:21

Heehee. I guess it would.

I've been trying to add some more complexity to Abby's arguments with Chrissy, Cathy, her mom, etc. because those characters have been more "straw men" than anything else, and I'm getting sick of those arguments just being a way for Abby to look smugly superior.

I do usually agree with Abby's points, but she can be an annoying jerk like everyone else in the comic, and I need to make fun of her more. I've been feeling that for a while, and I think other people have too; recently I saw a website where someone named Abby and Norma as one of the worst webcomics ever, describing it as "dripping with smugness."

Well, yes, it is. Abby can be a smug little bastard, and I try to punish her for it sometimes, but I'm afraid I let her come out on top too often, because I've got this incorrigible weakness for her type of smugness. Abby says the things I would say if I weren't so conflict-phobic, and I envy her for it, even as I shudder to think what my social life would be like if I behaved like her.

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