I think I’ll try my luck with the Earth cleanse apocalypse. A whole lot of devastation for sure but going by disaster movies, it generally last a week to maybe a month and then I’m in the clear…kind of. The hope is I can get and stay airborn for as long as possible.
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The walking dead tv series makes me hoping that I’ll be the first one to turn into a zombie so i don’t have to engage with all the human drama
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Aw man think about all the zombie friends you can make. Surely you can turn a bunch of them before the police actually responds and tries to shoot you. And on the plus side, your body would look the most perfect since no one bites you first.
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Zombie apocalypse because it’s the least plausible thing to happen and we can all tell ourselves how badass we would be during one 
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I’d say the alien apocalypse is the least plausible. The only thing preventing a zombie apocalypse is the whole moving while decaying thing.
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Interesting idea. I think I saw a trash movie or two where the magnetic field was gone and the sunlight got really dangerous. But the heros managed to fix it before the atmosphere is washed away like it happened with Mars.
However an event in the past is basically a mix of your idea + the “earth cleanse apocalypse”. Namely the Great Oxidation Event where the carbon atmosphere of earth turned to today’s oxygen atmosphere in a short amount of time for unclear reasons, wiping out most of the existing life for which oxygen was toxic.
But well, these were only single-cell organisms and who feels sorry for those? :^)
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There’s a few I can think of.
Air is about the earth losing a breathable air supply. The main character is a scuba diver who happens to have a tank of air.
Interstellar, technically, is about an ecological collapse that renders the earth uninhabitable so the protagonists need to find a new planet to live on.
Midnight Sky is probably the movie you’re looking for though. It’s a George Clooney movie about a guy in the arctic who is the only known survivor of the earth getting irradiated. He is trying to keep a returning spaceship from landing.
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Considering how well the world followed directions during the peak of the Pandemic, I think the zombie apocalypse is the most plausible. That being said, i’d still choose it, because it’s not that hard to just avoid people. And walk somewhere that is very seasonal, so that when the winter comes the zombies freeze and i can go around smashing heads at my leisure.
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Considering how well the world followed directions during the peak of the Pandemic, half of the U.S. at least would be total goners because they would have run directly into the zombie horde yelling about their rights of freedoms or some nonsense.
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Which explains how zombie apocalypses that occur without every person coming back regardless of how they die and zombies only existing due to bites from other zombies actually end up getting anywhere.
A while ago, some people may remember I used to post on this thread about IDW Sonic a lot. I’m still reading IDW Sonic, it did have a little bit of a dip in quality and stakes with Evan Stanley taking over as head writer of the series from Ian Flynn (who got to write the story for Sonic Frontiers), and I think Stanley’s writing has a different kind of feel. Still, I feel like she is improving over her tenure. Evan Stanley actually has her own fan comic, called Ghosts of the Future. The plot of that comic is that Sonic and friends are killed by Eggman, with only Shadow surviving. Something like a 100 years in the future, Silver is alive, teams up with Sonic’s ghost, and old man Shadow and deal with some very deep Sonic lore cuts. It’s honestly a wild ride, but has some good writing, even if it falls into being unapologetic fan fic. Also wild is that the head writer of a Sonic comic is a big Silver/Blaze shipper.
Anyway, issue #73 just came out recently, with the current storyline heading for a big climax in issue #75, which will be a double length issue to celebrate the milestone. I want to mention issue #73 as this issue had fans submit their OCs which make cameos through the issue as spectators and riders. Honestly I just wanted to show them off that, yeah, there are a good number of OC designs out there. At this point Sonic OCs are probably 20+ years olds, and it is remarkable how much artistic talent there is in the Sonic fanbase. So seeing these OCs drawn by an official IDW artist is really great.
I also would like to do a poll and ask which cover for issue #75 is the best? Issue #75 will receive 6 variant covers, with some notable artists like Tyson Hesse, who saved the design of movie Sonic, and Yui Karasuno who works with Sonic Team in Japan, credited in Frontiers and Superstars as a “character supervisor”, and does a lot of the awesome official Sonic Channel artwork.
I hope IDW Sonic can hit issue #100, it seems like the biggest obstacle to that is whether or not IDW survives for another 2 or 3 years. Seems like all the news about IDW is how it’s just slowly dying. I need the comic to survive long enough so that I can brainwash @TheChicken into becoming a Sonic fan. I truly am a terrible influence on him.
- Cover A - Yui Karasuno
- Cover B - Mauro Fonseco
- Cover C (Double sided white) - Adam Bryce Thomas
- Cover 1:10 - Nathalie Fourdraine
- Cover 1:25 - Tracy Yardley & colours by Gigi Dutreix
- Cover 1:50 - Tyson Hesse
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Your doing God’s work
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IDW has been dying for a very long time but it never seems to fucking die. Every time they come close something happens that keeps them alive. Securing Sonic’s comic rights, TMNT: The Last Ronin, Energon multi-verse or whatever it was and the Transformers run by Daniel Warren Johnson to name the few.
IDW was last in the news for the now-dispelled rumours that they were so hard up that they were going to pay comic teams 200 dollars per page so it would make their talent promote it more so as to earn more.
It’s actually just a hundred Ken Penders working at a hundred drafting tables.
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By the way.
I think that I like The Drop better among the recent new Elusive Targets.
What’s your opinion on the question?
Who do you like better, The Drop or The Disruptor?
- The Disruptor
- The Drop
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Hey I had a realisation recently that I never changed my radio back to the FM dial after spending all of footy season on the AM dial after realising they actually play fucking music so I have a question for anyone who still actually listens to the radio: Do you still listen to AM radio?
- Yes
- No
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On the rare occasion that I actually do listen to anything, it’s usually AM radio. I don’t do Spotify, iTunes, satellite radio, or any of that. If I’m driving it’s usually in silence. I will still listen to WGN Radio (AM 720 in Chicago) over the internet though.
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Where would you rather be stranded?
- At sea
- In the woods
- In the desert
- In snowy mountains
- In a jungle
- In space
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Woods. By far the easiest to survive. Fewer deadly animals, fewer poisonous foods, fewer conditions under which you could die outside of exposure or carelessness, and most can be escaped within a couple of days if you just aim yourself in a direction and keep walking, especially if you follow running water.
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