'Not A Villain' Webcomic - Kleya is trying to be heroic and apologize to Mina Lilly.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 86

Hint: Mina's last name is Lilly.

Random detail: The left side transports to 1 bedroom apartments. The right side goes to studio apartments. There are no bathrooms included in either option. That is reserved for Reality, only.

And I re-did panel 1's dialogue in order to include the blobs, err, background people's opinions!

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15 Comments

You have a way of making even the simple, normally boring, comics like this fun to read.

Ah, thanks! I’m glad to hear that!

Hackers wouldn’t have black faces!
They would have extremely pale faces from lack of sunlight!

All black people who use life are hackers. They have to be to get in, for the government enslaved all black people and forces them to work the farms. The few who are able to break into L.i.f.e. are proud and make a statement by choosing black avatars, which makes them stand out since no free person(in this comic) would ever want to pretend to be black. This has all been explained already.

Author edit: This has not been explained as this. The black is simply making the face ‘faceless’.

Is this for real or are you making this up?
Was it explained in one of the comments?
It sounds to racist to be true, however none of the characters were black and as the rest are grey blobs, I don’t know if I should believe this or not…

It’s not real. I believe it was done in scarcasm. Regardless, it’s not correct.

Wow. It takes a freaken long time to open a door in L.i.f.e. 🙂

You mean, open a door… Sift through hundreds of thousands appartments, see if the owner is around, gain approval, and walk through the door.

Hey Aneeka. I saw this movie trailer on youtube and for some strange reason, it made me think of your comic. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2PdvLO24rI
It is called The Light Master

Lol. It does have similar elements though hopefully mine isn’t as predictable. It shall be interesting to see if this Light Master film is able to procure the money it needs. I’d love to see more indie films make it more often.

Yeah. I never said it was a good movie. Honestly this movie looks kind of corny and the trailer pretty much gives the whole thing away. But its still weird how similar it is to your comic, (in terms of the general idea behind it).

Mmm, not really. The idea of living in a virtual reality and learning to hack it has fascinated many writers. Matrix is a great example. But both have the ‘savior’ trope while mine doesn’t.

I’ll agree that the dialogue was rather corny. If they get the funding they need, hopefully they can also get a decent editor that can help with the writing. 🙂

I’m still kind of perplexed as to the subtleties of how “dimensional” space is used in your interpretation of virtual reality… On one hand, it seems to be tossed aside as unnecessary, due to the lack of physical constraints, but on the other hand so much of the environment seems to be rather overemployed.

Part of the gap there can be explained away easily in terms of human psychology- we’re used to having physical spaces in reality, therefore having EVERYTHING being without form would be rather suffocating. So, LiFe is structured to still “feel” like reality without all the inconvenience.

The question, then, is how the definition of convenience is defined to the society present… there exists a huge swath of the population who spends the majority of their lives inside the virtual reality, meaning that to them LiFe is “the norm”. If that was the case, wouldn’t the public be CONSTANTLY demanding for progress in terms of making the “bland, same old structure” be more convenient and quicker? Instead of having all the dwellings in an apartment complex be accessed through one door, why not ALL the apartments on the street? or perhaps all public residences? all buildings period? or within the entire city?

Human progress is a built-in mechanism psychologically… if the design of LiFe gets stuck in a status quo permanently, people would get restless. Obviously, due to the span of time shown so far we can’t know for sure whether things DO change or not- but the current climate suggests that all things as they are, have (nearly) always been that way, and nobody suggests that anything will, or should be, any different.

The paradox at hand for me personally, is simply in how things -ARE- presented from what we’ve seen… it’s rather intangible so it’s hard to explain with examples without more serious thought on the matter, but some of the physical structures here seem inconsistent or contradictory. Like… “if this is how THIS is, then why does THAT need to be like that? they could just do it this way instead.” I get that kind of feeling sometimes when i read into the nuances of the virtual world as of LiFe, and I can’t quite pick out yet where the root of the problem lies.

Just caught up through the archives and I have to say I’m eager to read more of this, I like the style of giving the reader information bit by bit like this comic has.

Yay! I’m glad you like that style, too 🙂

And thanks for reading!!

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 86