The whole death thing is one of the biggest complaints about ME2. Not only was it pointless, but then they didn't even do anything with it. To be fair, though, it's not like they did anything with Shepard in ME2 anyways. ME2-Shepard is just a cardboard cutout that barks orders and lacks personality.
DT
over 12 years ago
Ha, I agree totally with your comment on Cerberus, Jo
2033
over 12 years ago
@Rain Harper: wouldn't that explode the skull? just saying.
Tkun
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120185]@Nerfnow[/url]: Shepard was smart enough to make a backup and keep it updated.
TK
over 12 years ago
The shep death rez is not a shark jump. That term is for something else entirely
Vulpis
over 12 years ago
Now there would be a punchline...this version of Tali takes her helmet off..and it *is* the Argonian Maid... ;-)
Caut
over 12 years ago
Necromancy and nanotechnology man, brought the body to the altar of mass effects. They said she really died and got resurrected as a super bisexual zombie cyborg made to kill and romance.
Type Lunatic
over 12 years ago
Clearly, Shepard was admitted to the Throne of Heroes, and, provided with a suitable vessel by Cerberus, was given a gentle nudge by the unconscious and universal will of humans to avoid destruction forming the base of all human existence, Alaya.
Andrew Hall
over 12 years ago
Why is it any time I see any comic about any variation of Commander Shepard, he/she is in bed with an alien? Maybe I don't want to play Mass Effect 3 after all >_<
Clever bastard
over 12 years ago
The notes in the second panel make a cross, kinda like a tombstone. :iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg:
@Nerfnow
over 12 years ago
Nanotechnology. Works just like magic, but does not require that much suspension of disbelief. Well, until now.
Rain Harper
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120170]@2033[/url]
There is a way to avoid said brawback. E.g. in "Fiasko", where "vitrification" is described as fast and brutal procedure. During that procedure liquid nitrogenium is literally shot-pumped into one's head, to ensure snap-freezing...
EltonBM
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120185]@Nerfnow[/url] Bioware just kind of "jumped a lot of sharks" with the death and rebirth of Commander Shepard. In the end, it was a link to make Cerberus more relevant, but they could had come with better and more functional ideas: If the Citadel leaders can't help, Shepard would need Cerberus anyway.
EltonBM
over 12 years ago
@nNerfnow Bioware just kind of "jumped a lot of sharks" with the death and rebirth of Commander Shepard. In the end, it was a link to make Cerberus more relevant, but they could had come with better and more functional ideas: If the Citadel leaders can't help, Shepard would need Cerberus anyway.
Negaduck
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120192]@Borodon[/url]
Why deny it? He's a fan of Tali too :D it's his comic let him do what pleases him ;-)
Borodon
over 12 years ago
Why. So. Much. Fanservice?
You're better than that Jo.
anarki
over 12 years ago
I love how you always put engie as shepard. FemShep FTW (and bonus - with Tali!) How I hate BW cause I couldn't get her in BW2. They even took Liara!
Nerfnow
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120184]@EltonBM[/url]: When Liara gives back your old ID tags, one of the options you have to answer is "these are not mine anymore"
I guess it simply open to discussion. Some may accept the old Shepard died and this is a brand new one. Others may just think he died and come back.
EltonBM
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120171]@Nerfnow[/url] Change physical characteristics is not hard if they can get a body that reentered in a planet, they found soap Shepard, and build it again!
The Grunt part, I think you killed the charade-They say they had to put a lot of bionics to keep that body alive, insert memories could be part of it.
Daniel
over 12 years ago
Femshep is a Nord! She died and went to Sovngarde!
Nerfnow
over 12 years ago
@Rain Harper: Hard science doesn't explain how I can go back from the dead with a different skin color, face and class. I died a bald white engineer and returned a blond black soldier? How this even work!
2033
over 12 years ago
then there's the problem with jumpstarting the organism again, too.
2033
over 12 years ago
@Rain Harper
you mean me?
I'm very familiar with the concept, but it's drawbacks as well. You can't simply freeze tissue since ice crystals in and around the cells puncture their membranes and upon unfreezing they collapse. same reason you shouldnt refreeze unfrozen foods, btw.
An Onymous
over 12 years ago
(1.) Why is Engie missing her nose?
(2.) lesbian Shepard action? Ahh Yeeaahhh....
Nerfnow
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120124]@Kazmohdim[/url]: You jinxed it. :)
Bob
over 12 years ago
Mass Effect sucks.
Daedalus
over 12 years ago
I fully endorse this pairing, even with the morbid pillow-talk.
Toothball
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120136]@Kuraido[/url]:
I figured Tali had the right number of fingers, you just get to imagine where some of them are this way.
Kuraido
over 12 years ago
@Cpt. Obvious:
I'm showing her right hand having "two" fingers in both the first and last panels. It actually has three, but the thumb-like digit is underneath the cover in the first frame and behind Engie's neck in the last frame. Of a happier note is where Tali's left hand went in frame three.
Rain Harper
over 12 years ago
You aren't familiar with hard Sci Fi, aren't You? The concept of cryo preservation (where all the life function are interupted, not just suspended) has been around for years. Check for example "Fiasco" by S. Lem.
Kazmohdim
over 12 years ago
I finally died for the first time I can recall in ME2. I got swarmed by husks on the final mission.
Devil Dan
over 12 years ago
Cerberus are such flip-flops. Evil in the first game good in second then evil again in third. joking
2033
over 12 years ago
i dont know how brain tissue reacts to freeze-drying, but let's just assume they could regenerate it.
2033
over 12 years ago
since the suit leaked one can assume the body was preserved by removal of liquids (evaporation through vacuum) and later quasi cryogenic storage, depending on where he floated around.
this would mean that the cells, appart from missing their liquids, where quite intact.
Triv
over 12 years ago
o.o
derp
over 12 years ago
Lusty*
derp
over 12 years ago
THE LUST ARGONIAN MAID!!!! i know its really off topic but in skyrim- THERE IS MORE BOOKS i will not however reveal them to you... as it is very embaresing to have a few shelf fulls
Silver
over 12 years ago
i know that feel bro :( "i think ill do this mission what could go wrong its just like crazy hard and chances of me not dieing are slim!" beat it without dieing "i think ill take a break from that stuff and do a easy side mission" goes to do mission gets killed by mech "ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME?!"
Triv
over 12 years ago
I just finished another char so i can see what happens with ashley in me3 if u dont cheat on her in me2 :D
Tkun
over 12 years ago
@Mein Herr: It is based on the distance of Mercury and Ganimede. at the hour he start drawing the comic.
Yup
over 12 years ago
Tali is best love interest.
Justin
over 12 years ago
I miss the old tf2 team in the first 100 comics and so on and i especially miss pyro. Jo please bring them back again, the whole engi needs a new home thing amde me crave them again.
T Chicken
over 12 years ago
Did she just say about Sovngarde? Especially the Mead (viking drink).
Daretobecupid
over 12 years ago
@BLU Scout: Done and done.
Brasileiro aleatório
over 12 years ago
Afterlife? É uma boate em Omega!
BLU Scout
over 12 years ago
Odd, shouldn't there be a Spy Here photo note behind them in the third panel by now? I don't got all day people!
Mein Herr
over 12 years ago
Does anyone know how Jo decides whether or not to draw noses on his characters?
Kazmohdim
over 12 years ago
I actually... havnt died in Mass Effect 2 yet.
I died lots in ME1, but ME2... i think its either to easy or im to good.
Momorikku
over 12 years ago
I can still hear the music in my head... *shudder*
Cpt.Obvious
over 12 years ago
Compare Tali's hands in the first and last frames.
Count her fingers, the number differs.
My work here is done.
J
over 12 years ago
Nah like Shepard told the guy at the Citadel, "I was only mostly dead."
Ninj77
over 12 years ago
Hey! Is it me or Engie just banged Tali with her bio-suit on? Come on, haven't your heard of bed-manners? At lest have the decency of taking your helmet off!
MagusX2
over 12 years ago
Apparently Cerberus forgot to give "Shepard" a nose when they Resurrected her...
just say'n...
GasBandit
over 12 years ago
Hell, check 5th Element. They rebuilt engie there from just a hand, memories and all!
Daniel
over 12 years ago
Why do cutscene deaths get the game over screen? Aerith must be really sick of the Lifestream.
Nerfnow
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_120042]@Anon[/url]: The suit is sealed anyway. If anything, Tali would suffer less than anyone else.
Foolish
over 12 years ago
FUCKING CAME. OH TALI.
Anon
over 12 years ago
wait...she's smoking next to someone with such a horrible immune system? Damn, Engie just doesn't care does she?