SSSS Read-Along: Chapters 0-10 [Finished]

[yuuago]

One of the best ways to survive a SSSS chapter break is to re-read the comic!

How it works: Every few days, a separate subthread will be posted to this entry for each chapter. Read the chapter, post your thoughts! Let's survive this chapter break together.



Read-along schedule:

April 09: Prologue - Thread
April 11: Chapter 01 - Thread
April 13: Chapter 02 - Thread
April 15: Chapter 03 - Thread
April 17: Chapter 04 - Thread
April 19: Chapter 05 - Thread
April 21: Chapter 06 - Thread
April 23: Chapter 07 - Thread
April 25: Chapter 08 - Thread
April 27: Chapter 09 - Thread
April 29: Chapter 10 - Thread


For discussion unrelated to the re-read, head over to the Discussion Post.
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Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=13

I see what you did there, Minna. Nice Pandemic reference. (Yeah I know lots of people have pointed it out before but shhhh)

I wonder how the apocalypse went down in Madagascar and Japan. Based on what we know about the illness and its effects, I don't know if Madagascar could pull through - it's warm and close to the mainland. But maybe Japan would weather it a little easier?

Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

Mm, it always seemed to me that if Iceland held up okay due to insularity, logically other islands could as well. :|a


Hokkaido could hold up, I'd think, I was under the impression it gets a pretty solid winter. Sakhalin and other decently-sized/supplied more northerly Okhotsk Sea islands too.


I wonder how Australia would fare. They're isolated and out of the trajectory of the disease's spread (although didn't we see that the Rash made it out to the midwestern US? so who knows), but the beasts that would crop up there would be a damn nightmare.

Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

I was gonna be like "well, I dunno, Iceland is pretty isolated" but then I remembered another island location. Bornholm got through pretty well. I yeah, I guess you're right. Islands in general would probably be pretty okay!

I've heard the same re: northern Japan. Since cold winters are pretty good at holding grosslings back, that would be great for them.

The disease definitely made it to the USA http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=47 Which makes me wonder how things went down over there. And how long it took for things like the internet to collapse. Looks like it's still up by Day 40, otherwise there wouldn't be a way for Iceland to get hold of that photo, but ????

As for Australia, I dunno... they're isolated, but they're also freaking huge, so it'd be harder to shut themselves off than it would be for someplace smaller, wouldn't it? Their beasts might not actually be THAT scary though, I mean most of the horror stories you hear about Australia are reptiles/fish/spiders/etc, none of which can catch the illness. So, as far as mammals go, the scariest beasts would probably be... dingoes, kangaroos, and... what else? Like, platypuses are poisonous, but they're also tiny....

Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhhhhhhhhh. I forgot about that. It only infects mammals?


Well. Still. Enormous mutant wombat murder ass.

Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah! I keep forgetting it myself, but it's on one of the infopages
http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=102

I guess the reason it doesn't stick in my brain is because "Reptiles/fish/birds/etc are totally immune, but all mammals are susceptible to the illness... except cats? That sounds fake, but okay."

Murder wombats. That would actually be terrifying.

Re: Prologue

[elleth]

Maybe marsupials are immune as well?

Murder wombats. Murder koalas. Murder kangaroos.

Re: Prologue

[aguacatillo]

Yeah, I wasn't thinking marsupials would be immune, and kangaroo beasts sound like they'd pretty much do in the whole landmass. Oh well, bye Australia.

Re: Prologue

[(Anonymous)]

Oh! Thanks! Yeah, I guess it does leave some room for fishing as a reliable food source, though. Gotta have that tuna for that tuna crate full of stowaway!


Right? And, oh nooooooo poor koalas. ;A;