Talk:Outpost D-109

Planet New?

That caption is probably not intended to suggest the planet's name is "New". On the other hand, I scraped names out of thinner stuff back when I was working on Who's Who: Handbook of the Amalgam Universe, so I'm not going to carp. JW 10:15, 19 February 2011 (EST)

I don't think there's any possible way to read that caption in a way that "New" is not the name of the planet and have it make sense. I've opened up the comic and there's no context surrounding the panel that suggests an alternative. --ItsWalky 10:37, 19 February 2011 (EST)

I at first though it was the adjective "new", though I thought it was placed in the sentence awkwardly. Then I found some pages requesting "New" and upon rereading it, yeah, there's no way it can not be the planet's name (though, don't ask me who would have named it). Geewunling 11:51, 19 February 2011 (EST)

Hmm. If it was "New, teeming with potential life, this world is on the brink of existence," then "new" would clearly be an adjective. The problem is that the bit of the sentence after the em-dash has no verb, which means "teeming" has to be the verb, which means, yah, the only way to diagram the sentence is to have "New" be the subject.

What I suspect really happened is Furman intended "new" to be an adjective, put together a non-sentence by accident, and we're being excessively literal here. But, like I said, I can go with it. JW 14:02, 19 February 2011 (EST)