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[Whereto]

is it even in the itunes store? cant even find it

[masterkajo]

I heard you can buy this comic digitally. How and where? Because I can't seem to figure out where to do it at darkhorse's website. My guess the service hasn't launched yet.

[typhoon353]

I do not mind the turian female not looking female as much as I do her not looking turian.



Removing the fringe was a terrible design choice that destroyed one of that species' most distinctive physical characteristics.

[MisterJB]

So, I'm guessing that touching that artifact is what made TIM's eyes look like that.

[typhoon353]

AwesomeName wrote...

I think it's fine that they have smaller fringes. Lionesses don't have manes, lots of male birds tend to look more "fabulous" than the females, etc., etc.

I wouldn't have minded a smaller fringe than the males, either. It would certainly have been preferable to the complete absence of it, as in this case.

Just this morning alone I have heard comparisons of it being made by friends and co-workers to, among  other things, a twinkie, the Persian Immortals of 300, Skeletor, some bastard offspring of the Phantom of the Opera and Diglett, and a condom. These are the more favourable ones, mind.

I'm not demanding it conform to human standards of feminity. However, I don't believe something recognisably turian would have been an impossible feat for the designers to have accomplished. It does not look turian, and that bothers me more than any lack of overtly female characteristics. 

[Snowblade]

Whereto wrote...

is it even in the itunes store? cant even find it

masterkajo wrote...

I heard you can buy this comic digitally. How and where? Because I can't
seem to figure out where to do it at darkhorse's website. My guess the
service hasn't launched yet.

Bioware promised that Dark Horse will release Mass Effect: Evolution digitaly via their new service and app but they didn't! They were supposted to launch the service on the release date with the comic. I am completly screwed because I live in Europe and it would take like year before someone here could get rights to sell the comic.

[snfonseka]

When I can get my digital copy?  <_<

[typhoon353]

AwesomeName wrote...

Looks turian to me - and I can see a fringe - it's just smaller.

Your powers of perception, alas, appear to have failed their owner utterly. As this handily appropiated image from the thread helpfully (and somewhat disturbingly) entitled "Calibrations: Garrus Love and Turian Discussion" illustrates, it should be readily apparent to even the most negligent of observers that the parts which constitute what is, by any measure, the fringe (or "crest", to use a more specific and technical term of reference) are either highly stunted (as is the case along the cheek and jowl) or absent in their entirety (as is the case along the reverse of the scalp).

These reductions render the subject with an aspect not entirely dissimilar to a drell what has, brutally and without provocation, slain a turian; whereupon, in the most gruesome and outrageous of manners, fashioned the facial plates of its victim into the mask under which it now stands before us in cruel and mocking masquerade of the deceased.

The astute onlooker, however, should be able to swiftly discern the extent of this fakery by simple reliance on the visual technique referred to in the common parlance as "the Uncanny Valley", where such attempts at mimcry are often easily dispelled by the general sense of unsettlement and revulsion evinced in sapient observers by instinctive reaction. In this particular instance, the subject (ostensibly a female turian), while in possession of mandibles, skeletal features, and all the other phenotypical aspects associated with that race, cannot but give the impression of being less than the sum of its parts with the conspicious lack of the crucial identitfying trait: the fringe, which the onlooker would seek out, by force of habit, as among the first hallmarks of membership in the turian species.

Instead, we are treated to a bald dome, the likes of which have never been seen since Britney left rehab; which, by virtue of its unusualness hithero never been linked with turians, fills the sight and occupies completely the better part of the awareness. The immensity of this barren expanse will make the viewer immediately cognisant that this creature bears little resemblance to other turians, and something in the body instinctually revolts against the association. 

tl;dr the turian fringe is one of the most unique features of the species and the complete disappearance of it makes them the lesser for it. It is as distinctive a feature, as say, scarves on a quarian, the hunchback of the krogan, and the blue on an asari. If I were to put a profile in silhouette of a fringed male turian, a batarian, and an unfringed female turian side by side, I would be immediately able to distinguish the first, but not the latter two, from the others.  

Join me next week as I explore in greater detail themes of emasculation, in a study of male turians who have been robbed of their magnificent fringes. 

Modifié par typhoon353, 20 janvier 2011 - 02:42 .

[NYG1991]

Dark horse already has a number of comics up for sale on iTunes including redemption but for some reason they don't have evolution

[Whereto]

typhoon353 wrote...
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Join me next week as I explore in greater detail themes of emasculation, in a study of male turians who have been robbed of their magnificent fringes. 

And when exactly does the next issue come out cause im quite interested in the study of male Turians  who have lost their fringes.

Though in all seriousness, your pretty right with your post. It totally detracts from the fact that Turians defining feature is their fringe and the absence of it actually makes it less like a Turian 

[typhoon353]

AwesomeName wrote...

Wow, that is complete and utter balls, mate...  My "powers of perception" have failed because I actually recognise a turian and a fringe that's smaller?  Only the "astute onlooker", i.e. smart people, should see that the design is rubbish?

Backed up by nothing but a wall of rhetorical BS and verbal gymnastics, you're basically saying that there's no such thing as a subjective opinion - that there is only one way an intelligent person can look at this - and that the correct way to look at it is your way.  That's completely ridiculous.

I hardly think it any fault of mine that you conflate a term quantifying perceptiveness with one denoting intelligence. The two are hardly mutually exclusive, for certain, but they cannot be construed as to have the same meaning. For instance, while hunting up at Ballochbuie near Bamoral with HRH Albert, Prince Consort, I made the acquaintance of a ghillie by the name Wee Jock Poo-Pong McPlop. A sharper, shrewder shikari you will never find in the vicinity of Aberdeen; but in all other affairs as dumb as a pile of bricks. Astute, I would describe him thusly; smart? I dare not. Are you able to distinguish between the two qualities as concisely? Apparently not.

As for the construction of an argument such as to make you feel you've been denied your rightful title to a subjective opinion without being considered a dunce; again I make no apologies, for that is the entire purpose of rhetoric. I have supplied pictorial evidence (and believe me, delving into a Garrus love thread was not the most pleasant of experiences) to support my "subjective" interpretation; and framed it in such a manner as to convince the persipacious reader of its validity. Am I to be arraigned for that, too?

And lastly- and this is on a wholly unrelated note- are you getting mad over a video game? Your tone seems to suggest as much; to say that excercise is ill-advised is to state the obvious. But of course, you are more than capable of seeing that for yourself... are you not? 

[PARAGON87]

I really hope BioWare listens to the fans and doesn't make this turian the standard for their females. I hope that this lack of fringe is due to a bad war injury that left her extremely disfigured, OR that this is a adolescent turian who hasn't developed his/her fringes, OR this is some sort of offshoot race of turians.

Because really it looks like a human with a mask on, in my opinion.

[CoffeeGamer]

"They are animals"
"Skull faces"
and others in this comic.
So in that order female turians looks very similiar to male. Just lake some animals in our world.
So i think that was the idea, behind it. If not, they will not even show them.

Modifié par CoffeeGamer, 20 janvier 2011 - 08:17 .

[masterkajo]

Still no online purchase option for the comic? Would love to read it.

[Sith_exar_kun]

I would like to download it but can't find on iTunes!

[Kolos2]

hehe another screw up, good job Chris..again

[vimpel]

GIMME SPOILERS!!!

[Snowarc]

For People that dont know how to use a Search engine


www.darkhorse.com/Search/mass+effect

[mage1102]

the digital dark horse link isn't working and the comic isn't on the iphone..

[Snowarc]

Google Dark Horse Comic





Go to there site



Search Mass Effect



Click on Evoulution



Buy



done

[didymos1120]

Hey Snowarc: that's all well and good for those who either have an Apple device or use Itunes or want a print version. However, your advice is useless to those wanting to buy digital and read it on their PC sans Itunes or otherwise non-Apple hardware/software combos. The problem some people are referring to is this:

Dark Horse Digital is supposed to debut this month, and Chris' announcement specifically mentions said service.

It has not yet debuted.

But the comic is out now.

Spot the problem?

Modifié par didymos1120, 22 janvier 2011 - 06:59 .