Friday, August 10th, 2001	#483
The Next Generation	Enthusiasm

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		The First Strips The Beginning of the Story Mega Man's Missing! The Introduction of the Author The Author as Mega Man The Return of Mega Man The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of George The Hand-drawn Comics I - George's Summer Job The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of Napalm The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Return of Mega Man The Return to the Beginning The Attack of the Yellow Demon The Return of the Author The White Space Why Alcohol is Bad for You The First Megaman Game The Attack on Dr. Wily The Hand-drawn Comics II - Introductions, Version 2.0 The Hand-drawn Comics II - College Orientation Not Again Just Another Day Not Just Another Day The Introduction of George The Introduction of Bob The Attack of Bob The Aftermath of Bob Tales From a Parallel Universe 1 Prelude to a Bad Time A Bad Time Tales From a Parallel Universe 2 Back to the Past The Party The Second Megaman Game - Prologue The Second Megaman Game - The First 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - The Last 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - Back at the Lab The Second Megaman Game - Meanwhile The Second Megaman Game - The Attack on Dr. Wily The Second Megaman Game - The Aftermath Back in the Future The Author's Breakdown Tales From a Parallel Universe 3 Something Stupid The Next Generation Another Coffee Break Tales From a Parallel Universe 4 In the Year 21XX The Arrival of Mynd The Attack of Mynd The Third Megaman Game - The Pregame Show The Third Megaman Game - Magnet Man & Hard Man The Third Megaman Game - Top Man & Shadow Man Tales From a Parallel Time The Second Party The Third Megaman Game - Spark Man & SnakeMan The Third Megaman Game - Needle Man & Gemini Man The Third Megaman Game - Doc Robot The Cataclysm Flashback The Third Megaman Game - The Doc Robot Fight The Third Megaman Game - Resolution Something Different The Attack of Mega Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5 N4T3'5 R3C4P W33K The Fourth Megaman Game - Stalin's Brain The Fourth Megaman Game - Exposition Exposition The Fourth Megaman Game - Fixing Ran Dave's Adventures in Canada The Fourth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress The Third Party The Fourth Megaman Game - Mega Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Bright Man & Pharaoh Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ring Man & Dust Man Non Sequitur The Fourth Megaman Game - Skull, Drill, & Dive Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ran The Fourth Megaman Game - Cossack Bots BnG News Story Time Another Bad Time A Dog's Day George's Bad Day George's Really Bad Day BnG News Exposé Helmeted Preparations Helmeted Attack The Fourth Party The Adventures of Ninja Ned Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 1 The Fifth Megaman Game - Prologue Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 2 The Fifth Megaman Game - Star Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 3 The Fifth Megaman Game - Preparations The Fifth Megaman Game - Robot Masters The Fifth Megaman Game - Month of Destruction The Fifth Megaman Game - Darth Volcanus The Fifth Megaman Game - Wave, Stone, & Charge Man The Fifth Megaman Game - Final Battle The Fifth Megaman Game - Resolution The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Preamble The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Flashback The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Protean The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Charge A&E Biography Month The Fifth Party The Introduction of X The Attack of X The Mind of X, Part 1 Megaman 6 The Mind of X, Part 2 The Aftermath of X Prelude to the Worst Time The Worst Time The First Annual Robot Tournament - Introduction The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 1 The Sixth Party The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 2 The Sixth Megaman Game - Vic The Sixth Megaman Game - Stalling The Sixth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress All Good Things - The First Cycle All Good Things - The Second Cycle All Good Things - The Third Cycle All Good Things - Flashback All Good Things - The Fourth Cycle All Good Things - Mynd All Good Things - Sigma All Good Things - Captain Kinesis The Seventh Party All Good Things - Captain Kinesis All Good Things - The Last Cycle The Return of Bob - Shields The Return of Bob - Standoff The Last Strips The Epilogue

I honestly have no idea how this time scanning concept is supoosed to work. If they have a machine that can scan the time-space continuum for X's signature, wouldn't they pick him up all over the place? How could you pick a particular time and say, "There he is."? Would it be more of a range of time that you'd be looking at, and you could say that X existed in a particular place during these time intervals? If that's the case, I suppose Zero and Dr. Cain would have detected X in three separate time periods, aside from their own, right? I mean, first they would find him during the Second Megaman Game, which is what Zero mentions in the second panel. Then they'd find him arrivin in the "present", right after the temporal shockwave went through, which would technically also include what's happening right now. And I suppose the third time is when X is originally activated later in the comic. But regardless of how that technology works, why would Zero show up right now, at this point in the storyline? Why not a day before or a day after? Or a week ago? The only way I could possibly explain it would be with the idea of parallel time, that events in the future "move" at the same rate as they do in the present. In other words, if you travel into the future and stay there for five hours, when you return to the present, five hours will have passed. Or something like that. Relative to Zero and Dr. Cain in the future, one day X just up and disappeared. (This isn't taking into account that he disappeared because the past had been altered and neither of them probably existed anymore... no, that's been fixed, but X still apparently disappeared.) Relative to them and their time period then, they've spent the time since X disappeared looking for him, and they just "now" found him. They had to pick which of the three time periods to visit, and then go. And when they did that, Zero showed up here, now. Either that or they just chose at random. Of course, the real reason Zero showed up here and now is that I made it happen that way. But that's not nearly as interesting to think about.

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