Nate, I think you're the one reading too much into it. That's very clearly a picture of Deep Blue, a computer that's famous for playing chess and not just any desktop PC that needs rebooting. This is a comic about Deep Blue beating Death. The title is just a pun on Deep Blue's name.
First time posting, but not the first time I've been baffled by some comments.
It's a humorous look at what happens when a computer gets a Blue Screen of Death. In order to reboot, it needs to beat death in a game of chess. I think some people try to put way too much effort into finding subtle allusions in them that they ignore the big clues (case in point: the title). Death might be good at chess, but he can't make 2 billion calculations per second, and each time a computer reboots, he has to get his ass handed to him again.
Damn, I needed to read the comments to get it... I guess I'm not used to Death having a face, what with the heavy-hooded "grim reaper" look being so standard. I guess I should watch more foreign films. :-P
Swedish, as I am, I think this is hilarious :P, What colour is death? Black of course, that suits him the best, as he says in the movie! Though as some have pointed out, Kasparov beat Deep Blue so death if anybody would certainly beat him too, but that wouldn't make a funny comic! SO keep it up!
Because Bill & Ted beat Death multiple times at multiple games.
The premise is Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, where, if you die, you may challenge Death to a game. If you win, you get to command death. If you lose, he gets your soul. Also, Station.
It's a reference to the common theme in a lot of stories that when you're going to die, you get to play a game against Death, and if you win, you live. Death always wins, but apparently even Death can't beat Deep Blue.
I love it, it's definitely among my favorites of all time.
At first I was thinking about how in the old days of windows it was a sore looser when it came to chess if you won the game it would crash consistantly until you rebooted.
My mind was then taken back to Bill and Teds Bogus Journey when they were playing against death,
and when the two thoughts came together my interpatation was this
Death beat Big Blue. BB BSOD'ed (ie died) and required a reboot (resurection) before anything could be done with it and thusly loosingthe chess battle but wining the war for life
Hm. Kinda weak. The art is gorgeous, don't get me wrong. But I would've wanted a bigger twist or something. I understood that that was Death versus Deep Blue. But I would've had Death battling for his "life". Since he lost, DB could say "Come with me" and take him away to the Robot Underworld or something.
Sometimes when people suggest how you guys can improve a particular comic I read their "better" idea and wonder if they have recently suffered a head injury....
..except for in the comments for "Pancake Dragon" >_< --heh
People keep talking about The Seventh Seal. I've never seen it, but I got the joke after seeing Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. What I want to know is if Death asked for best two out of three and challenged Deep Blue to Connect Four.
why in god's name would you need to see Seventh Seal?! I have never heard of it, but the Game (normally chess) For Your Life is very old, and shows up in a large amount of other things. Two I can think of off the top of my head are Animaniacs did an episode, as well as the movie Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Death may not look the same, but with the title Blue Screen of Death and how it looks in general I got it immediately. That said...AWESOME!
The game vs. death scene in Bill and Ted and a lot of films/shows are references to Seventh Seal. One of my favorite homages to it is the ending of Monty Python's Meaning of Life with the bickering about the salmon mousse. :D
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