Did Mt. St. Helens Errupt in the Fallout World? You Decide!

The-Artist-64

The-Artist-64

"Set Phasers to Fun."
Okay, now I'm inspired. The Vault 12 comic is still just as good the seventh time you read it. I'm going to be making the Vault 6 comic. The art will be horrendous, of course, but I'll try and make it as great and fun as possible. Note, it WILL suck. Don't get your hopes up. So: a completely different story, but a similar experiment...what happens when the vault door has a small crack? When compared to Vault 12's completely nonfunctional door, it doesn't seem too bad. Or...is it?

Vault 6 is located within Mt. St. Helens. Of course, we all remember the tragedy of its eruption in 1982. But...did it erupt in the Fallout world? I have to say that it did. Despite the divergence occurring after WWII, some things don't change, geological events included.

Would it be more interesting to have a normal, non-erupted Mt. St. Helens? Voice your opinions below...
 
How did I not think of getting on this Fallout comic train yet?

Maybe I'll think of something too.

Do your thing man! I would love to see it and voice my opinion. The vault 12 comic is indeed amazing. I would love to find a similar but more personal artstyle. That 50's blocky simple colors type thing, or maybe further from it. .
 
Question: doing a little armchair research, Mt. St. Helens is a stratovolcano; a volcano formed by multiple layers of cooled lava that have resulted from frequent and/or periodic eruptions. St. Helens involved a series of minor eruptions, landslides, and earthquakes to cause a huge build up and release. Even if it were for an experiment on vault citizens involving lava and constant terror, people would know about it being a volcano. Because of this, unless you pretend these periodic disturbances don't occur in the Fallout universe, placing the vault under St. Helens with only the intent of daily leakage smacks a little of poor consideration. Surely the experiment would involve those disturbances or instability, unless their projections for mutation resulting from daily leakage were so short-term that such environmental disturbances were considered irrelevant to the experiment? But if it were just a typical mountain, why would they name an established volcano, when, due to a lack of information, the audience will presume it to also be a volcano in the Fo universe?
 
Moosick said:
Question: doing a little armchair research, Mt. St. Helens is a stratovolcano; a volcano formed by multiple layers of cooled lava that have resulted from frequent and/or periodic eruptions. St. Helens involved a series of minor eruptions, landslides, and earthquakes to cause a huge build up and release. Even if it were for an experiment on vault citizens involving lava and constant terror, people would know about it being a volcano. Because of this, unless you pretend these periodic disturbances don't occur in the Fallout universe, placing the vault under St. Helens with only the intent of daily leakage smacks a little of poor consideration. Surely the experiment would involve those disturbances or instability, unless their projections for mutation resulting from daily leakage were so short-term that such environmental disturbances were considered irrelevant to the experiment? But if it were just a typical mountain, why would they name an established volcano, when, due to a lack of information, the audience will presume it to also be a volcano in the Fo universe?
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Ha! It's not my idea to put it under Mt. St. Helens. Vault 6 was to be featured in the canceled game Fallout Extreme. I was just resurrecting the idea. In that case, think I should change the location?
 
That's not what I meant. Having thick skin is one thing, but having integrity is a completely separate affair. The "comic train" is sort of another bandwagon that people hop on because there's enough attention paid to the material and using certain resources is relatively inexpensive and fast to produce. In effect, it's a cheap product being churned out because there's an undisciplined audience ready to just gobble it up. The self respect I was referring to was the variety where you look at an easy road to travel and decide for yourself, "Nah, I'll stick with the road of principle, even if it is the harder path."
 
The-Artist-64 said:
Ha! It's not my idea to put it under Mt. St. Helens. Vault 6 was to be featured in the canceled game Fallout Extreme. I was just resurrecting the idea. In that case, think I should change the location?
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I know, but if you're gounna do the whole comic thing, that's what comes to mind as a problem.
 
SnapSlav said:
That's not what I meant. Having thick skin is one thing, but having integrity is a completely separate affair. The "comic train" is sort of another bandwagon that people hop on because there's enough attention paid to the material and using certain resources is relatively inexpensive and fast to produce. In effect, it's a cheap product being churned out because there's an undisciplined audience ready to just gobble it up. The self respect I was referring to was the variety where you look at an easy road to travel and decide for yourself, "Nah, I'll stick with the road of principle, even if it is the harder path."
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Well, I hope you don't think that about me. It was just some coincidental timing, what with the release of Fallout 4 and my decision to go ahead with a comic. Maybe. Still thinking it over.

Moosick said:
The-Artist-64 said:
Ha! It's not my idea to put it under Mt. St. Helens. Vault 6 was to be featured in the canceled game Fallout Extreme. I was just resurrecting the idea. In that case, think I should change the location?
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I know, but if you're gounna do the whole comic thing, that's what comes to mind as a problem.
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A valid concern. Huh. Well, shoot. Not sure how I could address that. Maybe that whole 'quick experiment' thing was a good idea. Then again, according to the Fallout 2 intro, whole mountain chains were created and destroyed as the Earth's tectonic plates buckled under the pressure of nuclear bombardment (although I somewhat doubt that's true). Wouldn't that set off the volcano, if it hadn't gone off already?
 
Well you don't need to hold right to that original canon, and you could easily do some 'fixing' as per your OP to actually make the vault's placement in keeping with the experiment. Just use your creativity, think it through, and don't pander for the sake of pandering.
 
The-Artist-64 said:
Well, I hope you don't think that about me.
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Situation is not the same as intention. The same situation may have the tendency for intentions to share a similarity, but it's not a guarantee. That said, I don't know you. I don't do that whole judgement thing when I don't have any formed opinions of someone at all. I'll still prefer the method I personally perceive as the "higher road" any day, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the fruits of the "road oft traveled" either. I like Game Grumps and I like Critical Miss. They're both examples of caving into trends (Let's Play videos and digital comic series), but I like them both for what they offer.
 
SnapSlav said:
That's not what I meant. Having thick skin is one thing, but having integrity is a completely separate affair. The "comic train" is sort of another bandwagon that people hop on because there's enough attention paid to the material and using certain resources is relatively inexpensive and fast to produce. In effect, it's a cheap product being churned out because there's an undisciplined audience ready to just gobble it up. The self respect I was referring to was the variety where you look at an easy road to travel and decide for yourself, "Nah, I'll stick with the road of principle, even if it is the harder path."
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True, you can become a part of something merely to jump on the bandwagon, and there are many online comics that deal with gaming trying to make Fallout stuff and not succeeding much. Or at least showing that the creators are maybe a little desperate to get their stuff out there.

But the Vault 12 comic is fucking amazing, and shooting for something on that level of quality is a good thing.
 
SnapSlav said:
The-Artist-64 said:
Well, I hope you don't think that about me.
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Situation is not the same as intention. The same situation may have the tendency for intentions to share a similarity, but it's not a guarantee. That said, I don't know you. I don't do that whole judgement thing when I don't have any formed opinions of someone at all. I'll still prefer the method I personally perceive as the "higher road" any day, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the fruits of the "road oft traveled" either. I like Game Grumps and I like Critical Miss. They're both examples of caving into trends (Let's Play videos and digital comic series), but I like them both for what they offer.
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Perhaps waiting for a few years until I actually publish it would work better for me, then.
 
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