page 1256 – I guess it’s like getting a bug stuck in your car
Okay, remember last week when I said I was a little disappointed that the page didn’t have more detail to it, but my common sense kicked in and told me it’d be a waste of time and energy? Well, obviously my common sense was taking a nap this time around, because WOW I got way too into the bells and whistles of this page. Somewhere between that meaningless sprawl of futuristic displays and the backwards transparent warning hologram and that… THING in the second panel, I really should have taken a step back and just asked myself what the heck I was doing. Then again, I didn’t wind up having to cover up too much with the speech bubbles, and that’s always the MAIN fear in getting too into the background details.
Speaking of time management, just a precautionary heads up: there’s a chance I MIGHT end up being on the road for most of the coming weekend, which MIGHT throw updates into a bit of a state of confusion. Depending on how things shake up, I might need to either scramble to get stuff finished a little ahead of schedule (which might interfere with me getting a new Voting Incentive done) or just push next week’s update back a bit (which might interfere with the FOLLOWING Voting Incentive) …or I might not end up going anywhere at all. It’s still kinda up in the air. One way or another, I’ll let ya’ll know what’s up when I do.
EDIT: New TWC Voting Incentive is up!
sometimes you get lucky when your ship runs into random space flotsam https://faroutthere.com/comic/page-34-the-increasingly-strange-story-of-avatar-and-the-comparatively-plain-tale-of-blip/
and then sometimes not so much….
Yeah, Avatar hardly ever drains anybody’s spinal tissue.
If she did, she’d probably end up puking it out. Which is honestly more dangerous than something else eating it in the first place.
Incredibly valid point. (and one of the most Far Out There things ever, if you think about it)
There’s a limited number of people on that ship that thing is even a threat to – Stilez? Tax? Nope. Vengeance? Hardly. Trigger – would sabotage it. If it went after Layla, Trigger would also sabotage it. Cap’n is safe in his suit. Blip doesn’t even have spinal fluid. Obviously Avatar is another “no”. I guess maybe the Nitpickers and the self-appointed hero team. Nitpickers are notoriously hard to kill, though. They have to be or they’d be extinct, because I suspect a lot of folks have the urge to kill them at times. So, it’s basically the kids playing superheros are the only ones in danger…ironically.
That’d be a fun side story: a terrifying deadly invader sneaks onto the ship, and ends up fleeing because the passengers are all way more dangerous than it is without even trying.
The problem is, the reaction from the Kids being injured by it would be FAR worse than anything but Tax being injured, or it forcing food/water down Avatar’s throat. Combine that with the fact that Marshall and May aren’t official Nitpickers, May seeming to be the type to poke something dangerous with a stick, and Marshall seeming to be the type to avoid troubling situations when possible…
Also, the Massacrecycle seems like it’s possibly part biological, so it’s entirely possible that it’s outside of Trigger’s “I can disable technology practically on instinct” abilities.
Nah, this is the distant future, if a saboteur couldn’t sabotage partially or entirely biological systems/weapons/security they wouldn’t get 30 seconds into a minimum security area without getting caught. Statistics show that the average ‘techno’ security system is really only about 40% technological, 30% biological, 25% magicological, and 5% monsterlogical (it would be more, but good quality monsters are expensive!)
It is surely true that those kids getting injured would have devastating consequences: Mariska would almost certainly get slammed by her boss on her next performance review! 😮