Okay! This is… the final page for this issue! Julia’s… home?
There will now be a break while I work on the script for Issue 18. It’s gonna take a bit of work but it won’t be a super long time, so stay tuned!
Okay! This is… the final page for this issue! Julia’s… home?
There will now be a break while I work on the script for Issue 18. It’s gonna take a bit of work but it won’t be a super long time, so stay tuned!
Holy… damn, there goes my hypothesis. She is mostly definitely royally messed up.
On the plus side, maybe now we’ll learn more about the true nature of the Black Idols. It’s weird, maybe Julia isn’t sufficiently infected, or perhaps this (strain?) of the black idol isn’t as aggressive fir some reason.
Either way, let me just end by saying: Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
OK now I know why the planet had no people… and AWWWHH poor Julia… Sad….
But why DID the planet have dessicated corpses?
You know, the husks with ribs inside, ball-shaped like Lily?
Something’s different here. Or rather, there.
and yes there is an ALIEN reference in this whole story arch
No there isn’t š
Certain things in previous issues did remind me of the film Prometheus (part of the Alien franchise; a prequel specifically).
funny It nixxed my last post../.???
Iām not sure what you mean.
Wowwww….man!
How sad. ^^;
I hope that the science crew decides not to “extinguish” Julia, and decides to hospitalize her, instead.
*fingers are clossed* š
Based on what we’ve seen in the past, I doubt they COULD extinguish her if they wanted to, at this point.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if a certain mysterious gentleman with a strange dog didn’t take interest…
Good point.
I hope that the gentleman, + his dog, [do] get involved.
Well that’s a letdown. At least Melanie got cleansed once, so maybe they’ll know how to do it again. Just not a fan of dragging out a character’s struggles just to show them fail at the end anyway.
I get your sentiment, I don’t want to see Julia fail either. That said, this infection looks different from what the idol did to Mel. It just used her body as a puppet and left a piece inside. This idol seems to be actively absorbing Julia like it did with the scientists on the moon base. I don’t see any hope for our girl. š
Ooof… fffffuck.
Yikes! It looks like those theories of Julia being taken over by the Black Idol were correct. Now I’m wondering if this was just a dream the Black Idol had her to through just get to her to open the portal, there was no other planet. Or it just constructed the dreams out of a civilization it absorbed in the past.
I’d say this isn’t like when a piece of the idol took over Mel and the doctor. They just made a puppet of of their bodies without absorbing them. Julia seems to be actively infected and is in the process of being eaten. It just played with her long enough to get her to open the portal.
My last reply didn’t go through. I don’t want to type all that again. So I’ll make it short.
Scratch my last theory. Julia picked up an infection by the Black Idol when she drank the water. Her hair style is the same as after she readjusted it while at the pool. And the idol is under her suit’s helmet, meaning it came from within her. Makes sense on why we didn’t see her face after she “killed” Lily. At the point I’m saying this is the end for her. I don’t think plot armor is going to save Julia. She took a gamble with that water and lost BIG.
I was going to say the same, but found your post. Agreed; it was in the water. And *augh*.
Plus, the background behind her isn’t the moon base. No decompression this time, either. (but there wasn’t when they were returning?)
So I guess boiling the water first wouldn’t have helped.
At least she’s smiling… right?
No, she is not. But the thing do.
Julia : Come closer…
Heh, heh! š
Julia imitates the Joker, and says: “What’s this? “Winged freak terrorizes”? Wait till they get a load of ME!”
I…legit don’t know what to hope for here. On the one hand, they were able to cleanse Mel somehow, but on the other, this IS different, and we can’t give ALL the main characters plot armor…I’m so conflicted!!!
Heh, I was almost surprised by this. I was expecting she had somehow contracted whatever Kas and his predecessor had come down with when they were being stalked.
I wonder if they’ll try to save her, especially given that she’s instrumental to the whole project, and seems to be making an effort to fight off the infection. Though, while I would be super sad to see Julia die, I wouldn’t necessarily hate seeing a writer who isn’t afraid to kick a main character if it’s naturally in the story. Whatever the outcome, I’m definitely looking forward to it.
Read Concessions. Rebecca has NO qualms about murdering/mentally destroying important characters. :p
Of course.
But I’m still holding out that- Julia will end up like Clarissa Simons…from Ballerina Mafia.
What I mean by that is: (my words)- that Julia will end up like Clarissa, + have a really-messed-up past, but she’s about 95% OK, now.
Yes….yes, I’m a softy, who likes happy endings. ;D
I can not remember any “important character” deaths in Conssesion. I read it whole recently, whos death did I miss?
Yeah. I knew it. The skull was there on purpose… Remember kids, better thirsty than dead! I will mourn you, silly doggy.
Hell yeah! You did it! You killed this bitch! Now do something to bring her back!
This “Black Dog” epic can be called “The mis-adventures of Julia and Melissa”. It all started to get hairy when these 2 ladies decided to go “urban spelunking” . The “no trespassing” signs were set there for a reason !
Now it may take major plastic surgery to fix Julia. I’ll have to re-read the whole epic to get all the connections.
Also I once again advise Mr.Immelmann to publish this saga in paperback, at Forbidden Planet (Broadway,11st, NYC. At least that was the address when I was still working in NYC)./
I just thought of something-
Looking at Issue # 16 – we don’t see if the giant, black spider-thing has touched Julia…while Julia was wearing her astronaut-like suit.
As far as I can tell- the spider-thing might be able to infect her, even if Julia is wearing an astronaut-like suit.
Julia + Mel live in a big, spooky world, I think.
It was the water. Computer said “Biological traces found”, planet is raveged from any sentient lifeforms, everything looks like there was war, there is no corpses or bones though. It is pretty obvious to me. And no, that beast definitly did not touch her, that was shown. And no again, The Black Star can not infect people without direct physical contact with their bodies, that was obvious from the very start, I have no guesses about how did you not see it throughout the comics. It can infect their minds though. So this all adventure can still be not that what we saw. This black shit is a powerful psionic.
Those things could be.
But since- some things are hidden in this comic, like Julia’s face, in parts of this issue, then Rebecca does, In my view, keep some things mysterious/hidden to the readers.
And since you + I do not write this comic, I stand by ideas, that we don’t know everything that has happened, + that we don’t know everything about the monsters in this story.
So please, let’s agree to disagree about some things in these stories.
Cheers.
Good point. Let’s agree to keep arguing and discussing, there is so much things happened throughout comics that we probably missing something here. I’m going to reread whole thing from start to see if I can find something.
Sure thing. That’s cool.
Careful! Or your ending will be a tragic one! Sometimes, the hero dies in the end.~Samael, DarkSiders II
HEROES NEVER DIE!!! – Mercy, Overwatch.
Japanese heroes generally do.
Oh man… she was my favourite character
Julia noooooooo!
OK We all knew this was going to happen to Poor Julia but you where wondering when…….
This page needs some great soundtrack like Ennio Morricone’s Desolation and Bestiality (The Thing 1982 OST) or Keith Power and George Spanos – The Witches Lair (Warframe OST), or something more aggressive, like Xtortion Audio – The Truth, Chamber Of Lies.
Let’s hope it’s just on top of her helmet.
If not, let’s hope penicillin or something clears it up?
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Maybe it’s a copy from the moon idol trying to infiltrate?
Aww man, you’re leaving us with this cliffhanger.
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Good arc. I liked(?) this character.
I wonder what Scott McCloud would classify this epic’s transistions from panel to panel:he had 6 categories.
1 – Moment to moment.
2 – Action to action.
3 – Subject to subject
4 – Scene to scene
5 – Aspect to aspect
6 – Non-sequitur (rarely used outside Japan.)
Honestly this is outrages, i can’t wait to make a animation on this video!
I really wanted another end for her. š
Well, Goodbye Julia. I’d have tapped you. Now I’m going to break out the flame thrower and reduce you to a pile of ash and bone.
Great! F***ing great! yeah, this isn’t totally heart heart breaking! SONOVA- *what follows is swearing in three languages, somehow flowing from english to french to gaelic for roughly three minutes*