Issue 17, Page 21
Yes, please Julia, keep touching things on the alien planet with your hands.
Transcript
1: One of the two suns peek out from behind the small planetoid’s gas giant sister. A spindly alien creature crawls across one of a few jagged metal pipes that are attached to the building.
2: On the ground is Julia’s improv knife. She’s ripped up some of the fabric she used as a blanket and has given the knife a cloth handle.
Julia groans off-panel: Ughh…
3: Julia faces the morning-lit forest. Her hand is to her wrist as she records.
Julia: <digital click> Well, I feel like garbage, but I’m alive.
4: Lily floats away from its pod, which is dripping with a blue-white glowing fluid.
Julia (off-panel): Headache is worse. Stomach is killing me. I need to find clean water or I’m going to be in real trouble soon.
5: Julia approaches Lily’s pod. She wraps her knife around her left upper arm with a strip of cloth.
Julia: I feel disgusting underneath this thing. I want to get out of these gross clothes so badly. I wanna wash my face, fix my hair. Fuck…
<digital click>
6: Julia pokes gently at some of the dripped power fluid where it hits the crystallized mound.
Julia: <Comm speakers click> You all fed, Lily?
Lily (off-panel): <positive blip>
[untranslated robotic alien speech – informative tone.]
Julia: Good! I think.
7: The two leave the building. Julia holds on to Lily’s leash, Lily leads the way through colorful, crystalline flowers.
Julia: Let’s get moving…
It’s Ice 9, isn’t it? come on, where’s alien Bokonon?