Issue 17, Page 31
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1: The road Julia walks down is in better shape, less ruined and less overgrown, though the surrounding buildings still appear obviously abandoned and rotting. Behind her, beside the road are large round buildings with faded, chipped paint, a large sign rests on its side, collapsed.
Julia: <digital click> Feel like my skin is crawling… like it doesn’t fit right… I don’t know.
Am I feverish? Everything feels… off.
2: Julia has arrived. Tube-like tunnels with many entrances to the tall building. She still keeps Lily held close.
Julia: Th second tower…
Gods… please… I need a break… <digital click>
3: She walks down a darkened hallway inside the building, branching at the sides into numerous smaller hallways. Rubble and trash litter the floor. Faded posters with a blue/gray symbols still cling to the walls, molded and torn, illustrating something unknown.
4: She skirts nervously between a wall and a rusted, twisted vehicle that has crashed into the building: vines and moss has slowly invaded through the gaping hole.
5: Through a large door, we see it: another portal room.
The tiny minions of an alien environment are jumping for joy: “how sweet, fresh meat”. Julia is going to be one sick puppy when she gets home, provided that her plot armor doesn’t crap out on her.
Oh no there is a good possibility that this gate is none functional too…. poor Josie….
Drinking that water – the CHANGE has begun !
Makes me think of Frank Belknap Long’s GOOD TO BE A MARTIAN.
Sorry. The prior comment was based on a garbled memory. Memory has to be exercised regularly or its get -funny. It was some story about a man stranded on a deserted planet…
Alien bacteria and viruses bug me in SF story lines. The chances that an alien microorganism that evolved on another world would be compatible enough to infect a creature from another world is vanishingly small. That said, there are any number of contaminants and alien proteins which if ingested could cause problems. Heck those plants that were floating in the water could exude a toxin which in very minute amounts could result in many adverse effects such as hallucinations, vomiting, headache… creepy crawly skin sensations etc.
Yeah, as I wrote under page 28: “drink the water, with the certain microbes, possible parasites and perhaps toxins, that hopefully are no match for your alien biology”
Upside: anything evolved to be dangerous when ingested, will not work right. Downside: everything could be all new kinds of toxic.
all you need do is use that banner that Josie used for sleeping as a filter…
Like the Staten Island Reference/MIB1 Reference in panel 1
also this culture looks like it destroyed itself is a Bug world hopping from world to world and abandoning it when the resources are used up.