Issue 20, Page 18
Transcript
1: In bright daylight, an overly large breakfast is laid out: french toast, breads, cereals, fried meats, fruits, pancakes and qatayef.
??? (off-panel): Juliaaaa.
Julia!
Ugh… Miss Naomi Rider?
Julia (off-panel): Coming!
2: We see a young Julia King, pre-teen age, proudly waltzing into the kitchen of her childhood home, dressed like Naomi Rider from the movie posters.
3: Lorelei King, Julia’s black wolf mother, leans down with a concerned smile, her hair in a braid.
Lorelei: Julia, sweetie, isn’t it time we put that costume away? Halloween was two days ago…
Julia: Nuh!
4: Little Julia has hopped up into a chair by the kitchen table, dragging to her a grossly large plate full of qatayef with nuts and sweet cheese.
Julia: Julia’s stupid! Naomi Rider has way more friends and is way cooler!
5: Julia takes a big sip from a tall glass of chocolate milk, staring quietly forward as she watches TV.
Lorelei (off-panel): Well she can’t go to school like that.
???: Well it’s not like she’s dressed like a monster. They’re just clothes, let her have fun.
6: The large TV fixed in the kitchen shows drooling, gnashing teeth.
This is so good… The dreams of the affected are so fascinating. Are they memories? Or more?
1. My my Julia, don’t you seem “hungry”. Some sort of changes to her dreams/thoughts from her full introduction to TOWC?
2. It’s gonna be adorable if she can eventually cosplay like this, when Mel and/or Rhoda are around.
3. Also, Julia is stupid, Naomi Rider is cooler and has way more friends? On the one hand, “Hey! Don’t beat yourself up, you’re an awesome hacker who joined a secret society. How were you supposed to know going to an alien planet would affect you the way it did, with your given information?” On thr second hand, perhaps Julia was teased, bullied, or ignored a lot as a kid? Certainly could have affected her interests, or been the thing that made her a “stranger”, being interested in exploring the mysteries of the world, something that is potentially (and rightfully at times) seen as downright dangerous in this world. And on the third hand… Wait, where the HELL did I get a third hand from?
Could this be more psychic influences from Sedjet/TOWC? Probably. Chances are, they’re trying to use a once familiar environment and situation, to trick her into feeling much more comfortable in this truly alien (at least from her mortal perspective) situation, right down to A. Being a kid and not having to worry about stuff and things, B. Being at what can be assumed to be her home with her friends/family, people she trusts, and C. “Playing as” a character she idolizes (hehe, you know, cause idolize? Idol? Black idol?… Illuminati confirmed!).
D. She’s still dreaming!!! Yeah for REM sleep, she’s still herself, somewhere in the black, fleshy mass that is/was Sedjet, Julia, and/or TOWC. Maybe we’ll find out how she was capable of keeping herself an individual eventually, maybe not. Regardless, can’t wait for the next page!
Dumb question bit what is TOWC?
The One Who Crawls, aka the Black Idol, the black mass of tentacles, teeth, and eyes, that apparently makes up all people on the primary planet in this story.
I’m trying to add to that idea:
From what I remember-
We’ve seen one, big monster, that the people on Julia’s world have called the TOWC.
I think- when the right radiation is removed from each person, they become a human-sized, TOWC-looking monster.
And, if a person turns into a TOWC-like monster, they have a desire to combine [all] of the people from Julia’s world, into one TOWC-like monster.
I think I have too much free time, today. 😀
*facepalm* I totally forgot about that name. And it was mentioned many times… thanks though!
… Can we get more young Julia, just in general? she’s a cutie! I want a side story of her going to school or something!
Hmm, I’ll have some pancakes, french toast, sausage, and fruit please! Mmmm. Nice job on drawing the spread
Something else I just noticed. It could just be me, but does the other canine in the page (mother, sister, etc), have similar/the same eyes as Sedjet, before he “woke up” as TOWC, causing his form to change in the mind/astral world?
I’d like to hear about Naomi Rider.
She sounds like a fun hero, or something.
… did someone write “ECD” on the toast in the first panel? 🙂
(As in, see (English) Wikipedia’s page “Electronic_civil_disobedience”.)
That could be. 🙂
It also looks like, FRD, to me.
Maybe Julia’s mom likes the Frodsham railway station, (aka the Frodsham railway depot?), that is in the town of:
Frodsham, Cheshire, England.
Yay!…Trains! 🙂
I knew I saw Naomi Rider mentioned in this comic before. I found where Julia mentions seeing all of her movies and dressing up as her for Halloween in Issue 8, page 7. As for this page, Julia’s mind has been put into a state of dreaming about things that comfort her while the Black Idol/Sedjet plan to use her body to run amok. I’m hoping Rhoda can snap her out of it before she’s lost to the Black Idol.
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Awwwww!