Issue 24, Page 12
Transcript
1: Outside, a drone is slowly floating away from the house. Melissa stands on the porch, watching it go, two pizza boxes in her hands.
2: She walks the pizza back in to the living room.
3: As the screen shows the image of a train later in the movie, the three talk among themselves.
Julia: So can you… see it okay?
Jackson: Yeah. My vision’s nearly the same as it used to be.
4: Julia’s leaning in close to Jackson.
Julia: They don’t give you, like, infrared or let you see super far?
Jackson: These are prototypes, I’m lucky I can see at all.
5: Melissa settles down with pizza in her hand.
Mel: I’m surprised you’re back to work so quickly, especially after… I’m sure that eye stuff wasn’t pleasant.
Dad is still recovering from all that.
6: Jackson in profile.
Jackson: I haven’t exactly had an impressive couple of years. Security breaches and sabotage, all on my watch.
I’ve got to prove that I know how to do my job.
I like the party-type of meeting , that these 3 are having. 😀
Is that a Pac Man reference, in the 1st panel? I’m just curious.
Story is that “a pizza with a slice taken out” was the inspiration that created Pac-Man’s design. A pretty easy reference to make.
At some point, I think I’m going to have to go through the archives. I might need to start taking notes, so I can pick out references and foreshadowing better!
I see. Thanks! 😀
His artificial eye just gave me a thought. Every part of you which you replace with a machine, becomes more trustworthy in a sense because it is not made of Black Idol cells. If they can work their way up to replacing everything, well, it seems like an option people in-the-know would want to take. Of course, you don’t want ‘unfeeling robot’ components, they have to be really good, basically biotech.
True! Assuming the brain would have to stay organic in that situation though, might still have to worry about the mental aftermath of visually seeing the Idol, if mechanical eyes still don’t filter out that problem, much like cameras. Not sure if there still would be hallucinations.