Issue 18, Page 27
Transcript
1: Julia grips to the metal pole of an IV drip.
2: Looking tired and thin, she walks across the room.
Loud speaker projects: Good morning, Julia. How are you feeling?
Do you want to talk to us today?
3: Julia stands before a large, long mirror. In the foreground, she looks fine, but we see another self in the reflection: the mutated, distorted, black idol infused Julia seen at the end of Issue #17, a nest of eyes on one side of her face and extended, tentacle-like digits. Outside of the mirror, her room looks fine and neat and clean but, in the reflection, we see the walls are clawed and burnt by acid, pillows and blankets ripped up, debris scattered across the room.
well This dose not bode well
Whoa… now I’m curious if she can perceive herself as being… altered/corrupted in the mirror or not.
Either way, this is a *fascinating* dichotomy!
Now, who’s asking that? Sedjet / Dara / Xijo, or… not? That would be interesting.
Speaking of interesting, why in FSM’s name is there no entertainment in her cell!? Books? A TV? SNES console?
ANYTHING to do other than dwelling on her condition and maybe listening to imagined or distant voices?
Seriously.
-“How are you feeling?”
-“…BOOOORED!”
My question is, did she have to set up that I.V. herself?
Actually… What is real, what isn’t? Is the Mirror reality, or is it her distorted view of reality?
Because if you look, second panel, the room she’s in is not tained with black and the lamps aren’t hanging by a wire. Yet, her perception in the mirror displays a room and a Julia in decrepitude. So, is the room reality and she is seeing a corrupted, decayed world? (Left overs from her infection) …or is she seeing the world all nice, and she’s actually wrecked the room trying to escape, and the mirror shows the truth?
In either case, I believe that mirror is a one-sided mirror, in that people can look at her from the other side. Judging from what she is now… I’d imagine it to be bullet resistant with some extra layers of ‘Oh shit we can’t let it through’ behind it.
i had the same thought, but the prior panels make it pretty obvious, this is specimen 5 🙁
Regardless of which is truth, it certainly doesn’t bode well.
I imagine there’s some lead (Pb) in that reflective surface.
Why lead?
Blocks radiation. Given this thing can infect even through some video feeds, they probably want every possible layer of protection.
And lead keeps Superman + Clark Kent from spying on you, too.
The big, blue goof! 😀
Is it just me… but does mirror-Julia have her hair up in a bun?
I think that’s supposed to be a weird skin growth
I believe she had her hair tied back in order to wear the helmet in the previous chapter. My thinking is that she’s seeing a version of herself that is disheveled and hasn’t been cleaned up or taken care of in any way since returning to Earth.
now she can see what Monica sees all the time and they call her insane
Whose Monica?
Sorry Rhoda Dornez see Cast
I now don’t think she really woke up…
Considering that one side character managed to survive getting his arm torn off I’m gonna assume She’ll be fine by the end of this
Here’s hoping the titular black dog drops by.
Besides… They have martians working on this.
Crap, I was hoping they got it out of her. 🙁
Huh. Kereminde called it.
And on the heels of that; She hasn’t been completely consumed. It’s *worse*, but it’s proceeding slowly.
There’s a chance. There’s a chance to fix this.
There has to be.
There has to be. Because if we end up with some post-cure pron between Julia and Melissa, and its patreon stuff, I’m f-ing gonna throw money at him to see that <.<
lol. In anycase, yeah, I hope Julia gets cured! …but I imagine there will be … lasting trauma.
Issue title have nothing to do with it’s contents.
I dunno, Mel and Julia both look pretty disintegrated to me.