Issue 20, Page 9
Yes, I did forget to draw those warning lights into previous pages because, yes, I am dumb.
Transcript
1: Julia faces the Sedjet Creature, who leans in close, panting hot breath over the glass, fogging it up.
Sedjet (narrating): We must… make… it… STOP!
Julia: We can ease this pain…
2: A broken light hangs from the ceiling of her cell, exposed wires and cracks beyond the housing.
Julia (voice distorting into her psychic tone): They tried to keep me imprisoned here.
3: Inside the ceiling, dark webs of black goo hangs among the wires.
Julia (narrating): But we’re all prisoners in our own shells.
4: Some of the black mass on the wires has taken the shape of small, grossly formed spiders. They cluster around circuits and mechanisms in the walls, eating away the cover of wires.
Julia (narrating): And they seemed to forget:
This body is a dirty little hacker.
5: Lights above the glass turn yellow as there is a shifting sound as the glass raises.
6: The glass no longer separates the two. Julia and Sedjet, in his Black Idol form, now face each other.
I can ease your pain, get you on your feet again… Wait, that’s not quite what that quote was. Close enough.
Welp, we’ll never see her in her normal form again, anyone got that “Fans: really loves character Author: *Loads and cocks pistol*” meme ?
Which is why I’m eager to see her restored to her REAL form instead of the farce of a form she’s been sentenced to live in all her life.
Oooooooh *shit*. Rhoda, now would be a REALLY good time to come save the fucking day!
No theorizing right now, just…
That last panel is beautiful. It is tragic and terrible and beautiful.
Well done, Rebecca.
A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge the perfect, immortal-
*pulls the plug*
“gross looking spiders” – http://orderoftheblackdog.com/comic/issue-1-page-14/
issue-1-page-14 Chekhov’s Spiders
I sid NOT expect Julia to have minions