Issue 23, Page 10
1: Sal’s old electric car, much of its hood and roof decorated in triangular solar panels and clearly in bad shape, rolls across a city road. The lyrics of his music are playing from his car stereo.
Kay: Hey, you’re gonna be past the Wall, right?
Sal: Yeah.
Kay: Buy me some fireworks?
Sal: Fireworks?
Kay: Yeeaaaahhh sometimes you see a stall or two out there.
Sal: Ahaha. We’ll see.
Lyrics: Voices from black skies
Bleeding from the lips
And pouring down
Upon our crumbling monuments.
Tear the clouds asunder
Let the stars descend
To boil dark oceans
Drag the sons of Earth into the ground
2: Sal watches the road as a gas station passes over his left.
Sal: Hey, um… weird question maybe, but… you heard from Cassie at all lately?
3: Sal drives past a church of the Farmer, its broken pitchfork raised high in the air and painted bright red.
Kay: Uh… no…
No, she hasn’t really been around for a while now…
Sal: Sorry to ask, probably a sensitive topic-
Kay: No, no it’s fine, really! It’s fine.
But, no, I haven’t heard from her in… maybe eight months?
Lyrics: I will leave this world behind
I will walk through the darkness
Between all the stars
4: Through the window, we see “Imago Printing” fly past, the storefront shown to be out of business.
Sal: I’m sorry.
Kay: It’s fine. We’re fine here, I’ve got Jess.
Sal: Say hey to Jess for me.
Lyrics: I will burn this empty shell
Destroying myself
To become divine
8-9: He has now driven out of the city and past the great Wall of Egypt, the vast desert opening up around him.
Sal: I’m outside the Wall now, so I think I’m going to disconnect. I gotta focus on these directions. Not much GPS help out here.
Kay: Salvino, please, please be careful… don’t do anything stupid!
Lyrics: The silver eye was watching
The scent of the forest waiting
Blood in my mouth…
Bare your fangs
(LET IT OUT)
Let it out until you
HOWL
Uhh looks like a tiny hand laying in a pool of blood on that roof, bottom right of first panel. Another murder?
Holy crap, I didn’t even see that! You have some good vision! I wonder if that’s to help hint at how bad things are starting to get.
o_o i’m so bad at paying attention to little background details….
Imago printing is going out of business? A travesty!
Where will we copy our bugman images now?!
Is this chapter set in Cairo, Egypt?
Is Cairo a walled city?
This version of Cairo is. remember we’re dealing with alternative history as well. Things can and will be different from our reality.
Heh, heh.
Yeah. I should have clarified my idea + said- Is [this] Cairo a walled city.
🙂
Those lyrics are pretty transparent about their message. Shed these straightjackets they’ve all been trapped in, and embrace your true self.
Nice gas line marker on the lower right of the first panel.