Issue 26, Page 25
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1: Jackson is opening his coat.
Jackson: You, of all people, shouldn’t talk about suspicious behavior.
2: Okpara flinches as if ready to react to an attack.
3: Jackson has revealed a recording device in an inner coat pocket.
4: Jackson holds the device in his hand, hitting a button.
Jackson: I’m not surprised you’d lie to me, but what did surprise me was you lying to the Pharaoh.
5: Okpara’s worried expression as her lies were replayed out loud.
Pharaoh: Be honest, Ms. Okpara. How many do you think there are? Doppelgangers, traitors, spies, whatever they are.
Okpara: Very few, ma’am. I’m certain it’s only one or two in here. Any more would be too obvious.
6: Jackson hides some anger.
Jackson: I won’t insult your intelligence by coming here with paper print-outs of the evidence.
You know as well as I that there are numerous Doppelgangers in this facility.
I know you know who they are.
Why are you hiding them? Why not let me help you?
Oh ho, the plot thickens!
So in a comic about deeply unsettling things, that last panel takes its place VERY firmly as a powerful one of them.
One wonders what moods the red and yellow specks are meant to convey.
Okay, first guess is that the Doppelgangers are holding hostages. My second guess is that they have something to do with The Farmer King. Although, the Kas Doppelganger didn’t say anything that matches up with that.
Unless there are opposing factions of Doppelgängers, I doubt it’s the second one, since it’s implied in one scene (Issue 23, Page 6) that the Farmer King and the Black Idol are enemies, and the Kas Doppelgänger was clearly allied with the Black Idol.
Actually, now that I think about it, there might indeed be opposing factions. In real-life logic, it’s highly unlikely for all members of an ethnic group (or in this case an entire species) to have the same beliefs or political views.
That’s true. One thing that might suggest that there are different factions is that Doppelgänger Kas and the Doppelgänger astronauts from the beginning (if that’s indeed what they are) both look different from each other. However, I think now that it’s most likely that the Doppelgängers are holding hostages.