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Mar 2015

Chapter 6: Page 1 - Inside Job

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Alright, starting Chapter 6 now. This is such a great chapter! I’m excited for you all :)

In case you missed it, last week I posted several cool things: our new official original theme song, the intro to a new short story featuring a future comic main character, and a couple different interviews and reviews, as well as a big blog post about Google Analytics you might enjoy (has some of our numbers).

Enjoy! And please vote :D

  • JANE take jelly beans with you and drop them behind you as you go in so you can find your way out again

  • Man, I just realized that Tenzin is still like unrealistically buff for having been in an immobile coma for a month.

    Um…they’ve been stimulating his muscles with electrotherapy so that he doesn’t atrophy. It’s cheap, relatively easy, and will make recovery and physical therapy much faster if/when he wakes up. Yeah, that sounds believable. We’ll go with that.

    • Matt [in Middletown]

      Nanobots, they repair damage.
      If he was buff when he came in, they’ll maintain that artificially.
      *eyes shift left and right, yeah, that sounds good too, would also allow electrostimulation as well.*

      • Nah, the nanobots are just in his brain. For now ;)

        • Matt [in Middletown]

          Drats.
          So he’s currently infested with Brain Ticklers.
          One could say his head was buzzing with activity.
          Positively crawling even.
          “We claim this lobe in the name of Technotia!”
          *yeah, I need more coffee*

          • Adriano

            “The Brain Wars. The most atrocious, horrible and deadly conflict of the last century. Billions have died in the name of Technotia, and even more in the name of Tenzindom. May Mother Jane forgive us for butchering Tenzindom lands like that…”

            - PCC/010001101, the Nanopriest.

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            “They hit us at dawn, they cut through our firewall like a logic probe on a bad chipset. It was the most terrifying day of our existence.” -NBT/0028:c000A9, 3rd immunity monitoring corps

          • Adriano

            “I saw dust, I saw fire, I saw smoke all over the place… But the worst, the worst was that pain in my limb and the taste of the blood on my tongue…”
            -BRT/0013:c000A4, 2nd assault company.

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            “You know you guys are just nanobots, and didn’t experience any of that. Right?” -Jane
            “Aw, mom!”

          • Adriano

            “Mom, you’re messing up our game !”
            “It’s for your good. Now, be quiet, kids !” -Jane

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            “Captain’s Log, stardate 135.2337. While cruising the amygdala, we came across a derelict object.”
            “I’m not derelict! I’m studying the activity here! Mom! They’re picking on me again!”

          • Adriano

            “Shhhhhh, kids ! Mom is busy fixing his Tenzin !”

        • NickDA

          Slow clap for the thread below this… absolute slow clap… @disqus_AN5Che8i9d:disqus and @adrianowr:disqus == awesome

          • Adriano

            Thank you very much, Nick ! But we couldn’t do anything without your awesome comic :D Keep it coming !

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            We are terrible..LOL!

          • Delta-v

            Agreed. :)

  • Matt [in Middletown]

    She’s going to pretty much dump him out of his bunk onto the floor.
    This is gonna be good.

    • Michael Corley

      Hopefully he’ll have his virtual pants on.

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        Umm..oops?

  • Matt [in Middletown]

    Panels four and five with Jane looking out through Tenzins eye reminded me of a song:

    Stone Sour “Through Glass”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfb3IFhu9o

    • This… is strangely fitting for this chapter, actually.

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        You mean I made a good guess?

        • Maybe? More like me listening to this song made me think of elements of this chapter. No idea what you were guessing with it.

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            I guess I’ll see if it was a good musical choice later on as the pages are revealed.

  • Maarten Spreij

    I wonder if she could replay some of his memories for him.. he has some good ones.

    • Adriano

      So little of them, you mean

    • Must…resist…spoilers…

  • Dusty Coyote

    We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better, faster, stronger.

    • I can’t give a medical explanation ( I’m sure Dan will) but I can show my reference for an EEG monitor

      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/EEG_cap.jpg

      • Dusty Coyote

        This works for me.

    • I think you’re referring to the oxygen tube thing going into his nose? It’s not ported through the cheek, but I do now see that it is at different places on his nose between panel 1 and panel 2. (@sebastinpriz:disqus, another edit for you?)

      Or you may be referring to the tubes from the EEG monitor going down to his cheek. That’s just to better capture the brain waves.

      • ugh, yeah, I’ll fix that tube

        • I like how it looks in panel 2 more than panel 1, btw :D

          • yep, but I just copied from that first panel of the nightmares that Matias did, all the pages have it like panel 1

          • Ah. Hmm, can’t really edit his. Welp, time has passed, they changed his nose thing since then :P

          • Dusty Coyote

            I can also accept this.

  • Ydo Ucare

    Angeline’s crazy computer screen thing is awesome. No idea what she’s doing, but it looks cool.

  • Why didn’t I notice until now that his eyes are brown? I always figured they were black. Huh.
    Jane looks uncertain in that last panel. Seeing as she’s an incredibly smart AI who can probably calculate probabilities in her sleep-mode, this doesn’t seem to bode well.

    • Adriano

      Damn you’re right !
      She seems to be near collapsing !

      • NickDA

        You know how your computer starts fans like crazy when you are playing a graphically intensive game? And that is what 1080p and 30fps on a decent computer? She’s about to start messing around in a locked in brain… thats got to require a level of bandwidth and graphical/audio encoding quality like nothing… plus she just made this custom “Tenzin’s brain” codec :D

        • Adriano

          Woooow.
          Damn, I hope she’ll handle it good.
          I don’t want my Jane to be broken ;w; (Like my comp lol)

        • Matt [in Middletown]

          “Dig my custom beats!” *Dubstep begins flooding Tenzins brain*
          “Alright! I’m back! AUGH!” he flies upright from the table and despite missing one or two original equipment parts, bolts from the room.

  • Adriano

    I really love this month’ award for voting : a bunch of Jane o/ Thank ya, Seba !

    I deeply ask everyone reading TDA to vote everyday for this wonderful comic :D