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Nov 2015

Chapter 8: Page 14 - Realizations

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Happy Monday everybody!

We’re getting to some good story points here. Things I’ve been building and foreshadowing for a while. Now to see if you FINALLY notice or not ;P I look forward to people re-reading and looking for all the hints. ;)

I also wanted to give a big shout out to everyone who votes and supports us on Patreon. That $$ goes to buying ads for the site as well as commissioning guest art from other artists. As well as giving Seba well deserved bonuses :) You ROCK!

EDIT: Oh, hey, can I get a couple more questions for Angeline’s interview? Thanks :)

  • Uh Oh… I don’t think he was supposed to mention that. Discovering Victor alive, will he be happy, get anxious, be angry, sink back into his grief….

    I do wonder also if Tenzin will be Jealous that Jane’s not going to solely be his companion. .

    • Adriano

      That Doctor’s mistake xD
      10/Tenzin will kill him with ninja swords.

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        One gripped in his hand, the other with his foot.
        Sets the mobile chair to spin.
        Tazmanian Tenzin. (Complete with the tazmanian devil “Egaackslpbbbpptth!” noises)

      • Matt [in Middletown]

  • #^%^*$^#$%#^%%^&@#$ :pounds keyboard while screaming:

    • While holding down the shift key the whole time, apparently ;P

      • Demetri Ermak

        IT ADDS RAGE
        VIKTOR IS BACK COMRADE!

    • NickDA

      I’ve been waiting for this for a while… *grabs popcorn for next bit.

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        Jennsplosion.

    • Adriano

      ^ this

  • Dusty Coyote

    Plot twist: Victor’s gonna be an AI now.

    dun Dun DUNNNNNN

    • Matt [in Middletown]

      Shoulder Viktor For The Win.

      • Always encouraging Tenzin to use a tactical brick.

        • Matt [in Middletown]

          Tactical brick is BEST brick!

          • Dusty Coyote

            Play Last Of Us? Tactical Brick is Tactical.

            Also, I find the thought of Tenzin being *Actually* haunted by his ghosts as AI programs totally funny.

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            Holoprojected Viktor bouncing simulated beer cans off the side of Tenzin’s head every time T does something “unbrilliant”.

  • l33tninja

    oops. I mean I didn’t say anything at all about what I just said. Um, he he, I’ll be on my way. See you at our next appointment kthxbye.

  • Hipopótamo

    Well, I keep pinning for whatever relationship Tenzin has with Jane. Oh my! Is Viktor alive? How is this gonna affect our PSD’ed captain?

  • Chris Kotthoff

    I love the page, I love how it goes back to that moment when young Ten is talking to his sister and how he relating it to Jan but the sudden 180 on panel 8 is a little sudden with someone who’s been dealing with this issue for almost all his life. I now it’s needed to keep the pace of the story going, the dialog in the last panel really hits you. (way to go Doc)

    • Thanks :D

      It’s not supposed to be a sudden 180 as much as a sudden realization that there even IS a problem. That he HAD been shutting Jane out unfairly. His problems and his relationship with her isn’t going to be suddenly super fixed or anything, as he still has all the same thoughts and feelings. Now he just is aware of his hypocrisy/issues.

      And yeah, I didn’t want a billion more pages of therapy, that too ;)

      • DrCrazy102

        Sometimes, you just need a really good firewall to make you appreciate being connected when it’s finally gone

  • Delta-v

    It looks like @Keith Shiffner was right when he said, “dumbest dang shrink I ever saw…I’m mean seriously stupid.”.
    That mistake is a serious breach of professional ethics. O.o

    Plot device reveal, A+. Patient confidentiality and patient psychological health, D- ^^

    • DrCrazy102

      It might just be a personnel who is in a coma and they are going to try and pull them out, so it could be public knowledge that the personnel is in a coma. So there may not be an actual breach, unless we’re talking about Tenzin’s girl getting inside another person’s … Where did your mind just go? I was gonna say mind but I saw your gutter ;p

  • I really like the way this has played out. Tenzin is a tough nut to crack, but it’s good to see him starting to heal-not just from this recent tragedy, but maybe even from his past hurts and traumas.
    However, that last panel worries me. Why the trailing off? Something doesn’t seem right here.

    • Delta-v

      Tenzin wasn’t supposed to know that information yet. :(

    • DrCrazy102

      You know that network they put in Tenzin? And how he yanked it out?

      This is its revenge for not being safely ejected like Tenzin was supposed to do.

  • ZathrasSquared

    Oops!

  • DrCrazy102

    Well … Damn it I shouldn’t have looked at the lower comments! Using an iPhone screen ATM and I couldn’t read the tiny text, I saw the leuitenant bit and I was like “huh, some more ‘experimental’ AI treatments” and now I find out VIKTOR IS ALIVE?!?!? *keyboard breaks from excitement of possibilities of who is and isn’t dead anymore* Jacqueline, we might just meet your character again! Almost certainly not but you gotta hope for the new “Team Bad-Asses”: 3 humans and an AI-powered mech suit

  • Hornet

    Shouldn’t they get the Lieutenant his own AI???

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  • Demetri Ermak

    I actually screamed internally like an 8-year old girl and slightly bashed my mouse on the table. That’s as far down fanboying as I’d go.