Chapter 8: Page 19 - Tearful Demands -

Dec 2015

Chapter 8: Page 19 - Tearful Demands

Posted by Daniel Sharp / in Comic / 62 comments

New page! I love the emotions and power Seba put into it. Just beautiful.

And you all remember President Smith, of Oculus?

I added a new vote incentive (and put it up on Patreon) of all the clues Seba and I snuck into previous pages about Viktor :D

Matt [in Middletown]

Gee Mr. Smith, we all knew you were an immense orifice of some type.
Thanks for illustrating it!
(May fleas infest his personage.)
- Dusty Coyote
  
  If he was truly an office type, he wouldn’t have come in person.
  - Matt [in Middletown]
    
    Orifice, not office.
    - Dusty Coyote
      
      In my defense, I’m dealing with a lot of the former in my latter at the moment. But yes, I’m an idiot.
      - Matt [in Middletown]
        
        Or office orifices stinking up the place?
        Ugh.
      - Dusty Coyote
        
        The humble sphincter performs a very important role. We just have a lot of them thinking they can do something else here.
      - Matt [in Middletown]
        
        Yeesh.
        Good luck, and be careful with matches near the methanous malingerers.
Amberlight

So… Mr. Smith is going to extend Tenzin an offer he would not be able to refuse?
- Adriano
  
  Are we reading TDA or some James Bond ? :P
  - Matt [in Middletown]
    
    Both
    - Adriano
      
      Both is good.
      Now we have Daniel Craig in the role of Tenzin lol
Hornet

So how exactly is this Dirty Rat Bastard in any position to interfere with Aegis personnel???
- Daniel Sharp
  
  I do believe that is Tenzin’s first question on Monday’s page :)
  - Matt [in Middletown]
    
    Feed ranger Smith to Yogi the recyclerbot.
    (Jellystone park not included.)
  - Rawles Roberts III
    
    I do believe Tenzin is about to be busier than a one-legged man at an a**-kicking contest…..
Adriano

YES ! PIRATE CRAVING FOR ASS ! BOO-YAH !

I love the Security Agents. They’re so cool.
I don’t love President Smith as much, sadly :P

I just saw the vote incentive and DJDUJM;SUDBNAXIFMMBCNSADNX; MFB CSKYLKMMF;:CDKSLYDMXNGDS IYFMC you got me there Dan and Seba :P
- Dusty Coyote
  
  I’m having trouble with the first line. are you having the Pirate Craving or is the pirate someone else?
  - Adriano
    
    Oh no, no, earlier in the pages, we saw Security Agents looking at some ass. Someone said that it was Booty Pirats or something like that. Since that point, my joke is that every Security Agent is in fact a pirat that craves for ass.
    - Dusty Coyote
      
      Oh I see.
      
      Unrelated, what did a silent e ever do to you? :p
      - Adriano
        
        It existed :P
        
        Sorry I’m just not used to use silent e in the word ‘pirate’ x3
        Because we say ‘pirate’ in french, so I came to think that to make it english I should remove the e ? Slape me in the face plz
        
        Edit : No slapping, I’d definitely enjoy it way too much
      - NickDA
        
        And it just got awkward… *backs away slowly* :D
      - Matt [in Middletown]
        
        No, no backing away.
        It is unpossible to back away.
      - DeNitro
        
        True, but wiser ones might buy drinks to send kindly down the bar, staying at a distance observing quietly until it is decided if this “e” is going to cause a slap or a kiss.. LoL
      - Matt [in Middletown]
        
        There is no escap.
        The missing “e” sees all!
      - Dusty Coyote
        
        Ill meet you halfway with a pun.
Adriano

Btw, if I was Tenzin, I’d throw my wheelchair to the President. Much more badass than a shoe :P
Adriano

Btw btw, this page is my new favorite. We see angry crying Tenzin, beautiful Jane, and Ass Pirat-huh, Security Agents.
- SebasP
  
  thanks man :)
  - Adriano
    
    You’re welcome ! Can’t believe how good you’re at arting, ahah. Much love <3
- DeNitro
  
  True enough, @ Daniel Sharp & SebasP, you have created a story so powerful and thought provoking we cannot help but draw parallels to real life events we know. Making characters believeable enough to wonder, what would Tenzin paired with Jane do under different scenarios. That is a the mark of a true comic, or story,, What fan didn’t concoct new battles for Superman or Batman to fight. Your rocking it!
  - NickDA
    
    I feel like the kid in the old Shake and Bake commercials… “… and I helped!” But yes, they have seriously grown this thing into something amazing… a gag pet project with my brother is now one of my favorite things on the internet, and is a deep thought provoking fun time.
melaredblu

President Smith can take a flying leap. What kind of smug garbage is going to spew out of his mouth this time?
Chris Kotthoff

President Smith just made it clear he is the villain of this story.
- Xylas Incarnum
  
  and is only here in person because Tenzin is lacking the two limbs that would enable him to pound his face into the ground along side his two bodyguards there.
  - Adriano
    
    Clearly !
    - Chris Kotthoff
      
      They may still have a fight on their hands. We may need a extra wheel chair for Mr. Smith.
      - Adriano
        
        Can’t wait to see wheeled Smith !
      - Matt [in Middletown]
        
        Still hypercompetetive, Smith decides in his wheeled form that he will challenge Tenzin to a wheelchair race.
        He loses, and goes on a tantrum, eventually ending up in the central fountain doing donuts as anger tears roll down his cheeks.
Matt [in Middletown]

Smith says something stupid, Viktor laughs suddenly and says, “I was just faking, tovarisch!”
He then uses Tenzin as a weapon.
/ kidding
- Adriano
  
  So much tears atm ;^;
Darwin

Yup, knew he wouldn’t take this well. Though yes, I am curious why they ordered him fixed but won’t extend the programming to fix Victor. :( Politicians… MERGH….
- Daniel Sharp
  
  Heh. Who are you assuming “ordered” Tenzin fixed? Because that was mostly Jane :D
  - Darwin
    
    There was a hint in one of the pages regarding his “debrief”, like he had information vital to something for them.
    - Daniel Sharp
      
      Oh yeah true. That was the Aegis Commander :)
- theRoUS
  
  Brain damage is brain damage. Jane helped Tenzin recover from what appeared to me to be a case of fugue and conversion disorder presenting as total somatic dissociation. ‘Inner demons,’ if you will, rather than actual physiological damage. I don’t think human brain function is sufficiently holographic and redundant to allow full psychological reconstruction/reintegration after massive cell death. In other words, they probably can’t “fix” him.
  - Darwin
    
    But by the blood loss/oxygen deprivation Tenzin suffered, he suffered brain damage too… that was what the nanites had to work so hard to repair… BEFORE Jane could go in and work on the psych issues. Granted Victor was down and bleeding a lot longer. Also it doesn’t matter if it is physical damage to the brain or loss of oxygen to the brain, brain death is brain death, and by everything we’ve been shown and told, Tenzin suffered it to some extent.
    
    By today’s standards sure, that sort of thing can’t be fixed. But it seems by the technologies in this future dystopia, that there is some success reconstructing this sort of damage.
    
    Even the psychologist mentioned Jane’s success with Tenzin extending to Victor as well….
DeNitro

All for vilifying Smith, expressed my distaste of this character earlier. Yet Tenzin may be expecting the impossible. Know one who they say survived a attempted murder by 32 short colt being pressed to the head and fired. That weak bullet has power of a 22LR but is hampered by twice its weight at 80grains, yet the near helpless person shot had all trace of previous memories and personality erased, and any comparison to a child is pointless.
theRoUS

Is Jane permanently in Tenzin’s head? Or otherwise persistently connected to him (as opposed to his gear)?
- Daniel Sharp
  
  Spoilers ;P
  - SebasP
    
    witch isnt a no :P
    
    can I add that there are more options than just yes and no?
    - Matt [in Middletown]
      
      There’s also “fragments”.
      Which doesn’t exactly equal a yes or a no.
Dusty Coyote

Quick question, do you and Lepas trade story telling notes? I swear every so often in both of your stories i look back and go…

….

ACK! it was there all along!
- Daniel Sharp
  
  Who’s Lepas?
  - Dusty Coyote
    
    Pascalle Lepas. Author of Zap! and Wilde Life. Good author. You’d like her
    - Adriano
      
      I like Wild Life, even though I didn’t read much of it :/
RTM

Councilor, you better have a damn good reason for such obstructionism. :| Like, I don’t know, making sure that Tenzin doesn’t suffer from any side effects and such for a good amount of time, probably twice-thrice as long as the previous subjects of the AI-Controlled Nanite Neural Reconstruction or whatever. I recall there being said something about them going insane and such.
Darwin

This is probably going to sound truly strange, but I had a dream about Victor recovering somewhat. Still not up to his adult speed, but better than we see him here. My brain… O_O
- Daniel Sharp
  
  Burn the witch!
  - Darwin
    
    LMFAO!!
  - Matt [in Middletown]
    
    EDI as his shoulder buddy.
Jennifer

FIX MY FRIEND, JANE.
Matt [in Middletown]

Guilty by design.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NczLNctogZk

She dreams in digital.