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Poll: Flashbacks?

Thinking about some ways to bring in more exotic worldbuilding to the comic without making yet another infodump. How'd you guys like a flashback sequence for one of the main characters? Whose's past you'd like to witness if any? Tell in the comments!

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Oh cool, showing off all the news stealth equipment...

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Why!? I am so confused.

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I just want to say. This halloween "prank" is amazing. well thought out, well executed and shows off the amazing artwork behind the characters. I would love to get the backgrounds as they are in a high resolution download if available. (made this comment on the wrong post. )

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*snort* "Behind the characters"! I see what you did there...

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A third party chimes in.
Were it done by earth's visitors, they would not vanish their own people- but leave all the hardware for humanity to find. and the TV shows that out of area, mankind yet lives.

WARNING: there is a plot complication approaching.

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Uh... checking back in... what's with the lack of... entities?

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Some kind of interesting change, the header under the comic name has 'everybody is gone', and in every single comic page every person is gone, with the sole exceptions being the hand of a body in one page, the xray scans in a couple, and the shadow on this last page.

It is both an eerie, but also very interesting change that's occurred to every page, as not only can the backgrounds be fully seen (which are very nice), but why was it done?

A question that hopefully will be answered when the comic resumes on the 1st.

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Bodies are still in the morgue back on July 19

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so, publishing once a quarter?

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The comic will return on November 1st, it's currently on a hiatus.

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Hey! It's not April fools!

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Yeah, its Halloween

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Oh noes! I caught up!

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The general is so far probably the most reasonable character in this comic on the Human's side.

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Also, cool bit with the one shoed soldier.

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Hah, didn't even notice.

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When an alert goes off, you get to your station immediately. There have been numerous instances in WW2 where US sailors were literally in their underwear when general quarters sounded.

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Oh. yes, i know that happens. I was just commenting on seeing it acknowledged in the comic.

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Yeah... As I understand it, sometimes, not even in underwear. You get caught in the shower, there really isn't time to throw on clothes...

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General definitely earning his pay. And Nea should appreciate this show of discipline.

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Pronin is a major, not a general.

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And he's trying to make up for the humans screw up...

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I suppose we don't need a complete translation to get "ok, there is no other option here."

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I think it's "Well, here I arrive."
Though google translate isn't exactly precise.

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For me, it roughly translates to "I hope this is enough."

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Or maybe just "Well, that didn't work."

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I got "Hope that's enough."

If that's an accurate translation, I wonder if actually escaping might have been just a stretch goal, and Nea's real goal here was to get detected by the Alliance spysat.

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Phew, relatively peaceful and controlled resolution.

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Everyone on the base must know the basics of the situation. Though I suspect no one has a list of procedures yet for "what to do when shooting down alien craft, and what classification to assign elements of that incident."

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True, but there was always the possibility of Nea doing something unmanageably dumb. Or unmanageably successful. Or someone screwing up.






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