This aligns with Dan's fears…

So you guys above imply my inane rambling on the previous page, which I blame om too much snacks and old "Schlefaz" on the tube , actually may hold some water ?

Now you are scaring me!

And IF the Alliance has the same angle on things and even they are not sure what is going on , then the "ghosts" is vastly more advanced than anyone can feel comfortable about especially if used for nefarious purposes in , by the ghost standards, lesser technologically society's.....Which may also include the Alliance.

I still lean towards a "Tread carefully, there are meat-puppets about" scenario

Again : All of this is non-canon. We are just letting of steam here. The less we know the more weird patterns we see.

Hey, if you're watching SchleFaZ, you have no right to complain about getting scared ... the fact that those often try to substitute jump scares for a plot (and then label themselves a horror movie, of sorts) is just the beginning of the painfest!

The floating head scene in the Japanese horror "Hausu" (1977) really put a dent in my childhood! Also...It bit her in the A** !

The ones I care to watch these days has to be so ridiculous bad that they are funny.

Well, seems that today's SchleFaZ is Shan dian qi shi ... looks and sounds like it'd be right up your alley?

Difficult to say. There's about 40 pages of comic left so any additional complication would need to be brought out and solved within that. More likely the details of Ghosts might come out and set the scene for the next comic/book

BUT, if it does come out, I could imagine it doing so in a limited way, where they uncover the very early stages of some scouting or plotting by the Ghosts on Earth. A Body snatch/control scenario would most likely involve Dan's brother. This could have the good implications of proving Dan right, admonishing his idea that it was humanity's fault but with the Raharr, not let him fall into the trap of holding a new grudge against aliens in general.

What it means for the Raharr communicating to all of humanity is difficult to say. I could see them debating the idea of keeping humanity in the dark while they explore things further but then others arguing that openess and the truth will serve them best... There might also be some observations Gharr can add from his research on humanity and the oddity of many languages and language groups.

All up, as before, about 40 pages for that to happen, get Gharr to his people, keep the scooby gang involved somehow, sort Iska and General's Bahin's misgivings out and hit whatever bit end there is.

Why, you know something I don't?

https://leavingthecradle.com/blog/17

I was going on that blog post where you said if it matched the length of the previous chapter "it will probably be the last. At the very least, the penultimate". Although I should note you went on to say you were preparing material for the "finale of the first VOLUME", so its very possible you're talking about this or the next being the last chapter of the first volume in a series rather than the last chapter in the comic/book.

Last chapter was about 64 pages, this one is about 25 pages in so roughly 40 pages if your estimate was accurate.

Well, yeah, and back in 2022 I've also thought I'll finish the comic by 2024. I'm always underestimating. This bad boy can fit at least one or two more years of updates.

You might want to note that this point already saw a short discussion in the comments underneath that very blog post.

Yeah, but I was going by pure memory of the blog. I didn't revisit it to check when I first commented on the 40 pages.

I'm also not sure if "Leaving the Cradle" is the entire title of the series or just this first volume and there will possibly be a new site and title for the next volume.

[now expects sequels "Flopping All Over the Nursery's Floor" and "Scrambling Right Back Into the Cradle"]

Since the people in the background are all walking in the surface, my guess is that area is still rotating. It would also seem pretty hazardous for the seam between the rotating section and the zero-g section to be along the middle of the floor. So I think they are in a relatively low-g area, and the zero-g space accessible to pedestrians might only be the relatively narrow tubes we've seen them floating down in earlier pages. I hope that transition is a more obvious threshold than an unmarked seam in the floor!

The "tubes" are just corridors in the non-rotating part of the ship. And the transition between the sections is definitely not something so reckless - it looks more like a train, or a horizontal elevator.

I see four potential hazards from that:

* Lack of nearby handrails to grab in zero-g, as mentioned above

* Body parts getting stuck in the groove - fixable (memento Terran escalators)

* Speed difference between the two sides might be too high (aka the osoto guruma sleeve bearing )

* Someone please keep the insctoid in panel four from getting rotated into the wall!

Nope. The first Sashli was on page 7. But this might be the second. And the groove (if you mean the line on the ground on the left) goes right up to the wall of the building. If that was rotating, it would smack people pretty hard.

I think the groove is just a floor marking. For one, it goes through a building. For two, there are still radial buildings and walking people on the far side. For three, that would require a massive moving seal which is exposed to the entire volume of the barrel if it fails.

Quantum stated that he found signs of "ghosts" activity within our Internet, recognizable by not matching our own fingerprint and apparently purposefully hidden from detection by us. If those ghosts are indeed Terra-based, they'd have to be a group of quite seclusive supervillains IMHO.

Well then, Earth could be the battle-ground and prize for one side or the other. Are they snooping to interfere and steer people towards their side, or have the Alliance similar ambitions?

Next up: Raharrian Synchronous Tetrathlon:

* scratching top of head

* "hmmmm" pose at chin

* "how could they do that to me" fist on hip

* fist bump your (re)new(ed) partner in countercrime

all simultaneously!