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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

The ship looks a lot narrower here than it was earlier.

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Darth_Biomech

Different angle, perhaps?

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Steve (transfer from Disqus)

The body was always that narrow relative to it length, and if anything the wings look a bit wider to me.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

So, Russians getting alien tech...

... that's going to be ugly for the planet.

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smbd (transfer from Disqus)

You would prefer chinese or north coreans?

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Rokas (transfer from Disqus)

To be honest I'd really only trust the UK or the USA with it. Russia maybe if Putin wasn't there acting like Stalin 2.0. Certainly not the ChiComs or Germany, though.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

Germany these days? You could trust them. The US and UK? Not with the current administrations.

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Chris Kotthoff (transfer from Disqus)

Lets be honest, it's 50/50 with anyone on this planet.

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Donovan Brockhausen (transfer from Disqus)

I’ll take those odds

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

The author carefully avoided setting the Earth scenes in any specific country. Probably to prevent real-world politics from intruding on the comic in this very way.

He has said that the crash site is within a couple thousand kilometers of Volgograd, Russia, but that could put it anywhere from Poland to Uzbekistan, even if you limit yourself to countries that actually exist, which Darth Biomech has not.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

That would be... if it wasn't for the fact that he clearly showed S-400s in the scene that kickstarted this thing.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

That still doesn't necessarily mean Russia. Several different countries have bought or expressed interest in buying S-400s.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

S-400s are almost Russian exclusive because of a little CIA operation back in the '90s allowing the US to grab top of the line T-80s and T-72s with all the bells and whistles.

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Murphy (transfer from Disqus)

The uniforms and missiles and whatnot are just the author's aesthetic choice. The comic portrays a deliberately nonspecific country. There's no sense in pointing a finger and saying "a-ha! this tech is from country X therefore that's where the events take place!"

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Darth_Biomech

I see no "russians", only humans.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

Then you shouldn't have used S-400s for the ABM battery, used Russian uniforms, and Russian vehicles then.

Those trucks? I know those are Urals.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

Okay, I'll be a little blunter: This is not a story about RL politics, and the author has done a fairly good job of keeping geopolitical grudges hedged out of it. Please stop smuggling them in.

Sometimes a truck model is just a truck model, that the artist knows how to draw well.

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Darth_Biomech

...Or a design that he particularly likes because of the futuristic look.

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Darth_Biomech

I use whatever refs I like or find authentic for the region the story takes place in.This is a not a story about "dem filthy commies" getting alien tech and nuking the rest of the planet. Neither the story or it's author support xenophobia or racism, so adjust your expectations accordingly, please.

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Aaron Neumann (transfer from Disqus)

The thing is, I'm not going rabid 'dem filthy commies', in this case I'm going 'oh great Putin and his associates got their hands on alien tech, given their actions as of late...'...

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

On the subject of vague nationality and mindless xenophobia... on page 24 Dan brought up Roswell as proof that "the government" can't be trusted. That's something a UFOlogist anywhere might believe in, but they would be blaming the American government. Might be wise to edit that reference... or just add New World Order to Dan's list of conspiracy theories. :)

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Darth_Biomech

Oh, it's almost definitely already there.






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A lot of backgrounds and other elements in the comic are actually 3d models. It helps reduce the time each page takes to make.