PaRARGdox 126
Meatball surgery…!: Huzzah, a new page. Some pages are so easy, they can be drawn in a couple of hours, lettered and coloured and online within a few more hours… this was not one of those pages. Maybe I’m getting old or just have unrealistic expectations but wow did it take much longer than I expected… frames 1 and 4 are the main culprits, taking several hours to draw each. How is that possible?! Anyway, it’s finished and online now! Next few pages look simpler so will hopefully sooner without such a lengthy interval. Thanks for standing by.
I readily admit this page doesn’t advance a lot of the story, although it does explain where the med supplies are coming from – way back in Chapter 4 it was established that the medbay is in one of the central towers, which have been destroyed by the Rarg… Dr Chandra must have been out getting an espresso or something.
Meatball surgery?: That’s a phrase I picked up watching an episode of M.A.S.H. back when I was a kid. Front line surgeons would do enough to keep the injured alive long enough to get them on the choppers and flown into the M.A.S.H. unit.
Poor Charisma…: We deviously touch on a sore point for Charisma and that is Billy and his feelings towards Kaycee. This is a horribly underdeveloped story thread, but it has popped up from time to time (most notably in Chapter 4).
Who is that random second year?: That’s Dylan helping Doc Chandra. She has only been a cameo here and there – introduced fleetingly in the Olga & Brelvis series, and was name dropped as having a “wylding form” back on page 5.12.
Patrons: Over on Patreon page 129 is now up – page 130 soon…
Next update: Wednesday October 13, 2021: Just what should Ambrosia know? I know I keep setting Wednesday updates and then missing them, that’s the logistics of my day job at the moment but I remain optimistic I can make this coming Wednesday, this time around.
Ahh… I knew it all along! 😉🙃
“I remain optimistic I can make this coming Wednesday, this time around” – Keep swinging slugger! You’ll get the timing down!
No, Dr. Chandra, you’re not getting medevac. Not in time before the end of the world.
Which reminds me, we should probably get working on being able to evacuate our entire planet. In case of large asteroid impact or human-induced environmental collapse. Hmm, maybe that’s why those rich guys are making space companies, they’re making sure they can get off the planet if they need to.
Yeah. The only trouble is their selection priority for candidates to save the human race with. Art, culture, diversity, and science will all suffer from a narrow process, which is almost assured with the kinds of people who make the money necessary to build personal space programmes.
Their selection might be suboptimal, but:
1) just ensuring survival of species is big step forward
2) their selection will likely be BETTER than whatever politicians would came up with
Hopefully, before the actual evacuation, we will get enough time to make the space travel cheap and establish permanent colonies. Such permanent colonies will likely be mostly populated by scientist, which would solve at least ONE of those mentioned problems.
Also note that for art and culture, Project Gutenberg is better way than thinking about which artist or cultural representative would fly. Ensuring our cultural works are digitized and archived off-planet should be simpler than space colonies.
Meatball surgery-a phrase used a lot in the 1972-83 TV series M*A*S*H*…!
Um, how did Ranger Bill get to his moon-base anyway? Could that evacuate people to safety? We all know that nowhere on Earth will be safe in a little while.
Teleportal, courtesy of his clever nanites – http://magellanverse.com/comic/parargdox-59/
With both he and they out of the picture, it looks like you’ll need a space vehicle to get there right now.
“Yes Billy, it’s me, Charisma, I’m here!”
“Kaycee…”
“… nice try, but these internal injuries still hurt worse.”
Dylan.
I was actually thinking a bit about her. Wanting to learn more.
Damn it, Grace!
So many interesting supporting characters. So little time to explore them all adequately!