The chapter break here is kind of arbitrary, I know. I like breaking the story into chapters that are around 20 pages long, to resemble a paper comic book, with an action-packed middle. That doesn’t matter much for anyone reading it on the web, but when I publish Genocide Man I plan to have full-page (and maybe full color) chapter covers in every break. The first book should have chapters 1-7 (or maybe 8). Wow, it doesn’t seem that long away anymore.
For now we’re just rolling from one conversation to the next. Soon we’ll learn all about Msaka…and a little more about the enigmatic Dr. Fumiaki. Stay tuned.
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Jacob: And you are?
Msaka: Senator Msaka Pakawa, your host...or your victim. Which will it be, Mr. Doe?
Girii: Jacob, calm down.
Jacob: I'm calm. I'm always calm before there's killing.
Girii: You promised me no killing. She doesn't have a weapon.
Jacob: She is a weapon. She's from the Ugandan deviancy. I let one live...but that was eighty years ago.
Msaka: I don't look that old, do I? No, that was my mother. I was cloned from her by Doctor Tatsu Fumiaki.
Msaka: Senator Msaka Pakawa, your host...or your victim. Which will it be, Mr. Doe?
Girii: Jacob, calm down.
Jacob: I'm calm. I'm always calm before there's killing.
Girii: You promised me no killing. She doesn't have a weapon.
Jacob: She is a weapon. She's from the Ugandan deviancy. I let one live...but that was eighty years ago.
Msaka: I don't look that old, do I? No, that was my mother. I was cloned from her by Doctor Tatsu Fumiaki.
I am enjoying this webcomic, the whole concept of a hale and hearty centenarian being able to recall 80 years of activity at the drop of a heartbeat is stunning. I presume that the plot will involve some simple exposition about the mixture of the genetic types which links in with the mandate of the Genocide men, your timeline, your promise of furries appearing eventually (that’s not a furry I find particularly furry or cute), and perhaps a story about Dahini and her intelligence. You have a very interesting world Remus. And you artwork has progressed beautifully since your Indefensible Positions days. (Or it could be that monitors have gotten bigger so the pictures you have there appear a touch smallish) – T
Huah, I find the flat finger tips really ugly. People should have round finger tips. And more finger, come to think of it.
Is it the Ugandan Deviancy, rather than Ungandan? Sorry if I’m mistaken about that.
It was in Uganda, thus Ugandan. 🙂
Glad you’re enjoying the story, Thom! Yes, I promised furries. I can’t promise they’ll be cute. 🙂 Some will be, I’m sure.
But you typo’ed it in the script, and thus Ungandan 😉
And I second that the clawtips look weird, at least in part because it looks like the claws are actually the last section of the digital bones stripped down and molded into claws.
Also, is it just me or does she remind anyone else of the African Amazon in the Bond film, A View to a Kill? Grace Jones?
Whoops! I’ll fix that when I get home tonight. 🙂
Yep, Msaka’s claws are formed from the last knuckle on her fingers. I believe that’s the same morphology as real predators with non-retractable claws, like wolves and lions.
And yes, I designed Msaka to resemble Grace Jones. I mentioned that at the start of last chapter. I’m not into the waif-fu types like Summer Glau; I like my kick-ass females large and severe. (However, one very important waif-fu has already made her appearance, and she’ll be back soon.)
“the whole concept of a hale and hearty centenarian being able to recall 80 years of activity at the drop of a heartbeat is stunning.”
The question is “why is it stunning”…
I posted the pic of a 135 years old guy here previously…he was hale, hearty and launched in a tale from a question of ours about an event when he was nine years old. Also I met several women, hale and hearty too, who had 24 children, most alive and well(not aborted as is the fashion today). So what is it in the water that make these contemporary 80 years old so feeble and foolish? But the trend is improving…folks smoke a lot less and now wear rubber gloves when handling petroleum products(that toxic stuff goes right through your skin into your bloodstream), also people avoid breathing exhaust and fumes for the same reasons, so maybe there is hope for the gene pool.
Cool. I missed your post about Grace Jones somehow.
I think what’s throwing me about her claws is that most times you see people with claws in anime or live action stuff, they’re designed to be more like fingernails in placement (probably to make it easier on the props and makeup departments). Bit of a switch to see an attempt at anatomical accuracy like this.
……..She will never play the violin……
I think the claws look interesting, because they actually look animalian in nature. I also like how her hand in the last panel looks blunt and heavy, like a lion’s paw.