Not much to say about this page. We’ll linger just a few pages in the tree canopy, along with a look at…well, you’ll see.
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Roger: Why are we climbing so high?
Largo: To see the Dancer.
Roger: What, is she in heaven? Just show me where she lived, or her grave, or --
Dahnai: No grave. Not yet.
Largo: To see the Dancer.
Roger: What, is she in heaven? Just show me where she lived, or her grave, or --
Dahnai: No grave. Not yet.
There’s a beautiful majesty and mystery to this page. Just wanted to share that.
That is almost certainly NOT David Bowie.
I KNEW she wasn’t dead! Ok I really didn’t know… but I had a hunch!
Woah! It was clear that she couldn’t be dead, but I never imagined that she would be there!
Beautiful page! And Roger’s face in the last panel is great…
So Doctor Fumiaki found a way to extend Dahnai’s lifespan… Is it just me, or does she look younger there than she did in the earlier comics? Almost leads me to think that it is not Dahnai, at all, unless the good Doctor himself is nearby.
@Perpessio: If you look at the journal pages again, you’ll find it was not necessary for Fumiaki to extend Dahnai’s lifespan…
I figured that was what you meant by “arbitrary senescence”.
Though with no apoptosis I’m going to have to assume she has some super-powerful DNA repair mechanisms, and that the AI had to use a bio-printer or something to make her.
@Perpessio,Zarpaulus
Actually we don’t have all the information but the scène where Fumiaki draw the life graph and conclude is journal on a capitale sentance “the IA that created Danai he gave her life! HE GAVE HER LIFE!” seemed pretty clear to me. http://www.genocideman.com/?p=266 especially since the lifespan curb outmatch the human one. well I’m only gessing it’s the human one.
How – um – “romantic”.
Is there a plate of spaghetti in their future?
I like the face Roger makes at the end. That 0_0
@AceOfSpade: That’s about how I read that line. I’m more interested in whether she can share the gift or not.
@Zarpaulus: You are assuming that she uses mitotic cellular division for her biology. We don’t know jack about her mechanisms; we are only fairly certain that she uses the standard DNA (we can assume so, since Fumiaki could read and rationally examine it).
I do really like this page. She’s very cute, and the second panel is very nice. Roger, do blink, and don’t faint.
This post is not related to this page, but I just had an idea about Girii’s strength. Perhaps she doesn’t show the genetic markers for strength because she too is a chimera. The extra mass she carries around might be another genetically unique partial organism that lives inside her and gives her her unique strength, very like the human minds living inside slow cows giving them intelligence.
Oh, and as for Dahnai breeding with humans, the female gives the offspring all of the non-nuclear cellular components, so her offspring would have her unique golgi apparatus (and lack of mitochondria). It might be possible, depending on how compatible the chromosomes are. Still, seems unlikely.