All right, this (way too wordy) page should serve as a good cliffhanger. Jacob wanted to see Fumiaki’s other labs…I guess he thinks that walking into a trap full of supersoldiers is worth it.
Just to remind you, there will be no comics next week or the week after. Genocide Man will return on Monday, January 5th. We’ll be flashing briefly back to London with the next page, as the story threads are starting to converge. You’ll see. Happy holidays, everyone!
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Jacob: Hold on. This is an automated Mahindra-Tata private jet...but all the markings have been sanded off.
Zoey: Boy howdy, Roger. He's sharp.
Jacob: Tell me that we aren't flying to India.
Zoey: Um...I'll be honest, Mr. Doe. I'm really scared. I've been ordered to say anything that will get you on this plane.
Jacob: So it is a trap?
Zoey: Yep. I tried to warn you. I know you were dodging plane crashes in Dakar. But they're not going to blow the plane up. I promise. They're set up to capture you when we land.
Jacob: How?
Zoey: India has an army of supersoldiers, using Fumiaki's tech.
Jacob: Think I'd like to see that. Besides, I'm not getting back in that whale.
Zoey: Boy howdy, Roger. He's sharp.
Jacob: Tell me that we aren't flying to India.
Zoey: Um...I'll be honest, Mr. Doe. I'm really scared. I've been ordered to say anything that will get you on this plane.
Jacob: So it is a trap?
Zoey: Yep. I tried to warn you. I know you were dodging plane crashes in Dakar. But they're not going to blow the plane up. I promise. They're set up to capture you when we land.
Jacob: How?
Zoey: India has an army of supersoldiers, using Fumiaki's tech.
Jacob: Think I'd like to see that. Besides, I'm not getting back in that whale.
I don’t get it, where has she been trying to warn him?
I like how “I’ve been ordered to say anything that will get you to board this plane and fly into a trap” is exactly what she needed to say in order to get him to board the plane and fly into the trap.
Very meta.
Love this page. The head poking around the corner, the fingers holding the glasses, slumping cross armed in the chair. Very nice work. It feels not too wordy, but wordy enough. The scenes are set well enough to show a certain resignedness and inevitability.
Remember when Zoey said, ‘They wouldn’t really crash a plane to kill you?’ That was her subtle way of warning them. Yeah, too subtle. I’ll take the blame for that. 🙂
I thought that sounded a bit uncharacteristic.
Candid little hottie, ain’t she?
(India has supersoldiers but the Genocide Project doesn’t?)
The Genocide project has supersoldiers – the Genocide Men. Do they really need anything else?
Anyway, if you’re part of an organisation that prevents genetic modification of humans, you can’t really use it to improve your own people. It’s hypocritical.
Two things:
G-men don’t seem to have quite as firm a grip on things as they think they do.
Bio-warfare, super-soldiers. . .who’s gonna break out the Grey Goo?
I’m gonna guess that India isn’t a member of the G.U.S.
India *is* a member of G.U.S. They attempted to withdraw in 2071 to begin their first supersoldier program (the ‘Chaulmoogra’, which Jacob mentioned back in Chapter 3). The Genocide Project gently convinced them to rejoin G.U.S., with only 40,000 casualties, mostly military personnel.
More of that background is coming up soon. 🙂
Eh, he’ll be fine. Jacob is, to put it bluntly, the baddest motherfucker in the entire world, by virtue of beating the previous contender via electricity, Sarin, drowning, and motherflipping *crocodile*.
I guess I’m just not sure why India suddenly thinks they can take him.
SpectralTime wrote: “I guess I’m just not sure why India suddenly thinks they can take him.”
To paraphrase some anime: “That’s Jacob ‘Doe’. Kill him and you’ll be famous!”
Speaking of the Timeline, you may want to tweak it slightly and add in the further evidence:
Gene Therapy (basic) used against HIV:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2014/03/june/
Anyhow, have a good break and a crackin’ new year!
The sad thing is that as I read this I half expect the plane to blow up…after all how else were ‘they’ going to get her onto it to convince him that it wouldn’t blow up. >.<
Thanks for writing this! The story is so compelling! I’m eagerly awaiting Jan 5!
Glad you’re enjoying it, Barry. I’m still away, but the pages are loaded and should go up on time. Hope everyone is having happy holidays!