Page 34. It’s called FRIENDSHIP, AL.
Here is a late Friday update for you all! As you may have gathered elsewhere, I was having vision problems this week that made working on a page very difficult, but I think I’m on the mend now. Just in time, because in a few hours I’ll be on a plane to table at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD for the third year running! Table K-10!
And since my schedule is pretty much borked and I have no idea of when I’ll have the next page finished, I’ll also mention that next weekend I’ll be table at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR! Table E-08!
he’s a doctor?
not an actor dammit jim?
Geez, do all the servers look exactly the same?
And is the general shocked because Brendan’s dressed quite a bit like them?
Wishing I could dress as fabulously as the entire cast of O Human Star… *sighs*
the good doctor doesn’t seem to think much of either lucy nor brendie, except as “accessories”
maybe instead he wishes to flirt with al.
or he is merely self-effacing
Or he REALLY NEEDS their tech for some expected reconstructions?
i’m sensing a flashback within a flashback and closeted military action from al’s past
Wait wut
There is something important about those pins. Otherwise why would they pull Al’s attention like that? I mean being a general he is sure to have pins and crap all over his uniform so why would it drawn Al’s attention less it was unusual?
“I was worried you might not recognize me otherwise.” Uh oh…
Has OHS ever had any references at all that Al may have been in the military at one time? If he had ever served that would also explain the affinity the brass seems to have for him. In the panel where he is staring at the medical pin, his eyes look somewhat wide, and his eyebrows appear raised. Al’s emotions are harder to read than other characters due to his beard…and the fact he is a curmudgeon.
I have been wondering what Alastair ‘s reaction to all the military uniforms in that room.. I believe that is a medical pin on the officer’s lapel .
Great comic , well drawn.
Is he… flirting?
This is what I was thinking. Gawd knows I’m not the expert on gaydar-related smalltalk, but either they have history or there’s current flowing for some other reason.
This is a godsend for soldiers; it would be like the drone ‘soldierboys’ from Haldeman’s FOREVER PEACE; too powerful to bother killing anyone, they just round them up and arrest them. Except that the robots loaded with your soldiers’ minds might not want to die either . . .
what about friendship, Blue?
ah.
i see, now.
:-D
When you’re wearing a uniform, you’re speaking for your country’s military. Now, I’m as pro-disarmament as the next hippie, I have no opinion on the appropriateness of this portrayal, it’s just how military uniforms work. It’s weird that Lee would decide on wearing it or not as if it was a question of fashion. Makes me think he’s lying to appear a little rogueish, maybe an undercover anarchist who don’t care about no rules; an act to make Al think he’s not selling out to become a weapons supplier for the US military quite so much.
(Probably a little paranoid.)