Page 18. Please tell me I’m not the only one who absentmindedly rolls tiny balls out of scrap paper or napkins during an important phone call.
O Human Star
by Blue Delliquanti
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Page 18. Please tell me I’m not the only one who absentmindedly rolls tiny balls out of scrap paper or napkins during an important phone call.
Wow, never seen someone do that kind of thing idly before. Is that a tic?
People use to think I was rolling joints I did that so much.
Well, that’s a good way to deal with nervousness and trying to keep your cool. I myself just pace around the room, drum the table, or fiddle with the phone cord. but that’s a good way to keep myself more stationary and less noisy.
I love that even though Al isnt very sociable , it seems he remembers people who are important, especcially ones that are important to brendan, it seems, and he remembers them well.
I tend to make notes, don’t really talk on the phone much except at work. Poor Brendan haha.
It’s kind of depressing that even in The Future, the Department of Shooty and Boomy is still the only part of government that gets any budgetary respect. (Depressing and probably accurate.)
This isn’t The Future though, this is a flashback to 2003. This is The Past and certainly in 2003 DARPA and the like had the deepest pockets.
The hell’s a blog?
the neuron emulator is not essential?
someone wants Sara Lee?
someone is dyslexic with numbers?
al picks at stuff (such as his shirt) regardless; is this an additional idiosyncrasy of al’s?
(sulla does indeed look like allustair, in panel two, by the by)
Brendan, what are you doing with your hands in panel 3. What even. Also “beautiful young lady”, ugh, can’t you find anything else to say about her, like seriously.
Huh, for once the military aren’t the big bad guys trying to make scary technology? Wohoo!
So far…
Rosie, remember they are closeted. ‘You get to work with a beautiful young lady’ is what they call a ‘perk.’ It’s a tip that the guy on the phone REALLY wants this to happen.
The military’s involvement makes me think of Joe Haldeman’s ‘soldierboys,’ big remote robot drones run by direct brain connection. Maybe they are thinking ‘just download the soldier INTO the soldierboy?’
The character development is very well-done; Al is a bundle of repressed twitchiness and energy, always fiddling. As someone said, the multitool is a great symbol. The guy on the phone has no idea that he is stressing.
Blue, I don’t tear paper and roll it, I doodle little people with grotesque faces all over and give them word balloons saying “oh no” and “wtf” and “eep.” So far my head hasn’t exploded so it must relieve the pressure.
All of a sudden, the ad makes sense. Remember? STERLING: see who’s inside!
I bet it’s Grandma. I also bet she’s not emulated as well as Al or Sulla. And I bet Al can fix that, now that he’s back.
“see who’s inside” HOLY SNAP. Nice catch.
I’ve never done the rolling scrap paper thing myself, but I know a few other people who do.
I usually lurk, but since I’ve come out of hiding I’d like to say this comic is amazing and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
yeah i do that all the time. paper, jeans, clay, crumbs…
Yeah colonel says they’re not trying to make weapons but you have the potential to make Megaman a reality here! You’d be doing the world a disservice by not!
al acknowledges lucille’s skill and attractiveness (without providing further commentary on either matter) at least
I pace while talking on the phone; I only fiddle with my hands in person.
I don’t know what’s wrong with you, fiddling remotely; it seems rude not to let the person you’re talking to see what you create out of nearby objects.