Talita junk removal services!
Transcript
A montage of panels shows Talita removing furniture from the interior of the Runaway.
Bracing against a door, face contorted with effort, she pulls on the moving straps to lift a cabinet that has fallen against the exterior wall of a cabin room next to a smashed and dented desk. Inside the room, the electrician worms help lift and guide the furniture so it doesn't swing and scrape against anything. The walls and floors of the wedge shaped cabins show ghostly lines of where furniture used to be attached, and people used to walk. On the floor of the interior room (which with current gravity, is a wall) Bip's avatar waves at her nervously and appears to watch her progress.
Talita adds the cabinet to her pile of removed furniture in the interior room.
She carries a piece of furniture under her arm, stepping over the bulkhead dividers between the floors of the habitat module.
Then she places the cabinet down carefully into the four sided docking ring room, where a pile of removed furniture is slowly growing in size.
59 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 207”
bonescaro
distance model talita!!!!!!! with her lil dot eyes 😭💖
Korlis
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E
Good to see ikea is still in business
bwooom
god the paneling here is so siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
Flero
I love the small details like little pieces of tape holding the drawers shut.
Annie Moose
Looking at all the heavy lifting Talita is doing, my first thought was, I hope she’s drinking plenty of water. Then of course my thoughts drifted. Can she even drink water? Is water universally the same over the entire universe? If she can’t drink Earth water, what can she do to make it Centaur water? Can the creatures she eats drink Earth water or do they need special water too? What does Talita drink to stay hydrated? Is their a Centaur equivalent to coffee? Etc., etc., etc. Heh. ^_^;
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Pure water is the same everywhere, by definition, but we all need water with some crap in it and we can tolerate water with even more crap. If you drank pure H2O it’d mess you up it pops your cells, so we need a little salt in it and also that salt can be nutritionally useful; we can also handle y’know some amount of like plastic and be fine even if we don’t use it. And this is gonna vary for each sophont, maybe they could all drink just H2O and NaCl saline and be fine but if you drank water from an Avian like company you’d probably eventually die of cobalt poisoning. It’s also just wise to keep water separate in case of contamination.
Enai
Distilled water is fine to drink, our digestive system is specifically equipped to cope with foods of incorrect osmolarity*. We get the majority of minerals and trace elements from our food anyway. I bet the water system dispenses demineralized water and you can add mineral salts to your taste (and species). Upside: no more problems with too hard water gunking up your coffee maker / washing machine / boiler.
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*exceptions are possible, of course. Drinking too much water in too short a time can lead to death, as can eating large amounts of salt. Dehydration and heat exhaustion is another thing that can mess with that, to say nothing of various diseases of the digestive system.
malmo
If anything, it’s Bip who needs the fancy spaceship water
JoB
Actually they did refuse that …
IncompleteMachine
They have refined tastes…
Vinemaple
The first thing Doug did, when he realized Talita was a baby Centaur and not some weird GMO pet, was to call for some distilled water.
Light_In_The_Fogt
Is this from a comic or a blog post or smth? Can u link it?
Phasma Felis
A future comic from the blog did establish that Talita drinks the same water humans do 🙂 It’s pretty spoily other than that, though.
Artor
Having a continuous ladder from deck to deck sounds like a hazard under thrust or artificial gravity, if such a thing exists. Shouldn’t it be interrupted at each deck so nobody ends up falling the length of the ship?
JoB
Do you see the “shelves” above and below the openings between decks? Those are (fold-aside) hatches, you can see Bip opening one (elsewhere) to allow Talita to pass in the last panel of page 204 (and have it confirmed in the transcript).
… well, they were supposedly designed to stop/prevent the fall of one of those who built the ship (humans), at least …
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This guy OSHAs
Vinemaple
There are some elements of the ladder that makes me think it might actually be retractable… not sure where it would go, though.
JoB
… I did wonder what Bips gesture in the first panel, perching above, V-shaped hand and all, reminded me of …
Enai
Pull! Pull!
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Will Talita gain the herb ball of healing after taking all the junk out of the Runaway, I wonder? Then again, Bip isn’t a nature deity of any kind, much less a river…
ryttyr
What I don’t get is why they need to throw it all out
Flero
Bip did say secured or removed. So presumably the most intact stuff will stay. It just needs to all be in a single place so it can be assessed.
Oodl
If it was secured to the walls/floor/ceiling, at the very least it was ripped off of whatever hardware was securing it. (Stripped and warped threads or whatever). Itll need work to get it back to safety standards.
JoB
Looks like Bip already had the stuff that used to be inside all those drawers (and, no doubt, partially had wound up strewn around) thrown out. We’ve been discussing where the bodies would get put, but I guess that what Bip has planned for their belongings¹ will be even more telling about their thoughts and later plans.
¹ As in, junk, hidden junk, outright destroyed, offered to Talita (a) on Dirtball, b) aboard the ship), own mementos, “just” reused (c) aboard, d) whenever Bip next meets starchasers), recycled (in whatever fashion), earmarked for later garage sale, …
tyrone
Ooooh Garage sale, I just LOVE those!
Sign me up……sooo….directions for Dirtball?
JoB
I said “later” garage sale”, as there aren’t enough buyers for parataurnalia on Dirtball. So, your question should be “how much ‘faster than you’ is the Runaway, actually?”. 😉
squiggles
really spectacular page layout here
Ruby
Heave-ho!
JoB
[breaks into space shanty]
Septemberdale
Space shanties are a thing. They’re called “filk”. I’d try “Guardians” first, it’s a ghost story.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqU7W8LdRd4
Anna Hladíková
Objection! That isn’t a shanty! It’s a ghost story, not a work song! *This* is a space shanty! It’s also how I met my husband.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lddKP4Dh93I
JoB
Ah, nice to know, thanks. I’m afraid that so far, I’m only acquainted with the meager selection the Dirtball folks adopted …
🎶 What shall we do with the drunken temp guys,
what shall we do with the drunken temp guys,
what shall we do with the drunken temp guys
early before bing bong … ? 🎵 😉
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WERE WHALERS ON THE MOON
WE CARRY A HARPOON
BUT THERE AINT NO WHALES
SO WE TELL TALL TALES
AND SING OUR WHALING TUNE
Stray Cat
Pages like these, you can definitely tell that this comic is a 2D-3D hybrid – the ladders give it away. It’s a serious show of the skill and patience it takes to make a 2D-3D hybrid look good. Kudos!
Marcie
Distance model Talita!
creetur
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jdeltia
•̖|•̗?
blythe
is that…dried blood on the desk
JoB
Only the leftmost spot looks like splattered liquid to me, and as far as we know, the crew died from decompression, not getting shot or shanked after the Runaway getting boarded post-“moving object”. So even if it’s blood, it’s unrelated to the former crew’s demise (and not from a fatal wound, unless a lot more of it was removed much more cleanly than the leftover stain).
Vinemaple
Maybe splattered ink
BravoLimaPoppa
What is that behind the cabinet Talita is pulling up in the bottom left panel? It looks like a piano, but that can’t be right.
Vinemaple
Looks like a desk, with a mysterious lift-up center panel. My (uninformed) guess is a Centaur sewing machine, that flips down to become a desk, the way some IRL sewing machines are mounted.
Counterpoint
That idea with something like the flip-up sewing machine feels about right – but if the perspective isn’t too badly skewed (and it doesn’t really look like it…), that cutout looks way too tight to be somewhat comfortably lifted with hooves the size of Talita’s (not without an inordinate amount of levering to even get them wedged in), but much closer to human-sized 🤷♂️…?
FyreNWater
What in the (off)world is in those cabinets that Talita is having trouble lifting them??
Enai
Maybe the angles she’s using her limbs at are just not ideal? Like, human legs are plenty strong, but using them to squeeze inward or lift outward is not the way to generate serious force. Likewise, Talitas arms are powerful. But if she lifts serious weights, she doesn’t do it like this. Also, maybe her hands and fimgers just don’t have too much grip strength? She mostly trains with machines, I think, and those she uses have nice, big comfy handles not fiddly straps.
Jay Eaton
She’s not having that much trouble, the first part of the pull is when the leverage is the worst. Or maybe I just like drawing extreme poses and expressions too much.
Ruby
It’s just flexing then gotcha
Athelind Llewellyn Long
Ah, that explains why she didn’t mount a block and tackle on that conveniently-placed ladder. Bufftaur gotta flex!
Apollo235
Should have opened the interior hatch for the lowermost airlock, then getting it out of the ship is as simple as cycling the airlock and letting everything drop out! Assuming the hatch is impact resistant and there’s nothing important below it of course
JoB
With the current orientation of the Runaway, either the “up” or the “down” airlock should have the emergency shuttle docked, so …
HAL9000
not if you want to preserve the furniture it isnt
Eldermage1
Ough, the paneling brings me so much joy
MyUniverseinaBox
Love the paneling here
Ave Zancuda
Such lovely and creative paneling!
Pepper
Love how the panels are laid out here! Big fan of Bip too – it’s impressive how xeir simple design can manage to be so expressive.
Vinemaple
Having just received occupational lifting training, it occurs to me Talita would have to learn all her lifting safety second-hand at best, there may not yet be proper safety manuals on how to lift and carry for Centaurs. And they quite likely wouldn’t be in English, if they did exist. I wonder if she had her childhood doctor on Nexus Jovia help her learn how to lift weights, and just lift and carry, safely.
Also, the panels, and Talita with her eyes closed, and how being a hexapod makes carrying over rough terrain, at least, easier. And what I wouldn’t give to be able to use perspective and foreshortening narratively, like this. There are pages I can see in my mind, but don’t have the ability to draw.
HAL9000
theres 3D models being used for shots like this and for enviromental/mechanical stuff. many artists use models to get perspective shots right, especially for things like webcomics where it needs consistent repeat shots of the same interior at various angles. you can even commission models, if you struggle with 3D software (god knows i do) or make little physical ones from clay, papier mache or cardboard (love doing that)
Limulid
foreshortened Talita…! <33
Tumorhead
Fun paneling on this page! Talita’s strength coming in handy