Runaway to the Stars: Page 217 and 218
Posted on October 31, 2025 by Jay Eaton

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Well, that... can't be right.

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Doug: She's probably already listening. She has very good hearing.

Talita looks up from where she has pressed her face against the corner wall of her bedroom with a start. She is younger, with round glasses and large baggy black hoodie.

Both the humans around the coffee table and Talita in her bedroom are shown in an impossibly clean cross section of the entire building, which cuts through windows, walls, furniture, and objects with atomic precision, revealing their interior structure.

Next to the break room with Doug and the others is a reception area with a desk and mailboxes. It's decorated with a banner of colorful eggs and flowers, and a large paper wall art "reading "HAPPY FEASTER!" flanked by vegetables and a cartoon chabbit holding a broom. 

On the floors above the break room and the lobby are the dormitories for foster teens, with hallways in the middle. Next to all the dormitory bedroom doors hang miniature decorated brooms, some doors with many more brooms than others. Each of the bedrooms is in a different state of disarray, all with multiple bunk beds and teenage residents who have decorated and arranged their belongings in unique ways.

Talita’s bedroom in contrast houses only her, with a large mattress on the floor and an electronics work desk in between her dressers. The ceiling light fixture is unscrewed, with its wiring split between the light and a cable running towards the work desk, seemingly as another source of power after all the wall outlets were occupied by splitters and extension cables. Her posters and decorations feature human celebrity heart throbs and aircraft. Wind spinners hang in front of her window.

Outside the cross section, even more impossible, is Earth's deep sea. The building appears to sit directly on the abyssal plain, its cut rooms open to the environment as if the surrounding water were just more air. Brittle stars and sea pigs crawl on the ground next to the floor of the lobby, while crinoids pop up outside the break room like flowers. A group of snail fish swim lazily around the bisected edge of the break room’s window, and far off in the distant dark waters, a bigfin squid drifts by.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 217 and 218
Posted on October 31, 2025 by Jay Eaton

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Well, that... can't be right.

Transcript

Doug: She's probably already listening. She has very good hearing.

Talita looks up from where she has pressed her face against the corner wall of her bedroom with a start. She is younger, with round glasses and large baggy black hoodie.

Both the humans around the coffee table and Talita in her bedroom are shown in an impossibly clean cross section of the entire building, which cuts through windows, walls, furniture, and objects with atomic precision, revealing their interior structure.

Next to the break room with Doug and the others is a reception area with a desk and mailboxes. It's decorated with a banner of colorful eggs and flowers, and a large paper wall art "reading "HAPPY FEASTER!" flanked by vegetables and a cartoon chabbit holding a broom. 

On the floors above the break room and the lobby are the dormitories for foster teens, with hallways in the middle. Next to all the dormitory bedroom doors hang miniature decorated brooms, some doors with many more brooms than others. Each of the bedrooms is in a different state of disarray, all with multiple bunk beds and teenage residents who have decorated and arranged their belongings in unique ways.

Talita’s bedroom in contrast houses only her, with a large mattress on the floor and an electronics work desk in between her dressers. The ceiling light fixture is unscrewed, with its wiring split between the light and a cable running towards the work desk, seemingly as another source of power after all the wall outlets were occupied by splitters and extension cables. Her posters and decorations feature human celebrity heart throbs and aircraft. Wind spinners hang in front of her window.

Outside the cross section, even more impossible, is Earth's deep sea. The building appears to sit directly on the abyssal plain, its cut rooms open to the environment as if the surrounding water were just more air. Brittle stars and sea pigs crawl on the ground next to the floor of the lobby, while crinoids pop up outside the break room like flowers. A group of snail fish swim lazily around the bisected edge of the break room’s window, and far off in the distant dark waters, a bigfin squid drifts by.

147 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 217 and 218”

  1. pigeon

    this page is so beautifullll im staring at it

  2. narwhalsarefalling

    THE HOLY LAPTOP NAILED TO THE WALL HAS APPEARED

  3. halley

    this page is gorgeous!! tysm i adore the cross-sections <3

  4. lemonmeercat

    stilt fish spotted!
    I really like how bip is looking at her like ‘Don’t you want to choose your own path?’

  5. Rey

    THE LAPTOP NAILED TO THE WALL HAS APPEARED

  6. gorsime

    this might just be my favourite page in the comic. sooo much to look at. Where’s Talita would be too easy of a where’s Wally book, but finding bip in a bugferret terminal would be a hoot!

  7. NTLS

    you DID NOT have to do that much detail. and yet. my god. [i put up a protective ward against carpal tunnel]

  8. OccidentalAvian

    I just noticed that the cutaway goes straight through drawers and someone’s rollerbag, letting you see inside them! That attention to detail is so cool!

  9. Gar G

    Just noticed that one of the kids has a laptop nailed to the wall… Wonder how that happened

    1. Origamigryphon

      Considering all the Feaster brooms they have on their door, and their stressed posture over their desk, I’d wager to say they’re an overachiever and are on track for burnout, and that laptop was their first victim.

      1. thegriffin88

        Hi griffin friend! 👋

        1. Origamigryphon

          An 80’s baby, as well, hello!

  10. cabbage

    Taleenager

  11. MrWho

    Looks like someone has tampered with the ceiling lamp to power a soldering station, an oscilloscope and a number of other interesting electronic devices.
    Llllove it!

  12. HAL9000

    *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood dicaprio whistle click meme* CONCORDE SPOTTED

  13. Gar G

    Saw the exit and now I have to wonder, is this connected to another building or is this just some sort of metaphor?

    1. Vinemaple

      Nexus Jovia is so big that they just have normal-ass buildings in a lot of areas, with sidewalks and tramways and stuff.

  14. Bugs

    I love the bigfin squid PNG in the corner lol

  15. Gar G

    Omg just noticed all the stuff she has plugged in

    Hey her decorative things! 😀 and her plushies <3

  16. Gar G

    Omg just noticed all the stuff she has plugged in

    Hey her decorative things! 😀 and her plushies <3

  17. mossrabbit

    the one kid with the five brooms above their door… i mean maybe some belong to their roommate, but seeing that plus the nailed-up laptop and the way theyre clearly stressing out over their desk… i think the majority of those brooms are theirs. not to psychoanalyze someone we see in the corner of a single panel, but i forsee a cataclysmic crash and burn when they hit college. godspeed kid, hope ya make it.

    on to the actual comic, im actually obsessed with using the cross-sections of the walls as the panel gutters, meaning if you read the rooms in standard panel order, you reach doug’s dialogue at the same time talita does. but if you let yourself go right to doug, then you can follow his speech bubble to see talita up against the door. really really good. the details here are immaculate

    1. Marcie

      Instead of doing a bunch of extracurriculars to beef up their college applications, Jovian teens instead have amass a giant Feaster broom collection

    2. Vinemaple

      I assumed the brooms were the angsty studier’s absent roommate’s. And that they’re probably out getting more, right now

    3. halley

      oh, interesting. my interpretation is that the roommate is rly put together and organized (see how neat their half of the room is, with nothing loose on the desk and blankets folded atop the bed. there’s the… jewelry…? hanging from the rail of the bed, but even that is pretty neat, just in the open) and got all those brooms, and the kid we can see with the messy half of the room is struggling
      also, i think i see a bi flag on the side of roomie’s cabinet!

  18. Lilith

    God, this is such an incredible comic. I’ve been loosely following the universe since before the comic started posting and I fell in love with it immediately. I think its is one of my favorite things i’ve ever read. This page is just so well drawn and packed with detail. Every room feels lived in, like it could be a room that actually exists.

  19. MyUniverseinaBox

    I LOVE the detail of the other teens here, and all the details in general. The kid throwing the roll of tape lmfaooo

    1. JoB

      > The kid throwing the roll of tape

      Cue Talita texting them “cut it out, I’m trying to listen to someone else here” …

  20. sugar-goat

    Sad we can’t see Talita’s door to see how many brooms she has
    I love everythign about this page! The teens, the nailed laptop, the cross-section of the building that cuts through people’s stuff too, the deep sea creatures… good soup

  21. Sen

    Mind blowing design. So much love in every detail. It’s like you have a detailed backstory for every single resident.

  22. thoughtspeak

    I love these big detailed 2-page spreads!! I’m obsessed with the implications of the laptop nailed to the wall in that one kid’s room. And I love all the details of Talita’s room–like how the light’s wonky because she probably took it apart and put it back together again!

  23. Septemberdale

    Is Talita exempt from Feaster service because she can’t eat Earth food, or does she have to help harvest food she cannot eat?

    1. Jay Eaton

      Feaster compulsory service involves much more than harvesting crops for rotation, that’s just one of the more glamorous tasks on the biosystems spring cleaning list. If Talita wanted to contribute to biosystems that she actively uses, she could join the laboratory clean out team, parks and green spaces team, or sewage and waste processing team. Younger children do not have compulsory service hours but are usually taken to a different biosystem team every year as a school trip, and are usually given some task that has an age-appropriate difficulty and cannot be catastrophically fucked up. This teaches them about the different systems of the station and impresses upon them the importance of contributing to station maintenance. Teens are usually given the option to pursue whichever spring cleaning tasks they are more interested in, but have to meet minimum hours and write a report as part of their school curriculum. Not meeting hours as a teen gets you a grade penalty instead of a civic penalty. Try-hards seeking extracurricular benefits will do more hours than is required.

  24. flanneldragon

    messy room w/ unsafe electronics… nerdy-ass fantasy and aircraft posters/figurines everywhere…. sulking in her bedroom listening in on her guardian… BIG BAGGY DYSPHORIA HOODIE….. how did you make talita so transgender. her eggy transfem Markéd-Lack-Of swag is driving me crazy

  25. Zuorai

    The eavesdropperrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  26. SecretWallDinosaur

    Love her stipa caproni airplane model and what i think is a poster of an avian air city

  27. TotallySomebody

    WHO NAILED A LAPTOP TO THE WALL…..

    1. SquirrelGoblin

      OMG YES
      WHO!?

    2. MyUniverseinaBox

      OH-

  28. MonstieMunchies

    CRINOIDS!!!!!! my beautiful and beloved crinoids and brittle stars!!!

  29. Accursed Dirt Boar

    I get the feeling this is symbolic in some way….

  30. Enai

    Who gave that poor kid in the top right room their unfortunate bowlcut. I hope to the stars it’s just one of the latest fashions, but man alive.

    Also, I swear I saw that exact rug from the room the adults are conversing in in the 80s or early 90s somehere.

    1. Phasma Felis

      I looooove super detailed cutaways like this!

      Also these are great rooms. So much space.

      1. Enai

        Yes, the detailed panoramas are great, even though Jay says they’re bored making them. I wonder if there’s a rat hidden here, too?

        1. Enai

          Hunted for the rat, found no rat. But the charging mats on the windowsill in the office are a nice touch 🙂

    2. halley

      aw, i think it’s cute

  31. Siege

    I have another interpretation to the underwater metaphor, and it’s how Talita is subconsciously viewing Mel. To people who have lived in space for generations and actually made contact with aliens… hmm, probably not as “alien” anymore to them as being in space is normal, but the deep sea is often described as an “alien landscape” and is likely still a little more mysterious to off-worlders. Mel is the focus of those deep sea visuals because they come from outside the foster home Talita grew up in; their voice is new and strange to her so that’s why when Mel speaks the focus of those visuals are on them. Everything outside of the building is alien (or alienating!) to Talita, and everything inside is normal because it’s the closest thing she’s ever had to a home. Mel coming in to foster her, despite it being a very good idea to keep a giant, orphaned, but still very young sophont off the streets, still represents someone from this alien world changing ALL of that.

    1. Enai

      I still think it’s Mel feeling lost, but maybe you’re right. Or maybe they both are feeling at sea here.

    2. Vinemaple

      Wow, that’s ALSO a convincing interpretation, right when I was swinging back to thinking it was about Mel, but this time about how Mel sees Talita as an alien more than a person… but your interpretation makes much better sense of the deep-sea environment being OUTSIDE the teen village… I think I’m gonna invest in this!

  32. EEF PATTIES CHICKEN

    Is that a teen Talita in a hoodie!?

    1. bonescaro

      yes! i always love seeing Talita’s fashion choices, and how “human” clothing is altered to fit her size and shape. also i remember a post from jays tumblr talking about how teen talita wore a lot of oversized baggy clothes to combat her body dysmorphia, which is at its peak right now 😢

      1. Vinemaple

        I like how it hangs over her hindquarters, I think that’s a more flattering cut on a Centaur than what Talita usually goes for, with the “waist” being under her excurrent nostril.

    2. Chase Wanderstar

      Appears so. Biggest hoodie I’ve ever seen!

  33. Gar G

    Aww. And my gosh that background!

    And can only imagine how rough that must be for her at times, having to constantly hear everything that’s going on…

  34. Fallingfeather

    On one hand, for size reasons its probably a good idea that Talita has her own room. But on the other, I sure hope the other teens don’t give her crap for it. :C

    1. HAL9000

      it seems like the overcompensating wall-laptop kid also has their own room, so ehh maybe its not that uncommon? presumably if the facility isn’t at full capacity it’d be possible for some kids to get their own rooms

      1. Vinemaple

        Two beds in that room. I think the brooms are being earned by the conspicuously absent teen with the big jewelry collection

        1. Phasma Felis

          The cross section has me thinking about something I’d never considered before: building construction on a station like Nexus Jovia that’s big enough to have freestanding buildings. It occurs to me that walls and roofs are solely for privacy and soundproofing, not for keeping the weather out. (Maybe a *little* weather, since I think Nexus Jovia has scheduled rains for the outdoor plants?) But if the “outside” temperature is fixed and comfortable, there’s no need for thermal insulation, and you might even prefer *more* thermal to help cool rooms with lots of people/electronics.

          Also, mass is a consideration. Not *as* much as on a moving ship, but bringing in building materials isn’t quite as simple as shipping them by truck. (Then again, with Jupiter’s rings to harvest, maybe it’s easier than you’d think.)
          But still, sturdy walls have advantages in keeping loud noises outside, and preventing major structural damage from, say, teens nailing laptops to them.

  35. thegriffin88

    1: why are we under the sea? That’s one of my recurring stress dreams hooray 😵‍💫
    2: I like reading your transcripts because it kinda tells me who you are as a person. Like your need to describe what a cross section is in the most detailed way as though making a wish to a very literal genie who will take any loophole to screw you over.
    My scripts only make sense to me. Heh.

  36. Infanteater

    Talitas otter and quailicorn plushie return!!!

  37. hessian

    oh…the broken rooflight. environmental storytelling :[

    1. Thundarrow

      I don’t think it’s broken, it looks like Talita has been doing some tinkering with the cables for her stuff on the table

      1. DasGanon

        Yeah that looks like the “Questionably safe” decision of using the light as another power source for a bunch of other things. (No idea if Nexus Jovia is set up this way, but it’s semi-code/just good practice to have lights on one circuit and your outlets on another one so that if you pop the breaker you’re not in the dark)

        1. Vinemaple

          I think an 18-year-old who built a mechanical bank when she was only 10 can learn to divert power from a lamp socket safely… it looks permanent enough to convince me that Otilia et al are allowing her to keep it.

          Generally, the fire risk is from doing this kind of thing badly, and Humans are notorious for not being aware of their own incompetence…

  38. Hydrurgus

    Nice Neocrinus, and…..LOLLIPOP CATSHARK?!!!!!!

    1. Jay Eaton

      Yep :}

    2. Mushrealm

      SEA *clap* PIGS! *clap*

  39. S0glet

    Snail fish… yay…. Even better: 3 snail fish…..yaay..

    1. S0glet

      Actually nvm…. 4 SNAILFISH

  40. osprey

    I love how teen Talita has posters of a cute fairy (butterfly?) woman + various aircraft. two great interests to have

  41. Commander Ledi

    talita’s lamp situation distracted me for a moment from her power cord situation.

  42. Lezzlebit

    Looking at this some more, I’m glad nobody’s standing on the edge of the cross section… Would be quite scary to see someone sliced in half

    1. Peter Jensen

      For an example of how that would look (though with bug ferrets):

      https://jayeaton.site/RunawayToTheStars/Sophonts/BugFerrets/bugferrethouse.png

      1. Enai

        That’s disturbing. I thought it would be cool, but I’m unsettled now.

      2. Vinemaple

        Oh, gad, that’s right, they’re all over the place in that one.

      3. Lezzlebit

        Oh wowza. I’d seen that image before but I didn’t realize that it sliced them…… A little bit scary….

        1. Chase Wanderstar

          I wonder if “doesn’t really care about/understand privacy in the same way as other species” extends so far as “the magical room scanner also sees your guts”.

  43. gigithebear

    talita baby your room looks like a fire hazard

    1. Enai

      Quite. I’m worried, Talita.

      1. JoB

        Don’t worry, if there’s a fire, they can always open a window and let the ocean rush in. 😉

        1. Enai

          I’m not sure if water improves an “electrical fire” situation. Salt water at that.

  44. Bob

    LET’S GOOOO BIGFIN SQUID 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  45. Gheesfellow

    Busted!!!

  46. Marcie

    Underrated bit of symbolism here: Talita can probably hear everyone we see in this 2 page spread if she has a 1 floor range. Must be super easy to get overstimulated!

  47. Andrew Lindsey

    This is an image that really rewards zooming in. So many fun details to be seen.
    Feaster brooms (I assume) hanging up over people’s bedroom doors.
    Angsty teen upstairs has a laptop nailed to the wall through the screen for some reason.
    That same plastic folding table that I used to use for a desk.
    Talita has a poster of a Concord taking off. And she’s also seriously abusing those outlet strips, that has to be a fire hazarad.

    1. tyrone

      And the ceiling light has not taken her residence well.

    2. Vinemaple

      Those are absolutely Feaster brooms. Also not mentioned in the transcript are how the cross-section conveniently just happens to cut through many interesting things such as packed bags and cupboards and a light fixture, and Talita also has a photo on her wall of what looks like maybe a Tiiliitan offshore city or something, and she has her stuffed quailicorn and otter, and several tools recognizable from chapter 1… and there’s a Martian Mech Madness poster on the wall of the kids upstairs from Talita.

      Damn, it must feel so good to share a world you’ve been working on for over 10 years, at this kind of level, and see people pick up on all this stuff. I really hope I can do this kind of thing myself, someday.

      1. Vinemaple

        Also, since no-one else is mentioning it, the lobby windowsill is covered in wireless chargers (the on-off symbol also signifies that in RttS), and in the meeting room cupboard there’s a cutaway of a half-full water bottle. There is SO MUCH interesting stuff in this spread, that I don’t think there are any Easter eggs… although going thru the printed book with a magnifying glass may someday prove me wrong.

        1. Liza

          Feaster eggs 😉

    3. forthebit

      Plus the iPod(? Palm pilot? Mp3 player?) hanging by its wire from a ceiling hook in the laptop room. Wish my device ports were up to tolerating that level of abuse.

      1. JoB

        I note that the part of the “wire” between hook and device looks thicker than the part coming up the wall. Chances are that the cell phone(?)’s suspended by an lanyard attached to its case or a charm grommet.

        1. Vinemaple

          I forgot that a phone can look like just about anything in the RttS verse, and I thought it was a pull handle for something at the other end of the cable. But I think it IS a phone, actually. They have a couple smaller rectangles hanging from cords next to their monitors… I wonder what those are? And the roommate’s jewelry collection is interesting, too.

        2. JoB

          > They have a couple smaller rectangles hanging from cords
          > next to their monitors… I wonder what those are?

          Could be anything from their own jewellery, to ID tags to be worn while doing an internship someplace, to more electronic devices, to soap on a rope to take to the shower (note what looks somewhat like a wash bag on the desk below), so I’ll withhold judgment …

  48. Marcie

    I love the sea pigs on the bottom right ❤️

  49. Dicemonger

    I guess a benefit of being larger than your average human is that you get your own room.

  50. Sabella

    Ruh roh, did somebody forget the apex predator that just so happens to be a sophont also has exceptional hearing.

  51. Mango The Captain

    *gasp* Feaster mentioned!!!

  52. furubatsu

    I know this is *probably* symbollic, but the idea of like, a foster home at the bottom of the ocean sounds almost like something from a very whimsical childrens book

    1. JoB

      … or, to those who have an idea of the practical problems of deep sea diving, like a sci-fi-really-high-security variant of a “foster home” … :-3

      1. Enai

        Shadowrun has at least one location like that. It does not have windows, though.

  53. hurgaburga

    i like the ammount of detail you put into everyone’s rooms, and speaking of, whats the poster on talitas celling above her bed? its hard to see from this angle

    1. Vinemaple

      (rubs his neck) It looks like some kind of anthro with a tail, sitting cross-legged in a padded chair. It’s not Jay’s Darwinopterus dinosona, but there’s a sort of vague resemblance, IMHO.

      1. mossrabbit

        looks like a Tasteful Pinup to me, from the posing and skin showing. technically might be considered too clothed, but they (the facility) might not allow anything racier than a crop top and shorts regarding stuff like that. it’d make sense too considering talita is a teenager and thus experiencing Puberty (and its related horrors and urges)

        could also be a poster of a wrestler or similar profession that she likes, if not a pinup.

        1. Septemberdale

          I mean, we know Talita’s into bodybuilding as an adult, and got banned from playing soccer as a kid for breaking bones, so it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch for her to also have some interest in wrestling at some point in her life, if only to watch it (if only due to there not being a centaur league for human-invented forms of wrestling).

        2. halley

          i was thinking wrestler, particularly the one they were watching on thanksgiving, but on second thought it’s not super likely to be that one specifically

  54. Alex

    Yup, Talita is listening.

  55. Jaguarsoup

    I love the fire-hazard-inducing amount of things plugged into that electrical strip. Talita is so real for that. Also, this entire page is awesome! The amount of detail is great, also really loving whatever is going on with the deep sea symbolism here.

    1. Sabella

      Peak EE moment.

      1. Counterpoint

        Regarding the ‘fire-hazard-inducing’ part: the amount of power drawn may be less of a problem than one that seems to have persisted since way back in the early 21st century – ‘every darn device needs its own flippin’ wall wart, and whatever your power strip looks like, plugs straight, 45 degrees rotated or whatever, they never fit all that well beside each other, so you never have enough &^#@$ outlets…’ I don’t know if that kind of ‘problems sticking around through the ages’ is more comforting or concerning 😄…

  56. Lezzlebit

    Whoah. I wonder where this underwater … metaphor …. stylization thing is going… Like, obviously they’re actually somewhere on Nexus Jovia in the past, but if I were to have read this comic at a normal pace without looking through the transcripts and lore pages and extra art for ages, I would totally assume they’re like, literally underwater right now, haha

  57. Avardent

    Oh yeah she has a Concorde postee

  58. Redacted

    Oh god it seems I’ve in the future we can’t escape that damn bowl cut (top right)

  59. un_pogaz

    Hmm, I was sure I had seen this wind spinners somewhere and bingo, their also in her appartement on Dirtball, so Talita has been dragging it along for a long time. Also looking the other stuff, in addition to the plushies, she seems to have kept the same desk. That cute.

    1. Vinemaple

      The wind spinners are extremely cute because it’s something Centaurs also have in their own cultures. Their eyes are more optimized for motion tracking than static image parsing, it makes sense that Talita would be delighted, growing up in a Human society, to find art that moves and thereby makes her brain go brrr.

  60. Arcstone

    Hey jay, is that laptop a story youre just gonna coily keep unexplained forever? Cause I think I almost prefer that.

    1. Jay Eaton

      It seems self-explanatory to me.

    2. Falconette

      I’d assume the story is roughly as follows: “had broken computer, had bare wall in need of decoration, had teenage bad idea.”.

      1. Teod

        Did you mean “had teenage excellent idea”?

        1. Michi

          Yes, poke the wall that holds back the unfathomable depths with a nail seems like a great idea 😛

      2. JoB

        “Also, used big nail to keep broken computer from eventually winding up on Talitas workbench instead.”

        1. A Box Of Fox

          It might anyway, Talita is very strong.

    3. zaratustra

      You can learn the exciting lore of the nailed laptop on the Patreon comments.

  61. Mitta

    “oh shit he caught me”

    1. Vinemaple

      I’m idly wondering if Talita didn’t know that the Doug knew…

  62. The Defenestrator

    Happy Feaster everyone

  63. creetur

    MAGNAPINNA SQUIIID!
    Man, I love the little details

    1. creetur

      sea pens, sea pigs, other critters.. big heart eyes

      1. malmo

        I’ve been waiting three pages for a chimaera and have not been let down

  64. Skrymer

    Woah, what a page! So many details! I love the Concorde poster, and the surprise bigfin squid.

  65. gñfs

    those are a lot of power strips and extension cords on Talita’s room. I wonder what’s the exact purpose of the -presumably motorized- swivel light, for example.

    1. MutableAlias

      the transcript says that Talita (presumably) unscrewed the light to use the wiring for another source of power, since she’s already using up all the available outlets

  66. rabbithaver

    i love how the Happy Feaster mascot is a chabbit. SO cute!!!

  67. TawnySoup

    theyre underwater. theyre underwater really deep and they have windows so they can see out into the water?! and thats oK? ARE THEY GOOD WITH THIS EMOTIONALLY? AND, AND THERE’S CROSS SECTIONS OF THE FUCKING FURNITURE?!!!! THIS ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS UNHEARD OF
    i am just soaking up as much as i can. the way the clothes are folded up into that suitcase. the laptop nailed to the wall????? the way it’s all still drawn in perspective instead of being flat on even though this would have been way harder. the incredibly overencumbered plug socket extentions in Talita’s room. how comparatively clean it is in the reception areas. god i just cannot get over the furniture cross sections and all the little bits and pieces stored inside actually rendered with detail and thought behind what would be in there. thats insane. i shudder to imagine how long this page must have taken

    1. cain

      I don’t think the building is literally underwater. That would require structural adjustments more aggressive than those push/pull doors usually account for. To me it feels like a metaphor of being… trapped? Observed? Talita out of her element, in an alien environment, like a fish in too small a tank?

      1. gñfs

        Maybe it’s just a big aquarium, or the doors lead to a main building/hub area.

        1. MutableAlias

          if you go back a few pages (214-215), you can see sunlight and bushes outside the windows that change into the underwater scene. The transcript points it out on page 215

    2. Paroxysmall

      Jay streams work on Twitch so you can see pages being made in real-time (or scrub through the vods before they auto delete)
      but yeah this page spread is amazing, very cute learning about Talita’s room through the transcript

    3. JoB

      > AND THERE’S CROSS SECTIONS OF THE FUCKING FURNITURE?!!!!

      Thank goodness no people were, by hazard, standing/sitting/… in the plane of the cross-section … :-3

  68. Eux

    WOOOOOOO YESSSSSS CAUGHT. god i love these huge images and cutaways. this is so cool. that one teen is REALLY BRINGING IT for feaster

  69. Adrienne

    Damn is this a Halloween surprise?? Are we still getting a page tomorrow too?

    Also the kid who still lives within me and loved little houses is going nuts for this page

    1. Jay Eaton

      Oh. Oops, this was a queuing error. This page was supposed to post tomorrow.

      Uh… boo!

      1. Beans

        Scheduling Errors… The real horror this Halloween

        1. JoB

          Beware, it’s All Soles Day now … 😉

  70. Amber

    The laptop nailed to the wall is SENDING me

    Talita seems surprised she was caught. Bet she’s used to people no even thinking about her hearing

    1. un_pogaz

      But Doug know better. I wonder how difficult it is for Talita to lie to him without he seeing through her.

  71. Personman

    Who’s that lizard-looking fella on Talita’s ceiling, I wonder?

    1. Rose

      I LOVE all the detail in this, the cross sectioned furniture is such a nice touch! And I adore that it seems the kids have a degree of autonomy over even the furniture in their rooms. Like how most of the rooms have bunk beds, but one on the left has a bed/desk combo, thats so cool!

      1. JoB

        > seems the kids have a degree of autonomy over even the furniture in their rooms.

        … that’s certainly a more charitable explanation than my guess of “they had to source furniture wherever they could get it cheap, rather than having all rooms set up the same, like they did for the construction, ceiling lights, blinds, and smoke detectors” …

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