I confess to being tremendously lazy when it comes to writing “dirty talk” for the sex panels. If it were entirely up to me (which I guess it is, so you know I'm at least half lying), I'd just leave these panels completely blank, but they just look too empty and static when I do that. As promised (or threatened), this was another page of pure raunch. But not to fear: the next page actually has, like, plot stuff going on. Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, “How can she talk with her mouth full?” I made some revisions to page 170 that should shine new light on that dilemma. Hey, this chapter is all about retcons, after all!
Speaking of which, for any readers just now tuning in and wondering what any of this has to do with Jetta or Manu or Sun Eater: this is the first leg of a two-part mini chapter that's meant to fix some things that were screwed up in the first chapter. Namely, it's an opportunity to get some use out of the otherwise-discarded mooner bad guys who showed up at the end of Chapter 1, and it will also serve to introduce their leader, the villainous Osprey, in appropriately bad-ass fashion. So it's sort of a one-off. The good news is, since it's short, you don't have to wade through a hundred pages to see where it all goes. The plot developments come relatively fast, and by that I mean next week. So be sure to tune in then!
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This may seem like a ridiculous concern – and it sort of is – but it did at least give me a moment's pause: Should characters in a futuristic space comic use condoms? Would that even be a thing anymore? Their super space medicine should be able to deal with any nasty rash or oozing warts they pick up. I mean, we've already wiped out a ton of STDs in the current era. Haven't we?
Well, actually, it seems we're not all that good at curing STDs. A lot of them are treated with antibiotics, but how long is that going to be viable? Antibiotic resistance has already reached crisis levels for gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. And beyond antibiotics, with stuff like HIV, we really just treat the symptoms until you die from something else. That's not ideal, but I guess it's not terrible either if you only plan on having a lifespan of like eighty-some years. But if you've potentially got hundreds of years ahead of you, are you really going to risk exposing yourself to something like that? I guess you could get a new body, but that's not cheap… but syphilis eats your brain. That's not good.
So, um, yeah. I never really resolved that. I'm sure the space people do have good space medicine for fighting space syphilis. Maybe they have little armies of nanomachines that swim around their bloodstreams fixing stuff like that? But I'm still sure a lot of people aren't crazy about sharing body fluids willy nilly. In the case of Captain Savage, I'll just assume she has detailed medical records on all her crew, so no worries there. Moving on…
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