DAJB: I'm sure YOU can handle it… ^^ Thank you! TheMidge28: Thanks a lot! I was going for that bizarre feeling… and "it" was partly intentional. It just sort of ended up that way, but when I realized it was going to look "as if", I welcomed it ^__^ This is all very abstract, her being an alien and technically neither man nor woman, so I could play around with symbols as I pleased, and it also kinda splits up the phallic symbolism between her and the space creature. When you're using tentacles, monsters etc. you're letting phallic symbols play a threatening role… intrusion is associated with injury, trauma, loss of power of the female over her own body. So when I had the chance to blur the line between male and female, counteracting female victimization, I jumped at it. Rockster1039: Thanks for the support. Nepath: Well, it depends a bit on your understanding of sci-fi. This comic won't be all-out sci-fi like these opening pages. It won't take place in deep space, but I will take some liberties in depicting the surroundings and the society. Thanks! Fitz: I'd agree on both accounts, I'd only like to add that the metaphorical can be physical and the physical metaphorical… in a story like this there's no clear boundary between poetry and science. That we call DNA to be self-inscribing is (IMHO) "just" a metaphor for a physical process; the physical process in itself can be described without using circular terms, but the metaphor is clearly circular - a self-inscribing and self-decrypting code… which seems quite poetic. This touches on this story's central motif, which will be developed as the story progresses, so I'll just shut up for now.
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