Eventually…
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Ace
OK. I need everyone to leave. Clean room, remember?
Akane
OH! I am sorry, Ace-dono. I will shave my hair and return to help clean.
Ace
Please don’t. I think your hair is cool. And we really haven’t even started. Chief Walton is sending me a crew.
But someone should tell her we need a mop now.
Ixil
It’s an involuntary threat response.
Narration: Those organs will grow back...
OK. I need everyone to leave. Clean room, remember?
Akane
OH! I am sorry, Ace-dono. I will shave my hair and return to help clean.
Ace
Please don’t. I think your hair is cool. And we really haven’t even started. Chief Walton is sending me a crew.
But someone should tell her we need a mop now.
Ixil
It’s an involuntary threat response.
Narration: Those organs will grow back...
So… Greys are like a sea cucumber? Harass/molest/scare the gore out of them and they evacuate their entrails?
Or the lizards that squirt blood out of their eyes? No organ loss there though… So sea cucumber, starfish and a handful of other creatures.
Or possibly like humans. You scare them, they evacuate their entrails. Except, we don’t have organs that grow back.
evacuate their bowels not quite the same thing… vastly different outcomes for one.
Next time he looks around half the crew has Akane’s hairdo.
That would make a nice change. Usually it’s his hair they copy. Case in point: look at Peach & X’s new look.
No, they need to keep it short to fit under the shipsuit hood in case of an emergency.
https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/empowering-space/#
(emphasis added by me.
“Ace’s brother”; Is there another Lawton sibling running around? Or is that a reference to Anatu Ina’aplum [Lackey]?
Did the big relationship chart survive the website/server troubles? Could someone point me to it? Thanks
Yep, mentioned earlier as one of Sky and Luna’s sibs on both sides.
OK been doing a bit of an archive dive.
Prince Gilligan Peach-scion recoded the skin suits for long hair as noted in the comments in https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/plotting-space/ and Peach as raised three gene-childern (Sky, Dawn and Gilligan) https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/open-space/
But do we know that Gilligan is Larry Lawton’s son?
Found it in https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/relative-space/ where, just as Opus the Poet described, Sky states that her other full sibs have Larry Lawton as their gene father. Sky revealed that she and Luna are twin sisters in the just prior https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/sister-space/ .
Still would like to see an updated relationship chart, but it now may be too complicated for a 2-D drawing.
Almost needs a 4th dimension, I think.
We’ve seen Orions with long hair aboard ships before.
snicker
OK, let’s face it, we ALL saw this coming. Heck, I’m a janitor and last night I caught myself “loading” the mopbucket while daydreaming about Ixil’s possible response.
So nobody else noticed Mama Gibs with her hand on her sidepiece? Andy will be so disappointed.
Also hand on sidearm is the two preceding comics. Why should Andy be disappointed that nobody commented on it?
Because that is a detail he put in that some (most?) of us missed. Speaking as an author, we put stuff like that in specifically to see how much attention people are paying to the product, which is an indication of how much people like what we made. You missed the Easter Egg then you probably were not interested as much in the entirety of the page.
You make authors sound so terribly insecure and needy. I hope Andy is more confident that we love him and the comic.
Probably because it’s really just hands-on-hips, and her weapon just happened to be there.
Her hand goes to her sidearm (in the last panel of https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/grey-shading/) when the Grey has a bad reaction to Ace. Looks like a mama bear reflex to me.
At least her hand isn’t going into her hip this time
Hmm, wondering if Peach and X’s expressions are because of the need for a mop, or because Akane was the reason (probably Akane, we already saw the expressions change when she showed up)
Since you’ve all missed it, “Jason! Jason! Bring the Basin!”
“URP, SLOP Bring the mop!”
(from my intentionally-misspent youth)
[Ixil]: “It’s an involuntary threat response.”
[Peach]: “Is THAT what they told you, or is that what you tell OTHERS?”
[Akane]: “All this fails to distract me. Ace-dono is still waiting for you to explain.”
“It is a —- VERY —- BAD —- THING —- to keep Ace-dono waiting.”
[ALTERNATE_RESPONSES_FOR _PEACH]:
“Is THIS the secret to how you keep your girlish figure?”
or:
“OH! So, for HER, you void yourself, but I’M not threatening enough?
Is this a CHALLENGE?
So you’re saying that I should ‘up’ my game?”