May 15
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Frontal view of the Viper soldier.
VIPER: Good. Then the team was able to bring Archimedes online. I hope they're unleashing hell on those ONI bastards.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: They successfully planted it into the communications array, yes, but that is where the problem begins.
VIPER: Sounds like mission accomplished to me.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: NO!!
Camera angled in from the left.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: I have isolated you from the outside world, and so you are unaware of current events.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: Allow me to enlighten you.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: The abomination Archimedes was harboring when you found it has been unleashed on the galaxy.
Camera angled from further to the left.
VIPER: What the hell are you talking about? We programmed a super-intelligent bloodhound to invade the UNSC network to uncover all ONI files on the Spartan, Reclaimer, and Blackhammer projects and make them public. And that was just the first step!
VIPER: This thing could tear through any security wall the ONI spooks have ever dreamt up. There's no way they'd have been able to stop it, let alone think about slowing it down.
Camera angle looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: Archimedes - the ultimate hacking device, the lever by which we were going to move the UNSC behemoth from its perch.
VIPER: Bastards have had it coming for a long time.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: The program that Viper designed, this... bloodhound, was never executed. It does not even exist anymore.
The walls behind the stasis field holding the Viper soldier beginning to fade out.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: It was overwritten by an older program, one of Precursor design, and that has been launched, instead.
VIPER: But what does it do?
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: I will tell you, but first...
The stasis field appearing on the surface in a cloud of steam and vapor.
Pffssshhh
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: ...allow me to welcome you to my 'home'.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: You are going to help me with something.
VIPER: Good. Then the team was able to bring Archimedes online. I hope they're unleashing hell on those ONI bastards.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: They successfully planted it into the communications array, yes, but that is where the problem begins.
VIPER: Sounds like mission accomplished to me.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: NO!!
Camera angled in from the left.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: I have isolated you from the outside world, and so you are unaware of current events.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: Allow me to enlighten you.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: The abomination Archimedes was harboring when you found it has been unleashed on the galaxy.
Camera angled from further to the left.
VIPER: What the hell are you talking about? We programmed a super-intelligent bloodhound to invade the UNSC network to uncover all ONI files on the Spartan, Reclaimer, and Blackhammer projects and make them public. And that was just the first step!
VIPER: This thing could tear through any security wall the ONI spooks have ever dreamt up. There's no way they'd have been able to stop it, let alone think about slowing it down.
Camera angle looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: Archimedes - the ultimate hacking device, the lever by which we were going to move the UNSC behemoth from its perch.
VIPER: Bastards have had it coming for a long time.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: The program that Viper designed, this... bloodhound, was never executed. It does not even exist anymore.
The walls behind the stasis field holding the Viper soldier beginning to fade out.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: It was overwritten by an older program, one of Precursor design, and that has been launched, instead.
VIPER: But what does it do?
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: I will tell you, but first...
The stasis field appearing on the surface in a cloud of steam and vapor.
Pffssshhh
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: ...allow me to welcome you to my 'home'.
INDIGENOUS ADJUVANT: You are going to help me with something.
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Home sweet home?
Not exactly…
FURSTED! YAY
cool comic .I wonder what this home is
Note that the word is enclosed in quotes. It's the same prison in which Ferial trapped Adjuvant.
Home looks like Isolation to me! Just from that last frame.
Edit: Yay! I was right!
Say, what is that map anyway. Cold Storage?
Also, how did you do that effect on the last frame?
See the comments down below.
thanks!
ohhhhhhhhhh Suspense!!!!
now cut to Ferial
Ouch. Do I have a pattern?
I don't really call a repeating cliffhanger a pattern if it happens every single comic…
maybe a consistence.
Oh, and for better or for worse, I'm back.
there's no place like home…
//run rubySlippers.exe
*executing heelClick protocol
>error
*executing heelClick protocol
>error
*executing heelClick protocol
>error
>>Type 'r' to retry or 'a' to abort
// _
Wait…I'm interested in the effect on the last panel…what did you use for that?
And did you just stick the power core holster thingy into Isolation with a simple copy and paste? It works nonetheless but I was just wondering if it was that basic.
EDIT: Another question: Is that a power core holster thingy that the captured Viper is standing in or is it one of the places on Cold Storage where a teleporter usually sits?
The steam/vapor is simply several paintbrushes in varying colors to create the effect. The stasis field is an empty teleporter node from Cold Storage, cut and pasted into the last panel onto Isolation.
Super über photo editing magics! That's how he did it!
I'm particularly proud of that vapor look. I had a lot of fun painting that in.
what you could have tried is possibly a warthog on avalanche/snowbound and the spray it kicks up in the snow??
yay, new comics! Interesting revelations…sort of. Or is it dramatic Irony. I don't know.
Nice editing, again, Jim. Keep it up.
Thank you, sir.
Bodhi, thats the name of the orb in Solarbabies right?
Um, I'm really not sure…
Its almost like this AI has selected its own version of the reclaimer to do his bidding. That's what I'm getting from it at least.
Nothing so expansive, I'm afraid.
Ah, how I love the smell of plot twists in the morning. It's nice that we now know what viper was actually trying to do…
You know, in all the Halo lore ever made, there really hasn't been a group or race of beings that hated the UNSC and was ALL evil. The UNSC aren't the noblest of figures…
Incredibly interesting comic; I love how the Viper has such a one track mind. And, speaking of interesting, I like the title as well
Revenge is a single-minded business.
Glad you like the title. I've had fun coming up with titles this week.
Welcome to the one track minded age.
Welcome to the one track minded age.
People are people.
So their…
I should just stop there before I loose it.
They're especially not in the Reclaimerverse. They're far more corrupt than good here, an organization of tyrants and despots. Viper isn't exactly what you'd call righteous, either, but at least they have a good reason to be angry.
Not exactly an antagonist, more of an anti-hero.
Correct?
Somewhere in between, perhaps. While they have a good reason to be angry, they also don't care who else gets hurts or what the implications of overthrowing the UNSC might be on the rest of civilization. They want revenge, and the rest of civilization be damned.
I'm just curious, how are you ever going to finish the last comic if all of them end in cliffhangers?
I'm waiting to see the one cliffhanger-les comic at the very end, but knowing you, you'll probably be able to fit a cliffhanger in there anyway.
The cycle just doesn't stop. It's like a raging wheel tumbling down a mounted propelled by wind and the zero point energy manipulator. Once it get's going, it doesn't stop.
Well, the idea is to not leave a final cliffhanger that won't be resolved.
Curiosity…..Overwhelming
10/10
What? But where's the fun in that?
Actually, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't have provided the look I wanted.
I don't think that would have produced the effect I wanted.