Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, March 29, 2023.
Sometimes nature isn’t pretty. But still, I apologize that this is a bit horrific. I didn’t really think this far ahead when I planned this way-back-when.
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, March 29, 2023.
Sometimes nature isn’t pretty. But still, I apologize that this is a bit horrific. I didn’t really think this far ahead when I planned this way-back-when.
There are some things I really love that I also ingest – mmm, too many to list. I prefer to avoid eating what I don’t like.
The canine alien fainted or worse died.
If she barfs out Science soon, then the Strib would survive, just with bad acid burns, but then again with the tech level at their disposal it’s fixable. It might have been enough to just eat the gun, really.
As for whether Science will be die-gested until even his skeleton is jelly, or just captured, I give it even odds. Spacetrawler isn’t shy about killing off characters, though it usually avoids graphic deaths — like with the zap guns, people just get turned into colored bubbles, it’s rather clean. Horrible deaths such as being chemically burned by acids is not something that happens on panel. Like, we can see an entire planet being incinerated (happened a few times in the first series) because it’s waaaay zoomed out so it becomes kind of abstract instead of visceral.
However, the main character Emily Taylor shows her scars until today, I presume.
“Gloop and Gleep the formless fearless wonders of the Herculoids!”
Honestly I’m more disturbed by the fact that the blob thingy has an eye.
Any Xenobiologists care to explain?
Well how else would it see?
I am wondering why only one eye and not many distributed about the body.
Too many eyes would ruin the transparency. (Assume that the transparency is adaptive — hiding from predators / prey — and thus, conserved.)
Evidently, most of a Darnitawl’s bodily functions can be performed by transparent organs. (This is plausible. Some Earth animals are transparent.) But to have sharp, detailed vision, the eye needs to work something like a pinhole camera (like our own eyes), which means it needs to be mostly opaque (at least in whatever the Darnitawl regards as the visible spectrum).
The Darnitawl could possibly benefit from a second eye, for stereoscopic vision. But, that’s probably unlikely to arise in a being that doesn’t have an ancestral heritage of bilateral symmetry to start with — as, indeed, it appears the Darnitawl may not (note the irregular bumps).
I have two possible endings and this is half of one of them.
The Blob lover returns, rescues them and sees Chiptu with his partner. A Threesome ensumes and the threesome becomes 1!
Noag see a ship running from the Battlefield. They decide to pursue, they see the forcefield being raised and decide to fire on the location thinking it’s a threat.
“How could that Darnitawl ingest that Strib?!”
“It’s Science!”
Sometimes you get jello; sometimes jello get you. The circle of life.
I think the answer to “Was it good for you?” would be “No.”
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Oh, god, how many days is it going to take for him to digest? Do we have to watch?
Naw, don’t worry about it. In fact I could do with some more of this.
Welp, he’s in Hell now. He won’t be missed.
The funny thing is, if you explain what is going on, this page is graphic pornography.
Don’t tell the Floridians.
Also, don’t tell them what pollen is. They’d hate to know they were inhaling tree jizz.
Then I guess we best not mention what the coral do…because sometimes you are swimming in it like a star.
LOL. This story started on 15th Feb 2023 with a rather indecisive Strib thinking of “When I get to the bridge, should I …?”
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2023/02/15/021523-book-9-chapter-14-randoor-2/
No, you shouldn’t.
Science died as he lived. Angrily.
If someone had told me I would be seeing graphic non-consensual sex in Spacetrawler today, I wouldn’t have believed them. Probably.
And without cheezy chips
This isn’t Nature, this is Science.
Is Aitana hugging Ruddock in her final seconds? If so, I totally dig that.
“But still, I apologize that this is a bit horrific.” Perhaps it’s wrong of me, but I’d be tickled to see Alkyine in the multiple panels over the next few weeks with ever increasing dissolved versions of Science.
I second this suggestion. Of course, Chris has already written out whatever follows this installment, so we might not see it. But that’s what fanfic is for.
“Hey, look! His pockets dissolved and the change is floating out!”
Endless hilarity potential.
Given how dark the first run of Spacetrawler got later on… this isn’t all that extreme. And it’s happening to the villain, so…
Yeah I was literally gonna say I don’t think it holds a candle to “protagonist with guts re-arranged Does Whats Gotta Be Done”
No need to apologize. It’s what he deserved.
Bow chicka wow wow.
Alkyine to the rescue! And I hope Science finds her completely absorbing.
That said… I remember too well the cost of violating the rule of Equeelin, and… I think I’ll just shut up now. Where’s my Milk Duds???
How did Alkyine get in that chamber? In panel 1 we see the closed door behind the Strib. Did she just phase through it that quickly?
@Nomi, the door is open when we see it again in panel #3, so I think Alkyine just came in through the open door.
Would it be better or worse if it turned out that stribs minds are compatible with their biology?
She’s done a good thing, I hope it doesn’t give her indigestion.
Was unaware Alkyine was on the ship.
Actually, he should asphyxiate in a couple of minutes. Then it will be safe to spit him back out.