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You’re all weirdos.
Apologies. For the next two weeks (through the 20th) I’ll be posting the comics like this: the finished final b&w sketch before inking. I did manage to finish the inks for Willowweep II on schedule for March 1st, but then didn’t quite manage to get enough done between then and driving east to visit family for spring break (since I didn’t get to visit during the holidays). But will try to ink them before April! I hope! Honest I hope!
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The waitress said to Thoos, “I’ll have to see some I.D.” Knox informed them, “it should be in your wallet.” Rodrigo added, “you have to be a certain age to drink alcohol. It makes your brain silly.” Thoos smiled and said, “ah. Like limbic fizzlers.” Rodrigo said, “if I ever get to space, I know the first thing I’ll be asking for.” The waitress walked away and said, “you’re all weirdos.” Picknar who had pulled out Val’s I.D. unnecessarily, compared it to Audri’s and said, “is my body really 28 years older than hers?” Knox replied, “really? You couldn’t tell?” Picknar said, “we’ve only just met humans. Your bodies still all kind of look alike to me.” Curious, Rodrigo asked, “so, what do your non-gendered alien bodies look like?” Picknar said, “we have fur, and hooves, and hands.” Thoos then added, “and enormous eyes on the sides of our heads.” Knox replied, “actually, that sounds pretty endearing.’ Rodrigo asked, “I’d love to learn what you planet has for hair products.”
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The shampoo industry there is big.
I’m speculating that there wasn’t actually a mind exchange, but more like advanced hypnosis, or a Recall session. The exchanger sent information about the subjects and made them believe they’re each other, but they’re still actually the same people. They would keep their language and body skills, but with someone else’s memories. If a return exchange were available, the memories of the excursion would be exchanged back. If not, then the memories would be permanent, or wear off, or merge.
I don’t see why it’s so difficult to accept that certain elements of the brain swap and certain ones don’t. I mean, even in the same species that might be necessary to make a “brain swap” work at all.
At least the guys are still humoring them, right? Also, in the last panel, you have the one guy saying “I’d love to learn what you planet has for hair products.” when I’m pretty sure you meant “I’d love to learn what your planet has for hair products.” Might want to fix that if you can.
Surely, from their point of view, they have normal-sized eyes, while we have tiny things scrunched into the front of our heads.
They’re part of the galactic community so they can compare themselves to other aliens. So they can believe that their eyes are large compared to the average.
Perspective is really hard to gauge, isn’t it? Even with evidence from standing somewhere else. Let’s see where this leads our interalien foursome.
How old IS Audri, EIGHT?
@Ronald, she’s in college, so maybe around 20. Which puts Val in her late 40s.
What I read in the text: “Murmel murmel, murmel murmel murmel, Willoweep 2!! murmel murmel murmel…”
Waiting eagerly.