Hey Bip, your ears are sticking out.
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The pair of triangular radiators raise up, then rotate apart, forming a split diamond shape. The highest tips extend above the edge of the building foundation's pit. Further away in the junkyard, where the temps have been left to their own devices, Yao notices the "ears" poking out of the hole in the ground. Behind xem, Adam and Dominic are sword-fighting with two long pieces of scrap, oblivious to the suspicious activity.
56 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 143 and 144”
Gar G
Was wondering if those would be noticed
Also love the temps swordfighting; definitely something people would do xDD (though it’s all fun and games until someone ruptures their space suit)
JoB
At least they don’t need any wires and blinky electronics to cut short the discussions whether that was a hit or not …
Rad Internet Stranger
OH MY GOD IS THAT WHY BIP HAS THOSE EAR LOOKING THINGS ON THEIR AVATAR!?!
tyrone
Exactly for the same reason….;)
Also , those 2 interns doing stupid stuff while in Vacuum in the background…..Good thing Talita is not there to scold them! But then we would miss the future, sure to come , Ultra-Gore-Sam-Peckinpah style messy body explosions which we all are waiting for….Especially when Adam violently smears his guts on the inside of the helmet.! Goooooo Adaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam !
Ear ponderance
The real question is, what came first, the ears or the radiators?
JoB
*Technically* Bips avatar had bug ferret ears the instant they budded from Nabi-Nabu:
https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/668047576331960320/question-for-bip-could-you-tell-us-about-your
and it’s pretty much a given that Bip had more or less the *current* avatar head as they got to know their late(st) crew (or else the centaurs wouldn’t have adopted a simile to represent Bip in their scripture). The order of the events between these two points remain unknown for now, though. My *guess* would be that the Runaway’s (four, number determined by ship’s general design) radiators came into play *after* Bip settled on their (two) ears.
Famout
Hmmm was about to say deploying under a decent bit of gravity would be the “hard” test for em, but now I wonder how much force comes from acceleration, I also suspect when the engine is running is when they are most needed to be deployed anyway after all (Although wouldn’t be surprised if they default to “open” during most flight and just regulate their use as needed.)
JoB
Dirtball’s gravity is said to be 0.8 g, and the “typical” acceleration of the Runaway to be around 1 g – with the caveat that at least *now*, Dirtball’s pulling in a direction at a right angle to the engines’ thrust.
bitty
omfg not the temps sword fighting in the bg broooo
Phasma Felis
I do wonder how Talita gets away with spending this much time working on the Runaway instead of doing her actual job. I suppose she is quite senior, and Bip is probably doing the majority of the work themself.
JoB
Well, Bips message to Talita on page 139 was “need help welding *again*”, which suggests that a) she wasn’t *already* bound to go work on the Runaway today and b) does indeed get asked to come by only for specific kinds of work Bip cannot do themself.
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(Yes, the actual message *in theory could* have just been “bring the welding equipment for once”, but if you look at the size of the thing and compare it to the team’s ride on, e.g., page 87, it’d be *very* obvi-sus if Talita were to haul it from the habitat to the slag field and back every time, never to be seen *using* it, rather than leaving it at the Runaway, where its next use case will very likely be.)
Enai
Obvi-sus, huh? Very nice.
Septemberdale
The spaceship is a spaceBip!
Gheesfellow
Suddenly Bip’s ears make a lot more sense.
Teod
This is also just the normal bug-ferret ear shape though.
Eux
EAR TIME
hi yao
robots
Yao I love you please say nothing about the big ass ears in the scrapyard
Zuorai
Holy SHIT
TotallySomebody
Holy SHIP!
JoB
NO MORE hole-y ship! 😛
TotallySomebody
Buhuhuhuh
0xabad1dea
I think Yao is both smart enough to figure out some extracurricular activity is going on and also smart enough to say “giant scary lady defended me when the jackass swordfighting in a spacesuit back there stole my horns.”
Vinemaple
And didn’t say anything when she caught me with a weed pipe
Enai
I don’t xe even know that Talita is there. She’s in a 30 m (or so) deep ditch, after all.
JoB
… which is the only other *visibly and brightly illuminated* place within sight, with no pair of helmet lamps stumbling around anywhere else …
Tumorhead
Mad respect for drawing all this complex mechanical stuff dangggg
Trees
Word.
Extremely impressive.
Teod
It’s traced over a 3D model. But making that model is no less of an admirable skill.
Jay Eaton
The Runaway model is a Frankenstein’s monster of my design work, Jack Friedman’s design work, and Douglas Kehrly’s incredible hardscape modelling skills. The sled/jack it’s resting on is my own slapdash Blender handiwork, as well as some of the building infrastructure inside the pit and in the junkyard. 3D models make creating scenes like this… uh… completeable, on a timescale reasonable for comics. I even get to cheat at tracing, since Clip Studio has an “extract lines” tool (though getting that extracted linework to blend in and not look like ass takes a bit more work). The amount of cheating I can get away with varies though, since the slapdash models I make for rooms like Gillie and Idrisah’s apartment serve more as scaffolding for me to fill in with clutter and greeble, while the Runaway here is basically just traced. …Except the radiator waffle texture, I had to draw that in, it was a pain in the butt….
Spinland
Hearts all around.
TotallySomebody
Bipship
Fallingfeather
BIPSHIP!!!!
Also man, don’t. swordfight with scrap metal. C’mon.
BullCityFats
In *vacuum*
dokki
(grabbing yao) DO NOT BLOW IT FOR US.
Redacted
Get yo big-ass ears out of the captain!
Uh
Peak ship design. Big ears
Joy
Is Bip Runanay-shaped or is the Runaway Bip-shaped???
Jay Eaton
Finally people asking the REAL deeplore questions
Vinemaple
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks the Runaway’s radiators look like bug ferret ears!
Adrienne
Be cool Yao, remember how Talita didn’t bust you for weed 🙏
Carrot Top
I love how this is the second time Yao has caught something slightly off. First it was Talita in the apartment, now it’s these weird ears peeking out of the pit. Xe’s probably thinking ‘Somethin screwy goin on here’.
Vinemaple
When people like Adam bully people like Yao, it always makes the bullies look extra insecure and pathetic. Too bad it’s not as easy to see when you’re on the receiving end.
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the runaway really is vaguely bip-shaped, huh
Jay Eaton
Mmmmm… shape language…. :9
JoB
[imagines Bip one day mistakenly emoting with the *wrong* set of “ears” while the Runaway is in powered flight]
Chillypeper
It’s their ears!!!! 😀
So cute!
Mr. Skeleton
Coolio.
Also two idiots sword fighting with welding equipment.
boxesofboxes
Two idiots sword fighting with *probably sharp scrap, while in space suits. Because playing with stabbies while wearing a balloon that keeps you alive is good and safe idea.
TTT
the absolute idiots fencing behind yao are absolutely going to die at some point. i’m convinced adam or dom are going to kill themselves and blame will fall on talita for it.
K
That would certainly be a way to push Talita and her friends to getting on the run away and booking it into the cosmos
Teod
I feel like it’s not the right kind of comic for outright death. But I agree that there will likely be The Big Fuck Up™, Talita will have to deal with it ans she will absolutely not take any shit anymore afterwards.
JoB
There doesn’t need to be a *real* BFU™ even. Talita returning from her Bipscursion, seeing the two trying to suicide each other, grabbing them, and THROWING them into the airlock to GTFI ought to be enough to *force* HR to get involved … whether they can get the event properly figured out or not.
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But that happening *now* would render the loose plot of the centaur accomodations getting erected entirely irrelevant, so.
Enai
What, a ship of dead centaurs not enough outright death for you? I wonder if the explosive decompression was caused by space debris impacting the hab at relativistic speeds or if it was a deliberate attack…
sugar-goat
To be fair, the centaurs died off-screen and weren’t people we already know by name.
Gar G
What sugar-goat said, it happened off-screen and not to people we know, so it doesn’t really count
blythe
the comic is fairly mature though, so i dont think it would shy away from death at all. it may not spend time actually depicting it, but there is “adult content” including explicit content made for the universe, its just not the prime focus.