No better time for playfighting than when there is only a thin layer of fabric, metal, and plastic between you and death.
Transcript
Clayton radios in again, watching Adam throw a random chunk of metal at Dominic, who ducks.
Clayton: They’re throwing scrap at each other now, boss.
Talita switches radio channels and begins to sprint over to the elevator on all sixes. Bip waves goodbye with a front loader arm.
SFX: clk
Talita: Jesus christ. Over in 2 minutes.
Later, Talita rings the buzzer on the keypad to Gillie and Idrisah's apartment building. While she waits for one of them to come to the door, she watches the construction activity happening at the adjacent building. Humans and avians seen in the distance working on the scaffolding; while a fenced off area of the roadway houses piles of trash, construction materials, and a basket lift vehicle.
50 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 149”
Arcstone
Still just waiting for the look on mels face when talitas appartment is done just in time for her to be already way gone.
hessian
every day i wish talita was real. i want to watch an aerospace lecture from her and give her some nice centaur bone tea.
Arcstone
Also kinda wanna hug her. :3
hessian
yeah 🥺
hostuu
I want all the species to be real
Greenjoe
Talita, seriously, you need to do something about those two before one of them gets killed or seriously injured.
Vinemaple
And how Talita dealt with Adam and Dom will forever remain a Noodle Incident.
Sen
Temps throwing sharp metal at each other would be dangerous enough under normal circumstances. But here you are basically balloon people throwing needles at each other.
Glad to know doing stupid stuff that could kill you for amusement, is still going strong in the future. Is Jackass still on tv?
Trees
Apartment complex?! Man… why can’t things just be apartment simple?
JoB
Where do you read “apartment complex“? Transcript and the sign above the entry say “apartment building” … (as ironic as that may be for a company in a deconstruction business)
3
i think its just a joke about the phrase “apartment complex” prompted by the sign that says “apartment”
Trees
Didn’t read it anywhere, I just looked at the art.
Arcstone
What is it building?
JoB
Suspense. 😛
Lilac
Live Talita Reaction……
Storm
I love that she appears to be getting down on all sixes to absolutely haul ass back to stop them. Imagine you’re goofing off when your centaur boss gallops up at top speed yelling at you.
Trees
Yeah. You might not be able to hear the galloping without atmosphere but you could probably feel the thunder of her approach through the ground.
Bruce Mickelson
Did anyone else notice the flying avian making an approach to the 6th floor in the last panel? And possibly another avian standing with two humans on the 2nd level. I really enjoy all the incredible detailing and easter eggs in this series!
Hydrurgus
I didn’t realize Talita is culturally Christian
Jay Eaton
The largest religious groups in Jovia are sects of Christianity, and Easter Feast is one of the largest holidays of the Jovian calendar year. It’s part of the cultural zeitgeist she grew up inside.
evileeyore
Yeah, she’s about as Christian as I am. I am an Unbeliever… but due to being raised by a recovering Catholic (and in a mostly Judeo-Christian culture) I too have a lot of knee-jerk religious mentions in my outbursts.
Arcstone
Same.
Complete atheist over here, but “oh my god” and “oh fucking christ” is still just weirdly on the table. Was just brought up around people that say it I suppose, and none of those are really all that religious even either.
Egg
Same hat, I am agnostic and I was raised muslim, but despite this I still say “Jesus christ!” because that’s the culture I grew up in and its hard to kick the habit
EliFloof
“Jesus Christ” is just such a solid interjection- The hard J at the start and T at the end punctuate it nicely, and the length can be variable. Can convey a lot of meaning depending on which part you emphasize. Not sure how the Centaur mouth works compared to humans, but since she has an easy time speaking English I assume it’s pretty close.
creetur
..Didn’t realize that until I saw this comment, but yeah, you’re right. Wondering how religions have changed in this timeline now.
Rad Internet Stranger
Awww look at Bip waving
TotallySomebody
I was thinking today… Can Talita get hiccups??? I assume not, because Talita’s airway is unidirectional and unconnected to her digestive, but??? Also, does she have a diaphragm?? Are centaur “hiccups” a thing?
Peter Jensen
While possible, I think it’s unlikely, since (according to leading theories) hiccups are a leftover quirk of evolution from when vertebrates became air-breathing. The centaur evolutionary path would have been completely different and there’s no reason to suspect the same quirks would arise. There’s probably some *other* weird quirks, though. Evolution is always going to be messy and settles for “good enough”.
Enai
Huh, I thought Hiccups persist because hiccupping trains the breathing muscles of the Fetus while still unborn. Centaurs presumably also have to train those before birth, so maybe they have some similar diaphragmal paroxysm phenomenon?
JoB
Centaurs hatch out of eggs (= have to start breathing then and there at the latest) and go through a substantial metamorphosis later (details behind this content warning). The chances that “the hiccup wiring” persists all the way through that are certainly lower than in humans (who some biologists say never switch from their “juvenile” to an “adult” body) …
Gar G
Yeah that’s definitely the kind of thing that could kill someone
“No better time for playfighting than when there is only a thin layer of fabric, metal, and plastic between you and death.”
Exactly. Just one hit to the helmet or suit… in fact even without the suits it could potentially cause serious damage. All fun and games until someone loses an eye… (then sues your company for all it’s worth)
JoB
What does it say about our standardization processes that I find it totally believable that the keypad on this page has a layout different from Talita’s … ? :-3
godspeed
Considering that I regularly misstype PINs on different work keypads, I doubt that would be different in the future lol
I especially hate mashing numbers into the phone wrong cause I can dial with my keyboard when I open the app, but when I am making a quick call from another phone I often jumble up the numbers 8B
JoB
That’s not surprising, because phones and computer keyboards do have different layouts …
creetur
Having to parent your colleagues is universal, it seems
astrobun
as someone who has had low-level management in an industrial setting thrust upon them: big mood same hat
Claire
From super-detailed talita to super undetailed talita in 5 panels.
Greebus
I want to imagine that if centaur temps really do come over they’d just act exactly the same as the human temps
Gar G
Oh geez, now I’m curious about how they’d get along
Trees
Clayton over the radio to Talita: ‘Boss, you better get back here ASAP! You’re not going to believe this shit!’
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Talita returns to find Adam and Dominic holding comm dish shields and rebar spears, each mounted on one of the new centaur temps about to engage in a bracing game of human/centaur zero-atmosphere jousting.
Hanroz
On the one hand, that may seem dumb for a human to ride a centaur like that, but then again if they’re bored enough maybe they’ll decide “F it, why not”.
Trees
Oh, in my mind everyone involved this imagined stupidity is absolutely 100% in on it. Having irresponsibly dangerous fun shouldn’t just be the domain of humans.
JoB
“Mind if I do the fire-breathing part!?”
Septemberdale
The Chucklehead Brigade is at it again, I see.
iisaw
You’d think it unbelievable that people could be so dangerously stupid… until you meet people.
eden
those two should have been fired right then and there, but we all know ohwitiil wouldn’t care. he’d probably tell talita to be a better manager
dokki
stylized Talita Realization is making me giggle so much. You must make sure these idiots don’t die
tyrone
Aww…I wanted to see Adam explode in a geyser of Gore inside his decompressed suit but….better luck next time.
JoB
“Sorry to disturb you, but … did that arm perchance land on your balcony?”
BoolahBoosh
These people need to stop goofing off lol