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The comic has returned. So has the enormous non-diagetic rat.
I had people wildly speculating about an airplane with paws I drew in an earlier junkyard scene, and asking me if it was canon. If you see something odd in the background like that it's never canon, it's there because drawing ten thousand squiggles representing trash is booooring.
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Chapter 5: Construction
3 panels in the foreground show the progress of deconstruction on one of the apartment complexes, with scaffolding and a tower crane being erected and floors being carefully stripped down to support pillars to be rearranged.
In the background, an ant line of vehicles in the junkyard travel between the Runaway in its hiding spot and the newly arrived prototype vessels, taking parts with them to repair the Runaway.
