If the number 25 doesn’t sound familiar, it may be because in a previous page, I had Jayd use the number 41. Ack.
Many years ago, I figured out the Lehnian numbering system based on the mark I had already given Sky in Volume 1. Based on the system of symbols I came up with, Sky’s mark then became 25. But when writing the script for this volume, I was too damn lazy to just check that number, so I put in a placeholder number (41), figuring I’d go back and replace that with the actual correct (25). And then I forgot to do that.
So when I posted a previous page (Ch 4, page 2), I had mistakenly lettered it with the wrong number. Anyway, I finally caught my mistake with this page and have also gone back and replaced the earlier page with a corrected version.
If no one remembers the mention of 41 before, just ignore this entire commentary, so I can maintain the illusion of always being on top of things!
Fair is fair. I remember Sky not being addressed by her name, but I forgot the number.
Of course it probably is more noticeable when reading the comic in one go.
Who will appear on the next page???
Perhaps it’s the Number 9? 😉
Number 6 (Prisoner reference)
Thanks for the reference. I heard/read good things about that series.
Shouldn’t Sky be slightly older than the others? She was removed from her vat before all her sisters were, so she would logically start ageing first. Only the other one whose vat was opened and was probably put on the escape pod that wasn’t found would be the same “age”.
accidentally transposed the backslash and i after ‘older’ ()
I’ve always found cloning to be bit of a tough issue in sci-fi, since it’s still a very time-intensive process of a body actually growing in normal time. For RUNNERS, I decided it would make more sense for the process to include some sort of rapid aging and development in the tanks. So Sky (and the other one in the escape pod) being removed earlier would mean they stopped the accelerated development before the others.
I’ll need to think about if I bother explaining some of that in the series itself, or if it’s just background info that I needed purely for myself. If the latter, then it is now exclusive info to this commentary! 🙂
Maybe Jayd got his knowledge of Lehnian numbering mixed up and read the symbols as 41?
And, given the humanoid skin and wrinkles, blemishes, creases and whatnot, it might well be that he only got a short glance and from that and his faulty knowledge named her 41…
Ha ha. Yeah, we can go with that. All that time assassin-ing left little time to properly learn obscure numbering glyphs!
Oh dear, seems like an embarrassing lapse in OpSec for ol’ Jayd.
That’s why everyone calls her “Ms. Blabby Blabby.” Shortly before she kills them,