It’s good to find ways to cut out unnecessary scenes to move the story along. Initially I planned to actually show Jayd abducting Sky. But that would have involved Jayd seeking her out, initiating some conversation with her, and then attacking and subduing her. If Sky transformed to armored form, I’d then have to show Jayd overcoming that. The entire volume was already running super long, so I decided to just cut all of that and have the crew come across Jayd with an unconscious Sky. It’s fairly clear that everything I had planned to show did in fact occur (or she just snuck up and knocked her out without a fight), but I didn’t have to take up the page real estate to show it.
Location-wise, this is the same area of the ship first seen in some of the first pages of Volume 1, when the crew takes the Mosquito over to the Tique Amara to encounter Hamron. It is basically the connector that links the Mosquito to the main ship. It’s also apparent in most of the underside angles of the ship, with the telltale horizontal split window on the long wall.
I usually have rooms brightly lit on the ship, but I wanted this scene a bit darker so the orange energy effect would pop.
Cool! Reminds me of Tech Armor from Mass Effect. I missed thar sci-fi game. Wood, this gers interesting! What does she want with Sky? I hope the crew will rescue her. Awesome Story! ?
Thanks! I recently saw The Eternals, and Angelina Jolie’s character Thena also has some orange energy weapons. Ack! I’m not familiar with the Mass Effect armor. Will have to look that up. The whole energy armor thing is an idea I’ve been sitting on for probably 20 years that was originally inspired by Green Lantern, although I have some different story quirks built into them here. I look forward to revealing more about it as this volume progresses!
Mass Effect is an awesome science fiction game that also has cool aliens & high tech & starships! I can find your comic has some Mass Effect elements in it. I love your story! Kudos great work! 🙂
I’m going to say she just snuck up and knocked her out, because I’d hate to think you robbed us of such an awesome fight. 😉
But on a more serious note, if Sky has indeed transformed and fought I would think that the noise would have alarmed the others sooner.
Or Sky just slipped on a banana peel and knocked herself out. Luckily I didn’t show it, because she would have been terribly embarrassed for that to have been seen.
Jayd, no! That’s not how you ask a girl out on a date! That’s abduction! Most girls are not into that!
Maybe she just found her asleep in a hallway and was trying to move her to a more comfortable bed. Always a considerate one, that Jayd.