Free Mars: Ashes2Ashes
PAGE SEVEN
Exterior, night. The mean streets of the Jovian Quarter.
I think this-sol we should start with the musical pairing, Marsers. Check it out here. Listen, I’ll wait…
…Pretty cool, yeah? DEVO covers NIN. I like the DEVO version better, but I’m probably in the minority (mutant minority). Anyway, the song says it all.
Gibson Eightsix isn’t a ‘bot. He’s a ‘tuber – a clone. He, like all corporate clones, was genetically farmed for very specific missions or roles. They are typically enhanced with cybernetic physio-ware, but they remain fundamentally organic. They are loyal agents, couriers, assassins, whatever the Combine needs. But even their engendered loyalty has its limits, as the threat of tank-violence here illustrates.
And we find out why the band has gone to extraordinary lengths to cyber-punk this particular clone. Data. Prisoner locations. Damien naffing Kessler.
More on him next week. Until then,
Dave
Yeah, I second Veruca.
In this situation I’d be worried about a bomb. Because the Combine couldn’t possibly want anyone to get hold of their data crystals, and may well have implanted something that Gibson wouldn’t know about.
Or I’d worry about false data, because that’d be the only kind of crystals that the Combine would want their enemies to get hold of.
Love how you used the panels here. :O