UPDATE: ARRRGH I was so sick I like slept the entirety of Monday and Tuesday. YOW. I think something is actually wrong with me, this lethargy is really bad.
OLD NEWS: Sketch version now while I’m recovering from WonderCon, full version sometime soon! Con was long but not too bad, but also very energy-draining.
That hand is just awesome.
I look forward to seeing it coloured!
And Tip. I look forward to seeing him coloured too.
Aaand that’s not the colours I would have expected on him.
Looks cool though.
Love panel 4..
Scary crystal lady! 😮
I like him alot. xD
I like the detail on the energy screen.
This is the inverse of a device from a Larry Niven story that created a field that sped up time inside it; someone shone a flashlight steadily out and the sped-up flashlight beam became a powerful energy beam that could melt things.
One of my favorite sci-fi stories, by the way. Even if it makes one assumption about human nature that I strongly disagree with. (It’s a recurring theme with Larry Niven). Namely, that you can be isolated for a very long time with no sanity problems.
I’m guessing Niven felt as if he was interrupted a lot by having to deal with other people and never actually looked at the research on what happens to human beings who are cut off from communication with other people.
One thing I found interesting in this Mother Jones article about some of the research in the 1950s is mention that isolation degrades arithmetic skills. I wonder if this is connected to the Machiavellian hypothesis of human intelligence – if we are clever monkeys because we evolved to deal with horrifically complicated social shenanigans, and therefore being cut off from social shenanigans means that the clever parts of the brain turn off.
That article is not about isolation. It’s about sensory deprivation. Sensory deprivation drives anyone insane. Isolation’s effects vary on the individual.
Fair – I’m not an expert, and I’m not all that good at searching the Internet, either, so I couldn’t find too much.
This conversation just became VERY relevant again.