Even for me, it’s so weird to remember that Mal, who busted his way into the cast back in Chapter Two, has a last name. He doesn’t get called by it very much. In the original script I actually had him droning on for a lot longer, but I eventually realized even the other characters could only take so much technobabble.
If your ears perked up at the name, yes, I did indeed name Mal after a certain famous Canadian astronaut. The strange thing is, he’s possibly now better known, at least among Canadians, as the man who recently tried to run against Justin Trudeau for Liberal leader (which, by the way, if he had succeeded would have been so awesome). But at the time I gave Mal the name he was just a back-bencher. It was very peculiar to see his name pop up in the news again, with hardly any reference to his other career.
Mal was already awesome. Now he is more awesome. All we need now is a vague family history/myth/thing which implies that he may actually be related to Marc Garneau! How awesome would that be?
Loving the colour comics, by the way! Keep it up.
It was indeed a Weird Thing to see so little reference to that earlier career of that other Garneau. One would also have thought that he stood a better chance against Trudeau the Younger than he ended up permitted.
STILL not used to the colour. Not minding, but not used to it.
And had a good giggle at Mal’s last name, what an honour. As for ours, well, an astronaut as a PM would have been so tickled-pink-ish, but what can you do.
In my job I meet people like Mal all the time. I love the characterisation. And the way that Scavina doesn’t get angry, just accepts that he’s built that way and prods him in the right direction.
I wish my boss would accept that I’m built that way. I’m also not into the whole 9 to 5:30 thing, I’m more of a 10:30 to whenever it’s done chap, but apparently that’s not acceptable any more.
But you don’t work on a spaceship where your bedroom is only 100 metres down the corridor from your workplace…
This is a very nicely done page, with a deft bit of characterization for Mal nicely handled in one strip. I especially like the last panel, with its combination of Mal’s explanatory gesture together with his realization that he’s not going to give that explanation.
He does tend to ramble, doesn’t he. XD
Maybe it is the scientist in me, but I wish Mal had been allowed just a bit of rambling to explain why he discarded some possibilities. Sometimes the assumptions used to get to a conclusion are wrong and need questioning…
Maybe a “sidebar” short story later for that theory-sifting? We’ll get some comedy out of it!
I’m struggling to accept that it is only 3 days since the jump. So much has happened it feels like it ought to be at least a couple of weeks.
Seems like years to me!
Poor Mal. As one with a mandatory staff meeting coming up later today, I can commiserate.
As one of Mal’s fellow Geeks I WANT to hear his explanation. In Detail. With Discussions, References and Footnotes.
I want to hear the theories, too! (But learning what happened in-story is fine, too. I will be patient. I promise. *starts tapping foot*)
I like Mal’s voice bubbles. I take it is speaking in different tones each time, perhaps expounding on formulas, etc.?