EDIT 19July2016: The new page is ready but I’ve been basically without internet at the house since Friday, and the way things seem to be going we might not get it back until this Saturday. I’ll post the page as soon things get back to normal. Sorry everyone! 
In a milestone that no one will notice but me, this page marks the first time I used blue pencil (or blue leads in a mechanical pencil, to be more precise) to draw the art. In this age of digital art my latest “innovation” must seem like reinventing the wheel at best (I knew comics artists who were telling me how great blue pencil is 30 years ago), but it still feels wonderfully liberating to not have to erase all the pencil lines before scanning it in. Bliss! 
EDIT: I’m trying to get in touch with Norbert Black. If you’re reading, please contact me!
Aw, poor Aria.
It will be useful once IP captures a few Miesti to give you a constant supply of Trenat, Aria.
You will become the first Psi-Corp member.
Unless you prefer to be called “Jean Grey”?
Don’t forget to mention at some point the trapped crewmember you ‘heard’ in the deep freeze after the jump, Wilder.
I’ve heard nothing but good things about non-photo blue. The expressions and body language on this page communicate a lot about the characters’ reactions, especially panel three.
So, it’s just starting to occur to the officers that this might STILL be happening. Wait till they get to the ability to mentally command — like Aria ordering Zan to “get up” in the village, or Zan “convincing” General Nelson to let him search for the trapped crew member instead of heading back to his quarters.
Well, I’m not sure Aria even remembers that abrupt compliance on Zan’s part. As for the General and Zan during the S&R in engineering – I just went back and reread the archives, and there’s never really any moment when Zan states (or argues, or pleads, or whatever) to be allowed to search, nor would it make sense for Nelson to have ordered him out once he was there, given the circumstances.
My gut tells me that Aria may have had some measure of suggestion over Zan when he had Trenat coursing through his veins, but there’s no indication that either she or Zan has any sort of two-way communications capacity with the Galaxion crew (much less command).
I don’t know why they both wouldn’t remember it — that one action made the difference between being able to escape or not.
I agree that Nelson’s decision to allow Zan to search seems rational. However, check out the upper right panel on page 364 — this is just before Nelson countermands a strongly-worded order to Zan, an action that seems impulsive and just the kind of snap decision that an emotional connection might affect. (Also, an action that seems somewhat out of character for Nelson.)
Why wouldn’t they remember one moment in a (days?) long experience of nausea, panic and anxiety while strange voices wove through their head? Can’t imagine. But maybe it’ll come to them.
As for Nelson’s decision – what would have been irrational would be a decision to stand down an able-bodied crewmember who just found and saved another (and incidentally kept her from being an inadvertent murderer a few minutes later when they vented that part of the ship). Oh yeah – and rescued himself and another crewmember earlier from alien captivity. Real dead weight!
Quite frankly, given her academic background and the nature of the mission, Nelson’s disregard for someone who is clearly an engineering savant is what I think has been unreasonable – even unprofessional. The crisis of the after-jump explosion put her into a less self-absorbed mode – as the immediately following scene with Fusella illustrates.
But maybe I’m wrong – in which case, let me, for one, welcome Zan and Aria, our new HypnoOverlords!
HypnoOverlords? They don’t strike me as the type that seeks power for its own sake. They’re much more likely to cooperate in researching the long term (if any) effects of trenat.
Nelson has been incredibly professional towards Zan. I would not have even a third of the patience she showed that unstable officer.
(interesting that the ‘Reply’ links disappear after the fourth level in).
Jeremy – Zan is not an officer, nor even an enlisted personell – he is a civilian employee. As such, he would not be expected (nor required) to show the same degree of obedience to military norms – if this future’s culture has not drifted very far from our own (which it does not appear to have).
Otoh, Zan is an engineer with remarkable abilities to repair, modify and even enhance existing tech, sometimes in situations of extreme distress and under unbelievable time constraints. He’s a flipping goldmine on a project such as this.
(I’ll admit that my perspective on this subject is no doubt heavily influenced by my academic background as a professional nerd, and early career in the Navy. I’ve seen good officers successfully manage teams filled with people far more difficult to manage then our man Zan.)
BobC – friend, I joke!
I stand by what I said.