Thanks, Squad 128. …I think.
on October 31, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Crash Course
Characters: Alan Rees, David Walkerton, Head Alien, Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner, Monkey Master, Tony McHenry
Location: Underwater Alien headquarters
Dang, I bet he’s glad he didn’t actually kill them those other dozen times he tried to kill them.
Oh, hey, and it’s the first real in-canon explanation (sort of) for how Joyce’s jetpack works. Alan’s definitely squeezing this out for me in that third panel, just to get that out there for the audience finally.
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Why did they make a jetpack only one person ever could use tho
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As I recall, it’s tied into her abductee power. Joyce wanted the power to fly, and the best HA could get her was the math genius to run a jetpack.
“They” is the aliens. Who knows why Head Alien does what he does, he’s an idiot.
Affinity for Alien Tech and all that.
Because government agency
Congratulations Dexter, your incompetence has finally worked out in your favor.
It’s possible that, had he killed them before, he wouldn’t need his current scheme, and thus wouldn’t need them alive at the moment.
Yeah, but if two thirds of the party got killed they’d just find suspiciously similar people in the next tavern they entered, thus it would happen anyway.
I’m still kinda wondering how Joyce’s jetpack doesn’t burn her back or her feet when she uses it. And where it’s hiding on her body when she’s wearing it, and also what its propulsion source is.
Maybe she used that math genius Kernanator was talking about to master control over hammerspace.
My thinking? The thrusters are pointed away from her feet so she can fly but not burn her heels thanks the above mentioned ability to control the jetpack. And maybe her feet have a role in how the thrusters point, like some sort of rudder on a jetboat or plane.
It used to be that it did (this was a plot point back in Year Zero), but it switched from Rocket propulsion (i.e., burning fuel) to Jet propulsion (i.e., blowing air) later so that wouldn’t happen again.
Originally posted:
February 18, 2003