We Must Boost the Signal, Page 24

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The brains are...alive!

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PAGE 24 (Four panels)

Panel One: View down as if from inside one of the cylinders. We see Hope and Xu, their images distorted by the curve of the glass in the tube, making them look as if we are seeing them in a funhouse mirror.

Dr. Xu: That’s right. Dr. Montclair. These brains are alive.

Hope: But…how?

Panel Two: Close-up view of one of the brains.

Caption: The gel in which these brains are suspended appears to be some sort of symbiotic organism. It provides nutrition and respiration to the tissues.

Caption: It also appears to be engaged in a dense pattern of electrochemical interactions with them.

Panel Three: Hope, Xu, and Macneil around one of the tubes.

Macneil: A bioterrorism response team found these five specimens in a sewer somewhere in the middle west. They were able to retrieve them and bring the back for study.

Panel Four: Macneil, looking into another plastic bag, also sealed with an EVIDENCE label. The bag contains Amy Ninenger’s one-piece swimsuit.

Macneil: We think we know the identities of three of them. One was Amy Ninenger, a teenage girl who disappeared while swimming…

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 24 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)