Chapter 19, Page 41
Death Widow Strategic Command BM-88
[Mission Datalog]
- 1100 hours: airstrike has been completed. Target zone [Rahjeen] is decimated. Zard forces and Voodoo Arms PMC are in retreat. Enemy casualties currently unknown.
- Reported loss of one UAV [SkyWolf Three—malfunction].
- Two Death Widow contractors MIA [Chimera Squad—investigation to follow].
- Cyclops surveillance drones sent to further evaluate the target zone.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
Now THAT’S……………………..total NIGHTMARE fuel, Man! 😨😱🥶
I’m starting to think Wynter is so exhausted she is starting to hallucinate.
Wondering if she got a little skin contamination handling that syringe when questioning the criminal I’m too lazy to go back and find the name of and this is the effect.
I know of several Officers who ended up in bad shape from finding fentanyl during a search.
The syringe was empty
Well, Madison already had nightmares pretty close to this. Reena reminds her of Satori and it looks like there is lingering PTSD. Both that and the pretty extreme exhaustion has been building up for a few weeks. Now throw her a situation directly reminding her of her trauma… she might be hallucinating with or without accidental exposure to drugs.
I’ve been waiting for this moment! I’m extremely curious about what happens next with Madison. If and how she acts, if and how she breaks, if and how there is dire consequences, when and how and to what extent she eventually heals, what her relationship with Reena and what her worldview and what her psyche might look like after all that. I’m at the edge of my seat for the next update, the rest of this chapter and probably a whole lot more.
I find the writing, mostly the characters but also the story and the setting, increasingly captivating.
And the art – the bottom row of panels here is awesome, to me. Easily my favourite bit of art in this chapter, maybe my favourite overall from Salaiix. Panel 2 is pretty awesome as well.
What a page. Wow.
I just noticed this now. The iris of her exposed eye doesn’t match the other iris. It’s like she has two different eyes.
Salaiix always finds new ways to raise the bar! This page is wicked cool, I really dig the nightmarish aesthetic. I’m a massive fan of horror manga artists Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu, so this is right up my alley and easily rivals their “body horror” visuals.
I’d be down to see more of Salaiix’s work in the horror genre, hopefully this story arc allows us the opportunity!