Ooooh, the mystery continues. In "Masks Off" tradition, there's more dialogue in this strip, with a focus on the Professor (the team's sage mentor) and it's really only valuable (or comprehensible) to those who have followed along the story to this point, bringing together aspects from the “MechEng” arch and the present “Invasion” storyline. It's important in advancing the plot, and I think it's equally important to reward the reader for their attention.
When there's no action going on I find it difficult to design a logically flowing layout, and this strip took me some time to figure out how to deal with the script. I stuck to comic reading convention, and tried a couple of tricks to help indicate where the eye ought to go. Even if some folk do find which panel to go to next slightly ambiguous, it's no surprise -- the dialogue is mostly one-sided and thus more is left up to the reader, and also the reader isn't meant to understand exactly what the characters are talking about in the first place. It all makes sense in the grand scheme of things, but for now we don't really know what's going on. Sulla (the senior member of the team) has one leg up on us, with the ability to -- woops. Shouldn't say yet. That must be irritating. Anyway, even if for some reason the intrigue doesn't tickle your fancy as much as POW-action, hopefully the art still does.
Fun Fact: Mills Library is ALWAYS busy and noisy.
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