04/09/2014
For the unacquainted: Scapula’s girlfriend and/or hostage Jemini is an abducted duplicate of the real gangster Jemini. She was captured and brainwashed by Scap, although from the looks of things it may not have been a flawless procedure.
For the unacquainted: Scapula’s girlfriend and/or hostage Jemini is an abducted duplicate of the real gangster Jemini. She was captured and brainwashed by Scap, although from the looks of things it may not have been a flawless procedure.
I read this while listening to Ligeti’s “San Francisco Polyphony”. Fit perfectly IMO.
I’m reading it now while listening to Daft Punk’s “Around the World”, the perfect song for either brainwashing or dancing!
Just goes to show what happens when the guy in charge of the brainwashing is, in the words of Bill Hicks, “r-r-r-r-really high on drugs.”
Hypnausea takes his own medicine, for sure, but doesn’t consume nearly as much as he dishes out. Drugs are notoriously useful for keeping others in line (Charles Manson didn’t take much LSD himself, but he sure gave it to his loyal followers).
Is that hypnausea in the first panel?
Yes, indeedy, in groovy flashback form.
So he is planning to f Scap over with the girl huh
Oh, okay…So Scap’s pretty much got everything under control. For now.
For now [cue music sting: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN!]
Oh, darn, looks like a steady diet of drugs and BS isn’t quite enough to keep down all the headaches, nightmares, and lousy treatment. Who could have sen that coming?
Maybe he should have tried Dr. Jeraukov’s mind-bending treatment: being forced to watch the most awful chick-flicks of all time!
I would find it endlessly amusing if this copy of Jemini woke up to whats been happening and saw a better opportunity at Scap’s side than anything else she had to pick from. By now the real one would have had her replaced after all, and at best this clone might get is assigned a low level gig if ever she got back home. Even then, more than likely it would be easier for the real Jemini to kill this clone and replace her.
Not a bad theory at all. How the Jemini duplicates view themselves in the grand scheme (to either Jemini or the Universe) is perhaps a story for another day, but it’s great to know that readers have their own viewpoints on the matter!
The question being, is this a “the magic’s wearing off” brainwashing failure, or a deliberate “undo key” being pressed as some sort of contingency of Hyp’s?