[[A view of the planet Earth.]]
Captain: No signs of life on quarantine planet Monday-X1-Prime.
[[A pod of some sort floats into view.]]
Captain: Wait.
Captain: Sensors fluctuating.
Captain: Something remains.
[[The pod drifts nearby a large spaceship.]]
[[The spaceship extends some sort of grabbing apparatus to retrieve the pod.]]
[[A human sleeps inside the "CRYO-STOR" pod.]]
Captain: Are you... Ridala?
[[Ridala opens her eyes in shock.]]
Captain: We are the Phryday.
[[The Phryday greets Ridala. It is an alien, with a lightbulb-shaped body and insectoid limbs.]]
Captain: We received a distress call.
Captain: We came as quickly as we could manage.
[[Ridala steps out of the pod.]]
Captain: It has been twenty thousand of your years.
Captain: But we came as quickly as we could.
Ridala: PHRYDAY! FINALLY! We can begin the rebuilding of my people!
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Ridala: What's that NOISE
Captain: Another cryo-pod?
[[The ship extends its grabber again to grab another pod.]]
Captain: Are there others of your kind?
Ridala: I... I thought not!
[[Ridala greets the wizened, crazy-eyed old man in the pod.]]
Ridala: Greetings, traveler, and wake! Twenty millenia of Monday are coming near to their end!
Old Man: Aw, THIS hardly counts as a MONDAY! Back in the war, WE saw a MONDAY!
Ridala: Who IS this
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{{alt-text: One thing you learn in the war is to grab any unattended cryo-pod you see.}}
One thing you learn in the war is to grab any unattended cryo-pod you see.
The end, for real. The story began here. Closer look at the cryo-pod here!
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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