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No. 918: Holly's Rocket Episode IVYVINE

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Holly's Rocket Episode IVYVINE

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=918

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Text: THE STORY SO FAR
The plucky and irreverent Holly Johannson was never quite a looker in high school, instead preferring to work on her work and get A+ grades on every assignment. (Something a little blackmail assisted in, as such plucky irreverence demands.)
{A graphic on the right of a homework assignment with an A+.}
The popular kids used to bully Holly, calling her impolite names, until cheerleader Meridien Longilat decided to start showing her compassion out of pity, and discovered how clever and funny she truly was.
{A graphic on the left of Meridien.}
Meridien invited Holly to sit at the cool kids' table. This, alongside whacking Steve Vinchester square in the nose during lunch and having her parents bribe the school board not to expel her, helped Holly avoid too much trouble.
{A graphic on the right of a graduation cap.}
Eventually Holly graduated both high school and the Smart People's Prestigious College of Quantum Mechanics at once due to her dual enrollment program. From there, she and Meridien, who are ambiguously heteroflexibly adjacent, traveled across the country in a chain of zany moneymaking schemes and at least 3 unsolved murders, as such irreverent pluckiness demands.
{A graphic in the middle of the flag of Canada, awkwardly breaking the below text down the middle.}
But their fun didn't last forever. Eventually, they decided they'd scammed enough states, and moved to Canada to escape prosecution -- they didn't really search up how that works -- and keep it on the down low.
From there, they mostly went their separate ways, with Holly managing various doomed startups, and Meridien scraping by, making quick money with her psychic powers (which are quite boring and mundane, as one might imagine).
And so, things were quiet...
{A graphic in the middle of a muted speaker icon.}
Until Holly called Meridien one day, informing her that she had just rented a real space rocket, following the realization that she would never have to return it as long as she stayed in outer space.
{A graphic on the left of a rocket.}
Holly invited Meridien to join her on her marvelous journey into the unknown. Meridien figured Earth is full of chumps anyway and accepted.
From there they recruited the shapeshifting alien D'eughlkin, who offered to be their team pet, and like, if it's fine with you, it's fine with me.
{A graphic on the right of Delkin, in humanoid form.}
And that is where we meet our pluckily irreverent heroes today.
***
{Inside the rocket, Meridien is patting Delkin, who is in the form of a dome-shaped creature. His non-eye is closed.}
SFX: pat pat
{Meridien hesitates. Delkin opens his non-eye, showing his brain.}
Meridien: wait so are you a shapeshifter or are you using a hologram, because if you're using a hologram i should be feeling your head way up there
Delkin {closing his non-eye}: shhh. the writers forgot

The author writes:

The previous comic in this series (Episode IVI) was delayed a few times as I tried to figure out how to insert non-clunky exposition of how Delkin's hologram technology only modifies how he appears visually, and physically you would still be interacting with his humanoid form, but also the hologram changes how Delkin himself senses the world to allow fuller immersion in his holographic form, at the risk of leaving him vulnerable to bumping his head on low ceilings because the hologram changes his awareness of his body to make him feel much shorter than he actually is.

Now I can do whatever I want with Delkin's hologram, and the canonical explanation for how it works is that the writers of the in-universe Holly's Rocket series don't care.