Jesus Christ it's a mineral.

For the last time Marie/Leon/whatever.

That's not a place you want a grappling hook.

That second panel; hopefully that poor shmuck has good company health insurance.

Only the best for Dyklon employees!

Meier and his company are really starting to resemble Cave Johnson and Aperture from Portal. Do I even want to know what the hell that creature in the cage is?

That is the highest compliment I have ever been paid.

Your welcome.

Dyklon Industries. We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying until you run out of cake. And the science gets done and you make a neat gun. For the people who are still alive.

Well they *did* make a neat-o grappling gun.

...

*adds travel to another dimension to the list of thing to happen to Simon and Leon... possibly by chapter 3*

Seriously, before he has a chance to go back to Hawaii and his normal college life, Leon is going to be trapped on New Hiro because someone pushed a wrong button... possibly Leon himself. Seriously, with the amount of twists and turns this story is probably going to take, 37 really might be a rather low estimate on the earliest date Leon will get laid.

But we're still five pages in the issue. It's WAY too soon for the next plot twist just yet.

Actually this issue has 17 pages left! I do my issues at American standard length (22 pages) though I messed up scripting the previous chapter thus the 23 page count.

Oh whoops, misread part of that, eyesight's a little buggy!

yay for human made Viruses

Woah, I just remembered where this series started and it made me realize just how weird things have gotten since lol

I juked everybody out with cute boys and then wrote a bunch of crazy bullshit.


(No Regrets)

To be fair, Bone did foreshadow the weirdness a little back in issue 1. When Simon showed Leon the floating Island City New Hilo the first time.

For Science!

Second panel....

"GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFFFFFFFFFFF!"

Dyklon Industries Grappling Apparatus Test Run:

Status: Complete.

Results: Satisfactory.

That's it! That's the crystal that if you stick the beam through it a portal to Xen opens!

First panel reminds me of the propaganda sketches from Starship Troopers, "Would you like to know more?"

Weeeeeelllllllllll I do love that movie <3

You made new elements and compounds? IUPAC are going to love you! (The International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry). I just hope Dyklon don't go the way of Andrew Ryan and Rapture.

Anyway, more helpfully-

That black! I don't know whether it's because of how it's done, how it looks like strokes of a pen, but I think the way you do it is one of the best uses of black I've ever seen since Sin City.

Not to seem too sycophantic, but I am finding it difficult to find things I don't like about False Start. Would you mind if I waited until it was finished until I reach a conclusion on that? I only think it seems fair, since I don't know if any issues will resolve themselves by the end.

I don't want to seem like a suck-up, but I really, really want to support you and the comic because I think you've completely understood it- what it means to make a comic. You have a variety of panel styles and shapes- bleeds, scenes with lots of dialogue, and scenes that are quiet that serve to establish a location. I guess I don't know completely what I'm on about- you know way more about comics than I do- I would readily confess that- but I just think that even if it were hypothetically possible to say 'I don't like the story, I don't like the characters' or something, I think that it absolutely does not suck as a comic.

You know how if you have a shirt, while you may not like how it looks, it doesn't suck as a shirt unless it's full of holes or home to some rather angry wasps? I think wholeheartedly that nobody can say that your comic sucks as a comic format.

Well thank you! I had my own share of problems with this page but I'm glad I tried out the rather "rhythmic" layout. Regardless of those problems I think the next page is a real winner! Also I'm glad you're finding lots to like within the pages, best news I could possibly get!

I like those things that this page presented ! So evil and awesome at the same time.

Alternative energy sources = eyeballs.

Ahahaha, PLOT TWIST

I assume this is why Simon was hired in the first place. His eyeballs are the purest sources of energy known to mankind.

That lovely shade of green was the giveaway.

The creature in the cage is frightening looks like a body of wolf plus one of half life's creature

Well this got terrifying fast.

First of all, we have whatever that thing is in the first panel. I actually thought it was a pterodactyl at first, but then I noticed that those appendages look a lot more like scythes than they do wings.
Apparently someone somewhere thought it was a good idea to make such a thing. I'm looking at you Meier.

Then they're also apparently making diseases (note: viruses can cause disease so they shouldn't necessarily be treated as distinct when talking about applications, but again, shit that no one cares about since I'm just being a pedant) because...well I'm not really sure, but that can only end poorly. Usually if you make a disease, it's because you want to give it to someone you don't like.
Though maybe they've figured out a way to make more Flipped via disease like a mutation? Now I'm wondering what the mechanics behind going human to Flipped were.

On the plus side, I recognize that grappling hook design! That's the same design that the medieval imagining of Sei has.

Sei's design was actually supposed to be "Future Snow Apocalypse" (thus all the layers) but once things get that bad...it really is medieval.

When there's not much differentiating your Future Snow Apocalypse from medieval times things really have gotten bad.

BRB, registering "Future Snow Apocalypse" as a metal band name.