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Title: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Daphne on September 20, 2012, 10:28:22 am
Coming September 21, 2012!


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: laguna85 on September 20, 2012, 11:03:23 am
Look like everyone get put sleep by the radio
we will have to wait and see


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 20, 2012, 11:11:17 am
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: laguna85 on September 20, 2012, 11:40:39 am
I forgot o add that all party going on They stay up all night!


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: jmundt29 on September 20, 2012, 02:01:15 pm
Yeah, this does seem more like the aftermath of the Cait gathering at SJI.  Maybe we will see Raven or Sue again.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Garg22 on September 21, 2012, 12:58:10 am
A very nice aftermath page.  Can't wait to see Raven joining the party.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: laguna85 on September 21, 2012, 03:26:50 am
I think that use the perfume samples to pickup new girls or raven.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: jmundt29 on September 21, 2012, 07:57:45 am
I think this could end up being a huge problem.  Laura doesn't know what the perfume does.  Personally, I think Raven's upcoming experience with Erin (even if it's just an invitation) could seal the deal as far as that's concerned.  We know that #49 can affect women under the influence of the Watch, but we still don't know what happened to Laura in the lab.  This could be crucial to how the collision with Q-Box plays out.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 21, 2012, 01:32:59 pm
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Daphne on September 21, 2012, 01:34:52 pm
I was a little confused by the last two frames. Is Raven just supposed to be staring at Laura and Amy? I wasn't sure if maybe she was supposed to have gone into a trance for some reason. Also the title would seem to suggest someone's got a hangover or can't wake up.

Yes, she's just... well, it's been established that Raven has a rather serious crush on Erin, so we're seeing her first get cranky that there's hot lesbian action happening that she's not a part of, and then being startled when the object of her crush appears saying nice things about the way she fits into her jeans.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 21, 2012, 01:44:42 pm
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: jmundt29 on September 21, 2012, 06:18:57 pm
This isn't going to be a "girls' night in."  Remember, as the new day dawns that this is the day of the SJI dinner with Laura (and Raven? ???  ;)).  Have we established that Vik's Amy is the Amy we've already met?  I guess we've been laboring under that assumption, but I don't think it's been confirmed yet.

I think the idea of the perfume samples is to try to do something inventive to spark with Adrian.  In which case, some of Sample #49 and its brethren is about to run smack dab into the watch.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Daphne on September 21, 2012, 06:20:10 pm
Have we established that Vik's Amy is the Amy we've already met?

She is.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: jmundt29 on September 21, 2012, 06:27:27 pm
Aah, welcome to another problem.  Vik is the first potential adversary...well, "adversary" for Adrian who has any sort of good will equity as we begin.  Of course, we still have no idea what exactly happened after Laura sniffed #49.  Will we be getting a flashback of that scene, like we got a flashback of the storeroom tryst?

I'm not really sure what that second-to-last panel was either.  It does look like zoning out (rather like trances in other folks earlier in the comic).  Is she just daydreaming about the three women she overheard?  Is she lost in an Erin fantasy and then gets shocked when Erin flirts with her?

Side note--Is Pearl influencing clothing style on campus now?  That top Raven is wearing looks very like Pearl's ensemble when we met her at Deep Black Vinyl.

Also, what is Ms. Hackberry wearing?  It looks like some sort of sweater/jacket with flared shoulders.  Almost Princess Aurora shoulders on a loose-weave jacket.  What is that?


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 22, 2012, 05:55:17 am
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: mns_95125 on September 22, 2012, 12:17:26 pm
My guess is that there are plans afoot to add Raven to the harem.  While Adrian has shown a remarkable capacity for thinking with his little head instead of his big one at some point he's likely to notice that the set of women throwing themselves at him is identical to the set of women he knows have been exposed to the mind-controlling watch, and that could raise suspicions the girls don't want.  Adding some more women to the harem that Adrian doesn't know have been near the watch mixes things up and makes it more plausible that his very successful sex life is just a matter of his personal charm and/or Axe body spray.  If Erin is aware of Raven's crush that would provide an obvious 'hook' for pulling her in.

Amy poses a different problem.  So far she's the only member of the harem whom we know with certainty had a previously-existing relationship with someone outside.  (Mallory/Marliese don't count since they're both in the harem now.)  Is Amy going to formally break up with Vik or just be Adrian's slave on the side, in secret?  Either way could give Vik a definite motivation to dig into Adrian and his social circle.  Also, timing.  Per #83 Vik and Amy had a date that night, the same night as Q and Kanti.  All of the subsequent events seem to be occurring the same evening, including Amy and Laura's tryst with Jacqui in #106/109/110.  So, did Vik get stood up, or did Amy make the date with him sometime between #97 and #106?  And what happened there?  I also wonder about the wisdom of PDAs between Amy and Laura -- what is Vik going to think if he hears about his girlfriend and his lab partner engaging in "hot lesbian action" in public?

Is it my imagination or does Laura exhibit a greater degree of self-consciousness about her status?  In #109 she's the one who raises questions about how harem life is going to work.  In #110 she's cracking a joke about being a sex-slave, and in #117 she's explicitly "awaiting further instructions".  Much more than the others she comes across as very self-aware of her slavery, almost like she's deliberately throwing herself into a role.  Which, come to think of it, actually feeds into jmundt's obsession over the aftermath of #83.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 23, 2012, 05:05:58 am
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Daphne on September 23, 2012, 09:27:03 am
For the timeline, these three things were all supposed to happen on the same night, and this is the morning after:

1. Seraglio night at the Infirmary.
2. Laura, Amy and Jacqui's date.
3. Vik and Amy's date.

It is the morning of the day that Laura invited Raven to the Infirmary for dinner.

It's somewhat undetermined how long after the Night of the Watch it is.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 23, 2012, 02:17:34 pm
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: Daphne on September 23, 2012, 02:21:40 pm
Just to stop my mind from blowing, you do mean this is the morning of the dinner date, right?

Correct. #117 takes place in the Thursday morning that was referred to in #79.


Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: GodWilling on September 23, 2012, 02:23:09 pm
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Title: Re: Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.
Post by: jmundt29 on September 25, 2012, 11:20:57 am
Looks like we're about to get a definitive answer on what happens when Watch programming and Sample 49 collide.  Some other questions--Is sample #49 the most recently developed one, or have they moved on to #50.  How much of 49 is left after Vik gave some to his sister (silly Vik).  What do the other samples do?  Have they been tested on humans?

Who's funding this experiment, and what's the goal?  Is this Yves looking for a new product, Claudia looking for new power, or a bored industrialist with too much time on his/her hands?

Oh, what happened on Amy's date with Vik?  Did she say she needed space?  Did she stand him up?  Did they break up entirely?  Did she get a phone call rescue from Laura?  What happened there?