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A pair in peril this time!

This is an idea I'd been wanting to draw for some time: a beaker full of some jelly-like goo that quickly expands and engulfs Tetsuko and Sonya - and how do you punch through something soft and gooey? Could even someone as superstrong as Tetsuko free herself and Sonya before the goo suffocates them? And at what point does the goo stop growing - or does it eventually cover the world, like the mutant chicken heart from the classic Arch Oboler Lights Out, Everyone! radio series?

I think the main reason I hadn't drawn this before now is that my original concept was that this was one of Sonya's experiments gone "horribly wrong", as the cliché goes. But I didn't want to pursue this idea too far, because it's too easy to base stories on "Sonya's experiment goes wrong"; do that too often and Sonya looks incompetent rather than genius.

Just yesterday, though, I hit upon the idea that this comes into Sonya's lab as someone else's experiment: one of Sonya's colleagues - or someone posing as such - asked for her advice on how to proceed past a "sticking point" in his experiment.

So now the question: is it really one of Sonya's fellow scientists who sent this, honestly seeking her help? has this colleague turned evil and is using this to try to kill Sonya for whatever reason? Or is one of Tetsuko's enemies, under false pretenses, thinking they've hit upon the perfect method to eliminate Tetsuko and Sonya once and for all?

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A pair in peril this time!

This is an idea I'd been wanting to draw for some time: a beaker full of some jelly-like goo that quickly expands and engulfs Tetsuko and Sonya - and how do you punch through something soft and gooey? Could even someone as superstrong as Tetsuko free herself and Sonya before the goo suffocates them? And at what point does the goo stop growing - or does it eventually cover the world, like the mutant chicken heart from the classic Arch Oboler Lights Out, Everyone! radio series?

I think the main reason I hadn't drawn this before now is that my original concept was that this was one of Sonya's experiments gone "horribly wrong", as the cliché goes. But I didn't want to pursue this idea too far, because it's too easy to base stories on "Sonya's experiment goes wrong"; do that too often and Sonya looks incompetent rather than genius.

Just yesterday, though, I hit upon the idea that this comes into Sonya's lab as someone else's experiment: one of Sonya's colleagues - or someone posing as such - asked for her advice on how to proceed past a "sticking point" in his experiment.

So now the question: is it really one of Sonya's fellow scientists who sent this, honestly seeking her help? has this colleague turned evil and is using this to try to kill Sonya for whatever reason? Or is one of Tetsuko's enemies, under false pretenses, thinking they've hit upon the perfect method to eliminate Tetsuko and Sonya once and for all?