It’s Iimi! New Frontiers

Paula is finally beginning college at Santford University. But as orientation begins on Tuesday, Iimi and Krysta (already a month into classes) won’t be there. This means only Carl, Thea, and Chela remain in Babylon, so the Iscra family is spending the last weekend together in Redwood City, with Krysta and Teiynah along for the ride. With unexpected situations arising, they are entering… New Frontiers

Post-Comic Notes:

Notes on Cantonese language usage. Properly, Jyutping has tone numbers after each syllable showing the proper tone. However, because that can make it hard to read (In a comic font, is that a 6 or a G?), I plan to remove the tone numbers except for footnotes or when tones are immediately relevant to the story.

On page 27, when the note says “traditional hanzi,” that should be understood as compared to the simplified hanzi, not “traditionalism vs. modernism.” Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Taiwan (Mandarin) both use traditional hanzi. The People’s Republic of China uses simplified hanzi.

Image Credits
Cover Art © Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved
All Map images (except the India map) are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

AI Disclaimer
Regrettably, I used AI to generate covers and background scenery for Issues 184-277. I still use it to create logos, doodles, and symbols, simply because there are no non-AI logo-creation programs (suggestions are welcome). I kept some previously used AI images for consistency (iconic buildings and “historic photographs”), with the intent of replacing them when possible. Any other appearance of AI means the stock art seller I purchased from misrepresented their product.

In this issue, the AI (コーPilot) answer on “Green Badger CIA” was taken from AI because I wanted a clunky, machine-written answer. Without “CIA, you get some innocuous answers. But since Iimi already reasoned out Carl had been in the CIA (Issue 319), she knew to add that.