29. Bottom-up

Notes

• 29.1

  John bet-Orlek is conducting a standing meeting for his team (Vinokurov, Cheung, and Honda are out of shot) as they work on getting ‘their’ work bee ready for an e.v.a.

• 29.2

  Bad enough that this strip requires drawing the back of people’s heads, which is tricky for me at the best of times, but it suddently came to me that I had no idea what the back of a Sikh turban looks like. Naturally images of Sikhs online are mostly taken from the front, so they don’t help. Lucky for me that, just as some people post how-to videos about tying a tie, others post videos about tying a turban—and these do show turbans from a variety of angles.

• 29.3

  I am fudging things a bit here: you never see people on the bridge talking to their subordinates using their console displays, but I can see no reason why Venkatrangan can’t do it if he prefers it.

• 29.4

  Captain Zhou is referring to Lt Cdr Ruh, science officer of the Mumbai.