Whew! Thank goodness I read the caption. I was afraid Phobos had become a ghost. Incorporeality would mean that walls would become no obstacle in his desire to consume human flesh!

Whew! Thank goodness I read comment that read the caption. I was afraid Phobos had become a ghost. Incorporeality would mean that walls would become no obstacle in his desire to consume human flesh!

In retrospect, I think I should have just left Phobos out of the panel. The reflection thing is awkward. Would anyone object to a minor retcon? ;p

All this gets me wondering: How many of you actually read the captions accompanying the strips?

I'm glad I read the caption (always read them) or it could have looked like he was outside the ship hovering by the window :) I like the reflection, though!

So two commentators wrote almost exactly the same thing, huh? Interesting... are they the same entity, each from a parallel universe?

It's early morning so I'm not quite awake. In panel 2, why can we see that Phobos is in the room only by his reflection in the window (assuming that's a reflection and not a ghostly image *outside* the window) instead of being drawn into the panel directly? Also, it appears Lamont is willing to let Whit hear this confidential info the command crew wants to tell him.

Oh, I finally read the caption and see that it is a reflection of Phobos and that he's not channeling Space Ghost on "inviso-power".

Now that I'm looking at it critically--and not just being a weisenheimer--I think the thing that bothers me about the reflection is that I can't see where Phobos could possibly be standing to make the reflection where we can see it where it is in the glass. At the angle given, he'd have to be standing in the next room.

Can we be sure that light does not bend around Phobos in strange ways? (I'm helping you out here Elliot! :) )

I read the captions every day. I feel that they add to the story and wish that they would be on the main page, so that I didn't have to always go to the Comments & Captions page. Not a big deal, but since you asked...:-)

I read the captions every day. I feel that they add to the story and wish that they would be on the main page, so that I didn't have to always go to the Comments & Captions page.

I do that intentionally! If at all possible, I want readers to pop over to the details page because your lovely comments, in my opinion, are at least half the fun of the strip.

Oh, and my wife convinced me to leave Phobos in. Using her feminine wiles.

Three cheers for feminine wiles.

I believe this sort of reflection-in-glass trickery is how ghosts were portrayed on theatre stages in the past, played by actors hidden from the audience so that only their transparent reflection would be visible; if Westward were a theatre play, Phobos would totally be a ghost now.

<i>Oh, and my wife convinced me to leave Phobos in. Using her feminine wiles.</i>

You always were a sucker for her feminine wiles. I bet she even gets you to go shopping with her. * grin *

Damn! I used html instead of bbcode again.

Are you kidding, James? I'd be flattered if she let me go shopping with her. I'm a notorious slow-shopper. I take forever comparing unit prices and relative qualities.

I realized I forgot to say in my last post that I always read the captions, and would be sad if they were removed from my life.

I'm from the future, where there are no captions, I must say it is a bleak and terrifying distopia.

Of course I read the captions. Though I have no idea how Phobos's reflection works. Because to me it looks as if the tilted glass is more of a ceiling than a 'wall', so I just don't get how the reflection could be upright like that. And why only Phobos would be visible, and not other things, such as furniture. To be completely honest though, I didn't even notice him until I read the comments.

At least now we know he isn't a vampire.

I do believe we have all just schooled in Looking on the Bright Side. Feel free to take a silver lining out of petty cash, Meh-Aloe!