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Remember, Harem can't teleport other people, but Varia can teleport when she's holding on to Harem. Varia usually just tags along, but she can actually teleport somewhere without Harem. She's just stranded once she arrives.

In case you're wondering, Harem isn't wearing the same body armor loadout as everyone else because the amount of mass she can take with her is limited. She could wear a Level II vest and carry a handgun, some reloads and a 'light' utility belt, along with her usual clothing when she has all 5 of herselves out and about. If she drops it to 3 of herselves, she could wear the full kit and carry a decent sized assault rifle with her, but she's much more useful spreading herself around.

The last two panels kind of make me want to do a page or two from Harem's perspective on any given day. The problem would be that it'd take 5 panels to show what each of her is doing, and there's only so much room on a page, so it'd take like 5 pages just to resolve a single (set of 5) conversation(s). Not that all 5 of her are always chatting with people simultaneously, but I think it would make for a string of pages that individually probably wouldn't have a lot of payoff, but if done right, a complete arc of "Five minutes in the Life of Daphne DeShantis" would be pretty satisfying.

Actually, the best format for that might be video with the screen divided 5 ways, but it would be super difficult to show her having multiple conversations that way. If you wanted to be a purist about it, you could say well yeah, us monobrain/monominds can't keep up with a quintbrain/monomind like her, so we'd have to rewatch the video several times to pick up all the stuff she would.

Obligatory "Now we're cooking with evil gas." reference. It's just one of those expressions that stuck in my head ever since the first time it attacked my earballs, and now I foist in on you.

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Kizik Ucalegon

You could run it as a gif. Each panel is it's own "page", running through individual panels in sequence. Synch it up right and it'll convey that it's all happening at the same time. Or set it up like a revolver cylinder, rotating through each perspective so you can have different shaped panels which show each clone, or maybe have like an overlay that lets you filter the perspective? There's definitely ways to do it, and it'd be interesting to see it attempted, but I'm not sure it'd be worth the effort involved - unless you do mini-arcs for each clone you end up having to do five actual pages crammed into one and that's a lot of prep time. Maybe for like a milestone event, set up weeks in advance and set wholly apart from the current plot.

Thisguy

Basically, Harem works better as a light scout rather than heavy armour. Because rapid gathering of intelligence is overpowered. Especially when you don't have a strict squad limit.

Lee T Boswell

I don't know why, but the Harem in panel 6 looks particularly cute. Though, how are her eyes blue, if the other has purple eyes? Contacts on one of them?

Michael Obert

It's like Ghost Recon only, uh, teleporty

Tie Toter

The leaves reflecting off Max's face is a great touch. Nice detail.

Aaron Mauthe

Whelp. Now I have to make you all feel old. I am 28 years old, and didn’t realize that cooking with evil gas was a reference to anything except when Sydney first said it at the really spicy noodle place.

Andrew

I wonder if they could ask someone where all the cameras are. Like, say the (now) unconscious janitor? Whoops.

Alex Schultz

@Dave I know Harem doesn't know what happens if one of her dies, but have you as the author decided?

Leon

This handyman should become a recurring character somehow.

AlpineBob

Love how Harem is reporting back to two different groups simultaneously, while scouting with a third. I guess the hard part is remembering which bodies may speak and which should be "vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm hunting <strike>rabbits</strike>" <i>cameras</i>.