Grrl Power #1314 - Replantigrade

Thank you for the support! You guys are awesome!

I think I've said this before, but in my original envisioning of this story, I'd never intended Peggy to get her leg back. But having introduced Cora and her crew and their Space Meditech, it just doesn't make sense that she wouldn't. Only Peggy refusing it or Cora and Co. denying her for some reason that... I maybe could have come up with if I'd really wanted to. I vaguely remember some story I read when I was in middle school (?) about some guy who traveled back in time to bring a cure-all to the past, but in the end it turned out to basically just be a vitamin shot. It worked in his time because childhood vaccinations and advanced nutrition and environmental conditions of his time got people 90% of the way there, and the shot was just the icing on the cake. Man, I haven't thought about that in yonks. Weirdly, I can't remember if it was a short story I read, a comic book, like a "Strange Tales" kind of thing, or an episode of the Twilight Zone or one of the many TZ wannabes. 

(Only slightly related, but after watching an anime, I often can't remember if it was dubbed or subtitled, unless there was something about either version that stood out, like terrible voice acting or hard-coded cultural footnotes on the subs. Not immediately after! I know you were wondering that. Like, six months later. Language is weird, and so are brains.)

Anyway, the point of the vitamin shot story was that I guess I could have come up with some BS reason Cora wouldn't want to give Peggy a new foot, like Space Anti-Rejection Drugs™ and if she ever missed a dose her leg would shrivel up and look like a stubbed out cigarette. But I really don't want to be constrained to write a story about things that never change because... Actually I don't know why Marvel and DC comics never change. I guess so someone can read a Superman comic in the 70's, then pick up another Superman title in the 90's and again in the 10's and Clark still hasn't married Lois and the reader will be like "Guess I'm picking up right where I left off!" Actually I think Clark has revealed to Lois and/or Lois has figured out his identity about 35 times across various iterations of the comic/animated series/movies/TV shows, so honestly, I don't even know what you'd see if you cracked open any given Superman title these days. But that muddies my point about not wanting to write about static characters, so, er, ignore me?

I've had to scale back the coloring just a bit because as it turns out, a mother who wanders in every 20 minutes to tell me about the great emergency of needing to find the christmas wreath with the big red bow on it or how we need to get ready for her doctor's appointment that I've explained to her 11 times isn't for three more weeks, combined with my own ADHD is not a great formula for productivity. Hopefully after christmas there will be significant movement toward a better living situation for my mom. Well, I say better. None of the options are awesome, and nearly all involve moving at least one household worth of stuff, so... maybe there will be some Stick Figure Grrl Power pages in the medium-near future? :P