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I decided to go back to episode 4 and compare it side-by-side with issue 3 to see what changed. The following list isn't completely comprehensive - there's a lot of lines that change maybe one or two words from the original, or are rephrased in ways that don't impact the meaning. (For instance, the teacher saying "No year-end bonus for me, no learning for you" instead of just "No year-end bonus, no learning.") Likewise, I didn't necessarily write down every shot that was omitted from the comic because - since it only having twenty pages - it has to condense the story quite a bit. Finally, I didn't make mention of other comic book-specific elements added here, like the descriptive "sound effects" (a running gag, including things like "seemingly innocent touch" or "load foreboding look") or the occasional snarky scene-setting caption.

Bullet points in italics are minor but still noteworthy (in my opinion), while bold ones are particularly significant (for those who're skimming the list for points of interest).

• Camp 98.7's sign is missing "est. 3002."
• The brief sequence where the campers exit the bus gets trimmed down a lot. (The gag where one of them steps on another's head makes it in, though.)
• The first lines in the flashback are altered:
  • Originally, Khan says "After the core collapse... I... didn't notice the collars. Only your mom being a catch!"
  • In the comic, Khan says "Here... this choker used to be your mother's." Uzi replies "What is it? Is it significant?" He answers "I never really knew. She always wore it. I hardly noticed. I was too busy noticing your mom being a catch!"
• EDIT: I didn't notice this when I first posted this, but the first picture of Khan at Camp 98.7 shows him without a mustache (unlike the show, where he still had it back then).
• The shot of Khan handing the choker to Uzi is cut. (Presumably, this is why the flashback now has him talk about giving it to her.)
• The campers getting startled when Uzi first speaks to them is cut.
• The camper who asks "So... we're basically unsupervised?" follows up with "RAD!" in the comic.
• The quick bait-and-switch right after N arrives where he menacingly turns to the camera is cut.
• One camper asks "Seriously?" after N & V land.
• V doesn't blow any bubblegum bubbles in the comic.
• The lengthy sequence after N says "To the bunks!" is cut. (The campers are still scared of the disassembly drones until Lizzy & Thad break the ice. Uzi chimes in to no avail. The others start chatting with N & V, the latter of whom responds coldly. After a while, N & Uzi give each other meaningful looks about her plan, followed by her walking through the snow to one of the cabins.) The comic just cuts straight from "Let's get everyone a bunk!" to Uzi in the cabin.
• Most of Uzi's initial exploration of the cabin (including the first shot of the keybug, the dog calendar joke, the hand spooking her, and Cynessa's cameo) is cut. The comic skips right to her hearing a scream outside.
• The canoe scene is mostly cut, aside from "My friend wants to know if you killed her family... and if you're single." No V commandeering a "canoe train" and knocking other the other vessel here.
• Uzi silently observes the above in the original - here, she comments "[sigh] Have fun... losers."
• Uzi yells "AGGHHH!" when her Solver cracks the window instead of staying silent. (I make a note of this because issue 2 consistently wrote this plot point out - she doesn't crack the mirror at the start, and her later visit to Doll's home was cut entirely, including all the mirrors in the bathroom.)
• Right afterward, instead of just whimpering as the Solver overpowers her, Uzi remarks "What is wrong with me?"
• The entirety of V's conversation with Uzi in the cabin is cut. Uzi instead snaps out of her Solver-induced weakness on her own, accidentally stepping on the keybug in the process (another change from the original, where her backpack squished it instead).
• Uzi was originally silent when she healed the keybug, but here she talks the whole time: "Lucky for you, I can do this solver thing now. [...] There! Good as new."
• The sequence where Uzi breaks open the floor to find drone corpses and more eerie drawings is cut.
• Throughout the episode, all of the keybug's emoticons are cut (if I remember right).
• The bit with the keybug right after is different in several different ways:
  • Uzi doesn't try and smack it in the comic because it doesn't crawl around nearly as much as in the episode. Instead, it scans her and brings up its UI the panel after it's healed.
  • Said UI is simplified, no longer identifying Uzi as 002.
  • Uzi's reaction to it is much longer, starting after she says "Elevator?"
    • Original: [keybug responds with "PLEASE PLACE ME ON PROXIMITY READER (CABIN FEVER LABS)"] "Where's that? What are you?" [keybug mishears]
    • Comic: Uzi continues "Torture chamber?! What is this place? Are you a clue? Maybe you can help me figure out where Doll is." (I personally think this is another case where they had to re-insert exposition from a deleted scene - in this case, V's cabin conversation.)
  • Doll's brief appearance coincides with Uzi's final line, drawn in a close-up so tight that it's not clear if she's standing behind her (as in the show) or not.
• The gag where one camper accidentally kills another with a bow & arrow is cut.
• Instead, V tells N "you didn't even kill anyone here" and shoots him herself. (In the original episode, she instead says "you didn't even kill everyone here" before aiming at the other campers, who nervously applaud in response.)
• Uzi awkwardly trying to greet the campers after her cover's blown gets cut out.
• In the original, a camper gets startled by Uzi's presence and accidentally fires an arrow at her, leading to her inadvertently transmutating it into a fleshy little abomination. Here, V instead fires an arrow at her intentionally. (She's got an angry face and N remarks "V, wait--" right beforehand, so I'm pretty sure it's intentional.)
• Said abomination looks less alive in the comic, with no face or prominent suckers. (Part of this is because of how little pagetime it gets - it just splats on the ground and we cut back to the campers & disassembly drones in the next panel.)
• The short zoom on V's face as she reacts in horror is cut.
• Darren no longer kisses N's arm. (The campers and counselors are repositioned, so they aren't standing next to each other in the comic.)
• Uzi getting distracted mid-excuse by the oil leaking from the dead camper's severed head is cut.
• Right after Uzi bolts, V remarks "Grr... stupid little purple..."
• N & V's argument occurs right after Uzi runs off instead of after she goes feral.
  • Already one of the most talked-about changes: one of V's lines goes from "we do our jobs, and that THING leaves us alone!" to "we just do our jobs and the you-know-what leaves us alone!"
  • N's response thus goes from "I don't know what you're talking about because you won't TELL ME!" to "I don't know what! What are you talking about?" before syncing back up with the original dialogue.
  • Because the argument takes place over just two panels, several brief moments are left out: N bringing his blade arm out, V's shocked reaction, the shot showing Lizzy recording the whole thing, V's expression softening after he asks "what is wrong with you?!"
  • Instead of just telling V to look after the campers, N says "If you're not explaining things to me, I'm going after Uzi! Just...look after the campers. And stop killing them!"
  • Lizzy puts her hand on V's back(pack) while trying to console her.
  • The immediate aftermath - V growling "Do whatever you want" and then walking away - gets cut out.
• There's a panel showing Uzi running to the cabin's entrance in the snow, not shown in the episode.
• Uzi is far more talkative than in the original scene: "What is happening to me? We were supposed to find answers here!" [barricades the door] "This should keep everyone out!"
• There's a panel right afterward showing the keybug baring its teeth - I don't think it was explicitly shown in this scene in the show.
• The sequence where Uzi finally goes feral is abridged and plays out very differently.
  • In the show, she slams all the shutters shut, zips open her backpack hard enough to tear the zipper off, starts having a Solver migraine shortly afterward (the ticking clock doesn't help), destroys nearly every light in the room with her powers, inadvertently starts summoning a horrible flesh thing (accompanied by a litany of red error messages) when trying to kill the last one. End scene.
  • In the comic, she lays on the ground, panting. "Uhnnnn... ahh...ahhh, I don't feel so good." As the clock ticks, she starts growling and uses the Solver (whereupon a bunch of red error messages pop up), then fully succumbs (indicated by an extreme close-up of the Solver symbol on her visor).
• Darren & Rebecca's ill-fated cabin trip is a bit heavier on dialogue. Once they're inside, they share a quick exchange ("This place is perfect." "Did you hear--?") before Uzi makes herself known.
  • The buildup to Uzi's attack is cut down as well.
  • The scene ends with a panel of the two screaming in fear, something that doesn't happen in the original episode.
• N is far, far more talkative when he visits the other cabin. Originally, he has no dialogue outside of gasping and panting after hallucinating about Cyn. In the comic, he says the following:
  • After landing: "Uzi, where did you go?" [upon landing]
  • After entering the building: "Hello? Uzi? Are you trying to hide your increasingly freakish mutating special eye powers from us in here? Just being a concerned friend!" (He doesn't interact with the computers, either.)
  • Noticing the Zombie Drones VHS tape: "Ooh! What's this? Movie night, campers!"
  • Right after his hallucination: "Agh! Were those my memories? I have to find Uzi! Now!"
• The scene where Uzi chows down on her classmates' remains plays out differently. It originally starts in the middle of her eating (and then puking) - when we first see her visor, her eyes are normal (albeit glitching heavily, briefly switching to solver mode & "high temp"). Here, she's already in solver mode at the start before coming to her senses, made more obvious by yet more added dialogue ("Uhhh... what... have I done?!").
• A couple lines from the start of the campfire scene (most notably "It's scary, 'cuz it's like... [...] real.") are cut.
• Rebecca doesn't grab Emily's leg in the comic.
• Sam saying "Descriptive clues, man!" and Rebecca mentioning Hot Topic afterward are both cut.
• The campers' subsequent confused dialogue gets trimmed down.
• Most of the buildup to solver Uzi's full debut gets cut. Here, she flies in behind the campers and makes herself known with a "HHHHAAAGGHH!" No putting the fire out with her powers, no laughing (yet), etc.
• The campers briefly shrugging before Braidon gets decapitated is cut out.
• Emily's panicked "I think I read that's good!" gets lengthened to "Yes! That's what the book says to do in a moment of crisis!"
• There's no lightning right after the campers make a run for it.
• All text from the Final Girl book aside from "14. THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BOOK SAID" has been removed.
• A lot of the buildup to Sam's death (the upside-down POV shot of Uzi in the trees, him righting himself and sneaking behind a different tree, and the Solver tail peeking at him from above) is cut.
  • He also talks to himself a lot more: "I hate splitting up! I hate that the unpopular girl now has wings!" [trips] "A-AHHH! I hate camping!" [book falls on his head]
  • Uzi kills Sam on-screen, severing his arms in a splash page.
• Uzi no longer twists the head off of Emily's corpse.
• Lizzy's initial reaction to solver Uzi goes from "Um, clashing?" to "Um, your wings clash with that hat."
• The brief shot of Uzi slithering on the ground towards Lizzy is cut.
• The build-up to V's intervention now has dialogue. Uzi asks "How did you even survive issue two?" as she closes in. Lizzy responds "Okay, neat power, but seriously--" before V interrupts ("UZI, STOP!"), to Uzi's confusion ("Wha--?") and Lizzy's relief ("That's what I was gonna say!").
• V's remark to Lizzy ("Killing her. Not saving you.") gets "Just to be clear..." added to it at the start.
• A good chunk of V's fight with Uzi is cut - specifically, everything between Uzi's tail biting V's arm and N's entrance. V doesn't get her arm ripped off and thrown at her, Uzi doesn't stab her head right before she shoots a missile (nor does Lizzy appear and react blasély), Uzi doesn't pin her down and rip her nanite stringer off, etc.
• V yells "N!" right as he shows up.
• Conversely, N doesn't say "ow" after Uzi stabs his hand.
• The comic cuts out V grabbing the blade stuck in her hand with her teeth and spitting it out.
• The shot of Uzi breaking through the clouds and then falling back through them is cut.
• N doesn't pry open Uzi's wings mid-fall.
• N also doesn't say "But you know that's not what I meant" while comforting her.
• Uzi stops shielding herself with her wings sooner than in the original episode.
• The bit where N & Uzi goof around is a bit different. In the show, Uzi proclaims her tail's "voice" should be British but gets interrupted when they hit the ground. Here, N gives it that voice instead ("'Arrr, 'zis yo tay-ol den, guv-na?'"), there's a "slo-mo" panel showing them immediately before impact, followed by the actual landing.
• In between the landing and Uzi apologizing to N, there's a panel showing V growling as she watches the two with her blades out. (She says nothing in the original.)
• A minor wording change: N telling Uzi to "avoid another whole spire" becomes "avoid another whole spiral."
• Another new line: the teacher responds to V putting her claws on the back of his seat (before she even speaks, judging by the word balloon placement) with "Well, someone is touchy!"
• The brief shot of V sitting back down and her expression softening is cut.
• N doesn't unclasp his hand from Uzi's in the comic.
• The very last scene of episode 3 (where "Tessa" & J arrive on Copper-9) is moved here, having been omitted from issue 2.
  • Once again, it's far more dialogue-heavy. Originally, the only line the doomed drone had was "Ah, that's where I left my excuse to be outside right now." Here he's accompanied by another drone and has a lengthy exchange with them:
    • "Aha! That's where I left my excuse to be outside the bunker." [other drone points] "Um, what's that?"
    • [puts glasses on] "Can't see a dang old thing without my spectacles!" "Can you see that?"
    • "No sir, blind as a--" "LOOK!"
    • [shot of incoming landing pod] "Say, what is that?" "That's what I'm--"
  • The first pod's landing (on its side) gets cut out. This includes the subsequent explosion and the teddy bear landing nearby. The second pod is now the only one to appear in this scene.
  • "Tessa" doesn't kill the drone - as far as I can tell, the pod lands right on him, severing his head and arms. She and J only step out afterwards. (We do get a shot of "Tessa" with one foot on the drone's head to end the issue on.)
  • The final line (from "Tessa:" "Righty-o. Work to do. Eh, J? Maintenance work.") gets an addendum: J responds "TO BE CONTINUED!" and earns a "Nice." from her boss.
  • "Tessa's" key doesn't appear at all. J doesn't give it to her, nor does she lock the pod afterward like a car.