Happy Father’s Meh 2023
I promise that MY giving of that Dar to my Dad involved a lot more thought than Kevin giving it to HIS Dad (The reason it’s a computer is ‘cos he’s being dealing with as much computer stuff as me over the past week or two, so it felt pertinent)
And speaking of which, HOPEFULLY the next regular page won’t be too derailed by this little bit of weirdness. I already spent waaaay more time on it than anticipated, and still left a lot of the effects and background details basically half-finished. This is why so many pages of Far Out There take place floating in white voids and blobs of colored gradients.
In Kevin’s defense, Dr. Hector’s attitude towards parenting his kids is pretty much “meh” – so this is really the appropriate amount of effort
That looks like an original Macintosh pictured on the card he’s grabbing. However, I’m a lot more curious about the woman apparently in the freezer in the background – is she 1. trapped there and dying/dead? 2. cryonically preserved? 3. modified via genetics or other mad science to be comfortable wearing skimpy clothing in a freezer? 4. something else I haven’t specifically thought of?
I think it’s a reference to something famous, some sort of hoax or urban legend or something like that, can’t quite recall, and when I search for pretty much anything on the net these days all I get is a flood of stupid and scams instead of the thing I’m searching for, so no help from the internet 🙁
To be perfectly honest, my thought process was “What’s the thing I could draw in that freezer that’d be most likely to get a ‘Wait, WHAT?’ from readers?”
It’s also worth mentioning that, as I alluded above, the background was originally supposed to have many more layers of blur and shading effects on it, before I realized I was spending way too much time on this. Thus, all details in the back were supposed to be a lot harder to make out than they actual are, and their significance should be interpreted accordingly.
Also, yeah, that’s an old Mac. Both me and my Dad have been dealing with a lot of computer things over the past few weeks, so it seemed weirdly appropriate to commemorate the first desktop computer in our household.
So it’s not a reference to an urban legend? I thought for sure I vaguely remembered something about some girl in a freezer or something like that. Or maybe you’re subconsciously remembering whatever it is I can’t remember, and that’s where the image popped up from.
It is ALWAYS fair to assume that that whatever ideas I come up with are actually from someplace else that I don’t properly remember.
Ah, the classic Mac. Say what you will, is there a more distinctive computer look?
We had one of those when I was a kid. The monitor died while I was playing “where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego.” Then my dad insisted we haul it around for the next 30ish years. He had a vague idea he would turn it into a fish tank or something- found instructions on the pre-web internet and everything!
…and then you could convince guests that it was just a REALLY advanced screen saver!