page 1392 – technobabble is not a free action
Excitedly spewing out lengthy dissertations about what they COULD do, then never getting around actually accomplishing any of it? Yeah, they’re young people, all right. …oh, who am I kidding. That also makes them webcomic artists (“No, really, guys! We’ll be going back to twice-a-week updates any day now!”).
By the way, I’m not sure I can explain what possessed me to essentially slap an Easter Egg in the back of this page. The panel layout had wound up leaving a lot more blank space than intended, and I wanted to just put something colorful there. The next thing I knew, blotchy tie-dye oval. Whatever.
So, there SHOULDN’T be anything to hold up a new TWC Voting Incentive this Friday, but I AM really starting to hit the scramble to get holiday stuff done. This year, we’ll be diving careening from a Thanksgiving page on next Thursday straight into the first of the Christmas comics the following Monday. It literally didn’t occur to me until just now that page 1393 next week will most likely be the last regular Far Out There page of the year (unless I try to squeeze on in before New Years, and that REALLY depends on what shape I’m in by them)
EDIT: NEW TWC VOTING INCENTIVE IS UP!
@ Hover Text: They’re getting out of the outer-wall hallway, to a point where they won’t be ejected into the vacuum of space if the boy’s managed to successfully fix their escape pod. Which they did, because the story’s funnier that way. Though they MAY have a few seconds delay due to a minor & easily fixed mishap.
I mean, at the very least, they should get some ropes and tie themselves to something, just in case.
Assuming there’s no totally realistic and not at all ad hoc tech like force fields or shields that would pop up automatically to hold the air in, shouldn’t the Cap’n have lowered some bulkheads to isolate the dangerous gaping hole in the hull from the rest of the ship? Or can we just assume that the boys hacked the controls and raised the bulkheads to get back to the ship, thus irresponsibly jeopardizing the lives of everyone on board? Except Avatar.
Technically, something akin to force fields preventing the escape of air would explain how the ship hadn’t suffered decompression issues. But that could also be explained by FOT having Breathable-Air-Creation-Tech, originally designed by a Mad Scientist to suffocate/drown fish underwater, because Mad Scientist.
I can confirm that the ship does have automatic “block up the holes in the outside” tech, but I can also say that I PERSONALLY would still take more than a little extra precautions in a situation like this.
Re: Author’s comments – I had to scroll back up to see the Easter Egg, figuring there was some hidden reference to a past strip or an obscure Sci-Fi franchise… but then I realized it was an actual Easter Egg. If you had said it as a challenge “See if you can find the hidden Easter Egg in today’s strip” I probably would have spent hours trying to find the hidden reference without ever getting it!
I can absolutely guarantee I am not clever enough to pull a stunt like that on purpose 😀