page 1393 – Set Up Always Takes Longer Than You Think
I wish I could claim to be clever enough to have planned this out in advance, but this page about awkward delays just so happens to be the last normal Far Out There page of 2025! …maybe! Yeah, I’m still not sure if I’ll be up to squeezing in one last comic on on December 30th or not. It all depends on how bad the grind to finish up the Christmas comics ends up being. Honestly, things don’t look THAT bad. As I write this on Sunday night (yeah, I’m queuing this up a while in advance), I’ve already got thirteen pages finished, so we’re already over the halfway point. And better yet, I’ve already got the EXTRA page that’ll go up Thursday for Thanksgiving finished too! Basically, I’ve got about as close to optimum conditions for cranking out extra material over the next few days as I’m ever gonna get. So, assuming I didn’t HORRIBLY JINX EVERYTHING, there’s actually a decent chance of me making it across the finish line in decent enough shape to actually do a page 1394 next month! A true Christmas miracle!
Oh, but having said all that, we SHOULD still have a regularly scheduled TWC page this Friday. And as always, I will be doing more of them over December, so even people who don’t care about my yearly Christmas splurge will have SOMETHING to read… though at the risk of spoiling things, this year’s Christmas comics ARE going to have a bit more relevance to the actual plot than usual. Sort of. In a way. You’ll just have to keep checking back next month to see!
I really want to know what the sign ending in “d Crowbars” says. It kind of looks like Tabitha is using a crowbar to open up a storage area for crowbars…
Originally, it was going to say something along the lines of “Do Open With A Crowbar,” but then I realized the layout of the art didn’t really accommodate that, and the sign turned into a half-covered “No Crowbars”
Honestly, I kind of want to see someone use a Gardening Crowbar to open something in a comic at some point. Instead, everyone uses those tiny little “Prying Crowbars”. USE THE BIG METAL STICK!
…cut to me drawing just that, and somebody else saying “What’s up with that funny-looking spear?”
Boys, I suspect that you had Robots pack for you the first time. This time you packed for yourselves. And that means, instead of a LOT of perfectly-tetris’ed packaging, you instead have shoved a whole bunch of stuff wherever it would fit. Which results in previously empty space being occupied by materials you didn’t package properly.
OH! It should be a thing that the ship they stole has attendant-bots scurrying around doing things for everybody! It’d explain how they were able to pack everything and abandon ship so quick in the first place!
Have I affected the near-future comic twice in rapid succession? Possibly, and if so, WOO!
…It would also explain how a Ship that big can be piloted with only a small group of children without trouble. Anything that needs remote action can be done through robot drones controlled from the front of the ship.
Congrats. It would also explain how these goobers managed to pilot anything if they were just ordering navigation bots and pilot bot to do things
I mean, the ship was always going to be super heavy on automation to explain that part, but representing it in the form of lots of little robots would allow for a lot more visual gagas