page 719 – blank stare
Dang, how long has it been since Avatar actually got to SAY stuff? She’s either been off-screen or reacting to someone else for a WHILE now… and it’s still more than Tax has gotten to do recently. Yeah, this has turned into another one of those arcs where there’s just too many characters to keep in play all at once. Or, at least, not without a LOT more rewrites than two updates a week will allow.
Heck, MORE that two updates a week, sometimes. In fact, you guys might want to check out this site sometime tomorrow. Just a suggestion…
Oh, and as always, there’s a new Voting Incentive for those of you who need a second pair of cute girls.
(Historical Notes: That bit of blatant forth-wall-breaking raised a few eyebrows, and it’s really not the sort of thing I would normally have done, but I realized at the VERY last minute that the original dialog could have been misconstrued as an on-screen death… and this is STILL Far Out There, so that had to change.)
That guy on the very first page of Far Out There says he wishes the author had started worrying about not depicting onscreen deaths a bit sooner. 😉
Meh, so much stuff in those early pages has been retconned, we can’t even be certain if page 1 exists anymore (Besides, I’m sure DOZENS of people walk off meteor strikes every day, it’s just not widely reported.)
That’s true. I saw on the internet where This One Simple Trick that They don’t want you to know about lets you survive direct meteor strikes unscathed while making as much as $8,214/month working from home in your spare time.
So it must be true.
There’s also the fact that the guy who got hit by the meteor isn’t necessarily dead. Sure, he’s planted between the meteor and the ground, but it was slow enough that it didn’t devastate the surrounding environment, or even blow his limbs off. That means that he could have survived with just devastatingly broken bones, so long as medical staff got to him early enough.
I don’t know, that thing had to be moving pretty fast to bury itself halfway in the ground like that. On the other hand, Future Medicine probably means that as long as your brain is more or less intact they can probably replace the entire rest of your body.
Or maybe that guy was the prototype for Avatar, like the beta version or something, even mad scientists probably have to practice at least once first before making something as complicated as her.
Unless the ground has a consistency just above that of pudding, which, given how little damage we can see from the meteor hitting the ground, is something I think might be quite likely.
Normally I wouldn’t expect that, but this being FOT, it’s entirely possible that some Mad Scientist accidentally turned an entire planet into pudding. Or intentionally turned an entire planet into pudding.
Or turned pudding into an entire planet
Or turned pudding into a planet-sized pudding monster, that people mistake for a planet and begin to colonize before they realize it’s actually a pudding monster but it’s ALREADY TOO LATE!!
(mad science motto: everything’s better with monsters!)
On another note, I really think the middle two panels should be a meme like this.
At least locally to FOT.
One of those where you fill in the blanks depending on situation, for example.
Normally I hate memes with a passion, but of course Tax & Avatar memes are an exception.
Oh, you mean like this? 😀
Yes, EXACTLY like that! 🙂
This was done very quickly, so no promises it’ll actually work but a simple Meme-image maker
*insert squee noise*
Yet another completely unrelated to anything observation:
Typed-text emojis on this site all show up on my screen as square boxes instead.
🙂
🙁
😉
Hmmm.. the wink emoji worked fine, but the smiley and frowney are boxes.
Maybe there’s a setting for that somewhere?
Actually, I can see all the emojis in your comment just fine. Not sure what’s going on there.
That’s a problem, because I’m having the same issue seeing Ed8’s Emoji’s as they are. Of course it could just be the browser. Let’s just check…
Ten second later, it seems to be an issue of seeing them on Chrome, as I can see them on Firefox & IE. Not 100% certain why.
Just saw on a different computer with Chrome. May be a problem with some Chrome extensions, then.
Verified, works fine on IE and Firefox but not on Chrome nor Micro$oft Edge (which apparently uses the same Chromium browser engine). Another good reason to use Firefox.
Yeah, I’m looking at ’em right now in Firefox, so I guess this is another casualty of the INSIDIOUS GOOGLE CONSPIRACY AGAINST SMILING FACES