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I need to learn not to have characters use the word “bouncing” around Layla. It always sounds like it means something other than what was intended.
On a different note, I’m pretty sure one of the functions of Cap’n Crosby’s spacesuit is not actually needing to sleep. Or, failing that, allowing him to sleep while still standing at the wheel. Captaining a ship is a 24-hour job, ya know. Speaking of which, when does LAYLA sleep? Aside from a few Christmas comics where she seems to have just past out where she stood, I’m not sure if she actually does. All the times I can recall seeing her in bed, she was wide awake reading. Yes, there are the things I think about while writing this comic.
Let’s see, is there anything else to talk about? I’m not sure if OMG WE’RE AT NINE HUNDRED PAGES! And that’s just the “official” count. If you add all the holiday pages, the comic count is well over a thousand, and throwing in all the Voting Incentives and Patreon stuff would probably bring the total count to around TWO thousand by now. Probably. I dunno, I’m afraid if I actually try to count it all up my brain will explode.
Oh, and speaking of both holiday comics and Voting Incentives, VOTE NOW to see what you would have seen if today hadn’t been a numberversary.
(Historical Notes: Layla’s face in the first panel bugs me, but mid-way through the editing process I realized it’s mostly just because those GIANT MONSTER HEADS everybody has that look extra strange when there isn’t a pair of giant eyes taking up half the face.)
Layla, Captain Crosby does not sleep. He does not eat. He exists to run the ship and ensure that everything is working as well as can be expected with whatever current circumstances & crises are happening (and, preferably, make money doing so). The only suggestion that he looks like a normal person comes from Avatar, who is seemingly the only person who has seen underneath his helmet. While she states that he looks like an ordinary old dude underneath it, nobody else to our knowledge has any evidence to the truth or falsity of this statement.
Well, there IS that one page where we see The Cap’n in “sleep mode” at the wheel, but the very fact that he can do it while standing proves that whatever he considers “sleep” is pretty different from everybody else.
That’s probably just a normal future-y exoskeleton function. Put the exosuit into “sleep mode” it stands up on its own, changes the direction of experienced gravity for the person inside, and you’re basically just laying down on a comfy bed while the suit monitors your environment and wakes you if anything important happens. That way the Cap’n can be at the Helm, literally or figuratively, 24/7, ’cause it’s not like he would ever trust his ship to anyone else.
(He may have watched that ancient documentary showing what happens when a Captain has an incompetent First Mate – you end up shipwrecked on a deserted island for years with a half dozen comically mismatched cast of passengers. Let’s see: Ichabod=Professor, Cap’n=Skipper, Layla=Ginger, Tabitha=MaryAnn, Blip=Gilligan, but I’m not sure who the Howells would be. The only rich married couple is Dr. Hector and Augusta, but they’re not really major enough characters. I guess Avatar and Trigger have those roles, even though they don’t fit at all.)
I trust Avatar.
If Avatar says it, it is 100% true and unquestionable.
Adorableness = Truth.