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Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 14 “Dark Trail of Doom”(12) 6/23/12
Panel One
Alley had lost his new ax in all the excitement at the battle of Delox tower 40 (more) years in the future but this club should really smash well. Alley notices that on some of the DOD grade lap tops have a very familiar symbol on them. A star burst with an eye in the middle of it, just like the League of Super Heroes uses—-will use it one day. They are getting final landing instructions to touch down at U-Tapao RTNB that the US uses with the Thai military as part of the more recent DoD “forward Positioning” strategy.
Panel Two
They drove off in their APC to rain and cutting wind but in the quiet of the armored vehicle it was lost in the sound of the powerful motor turning those eight wheels at 50 mph down the dark highway. Behind them are a detachment of Royal Thai Regulars to back them up in this operation. (The first time a sufficient force has gathered go meet the elusive robbers.)
Panel Three
Alley is sleeping, taking a cat nap with his club firmly in hand sitting up. He can wake up fully alert in a moment. (Must be part of the things he needs to be able to do to survive in his dinosaur infested land.) He fills out one of the larger battle suits really well. Lots of muscle. Will be approaching the target ETA in exactly 9 minutes. Then we will see what we will see, Chet thought to himself.
For those who are interested, in the September 9, 1938 strip, Foozy and Zel were having a romantic evening looking at the moon. He said something romantic in rhyme to Zel, she said that was so sweet and asked him to say something else. He got tongue tied and was unable from that point on to say anything in rhyme for quite a spell.
And a historical note: Foozy was still not rhyming when on April 6, 1939, the final panel had a note from Hamlin that read: Dear Reader: you must now say goodbye to Moo…if you are to follow Alley Oop in this strangest of many strange adventures. The next panel switched to Dr. Wonmug’s lab and the time travel began!.
Carole: Jack—we never called the Flight Controller a name. We called her, “Missy Control,” just as a joke! How could Fenrisulfr have found out about that? Jack: I’m not so sure he did find out. There’s no reason two people can’t come up with the same joke. Carole: No! There’s something creepy about this. Read that stuff he wrote about his name, again. Jack: Hmm…okay. This from June 3, 2011: “FENRISULFR…Fenris Wolf…eldest son of Loki…The Gods…tricked the Wolf…bound him with…magic rope…Final Battle…Wolf breaks loose…devours chief God Odin…I was of the Norse, Asatru faith…the Wolf—Enemy of the Gods…fascinated me.” Carole: That is really creepy. Why would someone want to identify with something like that? And what’s the Norse Asatru faith? Jack: Well, this is what I got—“Germanic Neo-paganism” Adherents having faith in a number of gods and goddesses. Ásatrú is the modern rebirth of the pre-Christian indigenous faith of the ancestors of the Norwegians, Danes, Swedes. Carole: There’s a whole bunch of them? What’s the matter with these people? What’s wrong with that Old Time Religion? Jack: Well, if they were Pre-Christian, it looks like they already were that Old Time Religeon. Really, really Old Time Religion! Carole: Is that even legal? Jack: Carole, this is America. We have freedom of Religion. That’s what the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution. Carole: But they were all Christians. They were just talking about the freedom to be Methodist, or Presbyterian, or Episcopalian—not the freedom to sacrifice goats to Molech!
Announcer: We interrupt this Program with an Emergency Bulletin. The Tulsa Police Department has announced that a dangerous individual has escaped from the Wolf Creek Internment and Treatment Facility for the Criminally Hysterical, and is known to be at large in the Greater Tulsa Metropolitan Area. This individual is known to be extremely dangerous. The public is warned to stay in their homes and alert the Authorities if this individual is sighted. The escaped individual is said to be over six feet tall but appears to be much shorter due to a habit of crouching, and loping like a wolf, and is said to be “built like a brick…uh…house. Civilians are warned not to approach or engage this individual under ANY circumstances!” Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: You shut the mike off? You stopped broadcasting like I asked? Announcer: Just like you asked. Broadcast the message and switch the mike off. Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: That’s great, wouldn’t want anybody to find out what I’m up to, until—well, actually, wouldn’t want anybody to find out what I’m up to. Thanks, pardner—you’ve been a great help! Announcer: Well it’s not like I had a choice. It was either that or get hit in the head by that sledgehammer of yours. Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: What—this? Ahh, I wouldn’t have hurt ya. I was just bluffin’ so you’d do what I asked with no fuss. I ain’t never hurt nobody what didn’t try to hurt me first. Announcer: You do realize I’m going to be in serious trouble because of you. When the cops find out I made that phony broadcast, I’m going to get thrown in jail—the Station’s going to can me for sure. Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Ah, I just hadda make sure that nobody’s gonna be where I’m gonna be. If they’re all looking for me in Downtown Tulsa—they’ll stay away from the outskirts of town—which is where I’m going ta be. Announcer: So you didn’t really escape from that place? Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Do I look like a dangerous, escaped maniac, to you?—don’t answer that question! Announcer:“Wolf Creek Internment and Treatment Facility for the Criminally Hysterical”—I’ve never even heard of that place—and I’ve lived here all my life. Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Well, there’s a lot of things you don’t hear about—‘cause your Government don’t want you to hear about ‘em. They got a vested interest in keepin’ some things real quiet—and the last thing they want, is for people like you to know what’s really going on. Announcer: So what do they keep there—if you don’t mind my asking? [Unless, of course, you’ve gotta kill me once you tell me—in which case, never mind!] Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Put your mind at ease—I ain’t going ta kill ya. I’m one of the good guys! Let’s just say…they got a bunch of real high profile criminals that they can’t keep nowhere else—and leave it at that. Announcer: And you really didn’t escape from there? Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Broke out of a lot of crazy joints in my time, but that one ain’t one of ‘em—but I am going to be breaking in! Now, go ahead and restart your broadcast. Announcer: Ahh—We now return you to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress.
[Be here tomorrow for EPISODESEVENTEEN: “Well, Hello! Tall, Dark and Feral!” the next thrilling installment of The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour!]
Jack: Let’s not start a discussion on religion, Carole. You asked me what Fenrisulfr wrote. He said he was in the Old Norse religion for a long time. I don’t know what he’s into now—and I wouldn’t even care if he worshipped a One-eyed, One-horned, Flying, Purple, People-eater. Carole: But it’s weird, Jack. Jack: Not as weird as if he was really reading our minds—as you seem to think he was. Carole: Well, he came up with the same name for that one character, that we did—but we never wrote her name down anywhere. How could he have known about it? Jack: Coincidence, Carole—it’s not that big a stretch. Carole: I’m not convinced. What else do we know about him? Jack: Well—he likes redheads. Remember that line you wrote, back on June 5th, when Wonmug said that Warp Drive was impossible? She answered him, “After all, aren’t you the one who believes man co-existed with dinosaurs and that man can travel through time, even though everyone else knows those things to be impossible?!” Fenrisulfr must have liked that line, because he commented: “I like her reply [but then, I’m partial to redheads—green eyes, too!]. Take that, you dinosaurs-and-man-didn’t-coexist Laputans!” Carole: Laputans? Jack: I think he must have meant Luddites, but that doesn’t make sense, either. Laputans? La Putans? Carole: Oh, that’s disgusting! He’s calling them whores? Jack: I’ll see if I can find something else. Hmmm, some readers are saying you don’t do your homework very well. Carole: Jack, I did a lot research for the Earth Two storyline. Jack: Well, I’m going to quote you: you have Missy Control saying, “Without warp speed a trip to Earth 2 could take up to a year! With it, they’ll be there next week.” But wilorg replied… Carole: Who’s wilorg? Jack:Jack: A poster on June 8th. Carole, it’s just one more weird name—get used to it. This is the Internet. Anyway, he commented: “Or a few hours, depending on how much “faster than light” you are going, and the real distance between the two planets – say that earth2 is in the exact same orbit as earth 1, but on the far side of the sun – which actually was a film made back in the 70’s, BTW (Journey to Far Side of the Sun) – so we know that it take 8 minutes for the light of the Sun to reach the earth, and the same then for earth two, so sixteen minutes – however, you can’t fly directly there, you have to go around the sun, and you don’t want to go too close to the sun, for various reasons, so let’s say you take a point further along the Earth orbital path, let’s call that another 8 minutes, then stop and tack towards the new earth – well what do you know, still under an hour…” In other words, Carole—I don’t think you can count watching the first three seasons of Star Trek as legitimate research on Warp Drives.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Haw! Haw! Haw! Who are these two idiots? Announcer: They’re Jack and Carole Bender, stars of the Jack and Carole Adventure Hour. Actually, He Didn’t Escape: You make a Radio Show about them? How much do you pay’em? Announcer: Well, actually they’re not being paid. But He Is Still Extremely Dangerous: [Hcch, hcch, hcch] Doing it for free? Told you they were idiots! Announcer: Well, actually they don’t know they’re on the air. And He Didn’t Escape—Because He Was Never Incarcerated: Wait—I get it—you snuck into their house and put in bugs and hidden cameras! Announcer: Well, Jack and Carole are pretty popular people—but they’re also pretty private people, so if we were going to do a show about them—well, we really had no other choice. Not Because He Was Incarcerated, And Couldn’t Escape: Yeah—well, how would you feel if somebody was spying on you when you’re takin’ a dump? Announcer: You don’t know my boss! If I lose this job I’m done for! In Fact, There’s Probably Very Little He Couldn’t Escape From:Done for? How’s that? Announcer: I’m—I’m in the Witness Protection Program. If I lose this job, my real name goes out to the wrong people, and—Skrrrt! If He Had To Escape, I Mean: Well, Hell—I can’t let that happen to ya. I gotta take ya with me! Announcer: What!?! If He Didn’t Have To Escape, Then Of Course, The Issue Never Comes Up: Hell—you been a real sport, about your Radio Station being hijacked, and all. I figure I oughta return the favor! Let’s go! Announcer: Wait—how are you thinking of getting us out of here? I’m Just Saying If He Did: Through the window, of course—same way I got in! Don’t have to deal with that Guard in the Lobby, that way. Announcer: But—we’re ten stories up—and there isn’t a Fire-Escape! How’d you get up here? He’d Be Able To: How d’ya think I got up here? I climbed! And that’s just how we’re going to get back down! Jesse: Jason—what’s going on with that Police Bulletin—whooah! Who’s your friend! Announcer [Who Will Henceforth Be Known As Jason]: Well, actually, I never caught his name. Jesse: Well, hello! Tall, dark and feral!
[Be here tomorrow for EPISODEEIGHTEEN: “Let You Go?—Well, If You Insist!” the next thrilling installment of The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour!]
Thank You, THANKYOU, Fenrisulfr! for my first real laugh out loud for the day! I can’t stand it! My sides hurt! My hip hurts ‘cause I hit the floor so hard! hee hee hee! (snork!) . per Larry’s comic: Famous last words: It’ll never happen to me! I do it this way all the time! and now; Mr Kluco, leave the science of it to me!
NightGaunt, I love all the references that will be used later, starburst with the eye, new club, etc. You do very well with the written visuals with the Thai soldiers and vehicle descriptions and all, and I’m enjoying your strip very much! Please keep up the great work!
Good Morning Benders and all. I am agreeing Guz is not acting kingly at all Guz’s position as King (or Chief) of tribe is based on his ability to lead his people. If he loses this, he rapidly loses the right to be the leader.
Thank YOU, Teresa! I’m going to try to keep it going way over the top. I tend toward doing serious story lines, but I’m fascinated by another, all too rare type of story, a type I call, "Gunga Din—Ghostbuster!”. Both the 1984 Ghostbusters and the 1939 Gunga Din have basically serious story lines—but tell their tales with generous helpings of humor. Too often a story is locked into one genre [to the exclusion of all others]; I think I like this approach because it’s the closest to life. Life is, at heart, a very serious story line—but it can often have loads of over the top humor—[sometimes that’s the only thing that makes it bearable]. Guess that’s what I’m going to be trying for.
Thanks for the historical notes. Comics Revue is up to 3/4/1939 so is just about to the point of the first time travel story. Can’t wait as I haven’t read it yet.
Thank you so much, sir. I’m in a bit of a quandary, though. I’m trying to make my humor rise to the level of the subject of Monty Python’s World’s Deadliest Joke. Of course, if I do manage to succeed—well, you see the problem. I want to be “painfully” funny—but not that painfully!
Alley Oop is the classic caveman comic strip revolving around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine.
Agnes by Tony Cochran
Andertoons by Mark Anderson
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 14 “Dark Trail of Doom”(12) 6/23/12
Panel One
Alley had lost his new ax in all the excitement at the battle of Delox tower 40 (more) years in the future but this club should really smash well. Alley notices that on some of the DOD grade lap tops have a very familiar symbol on them. A star burst with an eye in the middle of it, just like the League of Super Heroes uses—-will use it one day. They are getting final landing instructions to touch down at U-Tapao RTNB that the US uses with the Thai military as part of the more recent DoD “forward Positioning” strategy.
Panel Two
They drove off in their APC to rain and cutting wind but in the quiet of the armored vehicle it was lost in the sound of the powerful motor turning those eight wheels at 50 mph down the dark highway. Behind them are a detachment of Royal Thai Regulars to back them up in this operation. (The first time a sufficient force has gathered go meet the elusive robbers.)
Panel Three
Alley is sleeping, taking a cat nap with his club firmly in hand sitting up. He can wake up fully alert in a moment. (Must be part of the things he needs to be able to do to survive in his dinosaur infested land.) He fills out one of the larger battle suits really well. Lots of muscle. Will be approaching the target ETA in exactly 9 minutes. Then we will see what we will see, Chet thought to himself.
Wootietoot said, 11 months ago
For those who are interested, in the September 9, 1938 strip, Foozy and Zel were having a romantic evening looking at the moon. He said something romantic in rhyme to Zel, she said that was so sweet and asked him to say something else. He got tongue tied and was unable from that point on to say anything in rhyme for quite a spell.
Wootietoot said, 11 months ago
And a historical note: Foozy was still not rhyming when on April 6, 1939, the final panel had a note from Hamlin that read: Dear Reader: you must now say goodbye to Moo…if you are to follow Alley Oop in this strangest of many strange adventures. The next panel switched to Dr. Wonmug’s lab and the time travel began!.
FENRISULFR said, 11 months ago
EPISODE SIXTEEN
“The Plot Thickens—Stir Gently [not Urgently]”
Carole: Jack—we never called the Flight Controller a name. We called her, “Missy Control,” just as a joke! How could Fenrisulfr have found out about that?
Jack: I’m not so sure he did find out. There’s no reason two people can’t come up with the same joke.
Carole: No! There’s something creepy about this. Read that stuff he wrote about his name, again.
Jack: Hmm…okay. This from June 3, 2011: “FENRISULFR…Fenris Wolf…eldest son of Loki…The Gods…tricked the Wolf…bound him with…magic rope…Final Battle…Wolf breaks loose…devours chief God Odin…I was of the Norse, Asatru faith…the Wolf—Enemy of the Gods…fascinated me.”
Carole: That is really creepy. Why would someone want to identify with something like that? And what’s the Norse Asatru faith?
Jack: Well, this is what I got—“Germanic Neo-paganism” Adherents having faith in a number of gods and goddesses. Ásatrú is the modern rebirth of the pre-Christian indigenous faith of the ancestors of the Norwegians, Danes, Swedes.
Carole: There’s a whole bunch of them? What’s the matter with these people? What’s wrong with that Old Time Religion?
Jack: Well, if they were Pre-Christian, it looks like they already were that Old Time Religeon. Really, really Old Time Religion!
Carole: Is that even legal?
Jack: Carole, this is America. We have freedom of Religion. That’s what the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution.
Carole: But they were all Christians. They were just talking about the freedom to be Methodist, or Presbyterian, or Episcopalian—not the freedom to sacrifice goats to Molech!
Announcer: We interrupt this Program with an Emergency Bulletin. The Tulsa Police Department has announced that a dangerous individual has escaped from the Wolf Creek Internment and Treatment Facility for the Criminally Hysterical, and is known to be at large in the Greater Tulsa Metropolitan Area. This individual is known to be extremely dangerous. The public is warned to stay in their homes and alert the Authorities if this individual is sighted. The escaped individual is said to be over six feet tall but appears to be much shorter due to a habit of crouching, and loping like a wolf, and is said to be “built like a brick…uh…house. Civilians are warned not to approach or engage this individual under ANY circumstances!”
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: You shut the mike off? You stopped broadcasting like I asked?
Announcer: Just like you asked. Broadcast the message and switch the mike off.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: That’s great, wouldn’t want anybody to find out what I’m up to, until—well, actually, wouldn’t want anybody to find out what I’m up to. Thanks, pardner—you’ve been a great help!
Announcer: Well it’s not like I had a choice. It was either that or get hit in the head by that sledgehammer of yours.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: What—this? Ahh, I wouldn’t have hurt ya. I was just bluffin’ so you’d do what I asked with no fuss. I ain’t never hurt nobody what didn’t try to hurt me first.
Announcer: You do realize I’m going to be in serious trouble because of you. When the cops find out I made that phony broadcast, I’m going to get thrown in jail—the Station’s going to can me for sure.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Ah, I just hadda make sure that nobody’s gonna be where I’m gonna be. If they’re all looking for me in Downtown Tulsa—they’ll stay away from the outskirts of town—which is where I’m going ta be.
Announcer: So you didn’t really escape from that place?
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Do I look like a dangerous, escaped maniac, to you?—don’t answer that question!
Announcer: “Wolf Creek Internment and Treatment Facility for the Criminally Hysterical”—I’ve never even heard of that place—and I’ve lived here all my life.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Well, there’s a lot of things you don’t hear about—‘cause your Government don’t want you to hear about ‘em. They got a vested interest in keepin’ some things real quiet—and the last thing they want, is for people like you to know what’s really going on.
Announcer: So what do they keep there—if you don’t mind my asking? [Unless, of course, you’ve gotta kill me once you tell me—in which case, never mind!]
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Put your mind at ease—I ain’t going ta kill ya. I’m one of the good guys! Let’s just say…they got a bunch of real high profile criminals that they can’t keep nowhere else—and leave it at that.
Announcer: And you really didn’t escape from there?
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Broke out of a lot of crazy joints in my time, but that one ain’t one of ‘em—but I am going to be breaking in! Now, go ahead and restart your broadcast.
Announcer: Ahh—We now return you to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress.
[Be here tomorrow for EPISODE SEVENTEEN: “Well, Hello! Tall, Dark and Feral!” the next thrilling installment of The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour!]
FENRISULFR said, 11 months ago
EPISODE SEVENTEEN
“ Well, Hello! Tall, Dark and Feral!”
Jack: Let’s not start a discussion on religion, Carole. You asked me what Fenrisulfr wrote. He said he was in the Old Norse religion for a long time. I don’t know what he’s into now—and I wouldn’t even care if he worshipped a One-eyed, One-horned, Flying, Purple, People-eater.
Carole: But it’s weird, Jack.
Jack: Not as weird as if he was really reading our minds—as you seem to think he was.
Carole: Well, he came up with the same name for that one character, that we did—but we never wrote her name down anywhere. How could he have known about it?
Jack: Coincidence, Carole—it’s not that big a stretch.
Carole: I’m not convinced. What else do we know about him?
Jack: Well—he likes redheads. Remember that line you wrote, back on June 5th, when Wonmug said that Warp Drive was impossible? She answered him, “After all, aren’t you the one who believes man co-existed with dinosaurs and that man can travel through time, even though everyone else knows those things to be impossible?!”
Fenrisulfr must have liked that line, because he commented: “I like her reply [but then, I’m partial to redheads—green eyes, too!]. Take that, you dinosaurs-and-man-didn’t-coexist Laputans!”
Carole: Laputans?
Jack: I think he must have meant Luddites, but that doesn’t make sense, either. Laputans? La Putans?
Carole: Oh, that’s disgusting! He’s calling them whores?
Jack: I’ll see if I can find something else. Hmmm, some readers are saying you don’t do your homework very well.
Carole: Jack, I did a lot research for the Earth Two storyline.
Jack: Well, I’m going to quote you: you have Missy Control saying, “Without warp speed a trip to Earth 2 could take up to a year! With it, they’ll be there next week.” But wilorg replied…
Carole: Who’s wilorg?
Jack:Jack: A poster on June 8th. Carole, it’s just one more weird name—get used to it. This is the Internet. Anyway, he commented: “Or a few hours, depending on how much “faster than light” you are going, and the real distance between the two planets – say that earth2 is in the exact same orbit as earth 1, but on the far side of the sun – which actually was a film made back in the 70’s, BTW (Journey to Far Side of the Sun) – so we know that it take 8 minutes for the light of the Sun to reach the earth, and the same then for earth two, so sixteen minutes – however, you can’t fly directly there, you have to go around the sun, and you don’t want to go too close to the sun, for various reasons, so let’s say you take a point further along the Earth orbital path, let’s call that another 8 minutes, then stop and tack towards the new earth – well what do you know, still under an hour…” In other words, Carole—I don’t think you can count watching the first three seasons of Star Trek as legitimate research on Warp Drives.
Extremely Dangerous Escaped Individual: Haw! Haw! Haw! Who are these two idiots?
Announcer: They’re Jack and Carole Bender, stars of the Jack and Carole Adventure Hour.
Actually, He Didn’t Escape: You make a Radio Show about them? How much do you pay’em?
Announcer: Well, actually they’re not being paid.
But He Is Still Extremely Dangerous: [Hcch, hcch, hcch] Doing it for free? Told you they were idiots!
Announcer: Well, actually they don’t know they’re on the air.
And He Didn’t Escape—Because He Was Never Incarcerated: Wait—I get it—you snuck into their house and put in bugs and hidden cameras!
Announcer: Well, Jack and Carole are pretty popular people—but they’re also pretty private people, so if we were going to do a show about them—well, we really had no other choice.
Not Because He Was Incarcerated, And Couldn’t Escape: Yeah—well, how would you feel if somebody was spying on you when you’re takin’ a dump?
Announcer: You don’t know my boss! If I lose this job I’m done for!
In Fact, There’s Probably Very Little He Couldn’t Escape From: Done for? How’s that?
Announcer: I’m—I’m in the Witness Protection Program. If I lose this job, my real name goes out to the wrong people, and—Skrrrt!
If He Had To Escape, I Mean: Well, Hell—I can’t let that happen to ya. I gotta take ya with me!
Announcer: What!?!
If He Didn’t Have To Escape, Then Of Course, The Issue Never Comes Up: Hell—you been a real sport, about your Radio Station being hijacked, and all. I figure I oughta return the favor! Let’s go!
Announcer: Wait—how are you thinking of getting us out of here?
I’m Just Saying If He Did: Through the window, of course—same way I got in! Don’t have to deal with that Guard in the Lobby, that way.
Announcer: But—we’re ten stories up—and there isn’t a Fire-Escape! How’d you get up here?
He’d Be Able To: How d’ya think I got up here? I climbed! And that’s just how we’re going to get back down!
Jesse: Jason—what’s going on with that Police Bulletin—whooah! Who’s your friend!
Announcer [Who Will Henceforth Be Known As Jason]: Well, actually, I never caught his name.
Jesse: Well, hello! Tall, dark and feral!
[Be here tomorrow for EPISODE EIGHTEEN: “Let You Go?—Well, If You Insist!” the next thrilling installment of The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour!]
Teresa said, 11 months ago
Thank You, THANK YOU, Fenrisulfr! for my first real laugh out loud for the day! I can’t stand it! My sides hurt! My hip hurts ‘cause I hit the floor so hard! hee hee hee! (snork!)
.
per Larry’s comic: Famous last words: It’ll never happen to me! I do it this way all the time! and now; Mr Kluco, leave the science of it to me!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
@FENRISULFR
I see the comedy level of this story is reaching critical painful funny! I love it! A story within a story.
Teresa said, 11 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
NightGaunt, I love all the references that will be used later, starburst with the eye, new club, etc. You do very well with the written visuals with the Thai soldiers and vehicle descriptions and all, and I’m enjoying your strip very much! Please keep up the great work!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
@Teresa
Thank you and I sweat bullets with each page I produce.
Keeper 98 said, 11 months ago
Some king. Have aliens destroyed Guz mind? Turned him into a whimpy wuss?
firebrand1 said, 11 months ago
Good Morning Benders and all. I am agreeing Guz is not acting kingly at all Guz’s position as King (or Chief) of tribe
is based on his ability to lead his people. If he loses this,
he rapidly loses the right to be the leader.
FENRISULFR said, 11 months ago
@Teresa
Thank YOU, Teresa! I’m going to try to keep it going way over the top. I tend toward doing serious story lines, but I’m fascinated by another, all too rare type of story, a type I call, "Gunga Din—Ghostbuster!”. Both the 1984 Ghostbusters and the 1939 Gunga Din have basically serious story lines—but tell their tales with generous helpings of humor. Too often a story is locked into one genre [to the exclusion of all others]; I think I like this approach because it’s the closest to life. Life is, at heart, a very serious story line—but it can often have loads of over the top humor—[sometimes that’s the only thing that makes it bearable]. Guess that’s what I’m going to be trying for.
Unca Scrooge said, 11 months ago
@Wootietoot
Thanks for the historical notes. Comics Revue is up to 3/4/1939 so is just about to the point of the first time travel story. Can’t wait as I haven’t read it yet.
Unca Scrooge said, 11 months ago
@firebrand1
I’m curious why you always say good morning to the Benders. No evidence at all that they read these comments.
FENRISULFR said, 11 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Thank you so much, sir. I’m in a bit of a quandary, though. I’m trying to make my humor rise to the level of the subject of Monty Python’s World’s Deadliest Joke. Of course, if I do manage to succeed—well, you see the problem. I want to be “painfully” funny—but not that painfully!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM