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Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 15 “House of the Worm”(74) 10/15/12
Panel One
Dr. Jones runs a simple search and comes up with the likely locations for “House of the Worm” and prints it out and gets it to Gen. Mann as fast as possible. Dexter hasn’t seen the General this way since Alley and Lola got lost on that alien planet for several days, months ago.
Panel Two
The final assembly is made then checks on the equipment and very soon they will all go hunting for things that go bump, grab and alter reality in the night.
Yes, I also recall Oop having a hand in a few historical things that might have changed history. In fact, just the fact that Oop and Oscar interacted with people in the past would have in itself been some sort of history change. Of course, we’re talking about a comic here, not real life. lol
Now we can see it if those two take those items forward to the future, but return to their past : OOP discovers rubber, and OOOLA plants the cocoa beans.
Interestingly, in all the years that Alley Oop has been time traveling, I can’t recall a single instance where either Hamlin or Graue dealt with the conventional time travel paradoxes usually encountered in science fiction.
For an entertaining book that really does an exhaustive exploration of all the paradoxes, try “To Say Nothing of the Dog,” by Connie Willis, She also wrote a somewhat darker one entitled “The Doomsday Book.” Both are very good.
Does time move, or do we move through it? And then there are possibilities, and then also probabilities. How would those affect events? If we do manage to “travel” to another point in time, would we lose control over that travel? Could or would there be unforeseen consequences with disastrous results?
Time as a condition of existence since time must be an element of it. It isn’t a separate condition.
In one of my stories I’m writing the time traveling Octopodes have little fear of changing their past since they go back so far they have come to the conclusion that any minor variant would be lost over the significant time. Right or wrong that is how they operate in their search for other intelligent species to meet. Like 235 million years in their past to our time.
David – I don’t remember them ever addressing that issue either. I think Hamlin always thought of “time travel” as a great adventure and a wonderful way to add interest to his strip. He sure made it work.
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, 8 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 15 “House of the Worm”(74) 10/15/12
Panel One
Dr. Jones runs a simple search and comes up with the likely locations for “House of the Worm” and prints it out and gets it to Gen. Mann as fast as possible. Dexter hasn’t seen the General this way since Alley and Lola got lost on that alien planet for several days, months ago.
Panel Two
The final assembly is made then checks on the equipment and very soon they will all go hunting for things that go bump, grab and alter reality in the night.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
No surprises today, except when did Wonmug care about moving things in time? Remember when he sent Alley for some R and R in 1857 Mississippi?
Rod Gonzalez said, 8 months ago
I assume Doc might have had second thoughts about the whole time travel souvenir thing at some point.
Wootietoot said, 8 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Yes, I also recall Oop having a hand in a few historical things that might have changed history. In fact, just the fact that Oop and Oscar interacted with people in the past would have in itself been some sort of history change. Of course, we’re talking about a comic here, not real life. lol
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
@Wootietoot
But recent events suggest that time travel is possible. For one thing the equations say time can go backwards just as easily.
Craig66 said, 8 months ago
Does time go?
Interesting notion.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
Craig66
Cause always precedes effect. Now if it was reversed it would be effect precedes cause.
Miles Hoffmann
said, 8 months ago
Now we can see it if those two take those items forward to the future, but return to their past : OOP discovers rubber, and OOOLA plants the cocoa beans.
Emile Schwarz said, 8 months ago
Time travel:
everything can be possible, but this one no.
Why ?
Very simple: we already saw time travellers…
Also, think at the religous troubles the time travels can lead on…
davidf42 said, 8 months ago
Interestingly, in all the years that Alley Oop has been time traveling, I can’t recall a single instance where either Hamlin or Graue dealt with the conventional time travel paradoxes usually encountered in science fiction.
Jack Straw said, 8 months ago
For an entertaining book that really does an exhaustive exploration of all the paradoxes, try “To Say Nothing of the Dog,” by Connie Willis, She also wrote a somewhat darker one entitled “The Doomsday Book.” Both are very good.
Justice22 said, 8 months ago
I may be old, but I don’t remember 1857 very well.
sjsczurek said, 8 months ago
Does time move, or do we move through it?
And then there are possibilities, and then also probabilities. How would those affect events?
If we do manage to “travel” to another point in time, would we lose control over that travel? Could or would there be unforeseen consequences with disastrous results?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
Time as a condition of existence since time must be an element of it. It isn’t a separate condition.
In one of my stories I’m writing the time traveling Octopodes have little fear of changing their past since they go back so far they have come to the conclusion that any minor variant would be lost over the significant time. Right or wrong that is how they operate in their search for other intelligent species to meet. Like 235 million years in their past to our time.
APersonOfInterest said, 8 months ago
@davidf42
David – I don’t remember them ever addressing that issue either. I think Hamlin always thought of “time travel” as a great adventure and a wonderful way to add interest to his strip. He sure made it work.