Holy Jumpin’ Catfish, they’ve opened a doorway to another reality! But what kind? What do they see? What will they see?
Ah, that would be telling. Can you guess?
Here’s a hint: It is exactly what Simon thinks it is.
No idea? Well, you’ll find out next time! I think it’s safe to say you’ll be surprised…
You’d think after all that they wouldn’t keep Robie in the same room as the machine while it’s on. Well, at least he didn’t disintegrate this time.
Is that a turkey on the roof, among the other birds, that is? Or is it a rooster with some especially impressive tail feathers?
I almost drew a comic where Simon suggested that they leave Robespierre in the control room with him. Stephanie’s expression was similar to this.
He may be socially inept, but Simon, like Larry, is a good engineer. And Larry raised the power levels gradually again.
Yes, that’s a turkey. He’s based off Macaroni, a turkey that’s been in my family for many years. He waddles around the yard, protecting his flock of chickens from hawks and bald eagles and other predators (he thinks).
Every time there’s a loud noise he has to gobble-gobble in reply.
Cliff-hanger…
Dunh-duhn-duuuunh..!
The only times I’m truly surprised at this comic anymore is when the reveal doesn’t surprise me.
I;m not quite sure what the turkey signifies, but the “Harbingers of Hilarity” chickens seem rather numerous. The wackiest thing I can think of is that they’re seeing themselves/i>. 🙂
Very perspicacious of you, Delta-v. The chickens could very well be the “Harbingers of Hilarity,” that they usually are.
To tell you the truth, I wanted a roof view for that panel (don’t know why, it just felt right) and I thought that Sampson Enterprises would have solar panels. Well, solar panels are boring to draw, while chickens are not.
But I think it’s safe to say that something silly might happen in the next few strips.
Seeing themselves opens up so many possibilities. I’m thinking of the Star Trek episodes with the Evil Enterprise crew. Larry with a goatee? Hmmm…
Whichever way you go with it, Charlie, we can count on you to do a better job than those hacks that Roddenberry got stuck with the last two seasons. 🙂
You never know. They could use the discombobulationotron to go to the Roman World, or the Wild West World, or the Third Reich from the Sun world…
Given that it’s ELEANOR, that rifle worries me, actually. Especially if they find Vickie. That was not a loving expression on her face when Eleanor shoved her sister into the Discombobulationotron.
Those shadows sure are indistinct, there, Charlie… Why does one of them put me in mind of Santa’s elfs? (I wanna write “elves,” but I understand that word was actually invented by Tolkein to differentiate HIS elves from what the rest of the world meant when they wrote about elfs.) (Also his dwarves aren’t dwarfs.)
I didn’t know that about Tolkein, and I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan. Thank you for that, Tru.
Santa’s elf? You’ve got a good eye-you’ll see very soon.
Yeah, who knows how Vickie feels about her, ah, “vacation?”
And we all know how Eleanor feels about guns. But, who knows what might make its way through the discombobulationotron? They’re taking a terrible risk. What if it was a zombie? Eleanor just wants to be prepared for any emergency…
When Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring was ramping up for theatrical release, I went a little bit nuts on Tolkein stuff. I even went so far as to buy a National Geographic Special DVD all about Tolkein and LoTR – which is, I think, where I got that bit of trivia.
I was about to go off on a two-page riff on all things Tolkein, but I decided to restrain myself and erased it. 🙂
You really need to visit my bookstore. I have the Christopher Enterprises “Wizards, Rings, Elves and Things” poster of “The Invisible Thief” hanging up right behind me at the register. Whenever we talk books, sooner or later it all comes back to Tolkien.
No, no, “elves” was the already-existing plural of “elf” — even stories written long before Tolkien, like “The Shoemaker and the Elves” fairy tale, used “elves”.
The word Tolkien invented was “dwarves”, as a parallel to “elves”. Before Tolkien, everyone used “dwarfs” as the plural of “dwarf”, as in Disney’s relatively well-known movie, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Tolkien, being a professor of linguistics, was like “Well, if elves is the plural of elf, and knives is the plural of knife, and loaves is the plural of loaf, why isn’t dwarves the plural of dwarf? Make it so!”
He probably also invented the adjectival form “dwarven” as a parallel to “elven”, but I don’t know that for certain.
The only author I’ve ever seen use “elfs” as the plural of “elf” is Steven Brust in his Vlad Taltos novels, and I’m pretty sure he does that to make the point that none of the people in that world are actually speaking English.
Oh at last! We’ll see what is on the other side! Oh, the suspense! I have been waiting to see how this pans out since this story arc began. What if it’s Victoria come back?! Or another robot like Stephanie? But I hope that it will be a good surprise for Eleanor, and not a bad surprise…I get the feeling that doing anything as a “surprise” for her typically ends badly.
I like Simon. I hope he sticks around a bit.
Well, it’s difficult to surprise Eleanor. Remember all the plans they made to control the discombobulationotron, only to have her checkmate everyone by revealing her brain tumor.
As a rule, surprises involving Eleanor rarely end up badly for her, and if they do, there’s always revenge.
Victoria? Another robot like Stephanie? That would involve going to her world.
Be careful what you wish for.
And I really like Simon too. Of course he’ll stick around!
Has anyone ever died prematurely in the Groovy, Kinda world?
OOOH! The excitement!
I loved the turkey and the hens!
You just gave me a very silly idea-what if they fired up the discombobulationotron and a giant war chicken poked its head in?
hi, it better be Vamp Victoria. Eleanor is down and is on the fast train to deadsville. Or, it could be Princess Chroma!!!.
Eeh, it is worth a shot.