Well, Lyssa does have the most experience in dealing with The Dread Pirate Queen Eleanor. If she says a bulletproof vest won’t work, then…
It’s nice to see almost the whole gang together!
Coming next week-Dread Pirate Queen Eleanor and someone gets… um, it could be very serious. You’ll see.
I’m distracted from the actual plot by all those things and wanting to know what they are and what they DO! Caliban is maybe getting a drop of something on his tongue from one, and holding what looks kinda like a music box, and there’s a sort of Minion-shaped something, and a robot’s shoulder, and maybe the prow of a rowboat all covered with maybe dials?
And where IS the hexapedal monstrosity? I don’t actually see him, which all by itself is a danger signal.
Oh dear. I’m afraid my art wasn’t as clear as I meant it to be.
Caliban’s holding a doughnut in his mouth in the second panel, and the hexapedal monstrosity’s reaching out from his pet carrier. The music box is supposed to be a doughnut box, and said monstrosity is stealing doughnuts from it.?
The other strange things are stuff people are working on in Building 7. But the rowboat thing-I bet some of you recognize it! Any guesses?
Oh.
Oh, I see. OK. Donuts make sense of it all.
And I figured most of the stuff was just reg’lar ol’ Building 7 stuff. If I had time today I’d go looking for the rowboatish thing. Hope others will recognize it and clue me in.
But…. Wouldn’t any pet carrier opening large enough for Robespierre to reach through also be large enough for him to escape through? Or is our favorite hexapod not like other cephalopods in that respect?
That’s a very good question, Pops. Could Robespierre slither through spaces that only a cephalopod could manage? Under closed doors, etc.?
I’ve thought of him as being a little more solid than that. Those great big soulful eyes just wouldn’t compress enough.
But, given the right incentive… say, if there was a box of doughnuts, or some fireworks and matches, left unattended in another room behind a locked door…
And I’ll give it away-that rowboat thing is Tom Swift’s Subocean Geotron. It’s no secret that the Tom Swift Jr. series is a huge influence on Groovy, Kinda. I’ve still got my almost complete set, and some of his inventions may show up from time to time.
Ah, I never saw the Tom Swift (Sr. or Jr.) series. They certainly weren’t in my school library, and probably weren’t in my (small, suburban) public library. None of the other kids mentioned them or I might have gone looking.
I discovered Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Playboy magazine through my older brother.
Two have had a big influence on Groovy, Kinda. The Hardy Boys, not so much.
I’vertead about fifteen of the Tom Swifr Jr. books. I was pretty pleased with that until i found out that there were thirty-three in that series alone. 🙂
The Subocean Geotron isn’t familiar to me, so it is apearenty in one of the ones I missed.
Heh, Chow Winkler–now I see where Larry got his fashion sense. ^^
Subocean Geotron is book 27 of the 33. It was one of my favorites.
Ah, Chow Winkler. Now there’s a colorful character. “Brand my space biscuits!” I may have to re-read Repelatron Express. I seem to remember him playing a big part in that. Plus, you know, dinosaurs.
Also, I just learned that most of the Tom Swift Sr. stories were written by Howard “Uncle Wiggly” Garis!
That second panel had me doing the head scratch too. Thanks for ‘splainin’. 🙂
Hey Gweedo!
No problem. Side views can be confusing, especially with li’l hexapods in Critter Carriers.
Robie and Calliban teasing each other is the cutest thing I’ve seen all week.
Thank you. Sometimes I just put those two together to brighten everyone’s day.
Now I want to do A Day With Robie and Caliban. Of course it would end with someone’s house burning down…