Miffy’s back home, safe and sound!
Okay, that’s enough pudding for a while. Friday, we start to wrap up the evening with a visit to-well, you’ll see.
Oh, and the movie they’re watching in the beginning? Wild Galactic Beach War Party Bingo, of course.
Every day is improved by a “pets finding their way home” moving picture. Then again, in this universe the pet is probably a Venusian cat-girl.
Not sure which is my favorite — maybe The Three Lives of Thomasina, because it was so delightfully bizarre.
I was thinking of that lost cat movie that Miss Sakaki is watching in “Azumanga Daioh.”
There’s actually two sort of shout-outs to AD in this strip.
Venusian cat-girl…hmm…you know, with the discombobulationotron’s ability to open up alternate universes…and an Edgar Rice Burroughs Venus…
(Chants) Do it, do it, do it,….
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Venus, not the one from Disney’s “John Carter” universe, please. Why did they make that movie? Ugh
The discombobulationotron’s ability to transport people to what others believe are “fictional” universes makes me want to re-read Robert Heinlein’s “The Number of the Beast”. But if I do, I’ll be re-reading Heinlein for the rest of the year, since each one will make me want another.
To be fair, that was Mars, but still…
I loved the Carson of Venus series. The big cats had red and white stripes, running lengthwise. Well, I’m not promising anything, but you never know whom or what’ll show up.
Sorry, my previous post wasn’t as clear as I thought.
I thought I vaguely remembered John Carter or someone else from the Burroughs’ books going to Venus in a later adventure. And then I shuddered to think what the Disney “John Carter” team would do to that story.
I think for John Carter he also traveled to Saturn. In a actual space-ship that time, too.
Whoops, my mistake. Jupiter, not Saturn.
Heinlein is a bit like potato chips, can’t have just one. I usually start with “Friday”, then to “Number…” and off to the races! 😉
So, Goth-tarts became Mime-tarts that wouldn’t shut up?
Okay, hang on. For some reason I can’t upload the new strip. I’ll keep trying.
Apparently this happens about once a month.
Ohhhh, now I see. Makes more sense once I remembered the author has a link to Le Mime.
Looks like one is a predatory Mime-tart.
The Venus series starts with Carson Napier heading for Mars, but he forgot to adjust for the Moon’s gravity, and instead heads for Venus. He’s kind of a goof-up, which makes him a lot more interesting and fun than John Carter.
And hey! The new strip is up!
I enjoyed the Venus series a lot as a kid, but it wasn’t until years later that I realized the totalitarian “Zani” nation he encountered in one book was a fairly goofy parody of the Nazis. Zani was even an anagram of Nazi!