And it’s an exciting new installment of “WTF is Going on Here?” Let me elucidate.
In the first panel we have the circle guy popping a hatch, where we see a little ledge running out to a Jell-O mould sitting on what looks like the exterior hull. The circle dude sticks his enemy’s severed head out through the airlock. Perhaps this is to make us momentarily believe there is another, anguished-looking, human on the ship, because I can’t see any strategic benefit for the circle dude. If he’s checking to see if anyone is going to shoot at him/belch on him, he should be holding up something that could be mistaken for one of his own race. The circle guy steps through the hatch. It made a hissing noise when opened, and the background looks kind of outer-spacey so at first I thought it was an airlock, but circle dude is not wearing a spacesuit, and the eyeballs do not explode in the severed head, so either Total Recall lied to me or they are not outside the ship.
Actually, come to think of it, we never established that they are in space at all, and not just in the upper atmosphere of some odd planet. There are clouds. Who has clouds in space? To my credit a lot of space-art has clouds, but I should have realized WTFiGoH had higher standards than that. So yeah, they’re on the outside of some building.
The circle guy has visually established the health of a ship, either off panel, or that jello mould thing. Hey, the circle guy has no eyeballs. Perhaps he has different vision biology, or perhaps he is using the severed head to see!
Next he implies that the ship is a living being, but it could be just metaphorical. Interesting that the ship is inspected from the outside, but woken from the inside.
And finally we have the required trope to establish that the circle guys are bad and not just misunderstood or different: they are abandoning an animal to its fate. Unless of course they have some reason to believe it will be well-cared for, or able to look after itself where it is.
I guess Descender guy is going to acquire a new pet.
In my quest to understand the evils of the animal kingdom, I have highlighted some of my favorite passages from Charles Darwin’s delightful Voyage of the Beagle (sounds like a Benji movie):
“…when pressed in winter by hunger, they kill and devour their old women before they kill their dogs: the boy, being asked by Mr. Low why they did this, answered, ‘Doggies catch otters, old women no.’ ”
“This is a dark picture; but how much more shocking is the unquestionable fact, that all the women who appear above twenty years old are massacred in cold blood! When I explained that this appeared rather inhuman, he answered, ‘Why, what can be done? They breed so!’”
“Many of the remedies used by the people of the country are ludicrously strange, but too disgusting to be mentioned. One of the least nasty is to kill and cut open two puppies and bind them on each side of a broken limb. Little hairless dogs are in great request to -”
I’ll let you in on the acronym: Atmospheric Ionization Regulator.
As for the circular tentacle aliens, I’ll suggest that knife-scar guy might just be a dumb jerk, and that the guy with the severed head has some special abilities. Check out the arrangement of his tentacles, compared to the others.
Well, at least the belcher looks happy now.
I think the circle guys need to chill out for a second: It’s not like the Descender is going anywhere right now.
And it’s an exciting new installment of “WTF is Going on Here?” Let me elucidate.
In the first panel we have the circle guy popping a hatch, where we see a little ledge running out to a Jell-O mould sitting on what looks like the exterior hull. The circle dude sticks his enemy’s severed head out through the airlock. Perhaps this is to make us momentarily believe there is another, anguished-looking, human on the ship, because I can’t see any strategic benefit for the circle dude. If he’s checking to see if anyone is going to shoot at him/belch on him, he should be holding up something that could be mistaken for one of his own race. The circle guy steps through the hatch. It made a hissing noise when opened, and the background looks kind of outer-spacey so at first I thought it was an airlock, but circle dude is not wearing a spacesuit, and the eyeballs do not explode in the severed head, so either Total Recall lied to me or they are not outside the ship.
Actually, come to think of it, we never established that they are in space at all, and not just in the upper atmosphere of some odd planet. There are clouds. Who has clouds in space? To my credit a lot of space-art has clouds, but I should have realized WTFiGoH had higher standards than that. So yeah, they’re on the outside of some building.
The circle guy has visually established the health of a ship, either off panel, or that jello mould thing. Hey, the circle guy has no eyeballs. Perhaps he has different vision biology, or perhaps he is using the severed head to see!
Next he implies that the ship is a living being, but it could be just metaphorical. Interesting that the ship is inspected from the outside, but woken from the inside.
And finally we have the required trope to establish that the circle guys are bad and not just misunderstood or different: they are abandoning an animal to its fate. Unless of course they have some reason to believe it will be well-cared for, or able to look after itself where it is.
I guess Descender guy is going to acquire a new pet.
That’s all I got. Anyone else?
In my quest to understand the evils of the animal kingdom, I have highlighted some of my favorite passages from Charles Darwin’s delightful Voyage of the Beagle (sounds like a Benji movie):
“…when pressed in winter by hunger, they kill and devour their old women before they kill their dogs: the boy, being asked by Mr. Low why they did this, answered, ‘Doggies catch otters, old women no.’ ”
“This is a dark picture; but how much more shocking is the unquestionable fact, that all the women who appear above twenty years old are massacred in cold blood! When I explained that this appeared rather inhuman, he answered, ‘Why, what can be done? They breed so!’”
“Many of the remedies used by the people of the country are ludicrously strange, but too disgusting to be mentioned. One of the least nasty is to kill and cut open two puppies and bind them on each side of a broken limb. Little hairless dogs are in great request to -”
Stop! STOP! Staawwwp! (blubbering) Mike, say it ain’t so! That’s not how people really are, is it, Mike?!
Um… Of course not, Servo. There there. Everyone knows that Darwin made it all up to sell more books. He was the Stephen King of his time.
Me: Re; the look of the ships in this comic. One word: “Paleozoicpunk”
Also, remember this strip? http://riotfish.com/2008/05/29/stuck/
“A.I.R. Shield”
I’ll let you in on the acronym: Atmospheric Ionization Regulator.
As for the circular tentacle aliens, I’ll suggest that knife-scar guy might just be a dumb jerk, and that the guy with the severed head has some special abilities. Check out the arrangement of his tentacles, compared to the others.
Well, at least the belcher looks happy now.
I think the circle guys need to chill out for a second: It’s not like the Descender is going anywhere right now.
I like where this is going.
Hehe. The comments or the comic strip?
Both, really. The each have interesting plots.