Actually, wouldn’t the relativistic speeds cause the twin to turn into a shorter and wider version of Sweetheart, not just younger? It’s been awhile since I brushed up on my Einsteinian physics (an unpardonable offense, I know).
Assuming you were traveling inside a vessel that could handle such speeds, I don’t think your shape would change significantly. And if you weren’t inside such a vessel, your sudden and unpleasant demise would kinda make anything else irrelevant.
You just have to watch how far you travel, or you might return 1,500 years later instead of 15.
Shorter, wider, and more massive, but only from the viewpoint of the non-accelerated frame. Once clone-sweetheart decelerates to zero relative velocity, she’ll return to normal from the POV of the terrestrial observer.
I have a hunch that the question was in reference to the flashback in panel four, not Sweetheart’s overall appearance. Smaller ears, smaller paws, fluffier forelocks. She also made Buddy’s forelocks different.
I never noticed until now, but Tip’s hair has steadily been getting filthier looking. When they arrived on the Habakkuk, his hair was almost the same shade of blond as Unity’s.
Come to my shelter,
Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
Come to my shelter.
We will roam soon.
We will file and number,
I will treat you as a pet.
I will worship at my shrine.
You won’t work up a sweat.
You can’t know how far I’d go
To please this risque take.
You can’t know how underactive.
Or whether I can fake,
Just to teach you,
Just to teach you,
Oh, to teach you.
Come to my shelter,
Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
Come to my shelter.
We will roam soon.
Priorities, Sweetheart. Humanitarian effort first, relationship waffling later.
Does the Melissa Etheridge shrine include that Applebee’s commercial with her song?
Looks like I get to be the first to piont out that his spot switches eyes in the third panel.
Chalk it up to active camouflage.
To you I reply in the spirit of Marty Feldman: “What hump?”
How on Earth did she draw Sweetheart to look younger?
Genius at work, I guess…
It’s pretty simple. In many mammals, juveniles have big heads in proportion to the body, and big eyes proportional to the rest of the head.
In Sweetheart’s case, smaller ears, a smaller jaw, eyes a little closer together, a smaller body with stubbier proportions, et cetera.
It’s easy. Heavy makeup, CGI, and a secret twin sent into space at relativistic speeds.
If you could manage the secret twin part of that (or a clone, whatever), you wouldn’t have to bother with the makeup or CGI.
Somewhere, Helen B. Narbon just had an inexplicable urge to do an evil laugh.
Actually, wouldn’t the relativistic speeds cause the twin to turn into a shorter and wider version of Sweetheart, not just younger? It’s been awhile since I brushed up on my Einsteinian physics (an unpardonable offense, I know).
Assuming you were traveling inside a vessel that could handle such speeds, I don’t think your shape would change significantly. And if you weren’t inside such a vessel, your sudden and unpleasant demise would kinda make anything else irrelevant.
You just have to watch how far you travel, or you might return 1,500 years later instead of 15.
Shorter, wider, and more massive, but only from the viewpoint of the non-accelerated frame. Once clone-sweetheart decelerates to zero relative velocity, she’ll return to normal from the POV of the terrestrial observer.
Mammals often look younger when they fall in love, so Sweetheart getting very happy makes her appearance better.
I prefer my “Shaenon’s a genius!” theory, but thanks…
I have a hunch that the question was in reference to the flashback in panel four, not Sweetheart’s overall appearance. Smaller ears, smaller paws, fluffier forelocks. She also made Buddy’s forelocks different.
Y’all are all making it way too complicated; it’s simple. Seriously, what famous dog loved by millions *didn’t* have a personal stunt double?
Roll tide?
I never noticed until now, but Tip’s hair has steadily been getting filthier looking. When they arrived on the Habakkuk, his hair was almost the same shade of blond as Unity’s.
Either that or he’s been a dyed blond from the start and he hasn’t been keeping it up since his depression kicked in.
Apparently Sweetheart was the last to know.
Wait, I like Melissa Ethridge and I’m not a lesbian! Oh, wait, sorry, wrong Melissa – it’s the Manchester one that I like. Hmm…”Man-Chester”….
About that…
And sweetheart will probably explain that away as “I just thought I was into humans!”
Come to my shelter,
Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
Come to my shelter.
We will roam soon.
We will file and number,
I will treat you as a pet.
I will worship at my shrine.
You won’t work up a sweat.
You can’t know how far I’d go
To please this risque take.
You can’t know how underactive.
Or whether I can fake,
Just to teach you,
Just to teach you,
Oh, to teach you.
Come to my shelter,
Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
Come to my shelter.
We will roam soon.
—Melissa Etheridge.
[slow clapping]
Keep it slow, ’cause I don’t think that much of this effort this week.
No, that was a really really good one.
I got kind of stuck on that song at one point, and this fits it perfectly.
Well, this was the only Melissa Etheridge song I even knew *remotely.* Not my generation. So my rendition is bound to be off some.
**waves a Zippo slowly through the air in time to the music**
There’s an app for that 🙂