2014-09-01
For our final guest artist, I would like to present for your approval the remarkable Vincent Kukua, with a two-week storyline set in sunny Hawaii before Shaenon returns on September 15th. Take it home, Vincent! As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror.
I like the art in this one, but I’m having a little difficulty reading the dialog. I especially had trouble reading the word “drug” in the second panel. I’m afraid I don’t really know why it was hard, though.
I like the art, too, and I had the same problem, maybe because the straight line in the G goes all the way through, so it was hard to immediately recognize the letter. It looks a bit better in the zoom on the GoComics mirror.
For me it was the R. since it’s not separated from the D it makes it a little hard to make out
The trouble I have is with the Rs. This font gives the R a rising stroke where a down stroke ought to be. The word TRYING in the first panel was the first spot I didn’t scan the words well.
King Kamehameha does not approve of this storyline. 🙂
Hilo Public Library represent! Awesome!
Adorable!
If one is having trouble with the concept of a road trip to Hawai’i, clearly one has not fully embraced the precepts of mad science.
I mean, they have an interstate highway and everything…
Deep breaths. Take one at San Francisco, drive a mile west, come up and take another one, drive another mile west…I’d tell you how many miles later they’d be there, but all I can find online in a quick search just gives it in kilometers…MapQuest won’t even give driving directions…
If you use the old Google maps, you can get it in any units you want. Cubits, furlongs, angstroms, parsecs, . . .
Don’t know if it’s still there but Google used to have an easter egg where if you asked for directions from US to Europe it would bring you to the end of Long Island and tell you to start swimming. Don’t remember what you had to put in but may have been NYC to Paris.
Submersible cars, capable of going both on land and underwater, have been around for years. The only mad science involved would be a power source that would allow the trip in one stretch (there being few gas stations built between San Francisco and Hawai’i) and something to regenerate the oxygen supply. Aside from that it would be a standard road trip, with all the games, radio listening, and arguments involved.
Just like a standard road trip, with an added chance of giant squid attack. Though I suppose in a world of mad science, a land based road trip could still be interrupted by a giantsquidnado.
Yeah, but submersibles are so uncomfortable. I’d prefer to make the trip in old-skool style. Here’s some awesomesauce mad science dating back to 1961. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar I’d just update it with an electric motor and a solar-cell roof.
I want to drive that boss Amphicar to Love Shack Island! Still, “among the most successful amphibious civilian autos of all time” would not be a world-beating sales pitch.
Man a few houses up owned an Amphicar when I was a kid. He would go boating in it on Lake Champlain
I never got a chance to ride in it, darn it.
I bet they will make the island crash into each other
I’m betting on an appearance by Pele.
(TUNE: “Blue Hawaii”, Robin & Rainger)
Somehow, driving to Hawaii …
How Nera’s mom got us here
Is strange, and not very clear!
Jonah plans a new Hawaii!
The ancient Naha Stone
Will be his throne!
With his might
All the islands he’ll unite!
Without a fight,
He’ll rule … (yeah, right!)
In a new, cuckoo Hawaii,
To Jonah, Nera complains
That heart’s no substitue for brains!
Or, as an alternate musical selection …
Clearly, they travelled by map.
I couldn’t read the word “drug” either, but then I usually get the comic second-hand (Yahoo Comics, which pulls from GoComics) so the guest strips have all been a little hard for me to read.
I’m going to say “ferry” and leave it at that
Really, in this day and age you would think someone would have thought to simply drive to Memphis and FedEx the car the rest of the way.
Cheese, nobody’s said it yet? I LOVE the art style!
Everyone knows that they traveled by map!