Nah. Time travel. This is the Narboniverse, after all; Anasigma just got hold of one of Dave Davenport’s machines; perfectly logical, and totally canon, too. ;-p
The time machine destroys other universes that presumably don’t want to exist as much; “presumably” being the operative word, it doesn’t actually check.
Also, I’m sure there are a bunch of timelines where whichever politician you loathe the most rules over the entire world, so…
I would hazard a guess that every universe has a politician that fits that bill. Wherever there is politics, there will always be someone in some high office that at least half the world hates. And where there isn’t politics, there is undoubtedly a dictator that even more people hate.
I would think the car would be more noticeably loud, rather than jiggly. Flying by pure propulsion, they shouldn’t be subject to aerodynamic turbulence.
Since most cars have rather lousy aerodynamics (and this one looks less aerodynamic than most modern cars) the ride would be jiggly due to turbulence produced by ramming the thing through the atmosphere.
Not significantly more than a car going down the road. And with a flying car, you don’t have the added jiggling from the road that most cars suffer. If anything, I would expect a flying car to be a smoother ride than a normal car.
Just as an example, on the same stretch of road, in the same car, I get a much smoother ride at 120mph than at 60mph. Granted there may be a little more effect from the wind at 5000 feet than on the road, but I still maintain my theory has merit.
It does; most of the turbelence experienced by today’s cars at less than 100mph is actually happening in the engine compartment and between the floorboard of the car and the road. Somewhere between 100mph and 110mph, the car actually begins moving fast enough to ride over the disturbed air before that air has the chance to roll back on top of itself, and the turbulence smooths out quite a lot.
Still, an automobile is not exactly an aerodynamic shape; a closed tube with blunt ends is actually much better in terms of turbulence and drag.
Nah, looks like an older model anyway, just kitted out. Heck, he’s probably had that thing for decades, or possibly tapped one of the time-displaced mad scientists to get it modded properly.
Mind, the car in question looks kinda like a backwards Ford Anglia.
I’m just hoping he doesn’t check his rear view mirror.
This car makes more sense than the Bentleys, Aston Martins, Lotus Esprits and BMWs that James Bond used to drive. What sense does it make for a secret agent to drive a super fancy car that sticks out in most places?
But the only thing secret about Batman is his secret identity. The Batmobile is actually more like a police car and is meant to be noticed and recognized.
Batman doses himself with joker gas to test his first attempt at a cure (spoiler alert, it’s not particularly successful)
Batman embezzled crazy amount of money from his company
Batman’s defense against machine guns is backflips
Since I can’t hit reply to your statement I’ll just reply to my own
None of the statements I made were false
All of those things are cannon (except for the sucking, that’s subjective)As a further note, according to Forbes, iron man has more money than him
Well doesn’t stick so much at places like casinos, ski stations, exotic beaches, mir station… And most of the time, Bond isn’t even trying not get noticed, he looks for attention.
Of course there’d be many more informations in things like offices, but you know, overly machist behavior is forbidden in the office, so it doesn’t look like Bond could have a try at it.
Remember that Bond is an assassin, first, a sabateur second, and only an information gatherer third. He’s basically the “blunt instrument” of the spy world; by the time HMSS is ready to send him in on a mission, they already know pretty much everything they need to know and they’re just looking for a quick, definitive end to something or someone.
Oh, horseradish no! I do not want to even try and picture Dr. Ao with blue hair. That is just 42 kinds of wrong. Helen shoulda offed him when she had the chance.
On the other hand, I can picture Davenport doing this. He’s more than smart enough, and he’s got time travel technology. Plus it would explain how the Institute had Helen’s original formula Cure that causes reality blindness.
Was full into Skin Horse withdrawal. And another very kind reader sent me here.
I am grateful. Looks like the kids got the right car, all right. And I have my own thoughts on what’s doing the jiggling. She would have mentioned soon, if they live and if he hadn’t noticed. She’s always been beautiful.
Yeah, every once in a while they fall behind. Not sure why that is. They had been staying nice and current for quite a while, until this week. I always come here for the discourse anyway, but I like to have the current strip over there so I can read it on the gocomics app if I’m in a hurry.
Next comic: a red Corvette flies in the opposite direction with Agent Coulson at the wheel. Mr. Green waves at him while Jonah and Nera gape in amazement.
A bit hard to imagine an air car having the trunk pop open at 100MPH or so without enough aerodynamic effect to 1. pull a vacuum on the car body, 2. way jerk the car, 3 make more noise than a train wreck 4 pop both kids out into the slip stream or slam the trunk shut violently. But hey, cool idea. Have to be fusion jets though cause no way to carry enough oil to feed those monsters.
Good observation. I imagine with all the air flowing over the vehicle and pushing down on the trunk, it would be difficult to open it more than a few inches, let alone keep it open. And the sudden change in aerodynamics would certainly be felt by the driver.
I love angry eyes in the dark.
Well! This comic really has been going on for some years, hasn’t it?
http://skin-horse.com/comic/12302007/
So almost ten years at this point (if you assume it really started with its first published cartoon).
I was thinking about how that’s more than 18000 years according to the listed date. Sorry.
Didn’t notice that until you said that. LOL! Must be reality blind — seeing what I expected, instead of what was there.
Nah. Time travel. This is the Narboniverse, after all; Anasigma just got hold of one of Dave Davenport’s machines; perfectly logical, and totally canon, too. ;-p
Bull. I’m pretty sure that of all conceivable universes, our timeline currently wants to exist the *least.*
The time machine destroys other universes that presumably don’t want to exist as much; “presumably” being the operative word, it doesn’t actually check.
Also, I’m sure there are a bunch of timelines where whichever politician you loathe the most rules over the entire world, so…
I would hazard a guess that every universe has a politician that fits that bill. Wherever there is politics, there will always be someone in some high office that at least half the world hates. And where there isn’t politics, there is undoubtedly a dictator that even more people hate.
My point is that this isn’t the worst of all worlds, or even the one where people are most unhappy, by any stretch of the imagination.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/light-inside/
“Stupid Department of Jetpack Suppression.”
Cool! Mr. Green always gets the best toys. I wonder if it can also be a submarine.
It can probably go into orbit.
Maybe it can fly to the planet Lovetron.
No government funded rocket cars can fly to Lovetron.
Turns into a pen. A really nice one!
Why am I thinking of The Man With The Golden Gun?
The real question is why wouldn’t you be?
Because the poor sod hasn’t seen the movie yet.
I would think the car would be more noticeably loud, rather than jiggly. Flying by pure propulsion, they shouldn’t be subject to aerodynamic turbulence.
unless there is some kind of super high-tech involved
Even Howard Stark’s Gravitic Reversion technology was noticeably loud. That’s actually kinda what they look like.
Since most cars have rather lousy aerodynamics (and this one looks less aerodynamic than most modern cars) the ride would be jiggly due to turbulence produced by ramming the thing through the atmosphere.
Hey hey hey hey, no dissing the car. We all know that Shaenon draws bitchin cars.
Not significantly more than a car going down the road. And with a flying car, you don’t have the added jiggling from the road that most cars suffer. If anything, I would expect a flying car to be a smoother ride than a normal car.
That’s assuming that it’s going at the same speed as a car going down the road.
Just as an example, on the same stretch of road, in the same car, I get a much smoother ride at 120mph than at 60mph. Granted there may be a little more effect from the wind at 5000 feet than on the road, but I still maintain my theory has merit.
It does; most of the turbelence experienced by today’s cars at less than 100mph is actually happening in the engine compartment and between the floorboard of the car and the road. Somewhere between 100mph and 110mph, the car actually begins moving fast enough to ride over the disturbed air before that air has the chance to roll back on top of itself, and the turbulence smooths out quite a lot.
Still, an automobile is not exactly an aerodynamic shape; a closed tube with blunt ends is actually much better in terms of turbulence and drag.
Someone knows where the trunk release cable is, clearly. Good for them.
Shouldn’t Mr. Green have gotten a trunk open warning?
Nah, looks like an older model anyway, just kitted out. Heck, he’s probably had that thing for decades, or possibly tapped one of the time-displaced mad scientists to get it modded properly.
Mind, the car in question looks kinda like a backwards Ford Anglia.
I’m just hoping he doesn’t check his rear view mirror.
This car makes more sense than the Bentleys, Aston Martins, Lotus Esprits and BMWs that James Bond used to drive. What sense does it make for a secret agent to drive a super fancy car that sticks out in most places?
Batman does it, so you KNOW it’s a good idea.
But the only thing secret about Batman is his secret identity. The Batmobile is actually more like a police car and is meant to be noticed and recognized.
Batman doses himself with joker gas to test his first attempt at a cure (spoiler alert, it’s not particularly successful)
Batman embezzled crazy amount of money from his company
Batman’s defense against machine guns is backflips
It’s possible that batman kinda sucks
Shame on you, take it back, he does not, Batman the best.
Since I can’t hit reply to your statement I’ll just reply to my own
None of the statements I made were false
All of those things are cannon (except for the sucking, that’s subjective)As a further note, according to Forbes, iron man has more money than him
Well doesn’t stick so much at places like casinos, ski stations, exotic beaches, mir station… And most of the time, Bond isn’t even trying not get noticed, he looks for attention.
Of course there’d be many more informations in things like offices, but you know, overly machist behavior is forbidden in the office, so it doesn’t look like Bond could have a try at it.
Remember that Bond is an assassin, first, a sabateur second, and only an information gatherer third. He’s basically the “blunt instrument” of the spy world; by the time HMSS is ready to send him in on a mission, they already know pretty much everything they need to know and they’re just looking for a quick, definitive end to something or someone.
Not technically a spy, either, that’s an undercover information-gatherer’s title. Bond is actually an agent.
Their reconnaissance just became an infiltration… talk about mission creep!
what was the best/worst case of mission creep? Starts with Scooby and those darn kids?
“Now let’s take off the mask and see who this ‘Mr. Green’ really is!”
*yoink*
“It’s… TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER DAVE BARKER?!”
Ha! Great one.
I’m not even going to “slow clap” for this. This one merits straight-up applause. Well played, Nick, well played.
:salute!:
Oh, horseradish no! I do not want to even try and picture Dr. Ao with blue hair. That is just 42 kinds of wrong. Helen shoulda offed him when she had the chance.
On the other hand, I can picture Davenport doing this. He’s more than smart enough, and he’s got time travel technology. Plus it would explain how the Institute had Helen’s original formula Cure that causes reality blindness.
Was full into Skin Horse withdrawal. And another very kind reader sent me here.
I am grateful. Looks like the kids got the right car, all right. And I have my own thoughts on what’s doing the jiggling. She would have mentioned soon, if they live and if he hadn’t noticed. She’s always been beautiful.
I’m thinking the jiggling is Mr. Green looking under the seats for loose change. Anyone else have ideas?
Definitely. GoComics can be lax about updating. But I usually read this when I get my comics e-mail from them, then I come here.
Yeah, every once in a while they fall behind. Not sure why that is. They had been staying nice and current for quite a while, until this week. I always come here for the discourse anyway, but I like to have the current strip over there so I can read it on the gocomics app if I’m in a hurry.
Shouldn’t this be a DeLorean?
You’re confusing transport through space with transport through time. Big difference.
Or perhaps he’s not. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Green is able to move about through time.
Next comic: a red Corvette flies in the opposite direction with Agent Coulson at the wheel. Mr. Green waves at him while Jonah and Nera gape in amazement.
A bit hard to imagine an air car having the trunk pop open at 100MPH or so without enough aerodynamic effect to 1. pull a vacuum on the car body, 2. way jerk the car, 3 make more noise than a train wreck 4 pop both kids out into the slip stream or slam the trunk shut violently. But hey, cool idea. Have to be fusion jets though cause no way to carry enough oil to feed those monsters.
Good observation. I imagine with all the air flowing over the vehicle and pushing down on the trunk, it would be difficult to open it more than a few inches, let alone keep it open. And the sudden change in aerodynamics would certainly be felt by the driver.
Man jetpack suppression has really been lax ever since their office was destroyed
…wonder why.