At first I thought that the person behind them was a yellow-eyed lurking toad wearing a fez. Then I saw that it was a dude reading a book. …I would not mind seeing a lurking toad show up in the comic eventually.
He does look disgruntled- hope the Empress Shaenon makes at least a background character of him…
The last season of Lexx showed a skeleton in the floorboards of the oval office… the whole place was gutted and rebuilt in the Fifties, so it could not have been there long, comparatively…
Since no one has pointed this out, Grant’s Tomb is not in Washington, it’s in New York City.
Besides, everyone knows that here in The District (DC) we dispose of inconvenient bodies with cement shoes in the tidal basin. It’s important, it’s what gives the cherry blossoms their vibrant color.
She seemed to vaguely remember dying at the time (at least the times when she wasn’t just vaporized), but she didn’t die anywhere near as many times as Jonah did. And once they were out, it’s not certain how much of it actually stuck in his memory either. But even without remembering details, simply remembering that A-Sig has a remarkable tendency to kill you should give her a little more serious attitude about it. Kinda doubt they get a restore point on this one.
(Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)
“(Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)”
Precisely. It’s a fate worse than death.
I think it was called “Choices”, and if you go back to the first couple of days within their appearance in the current story arc you’ll find a direct link that someone thoughtfully provided.
Well, I thought Strip Number Four in that sequence (“Makeover!”) was one of the funniest things I’d seen lately—I think it might have been that that hooked me, though I might’ve started reading a little later.
How true. Look at figures like Winston Churchill as a young man. The guy had a vertible death wish in his obsessive pursuit of fame and glory.
That said, so much of history also hinges on dumb luck and random chance. Churchill was inches from death on so very many occassions, and just… got lucky, over and over again, despite behaving pretty much suicidally all the time.
If just once, a single bullet had been shot a degree or two more accurately, or if a single shell had fallen a few feet closer, or if just a single coincidence had failed to coincide, he’d have been dead, and history would be entirely different as a result.
It’s funny how Churchill is everyone’s go-to for a Great Man who changed the world is Churchill, given his obsession with being a Great Man. It’s almost as if someone *wanted* us to think about his luck and then wrote about his experiences in such a way as to stress that very aspect of his life in stories that emanate solely from that single source…
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” – Churchill
“The family motto of the House of Marlborough is “Faithful, but unfortunate”. But I, by my daring and enterprise, have changed it to “Faithless, but fortunate”.” – Churchill
From the great Northeastern cities, to the DC tourist spots,
From the green New Hampshire mountains, where the Skin Horse gang are lost,
She’s kind of dank and empty,
And moving at a crawl,
She’s the aberration
Called the Amtrack Cannonball.
[Chorus:] Oh, listen to the crinkle,
The crumble and the snore,
As she rattles round the hillsides,
Through the Eastern corridor,
Hear the patronage of Congress,
Hear the subsidizer’s call,
They’re traveling to the swamplands
On the Amtrack Cannonball.
They came down from out of town to find out what went on,
Their website was in chaos, their traffic left and gone.
Jonah Yu had visions, disaster wall-to-wall.
But Nera got them tickets
On the Amtrack Cannonball.
[Chorus:]
—from “Wabash Cannonball,” Roy Acufff (no matter what you English types have heard.)
Really? The few times I’ve looked into it, it seemed to me to be on par with airline tickets. Then again, I may just be living in the wrong section of the US.
If you don’t like Churchill as point of comparison, how about Hitler?
Could he have swayed so many people with his fiery speeches if his lungs had been ravaged by gas on the Western Front? Would he still have risen to prominence if a bullet had lodged in his spine and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
So much of history hinges on small things and random chance.
If Scipio Africanus had taken an arrow to the throat, or eatten some bad meat and died groaning in the latrine, think how different the world might be. If Carthage beat Rome in the Punic Wars, all of western history would have happened differently.
We wouldn’t call them the Punic Wars, for a start. That’s a Latin term. If Carthage won out over Rome and became the dominant power, then it would have been their language and their alphabet that would have passed on. The same is true of their religion, culture, and values.
And consider the implication of the Hebrews in Judea never coming under Roman rule, of the Temple never being sacked, of Judean life never reaching the point where the son of a carpenter felt his religion to be corrupt under the leadership of hypocritical priests who served a foreign master, and that it needed to be reformed through a popular revolutionary movement.
All of Christian history, gone. Anything based on Christianity, like Islam, also gone. No universally spoken Latin, no local Romance languages developing in the wake of the fall of Rome, no ascent of Arabic to centuries of prominence, no spread of Muslim culture, science and literature all across Asia and Africa, et cetera, et cetera.
History turns on the smallest, most mundane things.
At first I thought that the person behind them was a yellow-eyed lurking toad wearing a fez. Then I saw that it was a dude reading a book. …I would not mind seeing a lurking toad show up in the comic eventually.
Perhaps it could be a companion to the sinister clown that is the strip’s mascot…
He does look disgruntled- hope the Empress Shaenon makes at least a background character of him…
The last season of Lexx showed a skeleton in the floorboards of the oval office… the whole place was gutted and rebuilt in the Fifties, so it could not have been there long, comparatively…
I’m more partial to Big Blue Frogs, myself…
Welcome to the world of reality blindness. “Of course” it can’;t be a yellow-eyed lurking toad wearing a fez.. Nothing unusual to see here.
There’s a crypt under the Capitol just waiting for them.
They don’t bury you under a monument, that’s what they *want* you to think. Classic misdirection.
You wind up in Grant’s tomb.
Or encased in a concrete pillar in front of Grant’s Tomb.
The question isn’t “who is buried in Grant’s tomb?” it’s who isn’t.
No-one is, actually, Grant and his wife are interred in an above-ground vault.
I thought it was George Washington.
Since no one has pointed this out, Grant’s Tomb is not in Washington, it’s in New York City.
Besides, everyone knows that here in The District (DC) we dispose of inconvenient bodies with cement shoes in the tidal basin. It’s important, it’s what gives the cherry blossoms their vibrant color.
I feel like Nera would have a different perspective on the matter if she could remember all the times she died at Carbondale, the way Jonah does.
She seemed to vaguely remember dying at the time (at least the times when she wasn’t just vaporized), but she didn’t die anywhere near as many times as Jonah did. And once they were out, it’s not certain how much of it actually stuck in his memory either. But even without remembering details, simply remembering that A-Sig has a remarkable tendency to kill you should give her a little more serious attitude about it. Kinda doubt they get a restore point on this one.
(Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)
I think shoe care training is Jonah’s default restore point.
“(Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)”
Precisely. It’s a fate worse than death.
Do you remember the title of the chapter they’re from?
I think it was called “Choices”, and if you go back to the first couple of days within their appearance in the current story arc you’ll find a direct link that someone thoughtfully provided.
Choose.
Well, I thought Strip Number Four in that sequence (“Makeover!”) was one of the funniest things I’d seen lately—I think it might have been that that hooked me, though I might’ve started reading a little later.
What makes them think there will still be corpses to bury? Vaporization is cheap and easy in the Narboniverse.
But how expensive is extirpation?
Asking how expensive extirpation is is cause for extirpation.
But I hear it’s about $1.25 per
Yup – Safeway, walnuts, roasted: $1.25 per pound. So not too bad, really.
Well, walnuts and shea butter.
Ah, the enthusiasm and willingness for self-sacrifice of youth. So much of history hinges upon it.
How true. Look at figures like Winston Churchill as a young man. The guy had a vertible death wish in his obsessive pursuit of fame and glory.
That said, so much of history also hinges on dumb luck and random chance. Churchill was inches from death on so very many occassions, and just… got lucky, over and over again, despite behaving pretty much suicidally all the time.
If just once, a single bullet had been shot a degree or two more accurately, or if a single shell had fallen a few feet closer, or if just a single coincidence had failed to coincide, he’d have been dead, and history would be entirely different as a result.
It’s funny how Churchill is everyone’s go-to for a Great Man who changed the world is Churchill, given his obsession with being a Great Man. It’s almost as if someone *wanted* us to think about his luck and then wrote about his experiences in such a way as to stress that very aspect of his life in stories that emanate solely from that single source…
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” – Churchill
“The family motto of the House of Marlborough is “Faithful, but unfortunate”. But I, by my daring and enterprise, have changed it to “Faithless, but fortunate”.” – Churchill
From the great Northeastern cities, to the DC tourist spots,
From the green New Hampshire mountains, where the Skin Horse gang are lost,
She’s kind of dank and empty,
And moving at a crawl,
She’s the aberration
Called the Amtrack Cannonball.
[Chorus:] Oh, listen to the crinkle,
The crumble and the snore,
As she rattles round the hillsides,
Through the Eastern corridor,
Hear the patronage of Congress,
Hear the subsidizer’s call,
They’re traveling to the swamplands
On the Amtrack Cannonball.
They came down from out of town to find out what went on,
Their website was in chaos, their traffic left and gone.
Jonah Yu had visions, disaster wall-to-wall.
But Nera got them tickets
On the Amtrack Cannonball.
[Chorus:]
—from “Wabash Cannonball,” Roy Acufff (no matter what you English types have heard.)
Bravo!
I’m so excited to have another story arc centered around these two! Their last one was great :3
For a fun time & being able to “get” the cement jokes, lookup “rotary kiln”.
Aaand here we go to see the “Red” alias, masquerading as a helpful ally against the Shadow Government.
FWIW, the Red Knight’s treatment of Virginia wasn’t a million miles away from Violet Bee’s…
Nobody ever talks about how relatively cheap train tickets tend to be for travel.
Really? The few times I’ve looked into it, it seemed to me to be on par with airline tickets. Then again, I may just be living in the wrong section of the US.
If you don’t like Churchill as point of comparison, how about Hitler?
Could he have swayed so many people with his fiery speeches if his lungs had been ravaged by gas on the Western Front? Would he still have risen to prominence if a bullet had lodged in his spine and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
So much of history hinges on small things and random chance.
If Scipio Africanus had taken an arrow to the throat, or eatten some bad meat and died groaning in the latrine, think how different the world might be. If Carthage beat Rome in the Punic Wars, all of western history would have happened differently.
We wouldn’t call them the Punic Wars, for a start. That’s a Latin term. If Carthage won out over Rome and became the dominant power, then it would have been their language and their alphabet that would have passed on. The same is true of their religion, culture, and values.
And consider the implication of the Hebrews in Judea never coming under Roman rule, of the Temple never being sacked, of Judean life never reaching the point where the son of a carpenter felt his religion to be corrupt under the leadership of hypocritical priests who served a foreign master, and that it needed to be reformed through a popular revolutionary movement.
All of Christian history, gone. Anything based on Christianity, like Islam, also gone. No universally spoken Latin, no local Romance languages developing in the wake of the fall of Rome, no ascent of Arabic to centuries of prominence, no spread of Muslim culture, science and literature all across Asia and Africa, et cetera, et cetera.
History turns on the smallest, most mundane things.
Dangit. Meant to respond to joannaatkinsJoanna above.