He’d be out of college and possibly devoured… He was in elementary school the same time as Mel, obviously… I’m calling the kid “Jai” for now, but doubt the reference will ring many bells…
Yyeeaahh, I don’t get that “bonk-onna-head” reference, though I’m guessing it’s from that episode with the teenage paradise trope. You know where all the adults die and there’s just kids left? Anyway if that’s the episode it’s from then I don’t get it because I didn’t see the episode all the way through. On another note I’m guessing Unity’s going to eat that kid, or not since they never show her commiting murder in the comic.
Love that episode. Kim Darby AND the great Michael J. Pollard. And red-headed Steven McEveety who did not act much, but served as executive producer of most of Mel Gibson’s best work as actor/director, before his alcoholism revealed his rabid anti-semitism and his career self-destructed, that is. Come to think of it, in this alt-universe, Gibson is probably still a mega-star.
Bonk Bonk, indeed.
I must respectfully disagree. Nothing can compare with the sheer awfulness of Spock’s Brain. And just following that is the Omega Glory with the blonde Native American analogues called Yangs and the somewhat Asian Kohms. The third worst, yeah, definitely that other one with the kids, And the Children Shall Lead with the Gorgan, an alien creeper. Still, Spock’s Brain. “Brain, brain…what is brain!” Classic.
In that epsiode, when the kids get pissed off they circle a grown-up and start shout “bonk” “bonk” “bonk” and make gestures of beating them over the head. It was supposed to be creepy.
That’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome
the one that I particularly dislike, especially for introducing the concept of the Preservers and then dismissing it with one throwaway remark by McCoy, never to be spoken of again.
If male children were spared during the apocalypse then there is still a significant percentage of males left in the population. It ‘s just going to take a few years.
Sweetheart? You may be making some speciesist assumptions about which of these vertebrates is in charge. ….It’s possible the bird really was a clerk, but one who only speaks Grackle.
Yes, Sweetheart already called it a crapsack world, so why would she find humans or English speakers to be in charge as she hoped? Incidentally, I wonder if Washington uses an unorthodox approach to airspace denial.
Methinks Sweetheart is just a wee too bit focused on her bureaucratic skills here. A spear pointed at one generally overrides any paperwork that needs to be done.
Please please PLEASE tell me their leader is Homeschool Joe!!
Homeschool Joe, doesn’t ring a bell.
Li’l Mel recurring character
It makes sense if you read Lil Mell
Oh my goodness. That would be the best thing ever.
He’d be out of college and possibly devoured… He was in elementary school the same time as Mel, obviously… I’m calling the kid “Jai” for now, but doubt the reference will ring many bells…
Wouldn’t it be more sense or him to also be home-college’d?
Possibly, but he wasn’t. He went to Smithson College.
Man, even people who read Li’l Mell don’t remember Smithson.
I recall Smithson, but not Homeschool Joe going there…
*heads off to find Smithson for an Archive Binge*
Too late. 🙁
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/smithson/series.php
“Site Temporarily Unavailable”
Sadly, Smithson is currently down. It was hosted on WebComicsNation, which went out of business last year, and I haven’t made a new site for it.
Yyeeaahh, I don’t get that “bonk-onna-head” reference, though I’m guessing it’s from that episode with the teenage paradise trope. You know where all the adults die and there’s just kids left? Anyway if that’s the episode it’s from then I don’t get it because I didn’t see the episode all the way through. On another note I’m guessing Unity’s going to eat that kid, or not since they never show her commiting murder in the comic.
You didn’t miss much. Second-worst STOS ep ever. (With the worst one being the other one involving children.)
They do always seem to cut away from the murdery bits, don’t they?
Seeing murdery bits isn’t funny. Talking about murdery bits is.
Gotta disagree. I thought Kim Darby was terrific, and I still say “grups.”
Love that episode. Kim Darby AND the great Michael J. Pollard. And red-headed Steven McEveety who did not act much, but served as executive producer of most of Mel Gibson’s best work as actor/director, before his alcoholism revealed his rabid anti-semitism and his career self-destructed, that is. Come to think of it, in this alt-universe, Gibson is probably still a mega-star.
Bonk Bonk, indeed.
I’d vote the one with African tribes was worst.
I must respectfully disagree. Nothing can compare with the sheer awfulness of Spock’s Brain. And just following that is the Omega Glory with the blonde Native American analogues called Yangs and the somewhat Asian Kohms. The third worst, yeah, definitely that other one with the kids, And the Children Shall Lead with the Gorgan, an alien creeper. Still, Spock’s Brain. “Brain, brain…what is brain!” Classic.
Miri episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394905/?ref_=ttep_ep9
In that epsiode, when the kids get pissed off they circle a grown-up and start shout “bonk” “bonk” “bonk” and make gestures of beating them over the head. It was supposed to be creepy.
No one actually bonked the kids on the head.
There’s also the one where Cap’n Kirk fell through an opening hatch and went native-american on us…
Oh, let’s admit it. There were a *lot* of terrible episodes.
Point.
That’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome
the one that I particularly dislike, especially for introducing the concept of the Preservers and then dismissing it with one throwaway remark by McCoy, never to be spoken of again.
Ooga Booga! Me has penknife attached to a stick and not afraid to use it!
So Kamandi runs things here then? o_O
Yes, we definitely *are* in DC! ^_^
Now I’m hoping for H.T. as Great Caesar.
It’s… it’s Kamandi!
If male children were spared during the apocalypse then there is still a significant percentage of males left in the population. It ‘s just going to take a few years.
I read your comment as saying ‘speared’ and spent a moment feeling very confused.
In their, er, period of experience, why is Sweetheart so sure that any of these animals aren’t people, too?
They haven’t filed the paperwork.
Sweetheart? You may be making some speciesist assumptions about which of these vertebrates is in charge. ….It’s possible the bird really was a clerk, but one who only speaks Grackle.
Yes, Sweetheart already called it a crapsack world, so why would she find humans or English speakers to be in charge as she hoped? Incidentally, I wonder if Washington uses an unorthodox approach to airspace denial.
I kn-no I really ought to kn-no wh-who’s wh-who, but is that a Gnu? (Or just a shaggier than usual R. Stallman?)
That’s a Bison, but not a Major 😛
Please, please PLEASE, let the first word out of that kid’s mouth be “ENFU!”
That would be great :). That would also make me believe this is the alt-universe that Mell obliterated when president.
That little dude reminds me of how Shannon draws Little Nemo’ish stuff. Is there an homage to a classic comic strip here?
Muppet Baby Tarzan?
Heaven help that world if Sweetheart ever finds her paperwork.
She’s probably draining a bathtub of margaritas in another universe over that snafu.
Still think the leader is Looking Glass Sweetheart.
There must be some universe where she make good of her promise:
http://skin-horse.com/comic/service-to-help/
Not really relevant to this particular strip, but following on from last week’s discovery of Tiptree jams… I found this in the supermarket yesterday!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/square1k/shares/p0M479
You two aren’t supplying them with product names, are you?
Methinks Sweetheart is just a wee too bit focused on her bureaucratic skills here. A spear pointed at one generally overrides any paperwork that needs to be done.
A spear pointed at one is more likely to cause more paperwork to be needed.