You will pay.
on December 25, 2018 at 1:01 amChapter: Unfinished Business
Location: Island in the Bermuda Triangle #3, U.S.S. Destiny
Merry Christmas, have some Zombie Hooper!
When I first wrote the story of the astronauts of the U.S.S Destiny in elementary school, everyone was zombified when their space shuttle was hit by a meteor and subsequently floated into a black hole. Here, it’s just Martian contact. Martians, I might point out, which we have yet to see the full bodies of. Here’s a small look, though! It’s an arm! Three-tentacled bug arm!
The Martian dialogue was created by running stuff through Babel Fish and back again. Remember Babel Fish? It’s like Google Translate but if Google Translate had since been absorbed and dissolved by Yahoo, or so … Google tells me.
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oh man, there was even a “run script through Babelfish like a billion times and back” website that did this for you
I’m sure there’s a site that does the exact same thing but with Google Translate.
There was, but I don’t think it works anymore. Google probably considers sites like those unwanted bots or something.
re: commentary
headcanon is Martians are using the same website to speak the English tho
That makes a certain amount of sense. Headcanon successfully transmitted.
Anyone noticed that the astronaut the martian put his tentacle on has the same hairstyle as Hooper?
Babelfish really delivered. I especially love how what I guess was “craft” became art.
So is this a situation where the Martians are a hive mind and assume all humans are guilty of any one human’s crimes?
I think they’re assuming the humans with reverse engineered Martian technology are at least associated with the ones who committed the crimes.
I think they’re blaming Hooper and crew due too the fact they’re flying around in reverse engineered martian technology more than ‘all humans are to blame’
since, you know, it’s a likely (and correct, since Linda is the one that killed them) assumption to make that, since the tech still isn’t that spread on earth, the few people who have it are most likely connected too the dead martians
The one female astronaut kinda looks similar to Linda Walkerton in this strip to me.
David, I’m curious to know if anyone else looking at your grade school artwork even knows what kind of paper that is?
Raises hand. The computer programs I submitted on punched cards came back on paper like that.
Pretty sure that nothing I ever did with the paper was half that creative though.
Yes some of us are still familiar with the classic 14″x11″ green bar fan fold tractor feed paper used in line printers. I only remember getting to have plenty of it as a kid because of a borked batch print job in the office my mom worked at. Said job filled a solid box of the stuff with junk data overnight.
By the time I was using computers regularly, everyone had mostly moved to 8.5″x11″ fan fold tractor feed in dot matrix printers. I have a box of that in the closet with a half ream of the same format carbon paper.