You’re back! Just like Khan!
on November 3, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: It's Walky!/Melonpool Crossover
Characters: Head Alien, Mayberry Melonpool
Location: Island in the Bermuda Triangle #3
So Steve Troop says “I want you to set up this scenario so that blah blah blah Star Trek blah blah blah” and I nod and smile, sure, why not. And then he does the Star Trek thing. And this is the Star Trek thing!
I have no idea what in Star Trek this is referencing. Khan is that guy who looks like Sherlock Holmes, right?
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There’s actually a big discussion about doing things ‘by the book’ in Wrath of Khan, I assumed that line yesterday was a set up until seeing today’s commentary and remembering you’re not at all a Star Trek person.
So, not Gengis Khan.
I *am* sort of a Star Trek person (at least enough to understand all the references) and *still* thought they were talking about Genghis Khan.
“Khan is that guy who looks like Sherlock Holmes, right?”
Please say you are kidding! Don’t get me wrong, I love Benedict Cumberbatch, and he was good in the role, but he was not right for the role. Of course, that whole movie had many issues, the casting and writing of Khan just being a few.
Still not as bad as Star Trek: Nemesis, though. Nothing is as bad as Nemesis. I’ll at least own Into Darkness.
So anyway, back to the point, NO! Khan is not the guy who looks like Sherlock. He has been, and always shall be, the guy who looks like Mr. Roarke.
He’s *obviously* kidding.
Yessss. De nebula! De nebula, boss, de Mutara Nebula!
Take a closer look at the tags, my friend
I’m deeply saddened this is the only comic with a “it’s distinctly possible there is some light trolling in the commentary” tag.
YET.
What I’m wondering is: why does Head Alien have a five-o-clock shadow on his helmet?
How else do you expect him to be able to shave?
I always assumed they were dents.
Most of the Aliens have it when Troop draws him. I think he was assuming the helmets had some manner of texture, rather than being a completely smooth surface.
There are 2 Star Trek ref’s here. I think.
Wraith of Khan. Ricardo Montelbon played Khan on both the original Star Trek tv series and in the movie. A super genius genetic experiment that was too successful, so he and his fellow ‘supermen’ where banished to ‘Botany Bay’ a ship named after the Austrialian penal colony-in suspended animation.
The other ref is to the Star Trek movie when the crew went back in time to earth to rescue a whale – extinct in their future.
I’m going to guess landing on the whale my come from that movie. A stretch, but…
“I have had enough of you” is a line from Search for Spock
As well as the delivery while kicking a bad guy off of a ledge.
He was kicking Doc Brown from Back to the future. The timing of this is almost too perfect.
There are also aliens and there were aliens in Star Trek.
Ahem. “Wraith of Khan” is a purposely punny line from The Weeknd’s “Starboy.” The movie is Wrath of Khan.
If you’re a Trekkie, this… situation sort of… lent… itself for… channelling… Kirk. :-p
Nice references. Also the best whale for HA to land on is a killer one, it would suit him just fine.
Really, it should have been a sperm whale that had been suddenly called into existence. It sees the Head Alien coming down toward him and thinks “I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
Somewhere, a single tear comes to Howard Lesse’s eye and he knows not why.
It’s probably because his sister is dead and her girlfriend waited all of like two seconds to jump the guy who’s responsible for her death and he feels like he’s the only person who respects her memory at all.
No, the guy who looks like Sherlock Holmes is Iron Man. (Or, at least, that’s the only guy I know about who looks like a Holmes I’ve seen.)
Now, if you mean who I think you mean, that’s John Harrison pretending to be Khan (pretending, recursively, to be John Harrison).