Turns out those crash barrels packed a special surprise.
Added a Cast Page! We had this written up from the beginning, and Max and I have been working from it all this time, but I suddenly realized that we were the only ones who had seen it. So time for you to know what we knew.
Bobservations SCORCHER
It’s a nice searing Labor Day Weekend here in Southern California, and like most of you, we’ll probably be dripping sweat into the BBQ grill and trying to have a good time while secretly, in the back of our minds, wondering if come Tuesday we (as in the United States) will be launching drone strikes on distant countries for killing their own people in ways of which we, as a nation, do not approve. Tends to put a damper on the festivities.
Personally, I don’t blame the President for punting that one. I think we’ve all become a little gun-shy on getting involved with other people’s atrocities, especially since we’ve been burned before on the actual validity of said atrocities.
And for those of use who are particularly cynical, it does seem like a nice distraction to the recent revelations that the NSA is basically spying on all of us, all the time. (Hi, guys! Enjoy the comic!)
But I don’t pretend to be a political pundit. I just think the whole situation sucks. So for now, let’s just hope that somehow, if we all wish really hard with our eyes closed and maybe clap our hands a little, this will all be solved without a bunch of our troops having to die. Or a bunch of innocent civilians. Or pretty much anyone, really, except maybe the really evil guys. That, at least, I can help with. Hey, I write cartoons, it’s not hard. You can tell which ones are the evil guys by how they laugh like this: MUAHAHAHAHAHA. We just need a drone with audio pickups that can pinpoint the location of a crazed, reverb-heavy maniacal laugh and hit that target with a salvo of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. Problem solved.
Or, y’know, a real, working Strike Gate.
Tink, I’m wishing really hard.
Happy Labor Day Weekend.
— Bob out
Judging from Max’s present rate of success, I’m not so sure the strike gate idea is feasible.
As for the NSA spying… why is that a surprise? They represent the folks in charge (who now have power) and the folks in charge don’t exactly care for the constitution (whether they have a ‘D’, ‘R’, or ‘I’ after their name)
what the frack? I sure didn’t select that avatar. I don’t know how to install an avatar and i sure as heck haven’t even attempted to pick one.
I definitely would NOT have selected that one.
Heh. The site has a file of avatars that are assigned randomly if you don’t already have one. (You can make your own at http://en.gravatar.com/ if you want– green button center of page — which will override the randomly-assigned one) The one here is only for this site; unlike an official gravatar it won’t follow you around if you post elsewhere.
To quote Cypher from The Matrix, “All of a sudden, boom!”
Thanks for the cast page. The descriptions are fun. I especially liked the parts about Max using his ability to prank others when he was young, and about the others giving Dr. Sharma bogus information because they know he’s a spy, and his being complicit with it.
On possible boo boo in the cast page. In Cicerone’s description, where it says “Thomson continues the firm…”, should that say “Cicerone”, or at least “Virgil”?
Well spotted, Paul. Fixed that.
Oh, and by the way – I do very much like the avatar that got automatically assigned to me. Sorry Valkeiper.
well, I’ve been trying to figure a way to get a photo out of my personal gallery as my avatar.
guess I’ll have to figure faster.
Gravatar is easy to use. Go to http://gravatar.com/ or http://en.gravatar.com/ then set up an account. You can assign multiple email addresses to that account, each with their own avatar. The avatars you can upload directly from your computer, limit’s are stated and they can’t be animated. Whenever you use that email address, on a website that uses the Gravatar system, your Avatar image will show. You can change images from you own personal gallery there too, No need to upload a new one each time.
I can’t recall when exactly it was, but I read the first story arc (and this one too, I think) a long time back. No idea why I ever stopped reading but… well I saw a link/button/banner on someone else’s sidebar and thought I’d bounce back over. Then I found my bookmarks (but I’m reading back through instead of going from them).