Stranger and stranger…
That third panel was a pain to draw in a timely manner. It’s a real building, but I had to draw a little messier and sketchier in order to get in done in time.
What’d I Miss?
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By Ladon Fri Jul 27th 2018 at 4:55 am
“You’re taking this awfully calmly…” “well, I don’t have to worry about it, now, do I? I’m retired. Dealing with this is your job. Why shouldn’t I be calm?” “We’re hundreds of years back in time!” “Oh, you’re right! Captain Ultimo doesn’t even exist yet! Maybe I’ll come out of retirement. You know… for one last heist” “Dad!” “What? I had to spend my whole life looking behind me for superheroes! I’ll take what opportunities I can get.”
By just me Fri Jul 27th 2018 at 4:51 pm
If I was in their shoes it might be a sticky wicket, but as a reader this is getting interesting
By CyborgJesus Fri Jul 27th 2018 at 7:23 pm
Time travel? Alt History? Alt Universe? Teleportation to a highly insular Scottish compound? Something entirely different? So many answers but WHAT IS THE QUESTION!?!?! Oh right the question was what happens when Actioneer goes off camera for too long.
By DannyboyO1 Sat Jul 28th 2018 at 2:28 am
It’s a building you’re trying to draw in architectural style rather than your own. It’s an order of magnitude more detailed than the space armada. (assuming intelligent copy & pasting) Of course it’s more work! You could have gone half as detailed and just had it turn up in your usual style. Crazy artists. 😀
By Towering Barbarian Sat Jul 28th 2018 at 10:33 am
And this is what happens when you let a washroom break go on too long! ^_^
By The Leitch Sat Jul 28th 2018 at 10:53 pm
The only problem, continuity wise is that the buildings in the prior scene are about 18 miles from this one…If this is where I think we are…
By JuaSaysHi Sun Jul 29th 2018 at 1:13 am
Please, that’s nothing. Weren’t they in another country a few panels ago? Time travel fiction has always been disrespectful of explaining distance continuity, nothing new there.
By CTNC Sun Jul 29th 2018 at 2:04 pm
Time Travel’s disrespect to position in space is even more extreme than you may think. If you stayed in the exact same spot then the movement of the Earth, Sun, and Milkyway Galaxy would make you very likely end up in the middle of space. If you somehow don’t end up in the middle of space then you’re probably getting crushed by a star. Long story short, “realistic” time travel is a fancy term for death. 😛
By Iron Ed Sun Jul 29th 2018 at 5:20 pm
That’s why you’ve never heard of a ‘true’ time traveler. 😉
The only way out I can think of is “momentum”. For fictional purposes.. Perhaps, since the traveler is standing on a planet that is already moving through space, and therefore carrying the traveler along with it, the physical, 3-dimensional, angular momentum of the time traveler lets him keep moving along with the planet as he also moves through time. Now, that may only work in one direction through time (forward), so that’s still why we don’t know of any true time travelers. Moving backwards leaves you in outer space. The people behind us in history don’t have the technology, yet, to move forward.
* (I do not believe we can all be considered as time travelers just by passing forward through time on a day-to-day basis just by living that time. I think we are just moving -with- time (momentum again), not “through” it.) 🙂
By Iron Ed Sun Jul 29th 2018 at 5:30 pm
Actually, now that I think about it, it might -theoretically- be possible to travel backwards in time; but, the math to come out on the planet again would be so incredibly complex that the slightest error would kill you.
Even if you could do the math, you’d need a starship to travel backward along that planet’s course through 3d space so that when you activated the time machine you would be in the same place that the planet -was- during the point in time to which you wish to travel.
The next problem would be relativity. If you used a FTL ship, the FTL bit would make your already ridiculously complicated math orders of magnitude worse. If you used a slower than light starship it would take many years to get back to the point in space you needed to in order to meet the planet there after time traveling.
* Wow. Even thinking about this is hard. I can’t even imagine being able to actually work this all out in reality. No wonder Sheldon is crazy. 😉
By nooB Sat Mar 2nd 2019 at 10:52 am
That Poster on the last page was actually a window