Been a busy week. Made some Irish fadge (pita-like bread). Saw a play, “The Beams are Creaking” at the Taproot Theater pay-what-you-can-night. Walked around downtown in Pike Place market and such, and got vegetarian hotdogs over at Cyberdogs. Skyped with my nephew, who’s like 3, and is cooler than I’ll ever be — I took a screen-shot.
Links: The talented Mary Cagle of Kiwi Blitz was inspired by my use of color over washes, and tried it out herself, very cool. And thank you again, this past week, to Scott Kurtz of PVP, Chris Hastings of Dr. McNinja (and now writer for Deadpool), Jon Rosenberg of Scenes From a Multiverse and Goats, and Dave Kellett of Drive and Sheldon for talking up Spacetrawler and Spacetrawler Book#1.
See, where would our intrepid heroes be if Dmitri had left them bereft of the famous Russian skills? The seduction that convinced Napoleon’s soldiers to switch sides! The immunity to stun lasers that protected Moscow from the Nazi cyborgs! The alcoholism that makes it difficult to remember history! *hic*
Hah! Those stupid stormtroopers always build blast doors that take 6 seconds to close! (Yeah, I don’t know how links work on this site. Just testing stuff out.)
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I love Dmitri’s face when he skid-lands. Oh Dmitri. If I knew you in real life, I’d be torn between amusement and a constant desire to punch you in the balls.
Great strip today. One question though. What is Irish fadge? I’m Irish, living in Ireland and I’ve never heard of it
It’s no fun if you punch him and he actually enjoys it.
Ah Dimitri. So glad you didn’t go back to Dustinia! Rescues would not be the same without you.
Didn’t she give the order not to follow anyone’s orders but those from her group. Dimetri wasn’t in their group at the time so if they follow his orders it is a very interesting plot development.
@Sean, it might not be Irish at all. It’s essentially a pita-like flat-bread with potatoes in the dough (along with flour, water, etc).
@me, that is a good point, although I will cleanly say that was not my intention. Perhaps I should add something along the lines of Martina saying “yeah, it’s okay, follow him” in the second-to-last panel. I will ponder this. Thanks for noticing. 🙂
@me, lemme ask you: who would YOU follow, the stressed out babe who orders you (without thinking) to land you on your head, or the happy guy skipping his way to freedom and a fun time?
@nagopaleen, you should check out the history of the famous Don Cossack General Matvei Platov. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvei_Platov) There is a story that before Napoleon invaded Russia, he invited Platov to Paris where Platov was wined and dined. Finally, Napoleon asked Platov what it would take for Napoleon to have an army of Cossacks. Platov thought for a moment, then replied that first, Napoleon should bring all the prettiest French girls to Paris; then Platov would bring the Don Cossacks under his command to Paris, and in 20 years, Napoleon would have his Cossack army!
@Sean, fadge is aka potato bread – supposedly called ‘tatty scones’ too tho i never encountered that name “in the wild”. Origin is from Northern ireland – don’t hear it much elsewhere, although Ive encountered it a few times here in Boston.
Btw Christopher, Dmitri would totally give your nephew a wink and a thumbs up for the cool threads and shades. Watch out for that one!
Demetri is awesome! https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2011/04/05/spacetrawler-131/ #Spacetrawler #thatisall
Yay! So many sites sending you traffic! That makes me happy.
@christopher You mean boxty? Cause that’s what it sounds like
@Jeff ah that makes more sense now
I have nothing to say here.
@JKC, obviously they have free will.
The dubious evidence (racial secret of trawler construction, Red-9’s briefcase) is adding up!
{nitpick}@me and Christopher, the eebs aren’t actually following him outside, they’re just crowding around the entrance and looking in his direction, which they probably would have done anyway. When you say “We’re here to free you!” (https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2011/03/29/spacetrawler-129/ panel 2), it usually means that normally helpful (as in not like a logicbot) eebs would take it into their own hands.{/nitpick}
If only Dmitri had a hat to snatch from under the blast door at the last possible second.
@Stewart, i was so tempted for him to do that with his drink. 🙂
I’m a bit with @Fish – it looks like they are congregating around Dimitri, not following him. That effect would be stronger if there was an eeb in the back row looking back at Martina with a questioning look.
@JKCarroll – That’s great! Perhaps he’s ??????’s distinguished ancestor.
Dang, it doesn’t like Cyrillic. Just put the hat on, folks, those question marks will clear themselves right up.
@nagopaleen, yeah, I found that out earlier (about the strip’s Cyrillic-intolerance) back when we first met Gurf’s ma and I was trying to describe her as a Jewish/Russian mother.
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/10/19/spacetrawler-86/#comments
Holy crap! Your nephew is 3!? He was just born when we met.
Sorry, guys not sure why Cyrillic isn’t working. And I think I’m going to go with Fish and Thomas and let the strip’s penultimate panel stand as is.
@Jimmy, Yeah. Soon he’ll be 14 and going out with his crazy uncle Chris for drinks, to get away from dowdy mom and dad. Buuuut….. hopefully not. 🙂
Just read the entire archives in one sitting; linked here from Drive Comic. Amazing comic, hilarious, and awesome art! I’m so invested in these characters it’s a little ridiculous. <3 Much love and admiration!
Re: Fish’s observation:
“I’m not following you, we just happen to be going in the same direction.” — Unknown
I had to describe this comic to a friend (filmmaker) and said it was Men In Black meets Captain Planet. Anyone have any other suggestions? 🙂
Galaxy Quest meets Red Dwarf
Firefly meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
I dunno … “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” meets “Battlestar Galactica”?
I’m going with what Fish said. Definitely “Hitchhiker’s Guide” and “Firefly”.
@Fish
@Shycraft
I reckon a touch of Red Dwarf would go down well also.
“Fire Fly” meets “Futurama.”
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