Hey, @Stewart, I did up a wallpaper of Monday’s strip (and I added a couple more panels)!
I keep meaning to say, I do tweet. Me On Twitter: chris_j_baldwin
Oh, and lastly: a new MAD is out with a piece-o-mine in it. Check it out on newsstands. 🙂
11/02/11 Under A Rock
I feel kind of dumb asking this, seeing as I literally -just- finished reading through the archive and should therefore still remember who the characters are – but who is Qwantoo? Have we met him/her/it yet?
Just wanted to say, great job on the up angle on Emily in panel 3. Looks almost like a different art style, since I’m so not used to seeing the faces from drastic angles like that, but it looks very cool.
Also: “Qwantoo”/Quantum? Did I see what you did there?
@Lessica, Qwantoo has been mentioned a couple times, but not revealed.
@CBob, soome of that, and a bit of nonsense. 🙂
1) Awesome strip today (as usual)! Hmmm … were Emily’s eyes bugging out a bit in surprise or concern in that last panel?
2) I saw a guy with that copy of Mad Magazine in line right in front of me at the supermarket today! Now that I know that you had a piece in it, I should have tackled him after he bought it and taken it for myself! (Or maybe I should have just bought one like a sane person? Naaaaaah …)
3) I really want that new wallpaper you posted!!! Sweet! Emily and Kuu-drahc filling my screen with extra stuff!!! Now could you PLEASE put that whole thing (what you have for the wallpaper) on a T-shirt??? That would be SO KEWL!!! *bounces happily*
4) Eeep! I tried clicking on the “Donate” button to get the wallpaper but it just pulls up the generic entry into PayPal! What’s your donation address?
5) Yeah, I’m also wondering … who is Qwantoo??? I don’t seem to remember the dude (or dudette, as the case may be).
@Eris_Lobo
3. Hm. I’ll ponder it. I’m a bit gun-shy about shirts what with my track-record this year.
4. sorry! fixed!
5. I should add a tag for when he was mentioned. Give me 5 minutes.
Leave him some sunblock, Emily. He’s already red as a lobster, next stage is burnt black. 🙂
So, Qwantoo, or Qwahntoo? (Both of them make my spellchecker unhappy, so maybe it doesn’t matter. Then again, so does Flrkwtzjbbl, and I think he’s more of a Power Three Feet to the Left of and Slightly Below the Throne.)
He seems rather unconcerned about being crushed, and rather talkative as well. Me? I’d be screaming in pain.
I don’t trust him to be telling the truth about dying. He’s an alien, maybe he can detach something.
RIP Nightmare Squidward.
People wondering who Qwantoo is, he was first named here: https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2011/05/17/spacetrawler-140/ his crime was given in the strip before that.
I’m pretty sure I know who Qwantoo is, and that he was visually depicted in the strip at least two or three times. I won’t post more, because I don’t want to offer a spoiler, but if you go back and read certain relevant strips you may notice something I also noticed…
Also, I think Kuu Drahc is telling the truth – he’s largely a figurehead… a somewhat more sinister Zaphod type. It’s not even out of the question that they were done with him and Qwantoo had someone give that rock a bit of a nudge… (or maybe he/it has implanted Eeb DNA too). Remember, Qwantoo likes to stay behind the scenes.
Thanks, @Frank! And yes, if you follow the tags, there is now a Qwahntoo one. Although I want to say… I think there was a fourth strip which mentioned good ol’ Qwahntoo. Hm. Anyway. (also, I fixed the spelling of Q’s name in this strip)
Huzzah! (Might be hard to fit all that on a t-shirt, though.)
Welp, that was anticlimactic..
Looks like Dimitri is about to get his face slapped in this cameo appearance in The Whiteboard comic:
http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1435.html
Qwahn-one? No, I Qwahntoo.
I’m truly sorry about this post.
Panel #10 is just awesome. I am laughing so hard at the dialog I’m gonna need hours to recover (-:
incidentally, here’s a comment on my facebook after I posted yesterday’s strip as a reason people should read Spacetrawler: “The Spacetrawler comic you posted is currently stopping me from going to buy food.”
Emily was going to knock his block off, but was cock-blocked by a rock off a trek-tv-set knock-off.
Well, I’ll miss having Kuu-Drahc as the main villain, though to be quite fair, after knowing what unclamped Eebs are capable of, the G.O.B does feel like the lesser evil.
It just hit me: She’s going to leave him with the ring!
Hmm … I got a few of the wallpapers yesterday (and they do INDEED make my computer screen look spiffy, I have to admit!) … but I didn’t notice something until now …
Pottybot is on the crew image wallpaper, just as prominently as pretty much anybody else (there’s actually more showing of Pottybot than Martina!)
Has Pottybot been elevated to high-level crew status without my knowledge?
Or maybe something else is going on …
Maybe … Pottybot is actually … secretly … Qwahntoo???
Dum dum DUUUM!!!!! (play menacing music)
Or maybe … Pottybot is the chosen one, intended by the fates to save the galaxy from both the G.O.B. and the Eeb menace?
Or maybe … Pottybot is actually a god-like entity who likes being a trickster, playing the fool to those around him, while pretending to serve as a … err … no, that would be gross … *bleah*
Whatever the case, inquiring (and paranoid) minds want to know, y’know!!! 🙂
@coldelectrons:
*standing ovation*