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Strip colored and uploaded. Yay! You can still view the b&w version I posted here.
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Hahahah! I’ve driven cross the country twice, done a convention, packed and moved everything we owned and somehow superhumanly kept up on the strip. But now that all that activity is pretty-much done, I relaxed briefly (mostly focused on unpacking and cleaning the new place) and I KNEW my mom and sister were coming to visit on Tuesday, and…. ta-dahhh, the strip’s not washed or colored. Oy-vey.
Anyhow, I like keeping the story rolling. I have no moves, no conventions, no anything scheduled for a while. I’ll get caught up on this and other not-quite-done-strips. Or work on my novel when I’m being bad. All in all it will be good results.
Hey, I have a question for you all. I have a friend who wants to work/live for a bit in Antarctica. She’s really smart, was a project manager in New York, responsible, hard-core hiker and traveler. but she’s applied two years running now for every and any job down there with no results. Anyone know a way in?
Call me crazy, but panel 8 Dustin actually seems like an improvement. Who wouldn’t want an extra hand at perfect shoulder-scratching height?
Maybe, just maybe a group consensus of Dustins thinking together makes a far better thinking creature than an individual Dustin. Just a thought. Another thought is that Angry Eebs look a lot like a collective of stumpy Roman orators … I wonder if they can do violence with their hands as well as with their minds.
I was thinking the eebs were going to clone themselves…. you know “just in case”. but i’d guess they’re too smug to think about the “just in case” part?
😐 That went better than expected, and yet horrifyingly Dustins’ form the voice of compassion and reason.
i am disappointed in the Dustins… i think maybe the Eebs forgot to implement the crazy gene.
“Make a decision, go through with it – all the way… As long as this leads to madness, you’re still not there…”
Well, just because Justin’s a self-centered jerk and a borderline (?) psychotic, that doesn’t mean he’s EVIL.
Remember, he was at least GLAD that Nog hadn’t abducted his brother Bill instead of him. He didn’t want Bill to have been forced to endure what he himself considers a hellish experience, or for Bill to be separated from his wife Janey.
Hey Chris, I work at the Polar Geospatial Center in the Twin Cities. Give your friend my email address and ask her to drop me a line.
Drunk Eebs! 🙂 🙂 🙂 “Look! I put him together wrong. HA HEE HEE HA HA HA HA HA HEE HEE HA HA! Ohwoofueesh… Dstthh… (snort)” *thunk*
“Oh God, this makes me happy!” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/quotes?qt=qt1412394
Panel 5: The Dustin on the right. What’s his defect, or is he the original? Looks like something could be going on with his neck, but I’m not sure, in B&W.
They are clones of Dustin but they aren’t Dustin. And thinking like him isn’t a sure thing. And it looks like the Eebs decided to sanitize their joke to pure carbon. Bye bye guys sorry to see you go so soon.
“In which Dustin becomes sympathetic.” Is alpha-Dustin in the crowd?
I think alpha-Dustin is the one with the hood hanging behind his collar.
My screen shows the whole comic blurred beyond legibility. I have had no other problems with any page today. What’s up??
@zack_hoffman, yeah, I’m not sure they’d want the competition, even from other themselves. 🙂
@Heng, @Ronald is right. He’s not a bad guy in many ways. His initial goal was to get everyone home because he thought that was a good thing. A lot of his badness comes from an inability to abstractly think things like “others might feel differently.”
@Thomas_Juntunen, thank you! That is so kind. I have passed it along.
@Herander, that is the original. Doing something with the color to differentiate is a good idea.
@Karyl, try shift-reloading. Or click on the RSS feed (same file, but from a different directory). Seems okay to me, file construction and format looks fine. so I’m not sure how I’d fix it.
Hey, it’s inked. That’s fantastic!
“I hadn’t really thought it through” probably sums up Dustin during this comic quite neatly.
i never stated he was “evil” in any definition of the word.
i just thought he was thouroughly crazy… i kinda liked him for that 🙂
On another point, even though Dustin’s made several anti-nonhuman remarks (can’t really say “anti-alien” since in GOB space for all intent and purpose HE’S the alien), notice that he balks at outright MURDERING them. Even before learning there are women and children on the planet, he’s hesitant. As a random real-world analogy, although H.P. Lovecraft was reportedly anti-Semitic, he was reportedly nonetheless horrified by Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews; the fact that he didn’t like Jews didn’t mean he wanted them eradicated.
Of course, Dustin’s notion that, from the Eebs’ perspective, women somehow “deserve” eradication less than men do (I mean, from the Eebs’ perspective, all adults would be equally “complicit” in their enslavement, right?) is sort of chauvinistic, which shows that his jerkdom works on multiple levels. Similarly, he’s made prejudiced remarks about Asians to Yuri but IIRC has never made similar remarks about blacks to Pierrot; when he and Pierrot re-encountered each other on the GOB world (after Pierrot got Earth re-designated a dark planet), he seemed genuinely (albeit cluelessly) interested in being friends with Pierrot.
I have absolutely no idea what I’m supposed to think of Dustin’s moral code after this page. o_O
“YES, BURN IT A — wait, entities below a totally arbitrary age / of a gender whose cultural role varies wildly between species anyway? Guess we can’t!”
Soooo… does this mean no more Dustin? *crosses fingers*
@James Austin, my guess is that they’re going to keep Dustin Prime around (or at least certain select parts of him) so they can keep cloning around with him. Think Head-in-a-Jar (from Futurama) crossed with “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison. (Although in Dustin’s case, not having a mouth might help him immensely.)
It was easier to understand which one was the original one now that you colored it.
Crazy question:
Was the color of the outfit of the original and the clones in anyway a reference to the color scheme of player 2 from the game Michael Jackson Moonwalker?
Crazy, right?
I think that asking whether there are women and children on the planet is just Dustin’s odd way of realising that the inhabitants of the planets are innocents.
Also, I came across this quote recently:
“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
? Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
@Bill Kamp. Ha! No. 🙂
Dustin Alpha (original) may be kept around as a kind of buffoon. Just as the Star Headed Old Ones depicted in “At The Mountains of Madness” did with the precursor of humans. In their later degenerate sculptures as a shambling sub-form of intelligence. (In comparison to the Eebs, or at least this crop of Eebs anyway.) So I misread it earlier, they are going to that nearby planet to what? Loot and rape? Just take over? I suspect that most of the bad clones will fail in the getting a wife and kids department
Dear Chris: I was just at the AFK tavern in Everett, and they had Limbic Fizzlers there. Is that your work?! 😮
For your friend that wants to spend time in Antarctica, this is probably be the long way around, but has she ever considered joining the military? I mean, they supply that base with a variant of the C130, so maybe the Air Force?
http://dmna.ny.gov/ang/nyang.php
http://dmna.ny.gov/index.php?id=1318607040
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New York Air National Guard visits Antarctica a lot , because practicly no one elese in the in the US keeps large ski equipped aircraft.
That is a lot of commitment , to visit as a scientist or Journalist might be better if you can get the National Geographic or a university interested in your work you might get sent that way.
I am surprised at Dusty risking his health for aliens he has never met, pleasantly surprised, is Dusty discovering a better side of himself?
That is a good way to spend the time of your last day of life.
(P.S. Even if nobody else gets it, I still love it anyway. Thanks again CJ!)
Finally got a spare moment to sit down and catch up on Spacetrawler . . . and sir, you’ve damn near blown me away. As always, your inventiveness astonishes. Miss you, man.
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