Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, October 1, 2020.
Sorry, folks. I just had to tie Zorilla in. To complete the trilogy? 😉
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, October 1, 2020.
Sorry, folks. I just had to tie Zorilla in. To complete the trilogy? 😉
Don’t be sorry, Christopher. We’d all have been terribly disappointed if this *didn’t* involve Zorilla! (Now I’m just awaiting a clever comment by Coyoty.)
And the plot sickens. Hee hee.
Hey Christopher, I am loving the way of including Zorilla, but the timeline is leaving me sorta confused. It’s been hinted at several times that Zorilla is either unnaturally healthy for his age or uncommonly old due to space tech. So unless his sister is a LOT younger than him, in my mind it makes the sister a bit on the old side to normally be having children? Could you comment on this?
If Zorilla’s dad was as horny an old goat as he is, his sister could be up to sixty years younger than him.
@Erik, good point. @Efogoto, good point. I will consider changing it to niece, but I might leave it. 🙂
As if it matters: I vote to keep the relation as “sister”. It’s more puzzling, draws one in, must think it out…. lol
I have a second cousin who has an aunt that’s around ten years younger than she is.
Retired NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip is 73 years old, his brother Michael is 57.
My mom is the youngest of 14, meaning that there is nearly a two-generation gap between her and her oldest brother. So his sister having a young kid is perfectly plausible.
Hey, Jude…
Spacetrawler is the Zorilla family van.
“Aitana… I am you uncle.”
“Noooooo!!!”
Yessss!!!! And I knew you wouldn’t disappoint me. 😀
Krep (spelling?): Hey Aitana, do you know you had a cousin named Martina? Yeah, she’s a star nowadays.
Nah, not even he would do that.
That’s probably better than “here is your other cousin, Mauricio. He’s mostly a robot named Jabby. Mind the phlarb.”
That explains why the bobble-head doggos had no info on her. But more importantly…
DAMMIT NOG, NOT ANOTHER ONE!
The nice thing about Krep’s face being 90% eye is that when an epic eyeroll is required for a particular plot development he’s perfectly suited to deliver it.
Mind the shark!
All roads lead to Zorilla.
So the Zorillas are the Skywalkers of this universe?
It’s going to turn out that Mr Zorilla is the most important person in the universe, like the Man in the Shack in Douglas Adams’ HHGTTG, isn’t it?
I love the running gag of making Mr. Zorilla’s head taller every time we see him.
Is this the first mention that Mr. Zorilla lives in Uruguay? While he obviously lives in a Spanish-speaking country, I don’t recall it ever being stated which one, and I had actually half-assumed he lived in Spain.
Although, if he is Uruguayan, I guess a vacation to Ecuador where he fathers Mauricio makes a lot more sense than if he was Spanish.
@Timothy, it is mentioned once or twice in the earlier series.
The cast page shows that Martina Zorilla was from Uruguay. I can’t remember if it’s mentioned anywhere else.
After a bunch of searching (though not a total re-reading … yet), I found that Christopher mentioned it in the comments to this strip, and that it appears on the cast page as I said, but I think Krep’s comment is the first in-story use of the word Uruguay.
…At this point, I’m starting to think this is all somehow Zorilla’s fault.
You really need to do a drawing of the Zorilla family tree, which would basically have him as the trunk (he already looks like a tree trunk) and about four million branches coming out of his head.
I laughed, and then I found a tear in my eye when I realized Aitana has the blood of Martina. Yes, she’s going to be a fine hero.
Well, it is a small world in a small universe. How coincedental…
I like it.
Another Martina relation, as before unknown to her, but cast away in space and in mortal peril, even if she doesn’t realize it.
Things don’t usually turn out well for them, do they? So far.
‘Oh dear’ is right. If Emily were to learn of Aitana’s parentage….
Let’s just leave that where it lies, and see if there’s enough bourbon for next week.
The Zorilogy!
Yeah, you might need to tweak something. Aitana’s (i guess, now, adopted) abducted mom’s design looks nearly identical to Aitana. Which would be a neat selection criteria when adopting, but pretty unlikely.
Zorilla is the human equivalent of a black hole it seems.
Wait wait wait, it just hit me.
If Aitana is Mr. Zorilla’s sister’s kid… she’s got another family on Earth that she doesn’t know about.
And Heaven help her when she DOES find out. Tesfay and Chiphu knew their gigs were temporary, but her birth mother (father possibly too) are another kettle of fish entirely. She’s going to have to deal with how they feel about her regardless of in whose care she winds up.
Oboy.
The bourbon’s a little low, now that I think of it. And the gin, rum, sherry and zubrowka could all use replenishment. Back to the liquor store!
O’Boy? Is that Irish or something? 😉
Can you pick me up some Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill while you’re there? Thanks!
They were out. Can you settle for some Cadillac Winery Trefethen? Their winery didn’t burn down this year.