B.A.: Okay, so… a comic about the future that uses what’s already a Geezer reference (Blockbuster/VHS tapes). But I still don’t understand what the joke’s supposed to be.
Though the Cow pinch-hitting for the Squirrel does give us a passable “Oy”.
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If you rent a time machine to visit the future, please return yourself to the time you left before returning it. That’s the joke, whether you think it’s funny or not.
BTW, currently Bad Machinery by John Allison has a time travel plot. It took me a while to accept that that’s really what’s supposed to be happening — I kept supposing it was all about how his schoolgirl protagonists were dealing with unpleasant changes in their town.
https://www.gocomics.com/bad-machinery/2018/06/27
It kind of doesn’t make sense. If you don’t rewind they’ll just charge you more because you rented it for a longer period of time. If you do rewind you didn’t take it out for any time and they can’t charge you.
Mitch4: You got me all excited that there were new Bad Machinery comics, but that’s just a rerun. :(
http://www.scarygoround.com/badmachinery/?date=20130919
I guess I should just be happy with the new Scary-Go-Rounds. And Abstruse Gooses.
I’d’ve written the margin joke a bit differently: “Back to the future? Nah, I went forward to the pasture.”
Better? YMMV. :-)
At first glance I thought the squirrel was a crank in the side of the desk that you had to turn to rewind.
I think the joke would be better with “FROM” instead of “IN”, which would make it:
FROM THE FUTURE?
PLEASE BE KIND
REWIND
Or: PLEASE BE KIND (and) REWIND (our VHS cassettes when returning them).
In other words, people from the future are not likely to know proper VHS etiquette when renting movies. This happens so often that movie rental stores have to put up special signs just for time travellers from the future (but not time travellers from the past, obviously).
J-L
That is really really tortured.
But still better than the intended.
If you time travel please unwind anything you changed and set the timeline back to where it was before you left. ?
Grawlix: “I’d’ve” ? A double contraction?? Way cool!
I like Meryl’s version.
Ah, thanks Winter! I actually do have bookmarks for Scary-Go-Round on my “independent comics sites” list but haven’t tracked Bad Machinery there at all well. And as I do more or less keep up with selections on Go Comics, that seems to take over my focus.
But now, for good or ill, I can binge that story! Uh-oh.
BTW, was I correct in saying it does involve actual case of time travel, and not just the characters over-interpreting local events that could be explicable? Mystery!