If this is a reference to the recent Government Shutdown, what’s the joke?
And if this isn’t a reference to the recent Government Shutdown… what’s the joke?
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I think you’ve got it, it is a reference to the shut down. I think the humour lies in the idea that Fermi’s paradox is solved by such a mundane event, an event that was caused by ourselves.
There are other places to make contact. 30+ years ago I did my own 8-page spoof sf fanzine (reviews, editorial, a story, a poem…) and included a home-made First Contact comic strip. Which I shall impose on you now.
We have the same problem here when there’s a shutdown. “We came all this way, and the Arch is CLOSED?”
Well, you can still look at it. You just can’t go up in it or visit the museum.
It’s Washington. Their minds are closed.
For those wondering about an Arch near Brian in STL, Seatle is SEA.
“Seatle is SEA”
Coincidentally, so is Tacoma.
Cool cartoon, narmitaj. And to think you did this over thirty years ago, all the way back in the 1950s… I mean, the 1960s… er… 1980s? (Boy, I feel old.)
Still… It’s pretty impressive.
Golden arches are everywhere. They’re always open.
I think it’d have made more sense several weeks ago, whilst the shutdown was still in effect.
Speaking of Golden Arches . . .
http://comicskingdom.com/bizarro/2019-03-11
narmitaj, I like your comic.
I should probably go over to random comments to ask, but since I’m here,..
How many of you draw/have drawn your own comics? I can’t even draw stick figures, and I think it’s great how talented narmitaj’s comic is.
For those wondering about an Arch near Brian in STL, Seatle is SEA.
Does anyone use STL for Seattle? I didn’t find ANY hits on a web search that seemed to do that. All links were either for various St. Louis organizations or were other acronyms (Standard Template Library etc.)
“How many of you draw/have drawn your own comics? I can’t even draw stick figures”
I did stick figure cartoons all the way back in grade school, but there wasn’t an Internet open to grade schoolers back then, so I didn’t get to famous as a webcartoonist. By the time I was in junior high school, I was getting suspended for drawing and distributing cartoons that were appropriate for the intended audience, but NOT for the administration’s belief of who was in the intended audience. Not only hadn’t the public Internet been invented, but neither had the PG-13 film rating.
Years ago – grade school & jr high – I drew comics – “newspapers” too. Great fun, long gone !
In 1952 there was a big UFO “flap: (that’s what they’re called) over Washington DC -sightings over several nights/days. Don’t know if that’s what’s being referenced here. I’ve read the Project Blue Book report, but never seen the TV show (loosely) based on it, so it may be more current than I realize.
I like your comic, narmitaj. Impressive!
I used to draw in school, and then halfway through art college I changed majors to photography. I have done a few funny drawings in the past.
I don’t draw, but I’m amazed at the number of fen and filkers that hang out here.
Thanks for the nice comments. Back in 1988 it was still eleven years until the very futuristic date of 1999… odd to think it is now a further 20 years on. I believe George Harrison did an interview in later life when he talked about being young and in the Beatles and the being 30 was a long way off…. then he reflected a moment and said “of course, 30 is a lot further away now”!
I did do an art A Level and also had a year’s Foundation Course at art college, before I went off in a different direction. I don’t draw or paint much at all these days, except on computer a bit (Christmas cards and so on). But there you go.
@ catladymac – I think it’s more current, and it might explain why most of the residents of both buildings seem to act like outer space aliens.
Grawlix, are they online anywhere? Care to share?
” most of the residents of both buildings seem to act like outer space aliens.”
How do outer space aliens act? Are we talking about the kind of aliens who visit 1950’s Milwaukee, then settle in 1970’s Colorado, with a nice single woman played by Pam Dawber, or the kind of aliens who hunt the spaceship crew one by one, after exploding out of one of their torsos? Or the kind of aliens who look just like us except they like to fight each other with swords made out of light?
Or… is it a COOKBOOK!?!
Brian in STL – Hence why NYC paid to keep the Statute of Liberty, Ellis Island and Castle Clinton open during the shutdowns (to be reimbursed after the fact of course) – didn’t want people who came for their vacation to miss out. (Lots of other Federal sites closed in NYC then, though.)
Oh, and they didn’t want people not to come if the sites had been closed and lose the tourist money.