Private Jhon: Hmm, three people to build the first colony? Are you sure the argo manager calculated right?
Genral Musk: Pha, how cares. The change of success is two in a thousand any way. If we were doing this for real we wold have send the supers how can freely travel through space.
Capt.: How are we going to make a colony with just three people?
Other Guy: Well, according to the movies, after the alien eats most of the crew, the lone survivor is going to grow potatoes fertilized with their own shit, and legally if you grow crops in territory, you’re a colonist.
Final Girl: That’s damn stupid! You can’t run a space program on movie tropes!
Capt.: Wait a second! Why are you being labeled “Final Girl”?
Other Guy: The “Final Girl” is the tough-as-nails hawt female who survives the monsters in the movies.
Capt.: Doesn’t that mean we guys are doomed?
Final Girl: I withdraw my objection to using movie tropes.
An earlier comic stated that two out of every three people is either a superhero or a supervillain. Calling it now, blondy is the only one without superpowers on this mission.
“Tragedy on space flight”, “enounter with aliens”, “accident with experimental tech”, and “exposure to exotic radiation” are all perfectly valid super-origins with long venerable histories.
The Terrific Three? The Triumphant Triad? The Twinkly Triplets?
On a totally unrelated note – when I saw the image of the space ship in panel 1and noticed the protusion pointing top right I suddenly remembered that I installed a new toilet seat the other week and its lid appeared before my inner eye, for no reason in particular.
The second frame embodies nearly every cliche of the heroic line up, the last frame tends to show the reality of a long road trip, speaking of which are they there yet?
To boldy go, where every superhero has gone before.
Even Lazy Pony has already gone to space and interacted with aliens already :I
Private Jhon: Hmm, three people to build the first colony? Are you sure the argo manager calculated right?
Genral Musk: Pha, how cares. The change of success is two in a thousand any way. If we were doing this for real we wold have send the supers how can freely travel through space.
Capt.: How are we going to make a colony with just three people?
Other Guy: Well, according to the movies, after the alien eats most of the crew, the lone survivor is going to grow potatoes fertilized with their own shit, and legally if you grow crops in territory, you’re a colonist.
Final Girl: That’s damn stupid! You can’t run a space program on movie tropes!
Capt.: Wait a second! Why are you being labeled “Final Girl”?
Other Guy: The “Final Girl” is the tough-as-nails hawt female who survives the monsters in the movies.
Capt.: Doesn’t that mean we guys are doomed?
Final Girl: I withdraw my objection to using movie tropes.
Capt. and Other Guy: HEY!
At least Capt. and Other Guy wer not labelled “Meat Shield #1 and #2″…
Or wear red.
An earlier comic stated that two out of every three people is either a superhero or a supervillain. Calling it now, blondy is the only one without superpowers on this mission.
The blonde one is standing a bit before the others – so he’s probably the captain.
Probably the best choice considering the side effects of super powers.
That stat was for the city, not the country.
“Tragedy on space flight”, “enounter with aliens”, “accident with experimental tech”, and “exposure to exotic radiation” are all perfectly valid super-origins with long venerable histories.
The Terrific Three? The Triumphant Triad? The Twinkly Triplets?
Seriously, that ship looks way too large for just the three of them. There has to be more crew than that.
*Checks roster*
Really, just the three? Damn budget cuts.
Well, building lights that big that are red with a yellow center, on a govt project, is pretty damned expensive! Cuts had to be made somewhere.
On a totally unrelated note – when I saw the image of the space ship in panel 1and noticed the protusion pointing top right I suddenly remembered that I installed a new toilet seat the other week and its lid appeared before my inner eye, for no reason in particular.
It’s not unrelated. I saw a toilet, too. That just means this whole mission’s going into the crapper.
(A few decades later)
Michaels: To baldly go, go, go!
Cpt. Stevens: For the tenth time, this isn’t funny, Michaels!
(Yup, it isn’t since yesterday that I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to say that)
2 weeks later:
Guy 2: You know, I’m pretty sure that our boss just wanted to get rid of us…
The second frame embodies nearly every cliche of the heroic line up, the last frame tends to show the reality of a long road trip, speaking of which are they there yet?
Are the flags on their uniforms backwards?