Moovians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today Doc has figured out how to drive the bubble. He simply pushes a button on a two-button remote control and says where he wants to go. Except if you look back at the 8/9 strip when Frodd drives the bubble, he isn't holding a device of any kind and he doesn't tell the bubble where to go. If Joey planned enough in advance, she should have planted the idea of how the bubble moves through vast amounts of space so that today's strip made some sense. That is what makes continuity in a comic strip, connecting the daily strips so that the action follows in a logical manner rather than existing as a bunch of random events aided by deus ex machina after deus ex machina . And Joey, having Wonmug tell the bubble to take them to the moon is so much nonsense. There are over 200 moons in our solar system alone. How would any spacecraft know which moon to go to out of the thousands, if not millions, of moons in the vast universe. Today's trip to nowhere: https://www.gocomics.com/a...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does anybody remember that this is a story about the 1969 moon landing? Somehow it evolved or, more accurately, devolved into a sly commentary about God through the introduction of Frodd, a character who controls the destiny of 7 billion earthlings as if playing a video game. Except there wasn't any commentary, sly or otherwise, just the implication that mankind has no free will because Frodd controls everything. Frodd puts the game on pause implying (once again nothing is ever stated so the reader has to make make things up, just like Joey) that the world stops in its tracks until Frodd finishes his dinner. Does that make sense? Does any of this make sense? It apparently doesn't have to as the strip continues to increase in popularity. But reading today' strip I feel like I missed something. Doc now says they are a billion light-years away from Frodd? Huh? How did that happen? Doc calculated the distance away with something but with what is anybody's guess. And how is ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today Joey posits another idea, that planets outside the Milky Way Galaxy are flat. Sorry, Joey but it doesn't work that way, that the laws of physics operate differently in different parts of the universe. Planets in other galaxies are spheres, too, just like here. It can't be any other way for a true planet- a piece of space debris might be "flat" but a planet never. What she suggests is so mind boggingly dumb that its absolutely laughable. What's the deal with the spaceship? What propels it? How does it travel such vast distances when it is made out of plexiglass? The usual Sayers reasons - "just because". Joey doesn't bother to explain anything - no hyperdrive or a spaceship made out of "impervium" - because that would take work and effort. Just let everything happen by magic, so much easier that way. And what happened to yesterday' setup? They were supposed to be in suspended animation for the long journey and yet they are awake as...

 

 

Joey has proven time after time that she has no understanding of science or scientific terms. Today she mangles a very basic astronomical concepm, light-year. A light-year the distance that light travel in a year so it is a measure of distance not of time. A a physicist like Elbert Wonmug would know that. Whether they can live long enough to travel 40,000 light years is dependent about how fast they are travelling not that they are going that far. If they can travel that distance in five minutes, I think they will survive. Joey, of course, uses such an absurd number to set up the "we won't live that long" joke. But isn't Frodd just going home for dinner? They need suspended animation for that? Won't dinner be cold by the time they get there? And for that matter, why is this guy on a moon around a planet so far from his home? There has to be a planet or two closer than this to play his video games on. And how does he breathe on a world with no air? I'm beginnin...