A terrible pun
*Thinks to himself, ‘which way am I going to go with this? …I could drone on about the state of humanity, the representation of science in the media or perhaps animal traits in humans’… then realises that this being The Flowfield Unity it has probably been said before and that there’s little use in preaching to the choir*
I fancy a different type of hybrid… like the ones we made before, do you remember? When you came up with an idea, either a notion or fully formed, and I would try to make a comic out of it?
I think it went pretty well, and I know we have a few new readers that might fancy a chance, so, as of next Monday, I’ll be posting some interactive art and we’ll be having a look at some of you for a change.
As was the case last time, feel free to leave your ideas in the comments or you can email me at the usual address.
We’ll be starting with a strip idea from Fes of the popular podcast, The Webcomic Beacon… it contains a high percentage of pun with traces of geek.
So, sing on choir.
justine on 
What are we doing now? This comic reminds of Dr. Thoreau.
Have you ever seen a manatee? They’re pretty damn amazing creatures.
Alas, I’ve never seen one wild or captive, other than on the telebox… still they are fascinating creatures…
We’re hopefully going to repeat what we did last October where, for a week(ish) I draw comics based on readers ideas… It’s a good way of getting to know everyone a bit better.
These ideas don’t have to be fully formed, they can be a word, a title, a phrase… or they can be the full thing…
In return I also write a post about the creator of the strip with links to their site and such.
Feel free to give it a whirl.
I expect you’ve seen this: http://people.tribe.net/mmm/photos/2870435e-13b5-42f4-bdc9-061154b78e1a
Well, I have now… All manatees look pretty huge to me.
I suspected that there might be something similar to this, but I figured I’d go down the ‘genetic experiment’ route.
I’m rather jealous of your de Maupassant book, by the way, for so many reasons, not least the advertising on the back cover. I heard they were going to do that with the last Harry Potter but bottled out at the last minute.
Looks ridiculously close to an actual manatee, lol. I’ll be interested to see what this interactive art is all about as I’m a fairly new reader to the comic.
I only had pictures to work from, but they’re pretty easy to draw… mostly just a large elongated blog with a sad expression.
Again, I hope I’ve explained what ew do clearly enough, though as always, if you have any questions just ask.
Do something about an evil olive, my favorite palindrome.
We had a bit of drama in class yesterday. This week I’m doing a lesson on western comic books; I brought in some of my books from home to pass around the class so they can get some hands-on experience with artifacts of North American culture. Anyhow, at the end of class I gathered up all the books, and one of them was missing! Was it the X-Men? The Tick? Sam and Max? No, it was The Flowfield Unity… my first thought was that whichever student was pilfering my comics had damn sophisticated taste.
We found it after class. No-one tried to steal it, it’s just that because of the book’s shape and binding it got mixed up with one of the student’s notebooks. Ah well. Some of the students did like The Flowfield Unity very much, sitting there trying to read it with a dictionary.
Will do – oddly I’ve never featured a pallindrome, and since that one has a plenty of potential it will be so.
Is it it wrong that I’m slightly disappointed that no one stole my book… as a teacher, can you encourage that sort of behaviour?
The Tick! I do like the tick.
Nope. It’s not wrong at all. Not at all.
Oh man, Evil Olive should be some sort of comics anti-heroine. DIBS! Assuming no one’s beat me to the punch there. I was actually looking for a new name for a sort of zombie girl I invented a while back. She has a meat cleaver and is surly.
*That* is pretty damn cool. Congrats, Adam! You beat out superheroes!
Hahahaha! A bad pun indeed.
I have the morbid pun in my head, with Mickey Mouse hung, and something in the caption about “suspended animation.” Reminds me of the bood “Three Fingers,” actually (though I’ve not ready it yet, it looks good).
http://books.google.com/books?id=6NZAEDvp_xkC&dq=three+fingers&pg=PP1&ots=3n4We4DJ29&sig=ai0wiRBGjXovcCAyn69L1FYYS10&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
Oooh, that looks cool…
Humanitee is indeed a terrible pun,
albeit funny. Maybe it’s the best
outcome for humankind anyway.
I must say that was a fantastic pun. Pure genious.
Anyone who can incorporate a manatee (definitely one of my favourite animals) into a webcomic and also make it into a pun is basically a hero, as far as I can tell.
No hero I. Merely a manipulator of curious sea mammals.
I’m quite partial to their close relatives the Dugong.
Which is a member of the same order, Sirenia. Which is, incidently the name of a metal band. How about that. I wonder if they named themselves after the curious sea mammals?
Sirenia… as in ‘Sirens’? That’d make sense… though quite how one could mistake a dugong (as lovely as they are) with a beautiful maiden… well, long time at sea and all that…
Hahaha! Yeah, I was thinking something like that too. Maybe they sing, like humpbacks?
Humpbacks… is that your nickname for Britney?
No, I think for her we use “washed up,” which still could be oceanic imagery.
I’m thinking specifically of the humpbacks from the fourth Star Trek movie, you remember the one, The Voyage Home?
A film hampered by its heavy-handed conservation theme and lack of a space battle. Still one of the better Trek films.
I know the one… which reminds me:
Rules of sci-fi 1. thou shalt not drag Shatner back through time. If he’s in the 23rd century, leave him there.
Right where he belongs, absotively.
It was one of the better ones because of the use of humour, I think. “A little too much LDS in the ’60s” indeed.
arf, The Latter Day Saints are the but of so many dyslexic drug jokes.
Oh, they’re also rather fantastic.
Actually, sea mammals in general just rock.
Curious Sea Mammals would be a good band name, I think. And not just because of the rock credibilities of sea mammals.
You know what I think would be a really great name for a really heavy metal band: I Heart Dolphins. They could even dress in like pastel polo shirts and short shorts and have respectable haircuts but then play REALLY HEAVY metal music with extremely offensive lyrics.
Hahaha! I great idea. We had the thought, a while back, of having a heavy metal band that did this:
The band’s name is Satan’s Phlegm. The lights are down. Smoke machines running full blast. One spot hits the stage, illuminating the drummer, who’s all metaled out, in a gimp mask, black leather, tattoos, etc. He starts pounding out double-bass drum rhythms. Another spot comes on, illuminating the bassist, who picks it up low and fast, pounding it out, heavy distortion. Next, a spot on the guitarist, who starts hitting some sick riffs, and the whole things tight and really death metal… hard and heavy. One last spot, on the curtain at the back of the stage. Out walks my little sister-in-law, a cute pixie all of sixteen years of age, dressed in a pink tutu and fairy winds. She precedes to walk to the front of the stage, followed by the spot light, takes the microphone, and proceeds to sing in the cutest squeakiest little-girl voice possible “SATAN”S PHLEGM!” over and over again.
I think it’d be a big hit at the heavy metal clubs in Sweden, no?
There aren’t enough ridiculous high concept heavy metal bands out there. There can never be enough.
Absotively.
Not exactly the same thing but a similar aesthetic… or lack thereof. For Roo, I present Whale:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqCwlQODxo
when you said that, did you remember ‘do everything on porpoise’?
With the obesity rate of this country on the rise, soon we will be similar to this.
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For those not squeemish…
Dugons, sea cows, some porpoises, etc have often been used by aborginal cultures of various continents for coming of age rituals and things like that.
I’m guessing because they have similar bits.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if sailors used them for something like this during long sea voyages.
Which would explain why they may be refered to as sirens, as their calls would attract a lonely sailor.
Just a guess.
Really? Now that’s interesting, I wonder if it’s true? Great story by conjecture, either way!
I hadn’t heard of the “similar bits” part but I have heard several stories from different sources (sometimes zoos!) that they could be confused by sailors who were long out to sea, I guess similar to seeing oases in the desert? : )
I know for a fact it is true.
Atleast here in Aus, tho I have heard of it from south America and some islands, just not from solid sources.
I wonder how long I would need to be at sea for before I got that confused…..