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The contest continues! Let’s see what you guys can do with this strip.
I am 99% done the book, but Scribus has been giving me some technical problems. The most most recent has been that the export-to-image feature isn’t working quite right, and the pdf export messes up the colours. Sigh.
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(132 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
March 17th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Strange. Why would an air-breathing mammal need a water tank on its head? Surely there would be better ways to keep its skin from drying out.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Clearly that’s just an air tank, with a humidifier inside.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Um….
A talking dolphin in a robosuit?
Really?
March 17th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
There’s some sort of device attaches to its head thats reading brainwaves and translating into speech. Hence the BOLD text dialog.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Half way through drawing the dolphin’s suit, it dawned on me that he would probably drown in it. Then I figured that he could just breathe through a specially designed aperture near his blow-hole. Or that it might just be really, really humid in there.
And yes, the machine is talking for him. That’s why his speech bubble is square, and his words are in bold. Maybe I should have used a different font, or make the tail point at the thing’s chest or something?
Also - I was originally going to put some dolphins jumping out of the water in the distance, but decided that that would be overkill.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
See, the dolphin drowning would have been funny.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:14 am
It actually would… Well, let’s see if one of those contest-comics will do so.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am
So he has a brainwave-to-english scanner all hooked up but he still wears a bluetooth headset? Man, those things are everywhere. I also like how his robosuit sits on one big wheel.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Yeah, I got that-the suit is rendering his brain-waves intelligible.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
that suit reminds me of gizmo duck
March 19th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Yes, Mr./Ms. Dolphin just needs to ‘move’ a few more times, and he’ll be completely desensitized and VERY well adjusted! (:
(That’s how it works. Try it, you’ll see!)
March 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Cool. Not just a sad robot, a sad DOLPHIN robot,
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I like this. It’s astutely depressing, and the coloring really looks good. Very memorable–well done.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I’d like it better if there were some sort of implication that the dolphin itself were some kind of scientist or explorer instead of a test subject. Yuri Gagarin trapped in space is more poignant than the same thing for Laika.
It’s still great, though. I love dolphin surface exploration; it’s one of the neater bits of vaguely plausible sci-fi there is.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
This webcomic twists my brain!
This one in particular makes me sad!
Hehehe-nice work!
May 4th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Intelligent Dolphins eh. You haven’t by any chance read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series have you?