Comic 390 - Traveling First Class
24th Jan 2019, 12:00 AM in Raiders of the Lost Apple
Traveling First Class
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Microraptor edit delete
Microraptor
Only partly visible in the background: A "pilot" variant of the ToyCo logo!
(There is a hard to describe design aesthetic associated with airlines that I always liked...)

I am sure everyone has seen that old cliche a dozen times in TV and movies: Some guy has a rather bad break-up with his girl, and the next scene shows him having guard duty at some fort in the middle of the desert, as member of the French Foreign Legion...
(According to Wikipedia though, Tarik is mistaken in the assumption that the Foreign Legion is indeed exclusively for non-French citizens.)
User comments:
The Doodler edit delete reply
The Doodler
He and Winderbees should go hunting sometime. And none of this sissy modern stuff. :P
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Believe it or not, but this will - sorta kinda - happen in this chapter! ;-)
Bobblit edit delete reply
Bobblit
Poor Babette! D:

But yes, I have to wonder how exactly they let Sören into the airport with that harpoon. It's not exactly very... hideable?
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Poor Babette... because nobody wants to fly with her airship anymore, or because her ex-boyfriend took the break-up so badly that he left the country?

(And Sören is extremely lucky that strolling into an airport with a friggin' harpoon didn't result in him getting hunted down by a SWAT team or something...)
Bobblit edit delete reply
Bobblit
Both! I mean, especially because of the bad breakup, but adding airship rejection to that does certainly not seem to be helping...

(Hmmm... Sören was lucky? Or the SWAT team was lucky? XP)
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
A heavily armed SWAT team having trouble fighting... just one man with a harpoon.

Sounds like a premise for an action movie. :-D
Bobblit edit delete reply
Bobblit
*Desire to draw fanart featuring Sören as Chuck Norris increasing*
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Haha! No obligation of course, but that would be awesome! :-D
ProfEtheric edit delete reply
ProfEtheric
Smooth, Tarik. Very smooth...

And yes, Sören, we all like Selene. :)
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Tarik is many things, but not particularly a Don Juan... :-D

And of course I like Wildebees too. :-)
BTW, in this chapter, a tidbit about her will crop up that... I think nobody else except lirvilas knows yet. (I am not sure if I didn't blurt it out already somewhere in Childhood's End comment section.)
lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
Private aircraft are not subject anywhere near the same security measures as commercial airlines; a harpoon would easily be brought aboard.

Points for setting up Wildebees + Soren shippin'
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Still, I wonder if entering an airport with a clearly visible harpoon wouldn't at least raise some eyebrows...

Haha! Yeah, out of my already established characters, Sören seems attitude-wise to be the most "compatible" with Wildebees. :-D They will have some more scenes together in this chapter.
Taily edit delete reply
Taily
I am extremely concerned about the Port de la Mort and the Tir Na Nog Whiskey!!!! NEITHER OF THESE THINGS BODE WELL!!!!!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
The team actually visited Pont-de-la-Mort in France waaaaayyyyy back in Chapter # 4!
Back then, the ominous name of this place was supposed to foreshadow this event...

The first appearance of the Tír na nÓg Whiskey, on the other hand, was not that long ago.
I found the idea of the letters following the curvature of circular label visually interesting enough to give it a reappearance here.
Taily edit delete reply
Taily
Ahhh okay, I misread the N as an R and assumed the French wine was actually a port called Port of Death :')
Slightly less ominous now!
Candralar edit delete reply
Candralar
I love how Soren never leaves home without his harpoon! :D
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Sören: "Let's see, do I have everything? Keys, wallet, harpoon..."