Boated-Aric made the boat out of his half of the Giant Flying Nightmare Monster, presumably he doesn’t have the same knack of detaching reality to figure he can walk on water.
I’m guessing that he just figured it to be an ocean, and that he needs a seaworthy craft. Whereas lemmo was told that he could try walking, which worked -because- he thought it might?
There’s also the question of exactly how big/deep the sea is now, considering that it rests on an assumably flat/infinite(?) plane
Murphs, Iffkun, Arantor: Personally, I don’t see any issue with the idea that one could walk on this stuff *or* boat on it, at least within the fictional context. One’s boating, the other’s walking. Which one’s more pleasant, I ask you? Surely the boat.
I just read all the comics released as of yet in one day! And they all make me happy in my groin! Thanks for making me procrastinate for, like, an hour. morons
Also, concerning the boat thing, perhaps this sea has the consistency of custard: walk-on-able and also sail-on-able.
I stand corrected, it was not the shore that colored the greenish of the sea. It does in fact contain a greenish tint. Love lemmos face in panel 4 hes got the WTF look, very nice.
By definition, Aric-bot has a functioning Global Positioning System. Gravity seems to work just fine, so our lads likely are not on an infinite flat plane – all that air would attract itself into a sphere. Presumably, if a Bug flyer could lift you high enough above the surface near the Shovel Beam, you would find the bottom side of the hole in the surface made by the original shovel. You could then climb through that hole (carefully!) and return to the surface that way. So BlankIt appears to be almost two-dimensional locally.
A GPS could be constructed by positioning a sufficient number of broadcasting stations underneath the surface (coincidentally high in the air above the surface). You need a globe, but not a sky or satellites.
Once anything appears in BlankIt, that object’s existence may imply that more such objects exist. There are more robots than Aric-bot and more Bugs than Fergus. There are probably more sentient English-speaking species than the Bugs ‘n Bots. Socks the Talking Fox might be unique, though.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:20 am
“I’m not a robot” does sound like something Aric would say…
January 15th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Definitely does sound like something Aric would say. Even the GPS part isn’t entirely out of left field.
The question will be if we see other comic characters turning up in this blank universe, such as… maybe… Ashfield?
January 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I think that settles it, then. Clearly Aric just changed his look a little. Must be the hair.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I wonder if Aric has found a Lemmo-bot yet?
January 15th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Have I ever told you all that you’re awesome? Because it’s true.
January 15th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
WAIT A MOMENT. How can boated-Aric have had a boat if not-robot-Aric and Lemmo can walk on the surface of the purple liquid!?
January 15th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Boated-Aric made the boat out of his half of the Giant Flying Nightmare Monster, presumably he doesn’t have the same knack of detaching reality to figure he can walk on water.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I’m guessing that he just figured it to be an ocean, and that he needs a seaworthy craft. Whereas lemmo was told that he could try walking, which worked -because- he thought it might?
There’s also the question of exactly how big/deep the sea is now, considering that it rests on an assumably flat/infinite(?) plane
January 17th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Murphs, Iffkun, Arantor:
Personally, I don’t see any issue with the idea that one could walk on this stuff *or* boat on it, at least within the fictional context. One’s boating, the other’s walking.
Which one’s more pleasant, I ask you? Surely the boat.
January 17th, 2009 at 2:32 am
well thats it then. not a robot. clear as day.
January 17th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I don’t know. I would prefer the walk, honestly.
January 18th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I just read all the comics released as of yet in one day! And they all make me happy in my groin!
Thanks for making me procrastinate for, like, an hour.
morons
Also, concerning the boat thing, perhaps this sea has the consistency of custard: walk-on-able and also sail-on-able.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Should we refer to it as the Purple Custard Sea until otherwise instructed?
January 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
what dose this mean for the shovelbeam with all the purble stuff wouldnt it extinguish it or something?
January 19th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Nah. It’d still fall hard and fast, resulting in heat.
Purple rain. I hate Prince. {{:(
January 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
While the plane is infinate, the ocean is clearly not. I suspect that there are shores, and that the ocean does not reach the shovel beam.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Spelling errors! Woo!
January 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
CORRECTION – Purple-Grey Custard Sea. PuGCuS!
January 19th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Random trivia, I went to the same high school as Prince.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I’m surprised no one else commented that the GPS might prove useful… Time to dismantle some robot!
(Yes, I’m terribly behind. Catching up tonight!)
May 12th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I stand corrected, it was not the shore that colored the greenish of the sea. It does in fact contain a greenish tint. Love lemmos face in panel 4 hes got the WTF look, very nice.
May 24th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
But the GPS wouldn’t be of any good, a Global-Positioning-Unit doesn’t do anything if you’re on a flat plane, not a globe.
September 26th, 2013 at 10:41 pm
By definition, Aric-bot has a functioning Global Positioning System.
Gravity seems to work just fine, so our lads likely are not on an infinite flat plane – all that air would attract itself into a sphere. Presumably, if a Bug flyer could lift you high enough above the surface near the Shovel Beam, you would find the bottom side of the hole in the surface made by the original shovel. You could then climb through that hole (carefully!) and return to the surface that way. So BlankIt appears to be almost two-dimensional locally.
A GPS could be constructed by positioning a sufficient number of broadcasting stations underneath the surface (coincidentally high in the air above the surface). You need a globe, but not a sky or satellites.
Once anything appears in BlankIt, that object’s existence may imply that more such objects exist. There are more robots than Aric-bot and more Bugs than Fergus. There are probably more sentient English-speaking species than the Bugs ‘n Bots. Socks the Talking Fox might be unique, though.