#876: "Good morning, buddy."
 

This is one of my favorite sequences in 8-bit theater. I'd been meaning to revisit the general idea of it, and so we have today's comic.

I've got to agree with Master Overlord.





Mmm... I wonder if you are going to implement a similar sequence in Atomic Robo...


GUESS THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

Heh. I gotta love the special effect.

BRIAN! the god of making nothing FUNNY!...:O_o: BANED!( GREAT COMIC MAN YOU ARE THE BEST)

Looks like BM learned how to cast Death Ray (or wishes he knew how) :-P

Brain needed a reboot.

Rather than a death ray, I thought it was a scream of flaming, incandescent, gloriously pure rage so great it made Fighter explode in a fireball. I've been there. :)

But the real question is, what did he say?

And can the comic get any funnier than BM's daydreams?

Speaking of which, as an aside, I looked at that older comic and saw something that's always perked my curiosity, in every movie from Armageddon to Stargate. When an astral body explodes in space, why is it that the explosion is horizontal? Every time a planet, asteroid or star explodes there's an even ring of fire like a halo extending further and faster than the rest of the explosion. My knowledge of astrophysics is mostly instinctual, but it seems wrong that an explosion in zero gravity (and air) should have a distinguished equator.

And why do the heroes' vehicle always travel in the vector where it gets caught in the halo?

Fighter seemed slightly shocked about what BM said. Now I really want to know what it was. Probably some flaming.

^I believe they do the effect like that because it looks cooler. Also, the hero MUST travel on that vector. It's more dramatic. :P

Actually the vector is essentially a blast of hot gas which is pushing the hero's vehicle forward, basically improving their chances of escape :shifty:

That was very interesting, and marks ANOTHER day in Hurt, Austrailia!