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A Few Miles

by Paul Taylor on April 4, 2011 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Bud, Stinky
Location: Sand Bar

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  1. Cheesy1
    April 4, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    The plot, she thickens!

    • Kramegame
      April 4, 2011, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      If the plot started as a broth it would be a chowder by now.

      • Rowan Hawthorn
        April 4, 2011, 7:34 am | #

        Well, of course – they already got the seafood – er, or the seafood’s got *them*…

      • Platonix
        April 4, 2011, 7:18 pm | #

        Chowder? I’d say we’re nearing brick territory.

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 7:59 pm | #

        Are you saying the plot’s opaque?

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 11:41 pm | #

        I thought about it, and I guess it would be more like a super dense clear polymer than a brick. Nice and viscous, while still being able to see through all the little bubbles and connections.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      June 8, 2017, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      Me? I just like the way that Stinky is trying to read over her shoulder.
      O.o

  2. Uncle Rice
    April 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    They were obviously after the same artefact the girls are after. It just proved to be too much for them to handle.

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      They’re just focused on an Irish tombstone that says ‘Yggdrasil’ at this point.

      • Uncle Rice
        April 4, 2011, 9:13 am | #

        Yes, that’s all the further they have gone, but there is clearly an Item they are looking for. My guess the sub was looking for the same Item, even if they didn’t know what the Item was. It would seem to me they did indeed find something they couldn’t handle.

    • txmystic
      April 4, 2011, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      Is Indiana Jones gonna appear out of nowhere in this arc?

      • Vorlonagent
        April 4, 2011, 10:45 am | #

        We have Monica. It’d be a bonus if she *dressed* as Indy though.

  3. NicolasA
    April 4, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Love the ‘Grapes’ logo on the laptop…Me want the same!
    And what a nice pet-dog look on stinky’s, ahum, face! All good and quiet while mummy’s working!

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I want to be able to say, “I need my laptop”… and there it is; I’m sooo jealous! ME WANNA POIT TOO!!! (snif)

    • jwhouk
      April 4, 2011, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      GrapePC – When you need WiFi connections in the middle of NOWHERE!

      • Biker Matt
        April 4, 2011, 12:33 am | #

        I just hope it doesn’t go sour on her…

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2011, 2:19 am | #

        Well, Bud put all those diamonds she made to good use in spending it on a Sattelite link I guess…

    • Paula
      April 4, 2011, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      me too 😀

      instead of an ‘apple’ mac apparently the wapsi-universe has ‘grape’ macs 😀

      • StJason
        April 4, 2011, 2:31 am | #

        *sigh*… I remember when APPLE Computer made Macintoshes.. But I guess I’m just old. So Macintosh computers makes ‘apple-style’ computers…

      • Paula
        April 5, 2011, 1:46 am | #

        i remember the Acorn Electron so i don’t think you be THAT old ^^

      • Danzier
        April 5, 2011, 7:45 am | #

        Yeah, I was a gamer on the Commodore 64 in my youth. You’re not old if I’m not old, so there you go.

    • DJ
      April 4, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      The GG certainly have come a long way that she has her own laptop. Just a few short years ago, Bud and Brandi didn’t even know about e-mail.

    • Zachariaha
      April 4, 2011, 5:32 am | # | Reply

      guys. Just take it as it is. Stop Whining about the grapes. You are just raisin a moot pinot.

      And no I am not sorry for this one.

      • Uncle Rice
        April 4, 2011, 9:09 am | #

        You give some people grapes, and they can’t help but come up with whine. Just bring them some cheese next time.

      • msyendor
        April 4, 2011, 4:16 pm | #

        And dolmades, please.

    • Julie
      April 4, 2011, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      The whole reason Stinky is so darn loveable is that he’s been portrayed like a more conventional pet (i.e. a dog). 🙂 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…I want one.

  4. Jay-Em
    April 4, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Laying down Stinky is sooooo cute…. Stinky has that adoring look that dogs can have too when you’re busy with something and you still aknowledge they are there by scratching their head, or something.

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Bud understanding Stinky saying “Just a few miles from here” made me think of a Perry Bible Fellowship strip where Timmy’s dad doesn’t realize Timmy’s in trouble, just thinks Lassie’s hungry. Anthropomorphizing can be imprecise 🙂

  5. LolDrood
    April 4, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Scouting for Allied merchant ships or dropping off German spies. Or they got super lost and thought the were in France.
    Well, that’s the boring answer, anyways.

  6. RSinAustin
    April 4, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    It takes real talent to make a giant squid so adorable 🙂

  7. geekoncall
    April 4, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Maybe she should go inside the sub. Can she read German?

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      She can speak giant squid; why not? 🙂 …If not, she could use the laptop to translate…

      • My2Cents
        April 4, 2011, 2:52 am | #

        The GG’s have worked a number of temple guardian/spirit of vengeance/etc. over the millennia. The Kraken was probably a coworker at some point.

        So there you are in the off-hours, nobody around and nothing to see, you learn how to communicate with your foreign colleagues, even if it is only to supply a 4th hand for cards.

      • Fatuncle
        April 4, 2011, 5:09 am | #

        My God, now I have a mental picture of Stinky dealing cards — !

      • W.
        April 4, 2011, 7:45 am | #

        Playing cards or bongos not a problem.

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 8:39 am | #

        …and a fifth and a sixth and a seventh…

      • geekoncall
        April 4, 2011, 1:27 pm | #

        People, People, doesn’t any one want to go see what’s inside???

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 7:58 pm | #

        nope.

  8. Onikakarot
    April 4, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    am i the only one wondering.
    How does she have internet way out there?

    • Paul Taylor
      April 4, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      InMarSat, Iridium, GlobalSat, with an Aircard.

      • as363
        April 4, 2011, 12:57 am | #

        Paul – thanks for that quick info -much appreciated .

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 2:26 am | #

        Or, even more succinctly and amusingly:

        Magic.

      • RBZ
        April 4, 2011, 7:39 am | #

        Bud just plugged her laptop into a network poit.

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 11:43 pm | #

        if thats a pun, prepare to be hissed at….

      • rich
        June 30, 2012, 5:28 pm | #

        “she’s poiting internet connection!”

        j/k

      • txmystic
        April 4, 2011, 10:06 am | #

        *sigh* if only Motorola had not stepped on their own collective feet with the original deployment of Iridium, we’d all have been enjoying worldwide coverage by now…

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 7:58 pm | #

        Wasn’t their feet they stepped on.

        With golf shoes on.

      • Wyvern
        April 4, 2011, 2:18 pm | #

        Thanks. I wondered that.

        And I’m really relating to Bud’s net research, as I and others were looking up exactly that stuff for Friday’s strip.

    • Dusty668
      April 4, 2011, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      The giggling golem girls are 3G to begin with.

      • The Old Wolf
        April 4, 2011, 4:36 am | #

        GGGroan!

      • txmystic
        April 4, 2011, 10:07 am | #

        GGGrrrrrrrr…..

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 10:23 am | #

        Im sorry but that actually made me lol. GGGreat job.

      • bmonk
        April 4, 2011, 6:24 pm | #

        But what are they going to do for the 4G system?

        Giggling, Groaning Golem Girls?

      • Danzier
        April 5, 2011, 7:48 am | #

        Golem Girl
        Golem Girl
        Golem Girl
        Giant Squid.

  9. Radio365
    April 4, 2011, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    So … if the object they are after is in the sub, does that mean no trip to Ireland?

    That would be a shame. I would have to go the rest of my life without seeing a Wapsi leprechaun.

    Not countig Monica of course.

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      See ‘Name on the Cross’, Nov. 18th last, and the next one. Not likely to be on a submarine 🙂

      • Radio365
        April 4, 2011, 2:28 pm | #

        Ahh, but what if the tree of life is a bonsai?

      • SoWhyMe
        April 4, 2011, 2:47 pm | #

        It would be just like God to screw with us like that.

    • as363
      April 4, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      Now that’s an interesting thought .

  10. nerf-dweller
    April 4, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    I’m have a very strange sense of deja vu. heh. Seeing what went on in the comment of last strip in the current strip.

    So Stinky isn’t that fast, and is just just that smart. And Bud tossed the anchor a couple of miles. Obviously the sub wasn’t sunk off the coast of Ireland like it was reported. So what was it doing in Ireland and what sunk it in the Triangle? Taking some cargo towards…Brazil? Central America?

    • ProleBoi
      April 4, 2011, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      …or it was sunk off the coast of Ireland, and hit the sea floor of the Bermuda triangle…?

      • Paula
        April 4, 2011, 1:55 am | #

        hmm
        gives interesting idea about what this ‘thing’ is that might be able to help Jin.

        Something that moves whatever it is inside her elsewhere?
        I never really got how the Calender machine was sposed to help her in the first place.

      • Julie
        April 4, 2011, 8:04 am | #

        The Calendar Machine was supposed to synch her up with time (apparently that’s what was thought to be wrong with her).

    • Zachariaha
      April 4, 2011, 5:43 am | # | Reply

      One of the more notable items of celtic myth was Móralltach, the greatsword of the god Aengus. What would be wild would be the Singing Sword of Conaire Mór. What would it sound like through Monica’s set up.
      Then the two biggies. Excalibur and the Holy Grail. Both have connections to that area. Joseph or Aremia supposed brought it with him to Brittainia.
      I wonder what the germans found. Excalbur would have chased them away as being unfit to wield it. Also the Lady of the Lake could have moved the sub to keep it safe.

      • Jabberwonky
        April 4, 2011, 11:03 am | #

        Or our favorite Octomocephelapoot could have picked it up, played with it and then dropped it near his home. He see’s his buddy, Bud, and then it’s ‘Ooh, ooh, look what I gots!’

  11. ShadOBabe
    April 4, 2011, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    OMG PANEL THREE!!
    I officially ADORE Stinky!! <3

    • Paula
      April 4, 2011, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      Yknow til that was mentioned i just thought that was random background.
      didnt notice the two giant eyeballs looking at her 😀

      • NMiller
        April 4, 2011, 10:03 am | #

        But where has he gone in panels four and five? Off to retrieve the ship that sunk the sub?

      • illiad
        April 4, 2011, 11:38 am | #

        😮 gee, I hope not….. :p

      • Jabberwonky
        April 4, 2011, 11:04 am | #

        How did you miss them?

      • ShadOBabe
        April 4, 2011, 12:31 pm | #

        And I love how he’s putting his two tentacles together like a person might put their pointer fingers together.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 4, 2011, 2:13 pm | #

        Is that what he’s doing? I can sorta make that out, but those scution cups in that area don’t seem to quite fit that.

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      I concur.. Our dog can have that adoring look too, although it mostly involves us eating cookies or cake…

  12. NOTDilbert
    April 4, 2011, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    I noticed there are no forward torpedo tube doors. The U 296 could have been one of their cargo subs or oilers. That would explain no record of engagements – they would spend all their time avoiding combat vessels. Doesn’t seem tobe big enough, though – some of those cargo subs were HUGE.

    • NOTDilbert
      April 4, 2011, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      This also means it may have been scuttled, and there is NO INTERNAL DAMAGE……

      Shotgun!

      • NOTDilbert
        April 4, 2011, 1:58 am | #

        That is, no internal damage other than that from being dropped by a giant squid onto a sandbar…..

    • Dusty668
      April 4, 2011, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      The 296 had 14 torpedoes on board.

    • The Old Wolf
      April 4, 2011, 4:41 am | # | Reply

      I thought that black thing right above the “oo” in “thoom” was a tube door…

      • nerf-dweller
        April 4, 2011, 10:49 am | #

        No the hole on the side of the boat isn’t a torpedo door. U296 was a type VIIC/II Uboat. The type VCII boats had 4 outer doors covering each of the forward torpedo tubes. And the torpedo tubes are much further forward and located below the (surfaced) waterline. (The waterline is a bit below the tops of the side bulges on the). The torpedo doors would be in the crosshatched lines on the bow of the boat in panel two of yesterdays comic.

        And it’s not the bow plane either. It above the right position lengthwise, but much too high. The bow plane was near the bottom of the boat.. I don’t know that that figure is.

        Ah. And I found a decent image that shows the details. This is what a Type VII C submarine looks like intact.

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 6:17 pm | #

        I took it to be an anchor, that was pulled in halfway as to cut down drag.

  13. Kyle Stelios
    April 4, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    the moment Ireland was mentioned I knew this sub had a part in the current storyline!

    Bravo stinkey, Bravo! ^_^

  14. Paula
    April 4, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Apparently Bud can speak ‘squid’
    She would get along with Dr Doolittle 😀

    • StJason
      April 4, 2011, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      …If we could talk to the fish, just imagine it
      Chatting to a squid in Old Calamari
      And should they need it, give a cuddlefish a cuddle,
      What a neat achievement that would be.

      If I could talk to the fish,
      walk with the fish,
      Grunt ans squeak and squak with the fish…
      And they could talk with me!

      *Looks around silent room. Sits down embarrassed*

      • msyendor
        April 4, 2011, 11:42 am | #

        So sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
        A tale of a fateful trip
        From the files of World War II
        Came the U-296

        A spy and transport
        The icy deep was its way
        But what was the secret cargo it held
        When it disappeared one day
        – – –
        The sub sees light once again
        on this uncharted isle
        Fetched from the deeps by a giant squid
        For a girl with the sweetest smile

        Check in tomorrow to see, my friends
        Will we be laughing or scared
        The mysteries of the deep continues on
        For the girls of Wapsi Square

        * OK. Just supporting a fellow filker 😀 *

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2011, 4:13 pm | #

        Hmm..only thing missing here is a guy with a feathered hat and a lute.

      • msyendor
        April 4, 2011, 4:33 pm | #

        I’ve got the feathered hat and a guitar. Add a large cup of saki or hommade rice wine and I can go for hours on three chords.

      • Danzier
        April 5, 2011, 7:54 am | #

        I’ve a whale of a tale
        to tell ye, lads–
        A whale of a tale, O’Toole–
        ‘Bout the giant squid
        And the girl he loved
        On nights like this with the moon above
        It’s a whale of a tale
        And it’s all true!
        I’d swear by my tattoo!!

        Guess where.
        .
        .
        .
        2000 leagues under the sea, original / 1950s version.

      • MerchManDan
        April 5, 2011, 5:29 pm | #

        He plays with old shipwrecks under the sea!
        Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
        Enormous and odorous and squishy is he!
        Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
        Fetching an anchor for a Golem Girl!
        Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
        He just might helped her save the whole world!
        Stink-kee Squid-pants!!

        ….I’m sorry. Oh God, I’m so sorry.

  15. Joe Minotaur
    April 4, 2011, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Follow along with Bud:
    http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?13849

  16. The Old Wolf
    April 4, 2011, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    I think it’s cute that a gozillion-year-old golem also has to use the net to search for random factoids.

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

      It’ll be either the net, or the Bibliotheka. Given Phix’s bed-side manners, the net is preferable 😛 .

      • Francisco
        April 4, 2011, 5:01 pm | #

        How do we know that the Library isn’t on-line? Maybe, the GGs’ laptops have been specially modified to access it.

  17. Keith Gaughan
    April 4, 2011, 5:08 am | # | Reply

    It wouldn’t be too much of a mystery why it’d have sunk in the North Channel, or for that matter along Ireland’s east, southern or Atlantic coasts: the area was rife with u-boat activity in WW2. Moreover, the North Channel separates Northern Ireland, which is in the UK, from Scotland, which is also in the UK, so there’s even less of a mystery there. Now, what it’s doing the triangle is another matter entirely.

  18. Jay-Em
    April 4, 2011, 6:48 am | # | Reply

    Something else: Apparently it is normal that the ranking app goes wonky every new month?
    No Way do I believe a sudden plunge to 80th.

    On the comic: I think we are moving from south-american myth and history to celtic mythg and history. This could get interesting. I wonder what the celtic variation of Tepoz will be.. A small Irish parliamentarian??? 😆

    • NicolasA
      April 4, 2011, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

      Just another kind of a poet – with booze, of course ;D

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2011, 4:10 pm | #

        Well, the booze-bit is a given.

        Strangely, over here, Brit-chavz are more notorious for their boozing than the Irish.(Ask any cafe-owner in Spain….)

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2011, 7:56 pm | #

        Irish get drunk and follow their national tradition of fighting amongst themselves over minor doctrinal matters.

        Brit chavs get drunk and continue the British tradition of attacking other nations…

      • Jay-Em
        April 5, 2011, 8:24 am | #

        Heh.. 😆 That explains..

  19. txmystic
    April 4, 2011, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    Soooo…mayhap the Germans found the artifact and the Bermuda Triangle portal opened up, transporting them to the location of the crash site, hence the disappearance?

    Or is the sub the only casualty of the event and the people are still trapped in a time warp?…wait, that sounds way too much like Close Encounters…

  20. Hoomi
    April 4, 2011, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    Fun story arc, Paul, and completely credible with WWII U-boat history. It wasn’t unusual for the German fleet to be far from where they were thought to have been.

    For a real-life story of this type, check out the book, “Shadow Divers” by Robert Kurson. Incredible true story of some deep-wreck divers who find a previously unknown U-boat wreck off the coast of New Jersey, and the long process of identifying which boat it was. Great book, and it reads like part Indiana Jones, part Pirate story, and part mystery suspense.

    • nerf-dweller
      April 4, 2011, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Look at the know details of U296 is getting interesting. Wartime assessment was that it’s was sunk on Mark 22, 1945 due to an ariel torpedo. But it wasn’t the target of the attack. Latest assessment (1985) shows it was missing on March 12, 1945 possibly sunk by a minefield.

      It was a Schnorchel-fitted U-boat. And the type VII C had a 8,000+ nm range. So it quite easily could have made the trip from Germany -> Ireland -> the Triangle and not have been seen crossing the Atlantic. Curiouser and curiouser.

    • SoWhyMe
      April 4, 2011, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

      Oh lord, I hope the story doesn’t go the Indianna Jones route. I hate those stupid movies.

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2011, 3:45 pm | #

        I doubt it. Paul habitually does a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink” -routine with Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones. Hard to ignore Monica’s profession in the context, but only to make a bit of fun of the public’s idea of archaeologists and anthropologists.

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 6:27 pm | #

        not to mention Mon’s outfit when they took care of the calender machine.

    • Fatuncle
      April 4, 2011, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you, Hoomi. I’ve just ordered that book.

  21. Kramegame
    April 4, 2011, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    Hey all, I think I found out how this sub ended up in the triangle;
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110404/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_spy_files

    if the sub that went to long island ran a ground, who’s to say that the one that went to florida didn’t sink?

    • SoWhyMe
      April 4, 2011, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      That reads like a dark Monty Python sketch. My favorite part was the “don’t poison the cigarette, but poison the asprin for the headache the cigarette gives you.” I suppose it could have gone further by giving the victim a pill to make them sleep, then wake up groggy so that, after getting up they, wouldn’t see the trip wire stretched across the stairs.

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 11:50 pm | #

        HA! I thought the same thing! I feel like the spies in long island were channeling a bit of Three Stooges too. I just posted it cause it seemed relevant, and i was cracking up by the end of it.

  22. choronzonseyes
    April 4, 2011, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Please PLEASE Tell us whether that crapstorm of internet searchng had anything to do with this!! LOL Comments Influence ftw
    Of course… he put the number there for a reason… Is is possible… He out-geeked us!!!

    • Paul Taylor
      April 4, 2011, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      One of my favorite things is doing research. I AM a geek. 😀

    • Wyvern
      April 4, 2011, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      It was really cool to have Bud repeating things we said ourselves over the weekend. Not that panel three wasn’t really cute without the words, but they were our factoids too.

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      Yep, it’s official. Paul OutGeeked us….

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 6:08 pm | #

        well, he did have the information well before we did, since it’s his story. so really its like we’re on a game show and he’s the host, we don’t know what to look for until the question is revealed.

  23. choronzonseyes
    April 4, 2011, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    Oh and of course… Enter the Nazis!!! (shivers)

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

      Un-Dead -zombie- nazi’s…… O_O *starts biting nails*

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2011, 4:20 pm | #

        Or worse: The demons left-over when the nazi’s died…. EEEEEEEEEK!! 😯

      • Kramegame
        April 4, 2011, 6:11 pm | #

        Relax, the Call of Duty video game series has been preparing us for that day for a long time.

  24. Jabberwonky
    April 4, 2011, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    Ya’ know, I love Bud to death, but….if I saw her laying a laptop on the, probably damp, sand of an atoll, or cay, for that matter…I am geek enough to read her the riot act over it.
    As long as Stinky was gone, that is…

    • NicolasA
      April 4, 2011, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

      Oh well, I would be more afraid of Bud than of Stinky…and she can probably poit the sand, moisture or anything out of the darn thing…
      Anyway, if the computer knows what he’s doing, he wouldn’t refuse to work when a part of the Chimaera asks him to

    • W.
      April 4, 2011, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll just leave this here. So you might not have to wince about putting it in the sand. The grapes could just be a sticker and not a replacement for a certain fruit.

      • Ratcatcher
        April 10, 2011, 6:14 am | #

        A friend of mines 8 year old dropped one of those into about a 500 gal. salt water fish tank. No I didn’t see how.
        Fired right up after we cleaned it up and recharged the battery.

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      Pfff..You wouldn’t believe the state of company laptops we get back when someone quits, or transfers. Beach sand would be the lesser of the mis-treatment traces…..

      Bud could be using a clear-case. There are several great ones available.

  25. Tigergulp
    April 4, 2011, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

    Awww…he’s watching her work! XD

    BTW, does anyone else hear plunger squishing sounds when Stinky decides to ‘speak’?

  26. TheRealAllPurposeGuru
    April 4, 2011, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    I *really* like the pose of Bud cross-ankled working on her laptop on the beach in a swimsuit.

    Make a girl hotter by adding a computer. God, I’m such a geek.

  27. Orsi
    April 4, 2011, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    I’m just thinking, there’s a submarine full of water right there with several obvious holes. It might be interesting to walk around it and see what the inevitable waterfalls are washing out of the interior.

    • Wyvern
      April 4, 2011, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

      In reality or live-action, yes. But that sounds hard to draw.

  28. SoWhyMe
    April 4, 2011, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    Um … yeah. If there are no breaches in the hull, the crew’s bones should still be onboard. If not, we’ll know they didn’t go down with the boat. So would that mean the other “entity” looking for the same stuff as the girls are some Nazis? Could it be they are still alive and actively trying to complete their mission? Yes, they’d be pretty old now, but it could also be whatever they had on board gave them limited immortality.

    Of course, not everyone in the German armed forces was evil. Many, probably most, were just poor slobs impressed into service doing their part for their country. So it’s a mistake to consider everyone as “Nazis.” They may simply be trying to keep anyone else from finding the artifacts for the good of the world.

    • Fairportfan
      April 4, 2011, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      As has been pointed out, there might be breaches in the pressure hull, which we can’t see.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 4, 2011, 11:10 pm | #

        They scuttled the boat before abandoning it.

    • Jabberwonky
      April 5, 2011, 10:40 am | # | Reply

      Unless I’m seeing it sideways, there appears to be quite a gash on port side aft…

  29. Jay-Em
    April 4, 2011, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    Art-school-nerd geeking-out for a bit: Paul, I really , truly love LOVE LOOOVE the way You drew Bud’s crossed feet.

    Crappy drawn feet in comics are a pet peeve of mine. Feet, like hands , are shitty-hard to draw well, but feet always seem to get the “mwah, it’ll do” treatment.

  30. dakabn
    April 4, 2011, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

    Wait… What ISP does she use that she can get a connection there? Or does she have a massive encyclopedia installed?

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2011, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      *raises eyebrow ,and points to beginning of comment-thread*

      Sattelite dude. Bloody expensive, but works like a charm, especially from flat land like beaches and such.

  31. Alex
    April 4, 2011, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

    Bud either speaks Giant Squid or Stinky & Bud both speak Bill The Cat, either works for me… and yeah I’m liking Stinky too, Paul 😀

    Stinky’s dialogue did make me nostalgic for Berke Breathed. 🙂

    • Bratty Roger
      November 9, 2018, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

      Speeking of Berke Breathed;
      the first thing I thought of when I saw Bud’s laptop/notebook computer (with the grapes on it) was a certain “Banana Junior” (looking suspiciously like a [first-generation] Apple Macintosh) computer. 🤖

  32. KAIBYO
    April 4, 2011, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

    Aaawwww! I had a german shepherd who’d get that look in his eyes(mostly when I had something yummy in my hands he wanted a share of!)!! Then I’d get the “drooly snoot” in my lap. He won by default.

    What if the something in the Irish graveyard didn’t like the submariners poking around and poited them elsewhere? After poking a few holes in THEM?

  33. Kramegame
    April 4, 2011, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

    I am falling in love with Bud these past few pages.
    Great job Paul. 😛

  34. kingklash
    April 5, 2011, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    Stink’s a big squid, but he earns a well-deserved, “Good Dog! Who’s a good boy? Good boy!” for helping in his own way.

  35. rich
    June 30, 2012, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

    aaaarrrrgghh! sand and electronics DO NOT go well together.

    • rich
      June 30, 2012, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

      incidentally, ireland…i wonder if there’s a celtic cross on board somewhere…

    • Hinoron
      January 9, 2024, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      More to the point, how is she getting wi-fi reception on a deserted island only in the general vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle?

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