all the comments in support? The only comment I feel could be read as being in support of the driver is the one posted by MerchManDan, and even that is stretching it far beyond the breaking point.
And if you stop to think about it Conscience got just what she deserved. Sure the driver should stop and check just what it was they hit, but that doesn’t change the fact that Conscience deliberately stood in the middle of the road, in the mist, at night or late evening at least, intending to scare the driver. If the driver had seen her it would have been late, mist and low or no light would see to that, making it very hard to swerve to avoid hitting her, and that’s if the driver didn’t just panic and ran off the road.
Conscience is a supernatural being and as demonstrated here she’s pretty much unable to die by mundane means so while this “game” might be harmless fun for her any mundane driver she scares into crashing their car might very well die in the accident, not to mention any passengers in the car, or possibly in a meeting car.
So while the driver is a douche-bag, and not for driving a Toyota (even if it’s a Prius), it’s Conscience who is the real jerk.
Complaining it’s a hit and run driver or that Conscience is risking someone wrecking just for giggles is kinda like starting a joke with “A Catholic priest, a Buddhist monk, and a Indian Shaman walk into a bar…” and have someone interrupt you to complain the monk is breaking his vows, you’re promoting alcoholism with the priest, and it’s Native American not Indian. It’s just a joke.
Rule of funny. If it bothers you, assume Conscience doesn’t want to actually cause a wreck so picks her spots carefully, appears and disappears before the driver has a chance to jerk the wheel. In this case, the car must have been speeding and caught her by surprise. The way she bounced, she must not have much actual weight to her and didn’t do the car damage. Me, I prefer to just think it’s funny that supernatural creatures are having fun messing with Japanese ghost fans.
The car is speeding to the right, it hits Conscience, and she goes flying off to the left. Is this cartoon physics or do demons have anti-inertia?
Also, demons are ordinarily invisible to muggles, so maybe she just did a bad job of visibilizing herself?
Connie’s trajectory could be explained by the oncoming car traveling toward her in a right to left corner, Connie appears in the headlights (which are shining on her left side), then the car strikes her, on _it’s_ left side, sending her Left.
I don’t see the car swerving to the Right at all.
BarerMender, even if she was knocked in the air, the horizontal component of her trajectory has to be in the direction the car that hit her was going.
TazManiac, I don’t understand your explanation. I don’t see the car swerving in any direction. I can only see the impact occurring when she was to the right of the car (from our viewpoint); that’s where the POW! is and that’s what the parabola of her path points back to. And given the fact that the car is pointed to our right and somewhat away from us, her path should be mostly to our right and somewhat away from us, even if she was sideswiped.
Other than the trajectory, I really like the drawing in this installment: her ghostly appearance, her raindrop shape in flight, her face afterward.
The horizontal vector knocked her feet forward. The inertia of her body swung her legs around vertically. The vertical vector of the sloped hood wedging under her knocked her into the air. QED.
We told you.
Lucked out thanks to indestructibility.
I think i’ve seen a face a lot like that outside the Daley Center in Chicago…
Nah, doesn’t look a thing like Cassandra (the name my wife refers to the Picasso by).
One highly plausible story that was common when i was stationed at Great Lakes the year after it went up was that it’s a portrait of Picasso’s Borzoi.
on the brightside…she would make a great painting.
Face up to it, Conscience…
How many people wanted to rearrange Connie’s face, and some douche in a Toyota beats them to it. 😂
Why am I reminded of a Warner Bros. cartoon from the 50’s?
Time for a new hobby, kid!
Maybe you could ferret out details in the Library’s restricted files about Castela…
hey ‘murphy’ got there before her!!! she did not *want* to be hit, so…. 😛 😀
Teach you to pull that boolsheet.
Who hit her? Picasso?
No, that doesn’t look anything like Picasso…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Picasso
I had missed Tepoz!!! Seeing him reminds me of the old times ^_^
They guy in the Toyota missed him too.
Judging by the flying headress, it looks like said car DID hit Tepoz!
What saddens (and sickens) me the most, are all the comments in support of a hit and run driver!!!!
all the comments in support? The only comment I feel could be read as being in support of the driver is the one posted by MerchManDan, and even that is stretching it far beyond the breaking point.
And if you stop to think about it Conscience got just what she deserved. Sure the driver should stop and check just what it was they hit, but that doesn’t change the fact that Conscience deliberately stood in the middle of the road, in the mist, at night or late evening at least, intending to scare the driver. If the driver had seen her it would have been late, mist and low or no light would see to that, making it very hard to swerve to avoid hitting her, and that’s if the driver didn’t just panic and ran off the road.
Conscience is a supernatural being and as demonstrated here she’s pretty much unable to die by mundane means so while this “game” might be harmless fun for her any mundane driver she scares into crashing their car might very well die in the accident, not to mention any passengers in the car, or possibly in a meeting car.
So while the driver is a douche-bag, and not for driving a Toyota (even if it’s a Prius), it’s Conscience who is the real jerk.
Complaining it’s a hit and run driver or that Conscience is risking someone wrecking just for giggles is kinda like starting a joke with “A Catholic priest, a Buddhist monk, and a Indian Shaman walk into a bar…” and have someone interrupt you to complain the monk is breaking his vows, you’re promoting alcoholism with the priest, and it’s Native American not Indian. It’s just a joke.
Rule of funny. If it bothers you, assume Conscience doesn’t want to actually cause a wreck so picks her spots carefully, appears and disappears before the driver has a chance to jerk the wheel. In this case, the car must have been speeding and caught her by surprise. The way she bounced, she must not have much actual weight to her and didn’t do the car damage. Me, I prefer to just think it’s funny that supernatural creatures are having fun messing with Japanese ghost fans.
The car is speeding to the right, it hits Conscience, and she goes flying off to the left. Is this cartoon physics or do demons have anti-inertia?
Also, demons are ordinarily invisible to muggles, so maybe she just did a bad job of visibilizing herself?
I think she was knocked into the air and came down after the car had passed under.
She’s not a demon.
Once she was several demons, but these days Connie’s not a demon.
Connie’s trajectory could be explained by the oncoming car traveling toward her in a right to left corner, Connie appears in the headlights (which are shining on her left side), then the car strikes her, on _it’s_ left side, sending her Left.
I don’t see the car swerving to the Right at all.
DUH!
BarerMender, even if she was knocked in the air, the horizontal component of her trajectory has to be in the direction the car that hit her was going.
TazManiac, I don’t understand your explanation. I don’t see the car swerving in any direction. I can only see the impact occurring when she was to the right of the car (from our viewpoint); that’s where the POW! is and that’s what the parabola of her path points back to. And given the fact that the car is pointed to our right and somewhat away from us, her path should be mostly to our right and somewhat away from us, even if she was sideswiped.
Other than the trajectory, I really like the drawing in this installment: her ghostly appearance, her raindrop shape in flight, her face afterward.
The horizontal vector knocked her feet forward. The inertia of her body swung her legs around vertically. The vertical vector of the sloped hood wedging under her knocked her into the air. QED.
Christ, can people not even enjoy a webcomic any more without getting ‘triggered’???
That’s what ‘facing off’ against a Toyota Prius will get you, Conscience…
Add my vote to Picasso driving that car.