#770; Race to the Top

Comic Transcripts

FELIX [[wearing a jetpack]]: Check it out! I just finished the upgrade to my Starpincher! Put in a double-chamber preboiler and a hundred-torque turnvalve. Zero to forty-five in a click point seven. HAH!
DAN: It looks nice.

FELIX: How ’bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. ‘s coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What’s THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin’

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
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FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
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DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I’ll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

#770; Race to the Top transcribed by in

FELIX: How ’bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. ‘s coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What’s THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin’

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
<>

FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
<>
DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I’ll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

#770; Race to the Top transcribed by in

FELIX: How 'bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. 's coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What's THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin'

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
<>

FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
<>
DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I'll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU

#770; Race to the Top

— November 11th, 2011

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Comic Transcripts

#770; Race to the Top

— November 11th, 2011

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