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?
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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
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{{alt-text: And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU}}
And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU
Get yourself some sticker paper and print out your own Hyperbolic Upgrade Stickers! (PDF download) Guaranteed to make any laptop 26% faster, any vehicle 53% sportier, and any toaster 73% more nuclear.
Or, buy a set from me!
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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