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I love this so much. It has very “if nothing you do matters, all that matters is what you do” vibes. Thanks for sharing <3
I think that’s a FLCL reference. Or maybe I’m thinking of another anime?
No, you’re right. This exact thing happens in FLCL.
Nothing can happen till you swing the bat
crazy sunshine!
WE CANNOT DO A THING! PROBABLY!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
Asteroid impact avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events. An impact by a sufficiently large asteroid or other NEOs would cause, depending on its impact location, massive tsunamis or multiple firestorms, and an impact winter caused by the sunlight-blocking effect of large quantities of pulverized rock dust and other debris placed into the stratosphere. A collision 66 million years ago between the Earth and an object approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide is thought to have produced the Chicxulub crater and triggered the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that the scientific community understands to have caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
In 2022, NASA spacecraft DART impacted Dimorphos, reducing the minor-planet moon’s orbital period by 32 minutes. This mission constitutes the first successful attempt at asteroid deflection.[15] In 2027, China plans to launch a deflection mission to the near-Earth object 2015 XF261, with the impact estimated to occur in April 2029.[16]
EDIT: Based on a Tineye search, this comic was made no later than 2008, so it did predate that.
Hey I saw this episode of One Punch Man.
I saw it on an episode of FLCL
Oh boy, I remember Minus. Great is also, well, great
thanks for posting this, just went down a huge rabbithole!
That last panel is like the guy sipping wine in a chair as the tsunami approaches, or the one person at the end of Don’t Look Up doing a ceremonial dance as things fall from the sky. Might as well greet it in your own way.
Also the first panels remind me of the start of Don’t Look Up, one of my favorite parts. “Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?”
Always loved in Lucifer’s Hammer, a bunch of surfers go out to meet the incoming impact tsunamis, and you get a POV chapter as the wave washes them in to the city, and the surfers drop like flies till there’s 10… 5… 1…
Great one, and that one last guy… well, he made it to land as the wave subsided, and lived happily ever after.
I think the child or whomever has God like powers or something … which I found out many years after seeing this and it changed how I felt about this.
Yeah, Minus is basically magical (and more than a little autism-coded) in a world without magic. It’s a strange comic, but in a good way.
I have this print in my apartment. It’s almost perfect, and better without the context of who Minus is. I’d want to remove the “probably”, then I’m happy.
That’s a good idea. The “probably” really is forced. Especially the second one. I think the “punchline” works better if the serious tension isn’t broken early.
I DM’d you an edit I made, removing “probably”.
I thought about posting it here, but I don’t think we should get in the habit of editing people’s coimcs to our liking and sharing them, probably.
I got the same kind of chills I got when I first saw this comic, before I read through the others by the same artist. It feels… Right. Well done! :D
I have no idea who Minus is and this comic is fantastic.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon) created an album based on this concept. It’s pretty good if your into progmetal.
My favourite artist! Does a lot of sci-fi concept albums that are interconnected stories about climate change and overindustrialisation in a world that has broken the balance between rationality and emotions.
