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[ndpatel]

Man, for like the past year I've been wishin' that I was born 60 years earlier, so I could have been one of them WWII fighter pilots.  All flyin' round, firin' missiles.  Wearin' a headset.

Did they have headsets then?  Hmm.  I guess we'll never know...

man, i don't want to bring you down, but like. that was a crappy time. you know? hitler, atom bombs, the ENTIRE WORLD AT WAR, japanese internment, tom hanks all constantly looking for private ryan.

oh, and then when it was over, like, the 50s: segregation, korea, mccarthy, pat boone, the dawn of instant food, having to live through the endless pathetic hell that was your kids in the 60s, all of that.

oh, and then you vote for reagan. because you're old and scared and he seems, you know. just like you.

besides, they have way cooler headsets now. an excellent example of how far headsets have come can be located by typing "airwolf" into youtube. i'm talking automatic black visor lowering, here. that is the Stuff.

_{have i been up all night studying for finals? i have. forgive me for being ornery.}

[jough]

Usually I'd be going to bed about now, or maybe a little before now, but since this is New Schedule time I just got up about a half an hour ago, attended to some affairs, and read Achewood while my email was downloading.

This strip, and then nearly all of your responses felt much funnier to me at this time of day, in my current condition (in which I delight) than any of it ever does at 4AM when I had been up all day and kinda grumpy and worn down.

Viva los morning readings.

Also, as soon as I saw the "targeting" screen I figured it would try to shoot at Philippe, but then seeing those last two panels (especially the fffffffffssssssshhhhhhhhh sound effect, which is exactly what Airwolf missles should sound like) made me laugh out loud.

AND GOOD DAY TO ALL OF YOU PEOPLE.  HOW ARE YOU ALL DOING TODAY.

[theinevitable]

good lord!
Phillipe!
I am terrified.
Ray better get his ass on that laser, or I am not being his friend any more.
I will give him such a slap!
Come here and get your slap, Ray!


I will slap him so hard that he will almost lose it.

[dejavroom]

Laughed out loud; it's mostly the idea of... you know? "Accidentaly shot missile"... that's always a winner. Am loving this last arc, I am.

[misterqueue]

Goddammit, I know 'Stad is just teasing me.. making me wish that missle was going to hit... hit all to hell.

But I know later the otter will be fine and all dancing with cake.


That fuck*ng dancing cake.

[wombat]

I think my favorite thing here is that so far everyone is way more interested in the dialouge stylings than the fact that Ray just shot a missile at Phillipe.

Well of course we must think of ANYTHING BUT THAT.

I'd have gone with "I feel like I'm tryin' to set the time on a cheap oven."

[mrdna1]

I love how today's strip insinuates that Ray hasn't really looked at the manual before Teodor came along.

"Let's see ... 'look for stuff', that'd be under 'L' in the back ... naw, shit, maybe 'find stuff'? COMPUTER, TELL ME HOW TO FIND STUFF. Damn, that didn't work. Oh, hold on, the computer here has Pong on it? Man, we could have some hella old school computer parties up here, all with Pong and drinking Jolt Cola and listenin' to Kraftwerk."

[MattFish]

I actually predict that's some OTHER otter in a cooler floating just offshore.

[theinevitable]

it is the correct missile. It will have a grappleing hook at the end of it, etc.

also: this reminds me of a beautiful time. A time when I was in Switzerland, and the family I was staying with kept complaining about their German Oven, on which they could not figure out how to set the time.
while a teacher tried to translate the German instruction manual, I figured out that if I held down the button which said something like "Das Klock" (or whatever the Deutsche word for Clock is), I could type in the correct time. They were so impressed with this.

I'm going to get a Tattoo of phillipe dancing on a cake, just for Q.

[Hobot]

good lord!
Phillipe!
I am terrified.
Ray better get his ass on that laser, or I am not being his friend any more.
I will give him such a slap!
Come here and get your slap, Ray!


I will slap him so hard that he will almost lose it.

So, what, you're just slapping anyone now?!




Ray's Angry Eyebrows are excellent in panel 10.  But there is a slight problem with this strip: Philippe is not a member of the otter species.  He is a member of the stuffed otter species.

[jough]

Airwolf is sophisticated enough to make that distinction and know what Ray meant to ask for.

[CortJstr]

it is the correct missile. It will have a grappleing hook at the end of it, etc.

Dammit TI, you took my response. Airwolf's missles are like Green Arrows arrows.

[Drygioni]

FUUUUUCCCCKKK YEAAAAH!

Of course, we all know Ray's finger just 'slipped'. That sly old dog cat.

Tomorrow: Will Phillipe escape the cooler before the missile hits? Let's hope not!

[misterqueue]

Tomorrow: Chicken!

[jough]

By "tomorrow," of course, you mean WE RETURN THURSDAY.