9Dec/097
The Sun
by Jeff
Image text: Obligatory bad guy: This operation is sheer foolishness, and it's not happening on my watch! Mainly because I can't figure out how to adjust the time.
This is a comic about a pseudo-science Hollywood action Blockbuster. The movie The Core is referenced in the beginning, which was a movie widely panned by critics. In The Core, the problem was that the core of the Earth was going to stop rotating and they had to send something into the core of the Earth to fix it.
December 9th, 2009
The whole “joke” here is the plot of the movie sunshine, but with more action-oriented heroes
December 10th, 2009
And, of course, the obvious pun on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Saving_Time|Daylight Saving Time]].
December 10th, 2009
I think the whole comic is just a lead up to the last frame – a movie called
“daylight saving time”, subtitle “never fall back” (a reference to “Fall back, Spring forward, a mnemonic to remember how to set your clock at daylight saving…)
December 11th, 2009
Thanks for explaining the “never fall back” part – I’m not from USA so I never knew about that.
December 10th, 2009
Yeah, it’s almost certainly revolving around the final pun. Even the alt-text is a reference to it.
March 9th, 2010
One might also interpret the second panel’s reference to “our hottest astronauts” as pointing to Armageddon, a similarly pseudo-scientific “save the world from a comet” movie. “Space Cowboys,” in which the villain is a falling satellite, might fit in, as well, if you accept “hottest” to include the aging members of the previous generation of Hollywood’s leading men (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, etc.)
March 9th, 2010
(err, “allow ‘hottest’,” I meant.)