Comments on: The Sun

By: Tripp Lilley

Tripp Lilley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:38:45 +0000

(err, “allow ‘hottest’,” I meant.)

By: Tripp Lilley

Tripp Lilley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:37:59 +0000

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.)

By: Wendel

Wendel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:48:17 +0000

Thanks for explaining the “never fall back” part – I’m not from USA so I never knew about that.

By: rigardo

rigardo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:40:45 +0000

Yeah, it’s almost certainly revolving around the final pun. Even the alt-text is a reference to it.

By: Michael (another one)

Michael (another one) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:57:21 +0000

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…)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:48:43 +0000

And, of course, the obvious pun on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Saving_Time|Daylight Saving Time]].

By: Lost

Lost — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:12:03 +0000

The whole “joke” here is the plot of the movie sunshine, but with more action-oriented heroes