405: Journal 3

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Journal 3

Title text: Oh, and, uh, if the Russian government asks, that submarine was always there.

Explanation

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The whole "Journal" story arc

• 374: Journal
• 377: Journal 2
• 405: Journal 3
• 432: Journal 4
• 433: Journal 5

Transcript

[Two women ice-skating outside]

Blonde: Wait up!

Brunette (wearing Hat Guy's Hat): Skate faster!

[Brunette sees cracking ice]]

<<Crack>> <<Crack>>

[Brunette on chunk of ice broken off]

<<Crack>> <<Rumble>>

[Submarine dorsal fin emerging]

<<AWOOGA>>

[Hat Guy (minus hat) coming out of hatch]

<<CREAK>>

Hat Guy: Hi.

Hat Guy: That's my hat you're wearing.

Brunette (wearing Hat Guy's Hat): So, you found me after all.

Hat Guy (out of frame): You didn't make it easy.

Hat Guy: You saw through me, all right. But not quite well enough.

Hat Guy: Because if you wanted to stay lost forever, you made one mistake

[Hat Guy climbing out of hatch]

[Hat Guy sliding down a sheet of ice]

[Hat Guy snatches hat from Brunette's head as he slides by on the ice]

[Hat Guy skidding to a stop and putting hat back on his head]

Hat Guy: You took my hat.

Hat Guy: You took my hat.

Hat Guy: I LIKE my hat.

[Hat guy walking away]

[Brunette left standing there]

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Discussion

In this comic, the Black Hat guy retrieves his hat from the girl he tried (unsuccessfully) to seduce in Journal 2. He does this by stealing a Russian submarine (according to the alt-text) and breaking through the ice the girl and her friend are skating on. This is the third and middle part of the Journal story arc. ‎108.162.219.209 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Just a correction, Black Hat was not trying to seduce her. This is quite obvious from the dialogue in Journal 1, and I have no idea where you would possibly get the idea that Black Hat's original intention was anything close to seduction. He was trying to hurt her feelings, and leave her feeling alienated and upset. -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 02:42, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

There's also the prospect that Black Hat put a tracking device on his hat.

I might be mistaken, but I believe that the last title text is a reference to The Hunt of Red October, and specifically the line "And I - was never here" (which is famous enough to have have named a trope). 173.245.53.183 22:30, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I think comic 496 refers to this one. 173.245.53.135 13:11, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

The sub through the ice, i think, is "Ice Station Zebra," on WMATA's silver line. 173.245.54.167 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Should remove spoilers of future comics such as references to 432 and 496. The references made her can be covered in those as one would expect most readers to follow the comics chronologically. Refer to 374 for a better way to reference a future comic. flewk (talk) 07:08, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Could black hat have had a GPS tracker in his hat? 141.101.70.61 19:17, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Could any of this be a reference to 'I Want My Hat Back', an excellent children's picture book by Jon Klassen. The ending text is extremely similar 'You stole my hat. I love my hat.' vs 'You took my hat. I like my hat.' 162.158.91.185 15:58, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Those are some great sliding skills by Black Hat. :) Nyx goddess (talk) 01:49, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Maybe Black Hat has a permanent tracking device inside his hat Beanie (talk) 11:31, 24 March 2021 (UTC)