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| title = Alternative Energy Revolution | | title = Alternative Energy Revolution | ||
| image = alternative_energy_revolution.jpg | | image = alternative_energy_revolution.jpg | ||
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| titletext = The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane. | | titletext = The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | They | + | Megan and cueball are looking at modern windmills harnessing wind energy into electrical energy. They comment that there's something creepy about the windmills.They allude to the "War of the Worlds" - most likely a reference to the Jeff Wayne rock version of {{w|Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds|War of the Worlds}}, which has paintings of the martian tripods somewhat like these windmills, and also "The Tripods" from John Christopher's {{w|The Tripods|tripods trilogy}} a children's series of books about aliens who ride in walking tripods. |
− | + | Suddenly the windmills pylons split into three legs, becoming the tripods suggested. | |
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+ | In the final frame, {{w|Don Quixote}}'s horse largely resembles {{w|Don Quixote (Picasso)|the drawing}} by {{w|Pablo Picasso}}. In the original story of Don Quixote, he fights windmills, hence he is the appropriate person to deal with this threat - he is also "batshit insane". | ||
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+ | The title text is a reference to the {{w|H. G. Wells}} radio play/movie {{w|The War of the Worlds}}. "But there are no bacteria in Mars...when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed ... By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers" | ||
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+ | The windmills also look like the fictional plants {{w|Triffid}}s from {{w|John Wyndham}}'s book "{{w|The Day of the Triffids}}" or the 1962 {{w|The Day of the Triffids (film)|film version}}. | ||
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+ | There is a fan-created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRuqPKcxMZY animation of this comic.] | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A field | + | :[A field of windmills is silhouetted against dusk sky.] |
− | :[ | + | :[Man and woman are standing and sitting on the ground overlooking the windmills.] |
− | : | + | :Man: I'm all for green energy, but those turbines creep me out. They remind me of War of the Worlds, or the Tripod books. |
− | : | + | :Woman: They -are- unnerving. |
− | + | :Man: I can't shake the feeling that at any moment they'll— | |
− | : | + | :<<RUMBLE>> |
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− | + | :[A leg begins to split off one windmill.] | |
− | :[A leg begins to split off one | + | :<<crack>> |
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− | :[The leg separates from the body of the | + | :[The leg separates from the body of the windmill.] |
:[The new leg lands on the ground.] | :[The new leg lands on the ground.] | ||
− | : | + | :<<BOOM>> |
− | :[Another leg begins to split off the other side of the | + | :[Another leg begins to split off the other side of the windmill's body.] |
− | : | + | :<<crack>> |
:[The new leg hits the ground, forming a tripod base.] | :[The new leg hits the ground, forming a tripod base.] | ||
− | : | + | :<<BOOM>> |
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− | :[ | + | :[Smoke rises from destroyed buildings as the windmills rampage across the field.] |
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− | :[ | + | :[Man and woman are now standing.] |
− | : | + | :Woman: Oh no. |
− | : | + | :Man: Al Gore, you've doomed us all. |
− | : | + | :Woman: It's coming this way! |
− | : | + | :Man: Run! |
− | :[ | + | :[One of the enormous tripod windmill feet lands right behind the running couple, sending debris flying.] |
+ | :<<BOOM>> | ||
− | + | :[Man and woman run.] | |
− | + | :Woman: What now? | |
− | + | :Man: Someone has to stop them. | |
− | + | :Woman: But who could-- | |
+ | :Voice from next panel: Stand aside! | ||
− | + | :[Don Quixote sits mounted at the top of a hill, lance at the ready.] | |
+ | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Windmills]] |
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