3: Island (sketch)

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Island (sketch)

Title text: Hello, island

Explanation

The title text words 'Hello, island' is a reference to the popular programming print statement 'Hello World'. The first thing you learn in programming, is to make a program that prints out this text.

Trivia

• This was the third comic originally posted to livejournal. The previous was 4: Landscape (sketch). The next was 2: Petit Trees (sketch). View archive here.
• Original Randall quote: "I draw these a lot."
• Original title: "Island"

Transcript

[A color sketch of an island.]

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Discussion

It looks a bit like Saba, in the Caribbean. 82.161.213.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

It's a hippo

I think the bumps on the top of the peak make a look like a hippopotamus-shaped island. 173.245.56.200 19:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Is it just me or is the title text explanation trying to say something? 108.162.216.112 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

This looks a lot like the island with an old airfield in Kerbal Space Program. 162.158.238.112 09:15, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

The first beta release of Kerbal Space Program was in 2015, this comic is form 2005. --Dgbrt (talk) 19:44, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

I know. Clearly Randall is a time-traveler! (The beta release was in 2011, by the way.) 162.158.238.118 13:31, 22 November 2018 (UTC)