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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 tripods in 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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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.
  
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.
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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".
  
 
There is a fan created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRuqPKcxMZY animation of this comic.]
 
There is a fan created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRuqPKcxMZY animation of this comic.]

Revision as of 01:37, 12 October 2012

Alternative Energy Revolution
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.
Title text: 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.

Explanation

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 War of the Worlds, which has paintings of the martian tripods somewhat like these windmills, and also "The Tripods" from John Christopher's 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.

In the final frame, Don Quixote's horse largely resembles the drawing by 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".

There is a fan created animation of this comic.

Transcript

[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>>
[A leg begins to split off one windmill.]
<<crack>>
[The leg separates from the body of the windmill.]
[The new leg lands on the ground.]
<<BOOM>>
[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.]
<<BOOM>>
[Smoke rises from destroyed buildings as the windmills rampage across the field.]
[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.]


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Discussion

There is a fan-created animation of this comic. -- Bpothier (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Define: Fan. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 18:02, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
This is hilarious. 108.162.216.16 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Well he couldn't do any worse than Tom Cruise. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 18:02, 30 January 2015 (UTC)