March 4, 2018 - Charred by the Light Brigade

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Jan

Sun tanning mirrors are dangerous! Especially when arranged in a parabolic curve!

Thanks Kim H. for the title!

Matt • 03/04/2018

No I think the extra energy just shot him to close to the sun there

jprime • 03/04/2018

At least they didn't maim him on purpose.

Lord_Chaos • 03/04/2018

Good time to try that spf 1000 sun block.

Shockwave07 • 03/04/2018

No wedding vegetables were harmed during the making of this scene.

...Though a few corneas were...

Kangaar Foxfire • 03/04/2018

Use mirrors with caution, because burned fur stinks something awful.

Big Kev • 03/04/2018

That makes no sense, how can you tan fur?!?

AlyxVixen • 03/04/2018

The sound effect for panel 3 is "FREEEEEM!"

Jan • 03/04/2018

@Big Kev It doesn't stop anyone from trying, anyway! :3

Wolf Lahti • 03/04/2018

Not sure what the Siege of Syracuse has to do with this. Wouldn't the Battle of Balaclava be a more apt reference?

Kael Duranus • 03/04/2018

Wow, two history jokes in one comic, and both funny. I am very impressed. Very few ever pull that off.

Jan • 03/04/2018

@Wolf Lahti The original title was "Archimedes death ray", but Kim thought of a much better pun :3 The Siege of Syracuse was where Archimedes purportedly burned the Roman invaders' ships by having the Greek soldiers aim their shiny bronze shields at them.

Panther • 03/04/2018

@ Jan :

It wasn't the bronze shields of the greeks : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Syracuse_(214%E2%80%93212_BC)

Someone has ordered a roasted wolf to dinner ? Need ketchup : https://www.tigerknight.com/cc/2001-09-16 ^_^"

Cimmeria • 03/04/2018

How does someone pogo on a sandy beach ?

MiyuHogosha (aka Swift) • 03/04/2018

wait..it's a thing?

Michael • 03/04/2018

@MiyuHugosha It is an old known story but not hundred per cent sure it really happened. Other machines of Archimedes like the crane to lift enemy ships up on one side to sink them are more likely to be true.

ndrvr • 03/04/2018

At least Wolf's dry and evaded a proper mauling by Sartharina ^^. On the other paw the sunray batallion got him good after Sartharina's "Oohhh buurrrrrn !!!" :-).

jrh150482 • 03/04/2018

"It tastes like burning!"

Panther • 03/04/2018 • edited

@ Cimmeria :

Kim Huett has asked it on Patreon too and , strangely , got no answer ....... I think there is unexplained things in the world , especially when Wolf is included in ^_^"

@ Michael :

Read in the wiki link of my comment above : it's said that the mirror is practically a running legend/rumor about Archimede

@ Ndrvr :

Wolf has been flashed for high speed . And i bet Sartharina wasn't the one wanting to maul him , on the beach XD

Rocketroo • 03/04/2018

I've been trying to find it. No luck yet. But I remember in school during history there was a picture in one of the books of a cylindrical apparatus that had a large number of mirrors on it that was supposed to be able to be focused and cause fires at a distance. Was reported as to be tried but didn't work. Was I think for the civil war.

Spector • 03/04/2018

"Phil is that you? All I see is the DMV camera...."

AncientWolf • 03/04/2018

I hear the song, "[i]Blinded by the Light[/i]", by Manfred Mann's Earth Band playing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpq35wyDi7I

Alternatively, "[i]Disco Inferno[/i]" by the Trammps comes to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoMSApzvGuw

Or, one of my favorites, "[i]Fire[/i]", by Arthur Brown (I was 9 years old when this song came out in 1968)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mizo55muY2I

Jan • 03/05/2018

@Cimmeria Everything can be explained with cartoon physics!

jprime • 03/05/2018

@AncientWolf So half your name is accurate.

Vulpis • 03/05/2018

All this, and no mention of the Mythbusters attemtping (and failing) to recreate the Archimede's Death Ray?

ndrvr • 03/05/2018

@Panther

Police officer: "Speeding at the beach? A fiftey bucks. With a Pogo stick? Anotha fiftey. All that doing with clothes on??? Boy, tha judge wanna hav' some words with ya!"

Wolf: "I did it all for science!!"

Navarre • 03/05/2018

It must have been hard for Wolf to tunnel under the beach with his pogo stick.

Navarre • 03/05/2018

I suppose on a nude beach it's only a matter of time before one gets "flashed".

George W. Harris • 03/06/2018

There was an Arthur C. Clarke story with a similar theme, involving a South American soccer stadium and reflective game programs. They only meant to dazzle the referee, but...

Panther • 03/06/2018

@ Ndrvr :

You've forgotten "dig a tunnel under a naked lady" . Let Sartharina deal herself with Wolf about it should be something like it : https://www.tigerknight.com/99/ama-63 XD

AncientWolf • 03/06/2018

There was an episode on the History Channel called "Ancient Sieges":

http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-top-10/season-1/episode-10

S 1 E 10 Ancient Sieges tv-14 v,l

The great empires of the ancient world were created through war, and some of the most defining battles were fought through siege warfare. The legendary battle of Troy, the incredibly advanced weapons of Archimedes at the battle of Syracuse, and the beginning of the fall of Rome. These are moments in history that will never be forgotten. But which Top 10 siege will top our list for being the most devastating?

Aired on: Sep 15, 2017 Available Until: Dec 31, 2035 Duration: 39m 58s

I happened to remember watching it, so...here it is. For what it's worth. :)

AncientWolf • 03/06/2018

jprime,

Not only am I not a young pup, I'm also a retired Computer/Electrical Engineer (30+ yrs), so I enjoy Wolf's "exploits". :P When I was in college, one of the gals in Physics class built a rail gun for a class project...fun times. ;)

ndrvr • 03/06/2018

@Panther

heh, and read him the "nude beach riot act" while "arresting" ^^. Wolf may get "softened up" finally. And then there'll be Jessie for round two...........

Panther • 03/06/2018 • edited

@ Ndrvr :

Softened up ....... Or chased by an angry mob ?

Classic event for Wolf : https://www.furaffinity.net/full/22939067/ 8D

ndrvr • 03/07/2018

@Panther

Phil may soon be outrunned, Wolfs training methods are ludricous ^^.

Panther • 03/07/2018

@ Ndrvr :

That's Wolf 8D

https://www.tigerknight.com/cc/2002-03-30 https://www.tigerknight.com/cc/2001-04-21 https://www.tigerknight.com/cc/2009-12-09

Anubis • 03/10/2018

Wolf falls under the One Coyote Theory - He is Immortal....and very unlucky :)

Panther • 03/10/2018

@ Anubis :

And persistent , too ^_^

Silverwolf • 03/10/2018

So the comic takes place in upstate New York?

WB101 • 03/16/2018

Somehow... this makes me think of the Megamind/death ray shtick (just Google “death of metro man”):

Dawn the DrMooID: walks in covered in cardboard boxes and wearing a plastic fishbowl with cute holes cut out for her horns and muzzle over her head Mooo moo. (Translation: Death ray readying.)

Wait. If you’re Minion... then who’s Roxanne Ritchie and Metro Man?

Dawn the DrMooID: holds up a picture of a roadrunner... then a picture of an anvil

Uhhh... Which is which? O_o

Dawn the DrMooID: shrugs Moo mooo MOO? (Translation: Does it make a difference?)

Oh... Go enjoy a salt lick or something. :/

Dawn the DrMooID: presses button on front of cardboard suit... salt lick popsicle extends via entendo-arm Moo! }:p lick, lick, lick, lick

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