Lucy: OK... Something is in there... Kate: But what? Danae: And why? Petey: ! Squirrel! K-wanng. Animal: Hi! Danae, Lucy, Kate: Um... hi. To be continued!
It’s small, it flies, and it glows, clearly Petey is right; it’s a miniature flying squirrel that glows in the dark. I guess Boris Badenov made Rocky radioactive somehow.
GOSH,…you don’t think that the obscurity of the glowing, talking wisp might be an intentional tease by the storyteller to whet your appetite for the next installment!? Wiley is a masterful storyteller and knows exactly what he is doing here. One of the reasons I love Wiley’s strip is that special talent that he has for manipulating (in a good way) his readers’ attention for the next day’s installment. Kinda like the way TV shows place their commercials, isn’t it!? Can you say “DUH!?”
RadioTom said: “Two clicks. 1) click the image to get the larger image from the Java app. 2) RIGHT-click the larger image, and select “View Image”.”
You must be using Firefox, right? Neither Internet Explorer nor Chrome has a “View Image” right-click option. (Internet Explorer gives an “Open Image” option, but it’s grayed out.) But even in Firefox, when I follow your steps, all it does is open the low-resolution enlarged image in a new tab – not the high-res image we all crave.
It’s Pixie, the Tinderbell! Oh, wait a minute…..It looks like a white elephant with fluttering wings! Maybe it is a fariytale about a white elephant with fluttering wings.
Hint, hint: the key to finding the URL of the really large image is the zazzle.com ad on the page (which you may not see with Firefox, depending on your noscript & adblock settings).
RadioTom’s hotlink sends you to the following address
http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/cd1896706059012d63ce00163e41dd5b?mime=gif
I guess this is a uclick server but the coding is gibberish to me not being java proficient. I’ll leave it to the experts. However, that image looks a little like one of Pinocchio’s pink elephants.
I think it looks like a bird with a long bill. What is the gold streamer following it? It doesn’t appear to be attached, may have a snake-like tongue and be the source of the glow.
Definitely supernatural.
I found out about the image when the Zazzle ad failed a few months ago, and Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac pointed out that by clicking on the proto-Zazzle ad you get a much more detailed image than is available anywhere else. To find the image on any Uclick comic, search the page source for “zazzle”, then look around that section for code ending in “mime=gif”. Copy and paste that code, from the “http” to “mime=gif” to your address bar, and you can see the image.
DarthSequitur over 14 years ago
OK I see it (more or less) but I still don’t know what it is.
At maximum screen magnification, the image loses clarity but… …it does sort of remind me of something out of Dr Seuss, but it’s been so long…
Petey is the only one who knows what he’s doing here.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Well it doesn’t look like a dove…..
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
Does it have a mother?
thirdguy over 14 years ago
So that’s what happened to tinkerbell!!
ksoskins over 14 years ago
It’s small, it flies, and it glows, clearly Petey is right; it’s a miniature flying squirrel that glows in the dark. I guess Boris Badenov made Rocky radioactive somehow.
kreole over 14 years ago
Oh well, no worse than a talking horse….
SardonicPenguin over 14 years ago
Through visual processing, we can determine that the creature has a trunk, and a round body accompanied by four stumpy legs.
Thus, I’d say it is a glowing albino miniature flying elephant.
A G.A.M.F.E. for short.
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Don’t touch it!….we don’t know where it’s been.
Little Miss Tink over 14 years ago
@Thirdguy: Uh, me, to your left with the dreamy face, Sir Clue of Less!
twj0729 over 14 years ago
So far, at least. it seems friendly.
Constantinepaleologos over 14 years ago
It looks like the elephant bird from Horton.
CougarRacinChic over 14 years ago
when I maxed it, kinda looked like an elephant with something riding on its back….:-/ meh…
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
Pandora’s box is now open.
kittenpah over 14 years ago
It’s the Great Gazoo! (ok, kiddies, you’ll have to go back and look up a historical reference to Fred Flintstone.)
Bye the bye, Petey does see a squirrel on the far side of the shed in the first panel. He just knocked over the brace in his haste.
palos over 14 years ago
Even after his/her/its departure, the shed is aglow!
Ermine Notyours over 14 years ago
There is a little known even better magnification option.
oish over 14 years ago
I betcha Capt. Eddie can fill us in. It’s probably one of his enchanted boils that escaped during a Nor’ Eastah
vexatron1984 over 14 years ago
Want to explain how you got that ArthurAllen?
SCOTTtheBADGER over 14 years ago
Wow! That does magnify much better! Thank Youi!
Justice22 over 14 years ago
Ummm,,, I guess it is just the first of a whole bunch of fireflies.
peter0423 over 14 years ago
ArthurAllen: Second what vexatron1984 said. How did you find out about it, and how can we use it on other strips? Thanks!
jahoody over 14 years ago
I vote for glowing albino miniature flying elephant!!!
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
One thing’s for sure. It seems to have a trunk, so I guess it’s planning on being around for a while.
cleokaya over 14 years ago
And a little dog shall set it free.
jahoody over 14 years ago
Horton did hatch an elephant bird. After all, those months on the nest had to have some effect.
Logicman over 14 years ago
Yeah – it is still glowing inside – does that mean more of his/her/its friends are inside?
and hey ArthurAllen – how do you do that magnification thing without clicking on your link? Way cool!
PhilBob over 14 years ago
GOSH,…you don’t think that the obscurity of the glowing, talking wisp might be an intentional tease by the storyteller to whet your appetite for the next installment!? Wiley is a masterful storyteller and knows exactly what he is doing here. One of the reasons I love Wiley’s strip is that special talent that he has for manipulating (in a good way) his readers’ attention for the next day’s installment. Kinda like the way TV shows place their commercials, isn’t it!? Can you say “DUH!?”
hereforthehumor115 over 14 years ago
Great, Kittenpah.
kirbey over 14 years ago
I was going to say a flying Aardvark, Elephant or Horton but will wait and see… Thanks ArthurAllen ….
cheers !
RadioTom over 14 years ago
Two clicks. 1) click the image to get the larger image from the Java app. 2) RIGHT-click the larger image, and select “View Image”.
That should do it.
smoothpate over 14 years ago
Thanks Wiley for the call back to the great movie “Up”!!!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
I think we have found “Whoville”.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
I don’t know Charlie Tuba, I think that little elephant with wings is pretty cute! Can’t wait to see what happens next!
peter0423 over 14 years ago
RadioTom said: “Two clicks. 1) click the image to get the larger image from the Java app. 2) RIGHT-click the larger image, and select “View Image”.”
You must be using Firefox, right? Neither Internet Explorer nor Chrome has a “View Image” right-click option. (Internet Explorer gives an “Open Image” option, but it’s grayed out.) But even in Firefox, when I follow your steps, all it does is open the low-resolution enlarged image in a new tab – not the high-res image we all crave.
Anyone else?
Wildmustang1262 over 14 years ago
It’s Pixie, the Tinderbell! Oh, wait a minute…..It looks like a white elephant with fluttering wings! Maybe it is a fariytale about a white elephant with fluttering wings.
Oh drats! :-/
ellisaana Premium Member over 14 years ago
That is one chunky day-glo hummingbird.
poohbear8192 over 14 years ago
I saw a bird with a squiggly beak before and after that terrific enlargement trick. IT does look like something I’ve seen before.
nboady over 14 years ago
Hint, hint: the key to finding the URL of the really large image is the zazzle.com ad on the page (which you may not see with Firefox, depending on your noscript & adblock settings).
ububobu over 14 years ago
RadioTom’s hotlink sends you to the following address http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/cd1896706059012d63ce00163e41dd5b?mime=gif
I guess this is a uclick server but the coding is gibberish to me not being java proficient. I’ll leave it to the experts. However, that image looks a little like one of Pinocchio’s pink elephants.
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Tinker Bell, is that you?
marvee over 14 years ago
I think it looks like a bird with a long bill. What is the gold streamer following it? It doesn’t appear to be attached, may have a snake-like tongue and be the source of the glow. Definitely supernatural.
Can't Sleep over 14 years ago
This looks like a job for Danae’s friend, Lars from Mars!
mizcraig over 14 years ago
Thank you, Petey! It was beginning to look like the waiting was going to go on forever.
Hath1 over 14 years ago
Thanks nboady!
sleepeeg3 over 14 years ago
Wiley’s vacation is in there. ;)
Justice22 over 14 years ago
What appears to be a “trunk” is actually the opposite wing. There may be a figure actually riding the flying firefly.
bobpeters61 over 14 years ago
I sure would hate to be standing underneath that bird.
harrietbe over 14 years ago
Or a very large mutant fire-fly?
sambo10 over 14 years ago
I say it’s a mix of a firefly and a miniature elephant. I call it an elefly.
Kerovan over 14 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 14 hours ago
A mimmoth stole one of Roger Ramjet’s pills.
Good one! You combined a reference for Girl Genius and Roger Ramjet and made it work
thirdguy over 14 years ago
Only Tink,
It’s been a long time, If I had only known!!
JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago
♪♫ So I guess I’ve seen about everything When I see an elephant fly..♪♫
trekkermint over 14 years ago
looks like an elephant fairy to me
fallacyside over 14 years ago
Is it Al Gore’s libido?
Ermine Notyours over 14 years ago
I found out about the image when the Zazzle ad failed a few months ago, and Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac pointed out that by clicking on the proto-Zazzle ad you get a much more detailed image than is available anywhere else. To find the image on any Uclick comic, search the page source for “zazzle”, then look around that section for code ending in “mime=gif”. Copy and paste that code, from the “http” to “mime=gif” to your address bar, and you can see the image.