This plot of this story arc is beginning to sound a bit like the finale of the wonderful TV series “St. Elsewhere,” where it was revealed that the entire series was in the mind of a child with autism with his snow globe of the hospital.
@khmo: Agree. Try as we might, we will never be able to learn the exact dimension of such abilities, considering that each form of autism is different for each child. Like Jeffrey, we can only learn to accommodate it out of love for the child. And that, friends, is a universal remedy for many ailments, physical or mental.
This at least explains what’s been happening to Captain Eddie for a couple or three years. Doesn’t much explain before the kid was born, but maybe it runs in the family. I mean, we haven’t met the mother and father yet.
The human mind is a magnificent miracle. Not only does it give us wonders like our boy Jack but it gives us creative genius’ like our Wiley. Bless them both. Bless us all.
Jack is a lot like Billy Mumy in “It’s a Good Life”. On a conscious level he’s like the protagonist in LeGuin’s “The Lathe of Heaven”. Now there is a weird tale.
The literature doesn’t mention clairvoyance as a characteristic of autism. Having seen too many boats myself, I don’t consider it a gift. Over time, it tends to rub some of the new off of a day.
I remember seeing the occasional “Jack’s World” installment of “Non Sequitur” thru the years, often (usually) on Sundays, thinking that each one was just a one-off unrelated to anything else (like the Wiley bears). Now I find out that his family and nabors have been here all along. The only other strip I can think of that’s this well integrated is Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”.
eastern.woods.metal almost 5 years ago
She’s not your type, Joe
Bilan almost 5 years ago
Does this mean that Jack has been Captain Eddie’s navigator the whole time?
wiatr almost 5 years ago
Joe gets to go home by air!
willispate almost 5 years ago
it kinda explains Eddie’s travels throughout the comics.
GiantShetlandPony almost 5 years ago
Hopefully, Joe and Eddie didn’t bring Covid-19 to the island with them.
TexTech almost 5 years ago
My question is this: Is Jack simply seeing this through clairvoyance or is he actually making it happen? That latter option is very scary.
dlauber Premium Member almost 5 years ago
This plot of this story arc is beginning to sound a bit like the finale of the wonderful TV series “St. Elsewhere,” where it was revealed that the entire series was in the mind of a child with autism with his snow globe of the hospital.
boneroller42 almost 5 years ago
It almost seems that Jack is Nebbish for Cap’n Eddie
Scorpio Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Um… I don’t think Jack is a Human. He is a deity of sorts (or a marvel mutant)
Sanspareil almost 5 years ago
I know what’s happening! I’ve been trained for this a long time!
Kaputnik almost 5 years ago
Jack and Eddie are riders on the storm.
Buzzworld almost 5 years ago
I think Jack Is Wiley Miller.
khmo almost 5 years ago
I see this as the mind of an autistic child showing the hidden intelligence and capability.
dflak almost 5 years ago
Capt’n Eddie and Jeffery have something in common: they both can manipulate spacetime and suspend reality as we know it.
walstib Premium Member almost 5 years ago
My wife and her special ed teacher friends say Bill Gates is “on the spectrum”.
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
@khmo: Agree. Try as we might, we will never be able to learn the exact dimension of such abilities, considering that each form of autism is different for each child. Like Jeffrey, we can only learn to accommodate it out of love for the child. And that, friends, is a universal remedy for many ailments, physical or mental.
STARTS WITH A B almost 5 years ago
The name of Eddie’s boat:Anoesis – a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.
Seems appropriate.
Cheapskate0 almost 5 years ago
A tribute to Saint Elsewhere?
GFox49 almost 5 years ago
From up and down and still somehowIt’s cloud’s illusions I recallI really don’t know clouds at all…
losflemings almost 5 years ago
I like that ABNORMAL ;)
Snoots almost 5 years ago
This at least explains what’s been happening to Captain Eddie for a couple or three years. Doesn’t much explain before the kid was born, but maybe it runs in the family. I mean, we haven’t met the mother and father yet.
Durak Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The human mind is a magnificent miracle. Not only does it give us wonders like our boy Jack but it gives us creative genius’ like our Wiley. Bless them both. Bless us all.
Benign Bodger almost 5 years ago
Wasn’t the latter the plot line from an ancient Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode?
Hindsight’sRelative almost 5 years ago
Maybe all of Eddie’s stories weren’t made up…seems Jack’s unseen world influences/affects people’s situations in unorthodox, yet helpful ways.
DondiDoo almost 5 years ago
Ya know. That island was safe in its isolation. Hope Joe didn’t bring the virus with him.
comixbomix almost 5 years ago
Wiley’s version of “Calvin and Hobbes”.
Radish... almost 5 years ago
Nature Boy – Nat King Cole
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he
And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
Songwriter: Eden Ahbez
Lazarus Long almost 5 years ago
Jack is a lot like Billy Mumy in “It’s a Good Life”. On a conscious level he’s like the protagonist in LeGuin’s “The Lathe of Heaven”. Now there is a weird tale.
forestkat2015 almost 5 years ago
some of the people on the spectrum, like Jack, are quite magical. I know mine are.
57-Don almost 5 years ago
So Captain Eddy’s misadventures are the musings of an autistic little boy? Holy St Elsewhere Batman!
webishop14 almost 5 years ago
The literature doesn’t mention clairvoyance as a characteristic of autism. Having seen too many boats myself, I don’t consider it a gift. Over time, it tends to rub some of the new off of a day.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I remember seeing the occasional “Jack’s World” installment of “Non Sequitur” thru the years, often (usually) on Sundays, thinking that each one was just a one-off unrelated to anything else (like the Wiley bears). Now I find out that his family and nabors have been here all along. The only other strip I can think of that’s this well integrated is Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”.