Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 17, 2009

Caught between a Roc and a Space Place

The ship going on an unmanned voyage into the great unknown.

Wow - look at those drum sticks!

And maybe the old bird is just doing them a favor and carrying their space craft for them.

I wonder if Danae’s dreaming all of this.

In the direction away from the BFB would be a good plan ‘B’, but in the craft the homing signal is going so Lars can find them, does present a problem, I’ll bet Cap’n Eddie did not make the same error.

Cap’n Eddie would just throw it a couple of lobstas.

sanger11, that isn’t a Roc–it’s a Gastornis (which couldn’t fly, unlike the Roc)

Cap’n Eddie certainly wouldn’t have made the mistake of trying to set homing signal–he doesn’t believe in hitech stuff, and it’s a good question if he even believes in lotech navigational skills–wicky.

The gigantic Blue Goatbird…..it devours anything…..

H’mmmm…this reminds me of the “Ordinary Basil” that took place on Helios. I wonder if Jeffrey and Danae will run into the same charactors??

Looks like a dodo bird to me.

More like a South Island adzebill (omnivorous 1-metre-tall flightless bird extirpated by Maori, along with its somewhat-smaller North Island counterpart) than a dodo (vegetarian), cleo.

I still will claim it’s a Gastornis though, due to its sheer size.

Yep, this is DEFINETLY a DOCTOR WHO script.

This is funny - Monty has aliens drinking, and Non Seq has the characters on an Alien planet … L How many other comics will have Aliens at the same time?

Looks like Seattle to me.

I’ll bet the mysterious city has a bustling KFC.

AWESOME!!!!

Kevin! Bad bird! Put that down!

i, too, thought it was a dodo. but then, prehistoric birds are not my area of expertise. i’ve never heard of a Gastornis, but will google it later.

yyyguy, Gastornis was originally termed Diatryma. This genus is the type of bird referenced in Pierce Anthony’s Orn.

. Did I see an Unicorn flying overhead ?????????

Don’t you love it when Danae gets so smug?

Homing signal….why? in a couple hours a decent dog with a good nose will be able to find that ship…Hey Petey…. Here boy! aww shucks he just ran the other way…wonder why?

Haha, at first I thought “tie-breaking vote” refered to the debate whether dinosaurs evolved from birds or not…. But last time I checked there wasn’t anymore debate about that anyway…..except from the creationists…..rolls eyes

The dodo isn’t pre-historic, just extinct. It died out after it was writen about. As opposed to the mamoth wich died out because they taste good before anyone could write a recipe.

Omnivore - Orn - Ox - great series, but it’s Piers Anthony

http://www.fossil-treasures-of-florida.com/terror-bird.html http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/prehistoric-predators/3574/Overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastornis http://www.nhm.org/journey/prehist/birds/diatryma.html

Big, mean, scary, ugly, and kewl.