Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 06, 2009
September 05, 2009
September 07, 2009
Transcript:
Homer: Um... a little help, please? God: I do enjoy these circuitous routes you and Duncan take to enlightenment, Homer. Dog: Well, it makes me dizzy. Homer: It's not my fault, Bert! Through the usual dense fog, something unusual catches the attention of a lone hunter from the Mi'Kmaq tribe. The year, by our calendar, is A.D. 492. Staying hidden in the shadows of the pine trees, he tries to figure out what this thing is as it drifts in with the tide. Closer now, he can hear eerie creaks and groans through the dead silence of the fog. Old campfire tales of sea monsters race through the hunter's mind as the thing slowly emerges from the fog. Frozen in both fear and curiosity, he can now clearly see... that there were going to be a lot more questions. Homer's Life in the Dark Ages resumes...
“Um, 492 AD? That’s only about 500 years too early for a Norse landing in North America. The Viking Age won’t even start for 300 years. Way to mess up history, Homer.”
That’s the point of this story, which you will see, that Homer’s accidental arrival to this continent predates the arrival of Norsemen.
You see, it’s a comic strip, not a history book.