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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 10, 2010
Transcript:
Flo: So what've you two been doin' on yaw vacation? Kate: Well, we just had a little adventure out in the woods! Danae: Yeah, we found a shed, and... Captain Eddie: Wait... Not a shed with a board blocking the door... Danae: Um... yeah, why? Eddie: You didn't open it, did you? Danae: Well... Eddie: You... mean... the Ekert is loose?!! Eek! To be continued!
wndrwrthg over 14 years ago
Uh oh!
LordDogmore over 14 years ago
Capān Eddie is freaked. This CANNOT be good.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Oh Oh!!! Run for your lives everyone!! Hurry! The Ekert is loose!!!
DarthSequitur over 14 years ago
Agreed. Most ominous. Capān Eddie almost looks sober.
But Pauly doesnāt seem to care. Typical cat.
hawgowar over 14 years ago
Iām glad this is turning out to be more menacing that the last day promised.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Life as we know it is about to end.
ksoskins over 14 years ago
I knew they should have checked with Captain Eddie before opening that shed!
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The Second Comingby William Butler Yeats
wallylm over 14 years ago
Heh, thought this was going to be one of those mind-loop stories where it turns out Danae locked Ekert in the shed to keep her negative thoughts but had forgot she did so because Ekert ate that thought before being shut in! As for Eddieās involvement, hard to imagine where that will go but it will be fun to find out!
twinsnake_coatl over 14 years ago
I knew Eddie was involved somehow!
harrietbe over 14 years ago
Ahhhā¦. the plot thickens!!!
cdward over 14 years ago
With Capān Eddie involved, this gets much better!
Sheik, I love your song/poem quotes! Keep āem coming.
cdward over 14 years ago
ā¦Hardly are those words out When a wee image out of Shed Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the grass of the woods A shape with elephantine body and wings of a bee, A gaze glad and fanciful as the rainbow, Is smiling vapidly, while all about it Reels Capān Eddie who knows the awful truth.
T Gabriel Premium Member over 14 years ago
The Eckert?? How is a drug store chain supposed to be scary.
I need to get out more.
He-Manatee over 14 years ago
You like poems?
There once was a thing in the shed Who would eat the thoughts out of your head. When Danae let it out Capān Eddie did shout. Soon we just might all be dead.
But I wouldnāt shout, squirm or swear. For to Bean-town it took to the air. It could never be fed by the thoughts in those heads. For in Boston there are no thoughts there!
twj0729 over 14 years ago
With Capān Eddie involved this can only get better. What twisted, ingenious plot will unravel? āThe Ekertā ?
thetraveller4 over 14 years ago
Iām guessing the ekert grows every time it eats negative thoughts, and so will grow to a HUMONGOUS size, considering our world is SO positiveā¦
Allan CB Premium Member over 14 years ago
DUN DUN DUAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
The plot really thickens ā¦ and dude, Eddie looks just a smidgen frightened, and he never does.
peter0423 over 14 years ago
Nice poems, guys! :)
Is it just me, or do I recall seeing the Ekert, or something like it, before?
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
ā¦enter Capān Eddie.
When will we learn to never try to out-guess Wiley?āas much fun as it is to try.
MatureCanadian over 14 years ago
Scaaty I agree. I think the Ekert has appeared in the Sunday āHomerā strips, but my Way Back Machine is broken.
This is getting scary, Wiley. With Capān Eddie fussed we should all be frightened!
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Must have been Pandoraās shed.
Whatroughbeast over 14 years ago
Hey, WBY plagiarized my name. Iāma gonna suea da bum!
Justice22 over 14 years ago
The girls didnāt let the Ekert out. It was an accidental happening because of Petey chasing the squirrel. Donāt blame the girls Eddie, blame the joker who blocked the door with a board. When is Ekert going to find a mate and start multiplying? You know, 2 times 2 equals four, etc.
jollyjack over 14 years ago
I knew that there wa a āCAt in the Hatā twist there
CedarCircle over 14 years ago
Oh boy, we get back story! I love reading the origins of supercreatures.
Jaroca2 over 14 years ago
now things are getting betterā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦..
just imagine the tour weāll have with the Capānās story
Bargrove over 14 years ago
He-mantee: Iāve relatives in Boston. Loved your poem. Tanks alot.
alviebird over 14 years ago
Ekert got weak from starvation during a period that started with the summer of love, and Eddie was able to lock him away in December ā69. Right before the Altimont Motor Speedway incident and the Beatles break up.
rotts over 14 years ago
Yeats is THE MAN! the last two lines are remarkable.
Thanks for the refresher, Sheik, I hadnāt read that in many a year.
mizcraig over 14 years ago
Where would this strip be without Lucy, Petey and Pauly?? And now Ekert.
wicky over 14 years ago
Ekert needs to go to israel.
vldazzle over 14 years ago
This does have promise. Will Capt Eddie have an extended story about the Ekert next?
trying2keepup over 14 years ago
Thanks for the poem Sheik, Iād only heard Joni Mitchelās version before.
wmeahan over 14 years ago
Remember, Captain Eddie regards baseball, especially Red Sox baseball a religion. Thus the Eckert must be the Devil himself!
C and O 2666 over 14 years ago
My local newspaper printed an old stand-alone strip today, something they should do every time thereās a continuing story on a Saturday.
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RevvieQuar over 14 years ago
Sheik,
THANK you for that bit of splendid poetry.
I am SO using that for an audition monologue, and with a Peter OāToole vibe.
As for Ekert, may he descend on Keith Olberman and his ilk, et. al.
This could be a good thing!
rustyred over 14 years ago
Has anyone Googled EKERT? There really is an Artur Ekert with an interesting background. Could be relevant.
marvee over 14 years ago
Ekert grows huge on negative thoughts and feelings, then bursts, and lets them all loose again.
wiatr over 14 years ago
Sounds like a crisis the likes of which havenāt been seen since the schmoos escaped !
NJ Lyon about 13 years ago
What happened to Captain Eddieās pipe in panel 4?