Irregular Webcomic!

Archive     Blog     Cast     Forum     RSS     Books!     Poll Results     About     Search     Fan Art     Podcast     More Stuff     Random     Support on Patreon
New comics Mon-Fri; reruns Sat-Sun
<   No. 24   2003-02-13   >

Comic #24

1 Haken: So, Dr. Jones, we meet again. {taunting the tied up Monty}
2 Haken: This time, no mistakes. I'm just going to kill you.
3 Monty: You... you... you... jackbooted Nazi!
4 Haken: Really now, Dr. Jones. This is 1937 Germany. You'll have to come up with a better insult than that.

First (1) | Previous (23) | Next (25) || Latest Rerun (2637) | Latest New (5285)
First 5 | Previous 5 | Next 5 | Latest 5
Cliffhangers theme: First | Previous | Next | Latest || First 5 | Previous 5 | Next 5 | Latest 5
This strip's permanent URL: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/24.html
Annotations off: turn on
Annotations on: turn off

2011-11-26 Rerun commentary: Wow, a whole new theme! This is the Cliffhangers theme showing itself for the first time. The theme name, like the Space and Fantasy theme names, comes from the appropriate GURPS roleplaying genre book. In this case, the appropriate source book for 1930s pulp adventure is GURPS Cliffhangers. So that's why the other one is "Space" and not "Science Fiction".

Indiana Jones has always been one of my favourite movie mythologies, ever since I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time at a drive-in movie some time after its release in 1981. I think it was a double feature with some other big movie of the era - possibly E.T.. I remember that I was more interested in the other movie, and didn't know anything about Raiders at the time, so was not really interested to see it. Now, my memory of that night is dominated by my first experience with Raiders, and I can't even remember what the other movie was!

I'm constantly amused by the fact that the very first line we hear in the Cliffhangers theme, in the very first panel in which we meet Monty Jones and Colonel Haken, is, "So, Dr. Jones, we meet again." Clearly these two have some long and complicated mutual history on which this line rests - but we don't get to see any of that. This single line tells us a lot about these two characters, right up front. Economy of story telling, right there. Beautiful stuff.

LEGO® is a registered trademark of the LEGO Group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorise, or endorse this site.
This material is presented in accordance with the LEGO® Fair Play Guidelines.

My comics: Irregular Webcomic! | Darths & Droids | Eavesdropper | Planet of Hats | The Dinosaur Whiteboard | mezzacotta
My blogs: dangermouse.net (daily updates) | 100 Proofs that the Earth is a Globe (science!) | Carpe DMM (long form posts) | Snot Block & Roll (food reviews)
More comics I host: The Prisoner of Monty Hall | Lightning Made of Owls | Square Root of Minus Garfield | iToons | Comments on a Postcard | Awkward Fumbles
Last Modified: Thursday, 19 January 2012; 00:32:57 PST.
© 2002-2024 Creative Commons License
This work is copyright and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Licence by David Morgan-Mar. dmm@irregularwebcomic.net