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. 985   2005-10-07   >

Comic #985

1 {scene: The lobby of the Palast-Hotel in Kiev}
1 Ginny: Curses! They're going to break into my room. Fortunately I have the orichalcum with me.
2 Ginny: This makes it imperative that I get out of Kiev and back to Moscow as soon as possible.
3 Ginny: But all transport links are cut by the weather. Still, better here on the plains of Ukraine than in Athens.
4 Ginny: At least it's a steppe in the right direction.

First (1) | Previous (984) | Next (986) || Latest Rerun (2569) | Latest New (5165)
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/985.html
Annotations off: turn on
Annotations on: turn off

Much of Ukraine is covered by the wide, treeless grasslands known as steppes.

My original plan for this strip involved Dr Ginny Smith disguising herself as a nun to try to hitch a ride out of Kiev, but being turned down by various truck drivers, saying it would be all right taking a man as a passenger, but not a nun.

Then Ginny could complain about the distance from Kiev to Moscow:

That's one small steppe for man, one giant leap for manakhinya.
I decided, however, that this was just a bit too contrived - just a bit, mind - and the reliance on readers knowing that manakhinya is Russian for "nun" was probably asking a tad too much...
2014-12-22 Rerun commentary: In hindsight... I really should have gone with that alternate pun.

I'll keep that in mind next time I start thinking a pun is too obscure.

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: Monday, 22 December 2014; 02:11:02 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