By day, a mild mannered Secretary – by night she roams the city streets as the Bat Temp…
or – er…. *Ahem*… Well actually… the real reason for this page, as the previous “Hard Boiled” page was a bit of improvisation on the story, I thought perhaps a segue to get Bunz back into Bat Temp uniform for her big slug-fest with GlueFace would be in order… that is, once she gets her jeans back from the Laundromat…
Awwww WW she’s just too dang cute to be homicidal. I don’t think she’s killed a fly… yet. I mean, she didn’t even crash land her scout ship on a wicked witch or a politician or anything. Who knows? And maybe the black mini-skirt will go with the boots and jacket thing. (The scanties were issue?)
They’re too busy goggling, I guess. However, the situation does raise some questions about the coming fistfest… Is Bunz going to clobber Glueface just to swipe his pants? Or will she be aided by distraction as she sails into action sans jeans?
Well, a “clean slate” in this case might involve the arrival of the Negafleet, with the consequent obliteration of Dirt, or Earth… be careful what you wish for.
Just a bit of news update: I’ve finished the inks on the next B&K page, but for the nonce, set work on that aside to color the August calendar, which seems to feature; Jungle Girl Heather – Queen of two an a half acres of tropical foliage, with her own parking space and friend to all the jungle creatures (especially after she’s had a sip or two of Jungle Juice)…
There’s a few other characters involved in the calendar composition:
A moderately peeved Gorilla, a few Sub-Simian Ape Cats and I have a hot tip that High Priestess OoLaLa may make a cameo appearance as well…
As such, to percolate your interest, Heather herself had this to say, as she stepped off the studio tour bus on her way to the lost lath and plaster city of Ophir – (that’s located behind Sound Stage 7 and across from the Studio Commissary)…
“Get out of my way, you stupid cartoonist paparazzi creep!”
Dang! I didn’t know Heather could do stuck up celebrity. She seems to have the spoiled studio starlet patois down pat. Although the fact that she’s riding on a studio tour bus speaks volumes.
The Studio Tour Bus, it seems, is a convenient means to commute between her back-lot Jungle Set to the semi-ruined Ophir set behind Soundstage 7… Apparently she’s wearing sunglasses so that no one on the tour bus will recognize her…
A little current event note. Our government admits that the little Dr. Doom want to be in North Korea has successfully mastered and fully applied quantum encryption. Any key of which would take better than a million years, by brute force for a super computer to break. The keys can be changed daily, or even by message. And can be hand carried. It is presumed that all his weapons have been wired for the so-called q-bit technology. We have no such technology, since the limit without repeater stations is about 80 km. The dictator likely just sprang for computers, powered by batteries, and shielded by sheets of transformer metal and having only fiber optics going in or out. Perhaps every 50 km. So much for our continual bragging about breaking into their systems and blowing them up. They are like the little guy on the beach that the big guy kicked sand it his face. They sent away for the get-bigger kit, so it seems.
With mastery of the q-bit (or qbit), they might not have developed a quantum computer just yet. But they might have developed super fast operational amplifier circuits. If applied to their missile, it might simply be able to out-think our anti-missiles. We might get a good missile lock, but it not much help. q-bit circuits, at the operational amplifier level might simply time their response to the missile lock and their response, so that our slower technology couldn’t counter their counter move. Their missile having a rocket burn to evade up — by just a little bit.
If they have got something like that, they might use it in a non-ballistic orbit. They could simply orbit the planet repeatedly. And we would have no choice but to repeated shoot it down. And the real joke, a funny one really, is that they might still be a year or more of from a miniaturized warhead. The orbiting device might only have nuclear waste (in case we can detect such things at distance). They know that we have more throw weight than they could counter. So that’s not the plan. They figure that their generals once out-thought MacArthur, and that the might do it once again — before the general’s great prophecy of their ending comes to pass. For them a victory of sorts. Sad but that merely a few words could change all of that, and tens of millions might live. But pride on BOTH sides keeps such words in check.
Ah… That aside… I uploaded the August Heather and the Lost City of Ophir calendar tonight (the 1st about 3 in the AM) and also made the Pix of Heather above “Hot”, so that anyone can click on her for a shortcut to the download page…
As for other news of decreasing irrelevance, the Next B&K page is about finished and now that the calendar is posted, I don’t have an excuse not to work on it – so perhaps later this week we’ll get that uploaded as well…
Next week’s scheduled North Korean target practice: the island of Guam. Home to maybe 200 thousand people (depending on tourism). Will their tourism go up or down with the possible fireworks promises on both sides? The plan is to circle the island with a re-entry of 4 missiles, at estimated distances of 30 to 40 km. Naturally in some way or other we are invited to the party. The test is: can North Korea prove that they have a good guidance system; and, can (or should) we prove to have adequate counter measures. The apparent challenge is their general marksmanship vs our alleged capacity of a of hitting a bullet with a bullet. If the challenge is given and met — the outcome might determine who has to go back to the design board. Nothing thus far evil having been done.
They play to arc those missiles over Japan. The Japanese are not real happy about that. China doesn’t know who they really want to piss off now that it looks like push is about to come to shove. We are living in interesting times.
Who needs the Negafleet to destroy Dirtian civilization? Two overcompensating megalomaniacs with big mouths and small — hands– can do the job all by themselves.
Seems mostly misdirection to distract the public from Prez Tweet’s other scandals… (Nuthin’ up his sleeve, no Russian revelations, no Tax Form fraud, It’s Nuke talk today an’ all day, on all your local Squawk Talk stations!)
However, should they really wish to mix it up over Guam, I’d suggest we stage a Cage Match Duel there between Mushroom Head and Alligator Mouth – an’ the winner gets to swim home!
Josh, as a cartoonist you might like a little cartoon in a related Scientific American article. Something about should just one man decide on a nuclear exchange. There a relatively tiny Donald Trump is hefting up and tossing the entire mass of a nuclear missile. The cartoonist has him a slightly overweight businessman. But credit were credit is due also somehow powerful too. By an irony, Trump has set as a goal to completely de-nuclearize the planet. And unlike every other visionary or president in history that might timidly go along with such an idea — I think he has a plan in that direction. Less perhaps from a vision of all getting along — and maybe more that it might be a sort of fun thing to promote. And its the mouth of Godzillia — for when he chars someone, they do tend to seriously notice it.
Ah… Where did you hear that? (I must’ve missed that news)… Rather than eliminating nukes, so far Prez Tweet has falsely taken credit for modernizing the nuclear forces – which is something that Prez Obama actually did… And now seems to be threatening N. Korea with nuclear retaliation…
For anyone who thinks that a nuclear war is a good idea, “The Last Train From Hiroshima” accounts of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, should be required reading… It’s an Awful thing, just reading about it is enough to make any rational person sick!
One Evil does not justify another! War is an Awful thing! In WWII all sides were guilty of atrocities of one sort or another – and while it’s easy to fob off any responsibility by saying “Those guys started it.” or that they did this or that which was awful… Pearl Harbor, to give Nagumo and company their due, was an attack on a Military Installation, it was not intended to exterminate the Hawaiian Civilians…
While the US Army Air Force had started in Europe with high altitude precision bombing against manufacturing and military targets, they had gradually drifted further and further into the British strategy of Fire Bomb raids against Civilian residential areas… In Japan, most of the major cities were burned in Napalm Firestorms – this was wholesale extermination of Civilian Populations… and while, particularly in Nagasaki, a huge Mitsubishi manufacturing complex was destroyed, still most of the victims were Civilians!
The reason I recommended the book, “The Last Train from Hiroshima”, is because most people do not understand what it means to destroy a whole city filled with people – Women – Children – Everyone! They don’t know what the Radiation – what the Heat Blast and Shock Wave does to a human body – You do NOT just get disintegrated in a nuclear blast, though you may get cooked alive… If you were “Lucky” you may die quickly, but many didn’t – many even near the epicenter survived – for a while anyway, some lingering for days in horrible pain and suffering!
That’s what we’re talking about – It’s NOT about getting even! And even if it were about retribution – the people responsible for Nanking or Bataan weren’t the ones dying in the Nuclear and Napalm attacks! What happened during WWII is history, we can’t fix it – but what we can do is change what we do in the future… That is the point I was trying to make!!
I also think of bringing WWII to an end—that the main reaction of the GIs waiting to invade Japan, when they heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was that they didn’t have to die. It was over.
As I was trying to point out, this is NOT about WWII and Who did what to Whom back then – That is all History now… What is important is what we do Today and in the Future – which is why it’s important for everyone to understand what a Nuclear City Killing Blast actually does… And Note, by today’s standards, those were “Small” bombs, a little less than a quarter Megaton each…
Josh, like with the fellow on TV that is selling the book “Play piano in a flash” Trump is rather a master of shortcuts and doing two or more seemingly contradictory things at at the same time. Look at the no win circumstance it generates with political foes. They are on the same page of what they don’t like about him, to such a degree, that they forget to promote about what we should like about them. And they do have their own sale points.
As to Pearl Harbor. We won the war, so our view of history is the one mostly taught. Likely it could be also be written, that one “act of war”, a blockade of energy imports to Japan — and their world-wide Axis efforts, generated a responsive “act of war” from FDR’s radio message.
As to the Bataan Death March and its merciless nature. There might be a difference in view between Asian war making and European war making. Japan viewed, as the Spartans did, better to come back carrying your shield or [on] your shield than to yield your position. It was our people that they punished. But … they thought the same of themselves, it would seem. What other reason to not show what seems understandable compassion?
It was somewhat like Dominos – In order to coerce the Japanese into curtailing their conquest of Manchuria – Once the US (FDR) and the Dutch as well, Embargoed Petroleum sales to Japan – Japan had about one year of stockpiled petrol, after which their Navy & Army would be out of business… The nearest and practically only source of petrol for the Japanese was the island of Celebes in the Dutch East Indies – but to attack the Dutch meant war with Britain… That meant, Britain’s main naval base in the area, Singapore (the somewhat over-rated “Gibraltar of the Pacific”) would also need to be taken out… And just to the north east, the Philippines – at the time “Owned” by the US of A, were also a major naval base… (though most of the ships based there were old – the main US fleet having been moved to Pearl)… The Japanese couldn’t hardly capture Singapore and Celebes (where the oil was) in the Dutch East Indies without doing something about the Philippines as well – which brings us back to Pearl Harbor…
There’s a certain awful logic to it all – which catapulted the nations involved into war…
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By day, a mild mannered Secretary – by night she roams the city streets as the Bat Temp…
or – er…. *Ahem*… Well actually… the real reason for this page, as the previous “Hard Boiled” page was a bit of improvisation on the story, I thought perhaps a segue to get Bunz back into Bat Temp uniform for her big slug-fest with GlueFace would be in order… that is, once she gets her jeans back from the Laundromat…
Jeans are always wash once, dry twice. Be a while before they get back, so just go in whatever that is you’ve got around your middle, Bunz…
Aw gee, who’d a thunk that a cute li’l homicidal planet-destroying space alien would wear pink scanties? With bats on?
Awwww WW she’s just too dang cute to be homicidal. I don’t think she’s killed a fly… yet. I mean, she didn’t even crash land her scout ship on a wicked witch or a politician or anything. Who knows? And maybe the black mini-skirt will go with the boots and jacket thing. (The scanties were issue?)
Humpf. Not much chatter in the outfield this inning.
They’re too busy goggling, I guess. However, the situation does raise some questions about the coming fistfest… Is Bunz going to clobber Glueface just to swipe his pants? Or will she be aided by distraction as she sails into action sans jeans?
Personally, I start to look forward to the clean slate with a new comic.
Well, a “clean slate” in this case might involve the arrival of the Negafleet, with the consequent obliteration of Dirt, or Earth… be careful what you wish for.
Just a bit of news update: I’ve finished the inks on the next B&K page, but for the nonce, set work on that aside to color the August calendar, which seems to feature; Jungle Girl Heather – Queen of two an a half acres of tropical foliage, with her own parking space and friend to all the jungle creatures (especially after she’s had a sip or two of Jungle Juice)…
There’s a few other characters involved in the calendar composition:
A moderately peeved Gorilla, a few Sub-Simian Ape Cats and I have a hot tip that High Priestess OoLaLa may make a cameo appearance as well…
As such, to percolate your interest, Heather herself had this to say, as she stepped off the studio tour bus on her way to the lost lath and plaster city of Ophir – (that’s located behind Sound Stage 7 and across from the Studio Commissary)…
…Remember, you heard it here first folks… JQ
Dang! I didn’t know Heather could do stuck up celebrity. She seems to have the spoiled studio starlet patois down pat. Although the fact that she’s riding on a studio tour bus speaks volumes.
The Studio Tour Bus, it seems, is a convenient means to commute between her back-lot Jungle Set to the semi-ruined Ophir set behind Soundstage 7… Apparently she’s wearing sunglasses so that no one on the tour bus will recognize her…
A little current event note. Our government admits that the little Dr. Doom want to be in North Korea has successfully mastered and fully applied quantum encryption. Any key of which would take better than a million years, by brute force for a super computer to break. The keys can be changed daily, or even by message. And can be hand carried. It is presumed that all his weapons have been wired for the so-called q-bit technology. We have no such technology, since the limit without repeater stations is about 80 km. The dictator likely just sprang for computers, powered by batteries, and shielded by sheets of transformer metal and having only fiber optics going in or out. Perhaps every 50 km. So much for our continual bragging about breaking into their systems and blowing them up. They are like the little guy on the beach that the big guy kicked sand it his face. They sent away for the get-bigger kit, so it seems.
With mastery of the q-bit (or qbit), they might not have developed a quantum computer just yet. But they might have developed super fast operational amplifier circuits. If applied to their missile, it might simply be able to out-think our anti-missiles. We might get a good missile lock, but it not much help. q-bit circuits, at the operational amplifier level might simply time their response to the missile lock and their response, so that our slower technology couldn’t counter their counter move. Their missile having a rocket burn to evade up — by just a little bit.
If they have got something like that, they might use it in a non-ballistic orbit. They could simply orbit the planet repeatedly. And we would have no choice but to repeated shoot it down. And the real joke, a funny one really, is that they might still be a year or more of from a miniaturized warhead. The orbiting device might only have nuclear waste (in case we can detect such things at distance). They know that we have more throw weight than they could counter. So that’s not the plan. They figure that their generals once out-thought MacArthur, and that the might do it once again — before the general’s great prophecy of their ending comes to pass. For them a victory of sorts. Sad but that merely a few words could change all of that, and tens of millions might live. But pride on BOTH sides keeps such words in check.
Ah… That aside… I uploaded the August Heather and the Lost City of Ophir calendar tonight (the 1st about 3 in the AM) and also made the Pix of Heather above “Hot”, so that anyone can click on her for a shortcut to the download page…
As for other news of decreasing irrelevance, the Next B&K page is about finished and now that the calendar is posted, I don’t have an excuse not to work on it – so perhaps later this week we’ll get that uploaded as well…
Next week’s scheduled North Korean target practice: the island of Guam. Home to maybe 200 thousand people (depending on tourism). Will their tourism go up or down with the possible fireworks promises on both sides? The plan is to circle the island with a re-entry of 4 missiles, at estimated distances of 30 to 40 km. Naturally in some way or other we are invited to the party. The test is: can North Korea prove that they have a good guidance system; and, can (or should) we prove to have adequate counter measures. The apparent challenge is their general marksmanship vs our alleged capacity of a of hitting a bullet with a bullet. If the challenge is given and met — the outcome might determine who has to go back to the design board. Nothing thus far evil having been done.
They play to arc those missiles over Japan. The Japanese are not real happy about that. China doesn’t know who they really want to piss off now that it looks like push is about to come to shove. We are living in interesting times.
Who needs the Negafleet to destroy Dirtian civilization? Two overcompensating megalomaniacs with big mouths and small — hands– can do the job all by themselves.
Seems mostly misdirection to distract the public from Prez Tweet’s other scandals… (Nuthin’ up his sleeve, no Russian revelations, no Tax Form fraud, It’s Nuke talk today an’ all day, on all your local Squawk Talk stations!)
However, should they really wish to mix it up over Guam, I’d suggest we stage a Cage Match Duel there between Mushroom Head and Alligator Mouth – an’ the winner gets to swim home!
There’s always the danger that Guam might tip over. Ask a certain congressman.
Erm… With both those massive over-inflated Egos on board – it could happen!
Josh, as a cartoonist you might like a little cartoon in a related Scientific American article. Something about should just one man decide on a nuclear exchange. There a relatively tiny Donald Trump is hefting up and tossing the entire mass of a nuclear missile. The cartoonist has him a slightly overweight businessman. But credit were credit is due also somehow powerful too. By an irony, Trump has set as a goal to completely de-nuclearize the planet. And unlike every other visionary or president in history that might timidly go along with such an idea — I think he has a plan in that direction. Less perhaps from a vision of all getting along — and maybe more that it might be a sort of fun thing to promote. And its the mouth of Godzillia — for when he chars someone, they do tend to seriously notice it.
Ah… Where did you hear that? (I must’ve missed that news)… Rather than eliminating nukes, so far Prez Tweet has falsely taken credit for modernizing the nuclear forces – which is something that Prez Obama actually did… And now seems to be threatening N. Korea with nuclear retaliation…
For anyone who thinks that a nuclear war is a good idea, “The Last Train From Hiroshima” accounts of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, should be required reading… It’s an Awful thing, just reading about it is enough to make any rational person sick!
Whenever someone brings up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I think of Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Nanking, and the Bataan Death March…
One Evil does not justify another! War is an Awful thing! In WWII all sides were guilty of atrocities of one sort or another – and while it’s easy to fob off any responsibility by saying “Those guys started it.” or that they did this or that which was awful… Pearl Harbor, to give Nagumo and company their due, was an attack on a Military Installation, it was not intended to exterminate the Hawaiian Civilians…
While the US Army Air Force had started in Europe with high altitude precision bombing against manufacturing and military targets, they had gradually drifted further and further into the British strategy of Fire Bomb raids against Civilian residential areas… In Japan, most of the major cities were burned in Napalm Firestorms – this was wholesale extermination of Civilian Populations… and while, particularly in Nagasaki, a huge Mitsubishi manufacturing complex was destroyed, still most of the victims were Civilians!
The reason I recommended the book, “The Last Train from Hiroshima”, is because most people do not understand what it means to destroy a whole city filled with people – Women – Children – Everyone! They don’t know what the Radiation – what the Heat Blast and Shock Wave does to a human body – You do NOT just get disintegrated in a nuclear blast, though you may get cooked alive… If you were “Lucky” you may die quickly, but many didn’t – many even near the epicenter survived – for a while anyway, some lingering for days in horrible pain and suffering!
That’s what we’re talking about – It’s NOT about getting even! And even if it were about retribution – the people responsible for Nanking or Bataan weren’t the ones dying in the Nuclear and Napalm attacks! What happened during WWII is history, we can’t fix it – but what we can do is change what we do in the future… That is the point I was trying to make!!
I also think of bringing WWII to an end—that the main reaction of the GIs waiting to invade Japan, when they heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was that they didn’t have to die. It was over.
And since it was Japan who started it…
As I was trying to point out, this is NOT about WWII and Who did what to Whom back then – That is all History now… What is important is what we do Today and in the Future – which is why it’s important for everyone to understand what a Nuclear City Killing Blast actually does… And Note, by today’s standards, those were “Small” bombs, a little less than a quarter Megaton each…
Josh, like with the fellow on TV that is selling the book “Play piano in a flash” Trump is rather a master of shortcuts and doing two or more seemingly contradictory things at at the same time. Look at the no win circumstance it generates with political foes. They are on the same page of what they don’t like about him, to such a degree, that they forget to promote about what we should like about them. And they do have their own sale points.
As to Pearl Harbor. We won the war, so our view of history is the one mostly taught. Likely it could be also be written, that one “act of war”, a blockade of energy imports to Japan — and their world-wide Axis efforts, generated a responsive “act of war” from FDR’s radio message.
As to the Bataan Death March and its merciless nature. There might be a difference in view between Asian war making and European war making. Japan viewed, as the Spartans did, better to come back carrying your shield or [on] your shield than to yield your position. It was our people that they punished. But … they thought the same of themselves, it would seem. What other reason to not show what seems understandable compassion?
It was somewhat like Dominos – In order to coerce the Japanese into curtailing their conquest of Manchuria – Once the US (FDR) and the Dutch as well, Embargoed Petroleum sales to Japan – Japan had about one year of stockpiled petrol, after which their Navy & Army would be out of business… The nearest and practically only source of petrol for the Japanese was the island of Celebes in the Dutch East Indies – but to attack the Dutch meant war with Britain… That meant, Britain’s main naval base in the area, Singapore (the somewhat over-rated “Gibraltar of the Pacific”) would also need to be taken out… And just to the north east, the Philippines – at the time “Owned” by the US of A, were also a major naval base… (though most of the ships based there were old – the main US fleet having been moved to Pearl)… The Japanese couldn’t hardly capture Singapore and Celebes (where the oil was) in the Dutch East Indies without doing something about the Philippines as well – which brings us back to Pearl Harbor…
There’s a certain awful logic to it all – which catapulted the nations involved into war…