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| | This comic is a sequel of sorts to [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]], as it deals with the same subject matter with the same panel layout. | | This comic is a sequel of sorts to [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]], as it deals with the same subject matter with the same panel layout. |
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| − | The first strip shows [[Cueball]] throwing a boomerang, which doesn't come back. He looks downwards in the rightmost panel as if in shame. In [[939: Arrow]], a boomerang returns to Cueball, which can either be the same Cueball from this comic or another person. | + | The first strip has a man throwing a boomerang, which doesn't come back. (It's implied to have come back to either him or another man 464 comics later in [[939: Arrow]].) |
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| − | In the second strip, he throws another boomerang, which somehow manages to hurt the {{w|ozone layer}} (as indicated by an off-screen voice). This is of course not possible with a boomerang, as the ozone layer is a layer of O<sub><small>3</small></sub> molecules very high up in the atmosphere.{{citation needed}}
| + | The second strip has the man throwing another boomerang, which somehow hurts the {{w|ozone layer}} (as indicated by an offscreen voice). |
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| − | The third strip shows Cueball throwing something that ''appears'' to be a boomerang, but then [[Megan]] enters and reveals that it was their last banana - which she probably had expected to eat since she calls him an asshole. Perhaps this is why she broke up with him in the first comic. | + | The third strip has the man throwing what ''appears'' to be a boomerang, but then [[Megan]] appears and reveals that it was their last banana. "You're such an asshole," she notes. |
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| − | The final strip shows Cueball throwing one last boomerang, which breaks the frame of the comic, already after two out of the four frames used in each of the first three strips. In the second panel, Cueball seems to be leaning backward in shock or terror. Then, panning down, we find the last panel, much larger and suddenly mainly black instead of white. It shows that this time he was actually inside a spacecraft (which resembles an {{w|Apollo Lunar Module}} in a very bad manner), and the boomerang has just broken out through the hull. We see the boomerang and Cueball tumbling out into space with the escaping air to certain death, revealing why Cueball was so taken aback when the boomerang broke through the frame. | + | The final strip has the man throwing one last boomerang, which breaks the window of his spaceship. |
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| − | If you try to link up the rightmost panels, as what was suggested [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]] to get a bonus comic strip, you get a bad story where Cueball is looking down, presumably in shame. Then a person (presumably Megan), screams about the ozone layer. We also see Megan call Cueball an asshole, probably because he had destroyed (or messed with) the ozone layer.
| + | The title text notes that the boomerang would return and hit him in the back of the head thanks to the universe's {{w|curvature}} and {{w|mass}}. |
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| − | The title text notes that, assuming a theory that is {{w|Accelerating universe|no longer generally accepted}} where the universe has a positive (closed) {{w|curvature}} and lots of mass, the boomerang would, after a (very) long time, hit Cueball in the back of his head. This would happen because under those conditions the entire universe would eventually fall back on itself in the {{w|Big Crunch}}. Before this happens, everything would again get pressed close together, and it is during this process that the boomerang would finally return to his frozen (but quite possibly preserved) head. (So at least one "success" in four attempts.) | |
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| − | Boomerangs also became a main theme in the interactive comic [[1350: Lorenz]]. The same format of multiple bad endings to the same starting set-up is used in [[1515: Basketball Earth]].
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| | ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
| − | :[Cueball is throwing a boomerang.] | + | :[Cueball throws a boomerang, which doesn't come back.] |
| − | :[Holding his hands up.]
| + | :[Cueball throws another boomerang.] |
| − | :[Cueball waits for return; continual waiting.]
| + | :Offscreen voice: Oh god |
| − | :[Cueball is dejected, head hangs low.]
| + | :Offscreen voice: The ozone layer! |
| − | | + | :[Cueball seems shocked.] |
| − | :[Cueball throws a boomerang.] | + | :[Cueball throws what appears to be a boomerang, but then Megan arrives.] |
| − | :[Cueball waits for the boomerang.]
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| − | :Outside: Oh God | |
| − | :Outside: The ozone layer! | |
| − | :[Cueball is surprised.] | |
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| − | :[Cueball throws a boomerang-like banana.] | |
| − | :[Cueball waits.]
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| − | :[Megan walks in.]
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| | :Megan: That was our last banana. | | :Megan: That was our last banana. |
| | :Megan: You're such an asshole. | | :Megan: You're such an asshole. |
| − | | + | :[Cueball throws the final boomerang which smashes through the panel, which turns out to be his spaceship.] |
| − | :[Cueball throws a boomerang.] | |
| − | :[The boomerang breaks out of the panel box.]
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| − | :[The boomerang breaks out of a spacecraft, followed by Cueball.]
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| | ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
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| | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] |
| | [[Category:Boomerangs]] | | [[Category:Boomerangs]] |
| − | [[Category:Physics]]
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