92 – Help
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, or whatever!
Don’t ever expect a Thanksgiving strip from me, since I’m Canadian and all, but Christmas is a whole different story. I can already see this christmas strip thing becoming a yearly tradition. Cue Charlie Brown music.
“Noelle” vas supposed to appear in last year’s Holiday comic, in fact, but I ran out of time to do what I wanted to do, so I ended up doing a quick Laurence strip instead… which wasn’t as quick as I thought it would be.
(Just a side note : Nobody will probably care, but this strip is kinda out of continuity since Chloé cannot be sleeping in the middle of the day like this.
Just assume it takes place some time between the “Shopping with Saki” story arc and the “Clementine and Frederic” one.)
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Even her dreams are telling her to tone down that niceness, also is Noelle real life or just a fantasy?
Noelle is just as real as Santa is.
Or are you asking if Noelle is an actual Christmas figure in French Canadian culture? No, but I wish she was.
Actually I was asking if Noelle is just a character in Chloe’s dream or will she end up as another character for the cast to meet?
She’ll remain confined to Chloe’s dreams I’m afraid.
Maybe Laurence will get to meet her too.
Laurence is also a dream character?
Or just ignores those silly boundaries between worlds?
Don’t ask about what you can’t handle.
What’s weirder is that she’s dreaming about Christmas in the middle of summer.
So you’re from the southern hemisphere too then?
I think he means that I’m doing a christmas strip, but it’s still summer (actually, early fall) in-universe. :)
Opps my bad!
Southern Hemisphere? Don’t seem to find many from the lower end of this blue ball where I wander online. Just a lotta “It’s so cold here”, & so on. All I know is that Australia place has some big time weird animals & when I’m there, I laugh at all those songs that sing about having a white Christmas… :P
Aussies like the idea of a White Christmas because more often than not, Aussie Xmases are so fricking hot.
Fair enough. It does mean getting a bit more ventilation is quite useful. I just find it funny that lately I’ve heard a lot of a song saying “You can’t have Christmas without snow…”. Hope you & everyone else too enjoyed theirs, snow or no snow…
Seriously, it must be so annoying living in Australia and hear the rest of the world (barring South America, but who ever hears about those guys) talking about white Christmases and stuff.
Things that don’t apply to me tend to annoy me for some reason.
You’re keeping track of the season? :)
Technically though, it’s getting colder in the Frivolesque world. The trees are starting to have brown leaves in the last comic. :)
They’re entering fall.
So she’d wake up, realize she was dreaming about christmas in maybe september, and moan over the every-growing reach of the christmas season.
Chloe is totally the Christmas type though. I can picture her yearning for it in the middle of summer. :)
Strangely, she diskikes winter. She’s a bit like me I guess.
Maybe she just beat an ice world in a game.
Being a retro gamer, she probably runs into a ton of those in everything she plays.
Also, Chiyo-Dad retired but who else can travel at Mach 100?
Hey if a centuries year old fat man could do it then it can’t be that hard. Divide and conquer. Noelle get’s left hemisphere Chloé gets right.
Yup. Sounds like a winning strategy.
The better option is to take the southern hemisphere, way less people to deliver to.
Exactly. It’d be unfair for one of the girls.
According to this article I just found
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/8188997/The-science-of-Christmas-Santa-Claus-his-sleigh-and-presents.html)
Santa would have to travel at about 0.97 the speed of light to deliver all the presents in one night.
The upside of this is that he wouldn’t have to deliver the presents next year… Or ever again… Because everyone will be dead.
A large object moving at relativistic speeds imparts enouph energy on the air to force fusion and fission reactions, even on atoms that usually wouldn’t be able to fission and fusion (https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/)
Seeing as Santa is spending 32 hours flying all over the earth at relatavistic speeds he would change the atmosphere into a soup of high energy plasma, if he didnt just blow it off all together.
earth’s surface is vaporized, anyone in orbit is melted by high energy radiation. Santa retires.
Merry Christmas!
No wonder Chloe is so scared.
It appears those calculation were wrong, he would actually be going 0.01c not 0.97c. I’m not sure if all of humanity would still be destroyed, but everyone he flew close to would still be consumed by a blast of nuclear fusion. Still probably releasing at least the energy of a large thermonuclear device every second for 32 hours, assuming he kept up his speed.
Also, here’s some fun simulations of what happens to earth when hit by an object at high, to relativistic, to oh my god particle speeds
http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
Naa, not a prob, from what I hear, he’s got a trick up his sleeves…
Isn’t Santa a wizard in some way?
Exactly… ;)
The Tick had a better idea of have Multiple Santas instead.
I’ve always imagined Santa freezing time so he can distribute all the presents.
ZA WARUDO!!!
That freezing time thing sounds like what happens in this Christmas story SF Debris told in this video a few years ago.
http://sfdebris.com/videos/special/ybwo.php
WRYYYYY
Ah, a Christmas nightmare. In Subnormality Santa managed the gifts by avoiding poor people’s houses…
Noelle probably wants to do better than him.
Chloe looks so cute when she’s sleeping :3
Even with the giant puddle of drool? :)
Maybe she can end up like the girl in Mysterious Girlfriend X.
What about her?
Find a guy who’s addicted to her drool.
hahah yes xD
Love your new avatar!
Well…at least it’s not Easter. Otherwise we have to hear comments about “…Technicolor hen fruit”. And that just doesn’t sound quite right coming from anyone but Bugs.
“Technicolor Hen Fruit” doesn’t sound right at all, “Chromatic Hen Berries” sounds way better.
Now there’s a new one.
It’s all in the branding. ^_^
Bingo!
Cute girls, cute girls everywhere.
I am okay with this.
Who wouldn’t be?
This put a big smile on my face. I hope you (everyone here, really) had a great Christmas!
Christmas was great, but things turned out kinda sour the following day.
It’s okay though, Frivolesque goes on. :)
And I’m glad you liked it! ^^
For some reason, when I read the third panel, I was expecting Chloe was planning to steal all of the presents.
What??!!
It’s what I’d do….
No way… Chloe is way too goody two shoe to even think of something like this.
Since helping people is Chloé’s super power, it totally makes sense that she’d do this.