Overboard
RIP
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Marten's shading is telling the tale.
Not the worst I've seen tatoo'ed across a butt. Could be "Freebird" or "Max load 2"
Imagine having your name tattooed across your butt.
Maybe it's a nickname? I can't imagine he'd still be Ol' Boaty when he moves on to a different body type.
Take some melodramamine, barfy boy.
"A dram is better than a damn!"
Hey, why should Ol' Boaty give a damn about "real men", being what they are.
...or what he/she/it is. I just can't get used to using "they are" to refer to one person.
"And later that day when his lunch he did spray, Came the wreck of the Marten Fitzgerald..."
Who else thinks Boaty sounds like Quint from "Jaws"?
That depends. Does Quint sound like KITT from Knight Rider?
So is this the real definition of "boatmurdered"?
And we never saw Marten ever again.
If only.. :p
Oh boy 🚩🚩🚩
O Boaty.
What does it say about Cubetown that they subject prospective employees to a conventional boat trip? It just seems low-tech, when a submarine or a hydrofoil would be a lot more comfortable. But maybe it's just a reflection of Cubetown's dysfunctionality that they don't have empathy for the frailties of humans.
Mmm, no. I think they did this so that ol Boaty would have a job after being kicked off Station for being space sick. (Hanners named him, btw.)
I spent a week on a yacht liveaboard in the Maldives scuba diving all the amazing reefs. Hard life, I know. Point being, luckily I didn’t get seasick… on the boat that is. Back on solid land though, for the next _48 hours_ my mind was “landsick”, anticipating the sea swells where there weren’t any and giving me the feeling solid rock was gently swaying beneath my feet. I thankfully didn’t barf, but it felt STRANGE.
Oh, that is odd. Did you look into it at all? Is it common?
Married to the Sea: The Next Generation
I'm surprised it took you this long to kill off Marten
I can absolutely relate to Marten. I recently went on a whale watching tour with my girlfriend. I was good for the first 90 minutes or so, but the seas were pretty choppy, and with me darting around trying to see where they would pop up next, I forgot the advice the captain gave us: "if you start feeling queasy, just stop and focus on the horizon for a bit." I also forgot that we had barf bags, but I was quick enough to make it to the rails.
Please don't hate me. The time I went whale watching the sea was dead calm, and we found a large pod of whales, one of whom broached (is that the term?) not 10 yards from the boat and got everybody on the boat soaked. THEN it did it a second time. :)
I feel like Marten will fit right in in the corperate culture of cubetown
No one has ever died of seasickness. No one's ever been that lucky.
Mmmm, no. People have dehydrated and been unable to keep down enough liquid for survival
I agree with Marten, air legs are NO substitute for sea legs. I've been a little airsick, but I was please-dear-Gawd-just-kill-me-so-I-can-go-to-hell-it-can't-be-any-worse-than-this seasick.
I mean, he’s not wrong.
In my callow youth, I got hideously seasick on a surfboard in the Gulf of Mexico on the south shore of Galveston TX. I was so sick I could not drag the board out of the water and back to the rental stand. i later came to understand the experience as one of those, like really bad flu, where death denied was the worst part.
I feel Marten deeply here.
I applaud 1. how frame 2 looks like Ol' Boaty is making sound effects as he travels to amuse himself, which I would absolutely do were I a boat; 2. Jeph's selection of color for Marten's face; and 3. how Moray has cleavage now in the life vest.
I"m thinking frame 2 is the sounds Marten's making as he loses his lunch...
He was from California before THE RITUAL. He wouldn't have gotten seasick before...
Do Californians spend much time on boats? I mostly think of it as a New England thing for some reason.
Hey, there... Barfy Boy... Throwing up your lunch and wailing so!
Whaling so?!?!
There had to be one
Had I been on that boat, TWO.
it me.
what a bold exciting unexpected way to get rid of your former main character this comic is incredible!
Throwing people overboard to their watery grave is rude and they’re in Canada.
"Melodramatic" is a tautology. I don't think it's possible to be simultaneously mellow and dramatic. But Marten seems to be giving it a good try!
Melodramatic from melodrama. Melos (ancient Greek meaning song. Also where we get melody.) Drame (French). The original melodramas all had music.
Barfy McBarfface
I approve whole-barfedly.
I really like the wind-swept hair on the two of them…
Of course, "This one's weak." is only the start, Cubetown is an endless succession of deathmatchs to TOS Star Trek music.
Five quatloos on the newcomer.
Marten died on the way back to his home planet.
It me
Marty keeps this up he's gonna be the new broken man on the Halifax pier.
I understood this reference!
I'm in another country right now on vacation, but I'm holed up in my room with Montezuma's Revenge, and am weirdly grateful seeing poor Martin in a similar boat as me.
You're in a sentient if callous boat? Wicked cool? (I hope, though, that, er, everything comes out OK.)
Claire needs a real man. A sea dog, an old mariner, maybe ol'boatey
Who would win? Super cool robot Boaty vs One Barfy Boy
Just as long as he did it downwind.
Now headbutt Ol' Boaty in the junk!
I've seen men so seasick they wished they were dead; but the doc had the cure, and it was the type of medicine delivery that was nether a shot or a patch and couldn't be thrown up.
Okay, I give up. What was the cure?
from that day, Marten was known as Ol’ Barfy
Damn Claire no mercy
No mercy would have been to agree with him.
the worst part is, they haven't even left the harbor yet!
I have a friend who will start getting seasick on a large ship still tied up to the pier in harbor. Just knowing there's water underneath there is enough to do it.
I’ve decided that Boaty is voiced by William Daniels, the original voice actor of KITT from Knight Rider.
I kind of wanna see the Ol Boaty x KITT hybrid
Let the boy ralph in peace.
Lovely shade of green, Marten.
Marten's face looks like a chromatic average between Claire and Moray's face
Claire is not having ANY of his drama!
Yup. Note the patented "annoyed Claire " face.
Poor boy has been horked on so many times, he's allowed to do it to somebody else once.
Back in Northampton, Faye's ears are burning.