2 separate thoughts:
1. Did lightning strike thencar and it sped off?
2. From the silhouette in the last panel did the VW van get chopped by a mech? Like one from a TV show from my youth, maybe?
Since John is known to, err, cough … “pay homage to” characters from famous entertainment companies, that Lustrous Hyundai could very well be a Transformative Entity keeping a (more-or-less) low profile in the boondocks. That would explain the lack of a VIN or any supporting paperwork other than, one hopes, a valid bill of sale from Furman Auto. And why it seems to have an independent nature and a grudge. And why the salesman was so very relieved to bid it goodbye.
I don’t agree – the side mirror of the chopped car is rectangular. But in this strip, and on the near-collision a few strips back, the van has circular mirrors.
I think some other car got chopped but I don’t know which, or why.
(Also – the silhouette in the 9th panel is clearly an xformer of some kind.)
The insurance adjustor walks methodically around the van’s wreckage, stopping every now and then to take notes, nodding at bits of debris on the ground with “Mm hmm”s and “Hrrm”s, and finally turns to the van’s owner and hands him a piece of paper, saying “It’s clearly hail damage. £1,500 deductible.”
So the car is autonomous and holds a grudge, and based on the needed height to chop a minivan, the implied size of the hand and arm in that chop panel, and the silhouette in the last panel, it looks like the car was actually some sort of metamorphic automaton camouflaged as a car.
I’m kinda hoping for a giant ghost Viking that rides around in the much, MUCH smaller Hyundai. Like a clown car… with the first five clowns out just being his first enormous ghost leg.
I do not agree with the consensus that the rogue vehicle is a transautoceptibot-wossname. That des not explain how it failed to obey the laws of physics on the road with two other velocipedes, as the analytical Reverend has already highlighted…
I’m more in the spiritual camp (theory-wise, not physically at a bible retreat in cabins) but our Mr A clearly reads these comments and may not have actually completed the strip yet, changing the outcome day to day in order to surprise and shock the largest portion of his audience – or has created a fake user to write misleading comments so we will focus on the red herrings!
(I accept I have been known to overthink these things)
!!!!
We know the Rev is partial to chopping and has some chops power.
But this is beyond the normal Rev chop.
But someone is driving, still going with Jason until someone else is revealed.
Or is someone driving?
In that case, Jason has sprouted horns & wings.
2 separate thoughts:
1. Did lightning strike thencar and it sped off?
2. From the silhouette in the last panel did the VW van get chopped by a mech? Like one from a TV show from my youth, maybe?
Since John is known to, err, cough … “pay homage to” characters from famous entertainment companies, that Lustrous Hyundai could very well be a Transformative Entity keeping a (more-or-less) low profile in the boondocks. That would explain the lack of a VIN or any supporting paperwork other than, one hopes, a valid bill of sale from Furman Auto. And why it seems to have an independent nature and a grudge. And why the salesman was so very relieved to bid it goodbye.
yeah, now I’m going with the mech. Transformer with trans pronouns.
Rev uknowingly bought himself a Decepticon, and it is resentful.
Nemulon…?
You mean, because the car is fixing history by reestablishing the omitted crash? Probably it already had been recorded by its lawful evil black box.
I mean because of the silhouette in that last panel.
The car is certainly more than meets the eye…
More than meets the Eye for an Eye, even
Indeed. It appears to have been some sort of robot. Only, in disguise…
That looks like the mother of all envy of Tesla superchargers. It’s bzzzzt and go.
At any rate, now Schröder’s cat is out of the bag again, the postponed car crash has been reestablished and physics have been vindicated.
Poor Rocket Pajama Kid. Nobody’s going to believe you.
Wait, is this another Transformers crossover? Should we be expecting Brick and Kitty?
Or maybe this is a job for Secret Sentai.
Yup. Secret Sentai camp. (Wishfully. I don’t remember him having horns.)
Transformers!! We have transformers in Tradreygyn people!!
If you look in panel 7, you can see the reflection of the last entity that VW van will ever see.
Personally I say it’s an Autobot. An OLD TESTAMENT sort of Autobot.
I don’t agree – the side mirror of the chopped car is rectangular. But in this strip, and on the near-collision a few strips back, the van has circular mirrors.
I think some other car got chopped but I don’t know which, or why.
(Also – the silhouette in the 9th panel is clearly an xformer of some kind.)
No, I just made a mistake
There is More Than Meets the Eye going on here.
A lost Transforner, who fell out of the Autobot vessel and whose memory was corrupted.
No one ever found out because they never went to England in the show.
The insurance adjustor walks methodically around the van’s wreckage, stopping every now and then to take notes, nodding at bits of debris on the ground with “Mm hmm”s and “Hrrm”s, and finally turns to the van’s owner and hands him a piece of paper, saying “It’s clearly hail damage. £1,500 deductible.”
Thats a mighty fine chop you got there, mighty fine
So the car is autonomous and holds a grudge, and based on the needed height to chop a minivan, the implied size of the hand and arm in that chop panel, and the silhouette in the last panel, it looks like the car was actually some sort of metamorphic automaton camouflaged as a car.
Good thing that there’s certainly no chance whatsoever that anyone was sleeping in that camper van at that camp site where people sleep in camper vans
This page feels very “Man of Iron”, which can only be a very good thing.
Ferrousman. He’s Fe-rocious!
So, that’s the truth… The Hyundai is a Transformer and hate Volkswagens!?
Or hates being passed by tailgaters.
Poor Pablo 🙁
Transformer. Nuff said.
That bus knew what it had done.
By which I mean I think _it_ didn’t have a VIN either.
I’m kinda hoping for a giant ghost Viking that rides around in the much, MUCH smaller Hyundai. Like a clown car… with the first five clowns out just being his first enormous ghost leg.
Bloody Vikings.
Should I read that electricity sound as “ZART” or “TRAZ?”
I lean towards “TRAZ” personally.
TRAZZZZ
TRAZZART!!!
(Part of it is out of frame.)
That car clearly had a grudge against the VW bus from earlier!!
(REVENGE!!)
Iron Giant
Last Call of the Cybernauts
I do not agree with the consensus that the rogue vehicle is a transautoceptibot-wossname. That des not explain how it failed to obey the laws of physics on the road with two other velocipedes, as the analytical Reverend has already highlighted…
I’m more in the spiritual camp (theory-wise, not physically at a bible retreat in cabins) but our Mr A clearly reads these comments and may not have actually completed the strip yet, changing the outcome day to day in order to surprise and shock the largest portion of his audience – or has created a fake user to write misleading comments so we will focus on the red herrings!
(I accept I have been known to overthink these things)
Perhaps the car called a friend to help.
Nemulon’s a shape-changing robot. And he can time travel, too. Just saying.
And we also know that Nemulon has an evil double, who also has the ability to shapeshift into various things, such as a VW van perhaps?
You know I expected a good old fashioned Keying. Not this.
GET TO THE CHOPPA