Honey I Shrunk the Fantastic Voyage into Inner Space!
May08
on May 8, 2014
at 12:01 pm
This strip was partly inspired by a recent re-watching of the “classic” film, Fantastic Voyage, and partly by the shrinking/embiggening ray in our own ‘Monsters, Inked‘ comic strip. As a sci-fi theme, shrinking or enlarging people and objects seems to have fallen into disrepute. With more widespread understanding of atoms and molecules amongst the populace, it’s difficult to create a serious treatment of the genre without introducing major plot holes. As such it’s usually relegated to comedy films, where it can still work well.
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↓ Transcript
[A "Marko Ramius" (Hunt for Red October) Grey is talking to a doctor]
Ramius: …but I don't understand why you need my help. I'm a submarine captain, not a doctor!
Doctor: We've developed an amazing device that lets us put a submarine into a patient's body so that we can perform surgery from the inside.
Ramius: So you mean you've actually found a way to shrink a full sized submarine and its crew down to microscopic proportions?
Doctor: Erm… not quite. But now that you mention it…
Doctor: …perhaps shrinking the sub would have been a better option!
[Panel shows them standing next to a normal sized submarine, and an enormously enlarged patient]
Ramius: …but I don't understand why you need my help. I'm a submarine captain, not a doctor!
Doctor: We've developed an amazing device that lets us put a submarine into a patient's body so that we can perform surgery from the inside.
Ramius: So you mean you've actually found a way to shrink a full sized submarine and its crew down to microscopic proportions?
Doctor: Erm… not quite. But now that you mention it…
Doctor: …perhaps shrinking the sub would have been a better option!
[Panel shows them standing next to a normal sized submarine, and an enormously enlarged patient]
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Hurray !!! This one I’ll be able to translate !
The old movie, by Richard Fleisher, is one of my old time favorites.
It’s been over 2 months. I hope you haven’t given up on this comic.
No, we haven’t given up. Clearing the backlog of translations and missing Easter Eggs is taking longer than we expected, but we will be back with more strips soon.