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[โ€“] choya@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's floaty! ๐Ÿฅฐ

[โ€“] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, this sort of captures my general malaise when going to work lately. Well done on that. Wonderful artwork too!

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Thank you very much!

[โ€“] errer@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The attention to detail in this comic is pretty great, I like how you can see the blood vessels in his ears in the 3rd panel from the light of the nuclear blast

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Thank you for noticing! I love to put in a detail or more than necessary to reward people who take their time to look at my stuff. :) also there's broccoli on the plates, shaped like the atomic explosion.

[โ€“] Speiser0@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

I agree. It's also interesting how the hair thing has a skull (see 2nd panel).

But there is of course room for improvement. If you look at the window for example, it has a nice normal modern handle, but it's blatantly missing the window sill and the hinges. :)

[โ€“] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's an airburst, close by, and they're looking at it, from behind a pane of glass. Probably a state actor, aiming for maximum damage. If they're not blinded by looking directly at it, they're about to get glass thrown at their face. Bad scenario for long term survival, they're likely a goner.

[โ€“] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

Hopefully they can finish the dishes before the shockwave arrives. I doubt they want the post apocalyptic raiders thinking that they were a bit of a slob.

[โ€“] Maruki_Hurakami@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Thank you! I'll post more content soon. :)

[โ€“] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey! At least it's not like they just finished washing the dishes.

Just Greek wedding those things and find a cool pose to get vaporized in.

[โ€“] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hard to tell how far away that is... fam might be vaporized but more likely to be wiped out by the blast I think? Still might be worthwhile to shut eyes, duck and cover, and start crawling to the basement or center of the house if possible.

[โ€“] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago

Well bigger than their thumb for sure.

And do you really want to survive after a nuclear blast decimates the area and rains radiation down upon you?
When a nuke goes off I personally want to be as close to 0 I can be to it or on the opposite side of the planet. That's it.

Likely they are in range of the sonic boom that will deafen them and shatter the house at best and the resulting vacuum would create a fire storm that sucks in, to a horrible inferno. If you see the blast it's too late for most things but never to late to shout:
Opa! And throw some plates.

[โ€“] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I see that, I'm going to run towards the blast.

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Heh. I touched on that topic two years earlier.

[โ€“] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These 2 comics are connected

They use their phone until they decide to do the dishes, leaving the phone on the couch

After seeing the explosion while doing the dishes, they open the window, jump out of the house and go towards the mushroom

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Haha! I like this theory.