That’s going to wrap up this story line. Thanks! I’ll let everyone know on Twitter when the comic comes back from hiatus. It shouldn’t be more than a month or so, just need to earn some extra cash for more art supplies.
For those who were available to tune in to the comic drawing on USteam, I talked for a good half an hour on all of the background to this story. I won’t put it all in here, but this is the gist:
If you were wondering why there was no paradox, seeing as the guy went on to invent time travel just to go back in time to prevent himself from doing so, then you’ve overlooked the lobster. It turns out, he was fundamental in pointing the guy to the breakthrough necessary to make time travel work.
If it still seems like it doesn’t work, well, I went in to some rampant speculation about how a time-like curve might be non-orientable (like a Moebius strip) and even if you go around the whole time curve, you might end up with left being right, up being down, and different events providing the same key future progression. I don’t know, I’m no expert on General Relativity. It’s time travel. Just accept it.
This does point out some very important things about the lobster. He’s smart. Very smart. Smart enough to figure out how to interface with a femtoSD card (thanks, Lisa!)? Maybe. It’s just as likely he’ll wait twenty years until you can pick up a USB 6.0 femtoSD card reader on NewNewEgg for $15 plus shipping. I think it’s fair to assume the secrets to time travel are on that card, or at least the information he’ll need to make it work.
Of course, a comic has limited space, and I can produce a limited number of comics, so it’s something that will never be visited. These questions and answers are not important to driving the comic forward, and as such, I cannot give up precious comic space to answer them just for the answers’ sakes. If we do decide that we’re going to make time travel a device, we’ll pin down what we have to and nothing more. Notice that I did say “we”. You, dear reader, do have a voice in that you can let me know how you feel by e-mail. Heck, the only reason the lobster became a recurring character was because y’all made a big stink about keeping him around. If you have opinions on what loose ends you’d like to see explored in a future story line, well, fire away.