Ok, that's it for this "chapter". I use those loosely, they're not very relevant to this "forever" comic--we'll get into that definition some other time, lol. I'll see y'all after Christmas, just remember that there's a new vote incentive posting up on the 24th. Also, I'm going to be fixing a number of small art annoyances.
Anyway: alone or with friends and family, I wish you all a Merry Christmas!
I previously had Dr. Ashton driving a hideous Volvo station wagon. Obviously she's switched rides here (we'll call it a loaner), but in your professional opinion what's the appropriate car for our resident mad scientist?
She's a mad scientist, so something off-the-shelf isn't enough; something custom. And she is a thanatologist. So I propose that she should drive a replica of this car:
I drove an old hearse myself once; most of them (at least the older ones) are custom built, some almost unicate. Not sure if Dr. Ashton is the hearse type from style of clothing, etc., so I would rather guess a white station wagon instead.
I can't recall if there were any scenes in Harold and Mause showing the rear interior of the original Type E Hearse or any scenes with an open back lid, so I assumed that the roof was kind of fake, just covering the original rear end. As the vehicle is sadly destroyed, we will never know. Still I think it would be quite short for a coffin.
But, speaking of shooting brakes, there was the fantastic Volvo 1800 GTE, and the Scimitar GTE. I love both cars, but can't really imagine Ashton in any of those.
PS: Going for the really rare shooting brakes, there was the remarkable Tornado Typhoon Sportsbrake, that looked a little like a british kitcar version of a mixture between the 1954 corvette based Chevrolet Nomad and the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing.
I read about the replica, and the text said that the original wasn't made with a functional rear hatch, simply because the movie script never called for the rear hatch to be opened. And they knew they were going to destroy the car at the end of the movie (the script calls for the car going over a cliff, and they simply used the driveable car they had built... I'm guessing that it was a low-budget production and wrecking their one car was cheaper than building a disposable second car) so why do the extra work to make the hatch function?
In the movie the protagonist was shown with a brand-new Jaguar E Type and shown getting out a cutting torch, but the hearse was some older model year Jaguar of a different type, which was about 11 inches longer and thus more suitable for a hearse conversion. The guy who built the replica said he spent thousands of dollars hiring teens to search the Internet, look at photos, etc. to figure out what the heck the movie vehicle actually was, and he figured out what car was attached to what other car, and then made one of his own.
Yes, it was a two plus two in the original, one of the very few examples were a later body change of the original model really looks good. I'll never understand why they weren't using a dummy like a wrecked Typ E with some paint and a cardboard roof for the crash, as no one would have noticed at this distance.
@myself: mental note--want to drive controversy? ask questions about vehicle preferences!
probably going to have a comic about Maggie shopping for cars sometime, because pitting Maggie Ashton versus Donna's half siblings at the dealership might be explosive
Volvo 740 wagon.
Saab 9000
If new, then the upcoming Volvo XC40 Recharge.
Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
Dr Ashton, while having a...passing disdain...for the safety of her research subjects, she strikes me as a woman who does NOT take chances with her PERSONAL safety. Im sure that if she had her way, she would be driving a (literal) tank...
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A very merry to you and yours, Lirv.
that other stuff was just kinda a flex on the mean girl, we'll see more of that I think
thanks! I'll save the other holiday greeting for closer to 2021
Much appreciated! You know I would otherwise have rolled up my sleeves and looked for those myself!" ;-)
Oh, you know what?
Here is a bonus one.
(it's good to be finally addressing that 30 Days character... years later.)
Merry Christmas!
also: thanks, and Merry Christmas to you too!
Jaguar converted to hearse
I can't recall if there were any scenes in Harold and Mause showing the rear interior of the original Type E Hearse or any scenes with an open back lid, so I assumed that the roof was kind of fake, just covering the original rear end. As the vehicle is sadly destroyed, we will never know. Still I think it would be quite short for a coffin.
But, speaking of shooting brakes, there was the fantastic Volvo 1800 GTE, and the Scimitar GTE. I love both cars, but can't really imagine Ashton in any of those.
PS: Going for the really rare shooting brakes, there was the remarkable Tornado Typhoon Sportsbrake, that looked a little like a british kitcar version of a mixture between the 1954 corvette based Chevrolet Nomad and the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing.
In the movie the protagonist was shown with a brand-new Jaguar E Type and shown getting out a cutting torch, but the hearse was some older model year Jaguar of a different type, which was about 11 inches longer and thus more suitable for a hearse conversion. The guy who built the replica said he spent thousands of dollars hiring teens to search the Internet, look at photos, etc. to figure out what the heck the movie vehicle actually was, and he figured out what car was attached to what other car, and then made one of his own.
probably going to have a comic about Maggie shopping for cars sometime, because pitting Maggie Ashton versus Donna's half siblings at the dealership might be explosive
Don Panks is jovial and harmless at this point... know that he had two children from his first wife, and they are bastards.
One of them is running the Panks Autos operation and I'm worried for Maggie.
Oh god, they told me coffee was the key to resurrection but I never believed themScience is weird. Merry Christmas Lirv!
I reckon that some of Maggie's regenerative concoctions might find their way into the Haute Coffee shack
Saab 9000
If new, then the upcoming Volvo XC40 Recharge.
Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
Dr Ashton, while having a...passing disdain...for the safety of her research subjects, she strikes me as a woman who does NOT take chances with her PERSONAL safety. Im sure that if she had her way, she would be driving a (literal) tank...
love it
and you're on point with the other assessments, though I think in her ideal world Maggie wouldn't have to commute at all
think "Antarctic International Research Station for Environmental Science and Horrifying Chimeras"
I was just thinking about old "Sleeping Beauty" there the other day.
Suffice it to say, I am DEEPLY interested in where this is going.
I'm thinking "out with a whimper"