Episode #366: Brief Encounter

[Episode 366]
Episode #366: Brief Encounter
Volume V / Saturday, 7 January 2012

Episode Notes

I bet you all thought something much worse was going to happen with the experimental spaceship? Nope, it just left Slog's underwear behind.

This is (probably) the last time you'll see the Beings from the Indescribable Place. Again, there is no character present with the translator nanodes. NB: In the last panel, the alien is referring to another BCN webcomic!

Can't read the alien's text? View the translated comic, or read the transcript below.

Transcript

Panel 1: A spaceship is zooming through space.
Caption:
Somewhere in space.
Tolstoy:
Ok Major, we got 'em, let's get back to Tranquility Base!
Panel 2: Admiral Slog, Prime Minister Hudson and Lieutenant Tolstoy are inside the transporter room
Prime Minister Hudson:
Wait… what? Is this the Starship Tranquility?
This warp-enabled transporter device is experimental!
Tolstoy:
Um… yes Prime Minister.
So you and the Admiral might want to go behind that screen and check everything is… uh… all present and correct.
Panel 3:
Caption:
A short while later.
Admiral Slog (from behind the screen):
Aaaaaeeeeeiiiiii!
Tolstoy:
Admiral?
Prime Minister Hudson:
William?
Panel 4:
Admiral Slog:
Something got left behind!
Tolstoy:
What?
Prime Minister Hudson:
What?
Panel 5:
Caption:
Meanwhile, at the Indescribable Place.
Scarab Alien Leader:
{{brandishing something white on the end of his golden staff}}
What is this?
Scarab Alien - Blue:
They are called briefs.
The humans wear them.
I do not know why.
Panel 6:
Scarab Alien Leader:
I think it would be wise to incinerate these.
And then let us get out of here.
There is a webcomic out there with a character who can read speech bubbles.