September 16th, 2015: This comic was going to give Batman the powers of all his enemies until I realized that Poison Ivy pretty much did the trick. Not bad, Miss Pamela Isley!
I’ve heard the theory that Kirk’s logs just get circulated round headquarters for lulz before being dumped in the circular file as obvious fabrications by someone bored with a frontier posting.
“Hey, have you seen this one? He says he fought Apollo.”
“What, the old earth probe?”
“Try the old earth GOD!”
“Hilarious! Classic Kirk! That’s better than the time when he was transported to an evil dimenison.”
The reason why in The Naked Now it was Riker who remembered that the previous polywater infection had happened is that he’s the sort of person who would read The Hilarious Adventures of Captain Kirk for fun.
I especially like this idea because of the implication that all the other captains in Starfleet are reporting perfectly ordinary experiences like visiting a space station, dropping off supplies at a colony, bit of a stand-off with some Klingons in disputed space but got out of it unscathed - and then there’s Kirk all, “sorry guys we’ve been off course this week because my first officer seriously needed to get laid (LIKE YOU HAVE NO IDEA MY NECK STILL HURTS)” and “let me tell you about the Chicago Gangster planet” and “WHIPPED AND THROWN IN JAIL BY SPACE NAZIS.”
I actually really like the above explanation
I thought this was already canon
It would be pretty hard to believe a field report where evil doubles had pointy mustaches and such. I can’t really blame them.
Medieval monks were the bored data entry workers of their day, spending hours copying manuscripts in uncomfortable chairs and cold rooms. To keep themselves entertained, they often made little doodles or silly comments in the margins of manuscripts they were copying.
the tooth fairy ain’t a boy scout, he’s got bills to pay like anybody — once in a while, he stumbles on a cache of hot teeth. if a kid needs to “lose” a couple more this month to make the books come out even, what’s it to them? something in it for em, if they can keep their mouths shut
I’m going to start a Wondermark Patreon and the only rewards will be alternate versions of the comics in which the human characters have been replaced with adorable puppies
yup — low-stress environment, plenty of nutrients and exercise. it’s doing much better than you are. in fact, your middle-age tapeworm has the body of a juvenile tapeworm
meanwhile, i would characterize you as having the body of an elderly tapeworm
