481 | The Aquarians

481 | The Aquarians

June 20, 2010 | 11:42 pm, by Pascalle Lepas

Oh, THERE they are.

I swear, in my head I always have a million clever things to say to you guys and then it comes time to putting up the page and I forget every last one of them.

HEY WOAH! I totally just remembered what I was supposed to tell you about this page. Now that you’ve seen it, go back and take a look at this one. :3



Comments

  • Garfalk

    not what i expected, but pretty darn cool.

  • TalonofElysia

    CALLED IT! HAH.

    Anyway, Nice idea having aquatic Pterodactyls… wonder if they're going to talk now, or continue kicking ass.

    Could it possibly be -they- built Excelsior and Daedelus?

    Where are Cap'n and Robot?

    Are Inman and Scherzer still alive?

    Find out next time. Same Zap time. Same, Zap Place.

  • And don't forget to VOTE!

    :)

  • Strike_Reyhi

    if the aquarians are psychics and were just stopped by a Zap barrier, maybe they aren't gonna be hostile under the assumption that zap is protecting reona and is therefore not an enemy?

  • max_hickson

    I noticed a semblance between Reona and the humanoid figure in the carving linked at the bottom of this post, and take that coupled with the Aquarian's non-threatening stances to mean she's going to be considered as something of a messiah or ambassador?

  • Strike_Reyhi

    It looks like Zap though, see the hairspike?

  • max_hickson

    ahhhh yep my bad I guess. The inner bubble made it look like Reona's shag hairstyle to me

  • snowhummingbird

    Ouu fun! xD I agree – nice idea on aquatic pterodactyls! ^_^

    I love that there is a reference in page 457! xD Thanks for pointing it out too! XD I love foreshadowing. :3

  • Ghalail

    The Fudge?!?! The aquarians are aquatic pterodactyls?!?! Cool!

  • We represent… the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild…

  • Aqua-dactyls

  • Are you saying they look like midgets? they are crouching.

  • TalonofElysia

    I like it!

  • Now everyone knows why I was drawing pterodactyls last week.

  • Foreshadowing is one of my favorite things. There's a lot of it in the comic. : )

  • It's my bad for not including a size reference. Next week they'll be compared to Reona.

  • Lenvoran

    You know… It has been mentioned before that Zap is a totally awesome seer type dude. He could've seen that Reona would come to the location of the ship and made a special protective thing just for her. Great scott, that's heavy.

    I love that trying to figure out things is part of the fun of this comic. It makes me so happy.

    Keep 'em coming!

  • mirrim

    Thanks to your clever theory I now have Savage Garden's “I knew I loved you before I met you…” stuck in my head as a Zap/Reona song! :D

  • LOL! It's not a height reference, it's a reference to just being welcomed to the really weirdness known as OZ. :3

  • snowhummingbird

    YAY! xD I have noticed some! xD
    Thank you! xD I love!

  • marcus

    Followed the link to the previous comic, all I could see was Reona's bum. It's the only visible thing on that page. So I guess your are trying to say the Aquarians are staring at it too? Fair enough, it is inter-species bootylicious.

  • SpringLoaded12

    HOLY CRAP PTERODACTYLS WEEEEEE

    In response to DigoDragon (Reply's broken for some reason), massive props to lepas and chris if the pterodactyls start singing “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” on the next page ;)

  • Shaitanpyrik

    Aquaridactyls? Maybe they use the “wings” like a manta ray does, more like oversized pectoral fins. I DID notice them, and the other figure's resemblance to Zap on the Temple bas reliefs, so yay for me?

  • <sings>
    “This is the Dawning of the Page of Aquarians,
    Page of Aquarians!
    A-Qua-ri-ans!</sings>

  • OctoDude

    Ouch.
    No soup for you!
    :-]

  • Aquatic Pteranodons…

    Oh yeah… I went there. I WENT THERE.
    Pity the foo’ who can’t tell the difference between a pteranodon and a pterodactyl. SO often mixed up.

  • OctoDude

    Pteranodons are a family within the Pterodactyl suborder, so technically, either name applies. :-]

  • Pterodactyl isn’t the suborder.
    Pterodactyloidia is the suborder.
    The term Pterodactyl, as referring to the Pterodactylus Genus, is in a completely separate family from the Pteranodon.
    So no. Only one of the names applies.

  • OctoDude

    Yes, of course Pterodactyl isn’t the
    name for the suborder, and you may notice that I did not say,
    “Suborder Pterodactyl;” instead I used more common-usage
    terminology (“the Pterodactyl suborder”). One must
    consider the context when one is choosing the specific terminology
    used. Are we in a forum discussing taxonomy or cladistics with
    fellow biologists or paleontologists, or are we posting in a comment
    section on a popular webcomic?

    You are correct that the Genus
    Pteranodon is in Family Pteranodontidae, and you are correct that
    Genus Pterodactylus is in a completely separate family
    (Pterodactylidae). Both families are in Suborder Pterodactyloidea
    and Order Pterosauria. In common biology and paleontology parlance,
    members of both sub-taxa can be referred to by the umbrella name of a
    higher inclusive taxa, in this case, “Pterodactyls” or
    “Pterosaurs”. Both terms would be acceptable, though of course,
    each is less precise in discussing animals of specific genera. If in
    a technical discussion one wants to use the most precise term for the
    animals in this suborder, they would refer to them as
    Pterodactyloids, but in the context of the comment section of a
    popular webcomic, the term would be meaningless and confusing to most
    of the readers, which would defeat the purpose, unless the purpose
    was an attempt at intellectual snobbery.

    On a separate note, as the Aquarians
    are a fictitious race, they can be called by whatever name the
    writers and artist choose to call them, just as if you create
    something yourself, you can call it whatever you like. As they are
    drawing an alien race and not illustrating a fossil species, they can
    call them Pterodactyls, Aqua-dactyls, or whatever they choose.

    The More You Know… Learning can be
    fun! :-]

  • All I have learnt from this little exchange is that you believe it is alright to be misleading, vague and otherwise obtuse if one is doing it in a medium of entertainment.

    Your defense of the use of the term “pterodactyl” and derivatives thereof in reference to a clade general enough to do a disservice to the Pterodactylus genus in the process… is essentially just an excuse to cover the fact that the term “pterodactyl” has been used repeatedly in reference to a selection of phenotypic features that practically define the pteranodon.

    And yes… as noted elsewhere, I’m aware the similarity is most likely, in-universe, 100% coincidental (even if it isn’t so in the meta). The Aquarians quite possibly don’t even use the same DNA-based genetic structure that life on Earth does. One wouldn’t technically include them in the Kingdom Animalia…
    BUT… the fact remains that they have been designed with a very specific appearance in reference to entities that once roamed the skies of our little green/blue cesspool of a planet. And it just so happens that appearance reference is the pteranodon… AND is being continually called “pterodactyl”, which just so happens to be a term most accurately used to address a separate Genus in a separate Family.

    And basically what it all comes down to is that:
    IT.
    BUGS.
    ME.

    *Coughs*

    … so I’m going to make an issue of it. =p

  • sauron(marvel not tolkein) had babies

  • TheBear

    The Aquarians didn’t evolve naturally. They were the result of a drunken bet between two lab techs at Jurassic Park. When they ended up in the water near the end of Jurassic Park 3 (or was it 2?), they realized, “Hey! We’ve got gills!”

  • John Smith

    “Super-Cool Flying Dinosaurs (WITH GILLS)”! ‘Nuff said. :)

  • Graywolf7902000

    But you can have a cookie for joining the Dark-side.

  • Graywolf7902000

    Love me some Darkside Cookies!

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