Valitsen sinut, Tursamon!

I CHOOSE YOU, OCTOMON!

”I’m reading a book about octopuses.” //
”It says there that an octopus has been seen carrying…” //
…a coconut shell as it was ’walking’ along the sea bottom. //
And it didn’t have just one half, but two compatible ones… //
…that it used to build itself a shelter when a danger appeared! //
”I mean, this octopus was
planning ahead and carrying with it a shelter it could assemble when needed! This is the only animal, alongside human, that can do such a thing!” //
”It’s like a Pokémon that caught itself in a ball!” ”It’s the BEST Pokémon!” //
”Mwahahaha…”

Lukemani kirja on Peter Godfrey-Smithin Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life. Kiintoisa videonpätkä erään tursaan kookospähkinäkodista löytyy täältä.
The book I was reading was Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. An interesting video of an octopus’ coconut home can be found here.

Pottu

SPUD

The Adventures of MacGyver and Kati! //
”Awesome, we got out of the shed! Let’s quickly escape to the woods before the baddies notice us!” //
”Let’s sabotage their car first so they can’t come after us.” ”How are you going to that?” //
”I’ve got a POTATO! I’ll stuff it into the exhaust pipe!” ”Uhm, Mac…” //
”…this is an electric car. It doesn’t have an exhaust pipe.” ”!” //
”Indeed… Are these people such bad guys after all? They drive an electric car which is better for the environment…” ”They STOLE that car! And they locked us into that shed AND they’re currently plotting a murder!” //
”So could you please just go back into the shed to see if there’s something there we could use to break the tyres, the old-fashioned way?” ”Oh, yeah, good point.” //
”But I’m keeping the potato.” ”Great, we can eat it later.”

Kämppikseni oli jo sitä mieltä, että tämä sarjakuva herättää niin paljon kysymyksiä siitä, kuka aikoo murhata ja kenet, että minun pitäisi tehdä tälle jatko-osa.
My flatmate already said that this comic raises so many questions concerning who is going to murder and whom that I should make a sequel.

MacGyver created by Lee David Zlotoff

Forth, Eorlingas!


”It’s nice to watch The Lord of the Rings again.” ”Indeed, they are such good movies.” //
”…and here come the Riders of Rohan charging!” ”Go Rohirrim!” //
”They did well until the Haradrim joined the battle with their olifants.” ”Yeah, they’re pretty nasty enemies.” //
”On the other hand, this is a pretty cool mounted troops vs mounted troops battle.” ”Except that Haradrim would be like…” //
”You call that mounted troops? We’ve got mounted troops!” //
”We’ve got a mount — that can carry all our troops!”

The Lord of the Rings written by J.R.R. Tolkien, the movies directed by Peter Jackson

Talviretki 2: Kaikki kokoon!

WINTER TRIP 2: EVERYONE ASSEMBLE!

”So, this is going to be a hike. We could be the Fellowship of the Ring!” ”Eh, there’s just six of us, it’s too few.” //
”But — we can be the Avengers!” //
”Who’s gonna be who, then?” ”We’ll find that out over time.” //
”Kati is carrying all the heavy stuff, Kati is the Hulk!” //
”Snowhorse has all the orienteering technology, she can be Iron Man!” //
”Ha, I found the wood shed!” ”You have keen eyes, you get to be Hawkeye.”


”I can come and make the path again.” ”That’s brave! You’re like Captain America!” //
”I can carry your backpack up.” ”You’re strong, too, you can be Thor!” //
”Who am I, now?” ”Black Widow, not bad either.” //
”And there we go, everyone has a role.”
Avengers assemble!!!


”My inner DJ would like to play The Uralic Rowan (and old folk song) right about now.” ”Well, we can sing it now that we’re cooking.” //
(Singing the song) //
”This image suddenly popped into my head where Hulk and Iron Man are singing The Uralic Rowan in a wilderness hut.” //
(Singing the song)
”He he he.” ”Ha ha ha.”


”So, today we shall continue to that hut we rented. In daylight.” //
”This is pretty much just as hard like this, too!” //
Thump! ”You okay?” ”Yeah.” //
”We should sing an uplifting song now.” ”What would you suggest?” //
”Well, for example…” (Starts singing the Finnish national anthem) //
(Singing the ending of the Finnish national anthem) //
”That was surprisingly uplifting!” ”Hehe!” ”Haha!”


”How do we get out of here, with 16 kilometers of uncleared snowy road on our way?” //
”I think I can help.” ”Hulk?!” //
BLAF! //
”Ta-dah!” ”Wow! Thanks, Hulk!” //
”Too bad that was just a dream.” ”Yeah. We still have those 16 kilometers of snowy road there…”

Jatkuu… // To be continued…

The Avengers by Marvel

Hermes

Pelasin aikanaan yhdessä larpissa muinaisen Kreikan jumalten sanansaattajaa Hermestä. Hahmo oli niin hauska pelata, että jäi mainiosti mieleen. Siksi piirsin hänet yhtenä iltana viime syksynä, en ihan sellaisena kuin pelasin häntä vaan siten, kuin ajattelisin hänen olevan.
Once I played Hermes, the messenger of ancient Greek gods, in a LARP. He was such a fun character to play that I still remember him fondly. Therefore, I drew him one night last autumn, not quite the way I played him but the way I’d imagine him to be.

Pelissä minulla todella oli sulilla koristellut sandaalit, mutta ne eivät tietenkään oikeasti sallineet minun lentää. Mutta olin kiinnittänyt niihin kulkusia, jolloin kuului pieni helinä aina, kun kuljin ympäriinsä, ja se oli minusta hirveän hauska yksityiskohta. Pelipaikalla ollut kissa oli myös hirveän kiinnostunut Hermeksen kengistä.
In the LARP, I really was wearing sandals decorated with feathers but of course they didn’t actually allow me to fly. But I had attached jingle bells to them so there was this little jingling sound whenever I was walking, and I think it was a really fun detail. The cat who lived there also found Hermes’s shoes very interesting.

Echo

Kalenterin kansikuva Lumihevoselle: Clone Warsin/Bad Batchin kloonisotilas Echo Bad Batchin ensimmäisen tuotantokauden asusteissaan.
A calendar cove picture for Snowhorse: Clone Trooper Echo from the Clone Wars/Bad Batch, in his Bad Batch armor from season 1.

Star Wars by Lucasfilm

Interrail 10: Kotiinpaluu

INTERRAIL 10: RETURNING HOME

”I admit, I’m sometimes really dumb.” //
I had to spend several hours in the middle of the night between trains in Paris… //
”…so I thought that I’ll just spend that time at the railway station!” //
They CLOSE the stations for the night! (We open at 5.) //
”Well, had to live with that, then. I walked up and down Boulevard de Magenta for some three hours. No one came to harrass me but it was really boring!” //
”Next time I’ll go to a hostel. I’m not that poor.” //


”Moaaaan!” //
”I’ve been sitting in this train for two hours already and there’s still two more hours to go! I can’t do this anymore!” //
Meanwhile, in Middle Earth: ”Uruk-hai kidnapped our friends!” ”We’ve been running after them for three days now!” ”We can still do this!” //
”…” //
”It would be cool to be part of the dúnedain… but I’m too much of a wimp for it.”


Paris: ”Still 32 hours ’til I get to the ship and breafast buffet.” //
Karlsruhe: ”22 more hours to go ’til the breakfast buffet.” //
Copenhagen: ”10 more hours.” //
Stockholm: ”Two hours.” //
”This I’ve been waiting for!”


”And then I returned home.” //
My interrail trip took six weeks and took me to eleven countries. //
Hiking in Scotland was so much fun! //
And I met same family after a really long time. //
I didn’t really like Rome at all… //
…but Zürich was really nice!


”And of course it was awesome to meet Whale, Mudkip and Jimothy again!” //
”I drew a lot of comics already during the trip.” //
”I almost filled this sketchbook. Often I drew in the hostel beds in the evenings.” //
”It was a good idea to draw already while traveling so I didn’t have to work so hard when I got back home.” //
”And, as you probably already guessed, I had the Lord of the Rings as travel reading.” //
Though I only finished reading the appendices in the metro on my way back home!
The end of the Interrail comics.

Joulujakso 2022

CHRISTMAS EPISODE 2022

Koko blogini historian ajan olen postannut jouluaattona jotakin Doctor Who -teemaista. Miksi luopua perinteistä? Joskin tänä vuonna katsomani uudet jaksot olivatkin lähinnä huonoja, ja niistä syntyisi vain sellaista sarjakuvaa jossa valitan niiden huonoudesta. Siksi palataan ajassa takaisin neljännen Tohtorin aikaan!
Throughout the history of my blog I have posted something Doctor Who themes on Christmas Eve. Why give up the tradition? Even though the new episodes I’ve watched this year have been mainly bad and they’d only make comics of me complaining about their quality. So let’s travel back in time to the days of the fourth Doctor!

Kuvassa näkyvät sanat ovat sitaatti Bruce Springsteenin kappaleesta Two Hearts, ja jos harrastaisin fanivideoiden tekemistä, olisin jo aikaa sitten tehnyt videon Tohtorista ja hänen matkakumppaneistaan tämän biisin tahtiin. Tykkään erityisesti kohdasta ”grow up to dream again” – ehkä se kuvaa vähän sitä, miksi uudet jaksot eivät oikein iske minuun: niissä yritetään olla niin kovin syvällisiä ja vakavia, että unohdetaan unelmoida ja seikkailla ja pitää hauskaa. Vähän niin kuin teininä, kun koitti olla kovin vakava ja aikuinen, kunnes kasvoi vähän isommaksi ja tajusi, että välillä saa ja kannattaa hullutella. Niin kuin kuvassa esiintyvä neljäs Tohtori sanoi: ”Ei ole järkeä olla aikuinen, jos ei joskus saa olla lapsellinen!”
The quote in this picture is from Bruce Springsteen’s song Two Hearts, and if I were into making fan videos I would have already made one to this song about the Doctor and his companions. I especially like the part ”grow up to dream again” – maybe it’s kinda why I’m not a huge fan of the new episodes: they try so hard to be deep and serious that they forget to dream and go on adventures and have fun. A bit like when, as a teenager, you tried so hard to be very serious and adult until you grew up and realized that it’s okay and good to fool around sometimes. Like the fourth Doctor, pictured here, once said, ”There’s no point being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes!”

Hyvää joulua kaikille!
Have a Merry Christmas, everyone!

PS. Niille, joille vitsi ei aukea: Doctor Whon Tohtori ei ulkonäöstään huolimatta ole ihminen vaan Ajan Herra, ja heillä on kaksi sydäntä. Mutta ehkä kolme on vielä parempi?
PS. For those who didn’t get the joke: the Doctor in Doctor Who is, despite his appearances, not a human but a Time Lord, and they have two hearts. But maybe three is even better?

Doctor Who by BBC

Interrail 5: Lontoo

INTERRAIL 5: LONDON


”One thing that I don’t understand about the architecture in London or generally in Britain…” //
…are these pits between sidewalks and and house walls. //
”You can’t grow plants there because they’re too dark.” //
”And from the downstairs windows you have this breathtaking (dim-lit) view to the opposite wall. Or maybe trash cans.” //
”And all you get in this pit protected by a fence is rain water, fallen leaves and candy wrappers! Yuck.” //
”What is the point of this pit and why are they everywhere in Britain? If someone can explain, I’d actually really appreciate it.”

Kävin Lontoon eläintarhassa. Piirsin siellä eläimiä.
I visited London Zoo. I drew animals there.



”Everyone thinks we’re some sort of ninja dinosaurs. Not cool, bro!” ”Well, at least it’s not frogs anymore! But I’m not surprised that long-necked turtles weren’t the inspiration for TMNT…”

Lumihevonen innostui pitkäkaulaisesta kilpikonnasta ja piirsi hienomman ninjakilpikonnan.
Snowhorse got excited about the long-necked turtle and drew a better ninja turtle.



”In an earlier comic I wondered why there’s so often this pit between the sidewalk and the building in Britain.” //
I asked Mudkip who is a Londoner. ”They weren’t originally built that way.” //
”Initially, the buildings had windowless basements. Later on, they were turned into apartments, and people wanted them to have windows.” //
”Fences were made so that people wouldn’t fall into the pits.” //
”…but it’s still a dark pit that collects rain water and trash, right?” ”Yep.” //
”And here in the center the rents are crazy.” ”I wouldn’t pay to be able to see a pit from the window.”


If you’re planning to sleep in a hostel room with other people at some point… //
…make sure you wake up when your alarm rings. //
If you don’t tend to wake from your alarm… //
…change it to something that will wake you up. //
Because if you don’t… //
…you might be woken up by something else completely.

Jatkuu… // To be continued…

TMNT by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird

Täältä tullaan, Redwall!

HERE WE COME, REDWALL!

Aloin miettiä, miltä sarjishahmoni Kurre-orava ja varpuspöllö Varpu näyttäisivät lapsuuteni suosikkikirjojen eli Redwallin tarun maisemissa. Aika söpöiltä näyttäisivät.
I started to wonder what my comic characters Shadow the squirrel and Sally the pygmy owl would look like in the world of Redwall, my childhood favorite book series. I think they’d look pretty cute.

A Tale of Redwall by Brian Jacques