[0693] The Brightest Stars
└ posted on Thursday, 18 June 2015, by Novil
- Novil: Our Patreon patrons pay good money for the right to determine the names of all new characters in the comic. Here are their suggestions for the names of your kits.
- Woo: All right, Novil.
- Description arrow: Paid for with Patreon pledges
- Lily: Woo? I’m glad you’re here! We really have to name our kits today.
- Woo: I was about to suggest the same thing.
- Lily: Our babies are truly the brightest stars in our life. Therefore, I thought of Sirius, Canopus, and Arcturus, and for the girl, Vega.
- Woo: Uhh, what do you think of Harrim,–
- Lily: You like Harrim better than Sirius?!!
- Woo: N– N– NO! I love your names! They’re perfect!
- Lily: “Sirius”, do you like that?
- Sirius: Yaaah.
- Woo: Even if you give Novil a million dollars, I won’t commit suicide for you!
![[0693] The Brightest Stars](/comics/2015-06-18-0693-the-brightest-stars.png "[0693] The Brightest Stars")
and thats how it should be. Never sell out your creative talents and rights for easy money.
And never saddle a child for life with the results of an internet contest. My suggestion would have been “Honey Bunny Ducky Downy Sweety Chicken Pie Li’l Ever Lovin’ Jelly Bean.” (Kudos to anyone who recognizes the reference).
Perhaps we should sponsor Lily then 🙂
Ohhh so many stars! That way I can easily forgive not taking my suggestion. 🙂
Ah, money well spent in the first panel 🙂
Wow, Webcomic Money goes a lot farther than I thought.
I wonder how Vega will feel about her siblings being named after stars, while she takes her name after a Street Fighter character.
Petah-Petah wrote:
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Never mind.
It all depends on the circumstances, obviously. But as a general rule, there’s definitely worse names you can give a kid than those of stars.
Sooo that’s what Novil looks like! Lol. Cool to see Woo interact with his creator.
Actually, Vega IS the name of a star…
@ Petah-Petah:
You do know that Vega is also a star, right?
I think saddling the kits with terrible names would qualify as “harming them”.
The only question is whether Novil or Woo gets to be tortured for decades in the Ninth Circle.
The arrow pointing at the lady in the first panel: is it pointing at the lady or at her bust?
Not to mention that Lily has a direct line to Seeoahtlahmakaskay…
Seeoahtlahmakaskay: These people on Patreon are trying to do WHAT to you? Certainly I’ll put a stop to it.
Lily: Yes! Goodbye Patreon and all who-
Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Hooold on… I was thinking we should broadcast a warning before we take direct action… I might even be able to “borrow” one of Yahweh’s er, people…
Simon Magus: Hi, I’m Simon Magus. You may remember me from Bible tracts such as Acts of the Apostles chapter 8. I’m here to tell you what happened when I tried to buy influence someplace where I really shouldn’t have…
>:=)>
@ Bedinsis:
Why can’t it be both?
What? No Procyon? 😛 (Yeah that would have been too painfully obvious…)
Sirius? Is he going to be an eye in the sky?
Boy, motherhood sure turned Lily into a super king kamehameha beeyotch. I mean, patreon foolishness aside, if she’d already decided on the names and wouldn’t stand any gainsaying, why even bother asking/waiting for Woo? The gag’s starting to wear thin.
I wonder if Sirius will now be called a raccoon-dog…
@ Bedinsis:
I thought it was pointing at her dress (but then again I’ve never been a fan of fake tits).
Also, why so Sirius?
(Sorry, obligatory joke is obligatory.)
Not exactly funny, but the baby going yaaah is super cute, so it’s all right
Gas Bandit wrote:
She Didn’t ASK.
She said very clearly that it was Time.
Then, she Told him what she had decided.
Don’t make her bring out the DePelter again.
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Petah-Petah wrote:
Actually, VEGA is one of the Brightests stars in the sky.
Vega is the 5th brightest star visible from Earth, and the 3rd brightest easily visible from mid-northern latitudes, after Sirius and Arcturus.
From http://earthsky.org/
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Vega’s distinctly blue color indicates a surface temperature of nearly 17,000 degrees F, making it about 7,000 degrees hotter than our sun.
Roughly 2.5 times the diameter of the sun, and just less than that in mass, Vega’s internal pressures and temperatures are far greater than our sun, making it burn its fuel faster. This causes Vega to produce 35-40 times the energy of the sun, which in turn shortens its lifetime.
At about 500 million years, Vega is already middle-aged. Currently it is only about a tenth the age of our sun, and will run out of fuel in another half-billion years.
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In western skylore, Vega’s constellation Lyra is said to be the harp played by the legendary Greek musician Orpheus. It’s said that when Orpheus played this harp, neither god nor moral could turn away. Vega is sometimes called the Harp Star.
But the most beautiful story relating to Vega comes from Asia. There are many variations.
In Japan, Vega is sometimes called Tanabata (or Orihime), a celestial princess or goddess. She falls in love with a mortal, Kengyu (or Hikoboshi), represented by the star Altair. But when Tanabata’s father finds out, he is enraged and forbids her to see this mere mortal.
Thus the two lovers are placed in the sky, where they are separated by the Celestial River, known to us as Milky Way. Yet the sky gods are kind.
Each year, on the 7th night of the 7th moon, a bridge of magpies forms across the Celestial River, and the two lovers are reunited. Sometimes Kengyu’s annual trip across the Celestial River is treacherous, though, and he doesn’t make it. In that case, Tanabata’s tears form raindrops that fall over Japan.
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now we know there are 3 males and one female.
Woo, just in case you didn’t know…
YOU…
ARE…
IN…
DEEP…
TROUBLE.
Actually, I think Woo just avoided deep trouble. And that arrow? I think it’s indicating that the patreons have paid for some ‘negotiable affection’ unless she just followed the smell of the money.
Aww, those baby raccoons are adorable! =)
Vega will eventually become a masked vigilante, with only one set of wolverine claws
@ Who, me?: It was also a sub-compact auto built by Chevrolet (GM) in the 70s.
@ bogwombler:
This is why I (almost!) always read all the prior comments before posting my own. 😉
@ Jerry:
You do realize he was just making a joke…right?
I don’t know. I was thinking for the boys, HIP 71348, HIP 48752, HIP 22645, and for the girl, Gliese 581.
Petah-Petah wrote:
Her power level will be over 9000.
According to Bayer α Canis Majoris, α Carinae, α Bootis and α Lyrae. 😉
Priceless 🙂
Btw Novil… where did you get the Patreon purchase? 😀 I am looking for one too 🙂
If the pimped out guy is you, Novil, is the lady next to you Powree?
I should say, the first panel does not really make clear whether the Patreon money paid for the company of the girl, or just for
onetwo particular parts of her.@ Who, me?:
I do, I was only joking.
….and then Woo read the Harry Potter series.
Is that Lily the tiger mom protecting her children against bad names in her usual inappropriatly overreacting tigermomish fashion? It seems more like Lily the narcissistic bully being outraged that Woo would DARE disagree with her.
@ Lookfar:
Pogo!
It makes me curious; did any of the patrons really demanded such a thing like this?
Silly Patreons. Names are for mothers.
It could always be worse.
Lookfar wrote:
“Ain’t that more of a boy’s name though?”
What’s this about Suzanne Vega?
Our Patreon money got spent on silicone implants.
when I read these I always imagine the voices of the characters. It never fails for Lily that I hear Jennifer Tilly’s voice.
Robert wrote:
Her name is Luka.
Xellos wrote:
“Courage Wolf”?
Actually I’ve seen way worse names than that.
Milestailsfox7 wrote:
No.