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51 thoughts on “#388 – home again”
Dengarde
Allow me to be the first to say…
What the Fuh?
gormster
HOW IT EVEN POSSIBLE
spas
their new apartment is a gap in the space-time continuum!
CLR
I second this motion.
Matt B.
Even as a straight male, I would totally make out with Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie. God DAMN.
Woody
But if I'm correct that Bowie look is from the cover of Aladdin Sane?
Orion
Battlecries and champagne!
So I totally just discovered this comic yesterday, and after about three hours of obsessive reading I'm completely in love and mostly caught up. O'Malley's endorsement guided me here, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a meltdown when I run out of strips to read. =D
Zac
Man, Marek is so sweet.
Oh I mean David Bowie, sorry.
nothings
dun dun dun!
bluh
so that's how they're dreaming the same dreams!
Melissa
Is Hanna hallucinating or something? 😮
wykstrad
wot a tweest!
Cheepacheep
So that's what's under all of Marek's hair!
Mayday
Hanna! Someone laced your herbaceous goods!
But it looks like you maybe don't mind (I don't blame you)
Mayday
Wait wait wait no
Is it just one of those really persistent radio ads, in real life, that's been subliminally infiltrating their otherwise normal sexy dreams? Thus providing a Scooby Doo-esque logical explanation for this whole episode? Please help me Meredith I am confus 😮
Lisa
Yes, the third to last panel is a reference to The Wizard of Oz movie, in which "it was all a dream". She suddenly realises this, and is then able to go back to her normally sexy dreams.
Bok
I'm 99% sure you're spot on, hence Marek/Bowie's "Wait a minute, isn't this-"
Kylogram
MYSTERY SOLVED.
Clearly they went through all that trouble over nothing :/
Damien Walder
1400 Sq.Feet of space. Oddity.
MerchManDan
Brilliant.
Redhead
Could someone explain this to me? Why does he look like David Bowie? Never has OP gone over my head line this :c
MerchManDan
It all goes back to the beginning of this storyline. Here's the second comic (in which Hanna mentions David Bowie) to jog your memory: http://www.octopuspie.com/2010-08-06/379-theres-n…
bubbles
Brilliant ending. But I think that it's in fact this (http://www.octopuspie.com/2010-08-04/378-a-door-next-to-this-door/) comic that you'll need to re-read if you don't get it.
Ian
haha. gentry creek.
Pixie
I'll admit, I didn't quite get it at first.. then I read the comments, went back and read the first comic in the storyline, and went, "OOoooooooh!" Nice.
Malexhe
Do you know what's more awesome than an update with a David Bowie cameo? Learning that you can get to octupus pie through school computers.
Taylor Lopez (TeaLo)
Or as in my case, through work computers! it makes my day ^_^
franki
what a great ending 🙂
nalem
Ohh I get it. Thanks guys for cluing me in.
SevernFelix
So the real question is
Who looks like Sam Rockwell right now?
Lou
A friend of mine sent me this comic and said it reminded him of me…
…yep, I can see the similarities.
Smithers
Who wouldn't make out with Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie, Honestly.
Nichas
why did he turn int ziggy stardust?
liquidhypnotic
What Marek says in Panel 3 is very sweet, and Hanna's expression in panel 3 is amazing.
Also, I love the implication that they did it on the couch where they were guesting. Lol.
AlmostLiterally
Awesome ending. I'm loving being back on the three a week schedule.
David Harmon
I like how Hanna seizes the moment! (Even if it is a dream….)
Mo
Quick Hanna! Before something happens!
….again…
Rezmason
Oh god we've gone too deep into dream. Haana, grab your totem!
I said totem, not toke 'em!
Melissa
So how much of the arc was a dream, then? The whole thing, or just the beginning and end? Did they actually move out?
Fish
blew… my… mind
Anon
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Seriously though; was I the only one thinking Inception there?
Wood
All right, I had to actually re-read all this story in one sitting to finally get the joke.
INFERNO
is that supposed to be, like, gene simmons?
AlmostLiterally
http://www.octopuspie.com/2010-08-06/379-theres-n…
Mo
I'm still so confused.
Phasma Felis
I get that their shared dreams were just a radio commercial, and that Hannah's dream involved David Bowie, but I'm not quite sure what her mental state is supposed to be in the last two panels. Is she dreaming? Having a flashback? Metaphorically realizing that Marek was her David Bowie the *whole time*? I don't get it.
Twigs
YES
=D
a lad insane
Holy..I cracked up so bad I love this comic more and more! I'm so glad I have a lot left to read… no wait what..less than 40 left until I'm left waiting for updates??? NO NO NO!
Thanks for a great comic, greetings from snowcovered Finland!
Shras
It's the dream again!
Taylor K.
The David Bowie Cometh.
oxymoron
Aww rip bowie