It’s tough to be a dragon in the 21st century. You get no respect.
This is as good a time as any to mention that only thirty more strips remain until AST achieves the unthinkable of 500 strips. I’m looking for lots of fan art and stuff to help celebrate this momentous occasion. And, uh, ideas, because I’m running out. 🙂
“Shellshock! Light!” is a reference to a scene early in the movie The Fifth Element, where an archaeologist is shouting for light from some kid named Aziz. At first when I wrote this strip I was going to have the dragon smoke Science Guy, but like the dragon, I just didn’t have the heart.
The joke in today’s strip is an homage to classic Bugs Bunny cartoons. Inevitably, when he had the monster standing right behind him, breathing steam on his tail, he’d turn to the audience and ask the same question Science Guy does here.