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Anyway as ever I am happy to accept that I'm just wrong and stupid, but here's how I have problems with the chocolate sea.
1. ice-caps are coated with dark chocolate. Seaguy and Chubby stop off to collect some, for rations.
2. storm and whales. The sea is not chocolate. They're going round Cape Horn, ie. fairly near Antarctica.
3. sun rises, time has passed -- they've been asleep so we have to assume some gap here.
4. they're captured by the Xoo-Rig... they escape and jet off, hitting the Atlantis sign.
5. underwater, Seaguy is thinking "remember to stay right where you are, Chubby; we don't want Bumble-B to get trapped in half-melted chocolate."
Well, here's where I lose it a little. Chubby's up in the boat or something. Seaguy's, what, telepathically communicating Aquaman style? Stay where you are (in the boat?) or it'll get trapped in half-melted chocolate. Huh? The sea here is just conventional clear blue liquid. The chocolate was way back at the South Pole.
6. climbing the mountain, Seaguy emerges and finds, apparently, that he's surfacing thru ripples of chocolate. Bumble-B is dripping brown, beached up against the mountain. Is Mount Poseidon chocolate, too? Is the mountain melting? How did Chubby pilot the ship into the mountain?
7. they're drifting in the ocean, dealing with wasp-stings. The sea is swirling gently with light brown. Now Seaguy's reporting that they're stuck in a chocolate ocean and can't get out because the ship's navigation's bust. How the navigation bust, I don't know. Maybe when it hit the Atlantis sign, or Mount Poseidon. "We're stuck out here until this chocolate Sargasso melts."
Um... but the whole problem before was melted chocolate. Or, to be fair, "half-melted chocolate". So, they've somehow got trapped in chocolate that's liquid enough for them to sail into, but too solid for them to sail out of. It's floating around them under a white-hot sun, but it's not melting enough to become liquid. The only source for this chocolate, as I can see it, is Mount Poseidon, but that's miles away and it didn't seem to be melting at the time -- it had temples and trees solidly planted on it.
How much disbelief do I have to suspend! Is it outrageous to ask for a bit of internal logic?
PS. I realise this is a "fun" comic in many ways and I did enjoy it. It won't kill me if there is no acceptable answer to this chocolate thing. |
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