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JUST A HEAT ENGINE -Part 3

Another part of the “Just a Heat Engine” series of comics…that also took way too long to get around to making.

Been overwhelmed with research, learning to use machine learning to do more research, and dealing with the fallout of the big winter storm (”Where’d the mold and water damage come from? A flood?” “No, from a busted pipe -_-”)

But anyways, here’s the next part of the comic, in which I took the song “Comet” from Steven Universe and turned it into a song about the 1935 Labor Day hurricane singing about himself because…

…reasons.

I should note that the white hurricane is still Labor Day, just his “full size” form. The natural disaster characters have a dog-sized form they use to interact one-on-one with people and animals, and a regular-size form they use when just doing disastery stuff. 

The “Storms of the Century” sidebar is a reference to an old Weather Channel special from 1999 where they had a bunch of their weather people rank what they thought were the biggest, baddest storms to hit the U.S. in the 20th century. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane won, which given it was the strongest hurricane at landfall to hit the U.S.*, is pretty reasonable.

*His air pressure and wind speed is shown in the digital display display from his…smartwatch? Yes the hurricane wears a watch…so it’s a…(wait for it)…hurricane watch.

JUST A HEAT ENGINE–TWO

Here’s the second page of the comic involving the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 strumming on a guitarfish. I imagine he has a hobby of writing and performing rock ballads, which is not at all the sort of hobby you would expect from a Category 5 hurricane with a mindset that weather is warfare. 

The song is basically a rip-off parody of “Comet” from Steven Universe but I imagine Labor Day’s singing voice to be closer to Billy Joel. Either way, it’s very much nicer than his usual voice, which is basically a cross between drill-sergeant yelling and a freight train.

JUST A HEAT ENGINE—1

Labor Day might be a very ferocious hurricane, with the ability to scour islands of their sand and then kill people with it, but he also shreds a mean guitarfish.

…this is the first page of a multi-page comic I am working on. I will add the rest over time (as my thesis allows).