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Season 13 Time!
I posted yesterday about this, and I felt like describing it deserved its own topic. I got a SpongeBob magazine back in 2010 with a heavy focus on time travel, and this was one of its comics.
It’s spread out across two pages, with four rows of three panels on either side, and 8 along the middle, with the latter 7 leading into the punchlines in a CYOA fashion.
Intro- It starts with SpongeBob going to Squidward’s house and showing him a time machine he just found. SpongeBob’s eager to take it to the future, but Squidward keeps grabbing the lever as he wants to go to the past. From here, I’ll lay out of the 7 possible paths you can take.
To the future 1- They travel forwards in time by 23 seconds, and end up being 23 seconds late for work.
To the future 2- They go to a time where all of their friends have beards (even Sandy) and order an old sundae.
To the future 3- They enter the distant future, but can’t by a sundae because inflation’s gone through the roof, making it worth thousands.
To the future 4- They go to the heat death of the universe as existence implodes, and they’re left floating in a white void (not even standing like in SB-129, just floating!). SpongeBob seems horribly okay with the predicament in the first panel though.
To the past 1- They prevent themselves from entering the time machine, and Squidward seems alright with this.
To the past 2- Something about chairs, but their meddling with history prevents ice cream from ever being made.
To the past 3- Their time machine is stomped on by a T-Rex Phineas and Ferb-style, and it cuts to later where SpongeBob’s witing for a rat to evolve.
With the possible exception of Past 1, all of them are downers, but I think the real strength of it comes from showing that the further away from the present you are, the more drastic decisions and events are. Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to watch SpongeBob.
Let me know if you’ve seen or read anything like this. I gave it to a friend years ago and want to see it again.
It’s spread out across two pages, with four rows of three panels on either side, and 8 along the middle, with the latter 7 leading into the punchlines in a CYOA fashion.
Intro- It starts with SpongeBob going to Squidward’s house and showing him a time machine he just found. SpongeBob’s eager to take it to the future, but Squidward keeps grabbing the lever as he wants to go to the past. From here, I’ll lay out of the 7 possible paths you can take.
To the future 1- They travel forwards in time by 23 seconds, and end up being 23 seconds late for work.
To the future 2- They go to a time where all of their friends have beards (even Sandy) and order an old sundae.
To the future 3- They enter the distant future, but can’t by a sundae because inflation’s gone through the roof, making it worth thousands.
To the future 4- They go to the heat death of the universe as existence implodes, and they’re left floating in a white void (not even standing like in SB-129, just floating!). SpongeBob seems horribly okay with the predicament in the first panel though.
To the past 1- They prevent themselves from entering the time machine, and Squidward seems alright with this.
To the past 2- Something about chairs, but their meddling with history prevents ice cream from ever being made.
To the past 3- Their time machine is stomped on by a T-Rex Phineas and Ferb-style, and it cuts to later where SpongeBob’s witing for a rat to evolve.
With the possible exception of Past 1, all of them are downers, but I think the real strength of it comes from showing that the further away from the present you are, the more drastic decisions and events are. Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to watch SpongeBob.
Let me know if you’ve seen or read anything like this. I gave it to a friend years ago and want to see it again.
