Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 10, 2013

Far be it from Wiley to write something not natural…

It’s the end of the world.

The first and second panels are golden Mr. Miller…Not complaining about the others either. Man, you must make a lot of artists jealous….Oh, and look at the cute little scull on the laptop….Rock on, dude…..

umm… my computer needs wifi … so if she is out of service area how come i can still see her??? comic logic is not logical

Trying to text in Klingon must be hard!

Lucy is no dummy. Some day, Danae, you’ll think yourself lucky to even FIND somewhere with no reception….

Never underestimate the beauty of quiet.I live in a medium size town with much traffic, and much general noise. But there are afternoons when I can go out into my little back yard and it is dead silent, and the joy of that is beyond my ability to describe.Or perhaps I’m going deaf. Better get that checked.

Where is this mythical land of “No Service”? And how do I get there???

I was going to comment earlier but lost my signal.

I don’t live in the middle of nowhere. To get to my place, go to the middle of nowhere and turn left.We are glad to have cell and internet service, true, and my smarter-than-me phone shows “2G”. Not bad for the boonies. However, not far from here my phone shows simply “G”…. Having said that, I’ll tell you that it’s easy to go either way; into the city with it’s noise, congestion, and 4G everything, or further into the wasteland with it’s birds, breezes, and basic needs. The internet if fun and useful, but on the occasion when it’s out, we get by. Don’t misunderstand me, my job is tech support for business class internet with a major telecomm, and according to them, the internet is the only tool they have. It does amaze me, if they live and die by the internet, that they don’t have a backup. Cable and DSL, or DSL and satellite, or even Cable and Dial-up. Putting all of the eggs in one basket just doesn’t make sense. Thus endeth the lesson.

What kind of internet service is this? Don’t you have to have a phone line?

Glad to see Lucy overcame her fear of bridges.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Although, I think Danae is going to be making a bit of noise as she howls in her haste to get back to her service.

Danae welcome to The Dead Zone.

Oh, Oh, scarey adventure……

When I lived in Mendocino, the cellular service zone was a three-block-square area of “downtown”.

YAY!!! Finally away from civilization!!!

You know its out of hand when you can make a cell phone call from Mt Everest to tell the world you are going to die.

I laughted out loud when I read this! Bravo! Brilliant! I am printing 5 copies of this comic, and giving one to each of my nieces and nephews.

I’ll bet they are (or at least Lucy is) out looking for her moose boyfriend…and so the adventure begins.

Really Masterskrain???? All this time I thought you lived inside a Daelek body!

We need more places to go without service…

I live with one …but only because I would prefer to have a means of communication if I accidentally get hit by a teenager who is texting while driving!

she’s just one of the 91% who own the things……..

This doesn’t have anything to do with cellphones but about “magical places”. Many years ago, my best friend and I used to drive around on country roads, just talking and “communing with nature”. We were on an unfamiliar road and came up a hill to suddenly see before us a scene right out of a storybook. A beautiful little valley with a cottage with smoke coming out of the chimney and a stream running past. We were absolutely dumbfounded at how gorgeous it all was. We sat on the car hood and drank it in for some time before reluctantly leaving. The next day we tried to find this place again, but could not. It remains one of my nicest memories.

Danae and Lucy must have found my apartment. It not only is a Dead Zone but also the Twilight Zone.

Now poor Lucy has a problem, Keeping Danae occupied. I give it an hour.I in my line of police work use the cell phone as a pacifier. I let them use the phone to go on and on. I figure it this way. When they are yapping about being arrested they are not concentrating on me thinking about escape.

I don’t have service in my house, and if I go into the woods, I lose service there, too. The driveway kinda has service, sometimes. I don’t own a cellphone any more, but I always get that comment when people come over.

Pretty quiet in my neighborhood, although I can hear I94 in the distance, at night….But by the same token I can hear the lonesome call of the train whistle on it’s way through Lawton to or from Chicago….The lake is very quiet, even during the day….

Caddy, (Forehead slap!)I think you hit it on the head….Of course….

Astute, you are much more astute than I…

GI Joe, good observation, I forgot about that….She’ll do anything for her moose I guess…assuming she is out looking for him….

I use my mobile (cell) phone purely for text messages to my other half (“what do you want for dinner”, etc)..It wouldn’t worry me if the whole of mobile phone technology failed tomorrow. Nothing is that important that we need instant contact.

to go beyond cellular reception is the only cure for NDD (nature deficit disorder)

When I want to be gone… the battery comes out, the SD card is pulled and they and the phone are all put into separate pockets. My me time is mine and what I do and where I go is nobody’s business