Opus deals with oil grief
It's the "(Coming!) that gets us. In a funny and disrespectful Sunday comic about the high price of gasoline, Opus creator Berkeley Breathed illustrates the feelings of a lot of people in fine color. Sometimes you just want to gloat - it's too bad that we can't all do so quite yet. I've snipped a corner of the one-panel comic for our mostly family-safe viewing here on AutoblogGreen (you never know when someone will take issue with bare comic character butts in profile), but you should really check out the whole thing over at Salon. Breathed's fantasy PHEV doesn't quite look like any vehicle we know will hit the road in the next few years, but the fact that a plug-in hybrid is indeed Coming! is true (see: Saturn VUE)
If you've got a few more minutes, check out these other related green car cartoons:
h/t to Paul S.
[Source: Salon]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
radhoo 4:28PM (7/07/2008)
I think is going to bee very odd to charge your car from a plug, but if this is the future... will going to comply
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BrianM 12:23PM (7/07/2008)
http://www.comics.com/wash/opus/index.html
And link for the lazy to a NON-subscription page for viewing.
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Sebastian 12:32PM (7/07/2008)
BrianM -
Many thanks. I'm not a subscriber, but the original Salon link worked w/o ads for me, just FYI.
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marc 12:43PM (7/07/2008)
thats the concept version of the toyota iQ.
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Rick 7:15PM (7/07/2008)
Nice to see someone gets the contemporary concept of a plug-in and doesn't whine about the load EVs or plug-ins would have on the grid. What grid? It would be re-charged by solar panels!!!
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Joseph 11:51PM (7/07/2008)
I just read this comic yesterday. I love Opus; I even have a book of his comics.
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me2 2:08PM (7/07/2008)
I saw that comic on the weekend and ripped it from the paper. Priceless.
Was that comic part of a series ? The caption in the upper right hand corner says #6: Smug Satisfaction. Was there a #1,2,3,4 and 5 ?
Thanks
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me2 2:24PM (7/07/2008)
I saw that comic on the weekend and ripped it from the paper. Priceless.
Was that comic part of a series ? The caption in the upper right hand corner says #6: Smug Satisfaction. Was there a #1,2,3,4 and 5 ?
Thanks
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