Don't they mean, "Meanwhile, at Bespin's Cloud City?" Having an airstrip on the front yard isn't as great an idea today as it was back whenever this comic was made. Of course, Videoland is a metropolis without strife, persecution, or that unpleasant deserty region of Asia where people kill each other because a cloth with writing on it told them to. Sprites are without sin. You might notice in the third panel, former Nintendo guy Howard Phillips (of Howard and Nester fame) has been reduced to a Special Needs case. Actually, that's just after RARE kidnapped him and stole part of his diabolic mind for the code to Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. Oh, and Mother Brain needs closeups like Jewel needs albums. |
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