- For the other comic titled "Catching Up", see Catching Up (412).
While Andi scrambles to find a solution to the predicament she put the ship in, she leaves it without command. The giantess, coming to her senses, returns to disabling the ship. Roy attempts to grab her attention by hurling a boulder at the giantess.
Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Andi: What if we...OK, what if I temporarily boosted the force of the propellers to increase our lift?
- Panel 2
Andi: If I swapped out this fuel regulator...yeah, that might work.
Kwesi: Do you want us to come to a full stop? I'm going to stop us, OK?
- Panel 3
Giantess: Beginner geometry holds up the magnet gambler!
Giantes: Sunrise gravy!
- Panel 4
Giantess: No!
Giantess: Must clear my head...
- Panel 5
Giantess: I must succeed for Lord Thrym!
The giantess tears a hole in the envelope, "SSHHRRIPP!"
- Panel 6
Elan: Aww, man! I just repaired that blloon!
Roy: We've stopped moving, so keep your feet on the deck and fix it again.
- Panel 7
Roy: I've got an—nnn!—idea to get her attention back on me.
Roy lifts a huge boulder...
- Panel 8
...and hurls it at the giantess.
- Panel 9
The giantess catches the boulder, "CATCH!"
Giantess: Are you kidding me? Catching boulders is one of our only special abilities.
- Panel 10
She hurls it back at Roy, hitting him full on, "FWONK!"
- Panel 11
Roy: Well, she threw it back at me instead of at the ship, so technically, that worked.
Elan: Aww, man! I just repaired that fighter!
D&D Context[]
- Giants, including Frost Giants, have the special ability to catch rocks and other projectiles that would otherwise hit them as a free action with a successful Reflex save. Their other special abilities are immunity to cold, low light vision, and rock throwing.
Trivia[]
- The title plays on both the giantess' ability to catch thrown boulders, as well as the artist catching up on updates to the comic. He had taken more than a month off of the main story between #1070 and #1071 in order to complete How the Paladin Got His Scar, and the two days between this strip and the previous is historically a very quick turnaround for him.