With only a few more hours to go to the official launch of the comic ‘Hanny and the mystery of the Voorwerp’, we’re already launching an online competition. So here’s your chance to win a copy of the book, signed by Hanny!
What you need to do: take a good look at the page published below – it’s one of the pages from the comic – and answer the following question: What’s wrong with it? Yep, there’s an accidental slip in it and we decided to turn it into something positive.
All answers (serious and/or creative) can be sent in by commenting on this blog. (Note that the first set of books will have this page in it, but the improved page is already ready to be seen by the world too.)
Good luck!
PS If you want to join the première in a few hours, here’s the link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/voorwerp-comic-release
Update: you can read the whole comic as a pdf now here:
http://hannysvoorwerp.zooniverse.org/sandbox/Downloads/VoorwerpComic.pdf
5 Comments
Hanny wild guess the cat thought you had a dog Bill
The text box in the upper left corner is gone in the current online version, so it must have been the mistake. Also why would it say “STARTS” twice? (I also found a missing “A” in the word “JODCAST” on page 12, by the way.)
The comic is a great – and very unusual, given the level of technical detail – way to tell the story of an astronomica discovery. Kind of “Contact”, without the bad people and the aliens (well, who knows … :-).
And I was actually moved by the great closing words on page 34! May they be read by the right people who then act accordingly …
Why is the Voorwerp referred to as a “he” – shouldn’t it be an “it”?
Hi Hanny,
The guitar is what’s wrong: the white plastic should be underneath and below the strings. The way it’s dranw in this picture makes it pretty useless. It should protect the guitar’s body from schratches when you stroke it.
Right?
Greetings, Joas
Everyone knows that space voorwerps are female.
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