Ahhh, damn cool!

Neat.

Wait, doesn't the 'verse of Albedo use base 8, not base 10? At least that's what I remember from the old Albedo: Anthropomorphics RPG.

I was wondering about that, myself...

You will probably find out for sure... However I seem to recall that the the original numbers were 'base-8' but were adapted to 'base-10' for a role-playing game (or perhaps as an optional variant?).

I remember one of the illustrations in the RPG book had a critter narrowly avoiding a falling trapezoidal weight. The weight was marked in the alphabet as [20 ton], and while that was suitably dangerous, it seemed rather arbitrary, especially as comics (and comic illustrations lifted to fill RPG books) tended to have 'in-jokes' and 'shout-outs' to other comics and icons of pop culture. That's when I realized that the Albedo universe ran on base 8, which made sense, as the characters who had fingers were 'toon-handed,' with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. That also made the weight a shout-out to Monty Python as it was a 16 ton weight.

"Now that actually is not the answer that I had in mind, because the book that I got this problem out of wants you to do it in base eight. But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten, really...if you're missing two fingers."

- Tom Lehrer, "New Math"

"Blind Faith."

Ah! I knew YOU would remember. The only other one who got the joke was Ken Fletcher.

I wish I could read Albedo.

Why can't you?

No money. Not, like, I have bills to pay no money, but more I have no job and an inability to work cause pain and anxiety.

Well, at least you can read the story here!

No force in the 'Verse can stop me!

Translating "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"...or "Antidisestablishmentarianism".

Linguistics is a hobby that can last a while.

Indeed!

Heh, I still have the original issue of his 'alphabet' in my collection somewhere :B

Thank goodness this never had a cartoon series/action figure line; it means I got less grumpy old people screaming "I WAS HERE FIRST YOU POSER!" to wade through. If there's something old people hate more than young people arriving late to a party, it's young people arriving late to a party after somebody ran TV ads for it. =P

I forgot, was the comic advertised in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or was it the other way around?

Good question. I'm not sure, as I was one of the few not following TMNT back then...

If I remember right, it was Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo that fan first in Albedo before crossing over to TMNT. Somebody ask Steve, I'm too shy.