And Gim, becoming unstuck from the black nothingness, was catapulted through space and landed at the epicentre of the burning city.
Pim Comic Strip
How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
In fewer days than one might have expected, the WDA reëntered the earth’s atmosphere to observe a familiar destination in Flames.
Skulking down a road on the outskirts of town Slim encountered the hapless proprietor.
Pim and Bim discovered that the hovercraft, on its release from the ripple in space-time, had smashed into the roof of the cantina.
After several days walk through stark desert Pim and Bim came upon a familiar town.
Meanwhile the Well-Dressed Albatross was making his slow, lone journey home.
Here’s what had happened. The ripple in space-time had a narrow waist, which Gim, folded into a Möbius strip, had gotten trapped in.
A few moments after alighting happily on the desert sand, Pim and Gim had a simultaneous thought.
In what felt like seconds the ripple in space-time deposited Pim and Bim in a place familiar and close to home.F
Unbeknownst to the WDA, Pim and Bim had stowed away in the cargo hold. With Gim. They bent Gim’s tail into a Möbius strip to fit.
