page 675 – The More The… Merrier?
I am never having another Far Out There character who wears lipstick again. Or at least, none of those characters will ever OPEN THEIR MOUTHS. I must have redrawn the second panel fifty times, and Astrid STILL looks like she’s part fish.
Well, those two back to back conventions I was complaining about earlier (the reason we don’t have Voting Incentives right now) are almost upon us. As I write this, I’ve got another five pages to edit and post over the next… 48 hours? Probably less than that, since I still need to pack. Anyway, expect the Author Comments over the next two weeks to either get a lot shorter, or get waaaaaaay longer and more incoherent. Either way, you’ll be watching my sleep deprivation take hold in slow motion. ENJOY!
(Historical Notes: At the time, I wanted the gag of the first page to be the suggestion of some pretty strong language obscured by the girls’ overlapping the speech bubbles… but even when it’s just a hint, I wasn’t going to imply any language that was TOO vulgar in Far Out There, so it doesn’t really work. Really, I SHOULD have gone back to one of the older comics’ trademarks and had them using fictional insults from other works. Oh well.)
Actually, Astrid’s lips are drawn pretty accurately – as we’ve already confirmed that she’s one of those people who insists on spending vast sums of money on largely unnecessary body modifications – that’s pretty much what most women look like after they’ve had “lip modification” done – at least 50% giant fish-woman. You’ve captured her essence perfectly here, even if it was unintentional.
Also, unrelated to the strip: I think I mentioned it before, but the “Recent Comments” needs to have a lot more than 5 entries. I have no idea what I randomly commented on late yesterday that you might have replied to! And now I’ll never know! 🙁 Preferably, move the “chapter” and “jump to” boxes up above, and then let the Recent Comments stretch all the way down the page for whatever its maximum possible number of entries is.
Admittedly, this is probably more important during the re-posting phase when we might be more likely to reply to random strips than the most recent one. Still, it’s never going to not be useful to see more comment history.
Oh snap, I actually changed a thing! I upped the comments list up to 20, any more than that and it’ll start to throw off the page layout. For future reference, though, I might change it back once we’re down to one new page coming out at a time… whenever that is.
Woohoo! I can see my yesterday’s comments now! 🙂
**basks in feeling of accomplishment for having badgered Blitz into changing something**
Badger-badger-badger, BANANA PHONE! *Sings a meme song he barely actually remembers due, in part, to only ever hearing it once*
Hmmm, that’s once more than I’ve ever heard it – now you made me have to look that up on Wiklpedia. According to The Wiki, it was popular in the mid 90s, apparently by some guy named “raffi”, who, according to The Wiki, is “the most popular children’s singer in the English-speaking world,”[3] he is well loved by many children born in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for his popular children’s songs I was a kid during a couple of those decades, and I’ve never heard of him or any of the songs they listed. I guess I wasn’t much into kids’ music when I was a kid.
I’m NOT going to youtube it, though, as I suspect it will be one of those annoying things that gets stuck in your head and you can’t get rid of it. Kids’ music tends to have a lot of that.
It being an annoying song that gets stuck in your head and you can’t get rid of it is why it was a meme. It’s a 90 second song, if not less, that can repeat endlessly with no issue. Half of it is “Badger-badger-badger BANANA PHONE!”, with variable numbers of the word “Badger”, and a single other line as a chorus.
…actually, you should still watch a youtube video of it, if even on mute. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to witness.
Better yet, I’m pretty sure you’ve got TWO annoying memes rolled up in one here… for MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS!
I only vaguely recall the Banana Phone song, but the “Badger Badger Badger” thing is an old flash cartoon by MrWebbl, where each line would end with “MUSHROOM MUSHROOM” and then occasional climax with “A SNAKE A SNAKE!!!”
The Internet appears to agree, it seems there are no Badgers in the Bananaphone song, and no Bananas or phones in the Badger song. Whatever would we do without the Internet to verify these important details?
Having read (not heard) the “lyrics” to both (I’m reluctant to even use the word lyrics here) …I think my life can still be complete without hearing them.
Well, the verses of both have that same “one word, one word, one word, one word, OTHER WORD” format, so I can totally see how they could be melded into a single new abomination.
Which evokes the image of some particularly demented Lyrical Mad Scientist, in some old castle with lightning flashing in the background, laughing maniacally, next to two tables to which are strapped a badger and a banannaphone, about to pull the switch on his latest horrific creation. “They said I was MAD! They said it couldn’t be done!! A Badger and a Banannaphone?!? You have gone too far, they said! The fools!! I will show them all!!!!!!!!! Bah hah ha ha hah!!!”
I know EXACTLY why I made that mistake. I was almost certainly introduced to both memes on the same day, with similar video’s, and must have merged them in my head. A link to the Banana Phone Music Video that shows the Badger’s from the Badger-Badger Meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCE4y9O7vTM
OH GOD, IT LIVES!!!