Far Out There

Well, it’s the page immediately following a major American holiday that had an extra page come out to commemorate it, so of COURSE it’s late! Don’t worry, that cold I was complaining about earlier has more or less been medicated out of existence, but I DID come down with a serious case of “holy crap, I ate way too much” last night, accompanied by the usual unnaturally early bedtime and subsequent stomach aches. Thus, I’m afraid I don’t have a fresh TWC Voting Incentive to go with today’s page… YET. There WILL still be one more this week, it’ll just take until sometime tomorrow morning to actually get done. So either keep checking back here, or keep an eye on the various social media outlets.

In the meantime, on a really random note… have I brought up the “mummies as a form of beef jerky” gag before? I mean, in a comic that’s actually made it onto the internet? That was a gag that originated in one of those ooooooooooold prototype comics I drew ages and ages before Far Out There officially began (before the Misanthrope Genie, even), and I can’t remember if I ever tried to incorporate it into a modern page before. It’s been over a decade, folks, I have trouble keeping some of this stuff straight.

(Historical Notes: There’s actually a COUPLE of brain farts on this page.  For one thing, that page of Tabitha and Vengeance meeting also has a TV show annoyingly similar to the one on screen here.  In-universe, we could argue that since Princess Rheiko is a Historical Domain Character, the makers of one of these shows saw that the other was in production and greenlit their own knock-off version.  In Real Life, though, it’s absolutely just me failing to notice I’d used the joke before.  And speaking of jokes already used, Past Me kind of glossed over the fact that the “mummy jerky” gag actually originated in a bit on Futurama.  My contribution to the idea was said jerky mummy wasn’t a unique artifact but mass produced, presumably because their planet of origin had a comically oversized and convoluted royal family and this was the only way they could afford to get rid of all the bodies after they die.  But, of course, Past Me didn’t USE any of that in this comic, only the part that’s clearly a ripoff of a more popular TV show.  Dang it, Past Me, can’t you do ANYTHING right?)