page 1260 – you should see where the chairs come from
DANG IT. I had this page ALMOST ready to go at, like, 6am this morning but just gave out with about a third of it left to color in.
And that’s not even the best part. Remember how I just didn’t do a regular page last week, and said I would hold back the one I’d been working on for THIS week? Well, it turns out that I actually meant the FOLLOWING week, because this isn’t that page. Halfway through inking THAT one, I realized it needed at least one page coming before it, and suddenly I went from being a whole week ahead of schedule to being several days BEHIND schedule. Hence the whole “staying up all night to try and get stuff done” thing.
But on the bright side: Table Dispenser. That’s exactly the kind of absolute stupidity I love coming up with. See, the NEXT page establishes that everybody’s sitting down at a long, banquet-style table, despite it being well established at this point that the dining hall has a bunch of little round tables instead of a single long one. Now, I easily COULD have said that dinner would be served in the conference hall instead, to be more fancy or something, but out of nowhere the idea of The Cap’n using this machine literally squirting a table out hit me and there was the comic! I just wish I could have got it done without passing out half-way through.
Also, it might have been for the best that there’s still a half-inked page waiting to be finished, because I’m gonna be driving back and forth all weekend for a convention. Which, yes, means there’s another string of Conventional Wisdom comics starting up soon, so look forward to that!
EDIT: Okay, not only did I indeed manage to get a fresh Voting Incentive done (and once again go REALLY overboard on some details) but there’s ALSO some fresh Patreon comics that just went up over there! Hey, I’m spending the last weekend of February distracted by convention stuff. I had to do most of my “Holy crap, I said I was going to get this done before the end of the month!” panicking done a little early this time.
Honestly, the Table Dispenser would be a necessary piece of equipment for the ship regardless of everything else. As for why it’s being used right now, Stillez broke the entire cafeteria. So the Captain is placing a long table specifically for this meal, simply because it’s easier to make and replace than the lots of little tables that he normally would need.
The only potential problem will be when Stillez DOESN’T destroy the cafeteria before she leaves, but that’s a small issue.
Oh, and, is Ichabod trying to stop himself from laughing in that last panel, or is he questioning May’s competency? I’m bad at reading faces at the best of times, so I’m asking for clarification.
He’s probably caught in a paradox of simultaneously wanting to judge May for her carelessness while also remembering several equally messy disasters that he and Mariska caused at that age.
If anything, that one was probably one of the most simple, direct & easiest to clean compared to the messes that May, Ichabod and/or Mariska have caused around May’s age. Which is part of the reason why May is happy to share it as a “fun fact” over her more disastrous productions.
And by “simple, direct & easiest to clean”, I mean that the only thing of real value that was irreparably damaged or lost would have been whatever food Marshall had cooked.
re: hovertext – that’s not future sci-fi at all, they’re already squirting an entire subdivision out of a tube in Littleton right now!
https://www.wral.com/the-future-is-here-take-a-look-at-the-first-3d-printed-housing-development-in-nc/20718655/
Close enough you can go see it!
Suddenly I have a flashback to the climax of The Flintstones Movie
There’s also a company that uses Hemp, Limedust, Water & Frames to make giant “Hempcrete” Lego Blocks to build from. Not as complex to put together, but probably a better housing material than straight concrete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqLXXjvQXgI
Man, life-sized Lego houses DEFINITELY sounds like the kind of thing I’d make up as a joke.
It becomes more difficult every day to make a webcomic that’s still weirder than actual reality 😀
You say that, but just look what I drew for the Voting Incentive…
Oh, I could make all sorts of comments about various groups in RL these days being absorbed into a hive mind. Most of which is still weirder than the voting incentive, at least to me 🙂
(and that’s not even counting the internet itself which has absorbed over half the population of the species into its hive mind)
Also, I suspect that the reason why they escaped that seemingly unescapable fate is that any hive mind that absorbs multiple Professional Nitpickers simultaneously has basically just committed suicide…it will eventually collapse or explode from exponentially increasing internal conflicts
@ Voting Incentive: Mariska went on another date, didn’t she? Oh, and Ichabod is assuming it’s Mariska’s fault as it isn’t his own, obviously.
The story of Ichabod’s life is for Mariska to make a mess that he can totally see coming… only to then get blindsided by an even BIGGER mess that’s totally on him (and is inevitably way more public)
Good call about this somehow being related to Mariska’s love life, though. I approve.
Also: Layla – Are you really questioning someone else being indecisive about their clothing choices to impress someone?
https://faroutthere.com/comic/page-321-contact-i-couldnt-resist/
Layla: “As with everything else in life, it always makes total sense when I’M the one doing it!”
Part of Layla’s problem with choosing clothes there was picking something that was appealing enough to attract attention, while keeping it casual enough not to be commented upon. Also, Layla changed clothes ONCE that entire event, and Avi’s changed clothes three times now? Or is it more? I didn’t bother to count.