Astrid’s Calamitous Christmas Caper – page 8
Man, the tags on this page are just absolute madness. It looks like I just passed out and collapsed onto the keyboard while posting this page… which isn’t all THAT far from the actual Far Out There creative process. Then again, some of the characters in this page first appeared in a Far Out There comics A LITERAL DECADE AGO, and that’s the sort of thing that comes dangerously close to looking like I had a plan all along.
So, it’s Friday, which HOPEFULLY means there’s a new TWC Voting incentive up as you read this. Of course, given the weirdness of these December update schedules, I’m writing this MANY days before it actually goes live, so I’ve got no idea if Future Me was able to keep track of what day it is long enough to get the new Incentive finished and posted on time. Seriously, my usual weekly groove has been so drastically thrown off even as I write this that I might not even know what MONTH it is by the time this page goes live.
Suspects? That honestly sounds like a full setup of people needed to pull off every part of the heist!
Prefect Gubikhunet to come up with the idea and build the team.
Ursula Madrigal for distractions and manipulation.
Senator Notablobinadome for their connections to smugglers in order to get the toys out.
Hansa Hansa as the salesman, to get the most profit from the sales.
Of course, given how many people would want to hunt down all of these guys, regardless of potential collateral, it’s also entirely possible that this is the only place they can be where they wouldn’t be literally hunted down like game animals.
…which might actually be an additional explanation as to why many people start working at Santa’s Toy Factory. The number of people who are willing to attack it are minuscule.
Which just makes Stilez’s feat of kidnapping the CEO all the more impressive…which I was going to link to here, but it appears not to have been reposted yet 🙁
I’d like to say that Stilez is what failsafes are made for… except perhaps the only “failsafe” that actually works against Stilez is to throw Ichabod at her.
What, you mean “Stilez vs Christmas? It should be right here:
https://faroutthere.com/comic/stilez-vs-christmas/
Ah, yes, of course, my mistake, I don’t know how I could have missed it. 😉
And it’s just as touching and heartwarming as I remember it, a true Christmas Classic! It just needs an Animated Version. 😀
additional note – I just now realized the reason I couldn’t find it – for some reason I thought it was a vote incentive series rather than a normal Christmas main strip series…looking in the wrong place!!…brane not werk gud enny mor… 🙁
On an unrelated note, the vote incentive pic just comes up with a broken link icon for me. (tried it on 2 different computers, so probably not just me)
Can confirm the image link is pointing to the wrong place.
Yeah, sorry about that. It’s fixed now, I promise!