Happy New 2022!
I just take it for granted that this is how all of Mariska’s nights out end.
Here’s hoping your New Year gets off to a better start than this! I know how Mariska feels, though… well, not the drunken rambling part, but that’s about how I look after December ran me into the ground. And not just all the Christmas pages either! I’ve been teasing this for a while, but at long last I’ve finally started re-posting The Killer Station of Deadly Doom over on the Voting Incentive/Patreon Gallery! It’s nowhere near complete yet (because HOLY CRAP that series ran a long time) but there’s around 40 pages up as I write this, and possibly a few more by the time you read it! I dunno, though. I mean, I still have to actually start drawing Monday’s new page. That’s pretty much the story of this whole quest to re-post everything: as soon as I really get in the groove working on one thing, something ELSE needs doing…
EDIT: Oh crap, I totally forgot to do a sappy “thanks for sticking with me for another year” type message! Is it even legal to allow a calendar milestone to pass without that kind of platitude? I could be sent to content creator jail for this! No, but seriously, I am a little flabbergasted at the fact that ANYBODY still came back to check on this comic over all the delays and hiatuses and everything. Ya’ll are all deeply appreciated!
Romulan Ale & Bunt Beru’s Hard Blue Milk. I believe that the Romulans are from Star Trek, and I know that Blue Milk is from Star Wars, but I don’t know where Bunt Beru is from.
Also, did you purposefully choose type fonts that are hard to read or something?
In contexts where it’s honestly supposed to look scifi-y first be an actual joke second, yeah. Kinda.
(Case in point, that’s supposed to be a capital “A” not “B,” so it’s “Aunt Beru,” who poured the blue milk. This particular font was designed for Japanese text, then awkwardly applied to English, which helps explains the oddness.)
What’s really flabbergasting is that all those delays and hiatuses somehow led to FOT becoming the #2 Webcomic on the Entire Planet Earth! I mean, there’s almost 8 billion people on Earth, and you’re (as of this second according to TWC) the #2 Webcomicer out of all of them! I guess you don’t know how much you miss something until it’s gone, or at least on hiatus? Anyway, that is pretty doggone flabbergasting! Heck, if we go with the FOT/Red Dwarf theory that there are no aliens anywhere, you’re the #2 Webcomicer in the Entire Universe!
I know, right? I still do a bit of a double take every time I see a single digit in that button! (I mean, I still maintain that probably had SOMETHING to do with all the SmackJeeves pages suddenly vanishing, but the fact that Conventional Wisdom didn’t also magically jump to the top proves that there is indeed something unique going on with Far Out There, like the fact that it actually has regular readers!)
At least she stayed away from Pan-galactic gargle blasters. As it is, she may need some Klatchian coffee.
She can’t “enjoy” those, as much as anyone enjoys the effects akin of betting hit around the head by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large brick. A single sip knocks her out for immediately, and keeps her bedridden from the hangover for two days.
I am, of course, making things up, as I’m not the author and have no impact on how well she takes a specific alcoholic substance. But I can see it happening.
Stayed away? That was probably what she *started* with! As the saying goes “Liquor then beer never fear, Beer then Liquor never sicker!” At least, PGGB sounds like a liquor name, and her current Ale is a type of beer. **The first few drinks you’re still sober enough to go throw away the containers.
Frankly, I’m just annoyed at myself for not thinking of that one, otherwise I TOTALLY would have tried to work that reference in along with the others.
There’s always next year