Far Out There

…no, seriously, I kept wanting to wander off to get snacks the longer I worked on this. And good LORD did I work on it a long time. Yeah, in case you missed it earlier, this was SUPPOSED to be Tuesday’s page until I got sick and had to push everything back to accommodate all the sudden coughing fits and feverish passing out. It also shouldn’t surprise anyone that a page drawn under these circumstances require a TON of editing to clean up the art and make the layout work. That weird “boys popping up out of holes” thing wasn’t planned, I don’t even know WHAT I thought the plan was when I inked all this stuff. Again, feverish delirium. That’s also probably why this page largely avoids the more obvious joke of making all the foods really outlandish (though “fantastitatoes” is a pretty good one) and instead tries to do more to flesh out some finer points of the boys’ personalities. The moral of today’s story is that Hiro has EXTREMELY high metabolism. Actually, no. The moral is that all the kids share my habit of largely avoiding official “breakfast” food in the morning in favor of just another “real” meal. Society’s constrains will NOT prevent me from eating a burrito at 9am if I so choose! And I mean a REAL burrito, not just eggs and sausage in a tortilla! FIGHT THE BREAKFAST POWER!

And speaking of “in case you missed it,” not only is there more concept art for future comics as the latest TWC Voting Incentive, but since it’s a new month, the Top WebComics Like It or Hate It Bonus Incentives have all reset, and I swapped out a lot of the old pictures with some new, never before seen experiments I was doing with colors and lighting and junk. By this point, most of the other comics have probably gotten around to reinstating their Incentives, so you won’t be able to just vote your way through everything in five minutes like you could Saturday morning, but Far Out There would still totally benefit from any added visibility a few extra votes would throw its way!

Now… I’m hungry again. I am deeply jealous of Hiro’s metabolism.

(Historical Notes: This page is another one of my low key favorites, which is a bit surprising given how much of it Past Me spends NOT taking the chance to have crazy future food be the main joke.  Fortunately, the distinctive character moments more than make up for the fact that nothing else on the page is as inherently funny-sounding as “fantastitatoes.”  Lynne’s order contains multiple references to legendary creatures, because his tastes are so fancy and exotic.  Everything Tarkus wants is Star Trek technobabble, because it makes him sound excessively detail-oriented.  Avi’s is less about the food itself and more about the fact that he genuinely doesn’t realize how picky he’s being.  And, of course, Hiro’s just a bottomless pit.  And Trigger’s not on the same page as any of them.  Again, nice little personality bits in a page that could easily have just been about crazy-looking future food.  Not that crazy-looking future food wouldn’t have been funny, of course.  I wonder what fantastitatoes look like?)