page 1177 – a nice relaxing brunch
Boy, it sure is a good thing I went ahead and said I wasn’t gonna do a new Voting Incentive this week, huh? After how long this page took, I probably would have had to call it off anyway. Well, now you’ve got a second chance to check out that picture I spent so long fiddling with last week. Yay!
I didn’t spend anywhere near as long working on THIS comic, it’s just late because I got a really late start on it. As I mentioned the last go round, things are a bit busy at the moment, and I’ve got several other things I’m supposed to get started on as soon as I post this. And that all kicked in AFTER I got my second shot last week, so that was kicking my butt for a few days too. I basically didn’t get a real start on this page until Sunday morning… which means it turned out pretty well, all things considered.
I do wish I could have justified putting some more detail into those snack machines, though. It just didn’t make sense to put excessive work into a panel I knew was going to be scaled down so far (especially after the hard lessons on time management I got last week) but it’s been a WHILE since I got to go crazy with weird future foods. It’d have been nice to glitz things up with some fancier fonts or extra details on the “food” or something line that. Not that the Baked Hunger machine was going to have anything too elaborate on display either way…
I wonder how she can eat with them there like that.
The incentive has even more blue. I think this is the place Tabitha got the stuff for her reality-destroying spaceship drive.
Also, my first thought on “Fried Alternate Dimensions” was that Alternate Dimensions is something like Mars bars, a random name for a food item, and this is the “fried” variants (much like the “fruity” variants).
But that isn’t nearly FOT-enough.
Anyone here have some ideas on how it might “actually” work?
Oh man, I wish I was smart enough to have done that “Mars” connection on purpose.
I’ll start with Burger Hunger, before moving onto the actual question about Fried Alternate Dimensions. Burger Hunger is a Burger that induces more hunger in a person as they eat it, compelling them to eat more. It was initially developed as a way to compel people with bulimia and other problems with under-eating into eating more. Then advertisers got word of it and started promoting it to fast-food restaurants to get people to spend more money there. It ended up falling through, however, as the actual requirements for what could go into a “Hunger Burger/Burger Hunger” for the Hunger Increasing Properties to work properly had significant issues with 99.999% of fast-food staples, across all industries. Only the variations on milkshakes could be eaten with them, and the burger itself had to be a singular, simple, recipe, regardless of where it was sold, and thus nobody wanted to buy any particular fast-food place’s version of it.
Now onto Fried Alternate Dimensions. This is, chemically speaking, simply just deep fried batter. What’s interesting about it is the cooking process, in that they actually mess with space in a semi-randomised manner in order to not only fry every part of the batter, but to also give it a texture that is practically unique to it. They actually cook batches in long, straight logs, and then have thin “slices” removed by separating the space between the log and having something, anything (fan blades are popular, due to their predictability) move into the hollow space between the slice being cut off and the remaining log to cut, effectively cutting the log with an atomic slicer due to dimensional shenanigans.
All that said, as both I and Blitz like Seros Senric’s idea of Alternate Dimensions being comparable to Mars Bars, I’ll say that “Dimensions” is a specific brand name for products prepared while messing with spatial dimensions during the cooking process for fun mouth-feel effect (and mixing up different flavours), while “Alternate Dimensions” is a knock-off version of the brand name version. After all, The Cap’n isn’t going to PAY someone to put the Brand Version of a Product Vending Machine on his ship, particularly when he can get a knock-off version for free.
And I just saw the cup of “Meat Soda”, which sounds absolutely disgusting, even if it’s just meat-flavoured soda, and not soda made from meat. And in FOT, it can easily go either way.