page 1187 – helpful coworkers
Well now, THIS was late, wasn’t it? Sorry ’bout that. If you were paying attention, you may have noticed me spending most of last week cranking out multiple half-finished Patreon projects before the end of the month. By the time all that was finished, I had neither the time nor the energy to get started on this page when I normally would. And that’s with blatant artistic shortcuts like slapping layers of gradients all over the page instead of specifically coloring any of it in (and pretending it’s a stylistic creative decision)
But hey, look! Some of the new Nitpickers are finally in a regular comic! Horray!
Oh, and speaking of both the new Nitpickers and cranking out Patreon stuff, those Character Soundtracks I keep doing have finally caught up with the new characters. In case you forgot the MANY times I’ve told this story, all those Nitpickers were actually created soundtrack first. That is, I put together a short playlist based around one musical theme or another, then drew up a character I thought would listen to it. The first of that bunch… was technically Aunt Domino, who got her soundtrack posted a while ago. But the first of the REST of these soundtracks is Von Cannon, who coincidentally turned up in the bottom corner of this page. And wouldn’t you know it, I accidentally set that blog to be accessible to ALL patrons instead of the regular $2 and up setting. I’m sure I could poke around the settings and change it, but naw. Let’s just pretend I did it on purpose to show all the $1 folks what the rest of the blog are like. It’s a free preview! …except not free, ‘cos you still need to pledge at least a dollar, but you know what I mean.
On the subject of soundtracks, candy death cult seems like a good name for a band.
This is 100% a true statement
Glowing Gummy Worms? Time to make things up! The Gummy Worms started glowing due to the Candy Death Cult’s teachings, the one that existed before Whitby showed up and decided it would be fun to show them some cursed texts of forbidden lore. Specifically, the Death Cult had a belief that a specific type of Yellow Glowing Sugar (henceforth GS) has a divine nature, and covering themselves with it would allow them to absorb some of it’s divine properties. While wearing the sugar does allow them to absorb the GS, the only side effects of doing so is a slow onset of madness which only really hits affects them to any significant level just before it kills them, starting to glow, and gaining mildly poisonous properties akin to that of alcohol (to the point where their corpses can no longer be sold to kids). Which turns the Living Gummy Worms into Glowing Alcohol Gummy Worms.
..cut to a shot of Princesses Castral & Iconal totally drunk and surrounded by the remains of about a hundred glowing gummy worms
Oh, good idea. I’ll add this then:
Princesses Castral & Iconal’s visit is currently scheduled in a month’s time, and is the literal reason why the glowing sugar is even on the planet. The portions that have been rolled in were intended to be mixed into the soil for a portion of the Jelly Bean Bushes alongside some Gummy Spearmint Leaves, and a later dose is intended to be fed to a small portion of the gummy worm and jelly baby populations that were already scheduled for slaughter. In fact, normally the glowing sugar is banned from the planet, due to it’s potential effects on the local lolly population. The uprising has actually delayed the production of some of the desired drunken gummy products, and started an overproduction on the drunken gummy products that could have easily been delayed at this point in time.
This is also why (at least) 4 Professional Nitpickers (maybe just 3 teams) were called in for this one case. They need this dealt with, and they needed it dealt with a week before it happened.