page 1245 – standard dietary guidelines
What, you thought we were gonna see Avi dressing Hiro up in something weird? Oh, that’d be far too simple… and also I’m constantly having to remind myself to have characters making appearances more often, lest I wake up and realize we just haven’t seen somebody in months. I continue to still not be used to only one page a week. (Besides, it’s not like there’s anybody who WOULDN’T rather see Tabitha & The Kids instead of Avi)
Speaking of which, some early-bird housekeeping: Halloween this year is on a Monday, which means the yearly special comic will land on the regular update day. Obviously, I don’t like having an extra comic replace the normal page, so that’ll also go up on Tuesday November 1st. Why am I bringing this up so many weeks in advance? Well, I’m strongly considering having that be my excuse to bump Far Out There’s regular update day back to Tuesday permanently. More and more, getting a page ready to go up on Monday has make things pretty inconvenient over the weekend, so giving myself an extra day’s breathing room would probably help me out a lot on Saturday and Sunday. What’s more, we could look at this as me inching my way back to the OLD update schedule!
And as long as I’m taking care of business, some more random update/site stuff. Sorry the new TWC didn’t work display properly for a while there. If you tried to see it on Thursday and just got the previous week’s picture, it’s showing the right one now. Make sure you go vote and see it before it gets swapped out again! And speaking of Top WebComics, I’m getting back in the groove of re-posting pages of The Killer Station of Deadly Doom over on the Incentive Gallery (click here to pick up where I last left off). Who wants to star taking bets on whether or not I’ll still be chipping away at that in 2023? Finally, just as a general advertisement, I’ve been posting some extra Halloween-related content over on Patreon. This stuff’s a totally free bonus that even non-patrons can access (though if it compels you to throw a buck or two my way, feel free to do so!)
EDIT: New TWC Voting Incentive is up, and things got… weird.
I know that he’s a Nitpicker In Training and a Chef, but would Marshall actually know what foods spontaneously combust in the presence of the flesh of Alphonse & Bridget style undead?
I’m being HIGHLY specific here, as there’s probably been studies into this, and I would be surprised if there isn’t at least 10 broad-category variants of undead BEFORE you get into racial quirks and species specific variations.
Well, you know how it is when you’ve got some really specific dietary need, you kinda forget that not everybody else is thinking about that the same way you are.
The REAL question is, what mishaps did Tabitha have previously so that she knows to ask about that now?
She’s the daughter of Dr Caligari, and we know that he cooks dinner. As well as uses some Mad Science Equipment when doing so. Honestly, the fact that she doesn’t have a list of 30 “food related items” that causes issues for either Alphonse or Bridget, some of which would make Ichabod, Mariska AND Marshall all ask “What is this, and why did you try using it as if it was food?” is honestly more surprising than the fact she knows to ask about items that cause undead flesh to ignite.