page 1269: messy food tastes the best
Like so much child behavior, it started out cute, then got increasingly less so the more it went on… and I just now realize as I gathered up those links, the interactions have gotten more and more food related over time, huh?
Also, just in case the bunch of links above wasn’t obvious, this was always planned to be a progressively mutating running gag… which probably would have worked a whole lot better if literal years didn’t pass between instances.
Insert the usual stuff about a fresh TWC Voting Incentive and some Patreon stuff coming in the near future HERE. (Sorry, but I’ve been hobbling around on a hurt foot all day and am kind of in a hurry to go lay down the moment I hit “publish” on this.)
4/25 EDIT: Oh hey, look! I’m finally getting around to re-posting old TWC Incentives again! There’s already a batch up 2013 Incentives up right now, and possibly more by the time you read this!
4/28 EDIT: New TWC Incentive is up, and it’s weeeeird (also, there is indeed a whole second batch of old Incentives in the Gallery, right after the ones linked above)
I’m kind of disappointed that the napkin comes from an ordinary 20th century napkin dispenser, rather than, say, for example, some sort of xalgox bioengineered to create napkins in its mouth or something like that 🙁
Also this proves that Marshall is a good chef but a bad server or he would have already had sufficient napkins at each place setting knowing he was going to serve messy food.
If the sponge was from a janitor’s locker that’d be kinda gross – a janator must be one of those alien-looking humans from the planet janatoia, they’re very protective of their cherished sponges, so it must have taken some effort to steal 😉
Also, additional nitpick – exerpted->exerted. I couldn’t come up with a smartalec-y response for that one.
If I was Marshall I would think it BETTER rather than worse that they had switched to picking on each other rather than on him!
And it is 100% classic Avi to steal everyone else’s napkins to give away to build up his napkin-offering-credit leaving everyone else to desperately grab whatever’s at hand. There’s no “I” in “team”, but there is definitely one in “Avi” 😀
Also, I’m kinda shocked that phantasmagoricalmon does not already exist anywhere on the internet (per google). It sounded like something that should already exist in somebody’s -mon fandom somewhere at least. Copyright that immediately!
In Marshall’s defense, the only reason Layla needs somebody to give her a napkin now is BECAUSE Avi already swiped everybody else’s, specifically so that only he could hand her one when she needed (or so he thought). I definitely need to use that “No I in team” line at some point, by the way 😀
Also, I really must have been tired last night to not notice that “Phantasmagoricalmon” has those magic three letters at the end. You’d think I’d be the FIRST to catch that, but nope! I really was just trying to find the most unwieldy word I could stick on the front of “salmon” and it never even occurred to me!
And speaking of things I missed, DANG IT! How did ANOTHER typo slip through? I’ve already swapped out the page image once due to misspellings! …although I guess this one is a BIT forgivable, since “excerpted” technically is a real word. Still, I choose to believe that spellcheck saw “phantasmagoricalmon” and just decided to quit in protest. Fair enough.
I figured he had stolen his buddies napkins, but it had not occurred to me that even Avi would have the audacity/stupidity to steal Layla’s own napkin, give it back to her, and expect to win points. That kid really needs a lecture… https://faroutthere.com/comic/page-437-vengeances-school-of-politeness/
And I’m completely shocked that wasn’t an intentional reference. I thought for sure that was a “in the future people are raising digimon on farms for food” joke – being digital they’re cheap and easy to reproduce/copy in bulk, and super low in calories! One of the few competitors to the Big Xal-Gox Industry.
They haven’t ignored her, spoken rudely or made light of a deep personal loss. Honestly, they’ve sat in been rapt in her attention whenever it’s given, to the point of overcompensating. So it’s a completely different situation. To the point where the fact that Layla IS giving them her attention and is treating them well, if admittedly like children, is what’s preventing that lecture from being repeated with LAYLA as the target. I mean, sure, Layla would need to effectively take all their adventures and make them feel bad about having them first, but the equivalency is on how Layla’s acting, not the kids.
Well, and the fact that Layla’s female, and that type of lecture is more typically presented towards males, to the point where if Vengeance were giving a similar lecture to Layla, it would actually be considered odd TO US READERS instead of perfectly reasonable.
If anything, Vengeance would give Avi a lecture about how he treats the other three boys.
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