page 1274 – He Just HAD To Say it
First off, apologies to anybody who glanced at a Far Out There flyer during Animazement and are checking to see what that was all about. It’s usually not so rough draft-ish, I promise.
And even BIGGER apologies to the regular readers for going back to the old “post the line art to buy time” maneuver again. Obviously, I COMPLETELY failed to get any work on this week’s page done before the convention, and since I really needed to get at least one page of Conventional Wisdom finished and online while Animazement buzz was still high, that just meant I was starting even later. Seriously, I didn’t even finish penciling this page until around 3am. Actually, I was close to just slapping a “gonna be late” message onto the comments of the previous page, but I REEEEAAAAALLY hate doing that. Plus, thankfully, this is one of those pages where most of the editing will just be a matter of cleaning up lines and coloring stuff in, not adding any plot-relevant details, so it still works in rough form.
And more importantly, this means that if anybody new DOES wander over and checkout the comic for the first time, they get introduced to both Stilez and Avatar right away!
No, but seriously: I’ll have a polished up, fully-colored and edited version of this page either later today or early tomorrow, depending on how much of a nap I have to take. After that, I’m HOPING to finally get back on the fresh Top WebComic Voting Incentive wagon again, but I’m ALSO hoping to squeeze in a bit more Patreon stuff before the end of the month, so we’ll just have to see if one eats up the time of the other. And, of course, that’s all while ALSO trying to get as much Animazement Conventional Wisdom stuff done as possible… I think I’m gonna go ahead and take that nap right now…
EDIT: Okay, polished up version is done. Here’s the original if anybody’s morbidly curious. Now, let’s see how much ELSE I can get done in the next few days…
6/1 EDIT: SUCCESS!!! There’s FINALLY a new TWC incentive up, PLUS new Patreon content! I really CAN get stuff done when I literally do nothing else!
6/2 EDIT: AND NOW THERE’S ANOTHER BATCH OF OLD INCENTIVES ADDED TO THE GALLERY!
Of course, you know those people first stumbling on FOT today from the Con adverts will assume this is a webcomic about scantily clad Amazon Catgirls. 😉
(since I think about 80% of webcomics are about that or something similar….)
Dude, given the kinds of images from this comic I grab for use on flyers in the first place, there’s a decent chance they’ll be under the assumption that this whole comic is about Cans of Beard.
It’s not?! 😮
😀
Are you sure that the comic isn’t just a future show made to create ad-time specifically for Cans of Beard? Because I could believe it.
I’m trying to come up with some kind of joke about there being Can of Beard ads in every single page, but the ad blocker on my browser keeps filtering them out… but I can’t think of a way to write it to where it’d make sense why that’d affect what OTHER people see.
I’ve been awake too long to try and work out a joke like that.
The Can of Beard on this page is a part of the air horn held by the broken Ultimate Distraction Kit!
Of course! It all makes sense – overt advertising is so Last Millenium – all the CoB ads in every strip are subliminal, and you can only notice some of them if you look very closely – most of them are supersubliminal and can’t be noticed at all!
Now you’ve just got to add a tagline “Sponsored by Can of Beard” to the page banner, and they’re entitled to unlimited product placement based on the sponsorship contract rights!
Heck, there’s probably CoB subliminally located on pages all over the entire internet by now, subconsciously preparing us all for the future product rollout, so that there’s an immense pre-built demand for a product that nobody is sure why they need it, but they are sure they do! 😀
Now the question is, did Stillez break it, was it broken before the box was opened, or was it packaged broken so that the act of getting it repaired was the intended distraction all along?
Well, page 1255 did establish that they were throwing it at each other’s faces… though that honestly doesn’t narrow it THAT far down.
I had forgotten about that, but it’s entirely possible, if not likely, that Avatar was following correct unboxing procedures. If it was broken while the box was being thrown around, it likely occurred due to not being designed for either Stilez’s strength and Avatar’s indestructibility affecting it simultaneously. And that it held up fairly well, given the abuse it could have been receiving inside of that box.
I tell ya, ever since they started outsourcing the distraction industry to automated facilities, the construction quality has really gone down. There was a time when the attention-hogging industry prided itself of CRAFTSMANSHIP, dagnabit!
The construction quality probably crashed shortly before the Wurtzill Alliance invaded the Corner Store Federation.
Either that, or it started crashing as soon as it started getting over-saturated. Either or.
This is exactly why I only use Distractions made by the Space Amish.
They may cost a bit more, but you know they’re handmade with full attention to distracting detail.