page 1338 – Those Things Are Bad For You
*yawn* You wouldn’t know it just from looking at it, but this page resulted in another laaaaaaate night. See, this is another one of those instances where the page you see before you is nowhere close to what the original plan for page 1338 was. No, the bulk of THAT idea is gonna end up being page 1339. Yup, this is another one of those “Whoops, gotta split this into multiple comics” moments, and it resulted in me having to restart everything from scratch EMBARRASSINGLY late.
Well, if nothing else, that third panel wouldn’t have happened in the original plan for this page, and I think Stilez’s face is my favorite part of the whole comic. So that’s something.
Also, don’t forget there’s a new TWC Voting Incentive that started up last week! The next page will go up this Friday, and hopefully THAT one one won’t to be restarted the way this comic did!
EDIT: New TWC Voting Incentive is now up… that I didn’t even start until after I finished a new Conventional Wisdom… that isn’t actually even online yet, because I really needed to get this up before I fell asleep… and now I’m going to go fall asleep…
In Stilez’s defense, Avatar’s story actually sounds more plausible than what actually happened to the food monster.
“That’s just nonsensical! Everybody knows that a mad science food monster that only just came to life could only hide inside of a CUPCAKE, not a candy bar! That’s just basic logic!”
What size of Cupcake? I’ve seen some pretty big Cupcakes. Like, Muffin Sized Cupcakes or ones so small they had to be called “Mini-Cupcakes” for clarity’s sake. And, no, the big ones weren’t Muffins, because they had decorative icing and, beyond the icing, were nothing but cake.
Ed8, there’s several different points where your argument falls flat. The first is “Stillez and Plausibility, working together in one sentence” doesn’t really work. It’s part of why Stillez believing Avatar doesn’t need defending.
The second is that Stillez has probably has had enough interaction, even in decidedly short bursts she doesn’t remember, with Mad Scientists (and Tax) to stop trying to apply any sort of logic to things other people do. Especially since she obviously doesn’t apply any sort of logic to the things SHE does.
Third, I can see a FOT Story where something like the Food Monster, or even the entire SHIP, was shrunk down to the size of that Belch Candy Bar with no negative repercussions beyond being small for a period of time. And no protections beyond what’s normally there, so any shrunken threats can be dealt with while the shrunken ship could get through holes normally too small for it to fit.
Stilez: “What do you mean I never apply logic to the things I do? Everything I do follows a perfect logic! I hit things, they break, and it’s fun! LOGIC!”
@ Stilez: Logic’s more complicated than that, like showers. Water falling doesn’t necessarily mean a shower, it could also mean rain, a water pipe leak, or a waterfall. There are even sonic showers, though you’re too ticklish for them to fully work on you.
An example for your actions is that you don’t have fun hitting things to punish people who hurt Tax. Thus, not logic.
LOL I tried to come up an in-character reply from Stilez in full bloodthirsty mode (à la page 1284 & 1285) insisting that seeing people who hurt Tax get hurt themselves is LOTS of fun… but everything I came up with was too morbid to actually write here.
No, that isn’t “fun”. It’s satisfaction for appropriately punishing those who harm Tax. Not everything that gives happiness is fun, and satisfaction that those who harmed Tax will NEVER be able to do so again is an example of that.