page 1410 – Varying Extremes of Caution
Here’s another page for the “wait, THIS is what took so long to finish?” files. Yeah, I’d like to blame all the little details in the pile of food for taking longer to edit or something like that… but in this case the explanation really is just that I got started working on the page too late and had to go to sleep in the middle of working on it. Now, I can blame THAT for why the background in so generic and placeholder-riffic. It was already nearly 2 in the afternoon and I was just desperate to get this thing freakin’ done.
But moving on: has it already been suggested that Marshall and Tarkus probably got along really well with each other when they first met over a mutual fear of unhealthy food, only to quickly fall out when Tarkus favored “healthy” food that tastes horrible? Because that feels like something that probably came up before but I’m forgetting when.
Oh, and don’t forget the fresh TWC Voting Incentive that went up in a MUCH more timely manner than the main comic!
Marshall… most people care less about their food than you do. Also, you’re one to talk. You make a 6 course meal that should take 12 professional chefs to make on your own, only to have a small sandwich afterwards.
…actually, I do want to know if you’re actually qualified to be a Nitpicker. You don’t seem to know enough about the human digestive system to qualify, even as a trainee. Particularly with your interest in cooking. 100 1% likelihoods do not add up to 100%, after all.
Now I’ll comment on the food packages!
I wonder how much of the “Bag of Mostly Air” is potato chip crumbs.
Diet Box, the box you can eat while on a diet!
Liver & Beet Gummies, the gummies for the carnivore in your life!
Salted Salt, when normal salt just isn’t salty enough!
And, of course, the standard Bucket of Fried Mammal.
Since I can’t read any of the rest and only came up with one, “Koala Cola”, with the other two names either being blurry or obscured in two ways, I’ll just stop here.
Fun Fact: it’s supposed to say “Kooba Cola” and it’s a REALLY weird reference. There was this particularly sketchy comic book publisher in the 1940’s who had this harebrained scheme to run ads in his comics for “Kooba Cola” …which didn’t actually exist, but he thought if he built up enough hype around the name, he could license it out to an actual cola manufacturer with some new product in the works that needed a name. As I understand it, it didn’t work.