page 688 – going smoothly
Dang it. I don’t know what I did wrong, but SOMETHING got messed up when I was scanning the art for this comic, and it took a loooot longer than usual to clean everything up enough to work with. It’s extra annoying because, for once, I was actually AHEAD of schedule drawing this thing. So much for getting done early… and seeing as how I’ve got NC Comic Con this weekend to get ready for, I REALLY needed that extra breathing room…
Speaking of getting ready, I’ll go ahead and let you guys know that I;m not sure what Voting Incentives are gonna look like over the next few weeks. I’ve about run through all the Unused Plot Ideas I had saved up, and originally I planned to follow that with another ongoing incentive story, like Killer Station of Deadly Doom. I especially wanted to have it started before the Christmas updates began, so there’d be SOMETHING set in the “real world” to balance out all the noncanonical silliness. Unfortunately, I also expected to have a LOT more of those Christmas pages done by now, so I may not have time to launch a second storyline while getting them all finished. I dunno, we’ll see.
And speaking of which, New Voting Incentive, which would have been a good one to have on Halloween!
(Historical Notes: …Past Me is referring to the fact that this was where the infamous La Faulx was first mentioned, probably the only one of those Aborted Arcs that anybody actually remembers. Also, I’m pretty sure the robot saying “YAE” is a typo, but I’m leaving that one in because it kind of sort of looks like I’m trying to invent some new future accent. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.)
@ Tiny Rich Person: You were standing with the only protection being your robotic guards. They’ll only protect your tiny frame if they have clear indicator’s that danger is threatened upon your person, and this time was an accident, so there was none of that. If you want your riches to protect your tiny frame, you’ll need to wear some sort of power armour. Not saying it’s a 100% guarantee, but it’ll be better than the nothing you’re wearing now.
Now, if he’d strapped all those riches directly onto himself, like a giant suit of money armor, THEN he’d have something.
I don’t know, I suspect covering yourself in money in a room full of dangerous greedy violent criminals might *increase* your chances of getting grievously harmed by quite a bit 🙂
Maybe he’d convert it all over to some currency with horribly rampant inflation, both creating extra layers of padding AND making it too inconvenient for others to steal enough to actually be worth anything?
Pennies! Made of metal, obtainable of large amounts, and nobody wants them any more. People won’t even pick them up of the ground any more, a lot of people throw them away. They’re the perfect armor!
(although there is a small chance of being swarmed by a large mob of very elderly people, their attacks aren’t all that dangerous)
There’s also the problem of that smell you get on your hands after handling change, only all over and all the time. I’m not sure any protection is worth that.
That’s a feature, not a bug! That would keep EVERYONE away from you! Maximum Safety! 😀
You silly Americans need to convert to Plastic Money. Come, be like the rest of the world and pay Australia royalties to receive permission to utilize money that doesn’t easily pick up smells, unlike your stinky paper notes.
…wait, you were talking coinage, not notes. *Shifty eyes* Come on, how do you get out of this hole you dug for yourself. RUNAWAY! *Runs away and hides*
I’m still waiting for the day when we all switch over to bars of gold-pressed latinum
I wouldn’t expect change too soon, we can’t even get the government to stop making the penny…that nobody wants or uses…that costs 2.41 cents to make each one! How bad is your business sense when you can literally make your own money, but you still can’t turn a profit at it!? Actually, this sounds like another failed Ram Quatzi scheme….
We’d first need to discover latinum, and we’d need to WANT to switch from our current light, flexible and convenient money over to something probably heavy, definitely inflexible, and more inconvenient. We’d be more likely to switch to a gold-pressed latinum standard and keep our current denomination. Like back when we were on the gold standard.