page 851 – better not to look
Cleverly leaving it up to the readers to imagine whatever strange creature would be most unsettling to their personal tastes… or a lazy artist trying to crank out as many pages as possible before Otakon? YOU MAKE THE CALL!
Also, the thought occurs now that I shouldn’t have depicted The Exposition’s technology as colored red a few weeks ago. It really should be green, since the Cap’n has green eyes on his suit, and using the same color implies a sort of symbiotic relationship between the suit and the ship, which is good.
So, Voting Incentives… I’ve got a new one for today, and it kicks off another string of random, themeless doodles, but I’m not quite sure when the next one will be. I know for sure that there won’t be a new Incentive next Friday, but regarding Tuesday… I dunno, I’ll TRY to get something done in time, but there’s a LOOOOOT of other stuff I need to get drawn over the next four or five days. Then again, the whole reason I’m going back to Incentives without a theme is because they’re easier to do in a hurry, so maybe I will be able to do it? I dunno, we’ll see.
(Historical Notes: There was a pretty amazing comment on this page that was basically a rewritten version of the review from this one Conventional Wisdom comic that had just come out. Gotta love some inter-comic references!)
The couch monsters taste like chips and other snack foods, don’t they?
Heck, Couch Monster Snacks are probably an official brand in the Far Out There universe. I gotta write that down…
Make them something like Dunkaroos, only in the shape of Couch Monsters and with either the biscuit or the dip made out of actual Couch Monsters (if not both!)
They come in cardboard boxes shaped like actual couches 😀
My initial idea was just for the “biscuits” to be shaped like couches, but, sure, everything can be couch shaped!
That means that the individual packaging for each one could also be couch shaped, with two dips, one on each arm rest (both made from Couch Monster Blood, with the simply condensed version tasting like strawberry and the fermented before condensing version tasting like chocolate), while the “biscuit” portion, possibly made from cooking Couch Monster Bones or Frying their Skin (couldn’t think of anything else that would get natural body parts to become akin to biscuits if they aren’t already in that state) is positioned in where couch cushions would normally be placed.
…did I just make this too creepy by listing out body parts and how to turn them into the snack food? Wait, this comic already has canonically shown it’s most popular snack food to literally be seemingly decapitated monster heads that are apparently sweet to taste, teeth, and probably bones, and all.
…So… never mind, there IS no such thing as too creepy for a foodstuff in this universe.
It’s one of those weird grey areas where it’s probably okay to TALK about it without showing it, and probably also okay to BRIEFLY show it without allowing time to really think about it, but not to show AND talk about at the same time. I think. I dunno, even after all these years I still don’t think I’ve fully mastered this balancing act.
I was honestly just expecting it to pop up as one of the Vending Machines in the comic sometime, or, at most, one of the snacks that some character’s gorging themselves on like in that Xmas Special a year or two ago with the kids Mariska’s currently employed to entertain, or all the one’s with Megaweapon’s brother. Everything else we were talking about was just theoretical just in case you decided that those snacking were going to have some in said comic page.