page 865 – Breaker Breaker
Man, this particular update has been the continuing story of me making things bigger and biiigger and biiiiiiiiiigger than I every planned for them to be. For one thing this page was only SUPPOSED to be the first half of what’s now Tuesday’s page, but this conversation just kept getting longer and longer until I had to give it a page to itself. So there’s that, but for a sec there, I actually thought this page was gonna be done before midnight. I mean, the art’s simple, and it was totally finished and everything, I just had to do the lettering. Buuuut see, I’d just moved a bunch of Patreon Comics over to the public gallery the other day, and was struck by how one page was too overwhelmed by technobabbel exposition to be, ya know, entertaining. So at the last minute, I looked over the dialog for this page and, yeah, it also needed a kick in the pants to actually be funny. That bit where Cap’n Crosby plants a whole lot of really wacky images in your head? None of that was in the original, all a last minute change. So if the speech bubbles look a little oddly sized today, that’s ‘cos they weren’t drawn for the text they now contain.
AND THEN THE VOTING INCENTIVE. So, I still managed to get the comic done ALMOST early, but I still had to doodle up a little Voting Incentive… which turned into a kinda big Voting Incentive… which turned into a multi-drawing, editing several layers together Voting Incentive that had eaten up several hours before I knew what was happening. Here I had a completely done page just sitting on my computer where no one else can see it because I’m all wrapped up in this Voting Incentive. Well, common sense finally prevailed and I’m going ahead and posting the comic now before I forget again. The finished Incentive will be up in a few hours… unless I pass out partway through coloring it, which is all the more reason why I needed to get the comic up NOW.
EDIT: Okay, there it is!
EDIT EDIT: Wow, I swear I had no idea I was doing this particular Incentive on El Santo’s birthday.
ONE MORE EDIT: So, not only did I add another set of Incentives to the new gallery, but I finally got around to adding a permanent link to it on the “Other Goodies” page. Don’t worry, I did still leave links to the old pages too, if you wanna browse the older incentives that way.
(Historical Notes: I just keep on peppering fakey scifi names into these comics in hopes that, one day, I’ll remember to use some of them again and then it’ll look like I planed it out in advance. That’s how writing works, kiddies! Oh, and I totally Special Edition’d another “Bleak Landscapes” billboard into this page, for the amusement of no one but myself.)
@ Captain’s last line in comic: Isn’t that a tagline that could be used for this comic’s noodle incidents? “Save your time, whatever you guessed, it’s wrong. The truth is FAR stupider”? I mean, people like me enjoy guessing anyway, even if where’ obviously wrong, just to see if we can think of something stupider than Blitz planned or even just stupid enough for it to eventually get into the comic itself even if Blitz never planned on it, but still.
Heck, “Whatever you guessed, it’s wrong. The truth is far stupider.” is a good motto for life in general.
The pizza roll billboard caused a chain reaction in my head.
It is, of course, widely known that all pizza rolls go to heaven (in one form or another), but this was not always the case. At one point they were associated most often with HELL as the official food of the council of the seven satanist churches (third reformation). The council’s overthrow by the anti-sodium satanist schismatics led to pizza rolls for a time being unable to find refuge in either heaven or hell- doomed to wander the stars for all time… or at least until a joint declaration by Neo-Pope Slivius III and Imam Curad the Loquacious of the grand higher magistracy of imams resulted in the beloved children’s classic slash marketing device “all pizza rolls go to heaven”
You’re putting it on the salt? I was of the opinion that Pizza & Pizza-related items were believed to go to hell due to the high volume of cheese & other fats/oils typically produced alongside them. With Double-Deep Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza being considered the primary food source of Hell, and only food source that isn’t either severely under-or-over-cooked, to assist with preventing anyone from ever leaving! This is because the only exist is via the stairs, and the health issues created via regular consumption of the food.
Double-Deep Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza is effectively two Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza’s stacked on top of each other. It’s not literally two Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza stacked on top of each other, but it uses up just as much ingredients, has just as much volume, and typically holds together worse than if it was just two of them stacked.
That, or the wars between devotees of the Double-Deep Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza and the Just A Molecule Deep New York-Style Thin Crust, plus random attacks by rogue Literally Just A Loaf Of Bread With Cheese On Top Detroit-Style splinter factions over who was the One True Pizza led to a blanket declaration of absolution to all forms of pizza to try and bring peace. (It probably wouldn’t have worked, though)