page 927 – it’s not a big deal or anything
Oh man, I am SO SORRY this page took so long to get up. If you guys missed the note I added to the comments on the last page, here’s the deal: I started feeling TERRIBLE Thursday evening. I’m not sure what set it off, exactly, but I had one of the worse headaches I’ve had in YEARS. I’m talking “I literally can’t move any part of my body more than an inch or the pain in my head will make me puke” level bad. And I don’t know if you know this, but constant throbbing cranial pain makes it juuuuust a little bit hard to get stuff done. I ended up sitting in bed gulping medicine until the wee hours of Friday morning when things finally settled down… at which point my body remembered that I’d been awake all night from head pain and promptly crashed for the rest of the day. So, yeah, not a very productive day.
Still, it DID get done… eventually! In some ways, I’m kind of glad for the delay, because I ended up yanking some things out of this page and moving them to later ones. Hopefully, the changes will work out a lot better during my Animazement absence next week. Also, I had a sudden, overpowering need to draw Avatar sitting on Stilez’s head, and this is what it took to make that happen. A man’s gotta have his priorities, after all.
Also, New Voting Incentive that somehow managed to get done in that brief window between the migraine easing off and my losing consciousness!
(Historical Notes: Man, Past Me really didn’t know the half of it when that Alt Text was written. With all the character names to keep track of, “hugs” isn’t even CLOSE to being the most-used tag.)
@historical note: The more bizarre thing is that (according to surveying the hugs tag results) this strip FOT actually went past strip 200 before even the very first hug!! (the
victimrecipient was Avatar and theperpetratorhugger was Tabitha) and another 200 strips before even the 2nd hug! Was that even the same Webcomic we are reading now?!?!Timeline:
strip# %hugs
001-100 0
101-200 0
201-300 1
301-400 0
401-500 5
501-600 4
601-700 1
701-800 10
801-900 20
901-927* 15
Around the 400-ish mark, Hugologist scientists began to detect some instability in the Universe’s Hug Matrix, but it was in the 700s before the massive Hugsplosion occurred, changing the Universe As We Know it forever!
That’s Flanderization on a series-wide scale, right there.
@ Historical Notes: Well, if you remove the Character Name Tags, Hugs could start to become one of the more common tags, so long as you don’t have a “Mad Scientist” Tag, or only use it for when the Mad Scientist was acting like a Mad Scientist.
I do have a “Mad Scientist” tag, but it’s one of several that I’m kind of using inconsistently. With a lot of these tags, it’s a case of “If I were to look up [insert topic here] would I want this page to be in the results?” Like, if I need to quickly look up previous pages about that one thing, and only want really relevant results. There’s probably a lot of pages with technically Mad Science-related things present, but aren’t really ABOUT Mad Science, so I didn’t use the tag on them.