page 980 – TUNE IN NEXT TIME!
…aaaaand that’s four more of the characters we glimpsed in that one April Fools comic finally making their official debut… if you don’t count all the pages where people were talking about them. Or that one Voting Incentive. Either way, it’d mean a lot more if we actually knew any of their NAMES, but hey, gotta save something for when we come back from Christmas stuff, right?
Yup! It’s almost that time again! Starting this Friday, Far Out There puts all the normal stuff on hold and switches over to the yearly twenty-five straight days of Christmas comics! So be sure to… tune… in… oh crap, I actually have to have enough comics finished to start doing daily updates by Thursday. I am in SO much trouble…
Oh yeah, Voting Incentive!
(Historical Notes: Man, that names thing was especially weird to deal with, especially since this was a rare instance of me actually KNOWING some characters’ names ahead of time. Normally, I don’t manage to come up with a character’s name until the absolute last possible moment. Speaking of waiting until that last possible moment, oh man, those Christmas comics…)
@ Comic: For some reason, I feel like Ichabod would be the type to get into arguments with Avi, who asks Hiro for help, while Tarkus mostly agrees with Ichabod, until Ichabod calls something with a small or incremental danger (like alcohol, sugar, or something with a set accepted danger percentage below 2%), where he tries to enter the augment and take it over related to that (probably failing miserably due to Avi talking over him), while Lynne sits in the background trying to look cool and act like everyone involved in the argument is stupid, simply because they’re bothering to argue when it’s obvious that what was going to happen is going to continue to happen regardless of the emotions and yelling.
Ichabod doesn’t appear to be all too concerned about food dangers even of the very large variety, since he apparently at one time won a Fried Objects Eating Contest. That’s about as dangerous as it gets, short of ingesting instantly lethal poisons.
(Although it’s very likely if not certain that all of the things we currently consider dangerous – fat, TFA, salt, cholesterol, sugar, alcohol, smoking, etc. have been rendered harmless or even beneficial via future science, only to be replaced as food dangers by newer fantasy-technobabble dangers.)
Then again, Ichabod’s staple food IS fruit. It’s hard to say what his tastes are.
Also, I LOVE the mental image of Ichabod getting into a fierce argument with a child.
Not A child, Three of them. Probably Four.
Four times as funny!