The Nitpickers Guild Christmas Party 2020 – page 10
Okay, so people only just now discovering Far Out There don’t recognize ANY of these characters, but they’ll be comforted to learn that even long-term fans don’t know who a lot of these people are. YOU’RE ALL LEARNING TOGETHER!
See, just before everything flew off the rails, I was making a point of really fleshing out the Nitpicker’s Guild roster, and drew up a whole bunch of new characters to be introduced over the course of the following year. But obviously, I haven’t been doing many comics over the course of the year, have I? So I decided to use a nice chunk of this year’s Christmas comics to just go ahead and introduce (or re-introduce) EVERYBODY in one big blast. And I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been REALLY looking forward to this!
(Historical Notes: No joke, while creating this new batch of tags, I had to copy/paste most of the names directly from their iTunes playlists just to make sure I didn’t accidentally misspell anything. That’s not an invalid fear, just wait until we get to the next page…)
And here are all the new Nitpickers, none of which are Count Headorb von Perm, Prince Sorbin-J, or The Creepy Kids on Mothership Charlie, of which there are at least 16 (eight of which are spooky girls with eyes in their hair). That said, on page 857, I came up with a suggestion as to why the kids on Mothership Charlie aren’t here.
To, only mildly, adjust my previous post:
“They are a part of a specialised division of the Nitpickers Guild who specialise in keeping all the weird and unique parts of Mothership Charlie, an entity incredible chaos applied as self-rearrangement that requires a full team of dozens of Nitpickers to regularly check everything going on in the ship and Nitpick at it simply to limit it’s changes or direct them into making sense.
In other words, Mothership Charlie requires constant Nitpicking in order to stop it from doing more damage to the fundamental rules of reality than all the Mad Scientists could conceivably do in the entirety of existence, excusing whoever or whatever brought it into existence, either through creation or summoning.
Mothership Charlie is currently docked just outside the Nitpicker’s Guild so that extra hands can be available in case of emergencies relating to nitpicking the rules of reality to it.”
This does not give an excuse as to why Count Headorb von Perm or Prince Sorbin-J aren’t here, though. Maybe they just didn’t want to meet Aunt Domino.
Actually, new excuse. Part of why Aunt Domino is the way she is is due to her being solely responsible for Mothership Charlie for an extended period of time, which caused her to adopt some of the logic that Mothership Charlie uses internally as if it works outside of Mothership Charlie. Basically, her common sense and logic centres were skewed into pretzels by living in an area ruled by literal chaos. Due to this side effect, she’s also banned from ever entering Mothership Charlie again, as her current mental state only serves to be counterproductive to maintaining sense on it.
I just assumed the CKoMC were integrated with the ship and couldn’t be separated from it, nor it from them, and thus couldn’t make appearances outside of the ship itself.
Nah, the girls with eyes in their hair want to make a sports museum, and that probably can’t happen on Mothership Charlie. Also, what would be the point of having over 16 Nitpickers in a single place unless it was a realm of chaos that requires constant supervision? Because Half The Kids On Mothership Charlie, including all 8 Creepy Girls With Eyes In Their Hair, bet that Ichabod would sleep with Stilez, so there’s at least 16 Nitpicker Kids on there.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the fact that people have already had time to come up with legitimately good ideas makes me legitimately nervous about having to come up with my own stupid letdown version eventually.
It just occurred to me what a horrible idea this would be for a gathering: Group Movie watching. With NITPICKERS. People whose very core of their being is to notice the tiniest inconsistency, flaw, illogic, or missing detail. Watching movies produced by the notoriously-sloppy-with-details entertainment industry, which will certainly not have gotten any better in the future.
It would take a week just to get through the first movie, between each of them butting in every 2 seconds to point out flaws and the inevitable lengthy arguments that they would have to stop the move over as to which flaw was worse, or really wasn’t a flaw, or was a flaw but for a different reason than pointed out, etc. Probably while drinking. Ugh. I’m assuming that Sophia at least had extremely strong sedatives added to the snacks.
Honestly, it could just be like watching a movie with Riff Tracks. You just don’t stop the movies due to the shouting, and have everything else drown out those who choose to yell. The only major difference is that Riff Tracks are expected to be funny.
As with any real live riffing experience, it all depends on whether or not the people involved are actually as funny as they think they are.