The OTHER Totally Real Holiday Happening in 2025
Okay, I alluded to this before, but I’ll just go ahead and say it right out in the open: I had absolutely NO ideas for an April Fool’s Day joke this year. In previous years, I’d had fun playing around with a spontaneous change in art style or medium, but I just had NUTHIN’ to run with this time around. So when aqua suggested that a Nitpicker’s Day really ought to happen on April 1st, I just had to latch onto that.
Oh, and if you’re struggling to read all the tiny text on the newspaper, guess what! It’s all zoomed in and clearly legible over on Patreon!
Anyway, just in case you missed me saying it last week, this is NOT one of those times where I’ll be doing an extra regular page to make up for the special page hogging the Tuesday update. Believe me, I’d love to, but the whole “end of the month” scramble REALLY caught up with me hard this time around, and I’m actually still getting caught up on regular content that was already supposed to be done. A whole extra Far Out There page just isn’t in the cards this week, so check back for 1360 next Tuesday. Sorry!
EDIT: OKAY! NEW TWC VOTING INCENTIVE IS UP! Sorry it’s late, but I think you;ll be able to tell what took so long!
Re: Hovertext:
It was this guy
https://faroutthere.com/comic/page-201-so-what-are-we-doing/
He just wanted to contribute
You sure he didn’t want to be a part of the celebrations?
It’s difficult to thoroughly analyze his true character motivations, as Banner Guy’s entry seems to be missing from the cast page.
*note to self: have Banner Guy become a hugely plot-relevant character five hundred pages from now*
yay i have impact!
a nitpicker holiday being a synonym for disaster makes sense.
i definitely like the idea that the banner guy contributed the banner free of charge as thanks for the nitpickers showing up and saving the day in that arc, atleast one nitpickeer figured it out. it was bugging them, much was destroyed by trying to figure this out without asking anyone.
Aunt Domino was only up there looking for clues!
So, why is it a “national” Nitpickers day? Seems like a very small region. I suspect that the Guild tried to get various Galaxies, Quadrants, Systems, and Planets to establish such a holiday…but nobody really likes Nitpickers much, so they all refused. Only the one Nation on the one Planet where Nitpicker Universal HQ is located agreed to establish a holiday, and that was only because of the Huge amount of Tax money the guild brings in for having located there…it’s basically their entire National Budget.
Honestly, the real reason is that I tried a lot of more celestially-oriented designations, but “National ____ Day” still sounded funnier to me than any of them.