Suggested bloody pairing: Bloody elixir.
SUPERSEDING UPDATE
Sorry there’s no new comic this week! I was supposed to finish it today (Wednesday, the day of Odin), but multiple days of little sleep have left me unable to draw more good lines than lines I have to fix over and over again. This is honestly why my output has been so slow this year, and I haven’t gotten any feedback from my sleep study yet. I’m left to surmise that my sleep problems are caused by intrinsic memories left over by my cave-dwelling ancestors being afraid of saber-toothed tigers. Could YOU sleep if you knew there were saber-toothed tigers around, ready to challenge you to a fencing match to the death when you had no sword, nor sword-teeth?
I have small teeth, probably because they’re from the 1980s and were afraid to grow too big, lest they become a target in a nuclear war. But I grew up five miles south of Akron, Ohio, teeth! That’s the rubber capital of the world! We were gonna die regardless.
Should teeth be taught about the nitty-gritty of nuclear war? Obviously yes. Do I have a second question that will counter the first by leveraging its rhetoric against itself? Obviously no.
UPDATE
For anyone wondering, the Great November Internal Server Error occurred because I switched from a bank to a credit union in the spring, but I didn’t let my web host know about it because it’s run by conniving lizard people. Probably.
Oh wow. Woooow. I absolutely love it when writers do things like this. Did you have this planned during Joust & Jostle?
Anyway, based on some previous events, maybe they should be the New Lancaster Internal Server Errors. (I’m still championing New Lancaster Serial Killers, though.)
People die when they are killed. And going lower is how you find the balls! So it all worked out.
I feel like this might be the first time that any part of a shampoo week comic later turned out to be “””canonical”””.
Circle: Yeah, I wrote them at the same time.
Which is better to change your name to if you’re trying not to make people think of serial murder: The Serial Killers, or the Dahmers?
Cold: Well, Robozeus is going lower than the balls. Kinky robots up there.
Xin: I can’t think of any others, so yeah, let’s say it is!
(I’m always logged into WordPress when I do comments and forgot that my avatar would show up if I just put my email in, even though no one else ever logs in but still has an avatar. That’s a couple of cocktails for ya.)
I quite like the New Lancaster Internal Server Errors, that’s the right amount of meta for a comic that has already appeared as a character in itself (in its own pages I mean, not in its own right). It’s also evocative of those road signs that read “Please translate this into English, thanks” in Welsh.
Xindaris: I don’t know about canon, but Shampoo Week of 2014 had an effect on a character that was still visible in another comic three years later. (Keeping it vague for those who might enjoy an archive dive…)
I did one o’ dem archive dives the other year, that was splendid. Some comics really hold up. I should really re-read them more often, but….
NAR: There IS something funny about a team name that means “This doesn’t work.” I’ll toss it on the pile. However, it takes up a lot of space, which is a major concern in comic-making, so it’s at a big disadvantage.
Cold: There’s kind of a lot of them. I haven’t done a full reread in probably over ten years, but my suspicion is that you can just skip the first 400 or so.
This inspired me to do another archive dive myself. I’m now at the introduction of the 2000 foot tower in a 1995 foot pit.
Ha I’m rereading my own stuff right now and iiiiit takes a while. Takes so long that the burst of improved health and energy that motivated me to get going on comics again feels like a distant memory.
Think you could rig up some code to auto-reject any comment from someone whose username starts with https or something?
I don’t know what my spam filter is even for at this point.
God knows I get caught in others’ spam filters often enough for no reason, I guess this is another thing that literally only affects the wrong people. Like a name for a speech impediment that includes the letter those people can’t pronounce.
More than one option for that! Lisp, rhotacism (e.g. the Homestar Runner), stutter (although that’s not necessarily letter-focused)…
Cold & Xin: At first glance from my dashboard, I thought you were hinting at a spam filter called Lisp.
Xin: Thank you for teaching me the word “rhotacism.”
Well, there is a programming language called lisp. I don’t know whether any spam filters have been made with it, though; it was more used for attempts at artificial intelligence as far as I know.
Some variety of swarm or horde is here.
They’ve been relentless, but it’s not like robots have ever been known to relent.