#474 – Stay Sanguine
February 5th, 2014 |
Backgrounds I can sort of get going on, if they’re something interesting, like the monastery in the last comic. Trying to do a fucking office though, holy crap. That’s why neither Simmons or Schaefer have any sort of interior design in their offices to date. Trying a bit harder now though.
I believe this comic came 7 days after the last one. Odd time of the week, mind. But better.
That is … disgusting and hilarious. Poor espers ;)
I see this arc will be pretty epic !
I wonder if we shall see the wounded esper who was sent to the ER. After all she is the one who knows the most about what they spotted. Hopefuly she has some shreds of sanity left …
How does that children’s song end? Oh yeah.
“Pop goes the weasel”
Shame- it probably was a pretty dang good cuppa tea, too.
Whatever they saw….blew their minds.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simmons has a very … traditional office.
I’m guessing some breed of terrier for Dewhurst.
Maybe a cultist ritual, maybe they read Lothar’s mind at an inopportune moment.
A Yorkshire Terrier? The accent’s close enough for Government work…
There are other possibilities for things that can destroy a man if seen.
They’re too horrifying to consider though.
Maybe a bloodhound? ;)
Bloodhounds are indeed a terrible sight to behold.
Let’s be fair to that kid, it can be hard to use a mop to get rid of lot’s of water if you don’t have a drain nearby, doing that with blood and bone and brainy bits, I can’t imagine.
I’m thinking a hose, some heavy duty industrial cleaner, and a wet-dry vaccuum might work better.
It’s too bad they don’t have a place like where I work. Our cleanup guys at Servpro would have that done right quick.
…Is this NORMAL for the Augury department?
If it is, nobody told the lads in Augury Lab 2 about the helmets or how to properly remove bloodstains…
Man, every time I read a webcoming that has ‘mum’ instead of ‘mom’ I can’t help but smile.
….which in hindsight might look a little odd when I’m smiling at a blood-drenched person yelling at someone to mop up the remains of their co-workers.
Fun fact: I am from a rare part of England that uses neither vowel.
Cumbria?
Aye.
On the subject of ‘that part of the country’, is Dewhurst a reference to ‘Foggy’ Dewhurst of Last of the Summer Wine? (Yes, I know Cumbria is not Yorkshire. And that I’m probably horribly and totally wrong).
Heh. I lived in Whitehaven for a few years when I was young, and both my brothers were born there.
Despard: I was born in Whitehaven too.
Yuzral: No, coincidental. Writing the script, for some reason, his dialogue started to go a bit oop north, so I ran with it. Then did a search for Northern England Surnames, and Dewhurst just popped out as ringing nicely.
I love that Simmons doesn’t get what the red stuff is until panel 8. xD
Well the holograph always puts a red tint on everything anyway.
lets all admit the main reason they wear helmets for those kind of things is always to contain the blood that would splatter all over the place.
after all otherwise youf got a mess like they show here.
As evidenced in this comic, heads contain upwards of 10 litres of pressurised blood. Little known medical fact.
See also: the “Zatoichi” movies.
So that’s why they bleed like crazy (my own certainly did)!
Virus, a thought comes to mind. If you plan to reuse this gag, use horned toads as the spewers. They’re actually a type of lizard, but they really do shoot blood from their heads. Their eyes, to be specific.
I must have been corrupted already. “Catch the splatter” actually was my first guess, and remained he only one till the next panel.
Is Simmons holding Tim Hortons coffee? By Gods I think he is!
Hey, I work at one of those places! Yay!
That’s right. Noble Sir Timothy of Horton.
Who boy, judging from what those two poor espers just went through this is going to be a real doozy of a mess.
Virus, out of curiosity what is the difference in this setting between a Sorcerer like good ol’ Morth and an esper like the two who just had their heads explodinated?
Some fiction uses esper to mean a person with offensive psychic powers. We’re using it to mean simply ‘one who uses ESP’. Extra sensory perception. All they can do is perceive using something other than the normal senses. Remote viewing, mind reading and the like. Not shoot lightning out their head or anything.
They ARE able to shoot blood from their heads though.
Just not on tap all the time.
2 Seers pass out, 1 of them gets sent to the ER. The other 2 recover?…
Soo, 2-1 = 2?
Three seers total. A and B pass out, C is badly shaken but remains conscious. A goes to ER, B regains consciousness. B and C recover and agree to try again.
hmmm have you guys been reading Simon R. Green’s Deathstalker series? cause heh this reminds me exactly of that series, and the Nightside series also by him. lots of espers, lots of exploding heads, plenty of comedy just like yours, and heroes like yours heh. hmm actually Ruby Journey is a helluva lot like the Echidna if i think about it heh. just female pretty much is the only difference between em heheheh
Never heard of. But I’ll trust that that’s a positive comparison, and thank you.
yup in my opinion its the best book series in the world. and i’ve read a lot of book series. Robert Jordan, Kim Harrison, Richelle Mead, Terry Pratchett, John Ringo, David Weber, heh and a whole lot of others.
Wow. Once again I am asking myself if I should really be reading this. I’m not much of a gore fan, in general, and this has upwards of a lot. But the plot is just so darn goood!!!! Plot is all that matters to me. Plot and art. Your art rocks. Your plot rocks.
I GOT IT! Exterminatus is like a drug! It’s not good for you, but once you got a taste of it your hooked! I am hooked. It’s gong to entertain me to death.
I’m sorry. I haven’t been much sleep and I’ve been sick so I’m pretty much brain fried right now. Feel free to ignore that comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbq6KY2cogI
I don’t know why, but this seemed oddly appropriate, at least to me, if you guys think it sucks, sorry for posting it
Wow, new font for CABAL? Nice. Actually, what the font is this? Very similar to Mandroid, but it does not.
Self Destruct Button.
Oh, yes, I’ve seen that one. Thanks.
why do geniuses feel the need to put a self-destruct button on their inventions?
Because nowadays herous are too lazy for destroying inventions by themselves. I think real life “bad geniuses” have no need to put self-destruct buttons on nuclear bombs.
… is putting a self-destruct button on a bomb counterintuitive or redundant?
I would think it would be called the “Sucker Button” in that case.
what I mean is, a bomb is designed to blow up anyway? the whole reason bombs exist is to “self-destruct” so why bother putting the button on there? it seems redundant to me
Oh, here we go. That was the joke. Too slow, spike, too slow… I think it’s just somewhat awkward or stupid to explain the sence of a joke.
perhaps we just forget this conversation ever happened?
Perhaps the Self-Destruct button just launches the payload out of the bomb and scatters it in the air, preventing it from being detonated?
Or douses the bomb in fluids that chemically alters the payload to be completely inert (and thus not a bomb anymore)?
I’m saying it’s possible to self-destruct a bomb without blowing it up. One that blows it up is sucker bait, yes.
Well, the ACME Self Destruct Classic (TM) typically has the following Hero Friendly features:
-Accurate Exact Time to Detonation Announcement with Running Audible Countdown
-Optional Quantium Time Remaining LED Display only advances when observed, gaining valuable seconds or even minutes!
-Detonation time is carefully calculated to allow just enough time to run out of the fortress!
-Patented shrapnel free “Soft Blast” to allow for a safe, dramatic ‘Jumping away from the fireball’ without injury
ha, so very, very true Blue
This is laughable. If you stay near a nuclear or any other bomb, you are loser, like Garrus said. Not at right place not in right time. Matter of fact, Hitler is example of evil genius. Damn evil genius (I mean, he really wanted to RULE the world. Pff). But not idiot, like in cartoons.
Evil? Yes. Genius, not so much. The guy was a bloody idiot. At some point the Allies even stopped trying to assassinate him because keeping him in power was helping them to win the war.
Not like the good old days when a kid on a carpet would drop your artifact of doom into a volcano twenty minutes after you started using it. Or just broke it as part of the big brawl scene.
Incursion? Could we FINALLY get a proper invasion of dark forces? The location seems promising, and the signal of the ritual in aether was enough big to completely blow the minds (and heads) of espers seeing it, so I dare to hope.
So did the Espers turn into Magicite after…whatever the phrack happened? Hopefully you get some good spells from them.
No, I think they turned into chunky salsa.
This can’t be good for them. It will be funny as hell for us!
*Slowly continues to munch on nachos*
Salsa, eh?
*Shares nachos*
*noms nachos*
…why does the salsa taste like corruption?
Dude, I don’t know how to tell you this…but that salsa there? Yeah, those aren’t tomato bits in it. Hound brand salsa is a bit… different.
At least it doesn’t have that funky, gross aroma as the “Soulthirster’s Own Cheeze Sauce” from the other week.
Yeah, about that… nah, you’re happier not knowing.
Now i’m wondering how would tea with blood taste.
do people in Britain spell Psionic differently?
It’s basically a made up word for a made up set of abilities. Figure we can spell it however we want. See also: daemon.
Eww, brain guts… :(