I am home from a boat!
And upon arrival in Columbus, my home, I think the boat’s flu bug finally caught up with me. Not bad timing, really, considering the alternatives, but bleh. I really hope they’re Chris Collingwood’s flu germs. That’d be neat. More like FLUtains of Wayne, amirite????
Look, foreign countries are great and all, but do they have unlimited mashed potatoes out there? No!
Today is a comic I drew during my trip. You see, on boats, there is too much food, you can eat as much of it as you want, and you already paid for it, so it feels free. And so you end up eating every forty-five minutes. I am not joking. And because I am the way I am, I can easily build up a “loyalty” to my favorite meals, feeling like I should eat them in proportion to my professed love for them, not in proportion to my hunger. What this means is if I discover delicious mashed potatoes on Friday, and that is the only day they will likely appear, I feel like I need to eat the week’s accumulation of potatoes I would have eaten were they there the whole time. It is a sickness. And is something I could have described better in the comic itself if I drew it digitally, where I can rewrite dialog over and over to my heart’s content, and not on a piece of paper, where I am dumb and ink things immediately.
Anyway. I hope you liked the crossover with Multiplex that happened while I was gone! I am considering skipping to a new ongoing storyline starting Wednesday. Or at least I was, until I realized I had this flu. Let’s see if my might exceeds its might.
Potato boat!
…damn it, now I want potatoes =(
Served you right to get CouchLocked after what Randy Milholland did to you on SOMETHING*POSITIVE the other day.
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02202012.shtml
The mini-Batman cowl is so perfect. So very glad I wasn’t on that cruise.
We expected you to spread the Gothamption bug and instead you bring home Idahosis.
Surely this evil is Malaya’s doing.
Somehow.
Ah! This explains the giant wooden spoon and fork last week. It was a hidden message! Beware the perils of excess food!
Ah, cruises and their unlimited food.
Though I will say – having been on a European cruise line in addition to having been on an American one, the experience is pretty different. Definitely more gluttonous on the American cruise (though that’s not a bad thing for food lovers like myself).
I blame Gordon for this universal constant of cruises. I don’t know how he did it, but he did. Perhaps he found a TARDIS.
He’d better return it. I’m sick of having to wait for my favorite webcomics to update.
I’d rather just skip to right before March 18 2027, the day the internet achieves sentience and signals the doom of the human race, and read all the archives at once.
But would March 16 be enough time to read them all before Skynet rules?
You can just keep looping March 16 until you’re done. Just jump back to a different internet cafe each time.
Or keep going to different seats in the same internet cafe, if you don’t mind freaking out the locals.
Nah. Tried that once. Another me spoiled the end of Order of the Stick for me. What a jerk.
I did enjoy the Multiplex crossover. It actually made me spend a whole day reading the whole strip. So, now I have another webcomic addiction!
I’ve been on the Westerdam! I never had the mashed potatoes, but I think I ate a metric ton of bread pudding and custard.
My wife and I rode the Westerdam a few years ago. I overdid it on salmon omelets for breakfast.
I’ve been on two cruises in my life, and both of them had unlimited pizza, pretty much whenever I wanted it. Walky very definitely speaks the truth on this one.
Goddamn it, I meant Willis, not Walky.
This makes me think how awesome it would be if there was unlimited Taco Bell on a cruise ship.
There had also better be unlimited kaopectate and a bathroom every ten feet.
Hmmmmm, good point. Maybe it’d be cheeper to have unlimited Chipolte.
Oh there are so many nerdy humor possibilities. The Potato Vampire episode of DARKWING DUCK. The Potato Voyage episode from BLACKADDER II. The Potato People/Mr. Fwibble episode of RED DWARF…
…The rocket fuel makes giant veggies episode of G.I. JOE…
“The comics this week may not make much sense.”
Are we… are we in for some sort of bizarre “Boston and Shaun” thing about eating too much?
And transforming into giant, obese kangaroos and hanging out with obese dragons who like shrinking down and hanging out all day in your stomach-pouch, even though you’re a male and male kangaroos don’t have those?
Because that would be amazing.
Is that thing still going on? Good lord.
Sadly, I think it’s been over for years.
Mmm potatoes…
Ok, what happened to Galasso??
Man, the endless parade of foodstuffs is the only reason to go on a cruise in the first place. If scenery is all you want, you could spend less money buying an HD widescreen and a DVR to squirt it full of nature documentaries. If I go on a cruise, I’m goin’ there to eat like a I’m a joke in a goddamn Patton Oswalt routine.
POTaDOS says you are very, very heavy.
TEST YOUR MIGHT
I’ll be in Columbus later this week! Briefly, twice, since I’ll be going to an event in Mansfield, but still.
I know that feel, Wilis. Do you know how many rubins I had after discovering the panini bar on my cruise back in December?
cue the Mortal Combat music “TEST–YOUR MIGHT!….TEST–YOUR MIGHT!”
Beat you to it! Neener neener
I just relized. I think Willis’ look is a reffrence to Wall-E.
I think you just stroked the genie’s ass!
I was on the Westerdam last fall. Ethan would like it – it has the gay-friendliest crew of the nine ten cruises I’ve been on. And the theatre had a great sound system – supposed to be even better after the refurbishment this spring.
You ate all the mashed potatoes, didn’t you?
Hopefully the flu will pass quickly!
While you’re back, any chance you could talk to your tech guy about the spam epidemic over at Walkypedia? (I suspect sorting it might be as simple as requiring a verified email address)
ahahaha
I don’t think I have a tech guy. At least, not one in charge of that website. I don’t think even I can touch it any more. It is a wild website.
When I looked at the image, but before I read any of the text, I immediately thought “forty cakes”.
I don’t have Tmblr, so I don’t know how else to share this with you, Willis.
It’s a comic that I think you’ll find relevant to your superhero discussion. Or at least funny
http://www.superstupor.com/sust01252012.shtml
Don’t gotta share Randy Milholland’s work with me! I read all his stuff religiously.
I’m so honestly disturbed by the panel where her torso is rotated 180 degrees. I cannot stop looking D:
So if airplane food sucks boat food rocks? makes sense!
What is this “airplane food” of which you speak?