I hadn’t originally planned on doing this page, I was going to leave it as wrote that spicy food was had, alarms sounded, etc, but then I thought of a joke then another and another and here we are. I’m actually fairly pleased with this page. If the art looks wonky at all in any places it’s because I did a lot of it over vacation on my drawing tablet instead of the Cintiq and it’s fair to say I’ve gotten spoiled on it.
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And now they know that if Sydney asks her dish to be hot, she really means it to be HOT!!!
I love Syds Emperor line.^^
And i know the pain of hot stuff to the eye. At least a similar one. I pray to all higher beeings i will NEVER experience a splash of “the Unmaker” into my eye.
I have a certain immunity to hot myself. . . .at least on the way in. This installment reminds me of how I myself need to be careful about what I ingest.
That is OH SO TRUE. My first experience with a habanero pepper. Bite, chew, chew, swallow. Sweat covers face in seconds. I run outside and am trying to spit out the rest of the juice and hot. Ten minutes later, I’m fine, no problem! Let’s just say the next morning I was not so fine.
Havent touched those evil demons since.
Oh… Oh gods… I’ve been down that road. It’s all fun and pain until someone flicks spicy noodle sauce in your eye. Then it’s just pain.
I do like the characterization, but most people I know who do like spicy food don’t like needlessly spicy food- the heat can’t just be cover for bland taste (looking at you, generic Mexican).
… er, to continue on that note, it better be like Indian spicy, where there’s a kick of both flavor AND heat. One of the people I know equates Indian food with sex, in some oddly edible form.
How odd. For me, most Indian food is spicy but bland, not much flavour, while Mexican is flavourful and spicy. Must be a personal preference thing, I guess.
It might have to do with where each of you is getting your food.
(medic)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The ”Give in to the Dark Side” speech was a nice touch too.
I suspect the place will be naming this dish after her if she survives un-blinded.
Hey – Didn’t realize until the fourth or fifth time reading it that the cook is putting it on the table using the safety tongs from panel 3. Giggle fits make me miss things like this.
Notice how the tongs are shaking with terror while reaching for the Unmaker jar.
What got me was the caution tape around the edge of the bowl.
…Ouch.
I once had a similar incident when a bit of paint somehow got past my face-shield while needle-gunning. My whole eye immediately turned blood red and swelled shut. The chemicals in the paint included acid to help bond it to the metal, also it was part of the bilge (god knows what ended up in there).
I always look forward to this comic. It makes me laugh and makes my day. Today was supposed to be rough since I just came back from a vacation to find my desk buried under paperwork. This page just ruined that. It is going to take a while for me to stop grinning and the people down the hall are giving me funny looks because I couldn’t stop laughing for a good five minutes. I declare this comic NSFW if you boss is a total stick in the mud. Also, I need to buy a print of this to hang in my office. Keep it up!
Hiya Peeps,
For those who are wonder where Dave’s latest goof is, check the 3rd last panel (the one where Sydney is asking for the drop of “Pure Cap”), it would seem that our esteemed artist left out a comma in Sydney’s comment about the scoville lvl….
That’s the only one I can find… ;)
Cheers & Thranx
He also forgot to put the brown wooden peg in the last panel.
If you’ve read last weeks forum you will understand.
It is hiding behind Sydney’s hair. Just barely, but it is hiding back there.
Building regs only require one peg per panel. And there is already a Peg in the last panel. ;-)
Postscript to previous posting. Peg is petrified at the prospect of pepper poisoning plus possibly permanent pupil puncturing!
I dare you to yorp that 5 times fast =P
OMFG!!!
The third panel set off the giggles and just kept building to a full blown belly laugh at the end. I’m in tears from laughing so hard. I’m already looking forward to next weeks strip just final out what happens next. LMAO!!!
You are shedding tears? You probably just got too close to Sydney’s meal.
We’re a couple of dimensions over from her meal and it STILL isn’t far enough
Don’t worry, the hospital has told me I will recover. They did not realise that laughing could cause that much damage!
I now habitually do a small details re-read. Which had me cracking up laughing again (not sure what the cracking was, felt like somewhere in the chest)! Panel 5 – the yellow and black hazard warning trim around the bowl, being placed down by tongs.
Haha i completely missed that my first read to, I would love to get my hands on some “hazard” dishes and cutlery just for fun. (That and most of my meals are experimental, as I add random stuff to them to see what it does.)
Careful don’t anger it! lol
Do I detect a hint of IMPOSSIBRU! in panel 9?
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ROFL just how many references can you cram in on one page?
I can’t do quantity (of comics) so I will at least shoot for quantity (per page)
Ahhhhh, yes. The ultimate expression of the old adage: “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.”
A friend of mine always adds, “then it’s even more fun, because you can play with the eye.”
…I have some sick friends…
I heard a different one: “It’s all fun and games until someone drops a nut”
It’s on a t-shirt with a squirrel dropping an acorn :P
Please tell me I’m not the only one whose eyes started burning and watering from this comic. However, I think it’s due to this happening to me before. Nothing AS hot, but hot enough.
pepper spray is “only” 2 mil. Pure is 16 mil.
So if it really is 3 mil then it is impressive indeed.
I can’t help but feel that panel 4 is a Ghostbusters 2 reference.
Maybe I’m just thinking too much…
Naa, check comments on previous page, although I was unfamiliar with it myself. The link shows you exactly what was being referenced. Although our chef seems to be a lot more afraid than the bartender in the original, thanks to the addition of the ‘Unmaker’!
Well, it was more from what was being said than the imagery. Brought to mind the slime and how it was affected by human emotions.
Ahh, I get you now. Petri dishes of it reacting to emotions and music. Visual associations are usually stronger with me. And the closest I could get to that, was the scene with the growling dog standing in front of the pyramid, in the fridge. Which was from the first Ghostbusters, rather than the second, but I decided not to quibble over that, as I was not sure if that was your point.
1) 3 million scoville is 18% cap… which Sydney can measure with expert taster accuracy!!! (aka, probably had hotter) making this funny realizing that on re-read (this sounds TAME for such a page, but check out item #2).
2) panel 7 made me stop dead in my tracks and wonder if that was the start of a ‘the waitress was thinking it was about to go that way’… and then Sydney both rolles and thanked her, which kinda defused any joke in panel 8-12 thru the confusion. Arrrrrrgh!!! The 7th panel’s art being awesome on its own doesn’t make the mourning of the reading flow any less painful!!
3) A “noodle incident” is one of those when you DON’T show it, so this may be the first subversion of a noodle incident I’m aware of. I’d have to check tvtropes to see if they’ll add it…
4) Ouch! Medic! Glass eye vendor! Whichever stops this pain first!!!
5) cue pirate eyepatch style Sydney mentionning lutfaffles during an interview, leading to nazi-themed comments. Cue Adriana wishing she was in the Mosque Maxima destroyed instead of at a press conference.
6) which is obviously followed by trying the unknown orbs for healing. HEAL! Said Sydney. I HEEL, MASTER, said a random victim of the command orb. Fun times trying to undo THAT. (-;
It is only hot until someone loses an eye and than it is scolding.
I think you meant ‘scalding” but I for one will not give you grief for misspelling or miss-typing. Pot talking to kettle here.
Sorry but I will have to say scolding is the correct usage here, but then I see this as a pun about being scolded and the words “You’ll put an eye out” being said.
Meant Scalding no sleep last night will get more tonight though my brain works on pun time.
Careful there be a new Pun-Sheriff in town stranger.
Is Peggy covering her nose or mouth? Maybe both.
Both, I think. The unmaker clearly has an area effect (notice that Peggy is also tearing up in panel 10)!
I took the effect from the jar in panel 4 to be a glint of dramatic lighting. But it could be gasses venting, as the air-tight seal of the safe is cracked! Discounting the possibility that it is a divine aura (given no religious or mystical markings warding it). I still do not think a god will step out of the fridge.
It’s light leakage. The stuff is incandescent.
…and the old panther dissolved another stopper. Do we have any more?
So Unmaker does heat and AOE damage? Probably does DOT damage too. Sydney needs to carry some with her. As John Taylor says never leave home without condiments (Nightside novels).
I love this page ! Good job ^^
Ha! called it :) immaturity aside this is a great page and i hope they have an emergency eye flush station in there somewhere…
Congrats to Dave by the way, Grrl Power has stayed in 3rd place in the Top Webcomics list, for most of the month. But keep the votes going for the next few days, everyone, as the gap to 4th is narrowing fast!
+ 1 bazillion internets for the looney tunes reference in panel #4
I believe the …medic… comment also is a looney tunes reference.
Heh, that particular episode stuck with me over the years. Describing the episode to google so I could find a reference picture was challenging though since I didn’t remember the names of any of the characters. I mean, I knew Daffy and Porky were in it but I couldn’t recall Nasty McNab or Hopalong Daffy (or whatever)
(as mentioned earlier, Drip-Along Daffy)
I really loved this page, particularly the Star Wars quote because I thought it was quite fitting. Also, Sydney shall now keep her glasses on when eating food I’m guessing.
I bought a bottle of hot pepper extract rated at 1,000,000 Scovile to give to a hot sauce fan friend for Christmas several years ago. The bottle was triple sealed and had roughly 7 different warning labels/tags on it. To this day I don’t believe he has worked up the courage to open it. I remember one of the labels stated no more than 2 drops for an entire pot of chili should be added. That little red bottle is what I think of when I saw “The Unmaker”.
I like to keep my pallet sensitive and not damaged by those chemically hot foods.
Don’t sweat it. Taste buds regenerate really quickly. Even a hardcore smoker will get most of their sense of taste back in a couple of weeks.
For taste buds to regenerate, one has to still have a place for them to grow.
I LOVE hot(tish) spicy foods but, compared to what Sydney just ate, I would probably be safer trying to chew nuclear waste.
Wonky? You mean like the lack of eyebrows in the second to the last panel? :P
The eyebrows retreated by reflex.
Or where burned of ala Myth-Busters. “Am I missing an Eyebrow?”
Should read “Or were burned off”
Panel 5 had me go in an odd direction mentally when got up this morning. I was in my kitchen after having read the comic and was having thoughts comparing the smile on Sydney’s face to that of BW Megatron when he was in a particularly good mood.
Looking at it again now, it does match up his “Diabolically evil” smile he takes a few times in the series.
A spicy recipe delivered by… A.I.M.?
I’m glad I didnt have anything in my mouth. This is a day to be noted. She admitted something is Hot.
The who routine from Sydney’s first bite to her digging in with gusto. Priceless! The ending was Perfect!
“. . . medic.”
Oh god, too much, too much.
For not planning to do this page, I feel that it needs to be canonized as a very important plot point. On a more critical note, every single panel has redeeming value. I could definitely see this as a highly stylized farcical cartoon. On the unplanned side, that happens to me all the time when writing fiction. I’d guess a third of the material I write writes itself in as a, “oh yeah, I should totally do that!” or, “Y’know, now this is going to hafta happen.” I love. this. comic.
Syd’s mouth may be immune to this stuff, but apparently her eyes are not.
Twenty bucks says she develops dragon breath upon finishing that bowl. Followed by a second helping
That’ll teach her to slurp spicy noodles without protective eyewear.
Can’t be that bad, though, that with immediate panic grabs for the eye being absent and all. Eyes are freaking sensitive in all senses of the word and there’s loads of reflexes attached to protect them. If they don’t kick in….
I fail… I only got the Star Wars reference…
Aaaand the eating hair is back! I also think it’s time to check if one of the two mysterious orbs was actually a healing one.
I like it but panel 7 does look off. Like it was made by some one else. Other then that it is great.
I agree that it does look like a very different style. Personally, I like the very dramatic results.
By the way, I love your icon Amy. Every time I see it, it makes me smile.
*sigh*
This comic inspires interesting comment and has a great community. But, do we have a G.P.A.A.? I have the feeling that an intervention is needed, as I am addicted to responding to all the interesting comments. Can anyone from Grrl Power Addicts Anonymous give me some advice on how to cut down?
Yorp, I am sorry to say this to you, but your screwed if you think that will ever be done. The comment section is about 1/4 of the fun of this comic. DaveB is a FREAKING “Super Genius” the way he interacts with his loyal minions. …er I mean followers…ummmm…good lord.
****FALLS TO THE GROUND GROVELING*****
I’m not worthy!!! I’m not worthy!!! I’m not worthy!!! I’m not worthy!!! I’m not worthy!!!
HELL!! WE ARE ALL NOT WORTHY!!!!! =P
I know how Sydney feels in those last few panels… I once got a large dose of spicyness in the eye… it hurt worse than you’d think…
I am comfortable with hot foods, although I aim for flavour over heat. I found a curry sauce from a French owned supermarket, but that really was like baby food in terms of warmth. I topped it up from my packet of “powdered red hot paprikas” (more than likely a translation error for peppers), to bring it up to eye/nose watering strength. Like a decent English curry.
Visiting friends in Louisiana, I knew that I would be at home, when I saw that all the restaurants use tabasco as a table sauce, often instead of ketchup. Eating at their family home, the host provided a tiny bottle of his own favourite hot sauce, and warned “only use a drop of this!”
Another guest (a refugee from Katrina hitting New Orleans the previous day), slapped the bottom of the bottle to get it out, and ended up with a splatter of it. He was advised, strongly, to get it off the plate immediately. “Naa, I will just separate half of it, and will dilute the rest by mixing it with the rest of the food. Don’t worry, I have eaten Louisiana food all my life.” Doing so, he then took one, cautious, nibble.
He ran screaming to the fridge and downed a 3 litre jug of iced water to try and ease the agony!
Plus another 4 refills over the evening. The rest of his dinner ended up in the bin as inedible. I enjoyed my 1 drop.
EYE PATCHES FOR EVERYONE!
Arrrrrrrrrr!