Guest Week 2012 – Team Slackjaw
HAWM, Guildies! Today’s guestie is brought to you by the awesome dudes who brought us the Flashtravaganza, friends of Guilded Age Greg Benge & P.J. Simmers of Slackjaw: The Working Dead. You should definitely read their comic, their take on the working-joe paranormal exterminators hits us right where we live. Thanks, guys!
We got two more pieces of Guest Strips to post, and so we’re going to take advantage of that while we’re getting Chapter 19 and the Kickstarter ready to go. So we’ll have an extra-long strip on Monday, some pinup art on Tuesday, and the Chapter 19 cover on Wednesday. Thanks for your patience, everyone, we’ll return to the regular updates and schedule ASAP!
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P.S. Sweetbreads are gland meats, not breads.
Kind of spoils the whole hot dogs & buns joke.
(This was your daily dose of killjoy pedantry.)
Guuhhh, ten bushels of sweetbreads? According to wikipedia, one bushel is:
1 U.S. bushel = 8 corn/dry gallons = 2150.42 cu in ≈ 35.2391 litre ≈ 9.30918 wine/liquid gallons.
So yeahhh…. Eighty to ninety gallons of organ meat.
Or if the “bushels of ten” means one tenth of a bushel, that’s still a lotta nasty.
Mmmm….entrails.
Everybody’s tryin’ta spit in my cereal!
Bushel = Basket in this case. (Unless the Guildverse uses imperial measurments)
A “Bushel of Ten” would, linguistically, mean that in this instance “bushel” was being redefined as ten of whatever the thing in question is.
actually, sweetbreads is also often used to refer to literally sweet breads. It may be a case of people don’t know what it actually means, but it’s getting used that way a lot.
Also, I’m pretty sure the float text meant “figurative,” not “literal.” Frigg doesn’t seem ready to engage in unwanted sodomy in that last panel.
Pretty sure it is ‘literal’, as the sodomistic meaning of “pound the ass” would be figurative, not literal.
So, she wasn’t threatening to molest his malnourished donkey?
This is my favourite of the guest strips thus far. Bandit, once again, wins. (Although Frigg gets points for effort.)
I can neither confirm nor deny our soft spot for Bandit.
That’s okay, we all know Bandit is the best.
No, Bandit is Bandit, Best is Best. :3
I like Byron the most though. x3
Are you sure?
Oh Flying Spaghetti Monster, not another side quest. Frakkin XP grinds. Heh Heh.
That’s not a riddle. A puzzle is why do sausages come in packets of eight, but buns come in packets of 10? That’s a riddle.
(Sees familar font)
(Immediately clicks on first speech balloon)
(Naught happens)
I was hoping for another flash cartoon. :(
We had a shorter time frame for this idea. I still like to think I crammed the panels full of extra goodies. Good to see your Pavlovian response is healthy!
(Still Plenty of clickables at our website!)
Hm, it looks like all the sigils are different, and while some of them are rather familliar, I don’t think there’s enough information to decode anything out of it…
Fourth line… ;)
Neat signature.
Frigg gives new meaning to “pound of flesh”.
Panel 6: Goat boy looks a suspicious lot like ALF. o_O
In the colour caves?
Yes! I too, thought “ALF.” And Audrey. But my limited nerdlore stopped there. :_(
The answer , of course, is to gently ‘encourage’ you to buy forty of each at one time.
“Or we could just take it!”
Frig: “Where’s the fun in THAT?”
…this is a test to see if comments work, for mine previous one seems to have vanished into the internet’s aether.
<_< One more try.
Further adventures in off-topicry:
There's this webcomic I checked out, but I totally forgot to bookmark it, and now I can't find it. Can anyone help?
Description: It's an alternate world-not-unlike-our-own where people can go into space, but it's still kind of a big deal. The protagonist is this dark-skinned lady who can read memories by touching people, although doing it to other people is kind of rude. There are red obelisks, she has a girlfriend, and this one time the webcomic linked to makinghistory.net.
Before-posting Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. I noticed that makinghistory had a similar art style to the webcomic. Probably the same creator as the webcomic, yes? So I used my noscript "site info" feature to eventually reach wmtips, which told me that makinghistory.net's registrar was one Benjamin Riley. I googled benjamin riley webcomic, found his older webcomic, which linked to this new space-y webcomic: Iothera! ^_^
I like to think that my rigor would make ahdok proud.
If you want to make me super-proud, re-record this song using only kazoos.
o_o; No, I’m good, thanks. And I don’t like the song, to boot.
Mysteryguitarman could probably do it though, if you happen to have tons of money to burn. Proof of concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oau9gtG5Om8
Your Google-fu is strong.
Does Byron in the first panel appear to have breasts to anyone else?
To be politically correct, it’s called “gynecomastia”
And yes. Yes he does. Probably a trick of the light.
Or Scipio pulled a blacksmith’s prank and altered Byron’s armor, heheheh. That’s why no-one is making eye contact… They don’t wanna laugh and tip him off!
“Why hasn’t he noticed?”
“How come he hasn’t??”
“OMG shutup!”
Yes, I know. He’s wearing a tunic. Over mail. It’s still funny. Maybe I’ll draw it. Maybe not coz I already told the joke.
Byron is just trying to out boob Batman’s nipple suit. Or, maybe just keep abreast of Robin’s red one.
“I’m Byron. I’m Byron. I’m Byron…”
It’s actually a mischief face :3
Btw, Phil:
I have drawn and sent you a submission for guest week but you must be getting A LOT (not surprising) and the mail delivery keeps queueing me. I’m pretty sure you won’t get it in time for you to decide whether you want to use it or not. I can try again once the automatic re-send gives up.
It was fun to draw and was inspired by ahdok’s submission (it’s actually a “sequel” to it) which made me giggle for quite a while!
If you DO get it in time I hope you like it whether or not you use it.
If you DON’T get it in time… oh, well. I still hope you like it!
Is it Byron the Beerzerker? That’s the next logical step. :)
Awww… I wanna see!
Maybe ahdok can post it as an aside on socks & puppets?
I’ll probably knock it together in an evening when I’m bored :)
BTW, THE ANSWER…
to the age-old “10 wieners – 8 buns” question is this: there’s always one person at your cookout who will snag a dog (or 2) off the grill when the cook isn’t looking, and snarf it down bunless. Therefore when dinner’s finally served, it all evens out.
Wasn’t it 8 sausages and ten buns, though?
It used to be 10 hot dogs and 8 buns, but then they started also making 8 packs of longer, bun-length hot dogs and 10 packs of shorter, hot dog length buns. So, now it’s possible to have the opposite problem, depending on what your grocery store has in stock.
I think the actual reason for the difference in number could be that they want you to always have extra hot dogs or buns, so you’ll have to buy more, to not let the extras go to waste. If you ran out of both, you might forget to put them on your grocery list, when you’re checking to see what you need.
All these comments and so many years have passed. . . and nobody is commenting on the obvious Gauntlet reference here? Green elf? Red warrior? Maybe a note about how someone needs food badly?
The comment section has failed me.