Oct14
IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR!!!
It’s another weird deep dive into the bizarre sorts of costumes you’ll see at the Spirit Halloween store … only even weirder!
As for this comic…
Not much to say. Tired out from Canadian Thanksgiving.
Puck
A comic about everyone's fave redhead
Happy thanksgiving!
The internet, it’s like magic.
Abracadabra.
Lucky triple 7 on this one. As it seems like someone needs to get educated on the digital age of evil and the likes of money scams online.
As for the costumes for this week…clever choices of characters and costumes. Great fan of the series.
Is that Colin’s sister?
Yes. Blast from the past. She’ll be coming back soon enough.
I knew few would get the costume this week, but someone asked for it and I thought it would be fun. I like the LucasArts original, and I really do love the TellTale Games trilogy too.
Okay, I confess – I just played through the Sam & Max remakes, hence the suggestion… 😛
They’re good adaptations. My son is playing through them right now too. He likes the point-and-click genre.
O.K., this might be a bit different.
Might. Maybe. Perhaps.
For one thing, she’s going to need an overhead projector and transparencies. He won’t be able to deal with the more modern kind.
they’re gonna have to step up and learn some new tricks, to get things back in order.
Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
What’chu talking ’bout Willis?
I’ll ignore that, because you have the same name as my dad, grandpa and Pat Sayjak. but what i mean is: in order to get Satan his money and power back, they’re gonna have to do it the Modern Day Way.
So. It seems that an electromagnetic pulse could restore him to his mansion. But then again, that type of solution seems a bit pedestrian to me. Does anyone in Canada even have access to a thermonuclear device?
The Air Force might. Just sneak in after he goes home for the night.
you´re thinking way to complicated here – just cut the cable and/or blow up the nearest radio mast and they´re offline….and utterly helpless.
You don’t think they have generators? Multiple uplink methods? You’d need to take out the whole eastern seaboard’s grid to really shut down their access.
Hard to get up here. The Canadian Tire stores don’t carry them.
We borrowed some from the yanks but we gave them back 🙂
It’s gonna turn out that they have stupidly obvious passwords, isn’t it?
Nah, if only.
New technology can be startling to the elderly. There was this thing called “the wheel”…
Hey man, the wheel messed EVERYTHING up. We’re still recovering.
sometimes its best to just roll with it baby.
If you show him Pokemon Go, it might just get his arse out of the house…
Hey, true! Good idea!
Don’t show him Pokemon Go Away, though, or he might catch on…
Scared of computers while he’s using one…
Rightly so.
But does he REALIZE he’s using computer? Most people own more computers than they think.
I remember Arthur C. Clarke noting around the year 2000 he had five computers in his office (of some type), which exceeded the number of computers the head of IBM in the 1950s predicted the WORLD would need by then. So you don’t get everything right.
To be fair, I don’t know how many computer types would have understood what we used computers for now.
Okaaaay . . . I wonder how good Tyler is at computers . . . does Hannah know any hackers? Come to think of it, I’ve a feeling Papa Shnorf might be the go-to guy here . . . I have no idea why I think that but . . . somehow, it does seem possible!
Papa Shnorf might sit this one out. He came to the rescue in the last arc.
Turn off the Wi-Fi! Maybe they’re like cockroaches and peppermint oil will get rid of them.
Those were supposed to be two separate lines.
I’m pretty sure peppermint oil doesn’t work. On roaches or corporate raiders.
Funny thing about peppermint oil. It reacts with chitin about like acetone reacts with styrene or PVC. The joints in the exoskeleton of roaches pretty much seize up. With regards to the corporate raiders, a LOT of peppermint oil would be needed, and it would result in something akin to a bad asthma attack.
Huh. Interesting.
@EG, happy belated Thanksgiving! I really like the lighting in this one. It ought to be spooky with Satan in it. 🙂
The lighting is hard to manage with how I make these, but it’s fun to play around with.
Indeed. Happy Thanksgiving.
How do you guys feel about that holiday? The equivalent here in the States is very popular.
Canadian Thanksgiving pales in comparison to the American version. You Americans freakin’ LOVE your Thanksgiving. It’s such a pivotal holiday down there. In Canada, Thanksgiving is observed, but it’s not that important. Christmas is the bigger family holiday, when everyone tries to get together.
I have never understood why American Thanksgiving is so close to Christmas, though. Feels like we should move both to some time in August or September.
Well . . . I can’t speak to the date, but it became a standing holiday in 1863. A magazine editor thought it would be good for national unity and wrote everyone she could think of. It took a while.
It’s a harvest celebration. (Ignore the bit about the Pilgrims for the moment). Being farther south than Canada, winter comes a little later and the crops are harvested before it does—November rather than October. So to celebrate a good harvest a great feast is held. (Ignore, also, that most Americans don’t work on the farms anymore).
The ACTUAL reason Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving earlier is much more recent. Until the early 20th century, if Canadians celebrated the holiday, they’d do it around the same time as Americans. But then the government decided that it was just too close to Remembrance Day (Nov. 11th) which Americans don’t celebrate. So they moved it.
But we do celebrate Veterans Day, held on the same calendar day so maybe we SHOULD move Thanksgiving?
I think Veterans Day is a little less somber, less grim. And you also have Memorial Day, so you’ve got an excuse.
Re: ElectricGeek: oh, yes, we do celebrate Veterans Day. It’s a national holiday. One of the few celebrated with something close to its original meaning. Though not everybody goes to the parades or memorials.
There were two separate Memorial Days for a long while…legacy of the Civil War.
It’s not been transformed to be all about shopping? Strange.
“There were two separate Memorial Days for a long while…legacy of the Civil War.”
For a while there was two Thanksgivings. A legacy of trying to get people to shop during the depression. We compromised.
Maybe he should get some advice from the American lords of the infernal. Never know just how evil someone can be when the do outsourcing.
Satan seems afraid of the internet and I don’t blame him. I bet Daphne can handle it though. Kids these days, you know. :p
Old people are always afraid of the Internet. When I was young, I was all about that triple W, but now I’m growing increasingly wary. And old.