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2074: Airplanes and Spaceships

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That’s right, we’ve moved to a new store! By the time this post goes live, the store should be up at this link! Ctrl+Alt+Del has joined the SharkRobot family so that we can again produce some shirts and other cool stuff! And boy do we have shirts. Our new store features an entirely new line of shirts, including a new Winter-een-mas design for 2019! And on top of that, we’ve also got our first-ever limited enamel pins in stock! I’m excited to see how these do, and if they do well, we’ll definitely do more pins in the future!

SharkRobot offers free shipping on all US orders over $60, and free international shipping on all orders over $100 (and that’s always in effect). Plus, as luck would have it, today is also the start of their Black Friday sale! So with the code BLACKFRIDAY18, you can save 15% off your entire order!

Currently all of these shirt designs (but especially a few, like the Monster Hunter ones) are limited runs. Meaning we’ll offer them for a little while, and then discontinue them. If some designs prove popular, we may keep them around longer, but as a general rule if you see a shirt you like, don’t wait. It might not be available later.

The pins, which are roughly 1″ and come on a graphic card, are also limited by quantity, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good. But like I said, if people like them we can do other characters, and maybe a special design each year for Winter-een-mas.

So please, head on over and check it out, see if anything catches your eye, and maybe treat someone (or yourself) to an early Christmas present!

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If Sydney interpreted the symbol and chef correctly, “dangerously spicy” could mean most humans fall off the stool and start licking the ground to get the burning to stop, or it could actually mean they almost immediately need medical attention after ingestion. It’s probably not fatal, or it would have the downward red triangle next to it.

I was thinking about some universal icons that would make sense, and ultimately I came to the conclusion that such a thing probably couldn’t exist. In America, a check means yes, in Japan, a circle does.

Certain things could work. In a galaxy full of humanoid aliens, you could probably get a lot of mileage out of a generic skull symbol. Colors would be all over the place. Most humans generally recognize green as good and red as bad. Green is healing items, blood is red, taking cover behind red barrels is a bad idea, etc. But to people in some culture, (probably not first world ones, because we all play the same video games) but red could mean life because blood is red. And who knows what colors alien cultures would associate with what?

Fire pretty much looks like fire no matter who you are… unless your vision is entirely infrared. I assume fire looks really different in infrared. Probably not like little flickery tongues, but more of a flare at the bottom and a column of heat above it. With some wavy air currents mixed in. Of course, if you can only see in infrared, the monitor technology you’d need to replicate it would be entirely different anyway, so you could make different icons for them anyway, but you get my point. Could you see fire if you could only see ultraviolet? I assume you’d see something, but I also assume the fire icon you’d create for it would look different than a species that saw in the visible light spectrum.

So basically, on a station like this one, you’d basically have to just come up with some icons that everyone agreed on and somehow didn’t offend some race. (I mean, imagine if the ‘universal’ symbol for death was a gold cross or whatever.)

Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like.

The week of Holy Crap It’s Christmas Now is nigh upon us, so I’ve put up last year’s batch of Book 6 Kickstarter magnets in the online store!

A set of 10 Dumbing of Age character magnets, it includes Joyce, Becky, Sal, Galasso, Joe, Jacob, Robin, Leslie, Monkey Master, and Dexter.  (I have about five each of Dina, Carla, and Jocelyne remaining, and I need to keep those for unforseen emergencies and such, so those three will not be available.)  Most are about 4″ tall, but they vary.  Galasso, for example, is quite a bit larger!  He’s a big guy.

You can also buy the three magnet sets together as a bundle.  While supplies last!

lol it’s you who inadvertently create him, you dopes

I see I was shrewd enough to draw some children-sized people in the background among the other silhouettes.  Otherwise all those Britjas they’re fighting in the present day are… quite old.

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This was basically inevitable

Comic for Monday November 19th, 2018 - "Accept no substitute" [ view ]

On this day in 1996, Kevin was telling Kell while making dinner how he used to be monitored strictly when he worked in the corporate world... [ view ]

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Good news, my son is finally doing better, his fever seems to have broke, and now he’s just feeling rundown but better.  However I’m finally allowing myself to feel like I’ve been run over by a truck.  Not presently sick, just worn out from worrying about him so much.  That aside, I’ll shoot to be back this Wednesday.  Thanks all for the well-wishes.  They really do mean a lot! ^_^

Another completely random, casual reminder that one can read tomorrow’s strip early on Patreon.

I had this guy named Lloyd I needed to give a last name to, just for this website.  It turns out that into another dimension Lloyd bridges not.  Lloyd fridges, however…

Comic for Saturday November 17th, 2018 - "Perp walk" [ view ]

On this day in 1995, the family was eating breakfast when Kevin noticed that Lindy was still up in her room choosing her wardrobe for the day... [ view ]

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Nala is a sweetheart. One night I slept on my living room floor. I woke up to Nala sleeping right next to me, cuddling up to me as close as possible. She is not rough with kids even when she was a pup. She loves to cuddle and lick people! Submitted by Giana.

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