Discussion for comic for 2018-12-28 (Friday) ✣ .
By the typing of your thumbs, something wiki this way comes.
These are some of the Grey Hoods, ✣ I presume. (The Smakken - heh - may have met his match.) -- William Ansley (talk) 05:41, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
Welp... Looks like Higgs will have to make some corpses now. --MadCat221 (talk) 06:05, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
I love Higgs' expressions here. He was hoping for some peace and quiet for just a bit... Tryingtobewitty (talk) 07:44, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
From the sublime to the ridiculous. Reminds me of "The final touch! A charming pair of innocent hostages! ✣ " In panel 3, does his expression mean "Uh oh, looks like I'm going to have to get off my butt," or "I wonder whom they plan to kill; not my problem, though"? And, I'm not happy about his face in panel 5, where it seems to mean "How dare they insult me by imagining I work for Tarvek?" which is totally unfair since he's spent a few centuries pretending to be less than what he is, and he should either be used to it or stop doing that. On the other hand, in panel 4 he looks downright likeable. That must be the face he shows Zeetha. ➤
Have we met any of the people in panel 2 before? Bkharvey (talk) 08:20, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
P.S. "Smakken" is of course a takeoff on the Kraken. Bkharvey (talk) 08:23, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
P.P.S. Today's quibble: So, they're running pell-mell down the hall, they see Higgs, and... what? They're lugging a giant squid around with them just in case? The giant squid just happens to live behind a hidden panel in this particular corridor? Bkharvey (talk) 08:27, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
Sorry -- just noticed -- is it just me, or does the head on his beer look like a rodent? And if so, what's the joke? Bkharvey (talk) 08:43, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
- Answering my own question... Too many candidates...
- #1:
- Rat head in beer brings lawsuit
- By Moises Mendoza - Houston Chronicle Published 12:00 am CDT, Friday, April 2, 2010
- After a hard day's work on his Crystal Beach home, Everett Johnston just wanted a cold beer.
- He grabbed a Tecate Light out of his fridge and began to sip. But, Johnston said, something didn't taste quite right. He said his wife looked in the bottle and noticed a rat's head floating inside.
- Johnston filed a lawsuit recently in Galveston County against FEMSA Cerveza (CCM), the Mexican maker of Tecate, as well as Heineken, which distributes the beer in the United States, among other defendants. He's citing the severe psychological damage he says he has suffered.
- The 59-year-old retired firefighter said Thursday that all he wants is an acknowledgement of his intense suffering — how in the moments after drinking the beer two years ago he wondered whether he would live or die.
- “The first thing came to my mind was it was a rodent that had eaten rat poison,” Johnston said.
- He remembered a story about a man who drank something contaminated with rat urine and later died.
- “I can't explain it,” he said. “That kind of fear was something I had never experienced before.”
- In a written statement, Heineken said: “While we cannot discuss the specifics of these claims due to company policies surrounding active litigation, we stand behind the quality of our products and those we distribute. CCM is a world renowned brewer with the highest standards for safety and quality.”
- A worker at FEMSA said no one was available to comment Thursday, and a company spokeswoman didn't return an e-mail message.
- Johnston said he began vomiting after drinking the beer and went to a hospital where he had X-rays and blood tests. He said he has since saved the contaminated beer in his freezer.
- Johnston added that eating out of a can now is traumatizing to him and he has trouble eating when food isn't prepared directly in front of him.
- #2:
- Rat Tail Ale | Cellar Rats Brewery
- BEER INFO
- Brewed by:
- Cellar Rats Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- ratbrew.com
- Style: American Amber / Red Ale
- Alcohol by volume (ABV): 6.00%
- Availability: Year-round
- This beer is retired; no longer brewed.
- Rat Fink Hot Rod Beer Big Daddy Ed Roth 500ML Stainless Steel Silvery Coke Cup
- https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rat-Fink-Hot-Rod-Beer-Big-Daddy-Ed-Roth-500ML-Stainless-Steel-Silvery-Coke-Cup/273506152323
- This is the problem with the just-ask-Google theory of life; there's always too much info. Bkharvey (talk) 04:48, December 29, 2018 (UTC)
Just one more and then I'm going to sleep: The fish, in panels 1 and 2, seem to know who their friends are. :-) Oh, and Troggy is terrified of the grey hoods, but the ones on display here have a rather Keystone Kops feel, not scary at all. Bkharvey (talk) 08:50, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
- Nah. Higgs is just drunk, and the fish seem to be smiling at him. To Higgs, anyway. Bosda Di'Chi (talk) 12:16, December 28, 2018 (UTC)
I think its a winged serpent on the mug. -cev