BLUE IS THE COLOR OF THE MONTH! PURPLE NO MORE!
Blue won the color contest this month. But only because I banned purple.
VOTE TO CHANGE YOUR HUE TO BLUE!!!
In other news…
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As for this comic…
Sometimes I come up with a design or concept that basically breaks my vector drawing program. This was one of those times. The fanciful server designs featured a bunch of little transparencies for the various lights, and while they caused no problems in panel four, they absolutely slowed the program to a crawl when I stacked them in panel three. After doing that, the system started to take a full minute to process every minor action. Zoom out? Wait a minute. Move something? Wait a minute. It was agony. But the comic was almost finished, so I kept chugging and got it done.
Whew.
That wing chair and lamp can’t be that heavy to carry, right ? Still, talk about being ahead of the game in this case.
Well, she had help. But that’s a reveal for the future.
Tsk tsk. Asking ‘Who are you?” proves Ms. Cabal skimped on due diligence and advance preparation. Along with the classic mistake of believing one’s opponents will be as impressed by you as you are with yourself!
Well, Daphne has successfully kept a low profile in this whole thing, I guess. But yeah, Mrs. cabal should be more aware.
Also, too much info. They had so many drone and survailance it was hard to know what was important.
Wrong focus too. They were watching Inspector Gadgetvthe whole time but they should have been watching Penny and the Brain.
They’re Penny and the Brain,
One is a geneous! The other the Brain
They’re help their uncle out.
While he pulls focus fully out.
They’re Penny, yes Penny and the Brain, Brain Brain.
Brain Brain, Brain, Brain.
Man, that’s terrible work.
Server rooms should never be boring.
Agreed. Though they usually are.
The server room looks like the answer to “what if Hal 9000 was introduced to a 70s Cylon via The Black Hole’s Maximilian.
THATS WHAT I WAS GOING FOR!!! YESffmbbmf!!!!!
Perfect description.
What are you doing, Dave…?
They should always be boring. An exciting server room means lots of people are having a bad day. Like our cabal.
Excellent set up for a confrontation. I’m reminded of the scene in To Kill A Mockingbird of Atticus sitting in the dark with a floorlamp outside the courthouse awaiting the mob. Though here, the mob has already been dispersed by raccoons and Daphne is a lot more relaxed.
That might have been a slight inspiration, honestly.
This is what separates the amateurs from the experts. Presentation, the art of the flex. Indirectly telling your opponent that you’re so far above them that you can afford to dance into their operation with a full military band.
Especially fun against a foe that thinks they’re all that and a bag of chips.
And Daphne is a proven master of presentation. I mean, she even has the tee-shirts!
and that’s why I like her so much.
Never make a presentation without a really cool graphic tee.
Doing something is never as good as doing something with style.
She is waiting for her victim like a (crime) boss.
The crime part should be bolded, not bracketed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERYukmba5Vg
Seems appropriate since Daphne is going to make her crazzzy!
Ah, the official musical of my hometown.
Oh, there’s a guy I’d like to send back to him.
Crawling back, rather.
Is that coffee Daphne is drinking? And if it is, is that a Tim’s cup? And if so, I wonder if she’s won anything under the rim…
It is coffee. And it is Tim’s. And it is actually in a vintage 80s-era Tim’s cup. Not sure where she got the coffee. Or the cup. There was coffee in the van, but she did not carry a cup out with her. Maybe she carried a thermos with coffee in it, and assembled the coffee later. Hard to say.
It just felt like she needed a coffee.
She probably got it from the break room down the hall.
Loveit.
I didn’t know about the break room. Interesting.
That or the bunny and the bunny made its feelings known.
Good thing there was something to plug the lamp into.
Funny that the lamp functions with no cord. I did plan to draw the cord in, but the software was being so nightmarish that I gave up on that frill.
How do you think the servers are powered?
And that was not easy, I’ll tell you. The bunny got disgusted and left.
If a big scary door has something ordinary and benign behind it, what was the point? It was a wast of a door.
I wonder if the omega has something to do with the fact that this is the last of the cabal.
I like the lamp and her casual way of sitting.
The effort was worth it.
The ‘omega’ implies only the highest level of access. Only the Cabal members themselves. And yeah, let’s not waste scary doors. Use them.
That said, it’s good strip.
But if only Cabal are allowed, how do the machines get serviced :}
Robots.
So that‘s how that got in there.
Not sure if you draw the line at certain characters being depicted on the Voting Incentive, but I rather think Daphne in tasteful style would look rather good in blue.
Nevertheless, that Tracee drawing. Who’d a thunk blue and Cher’s outfit from Turn Back Time would work so well.
Aw, but tasteful style takes the fun out of it.
And that Cher video is perhaps the greatest three minutes of footage ever taken by man.
I wonder what Ichuel will look like wearing that.
Who’s the Bond villain now, Ms Cabal?
Bond villain versus Bond villain. What a concept. Though I guess Despicable Me got to it many years ago.
Get styled on, bitch!
Indeed.
What a dramatic scene! Daphne is in charge! 🙂
Nothing says being in charge like the rearrangement of furniture.
There’s even a Far Side cartoon about that. But no link to it. >.>
God help me, I can hear Daphne’s lines in both Morgan Freeman’s and Liam Neeson’s voices.
Good voices all.
The question she should be asking, in increasing order of how much worried you should be about it
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
How did you enter?
When did you enter?
What were you doing here?
Why are you still here?
What are you still doing?
Why I don’t know you?
Where did you get that lamp?
Is that my coffee?
Why is there a rabbit using the corner a a toilet?
Where did the raccoons come from?
You have impeccable logic.
You know… I’ve been staring at the same comic for a week now; but I honestly don’t mind, because this is Boss-Level Daphne!
I wish I could speed up production. I really do. The upload schedule is slow, but at least it’s honest…ly slow.