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2007-07-13: Demoted (Medal)
Sketchy
I don't know maybe I should go back to pen and ink? I've been using my fountain pen lately.
Uh, ONE OF my fountain PENS. I'm a nerrrrrrd.
This comic is in the following storylines:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved. - Summer of Keith
Good old Keith! I used his suggestions, and only his suggestions, for comics all summer long. It was a pretty nice summer.
This comic includes the contribution:
- Keith Prestwich suggested: An army officer is demoted for ambiguous reasons
Text transcript
Dr Quickly: You are hereby demoted because of, uh, reasons!! Rabid: Say WHAT?! Rabid: I was so good at carrying around mackerel! You know, ammo boxes. Now I'm stuck peeling potatoes with soap!! <<SCRUB SCRUB>> Rabish: Mackerel? Don't you mean materiel? Dr Quickly: PINNED DOWN BY ENEMY BIRDS!! WHERE IS THAT TWIT WITH THE BOX OF FISH?! I NEED A DISTRACTION!! [[Some monsters are reading MONSTER MEDAL OF HONOUR CITATIONS REFERENCE VOL 3]] Reader: Ooh, "Colonel Quickly" got the Monster Medal of Honour for dressing up as a fish to divert evil birds from his squadmates. Friend: I told you they were good reads! Reader: Ha ha this guy "Rankless Rabid" got the Medal of Lameness for throwing himself onto a potato he had mistaken for a hand grenade, mortally wounding himself with a bruised tummy. Friend: "Medal of Lameness?" [[An archival grainy photograph...]] Admiral Space Frog: WOW KILLED BY A POTATO SERIOUSLY WE HAVE TO DISCOURAGE SUCH INANITY SO HE WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL SHAME REWARD THUS I DO DECREE