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2007-08-08: Grotto (pattern)
more magic flute
Seriously it's worth looking up that weird-ass aria Space Frog is singing. Maybe this thing will play it for you?
I seem to talk about The Magic Flute rather a lot.
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: Newlyweds discover a strange grotto
Text transcript
Rabid: What a beautiful place for our honeymoon! Rabish: Hoy, a strange illumination from that grotto!! Rabid: It's full of glowing gemstones! Rabish: I feel dizzy and weird!! I'll pick some of these stones up so we can shew them to Dr Quickly... Dr Quickly: I've never seen anything like it -- you say she's "infected" by the crystals? Rabid: It spread from where she touched them. Rabish: STOP YANKING ON MY MOUTH CRYSTAL -- I AM NOW A SUPREME BEING THANKS TO THE PATTERN! HAIL TO THE PATTERN!! JOIN ME OR PERISH!! <<yank>> Dr Quickly: Eep! Rabid: NOW THAT WE ARE BOTH SUPREME BEINGS -- PRAISE BE TO THE PATTERN -- I THOUGHT WE SHOULD GET MARRIED AGAIN SO HERE IS AN ENGAGEMENT RING WITH WHAT WE NOW CONSIDER A VALUABLE GEM! A LUMP OF GOOSE FAT!! Rabish: IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL I COULD CRY Dr Quickly: BUT OPERA SINGING HAS BEEN OUTLAWED ON ACCOUNT OF OUR PATTERN CAN BE CATASTROPHICALLY DISRUPTED!! Space Frog: I THINK YOU FILL FIND THAT IS EXACTLY WHY IT IS MY NEW HOBBY Space Frog, singing: DER HO"LLE RACHE KOCHT IN MEINEM HERZEN...