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2010-01-25: Body Marzipan (found by Hobo Doc)
Advanced technology
Here is a recipe for Body Marzipan:
Take a pint of sugar and one-third pint of almonds and grind both together fine, then scent with camphor. Take one-third of a pint of sugar, and dissolve in an ounce of rose-water over a slow fire, then remove. When cooled, throw in the ground sugar and almonds with one-third pint of auto-assemblers tuned to sapient autolocomotion, and knead. If the mixture needs strengthening, add more sugar and almonds. Make into middling monsters, monster-melons, monster-triangles, etc. (from al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ, trans. A. J. Arberry)
This comic is in the storyline:
- 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.
This comic includes the contribution:
- datn suggested: body marzipan spoils in the sun. passerby makes a person out of it anyway.
Text transcript
Dr Quickly: What a find!! [[ Doctor Quickly takes the box of body marzipan to his camp under a bridge. ]] [[ By a fire, Dr Quickly assembles a new monster. ]] Dr Quickly: Hello little friend! Marzipan Monster: Hey! [[ Dr Quickly and his troupe of marzipan monsters walk along some train tracks. ]] Marzipan Monster: Can we take a break? In the shade? I feel weird.