Because I was in an extraordinarily silly mood on Tuesday night, I drew a super special BONUS panel for today’s comic. You can use your fertile imaginations to insert it between panels 2 and 3 in the final comic. It’s a “bonus” panel and not part of the main archive for one fairly obvious plastic reason.
EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: I suppose I should explain that panel a bit for archive readers. As a child, Amanda found herself in the company of a tiny superhero from the future named Sporkman. I’ve only briefly touched on this, but it’s more or less explained in this Sporkman strip, as well as the one that follows it. Their relationship was also elaborated on in a series of faux comic book covers I did, which you can find here.
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AHA! It’s starting to coalesce – Killer otter, missing hat, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
Mary Elizabeth talked him into dressing the hat up as a female otter to lure the killer out into the open at an opportune moment. The hyperactive Lutrinae made off with his hat and, well, it wasn’t pretty or fit for webcomic consumption…
Hence Basil’s reticence.
Omg, pie is awesome.
I think I see where this is going.
Because Sporkman can smell evil and wants to know if he’s ever in the presence of these foul creatures again! Right?
Yeah I didn’t think I was.
C’mon John, just finally admit that Sporkman and Basil do exist in the same continuity, you know you want to
Oh, I readily admit that now. Everything in Classic Sporkman post-time bomb (September 2008) is more or less canon (though it hasn’t happened yet from the point of view of MESS, since it currently takes place in 2007). The Silver Age Sporkman fake covers are ALSO canon.
I just can’t put Sporkman himself in MESS yet because, well, he’s TOO weird. It’d require explanations I don’t feel like giving yet, and change the tone of the comic too much.
Okay, Basil, everybody loves pie. I’m not sure how good a pie would taste after being an accessory to murder, but it’s still a pie, so probably still pretty delicious. I mean, maybe it would do some the in the big house, but it’ll probably fin some self-help books and make a new life for itself when it gets out. Maybe even start a baked goods empire to rival that of the Batterwitch herself. That’s a pretty damn good pie. You can’t hold it’s past against it.
Yeah, I have no idea where I’m going with this.
Other than, you know, pie.
Mmm. Pie.
Hmmm. So far, Basil’s record at preventing murders is nonexistent. It’ll be easy to see how this turns out.
And see? See? Mary Elizabeth has been feeding Basil up!
Well… does a killer otter killing someone count as a murder?
Okay man, you have to come clean at this point. Is this world set in some kind of Shadowrun-ish environment where magic has returned to the world after an age and now technology and mysticism blend seamlessly? So yeah, you have robots and shit but also 7 foot tall elves can be TV reporters? Admit it!
My imagination? Nah. I’ll stick to simply editing it in using paint!
Killer otter? Do I want to hear about that noodle incident. And the flashback panel looks just excellent in this style!