Today's is a little longer as I needed to get some stuff out of the way before I could launch into the next fifteen that I have scripted (most of them 2-3 panel strips). Therefore, the front-page version is colour-reduced; click on the image to get the "high fructose" version.
Mental note: don't use white bathrobes for props; it makes people look like Luke Skywalker.
I'm kinda giving a guest artist slot to myself here; this alternative visual style has some good stuff — and some stuff I really hate. Needs tweaking.
Hate: Wall, countertop. The way Nu looks 20 years older than usually. But hey,
{{title: #007 — Intelligent Design}}
[[ENG is in bed fast asleep as the phone rings]]
ENG, talking in her sleep: Not my kidney! I'm using that!
<<phone rings>>
ENG: … mmrf?
[[ENG is in bed, on the phone with E70]]
ENG: It's okay, I was dreaming only rubbish anyway. The pro-Lifers sentenced me to donate a kidney to my brother cause I'd involved him in a car crash. The one before that was kinda fun though, where Lay suddenly starts pole-dancing in a subway car —
E70: It's something she'd do, though.
ENG: It's something she /has done/.
[[ENG, sleepy, arrives in kitchen half-naked, pours water into the kettle]]
ENG: (thinks) Cold! Cold! Cold!
ENG: Only in my dream, there's suddenly this gang of hoods, and I'm like, 'Thanks so much, Lay,' and she's like, 'What happend to women having to act all demure in public being bunk, Mme Féministe?', and I'm like, 'Hallooo, ultra-thin model! /Not/ related to the Hulk!' and she's like, 'Speak for yourself,' and then she goes all pole-fu on their asses!
E70: Ha! Very Thelma and Louise!
ENG: Very Matrix!
E70: It's something she /has done/, though.
[[ENG loads the toaster. French press shown. Water boils.]]
ENG: I so need to get mum an espresso ma— /what?/
E70: No, really — weren't you there when she beat up this one guy —
[[ENG grinds beans. Details of E70's story lost. Water boils ("click!") before she has finished grinding.]]
[[ENG unthinkingly pours water into French press while E70 talks on]]
E70: … but at least she only uses her powers for good!
ENG: Wow! I'm in awe of her ninja powers! What else is she hi— DAMN! I forgot to put coffee in my coffee!
ENG: (laments) You ever notice how when you need coffee the most, you're least equipped to make some? How can people still talk about «Intelligent Design»? That's /not/ intelligent design! That's, like, /stupid/ design!
ENG: Or no design at arrrgh!!!
[[pieces of toast are ejected all over the place]]
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