Parry and Pixel have invaded Pepper's kitchen. Let's see what happens...
PEPPER (skeptical): "What are you two doing in here?"
PARRY: "Pixel and I want to use our kettle to bake a cake"
PEPPER (annoyed): "Kettle? Are you wanting to make tea cake? Coffee cake? Either way, I'll do the baking, and I'll not need any kettle to do it! Besides, boys and their silly methods don't belong in my kitchen!"
PIXEL (indirectly at Pepper): "She's killed our puh-puh-plans, Parry. Our kettle belongs at the cemetery---maybe it'll attract butterflies to Bones's grave?"
PEPPER (catching on): [to self] "This is a game" [to the boys] "If you get hungry on the way, could you eat your kettle?"
PARRY (dryly): "Our all-puh-puh-purpose kettle is a fine meal, yet inedible as-is"
PEPPER (with confidence): "'Flour/(flower)'"
PIXEL (excited): "Ding ding ding! You guessed it, Pepper!"
PEPPER (cheerful): "Huzzah! Cake's on its way!"
PIXEL (to Parry): "Methinks your clue was a bit too obvious, Parry!"
PARRY (sipping his coffee): "I wanted to hasten us to the cake!"
Ok, for those who don't get it, Parry and Pixel were playing an old party game. Basically, Parry and Pixel agreed on a homonym (in this case flower/flour), and to use the word 'kettle' as a substitute for the word in their replies (clues) to Pepper. Pepper's task was to guess the homonym (by asking questions). Parry made it easy for Pepper as he was thinking of cake and wanted the game to end so Pepper could make a cake happen. ^_^
Now don't get TOO excited about my popples (as if), they're like the Water Pets: here to only announce their existence, have a bit of fun, then disappear (effectively) forever. ^_^
Anyway...
A little about our popples (yes, I'll be drawing more popple comics).
First, our popples DO NOT exist in the same world as Gene and Tasli (Gene/Tasli have different popples). Our popples call themselves The Giggle Six, and they live in the human world (albeit, a human world in which care bears also exist ...but let's save that for later).
Anyway, The Giggle Six (obviously) comprises six popples, but let's meet the three featured in this comic first (the other three will appear in my next popple comic).
Despite his sleepy eyes and soft voice, Parry is the leader of The Giggle Six. He's the cleverest and most mobile of the popples, given he is able to phase through walls. Parry's red as a coffee cherry, which is fitting because he's a coffee drinker (he's the only popple who'll drink it). Some say coffee's the reason Parry hasn't much head hair, but no one really knows for sure.
Pixel likes games and tricks. Pixel has a crush on Panache (we'll meet her later), and he likes to tease Pepper.
Pepper may be the smallest of our popples, but it's said she can cook anything. Pepper learned to cook by watching the ladies from church prepare banquets, etc (Pepper never once saw a man in their kitchen and so she doesn't allow them in hers). Like most redheads, Pepper has a fiery temper, and can be quite mean if provoked (Pixel sometimes refers to her as 'The Little Girl with a Little Curl', in reference to the nursery rhyme). Pepper is loosely based on Potato Chip from the cartoon (I had to reference the show somewhere).
Puh-puh-pencil...
The featured pencil is a vintage, square barreled specimen from the midst of the 20th-century (1940s-1950s).
By 'square barrel' I mean the wood part of the pencil is a square in shape. Though I've yet to draw with a square barrel, they feel VERY uncomfortable to hold as if drawing/writing---if there's a benefit to the shape, I dunno what it could be! D: That said, one of my top ten favorite pencils in my collection is a square barrel (that'd be the Chero-Cola pencil I featured with Tasli's 'Out of Order' cartoon). ^^
I asked Bob Truby about square-barrel pencils. He had this to say,
"I've got a handful of different square ad pencils myself. ...I'd say USA made, but no maker to see"
No way to know...
Something of note is this particular pencil has no ferrule. It does, however, have a cap eraser (an old, hardened one that's decades old). However, the pencil may not have come with this eraser originally (I bought this pencil from eBay, so who knows?).
The pencil is advertising King Midas Flour. Interestingly, the ad is printed on the obverse of the pencil, and stamped on the reverse. I've not seen this done before (and I've seen literally thousands of different ad pencils).
Like, say you and I chose a secret homonym that Z had to guess.
We keep the word secret by using another word in its place (like, say 'kettle').
To guess the word, Z has to ask questions, to which we give clues in the form of answers: by using the substitute word (kettle) in place of the secret word (if the real word was used, the sentence would have to make sense, though you can play with it a bit).
Like, if the secret word was 'roll/role', Z might ask if we still had our kettle, to which you may reply that you ate your kettle (roll) for breakfast.
Z would ask me if I had a kettle, to which I may reply, I had a small kettle (role) in a school play.
That sort of thing.
Like, say you and I chose a secret homonym that Z had to guess. We keep the word secret by using an
That said, the popples were less direct with their clues (they didn't quite do the sentence thing).
Pixel implied the word was something that you find at a graveyard, but that may also attract butterflies. Pixel's clues would always relate to 'flower'. Contrariwise, Parry's clues would always relate to 'flour'.
Parry (who wanted Pepper to hurry up and win so she could start the cake) was a bit more obvious (and, like a popple would do, he used a pun as his clue).
That said, the popples were less direct with their clues (they didn't quite do the sentence thing).
Chef Mubba: Wait, then why haven't we ever HEARD of you?
Foxy: Because none have escaped to tell their tales of woe! They are kept forever imprisoned in my giant basement, behind a lock so impenetrable that even I can't open it!
Chef Mubba: You mean...
Foxy: YES! The same seal they put on pill bottles, that you hafta sorta squeeze and twist at the same time!
Mubba: He's mad, but you cannot deny his genius...
Chef Mubba: Wait, then why haven't we ever HEARD of you? Foxy: Because none have escaped to tell th
Foxy: *spitting out teeth and throwing away the kettle* "Bah, this is the worst cake Foxy has ever tried!" Me: *groaning at Foxy and the rest* "Morons, morons, I am surrounded by morons! I hate my life!" Foxy: *spotting the alternate Mubba* "What the heck was in that cake?"
Foxy: *spitting out teeth and throwing away the kettle* "Bah, this is the worst cake Foxy has ever t
I have seen that movie, I thought it was good but very weird, even the Heaven scene came across as just a bit creepy to me. It could be that that scene influenced my joke subconsciously. However, there are many characters in fiction who exclaimed something similar, such as Krang from TMNT.
I have seen that movie, I thought it was good but very weird, even the Heaven scene came across as j
Chef Mubba: Oh no! It's an evil fur from the future, here to destroy the world with his advanced technology!
Syndrome Foxy: No, that's live action Nick Wilde. I'm just concerned about the presence of underage furs on this site, which I will solve with my cubbification ray.
Mubba: How does that help?
Syndrome Foxy: Because, once everyone's cub.... no one will be...
Mubba: I'm not sure that makes sense, did you think this through?
Chef Mubba: Oh no! It's an evil fur from the future, here to destroy the world with his advanced tec
Foxy: *completely aware of what specifically you were just thinking of* "Only Foxy knows how to prepare boiled sandwich gruel and not just those ghastly pale imitations!" (shudders)
Foxy: *completely aware of what specifically you were just thinking of* "Only Foxy knows how to prep
I am not sure I fully got the joke... Putting gold and jewels in a bank is probably too sensible for someone like Foxy. Also, I imagine him to have garbage and junk lying around. Plushies with weird stains, mouldy Legos and stuff he stole from the cubs he keeps around. How about you?
I am not sure I fully got the joke... Putting gold and jewels in a bank is probably too sensible for
I figure if foxy HAD any gold and jewels they'd just be left lying around -and not for long. So if he's aware of any, they're in the bank. (Maybe not HIS bank, but a bank somewhere.) And junk is junk. But you cannot tell me there's a fox on earth who doesn't treasure chicken nuggets.
I figure if foxy HAD any gold and jewels they'd just be left lying around -and not for long. So if h
(While you were debating another Foxy popped into existence and ran off with one of the Mubbas) *yaf (yet another Foxy) holding a Mubba under his arm* "At last, while those fools were squabling Foxy finally got a cub to play with!" muhahaha!
(While you were debating another Foxy popped into existence and ran off with one of the Mubbas) *yaf
Glutton Foxy: *gulping down several bones* “Foxy loves bones!” (belches) Perverted Foxy: *staring at the kit* “Foxy has a bone(r) in his pocket!” Hero Foxy: *trying to take pervert Foxy away* “You fiend! Leave that poor innocent kit alone!” Angel Foxy: *popping into the scene* “Please don’t fight, we are all friends and should be kind to each other!”
Glutton Foxy: *gulping down several bones* “Foxy loves bones!” (belches) Perverted Foxy: *staring at
It's nice that you're going out of your comfort zone and making a parallel comic (no matter how big it'll end up being). It'll be interesting to see where you go with it in both a cosmic and story sense.
I luv me a cosmic story lol. ;3
It's nice that you're going out of your comfort zone and making a parallel comic (no matter how big
These popples are actually fairly well developed as characters. This is my first drawing of them, but I've thought of little else (insofar as OCs) for the last couple months. :3
lol These popples are actually fairly well developed as characters. This is my first drawing of the
