- Luna: ???
- Larisa: Come on, let’s light the bonfire!
- Sandra: Where did you get this huge pile of wood?
- Larisa: From a “sponsor.”
- Businessman: The fear of fire has reached a nationwide all-time high in your city.
- Larisa: I don’t understand people.
- Badge: M&A Fire Insurance
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Did Sandra really agree to this plan? I’m not sure she would have helped if she had all the details…
I love LunLuna’s expression in panel 1. She does not comprehend. And then everyone freaking out instead of Larissa…. I bet the insurance company did not even have to pay her, she just accepted the wood.
Insurance brokers in their town should offer Larisa insurance: also good against large blocks of ice left on highways, and other harmful, inconvenient, dangerous or tortious art installations. >:=)>
I like all their reactions to the fire. Most of them are shocked and leaning back. Larisa is standing triumphantly. Cloud is standing stupefied in awe.
They’re standing VERY close to a VERY large bonfire, don’t you think? 😀 😀 😀
Someone forgot to update next/latest the buttons for the previous comic or sth.
I’m glad Larisa has the taste to not play “Disco Inferno”
“The fear of fire has reached a nationwide all-time high in your city”
Gee, with Larisa in town, i wonder why :p (especially if insurances sponsor her so people buy fire protection insurances :p)
Standing that close to a fire that big and your face is going to start to melt off. I’ve been that close to a fire 1/5 the size of Larisa’s fire and it was very uncomfortable. The guy on the street is probably felling enough heat to fry an egg on his face.
I’m sure she actually got it from the Fesh Pince since he’s not gonna carry all this WOOD!
I don’t normally post but this was funny XD
how is this helping luna? i mean, i thought this was about her financial problem…
wait.
is she going to burn down lunas apartment/house/wherever she might live and then shes going to get fire insurance for it?
because if so, thats a really stupid plan.
then again, her plan could be even crazyer than that, because i am pretty sure that she is the reincarnation of pinkie pie in a human universe
Greeneagle wrote:
BUT Larisa knows fire. She probably used some sort of coating which makes the fire burn with lots of light but not much heat.
Oh Larisa, you clever genius. XD
@ cameron:
I think she made a deal with the insurance companies, and was compensated duly, and is going to give that money to Luna.
Well, she did it. She set the water on fire. Bravo, Larissa, bravo.
Cray Z. Bouy wrote:
I like the fact that the comic doesn’t even treat it as a big deal. We get Luna’s confusion, but not one line of dialogue addressing the process or result. It’s like “Yeah, she set the water on fire. It’s Larisa. What’d you expect?”
cameron wrote:
Simple, Luna is a meek girl that doesn’t really stand up against bully and overall a pushover. By encouraging her to go out and doing a lot of activities with her friends will make her more assertive.
Panel 3: Luna actually seems to be enjoying this, in a nervous kinda way. 🙂
“The fear of fire has reached a nationwide all time high in your city”
Not sure how logic…?
MawileCeyvis wrote:
Maybe they set the nationwide record in that city alone? So there’s basically so much fear concentrated in a small population. Someone should have had a medical if that’s the case though…
@ MawileCeyvis:Fear of fire in this city now is higher than any city in the nation at any time.
@ MawileCeyvis:
An estimated .5% of the U.S. has pyrophobia, and the U.S. has around 320 million people, and so by a bit of division and such we get that around 1,600,000 people have pyrophobia in the nation at any given time. So unless their “town” is Philly, Houston, Chicago, L.A., or New York City, my guess is that insurance people lie.
…ta-da.
So… water on fire. Speculations… maybe a bit of sodium? Who’s a chemist here?
@ cameron:
I would think that with the money they sponsored her with would go to luna.
Um, did she set the water in the glass on fire?
@ Wen:
Sodium would work, but magnesium would be easier to handle. Sodium metal is dangerous stuff that has to be kept away from the air; magnesium is safe but once ignited in the air, it will burn underwater.
Safe– dangerous? Probably sodium.
I find it funny that Sandra doesn’t ask about the giant wood pile until after Larissa lights it on fire.
I like that Luna’s reaction to the fire is a “Interesting…” face.
So I guessing that Larissa is alread “Short-Listed” for Texas A&M!
I hope she got the proper burn/fire permit from the fire department for her bonfire. Else, she’s going to have “company” in the next comic installment.
@ Greeneagle:
Based on the lines radiating from the wood pile. Yes it is that hot, on a very cold day. They will want to back up in the next strip. Though holding hot dogs on sticks over the fence sounds fun.
Anyone else notice that the glass seems basically untouched by the fire? Luna did put a glass of water on the table… not just some water… (?)
@ Everyone raising the point about radiated heat:
Luna: A-aren’t we a bit close? Wait… shouldn’t it- shouldn’t it actually be hotter here?
Larisa: What, like this? *waves hand, Luna cringes back from the heat* I think isotropic thermal emission is boring, not to mention inconvenient in cases like this *waves hand again* so I do something about it, just like with that inconvenient ol’ gravitational field during gym! Don’t you approve?
>:=)>
Well as for the heat of the fire: They JUST lit it, right now a lot of that fire’s energy is going into catching more fuel on fire. While it is hot now, it’s not nearly as hot as it will be when it ‘matures’ with glowing coals all the way through. THEN it will be really hot. In about 5 minutes, they will be moving back, then more, then more, then the house will start to smolder…
Having built bonfires for various camping events, you get used to how it reacts. They are close, and feeling the heat. Soon they will be moving.
Now, where are my marshmallows?
The scary thing is that is a Small fire by her standards.
@ Cray Z. Bouy:
Actually, it’s “brava,” since Italian deals in both gender and number. This is how you stand out in Italy.
So did anybody else read the insurance guys line in Boris Badinoff’s voice?
Rocketroo wrote:
Something else about a huge bonfire; it’s very hard to warm yourself with it. You go almost instantly between “too far away to feel much” and “so close it’s too hot”. The transition between almost no heat and too much heat is way thinner than your body, so if any part of your body is in the comfort zone, other parts has to be either too far away or too close.
I made that observation with a bonfire much bigger than the one in this comic though.
@ Crystalgate:
It helps if other people or a wall of some sort are behind you that can reflect some of the heat. That way it can actually be quite comfortable as long as you’re not standing to close. But even so, there will be a clear difference between the parts of you facing the fire and the parts that don’t. So occasionally turning around is a good idea.
As for the glass of water: From the looks of the flame, I’d put my money on sodium or a related metal.
Hello,
am I the only one seeing this?
M&A Fire Insurance
MAFI
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MAFIA
The guy in the strip is probably from the Advertisment department.
Greetings
Juy Juka
MawileCeyvis wrote:
This isn’t about pyrophobia; this is about an entirely rational fear of fire breaking out in their immediate neighbourhood. In this particular neighbourhood, about 99% of the population have that fear — and it’s just been justified.
@ CptNerd:
Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, both of which are flammable.
@ The J.A.M.:
@ Greeneagle:
My thoughts exactly. I’ll just stick to explaining it as comics logic…
@ Rocketroo:
That would make sense, but I’m still leaning towards comics logic 😀
@ John Merklinghaus:
It means they burn to create water (and we don’t usually call oxygen flammable, since it’s required for burning in the conventional sense).
I hope she is a licensed pyrotechnic.
@ John Merklinghaus:
Just ’cause water is made up of flammable stuff doesn’t mean that it itself is flammable.
@ Sapph:
That is true since flababilty is at what temperature the item will “spontaneously” combust in a way where heat energy and light energy are produced and that it is ussually the limiting factor in this “explosive” reaction. Even though it nay start out quick the difference between a fire and an explosion is how long the light and heat energy are staying there .
JuyJuka wrote:
Holy shi….. You’re right! to make it complete it can be M&A Fire Insurance of America! MAFIA!
What’s M&A? Murder & Arson?