[0727] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 5
└ posted on Thursday, 15 October 2015, by Novil
- Sandy South: This is it, Qoo, the secret Crunchies Inc. headquarters! If we want to find the culprit responsible for the cereal’s new formula, we’ll have to infiltrate it!
- Qoo: Secret?
- Sign: Crunchies Inc.
- Sign: Crunchies Inc.
- Sandy South: This will undoubtedly be at least as hard as hacking Miss Irvine’s Android phone during our last mission.
- Calendar: Oct 17 Saturday
- Sign: Reception
- Door sign: CEO Heather J. Biggs
- Sandy South: Harder!
- Qoo: For once, I have to agree with you.
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Saturday, the seventeenth of October. That could the current year, and thus probably is. Nice to look into the future, even if slightly.
It is hard to infiltrate no one =)
Their HQ has some really impressive security and plenty of hard working weekend employees…
“Secret?” and that look towards the not very subtle sign… Priceless! 😀
Also it was hard! Look at all the distance they had to walk!
The trouble, or benefit?, with having ninjas on the payroll. There’s 23 total in these panels.
Is “Qoo” a typo from Woo or am I missing something?
Nikolay wrote:
You are missing something. Like, among other things, Sandra North being called Sandy South and what it’s supposed to mean.
Nikolay wrote:
Qoo is Sandy South’s sidekick. Woo is Sandra North’s pet.
A racoon set loose in a cereal factory.
Let the reality show commence!
It looks like Ms. Biggs has been eating the corporation’s new cereal since the first testing phase and has wasted away to nothing as a consequence.
Heather Biggs (stepping out from behind a standard lamp): And now I am become Famine, destroyer of brands. Ah ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!
>:=)>
To crack this case, Sandy will need wits as sharp as her scooter.
Let me guess, Irvine didn’t have a lock screen? 😉
Ajedi32 wrote:
Or she had a clear smear pattern, letting Sandy “guess” it in two tries.
@ Vidad: So she’s infiltrating on my birthday? KEWL!!
I hope there are no security cameras or microphones in that office, considering Qoo just spoke. He doesn’t know for sure there isn’t somebody in the room already, either.
no one’s been at the company for years, everything including the decision making process is automated. that’s my guess,
Is our intrepid duo about to discover that this building is empty and unlocked because it is scheduled for demolition, and she just missed the warning signs? BOOM!
On a more serious note: I have no idea what the top three comments say, because they’re obscured by an Advil advertisement that can’t be minimized or closed. Look into that please, oh webmaster?
@ Hinoron:
Refreshing the page usually works for me, but it is a bit annoying for sure.
Is that a shot at Android’s security?
Hinoron wrote:
Sorry. That was my fault. The website code is incorrect. Will fix this later this day. Removed the ad until then.
Who keeps tagging Sandra and Woo in this strip. Is it because they asked Sandy North and Qoo to get to the bottom of this?
could the company have been bought out and the head quarters moved
What kind of devious conspiracy will they uncover?
We have a right to our chocolate covered sugarbombs!
Nice infiltration. Walk through the unlocked front door, pass the vacant reception desk, take the elevator, walk down the hall, and open the office door. Too bad the CEO doesn’t work on weekends.
Love the black-and-white, high contrast, sharp shadows, odd angles film noir motif.
Vidad wrote:
could also be 2009
or even further back
Ugh… I’m disinterested in this story arc…
Maybe I should look into Gaia.
They had to make a joke about SOMETHING to justify a whole page of Sandra and Qoo walking to an office.
NotASpy wrote:
What security?
Seriously, the best Android security is not to install any apps which aren’t essential, and disable most of the features which come with the pre-installed apps, thus keeping them from constantly consuming your bandwidth in the background.
This rings so true it hurts. Not always a fault of the security systems, but people being unwilling or unable to use them properly. If you ever get a chance to talk to does security auditing for a living, take it. Lots of fun stories.
Greenwood Goat wrote:
No, No. Her Name is Farina, destroyer of Taste Buds.
I Googled Heather J Biggs and found a reference to a 1905 Birthdate in California.
Deceased in 1995.
Da Plot Thikens.
@ Jerry:
Unfortunately, so did the cereal! 😉
Yay! I’m finally caught up with the comic!
Garrett Williams wrote:
Woo & Sandy have Both discovered that, since People only SEE What they Expect to See, Woo can usually get away with speaking when he is close to Sandra because 99% of people will just Assume it was Sandra speaking in a weird voice.
At best, they think Sandra has a Very Strange sense of Humor.
At Worst, they think she has Multiple Personality Disorder.
Both Sandra & Woo find this Hilarious.
Hmm, an empty HQ of a former popular cereal brand. Not suspicious at all.
Melkior wrote:
Let’s see… Encrypted drive (Using unlock screen password as master encryption key), fully isolated processes, listing required permissions for every application from any source, and, unless you rooted the device and activated developer mode AND accepted “root access” permissions on an application, inability to install programs that access other programs’ data.