[0730] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 8
└ posted on Monday, 26 October 2015, by Novil
I have posted 4 new polls that appear randomly in the voting widget in the left sidebar:
- If you had a talking animal companion of your own, what would be your favorite species?
- What’s your favorite medium for serious storytelling?
- Do you read more or fewer webcomics compared to 5 years ago?
- To our American readers: Who would you vote for?
- Roger Brown: Do you mind!? I’m not a crazy axe murderer! I’m the senior food engineer of Crunchies Inc!
- Sandy South: That’s exactly what a crazy axe murderer would say!
- Caption: Employee of the year
- Roger Brown: Does this convince you?!
- Sandy South: Hmm… why are you here on a Saturday, then?
- Roger Brown: To finish my tireless work on our new formula!
- Sandy South: !
- Sandy South: His arm, Qoo, bite off his arm!
- Roger Brown: GAHH
Haha, of course! Who was it who called this in the comments a few strips ago?
Sandy South: You would have been better off taking the path of an honest axe murderer, VILLAIN!! *leaps at his throat*
>:=)>
OK, call the men in white coats…
Would not:
“Go for the eyes Qoo…”
Been better?
Well it’d have made me laugh anyway… 😀
Lost
He’s Worse than an Axe Murderer.
He’s a Cereal Killer.
That will be his last mistake…
And for the final punishment make him Eat it.
@ Jerry: You sir are funny. Hats off to you.
@ Jerry:
You, friend, have a certain Sans of humour.
@ Jerry:
Amazing.
In other news, how does one pronounce Qoo? Is it Kwoo? Or Chew? Is it something else?
Could it really be worse? Who knows, maybe it’ll be better than that raisin filled monstrosity.
okay theory posting time:
why is an engineer working on Saturday, in an empty building, what work involves swinging an axe, and was any of that damage to his clothing there before Qoo got to him, and if so why is a scientist dirty while working with food stuffs?
my theory, his last creation had such a bad following that the company fired him, when they did so he broke that ID scanner and waited for the weekend, and is currently destroying the manufacturing system. bonus points if he didn’t want to make the cereal in the first place but management demanded a healthy alternative be put together.
A world where food needs engineers, is a world I’m not sure I want to live in anymore…
…
where is the axe?
@ Ilmari:
We’ve had food engineers for years; they’re called “farmers” or “ranchers”, depending on their breeding methods.
@ HardWearJunkie:
That would be agronomists 😉
Humor Sans https://github.com/shreyankg/xkcd-desktop/blob/master/Humor-Sans.ttf@ Guy:
How about the axe murderer and the food engineer not being the same person?
@ Jerry:
LOL@pun! 😀
What do you bet that it turns out the formula was unfinished and accidentally released anyway and the proper formula is a sugar-laden super yummy cereal? Because cereal manufacturers aren’t stupid and know what sells and by contrast what sends them bankrupt.
@ Lost Ninja:
we already had that in the last strip
I just want to comment that the comic technique of removing the pupils from the characters’ eye is just wonderfully humorous. Brings out the ‘evil’ (not sure if that’s the right word but it’s closest I can think of) from otherwise “goody two shoes”.
@ Sandy South & Qoo,
Don’t be silly, if he is actively working on the formula then it’s unfinished and therefore obviously not the formula currently in production. (Unless the corporate guys made extra bad decisions and rushed an unfinished formula to market. Given how this comic usually goes, that is probably exactly what happened.)
Ilmari wrote:
But… isn’t that a chef? By my understanding food engineers like Roger Brown (whose name I know through arcane scrying techniques bestowed upon me by dark gods) just do a lot of precision work for the sake of mass production, and because a bajillion (give or take) people will be eating that precise (plus/minus the error tolerance) recipe.
But I also know pretty much nothing about food engineers, so that that with a horse’s salt block.
Now who’s the crazy ax murderer? Larisa would be so proud!
@ Shanunu:
Q is pronounced k. Just remember that.
worng thing to say
Just the way I feel about the purveyors of HP Sauce,
On the topic of the polls:
You made a bit of a mistake on the talking animal companion one. They’re all mammals. I would prefer a salamander, gecko or snake. (I don’t really care for most pets, but I think most land animals with scales are pretty neat.)
his foolishness will cost him an arm and a leg.
@ Shadow Moon:
seems like the HTML tags don’t work for me, so i’ll just put the url
http://i.imgur.com/INehUvo.jpg
I really hope he doesn’t press charges and have “Qoo” euthanized for attacking a human.
Of course, if they do try to euthanize him, all “Qoo” would have to do is say “STOP!”. I think that would work quite well.
@Ilmari – Look at the ingredients lists on the labels of your food. If you see any combination of “natural flavors” or “artificial flavors” on there, it has been engineered and contains a proprietary mix of chemicals designed to produce specific flavors.
Does it have to be, specifically, a mix thereof? Like, if it’s just “natural flavors” is it not an engineered process of chemicals? I’m imagining the alternative being something akin to a home cook making salad. (The former is, I imagine, the manufacture of the chemicals, saying nothing about how those chemicals were thrown together. Though, technically, regular cooking engineers chemicals too, just in tried & true ways that have been done for thousands of years.)
PlutoniumBoss wrote:
@ Silhalnor:
“Natural Flavors” just means basically that they extracted whatever chemical they use from something off of a list of things that legally permits them to say “Natural”. But, say, vanillin extracted “naturally” from a plant and vanillin manufactured in a lab are chemically and functionally identical. A chemical’s a chemical.
As for it being a mix, the only reasons to use the vague “natural/artificial flavor” label is if the chemical’s name is confusing or scary-sounding to the public, or if you’ve got a proprietary package of substances in there that you’re permitted to keep from your competitors.
Ilmari wrote:
Widescale food engineering started in the 19th century at the latest. Just saying. And that’s only if we don’t count things like making wine, beer or hard liquor (basically any processing of food that goes beyond simple cooking).
Well, it’s good to know Sandra has priorities!