![[0117] Two Pieces Of Cake](/comics/2009-12-03-[0117]-two-pieces-of-cake.png "[0117] Two Pieces Of Cake")
If you missed the news posted the day before yesterday: The first trade paperback collection of Sandra and Woo, entitled The Woo, is out! I don’t want to repeat all the details about it already mentioned there, but apart from all strips published from 19 October 2008 to 30 November 2009 it contains, among other things, up to three drafts of each strip.
The book cover is also available as a poster (and on some other products, for example on a mousepad) in our store! Of course without the captions on it.
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Today’s strip is the first one of a new story arch that will at least cover the whole of December. This means that we won’t publish a Christmas strip, for example, to not interrupt the storyline.
 Pages 44 and 45 |
 Pages 60 and 61 |
- Sandra: Hey Lis, I’ve come up with a stunning plan!
- Larisa: Really? Does your plan involve smooching with pretty-eyed boys or torching an abandoned building?
- Sandra: Nah. It involves exploring an abandoned building th–
- Larisa: –at we might – purely accidentally, of course – set on fire during our exploration?
- Sandra: No!
- Larisa: Dang.
- Sandra: But I’m sure Cloud will be joining us, too. So there’s at least one cute boy involved.
- Larisa: That’s great, Sandy. You’re serving me two pieces of cake, and I’m not allowed to eat either one.
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Again a story arc about Sandra and friends? I like to see more Woo! But I will have patience. But about this strip. He’s really nice one. I like the look on Larisa’s face in the second window. It’s so hopefull. And Sandra is so mean to destroy all her hopes….
Loves setting things on fire? I could easily be her friend.
Me and Liz would get along well. And don’t worry, i’ll be a good boy and avoid making any perverted jokes about this comic (BUT YOU SET ME UP XD!!!!)
Bert says: Again a story arc about Sandra and friends? I like to see more Woo! But I will have patience.
Woo was featured in six of the last eight strips. I really thought that would be enough Woo for a while.
Enzeru Kagai says: And don’t worry, i’ll be a good boy and avoid making any perverted jokes about this comic
Yeah, that’s probably better. Larisa will already make enough perverted jokes herself in the future. xD
I think they should burn it down!
I bet Larissa is a scorpio, it would fit her perfectly!
Love the faces in the last panel. 🙂
Burning things down is fun ^^. But try to restrain yourself, you can easily be sent to jail for that.
A plan to explore an abandon building doesn’t seen very stunning (still really fun), but I can’t wait to see how it will come together and “Sandy”… I didn’t know that Larisa had a nickname for Sandra.
Scorpio Holla!
@Novil: Larisa is going to make perverted jokes?
For some reason I’m looking forward to this XD’
Is there a reason why Larissa called Sandra Sandy?
(Did I forget something?)
Also, just because the joke is obvious:
In before: the cake is a lie! … >_>’
After Monday’s strip, I thought today would be something about Christmas, albeit the religious side of Christmas. Good to see Larisa again though, even if she is making fun of Sandra by deliberately shortening her name.
Woo was featured in six of the last eight strips. I really thought that would be enough Woo for a while.
I meant that “Woo and friends” last story arc ended at 083. We have seen since then Woo but his friends also want a litle strip-time.
Lis looks devilishly cute in the second panel 😀
Committing arson (burning down an abandoned burning) is no laughing matter in RL. This past summer the city of Lewiston, Maine came very close to losing the core of the city when some kids torched an abandoned shoe mill dating to the mid-1800’s on a windy day. It wasn’t the outstanding work of the fire department alone that kept the fire from taking out everything down wind of it. It was all the onlookers on the roof tops who were watching a piece of history burn to the ground, who, in turn, were noticing all the cinders landing/smoldering on their own roofs and scrambled to grab fire extinguishers/water to put out their own fires. The next mill over, that stretches for nearly a half-mile and also abandoned, started to catch, but miraculously, the fire department was able to contain that blaze.
The original structure burned for over 24 hours. More than two dozen other buildings, some a mile (1.6km) downwind, had roof damage from burning cinders.
Arrests have been made, but no trial yet. On the positive side, the city is finally taking action to dismantle the larger, fire damage mill.
Exploration of old buildings, the urbanites alternative to spelunking! =^^=
Just be careful of putting your feet through the floor!
Of course, Tbolt! Not going to be too many caves lying around, are there? 😛
Well, Sandra does not want to explore that building for the sake of exploring itself.
“great, your serving me two pieces of cake and im not allowed to eat either one”
that is now my new favorite analogy.
^ *sniff sniff*
I smell a well planned story arc 😛
Ah, the infamous “piece of cake” arc. Are the Moms In Black still at DEFCON 4 or already at 3?
Gotta love the sassy punchline.
What I want to know is: What is she painting?
@ pizza is good
what else? FIRE!
also…
THE CAKE IS A LIEEEEEE!!
I just had to, if you dont understand the joke, then you need to play Portal
Larisa can be subtle, but only if she wants to…
I guess the picture shows a flowery meadow with a picnic in it. The flowers are painted with lively reds and yellows, and the picnic contains all of Cloud’s favourite foodstuffs.
I wonder if she manages to get it between her dad’s pictures to let him sell it.
Darn it, mystery penguin! I thought for a second I could read through the whole comment page without a “cake is a lie” joke… so that I could make a crack about it myself. 🙁
Also, yay for Larisa!
Larisa is to awsom, I wonder if she is Ortodoxian… ups! thats right not more religious coments after the last strip fiasco/fraud/controversy!
And this is a promise of good things to come, Im waiting for the next strip
Oh Urban Exploring, cool I do that a lot in my spare time. Over 20 places explored and counting XD
Anyway love the comic always checking every time you post =D
“…that would be enough Woo for a while.”
Never. (Even if he has to break the fourth wall and do a Mortal Kombat thing, like popping his head up in the lower-right corner and call out “Woo! Woo”…I mean, “Whoosie!”)
As for the building…reminds me of a low budget sci-fi movie, released from over the last year. They sent a bunch of actors, dressed in soldier uniforms into an (obviously) abandoned factory building to shoot it out with (computerized…I think.) monster/aliens. Copy this idea. There you go. The film gives them the right to explore the abandoned building, have some ‘pretty eyed boys’ smooching AND blowing the place to kingdom come.
Creativity: There’s always a way to satisfy everyone.
I like the fact that Larisa’s face lights up (no pun intended) at the notion of the old building old to get shot down by something more rational by Sandra.Gotta love those chaotic neutrals,they keep things interesting and in perspective.Also,I’m not making any cake jokes because they just aren’t that fun to do anymore.Let’s do some peels jokes :’D.
Almost forgot,my bro made cake,so apparently it’s for real.
@mystery penguin
You didn’t read my first comment, did you? 😛
.. and my nomination for metaphor of the week is …. this. Oh so very this. “Not allowed to eat either one,” indeed.
@ someone
you said “In before” you didnt actually crack the joke, I DID THAT!
The thing that gets me about that metaphor is that it might have been based on past life experience. Larisa is diabetic after all…
@mystery penguin
We are counting beans now, aren’t we? 😛
@Wormwood
Wow, you’re right!… I haven’t thought about this until now.
It’s making the joke even better. I’m impressed Novil ^^
I want to say that if Larissa don’t find a boyfriend I am all up. Haha. Joking. But seriously, call me… ok?
Also, why don’t she just ask him out? Or tell him. Guys are always dense and slow. Diamond-dense and continental-movement-slow. You have to stick out for yourself, girl, or face hundreds of comedy/romance/drama strips, muaahahahahaha.
Also, I wouldn’t want to see Cloud with anyone else.
Larissa, call me. Seriously…
was that a diabetes joke?
I have no idea why, but I imagine something bad will happen to Cloud in said building.
I hope he’s not too flammable!
Too bad Larisa isn’t left-handed.
But I bet she’s either atheist or ignostic.
I read your Jesus of Nazareth strip and really wanted to comment, but I totally understand you removing the option. I just want to say that I’m a nondenominational Christian and I loved that strip. It’s thought provoking, and you’re totally right.
Also, LOVE this strip. Larisa is rapidly becoming a favorite character of mine. She reminds me of my own best friend. ^_^
ahhh…urban exploration…did a few expeditions back in the day (2 years ago) with my beast friend……..it diffident turn out to good…almost got attacked by some junkies….it was probably something we said….i mean we are tough together but….thire high….and a head taller than us….not good….but we where faster! heh!
Wolf in Bears Clothing (Its the last thing they’d suspect)
@ Wolf in Bears Clothing:
forgive the double post but i meant to say “Best Friend” not Beast Friend. heh that’s a mistake that could be awkward in the wrong context!
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d suspect)
Kinda bothered that commenting on the previous comic seems to have been deactivated as there was a major misconception in need of correction.
But whatever… it would be off-topic here… -_-; … so it’ll have to remain a mystery.
@ Enzeru Kagai:
But how would you eat a building on fire? 🙂
ah yes a girl a boy and their pyromaniac friend go inside an abandon building. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
@ Novil:
Hey I was just wondering, I could help but see you have a volume of this comic published, but its no longer for sale on LULU, I’d really like to get a copy, how can get one?
It’s good Larisa’s back..I was starting to miss her.
My first impression of the last comic, before even looking at the comments:
“Hmm, looks like people are getting a bit worked up about the political comics. I know! Let’s try religion instead!” 😛
It’s no surprise they had to be closed off.
Also, they sure look like they’re having fun in that poster. Is it available as a wallpaper?
There, there, Larisa… Temptation is a cruel master. Anyway, Woo’s probably still sleeping in the attic and that’s why he isn’t here. xD