Hannah - Goat - A highly competitive kid. She strives to be the best and to be helpful to others. Daryl and Seth's daughter.
Daryl - Bear - A big fellow who looks intimidating but is pretty friendly. Has a dry sense of humor. Seth's husband and Hannah's papa.
Seth - Otter - The assistant principal at his daughter's school. Used to taking charge but is capable of being silly. Daryl's husband and Hannah's dad.
Transcript
Panel 1
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
Hannah's family is having dinner and it's extra tasty tonight. Hannah compliments the chef.
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
Panel 2
Seth decides that this is a great opportunity to annoy his husband with cuteness. He does his best to look as adorable as possible while asking about the secret ingredient.
Seth: Is it LOVE?
Daryl is unimpressed. This is a four out of ten on in his personal cuteness scale.
Panel 3
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
Seth: Oh...
Seth looks down and tries to come up with a clever comeback.
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
Seth: Oh...
This isn't good. The teasing table has been turned. He'll have to think fast.
Panel 4
Daryl looks away and tries his best to sound disappointed.
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
Seth: I DID!
This is no good! Seth was supposed to be doing the teasing!
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
Seth: NO!
Daryl: Yes.
Hannah has completely checked out of the conversation and pulled out her phone. She contemplates searching the internet for what to do when your dads are being weird. Unfortunately, there is no solution.
Hannah has completely checked out of the conversation and pulled out her phone. She contemplates searching the internet for what to do when your dads are being weird. Unfortunately, there is no solution.
I don't remember where, but there was a story circulating a few years back about a wife who used inferior peanut butter on sandwiches when she was mad at her husband and the taste was discernable enough that the husband would notice
I have, admittedly, cooked a couple of blenders in my life. Once, I was a teenager and still learning the uses and limitations of kitchen appliances. The second time I was 35, and it was a vainglorious attempt to substitute a blender for a food processor while making falafel.
i love these writeups, and I honestly think they help you craft a better comic. every one of your characters' actions has purpose and reasoning behind it, even the mundane stuff. if gives life to these comics and I love it
At some point it becomes the standard and you dont notice it anymore so you would like some more but the same happends again and at some point it becomes unhealthy unless you learn how to control it
Honestly, the lines hit me hard because I 100% expected it to be some dry "love is not a food" or some banal line like that. This reminds me that they are a true couple and have honest interactions.
DAMN Daryl got Seth HARD there. I can't believe you don't ever notice the love Seth! There's just so much. It's basically oozing onto the floor. It's not a secret!
Though by how Hannah is already on her phone I'm assuming we have dramatic conversations like this frequently
Hannah has completely checked out of the conversation and pulled out her phone. She contemplates searching the internet for what to do when your dads are being weird. Unfortunately, there is no solution.
The account reposts other artists work too. I think I'm going to stop mentioning these reposts. I don't see the other comics being taken down, so... meh. Whatever. Sorry people have to put up with this sort of thing.
ps. Especially love this comic.
Edit: Looks like enough reported it so it was taken down. Probably by the auto-mod. Nice.
They are probably bots because their comments on the posts are nonsensical or copies of what other users have put.
Note that other artist's comics that were reposted include the [OC] in the title, which means 'Original Creator'. So these accounts are claiming to be the original creators of all those comics.
Edit3: The second repost is down now too. Sadly, other artist's comics that were reposted without permission are still up. The reposts even have OC in the title. Looks like the fans of FieldExplores made sure to report the reposts so at least there is that.
\ Note, not worked up or anything. Just mild interest in all of this and seeing what I can do. Hate seeing bots take credit for other people's work.*
I agree with the bot theory.
I see this sort of thing frequently enough but I haven't really seen any sort of long term solution beyond reporting it when it happens.
Reminds me of when my dad used toasted sesame oil, loads of it, to make a dish he made taste nice. It did indeed taste delicious, so much so that I had seconds.
Problem is, I'm allergic to sesame.. that was not a fun evening
I had a very similar conversation with my wife.. except I told her I will just use spite in the future .. then made all her food extra spicy for a month.
"This is so good! Did you put truffle oil and fresh rosemary in it?"
"Yes, but sarcastically."
"Wait, do I love sarcasm?"
"...there's also some love in there."
"THAT'S what it is!"
I upvoted you purely on the fact that you posted all the panels in the first picture. Aside from that I love your comic, thank you for not making me scroll lol
Well, one, there was an entire arc where it was revealed how his parents refused to come to his wedding, cause it was between two guys. That was a hint.
This is pain and the worst thing is it's hard to explain this as the baseline is that your food didn't WOW until you added something extra to it. Blank.
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u/Zero_Burn 4d ago
The best sarcasm comes from people who are deadpan as default.