Dr. Muskiday tries to turn feelings into data. His emotion-reading technology translates emotions into glowing clouds. As the experiment spirals, it becomes clear that understanding emotions is much messier than measuring them.
Double-Dog Dare!
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Transcript
(Panel 1)
Holo-Clone Miss Match: Oh, Musky! I’m so PROUD of you!
Dr. Muskiday: You are?
(Panel 2)
Holo-Clone Miss Match: Sure! And I’ll prove it to you.
(She sprays Dr. Muskiday’s “Project: SMILE” mist onto her chest with a “Pft Pft Pft.”)
(Panel 3)
Holo-Clone Miss Match: That’s odd. I’m definitely experiencing a twenty-five percent increase in admiration.
(He looks at her as she stands confidently in front of him.)
(Panel 4)
Dr. Muskiday: (sighs) I know. I wrote your approval algorithm.
(He buries his head in his hands.)
(Panel 5)
Computer (stylized): Disappointment detected. Initiating emotional buoyancy protocols.
(She stands looking at the dejected Muskiday.)
(Panel 6)
Computer (stylized): Activating file: hold_and_squeeze_those_big_puppies.exe
(She touches her lips in contemplation.)
(Panel 7)
(Two holographic dogs appear — Oso the Pug and Digby the Dachshund from the ‘Sheldon’ comic strip— to a now overjoyed Muskiday, who grabs and cuddles them gleefully.)
Holo-Clone Miss Match: Well… I AM proud of you!
Alt Text
Comic strip featuring Holo-Clone Miss Match (a holographic clone of Miss Match) and Dr. Muskiday (a small, humanoid fly in a lab coat) having a humorous interaction. Miss Match tells Muskiday she’s proud of him. She sprays Dr. Muskiday’s “Project: SMILE” mist onto her chest with a “Pft Pft Pft.” It fails to trigger the expected results. She insists that her admiration has increased by 25% even though it’s not indicated by the mist. Muskiday sighs, saying he knows because he wrote her approval algorithm. Detecting his disappointment, Muskiday’s computer initiates an “emotional buoyancy protocol,” executing a file named “hold_and_squeeze_those_big_puppies.exe.” Two holographic dogs appear — Oso the Pug and Digby the Dachshund from the ‘Sheldon’ comic strip — to a now overjoyed Muskiday, who grabs and cuddles them gleefully. The dogs cameo from the "Sheldon" comic strip to promote Dave Kellett’s Kickstarter book, "Double Dog Dare," available at doubledogbook.com
So I pitched something to my
Patreon supporters, and they’ve responded in a big way. Exclusive to supporters at the
$10/month level (and higher), I’ve started doing NSFW comics — featuring both Evil Inc and
Courting Disaster.
The response has been very encouraging. So I wanted to give you a little peek into what Ive got planned.
The uncensored Courting Disaster cartoons have been a blast! It’s actually quite liberating to take the gloves off and do that kind of humor without any restrictions. The stuff I’ve posted for my Patreon supporters has been really well-received. If you’re one of the folks who have requested the return of CD, this is it. And, in my opinion, it’s better than ever!
But it’s the NSFW Evil Inc comics — dubbed “Evil Inc After Dark” — that I’m really excited about. They’ve turned into longer-form stories (like
Phables used to be). They’re little vignettes that explore some of the topics that I could never put into the daily comic. For starters, Evil Inc still has a dedicated newspaper following. But besides that, these are stories that just deserve to go further than four panels.
I’ll be posting the first of these extended
Evil Inc After Dark stories later this week. Here’s a sneak peek…
And I have another full-page story slated for after that….
As you can see, many of these start off with something that happened in the daily strip, and then go veering off into a completely different direction.
And, along with those, I’ve got more uncensored CD.
All for my
Patreon backers at the $10/month level (and higher), along with everything else offered at those levels — like monthly digital comics, desktop wallpapers, behind-the-scenes sketches and more! Signing up is easy. You’ll never get charged for more than you agree to, and you can maintain your
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*It’s true. I can stop asking Scott Kurtz for coffee money.
