Harangue Them in a Haberdashery

Seriously you guys have no idea how much nicer it is to update, now that my website makes sense. I used to have a weird casing file to bring up the actual HTML and man. Just man. It was a pretty creative solution, which is good in every way except the part where it's supposed to be usable. Let it be known: CSS are your friend.

So Otto is using a lot of H words. Because of his Factopedia. Remeber the Factopedia? It hit him in the head. Let me tell you, it was a good time trying to think of H words that are threatening. Or, y'know, haberdashery. I was hoping that being haberdashed would be equally threatening, but as far as I know that really just refers to being sold at the haberdashery by a haberdasher, and not being made into a hat, which is what I assumed.

You will notice, now that I'm telling you to, some props from old gags in the background. The proto-strip had Dido bringing up all the old and terrible puns that have happened to Otto in the past and Ike being all "Shut up dude he'll get totally mad!" and then in the end it was going to be Ike who delivered the "no harm no foul" line and irony! Delicious. But that was pretty crowded. So now you get this, and it's up to you to remember the basic solution and the straight and narrow for yourselves and I hope you have a good time.

Flipping through the notes here I'm supposed to wax philosophical and riff on the "At least you're alive" point because really can shapes be alive but nope! Don't care! They act like it, so they probably might be? Except reproduction, I've never been clear on that, but we know the Polytopes have guts. Except for when they explode? See, who even knows, man.

Today's joke is the kind of joke I will keep doing and doing until it's readily apparent that "joke" is the wrong word for the thing my brain does. When you're standing in a room thinking about Polytopes and someone says "well, no harm no foul" I don't think the usual reaction is "OH MAN FOUL AND FOWL ARE HOMONYMOUS LET'S MAKE A COMIC ABOUT THAT." Because it's not funny! It's a thing that happens with words and is interesting, but not so much a "joke". Really you have to present it in a clunky way for it to become imperative not declarative and by that time what's the point? except you can never stop.

Which is actually a pretty nice affliction from which to suffer.