Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
Apparently the Saffron and Sage universe is one of those DnD 3.5 comics 🙁
LotH readers may remember that comic also had a gag where dog people put a woman in a no-lick cone, and Jill complained that “some furry somewhere’s loving this”, and now here I am again doing that joke because I forgot I’d done it five years ago and now this page reads as a confession when really it’s just an easy and obvious joke to go to when people get captured by dogs and it’s Liri wearing it because it’s an anti-magic cone (as Sage exposited) and she’s the caster and the more time I spend explaining this the weirder it gets to quick segue segue segue….
Hey, it’s page 132! When I was a kid, I read some cheesy 90s sci-fi book about Laser Tag players playing “real” laser tag in a space war, and the protagonist had to remember the number 132, and used the rhyme “132! 132! I picked red instead of blue!” to remember it, and it’s a pretty good mnemonic to use if you need to remember the number 132 and also the color red, because I remember it to this day!
It was one of these books, I think, but all I really remember of this series is that rhyme and a scene where the dude jumps out of bed in front of his alien love interest who’s all “Oh my I can see your dong how embarrassing”.
I don’t know, man, you think I choose to remember these things?
Anyway, I’ve been in a….”bad mental place” sounds way too dramatic, let’s just say “a funk” for the past few weeks but I think I’m starting to pull out of it 🙂
132 is also a number you can’t show with your fingers in polite company.
Now I’m having vague flashbacks to the old Lazer Tag cartoon from when I was four years old. That’s so long ago that I had to look it up to find the original air dates and a quick perusal of YouTube reminds me of how gloriously and shamelessly corny and ridiculous 80s cartoons were. Even compared to modern cartoons, that’s a special variety of ass-pulled narrative for a weekly twenty minute commercial for an overpriced toy. Though I do recall it being my absolute favorite show at the time and it’s definitely the first science fiction narrative that I actually followed for any extended period of time. That probably explains a few things about myself, actually.
I looked up “Laser Tag Cartoon” and found a cartoon called “Lazer Tag Academy” about time travelling to pirate times. No laser tag occurred. That’s the 80s cartoon way, I guess.