March 2nd, 2009
Octopus Surprise
Another reminder: If you found this comic even remotely amusing, you can click ‘yes’ on this strip and a few other Optipess strips over at Is It Funny Today, which in turn probably exposes them to more people. Consequently, together we could potentially make enough people happy to ensure world peace! Clickyclicky!
March 2nd, 2009 at 00:59
hahaha, nice one, buddy! Funny as always!
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:55
Honestly… this one, I don’t get it. :-/
What’s he doing with the lighthouse in the last panel?
March 2nd, 2009 at 15:15
@alecho: Thanks, Alex!
@Wayne: Um well, I was hoping it would be rather obvious, but maybe I could’ve made it clearer somehow. Anyway, I’ll let a Google Images search do the explaining: http://1heckofaguy.com/wp-content/photos/flashlight%20face.jpg
March 2nd, 2009 at 15:15
He had the lighthouse on his head to attract prey. So in the last panel he’s just holding on to it for future surprise attacks. Or that’s my first interpretation anyway. The second interpretation is that he grabbed the lighthouse to make himself look scary by lighting his face up from below, like someone might do with a flashlight when they’re telling a spooky story. Maybe it’s both?
Either way it reminds me of a wonderful flashgame I played recently, called The Majesty Of Colors: http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/the-majesty-of-colors
March 3rd, 2009 at 06:04
@Kristian: I agree, you could’ve made the last panel a little clearer. When I looked at the image link you provided, it DID clear things up a lot
Either way, clear last panel or not, your comics do make ME smile 
March 3rd, 2009 at 09:08
It took me a few takes to get exactly what the end panel should of meant, I think if the sailors didn’t know the gigantapus had taken the light house then they would have been genuinely surprised by the face makings, but for the most part they know it’s coming for them, so they aren’t/the reader isn’t worried about the face surprise. If you know what I’m saying? It’s really early in the morning and I’m hungry. T_T;
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44
Yes, yes and a million times yes. This is my new favorite.
March 3rd, 2009 at 15:36
This one stirred up a bit more confusion than I thought it would. I guess my mind was entirely focused on the flashlight scare thing, as that’s where the idea originally sprung out from.
@Gillsing: I see we posted at the exact same moment yesterday! I liked your interpretations, even though I’ll quickly admit the first one wasn’t on my mind when I made it. But I can see it working from that angle as well, so that’s all good, I guess. So yeah, your second interpretation is the one I intended. Oh, and that Flash game is pretty darn cool indeed.
@Oyster: Awesome, smiling readers make ME smile
@Jernette: Thanks!
March 4th, 2009 at 09:57
A quick way to make the point clearer would be to make the surroundings darker, having a larger contrast between light and dark. I didn’t have any problems understanding the strip, maybe because I spent a large amount of my childhood scaring people like that.
March 4th, 2009 at 13:37
I got it immediatley; I dont really see any room for conclusion. funny as always, K.
March 9th, 2009 at 22:43
I got it too. I mean, I’ve done it myself. On a much smaller scale, though… lol… and no one died, of course.
May 14th, 2009 at 21:39
lmao, is the lighthouse supposed to be a flashlight and the octopus is making a spooky face at us? cute
March 15th, 2010 at 01:20
[...] style, and I’m definitely the most pleased with this one. You can check out my previous attempts here and here. Posted in Fun « Porn For [...]