[dc]O[/dc]h boy, No Filter Fox, you should know better than to read books from Observant Raptor‘s ‘Occult’ shelf.

Sal-Mon Doom, the creature exiting the portal in the last panel is a gag I came up with a year ago–but the rest of this comic came to me last week. Sal-Mon Doom started simply as a doodle of a monster demon fish saying “DOOOOM,’ but I couldn’t find a way to use him–until now.

The Salmonomicon is, of course, a reference to the Necronomicon mentioned in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and the Evil Dead films. Plus, it is just fun to say. English Majors might recoginze the second set of options for dialogue, as they all come from Shakespearean works. You may not think Sal-Mon Doom’s option of “Women be shoppin!” comes from Shakespeare, but it does. It is from a little known play, Much Ado About the Nineties.

The third set of dialogue comes from an equally storied source: this list of catchphrases on Wikipedia.

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