[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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[[No Filter Fox, with a concerned look, approaches Observant Raptor. Something is glowing in the background]]
No Filter Fox: 1. A. Help! B. I could, a tale unfold! C. Hey there, Boo Boo!
Observant Raptor: 2. A. What’s wrong? B. It cannot come good. C. Alvin!
[[No Filter Fox holds up a copy of a strange book, the Salmonomicon. Observant Raptor panics and yells. A strange shape continues to grow and glow in the background.]]
No Filter Fox: 3. A. I was reading from THIS book– B. O teach me how I should forget to think! C. I see dead people!
Observant Raptor: 4. A. THE SALMONOMICON?! B. The first we do, let’s kill all the lawyers! C. That’ll be the day!
[[Observant Raptor and No Filter Fox, in a far away wide shot, stand near a giant, glowing portal in the sky. A giant ring enscribed with runes floats above them, giving off arcs of energy. The sky is black, and through the portal comes a giant demon fish, Sal-Mon Doom.]]
Observant Raptor: 5. A. Good job, you summoned Sal-Mon Doom, the Spawner in the Shadows. B. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. C. Well, here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into!
No Filter Fox: 6. A. I thought it was a cook book! B. O, had I but followed the arts! C. Did I do that?
Sal-Mon Doom: 7. A. DOOOOOM B. Women be shoppin! C. And that’s the way it is.
{hover text: At least he didn’t read from the Bananaramanomicon.}
