Late again... sorry

Carl & Spectrum are at a Cake Shop, Spectrum saying to the srever at the counter "I'll have a Hundreds & Thousands Donut" Carl says "Yeah I'll also have a Rainbow Sprinkles"  A few moments later Carl & Spectrum are talking at a table in the shop with what they ordered  Spectrum looks at his food upset, saying "Wait... these aren't Hundreds & Thousands..." & Carl is also upset about his food, saying "And these aren't Rainbow Sprinkles"  Spectrum, holding up his Donut says "This is just... one", Carl replies "And mine just has an Ultraviolet Sprinke"  Comic & Alt Text by @geodes-n-gems.bsky.social on Bluesky & Geodes_n_Gems on Lemmy & Wafrn

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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't get it... πŸ˜•

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Both of their orders are wrong.

    The first person's doughnut (pictured) has a single grain on it, so instead of getting "hundreds and thousands", they've got a "one".

    The second person's order has been messed up in a more surreal way - instead of rainbow sprinkles, they've received a single sprinkle that isn't actually any of the colours of the rainbow.

    I think it may have been over-complicated by having two punchlines in the last panel. Either of them could have stood on their own but having both on the last panel takes some of the impact out of the punch. Also, having two separate strips about this shop messing up orders would help establish this location in the comic's world.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The joke is that hundreds & thousands wouldn't really be "Hundreds & Thousands" if there was one, and the same goes for rainbow sprinkles wouldn't be very rainbow if there was one, the Ultraviolet was just Cartoon silliness, the to jokes at once was because Hundreds & Thousands is a more British term to my knowledge so I did both so Anyone could get the joke.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 7 months ago

    I'm gonna put this Comic on a short Hiatus after this so I can update my ref sheets & make more characters & make a map of where the characters live, just to make the comic a bit better, hopefully, I don't know exactly how long it'll be but I don't think very long.

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