May 23rd, 2010
Shadows of Dooooom! – part 12
The return of Spelleton! Of course an evil undead bad guy is behind the undead shadow menace.
I wonder if people can make crystal ball-oon animals?
One time I impressed a girl by saying something was cerulean blue. She thought boys didn’t pay attention to colours. I had to explain I don’t know girl colours, for makeup or dresses, just paint colours. Like cadmium red, not “dusty rose” or “aubergine”. I guess I also remember a lot from the set of pencil crayons we had as kids. Sky Magenta, Orchard Purple, Poppy Red… they seem kind of arbitrary. Anyway, I loved the process of picking paint colours for my wife’s and my apartment. Our light blue kitchen is “goat’s beard”. Anyone else have awesome named colours they like?
May 23rd, 2010 at 12:12 am
My bedroom is painted, ‘Buttered Rum’. <3
May 23rd, 2010 at 12:49 am
“I wonder if people can make crystal ball-oon animals?”
I’d rather see someone folding baboon animals. Other than a baboon, obviously, a baboon baboon would be crummy like a balloon snake.
I like “Atomic Turquoise” from Manic Panic’s hair color names. Mostly what I like in paint color names is when they completely fail to give you any idea what color you’d be looking at. For a fine example, I present Benjamin Moore’s “Sunrise”. Imagine a color you’d associate with a sunrise. I bet it’s not the pale blue color they call Sunrise, here – http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Blue-Violet-Paint-Colors-Myperfectcolor-com-s/26.htm
May 23rd, 2010 at 2:56 am
When my parents were picking colours for the bathroom, I distinctly remember a paint colour called “Chicken Breast”… Needless to say, that is not the colour they chose.
May 23rd, 2010 at 12:03 pm
You can throw a voice if you don’t have one?
May 23rd, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Apparently you can…
I’ve heard of a pink color being “Melissa’s Bow”. Why her’s specifically, I don’t know. And currently, one half of my mom’s kitchen is “melted butter”. The other half is sage, but that’s a lameish color in comparison to “chicken breast”.
May 23rd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
wait, what? sky magenta? when.. is teh sky ever magenta? XD
When I was a kid, I thought it was mag-NE-ta, like Magneto from x-men, whose costume is that color..
May 23rd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Weaver – Sounds delicious!
RavenBlack – I always think of sunrise as being orange/red colours like a sunset, but sunrise is really more of a light blue. I’m just not awake early enough most of the time to see the sunrise.
Kaite – Chicken breast? It’s like they wanted a better word for beige but epic failed.
Ribuprissin – I think Spelleton was magically silenced so that prevented his voice from coming out, not that he lost his voice. So in my head the logic works. Uh oh, I feel like I’m mediating a D&D rules dispute.
TPG – Sage? I assume they mean the herb not the old man with a beard who helps you on quests.
Cold Fusion – Magenta at sunset? Villain-wise, I used to think it was pronounced Mag-net-oh. I had never heard of a mag-nee-toe before. And I used to read Orchid Purple as Orchard Purple thinking it was a plum orchard.
July 4th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
nice use of the crystal balloon from a few strips ago. its cool how you bring things back for recurring jokes.
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:02 pm
“i scry with my little eye…” – i knew someone must have come up with that before me.
June 17th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
My room has black trim called “Black Magic”.
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 pm
I didn’t get the crystal balloon pun until I saw Madge scrying with it in this comic.
August 22nd, 2013 at 6:12 am
A mag-nee-to is a part from old fashioned phones. Yup.
May 17th, 2014 at 4:39 pm
My solution here would involve hammers, but then that is my solution to almost any problem. much simpler than outwitting enemies.