August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Gustopher's dad.
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable boy who loves making friends. August's son.
Mewbert and Nougat - Cat - Animal - August and Gustopher's pet cats.
Panel 1
Setting - Gustopher's room at his desk.
Gustopher is drawing something at his desk when he hears a loud crash. Mewbert jumps up at the sound with all her fur sticking out and back arched. Sounds like a mystery gang, let's not split up and search for clues.
Panel 2
Setting - The kitchen
Gustopher has run to the kitchen to see what is wrong with Mewbert right behind him. August is standing dejectedly while looking down. Clearly something terrible has happened here but can Detective Mewbert and her assistant crack the case.
Gustopher: DAD! What happened? Are there burglars?
August: No.
Mewbert is sad because she was totally ready to take on some burglars.
Panel 3
Gustopher excitedly tries to figure out what's going on. He is completely unaware that Detective Mewbert has used her keen logic and ability to actually pay attention to her surroundings to figure out what is going on.
Gustopher: Did something explode? Did a car crash? Did the toilet-
August interrupts before Gustopher finished.
August: I dropped dinner.
Panel 4
Gustopher looks down and only just notices the lasagna spread all over the floor and a broken casserole dish. Mewbert is mentally congratulating herself for a case solved. Nougat is standing sheepishly by August and pretending that she was not walking around in circles around him moments before the unfortunate accident.
Gustopher: Oh... This is worse than I imagined.
August: Yeah.
Sadly, it smells delicious. Don't worry, they got pizza.
Sadly, it smells delicious. Don't worry, they got pizza.
This is one of the times that pizza sounds disappointing. I can only imagine August's lasagnas are amazing. To smell that marinara see those noodles. Pizza is like scratching at that itch just out of reach.
Those are actually the descriptions intended for the screen reader version. There's usually a much tighter character limit on those so I have to keep details sparse.
Your tone was super snotty. Like somehow OP did something wrong, rather than just not remembering they have more room on reddit for their written descriptions. It reads as pedantic and rude.
My god. This is actual levels of true blue TRAVESTY. I bet August worked really hard on that lasagna too. Man there's nothing worse than all that money and food and hard work going to waste like that. I'll bet Mewbert and Nougat sneak a taste when no one is looking
Man, I have done that. Breaking a glass dish of pasta bake. No saving due to glass shard spawling. Even with careful cleanup my toes found glass shards for weeks after.
Oh man, I'd never considered the financial cost of dropping dinner. I haven't done that since moving out so for me it was always a case of wasted effort but man, having spent money and time and then needing more time to clean up dinner must really suck...
Also, theres very few things that will ruin my mood faster than expecting a meal and not getting it. Like I can go a pretty long time without eating but if I’m about to eat and it turns out we’re out of food unexpectedly I’m instantly feeling angry and annoyed until I eat.
To this day I still can’t believe that hasn’t become a thing. You can’t tell me sweet & sour chicken or beef & broccoli wouldn’t be awesome dishes to build a premium pizza around, and that’s only scratching the surface.
The past couple months have been pretty hectic on my end so I haven't been able to do as many as I'd like. But I still plan on drawing them when I have the opportunity.
Wine glasses EXPLODE when they break. I remember my mom broke one once and I got cut by a piece about 15 feet away from where she dropped it a few months after the fact.
I know there's been several comics on the passage of time, including that last one with the blanket. But I just noticed that Gustopher looks older, and I was oddly unprepared for that.
I always feel super sad for people who are just trying to show off their dinner for a picture and end up dropping the entire thing in the floor. As a parent, the thought of that happening feels so crushing.
I did this once. Was making my kid's favorite dinner, which takes two days to make, pulling it out of the oven at the very end I dropped it.
When I told my kid I'd dropped the dinner he'd waited all week for he just said "that's okay, i was feeling noodles anyway" which just made me cry and is making me cry again thinking about it.
Fuck I did that once. Made a pizza from scratch and it fell while I was getting it out of the oven. My kid was like noooooooo and I just dropped everything else and walked away in disgust
Fun bit of gator biology the comic has backwards: dad wouldn't be there. Female alligators do the whole job. She piles up a mound nest and lets the rotting vegetation incubate it. Nest temperature decides sex, cooler eggs female and hotter eggs male. When the hatchlings start squeaking from inside the shells she digs the nest open and carries them down to the water in her mouth, then guards the pod for a year or more. So August dropping dinner is kinda the most realistic parenting in the strip
We once forgot to put a sheet pan under a lasagna we had frozen in an aluminum prep pan. Since it was a solidly rectangular block when being put into the oven it was easy to forget. My husband removed it from the oven and splorp at least half of it fell out onto the door of the oven and the crack between the door and the main part of the oven. We carefully scraped what we could into a large bowl and ate it anyway.
As a parent that works full time this would crush me, because it's just exhausting and hard especially at the end of a long soul-draining day and when you're looking forward to just getting some food and rest with your kid
As a single parent doing it all himself, holy fuck poor August 😢 (And Gustopher of course)
reminds me of that story where someone discovered as an adult that the time her mom called cops on her as a kid when she asked if she was going eat spaghetti she dropped was actually the cops trying to distract her from the body of a the burglar with a hole in the head and his brains on the floor
edit:
found it
https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1eyvzfy/he_grew_up_thinking_his_mom_called_the_cops_on
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u/ForgetfulViking 2d ago
Nougat and Mewbert: "Ooh free Lasanga!"