ConCONcon 2021 – page 11
It’s not just me, right? Other people have felt like the only way they could keep their rooms from becoming an oppressive, suffocating pit of death was by cranking the air conditioner up to frigid levels at all times, right?
So, this page went through a weird creative process. The joke, obviously, is about hotel rooms… except anybody paying attention to this comic will know that I very rarely stay in the con hotel anymore. So I felt obligated to include this “plot” of me going to somebody’s room to pick up something, and started thinking way too hard about which of the many MANY fake Conventional Wisdom anime I could use as the thing being got… and then I got sick of thinking that hard, because all those fictional details were totally secondary to the point of the page. In other words, it’d just be a MacGuffin. So I said “screw it” and just went meta. On a totally related note, this page was written while I was on Thanksgiving vacation.
I don’t know if it would make this more or less meta, but once you get the other 1,000 things on your webcomicing to-do list done and get around to stocking up your online store, you should totally sell some nondescript item of nominal value with the overt label “Macguffin” on it, just so everyone knows where to get one from! After all, we now know from this webcomic that you do in fact possess such an object, right? 😉 So you should be totally qualified to make and sell duplicates of it, just like any good entrepreneur!
Oh, and incidentally I totally agree on the absolute necessity of keeping the A/C set on whatever maximum chill is available.
Oh man, that’s actually not a bad idea. I mean, I’d need to make the joke into a running gag for people to care enough to actually spend money on it, but that DOES seem doable. I gotta write that down!