Gary the Alchemist

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13-1: American Thanksgiving

Xiam

on Nov. 22, 2009

The working title was Good Ol' American Thanksgiving, but the text would have overlapped with the series title, and I'm not having any of that. So just know Canada has one in October.

Strictly speaking, Thanksgiving is about GIVING THANKS, but it's hard to think about that when the stench of bitter regret hangs in the air, only to be suffocated and stamped out by the savory smell of turkey. I'll bet you anything, though, if the natives knew what the future held, they would have let those pilgrims starve.

So yes, this is our storyline for the week. Thanksgiving. It is, the way I see it, THE holiday for food lovers. Sure, Christmas has some pretty sweet meals, but Thanksgiving is the ultimate Turkey Day. Bird, potatoes, stuffing, yams, more potatoes, gravy all over just about everything. And what's next? PUMPKIN PIE, of course!

I'm not a big fan of cranberry sauce, but I suspect Gary is. Hm.

So, in case you haven't noticed, Gary's mom doesn't exactly know he's essentially created life in a flask. I don't know exactly how he'll break it to her, but he's holding off for now.

Don't worry, the little guy doesn't go hungry.

I wanted to actually make it full-color in here and do away with saturation in the lab, but then I realized that Gary's not even in there or dressed or anything but talking to his imp. Then I wanted to go to a very small amount of color, then I thought… no. No, that's horrible, it's still his lab.

So I just went with 50% saturation as normal. Yargh. I can't wait to get back to alchemy.