042: Somewhere in Ohio, Part 2
This strip is based on actual events, that actually happened, really, to me. One day, whilst living in Oberlin, we went to the Oberlin Inn for breakfast, or lunch, or some other necessary eating function. I’ve no idea why we went there, exactly, except I think that they may be the only place in the state of Ohio that serves eggs benedict. In any case, on their menu they don’t list ‘coffee’. They list ‘Starbucks Coffee’, and it’s $1.75, which is a little spendy. You can tell that whole ‘Starbucks‘ bit really jacked up the price.
Now, granted, this is Ohio. They have some good beer breweries down there, but coffee breweries they have none. So Starbucks it is, the standard of good coffee … in places like Ohio. And the people at the Oberlin Inn, they were a little crazy about the fact that they had Starbucks coffee. To the point where Starbucks coffee is actually, physically hotter than other coffee, on the sole merit that it comes from Starbucks. Perhaps they think that it comes from Planet Starbucks, a hot, lava-filled planet awash with tiny coffee gnomes, harvesting the beans and sending them to earth on the backs of trained meteors. And if that were the case, really, I wouldn’t have the heart to tell them that it just came from Seattle. Seattle, where it rains a lot, and whose team is going to win the Superbowl next week. But I digress …
In other news, introducing Cap! Penny Arcade has Div. Questionable Content has Pintsize. Ctrl-alt-del has the x-box robot guy, and now we’ve got Cap. Cap, you may have guessed, is a caption box. A sentient caption box, as it turns out, sent here by his betters to investigate, probe, and narrate the mysteries of human existence. He used to work for Marvel, but was dropped unceremoniously for a younger, sexier caption box, so we managed to pick him up cheap. Oh, the hijinks that will ensue. Enjoy the strip and we’ll catch ya Friday (or tomorrow for sketch day!).