Reptile marketing
And we move to our reptile marketing duo!
Cameo appearance: Mathias the spider in panel 4.
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I remember Mathias : he was in the “apple a day” arc
Hope the food truck will have a lot of clients ? Ah , phone ringing : news of the mysterious “her” ?
Good catch on the ringing phone; I didn’t even notice it when I first saw this~
Daniel the Human and I are thinking Food Critic – one of those people who show up and either tell you ALL the food is “THE BEST I’VE EVER HAD” or that “IT’S SO BAD I WOULDN’T EVEN TRY POISONING MY DOG WITH IT!!” type people…
OK, Daniel the Human didn’t put it THAT way, but I got the basic idea, right?
That’s a possibility , even if i think a food critic friend with Cleo risks to be partial . We have to wait and see
Daniel here. I don’t think that if it IS a food critic they would be Cleo’s friend. I’m thinking it’s simply someone Cleo invited to come over and try out the food. I dare say Cleo would have carefully selected someone who is known to like/love this type of cooking, but I doubt they know each other outside the requested attendance and by reputation…
Indeed, Mathias has shown up there ^^
By the way ; what about your health problems , Robin ? Going better ?
It’s going better. Slow improvements ^^
I have a long way to go, but it’s going in the right direction 😀
Thanks for checking up on me!
Well looks like both groups did well in handing out the flyers! Cleo did print out plenty so even if 5% show up to check out their food truck that would still be a substantial crowd, possibly more than they have food to feed! Imagine if they ran out before Larissa and Dinah could arrive!
Larissa: Curses! How could they have sold out this quickly?! Now what am I going to do?
A food truck, organized and provided by Cleo, would not sell out so quickly xD
Seems Kaya is a bit more business conscious than she lets on, probably why she gets along well with Cleo.
It’s going to be pretty interesting when she, and us as the audience, finally meets Cleo’s dad
Kaya is not as airheaded as she tends to behave herself. She did figure out all the tech needed to stream and for music by herself and such. She knows things :p
Different tactics for the same goal
as Kaya and Cleo take a flyer
and pass them out among the crowd;
neither being made a liar.
Cleo knows the business tactics
whilst Kaya goes for the home felt plea.
Talking to hearts and their wallets;
Which will the best approach here be?
The friendliest of waged contest
between these, the best of friends
as Kai cooks up a storm of food,
Nate plots and Katsumi defends.
Ring ring. We gonna find out who “she” is?
I think that is Thunderpants warning her of the immanent arrival of trouble.
We just might ^^
Yay for economics! Also, adorable outfits and expressive faces as usual. You spoil us.
Thank you 😀 I always have fun picking out new clothes for the cast ^^
Panel 1: Why does Katsumi speak when she was only thinking before?
Panel 4: There should be a comma at the end of “Me”.
Panel 1. Because she feels like it? I know I sometimes start a sentence in thought and add any add-ons verbally. (It irritates me when I catch myself doing it.)
Panel 4. ‘Fraid not. She’s not pausing or, you know, adding words that the sentence runs fine without, so no comma needed.
She most likely is now talking to herself just because :p
Kaya’s mentality: We should be hoping for everyone to show up! Five percent is one-twentieth, that’s miniscule!
Cleo’s mentality: Most people aren’t swayed by ads they see; ads just make them aware of something they might not be. The odds of more than five percent of the people we’ve advertised to being interested in what we’re selling is miniscule.
The cell phone’s mentality: You’re getting a phone call, your conversation can go hunt itself. Pick me up in the first three rings or I’m gonna scream so loud this entire festival is going to know where you are.
Also, at a festival like this, there’s an insane amount of competition for stomachs. Some people like me try to get a little something at each booth or food truck, but even with people like me, it’s still not a given, because the restaurants want to sell their food and not be seen as overly stingy with it. As such, the smallest portion you can get from any one place is not that small. Unless someone’s willing to take one bite of each, or planning on grabbing a lot of food to go, getting something from every restaurant is just not possible.
I mean, OK, if your digestion system works like The Flash’s, then maybe. But for humans without superhuman digestion, it’s quite simply a volume computation.
Also, I don’t know if Cleo knows Italian or not. But there will be quite a few people who take a look at that name and decide, “That’ll be too spicy for me.” That includes some people who actually got to see Kaya, and heard that her brother is the same sort of hybrid, because even with what she has been telling people, you need to be in the right headspace to recognize that the place has been named after the kids, not after the capsaicin concentration.
Also, even those who recognize it was named after the kids might be a little cautious about the heat.
To be clear, I’m not particularly afraid of spicy food. I’ve even tried some food made by an Italian restaurant named Due Draughi, if I recall correctly. Once. My recollection was, it was spicy enough that I’m not sure I’d be brave enough to try another place with the same name. I only managed to eat the whole meal because it’d been a food festival situation (though booths rather than trucks), so I had the food in a to go container, and I was able to mix it in with several meals’ worth of not spicy at all food to cut it down to barely within my limits.
Though, as I’m thinking about it, I also remember there were a bunch of people who commented on the air around that booth and the food I carried away from it being painful for the eyes, so there were probably some signs besides the name of the place (which I totally did not understand because I didn’t speak any Italian that isn’t also nigh universally understood Spanish at the time.)
The cell phone mentality is spot on xD
Cleo’s tail is ringing. Is that normal?
I…..guess it is, apparently more so when you store a mobile phone in a pocket there…
Yeah, it’s the newest innovation in hybrid technology 😀
Looks like a busy day for our favorite team. Hoping all goes well for them.
Cleo, your tails running, wanna pick that up?
*Cleo disconnects her tail, then uses 1 end as the mouthpiece & the other end as the earpiece…*
😛
The problem for lizards that can disconnect their tails is that it generally dumps a good chunk of their fat reserves and then they have to spend a lot of energy regrowing it, so much so that females will likely not reproduce until the tail is regrown. Mind you, I doubt Cleo will try reproducing soon. She strikes me as one who is waiting for marriage first.
Please check my comment below, I messed up when I tried to post it as a reply…
The one from “Turtimjs,” not the one right below.
I didn’t know Cleo (and for that matter, snake and lizard Hybrids) were capable of autotomy. She should probably see a doctor about that.
Her butt is ringing… What the heck did you swallow, girl?!
“Hello, you reached Cleo’s tail. Cleo is busy at the moment. Please call back later or leave a message after the tail slap.”
“Reptile Marketing” – Cleo and Kaya’s future business upstart? xD In all seriousness, nice to see another amazing page from this comic Robin. I hope you’re doing a bit better in terms of your personal health. Your readers are all here for you, and appreciate the work you put in to keep releasing new pages every week. Just don’t overdo it. Remember to take breaks if you need them and avoid burning yourself out. For now though, keep up the amazing work. As always, stay awesome!
Kaya in a business startup sounds like a lot of trouble xD
I’m doing better bit by bit, Alpha. Still have a long way to go, but at least we’re going in the right direction. Thanks for checking up on me 😀
“Due Draghi”
I’m thinking that’s “Two Dragons” in something, but it doesn’t sound Italian.
Then again, I’ve never had to say ‘dragon’ in Italian….
The only restaurant I’ve encountered with that name served the spiciest pasta I’ve ever encountered. I opted for the “marinara”, but that was hotter than any arrabiata that I’ve encountered elsewhere. Not that I recall seeing arrabiata on their menu, I think their options were just “marinara” and “alfredo”. So I think it’s Italian, but I can’t say for sure.
It is, indeed, Italian~
Due Draghi is indeed ‘Two Dragons’. Marco named the restaurant after his greatest treasure 😀
On the Due Draghi page, Robin wrote “Due Draghi is Italian for ‘Two Dragons’”.
If you don’t believe Robin, then look up “due” and “draghi” in Wiktionary.
My comment was supposed to be a reply to Apache, but it looks like something went wrong and it became a separate comment instead.
Can Lizard Hybrids regenerate their tails? Normal lizards do so by temporarily shutting down parts of their immune systems and having the immune cells focus on repairing the tail, so that may be a bit risky for Hybrids. It also takes weeks or months for lizards to finish regeneration and given how big the average Lizard Hybrid is compared to a normal lizard, it may take longer and be more resource draining. Plus, Cleo is technically a Snake Hybrid and although she’s kind of a lizard since she’s a snake with limbs, I don’t think she’s capable of autotomy (the self detachment of appendages). Now, Dragons on the other hand, we already have a set of “Twin Dragons” to use as test monkey lizards- er… Monkey drakes
They can not. Just like humans, hybrids do not posses the possibility of regeneration. They also don’t detach their tails :p
It took some thinking, but I think panel 3 is my favorite. It shows both Kaya and Cleo, but they are each interacting with other people. Considerably different personalities and styles. 🙂
Panel two has an amazing perspective. Panel 6 needs one or two pairs of young ears in the gray background rabble. 😉
I keep noticing Cleo’s eyes over time. They are interesting to look at just because of their shape. Regardless of her apparent emotions, they seem to always be flat on top and give her a sleepy look. NOT a complaint, Cleo is sweet and they worked -very- well with her Cleopatra get-up, just an observation. 🙂
If Cleo was named after Queen Cleopatra, does that mean her full Hybrid species is a type of asp?
Robin has said that Cleo’s snake species is non venomous, my money’s on Egyptian sand boa. Seems to match up with coloration, demeanor, and habitat. Not to mention if she’s a constrictor then Kaya’s in for a surprise when Cleo decides to return a hug.
Thanks Ed 😀 I’m glad you like the details I put in every panel ^^
Cleo answers the phone and hears…
“Seven days…”
“Seven days til what?”
I’ll give you a hint. It’s a reference to an American movie from the days when Americans thought there was something wrong with showing non-American media, and so made their own version of the movie instead of just dubbing the original Japanese.
Well.. There weren’t any telephones involved in “The Seven Samurai” OR “The Magnificent Seven”. 🙂 Early monster movie?
Wrong genre. Pretty sure Nonathon’s talking about a horror movie.
I thought it might be a reference to ‘The Ring’, as a nod to the ringing phone~
The quotations were supposed to signify Cleo asking the question, preferably in a snarky tone.
The jewellery films?
I preferred the Seven Days time travel series. Does she need to go back in time to sort something?
Cleo: “Oh no, girl. You have to pay those invoice by tomorrow! You already got your 30 days!”
phone: “…”
Cleo: “Making a copy of the invoice and giving it to someone else will not add another week to the due date.”
Samara: “Oh come on, you saw the cursed video!”
Cleo: “It doesn’t work if you download it off of BitTorrent.”
Samara: “Dammit, I knew I should have tried YouTube.”