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Episode published on Saturday 9th of July, 2005.
"A guy looking to make a better first impression would have probably redrawn this entire arc and made it funny. I'll take my chances, I'm that kind of guy." -- Me, the original Drunk Duck upload of this page, 2008. I tend to agree with me, because I'm a nice guy once you get to know me.
My 17-year old self wanted so hard to imbue the strip with some British humour, which is why there's the gag about the kettle boiling (because tea is the lifeblood of the country! Rule Britannia!). I still agree with myself that the consumption of tea is one of Great Britain's most charming stereotypes and is ineffably true in my case, but since this strip I have decided that most of the Detulux staff are not British. This could leave a small plot hole, but I'll take the decision now that these two guards are British. The rest are from all over the globe.
The uniforms are based around the standard bad guy organisation convention of having different classes of henchman - in Detulux this is split between the regular "light" security force of guys in white sports jackets and caps and the "elite" security force of guys lucky enough to have body armour. Using the RTS world domination game Evil Genius as a standard, Detulux's staff is split between guard minions and mercenary minions.
Keen critics might notice that my early approach to shading was to liberally use Photoshop's gradient tool for everything. The concept of replacing hand-written text with a legible font had also not yet dawned on me at this point.
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Location - Detulux HQ,
Location - Paris, France,
Newbie the Henchman
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Transcript
Title - 04: "Urgency"
(The henchmen talk to each other in the hallway, all equally serious in their expressions.)
The new guy: I REALLY need to see the Boss.
Bald henchman: No one sees the Boss before twelve unless it's really urgent.
(The new guy clenches his fist impatiently.)
The new guy: It IS really urgent!
(Armoured henchman looks over his right shoulder down the corridor behind him - he has been listening to the conversation from a few feet away and appears to be bored.)
Armoured henchman: Now that depends on your definition of "urgent".
The new guy: (confused) ...What?
(The armoured henchman turns his head back to face the new guy.)
Armoured henchman: Well, are we talking urgent as in "the kettle's boiled" or urgent as in "the FBI has us surrounded"?
(The new guy appears to be even more glum and annoyed.)
The new guy: Neither!
Armoured henchman: (sneering) Then it's not that urgent then, is it?
Bald henchman: Ha!
