A couple of news items today:
-I just redesigned my site, lowbright.com, and finally embedded a blog into it. Which means I will be saying goodbye forever to livejournal. Really happy about that. Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think.
-In case you didn’t know, I do have a twitter account. @derekkirkkim
-Lastly, I will be attending the MoCCA Comics Festival in New York for the 1st time in many years. Because I live on the west coast, it’s really rare for me to make this festival. This will only be the second time I’ve ever been. I will be signing from 5-6pm on Saturday. Hope to see you there!
That last panel is perfect.
I couldn’t say better.
3rd panel looks great too. She knows what she did is wrong.
It’ll be VERY intersting to see what Andy makes of this situation. I’m pretty sure we’re about to witness some interesting/entertaining discussions…
I will not be surprised if Andy is thinking the following about Dash:
What an idiot!!
then that means i will see you at MOCCA then!
Cool!
Even sorta knowing what was coming, this page rocks, it’s just executed so well. I agree with the others, the last two panels are awesome, especially Dash’s guilty smile.
Will Yumi of Earth-2 become Andy’s new love, or will she help him to get ahold of the Yumi from his dimension?
Well, at least alt-Yumi heard Dash say it too. I was afraid she was gonna think Andy was lying.
Good one, Dash… This is like the interdimensional version of the parent who accidentally killed the goldfish of the kid who’s mom he is trying to get in bed with and then he goes out and buys another goldfish and tries to make everything right again.
Well at least both of them get to start fresh? I mean, they are both 100% not what the other expected–so maybe the feelings that they had for each other can be renewed? I mean, she’s basically admitted that she’s had sex with AlterAndy and while she didn’t really go into any GOOD details/feelings, she was pretty pissed at the time so maybe those feelings were on the back burner?
Oh but it can get baaad if they try and mold the new person into what the old person was…
Also! Every day to and from work I drive by a Pho place that always smelled good but I had no idea what was inside… And after reading about it in this comic, I stopped in and whooooah was it crazy in there! Granted, I did stop in right after work and that is usually when most places are busy but still… It was crazy! It was PACKED with people, there was standing room only with college kids in the corner slurping down gigantic bowls in the corners of the main and side dining rooms. Couples sharing a bowl, families with one bowl for each parent and little bowls for the kids…
And then me. Big, dumb, white, gawking at the place like it is some sort of strange new world, and clearly NOT Vietnamese at all, me.
The room didn’t fall silent or anything, but you could tell pretty much everybody took notice of me. Luckily I don’t scare away easily (plus, it smelled AMAZING in there!) and I went up to the cashier and asked to see a menu.
I only knew one thing ahead of time on the menu, and that is ‘bo’ means cow/beef and that is all I had to go on. I don’t even know where I knew that from! But luckily they had the list of stuff inside it after all the options. The first thing on the menu I figured they put on there for the American customers as it was ‘Pho Dac Biet Xe Lua’ which then listed every single type of meat they had in all the other things on the menu… So I didn’t really want to be THAT American right at this instant… So I looked over the menu, and I don’t know if I had a slightly puzzled expression on my face or a confused one because a little girl came up to me (must’ve been like 6-8 or so) and just blurted out,
“Get the Pho Bo Tai Nuoc Beo Gai Chin! IT IS AMAZING!” and then scampered off quick as she appeared.
So I turned to the person who was waiting for me to figure it out, and he was smirking. I dunno, but something in that smirk was equal parts “Oh that’s a cute kid” and “Oh, this American won’t order that–he is going to go with the #1 like all the other American customers do”
I had no idea what the little girl said. All I knew was that it had beef in it, and I liked beef so that was what I was going with. I closed the menu, handed it back to him and said, “That sounds good. I’ll take it to go please.” And the smirk vanished from his face.
“You sure?”
“She seemed to like it, and if she liked it then it is as good of a place as any to start.”
He shrugged, and put the order in. Also, I knew what it was as that was what was written out on the receipt–otherwise I would have had NO way of remembering what it was.
I took a seat on a chair that was recently vacated by a college student, and then seemingly seconds later someone came by with some very good tea (seemed like there was some peppermint in there?) and I had very little time to drink the amazing tea and then my order was ready. As busy as it was in there, and my order took maybe 5mins. WOW!
The entire way home I was smelling these delicious aroma from the bag, but the one note that kept coming out was the Cinnamon. I love cinnamon, and the fact that it was in there was driving me crazy with wanting to eat it in the car. I got home, and I was kind of shocked at to what was in the bag.
1x container of clear broth with a pretty substantial layer of clear fat floating on top.
1x container with raw beef on top of noodles.
1x bag of bean sprouts, sliced green chilies, and some sort of green/red leafy things.
1x smaller bag with some onions sliced up and steamed pretty good.
1x little container of brown sauce or something… I still have no idea what this is. Any help?
This is about the time in which I wonder what I am supposed to do with it all! I quickly search for some guides in which to figure it all out, and from what I gather there is no real ‘right’ way to do it… Only a suggested way which is to dump the meat into the broth which will cook it, and then the beansprouts to soften them up a bit, and then the rest once the broth is cooled. Yeah? well the broth was pretty cool by the time I got home, so I chucked it into the microwave for 2min along with the sprouts and the rest of the bag of stuff to get it all warmed while I look for a big bowl to put it all into.
Got a big bowl, put the hardware on the bottom (meat, veg, noodle) and then poured the software (broth) on top and mixed it in.
Sweet Zombie Jesus… This is amazingly good. Like, as good as any soup I have ever had in my life. Ever. I cannot think of another more perfect bowl of soup of anything. I quickly eat the entire bowl, and find that it is the PERFECT amount. Everything worked good (I might leave out the chilies next time–they seemed to overpower everything at the end once it was in there for a while) with each other ingredient and it was all fresh and amazing.
I will be going back SOON! Anybody have any suggestions on what I should order next? I looked up what I got last time, and they have several other things on the menu that looks/sound great but I would love to know what other people get and try that.
You’re thinking of Same Difference which is also by Derek, I don’t think pho was mentioned here. Though I might be wrong, I haven’t read the beginning parts for a few weeks
Page 197, titled “Pho”. Like I said, I had driven past it manymanymany times on my way home–so I knew what it was, but I didn’t know what it was all about if you get my meaning… Once I read that comic, I was like “Oh, it’s a food place! That makes sense now, seeing as I see people carrying bags out.” I thought it might have been a restaurant or something.
I have not read SD but I mean to!
Actually Andy is also obsessed with pho, and it was mentioned on the page Alexander linked to. It’s sort of an on-running thing in my works.
Yes! Another convert to the gospel of pho! Welcome, brother.
It is so good to be here… What’s your favorite?
I’m pretty unadventurous. Pho Tai.
For a superior life form, Dash is pretty dumb!
haha, yes, indeed. Also says a lot about Praxian arrogance.
Obviously if she can’t tell one Yumi Kwon from another, then nobody can.
Having a lot of knowledge doesn’t mean you have a lot of wisdom or intelligence, and vice versa, that is something I’ve noticed plenty of times in myself and others.
Mama Mia!