Comic 243

Steve completing his anti-hiccup formula

Link: Comic 243

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Title: ad hic

Date: December 5, 2006

Summary: Steve develops a formula against hiccups

Cast: Beaver, Steve, Teapots, Teacups

Onomatopoeias used: "GLUK", "GAAKK!", "SIT."

"Fin" style: Sitting Scorpion.

Number of panels: 12

Transcript

Panel 1

Steve: "Hic! Hic! Hic! Hic! Hic! Hic!"
Beaver: "Tee Hee! Looks like someone has a case of the hiccoughs!"
Beaver: "Here - drink out of the wrong side of this glass. That will get rid of them."
Steve: "Superstitious nonsense! Hic! I'll cure them the scientific way Hic!: With science! Hic!

Panel 2

Later...
Steve: At last! Hic! The formula is complete!
Steve: But there's only Hic! one way to find out if it works... Hic!

Panel 3

Steve GLUK GLUK GLUKs the formula.

Panel 4

Steve GAAKK!s

Panel 5

Steve falls into a blue and purple spiral, out of which smiling yellow teacups and teapots emerge.

Panel 6

Steve: "GROAN..."

Panel 7

Steve: "What happened ..."
Steve: "Oh!"
Steve: "My hiccoughs... They're gone!"

Panel 8

Steve: "It works! This miracle cure will change the world forever! And best of all it has absolutely no side-effects!"
Beaver: "But Steve, you've been unconscious for three days..."
Steve: "A minor detail..."

Panel 9

Steve: "... and you've grown some sort of grotesque exoskeleton ...."
Beaver: "Hmm... Maybe the formula could use a little work..."

Panel 11

Steve SITs down on the sofa next to Beaver, deforming the sofa and pushing Beaver aside.

Panel 12

Beaver: "I think we might need a bigger sofa."
Steve: "Hic"

Fun Facts

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