875: Rip and tear

875: Rip and tear

So long, and thanks for all the fish

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SO. MANY. REFERENCES. Where do I even start? Basically nearly everyone in this thread got what they asked for. So much so that I had to export this comic in a higher DPI so you could actually see the details properly. For those trivia loving cheesites, this strip features cameos from (trying to go L->R for each panel where I can), and just about all of them are original colour correct, except for some PNG weirdness:

Panel 1

Tentacle sex demons from dimension sex, requested by Sam Gamble

Shittily drawn Thanatos (tm), I guess in the 130s range, if you had to place him

Green Shirt Thanatos (which he wore from strip #27 in 2001 up until #132 in 2002)

Blonde newsreader

My buddy Oohoo

Kat, Violent Bob, Nat

Ranty stick figure Goonigoogoo

Short sleeve red shirt Duke, before he got his trendy jacket (aka from strip 57 in 2001 up until 134 in 2002).

Cleo, requested by Anthony Dukes as "the other robot whose name escapes me"

Late 200's style Thanatos

Regular jacket wearing Duke

Super robot

Panel 2

The two unfortunates from this Tales from Dimension ZX strip in 2005

Panel 3

Green shirt Thanatos (see above), Kat

The sensible registrar from this strip in 2005

Short red shirt Duke (see above). For additional trivia; Duke actually wore a longer sleeve red shirt all the way back in #8 of the same colour and switched to short sleeves in #57 for no apparent reason I can remember ten years on, but that makes him the only character (bar Violent Bob) who has retained the same colour scheme throughout the entire run

Current spec Thanatos

Panel 4

Jacque, requested by Goran Blazevic as "that french douchebag

Panel 5

Classic Woodrow, requested by Pierre Hatman Blondelle

Green shirt Nat/Kara. Since I'm so bad at drawing hair you can actually work out roughly which comic range she belongs in. I'd place her around the late 200s, which makes it 2003

Panel 6 (okay, L->R on this one, line by line)

Horace Billings, the midget inside Wang as requested by Ian Fox

The Flash, as requested by Luke Giles

Judge Emeril, as requested by Jorge Ramirez

Humiditor, as requested by Josh Zee

Rupert, who I could swear I only drew not too long ago but apparently this was back in 2007

Awesome, as requested by Juliann Hegemann

Thumb Bricklaw's 'Ethan', as requested by Brendan Trimble

Tycho, requested by Anne-Sophie Comme Ca

Current spec Nat

French (Portugese) onion, requested by Austin Reaves

Disco Bitch, requested by Gabriel Andres Pizzio

Thanatos' vegetarian girlfriend, also requested by Anne-Sophie Comme Ca

Robocop, requested by Alessandro Perricone

A capella Thanatos (with potato masher!) as requested by Nathan Scott Stinson

Early 200's Thanatos' head

300s series Duke, as evidenced by the oval sunglasses

Platypus God, requested by Curtis Brand

Eros, Thanatos' arch nemesis. Since I apparently didn't mention it in the newspost four years ago, Eros ("intimate love", according to Wikipedia) is the polar opposite of Thanatos ("Death") in Greek Mythology. Also there's some Freudian stuff, but I can't be bothered with that

My pal Keir, from Sweaty Penny

Vegeta, from SAIYAN HOOUUUUSEE, requested by James Cartwright

Professor Science, PhD requested by Austin Reaves

David Caruso, requested by Brian Kemp

Phoenix Wright, also requested by Anthony Dukes

World's fastest Pikachu, requested by Patch Wylie

"that reporter that showed up in Thanatos' house, always facing forward, also requested by Goran Blazevic

The arm that got ripped off in panel 2

Timmy the Talking Tampon, also requested by Julian Hegemann

Zach and Lance's eyepatch, also requested by Austin Reaves

Jacque's leg from Panel 4

TORE SHIT UP T-rex

Phew. This strip is probably the longest I've ever taken to draw, mostly because I kept having to trawl through the archives trying to find which bloody strip certain characters were in. But if the fan crew requested it, then that meant it was something important to them so I did my best to find and include them all (shit I forgot to include giant spider roommate, which is one of my favourite comics ever. Sorry Anne, but you already had two requests done and I was trying to fill in everybody). This is in fact the second last BTC, both of this storyline and ever. I know it's snuck up on us, but in another week and a bit, this comic will turn 10, and then it will finish. I'll spare you guys all the reminiscing until then, so Bizarre linkage instead: Paula Deen Riding things. dot com. Why does this exist?! Internet. That's why.