Another page! Another day! I currently am a little worried that a short hiatus may be on the horizon again. My Axe Cop demands are high until I get American Choppers finished, the deadlines are tightening and the demands of my other work continue.
I decided today to try out Patreon. I figure I have nothing to lose. I am not offering a lot in terms of rewards right now because I know that if I commit to anything to complicated, it will just make it one more thing getting in the way of me getting any work done. But I figure if Bearmageddon can get enough pledged, that will help me to be able to prioritize it more and not have to put it on hold so often. Also, one can dream, but what if enough money came in that I could feasibly do more than one page per week? I am making the pledge per-page only because it sometimes does not update on schedule and I do not want anyone to feel ripped off. I do not expect you to pledge a high amount per page. A dollar is already a high amount. Whether or not you pitch in, I’ll keep posting. If you want to check out my Patreon page, here it is. And below is my video…
Ethan
I’m pretty sure the gas would disintegrate the balloons. Eat through it like acid.
I don’t see why it should. Gas is an assortment of alkanes and aromatic carbon compounds. Balloons are made of polymers (polychloroprene and nylon). I can’t *think* of any reactions that would melt plastic. If I had some balloons and gasoline, I’d totally try it.
As for getting the gasoline into the balloons, blowing the balloons up and letting them deflate before filling them might stretch the balloons out enough to get a decent amount of gas inside.
Seems like the problem would be getting the balloons to burst if they weren’t filled under a decent amount of pressure, though. How about they fill one balloon your way so that they have a compressible gas container, then squeeze THAT to force gas into the AMMO balloons?
Hold on, I need to patent this…
I’m sure they can find a way to fill the balloons with air and gasoline at the same time, and then slowly release the air after filling so it’s just the gas. That way, it can actually burst instead of bouncing around.
I can’t say for sure about balloons, but a friend did learn from very painful experience that gasoline will eat through a plastic milk jug.
Gas is corrosive. I think it’s a safe bet that it would eat through ballons. How quickly is a different question.
I agree … my first thought was that the gas would break down the latex of the balloons. But then I realized we’re reading a comic about mutant bears and told my inner self to shut up and enjoy it.
Now I have this absurd image of a bunch of balloons wildly whizzing around like crazy flying flamethrowers, as the escaping gas burns away…
Not that it would ever even work. Or would it…? I think this calls for the Mythbuster treatment – complete with full size mock-up bears, obviously. Where’s Adam and Jamie when you need them?!?
Have you ever tried to fill balloons with anything other than water from a tap? It’s nearly impossible to fill them without the pressure that a tap provides.
For a skit once I wanted to fill a water balloon with spaghetti sauce. I ended up putting it in my mouth first, then blowing it into the balloon. Super gross… but it worked.
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woops! done.
I’ve been seeing Patreon things from tons of the creators online, but I think this might be the one to finally get me on board with this.
I can probably only pledge a couple of £’s a month but I’m looking forward to this if it helps make more comics.
I was wondering about the water balloons myself. But more from the “ok, how do we make that work?” perspective. I kind of like the balloon idea coming from the viewpoint of using anything and everything that you have on hand. Like a lawnmower.
Well, they can get about a teacup of the gasoline into the empty baloon, just need a funnel. As for gas – propane in the tank is under a pressure so there’s no problem.
Get the gasoline in the ballon, fill it with propane, light it and – voila! – little rocket-like Molotov cocktails flying everywhere! There is no universe it will work, but still!
I’m disappointed in the lack of ingenuity on the comments.
A simple thought: tap water gets its pressure from the height of the water column in the plumbing system. Get a hose, lift it above the balloon, pour gasoline. If needed, blow on it to force more gas into the balloon.
As for the gasoline destroying the balloons, it’s very possible they would hold for the 5 minutes they need them to. It’s not like they can on to them for long.
That last panel just SCREAMS: “Tonight, someone dies.”
Gasoline WILL dissolve through a balloon without even pausing. The propane would last a short time; enough for use as a low power explosion.
Never mind just how I know this … 🙂
Natural rubber (Can you say poly-isoprene) intermingles with organic solvents marvelously. Secondrowofkeys is exactly correct.