The macronanos have evolved into something much worse. Now they're taking over the employees of Evil Inc and feeding on their emotions. Unfortunately, some emotional responses are far more predictable than others. Speaking of predictable feelings... as Cassie Cruz storms in ready to blame Dr. Muskiday for the macronano outbreak, her emotion cloud catches a whiff of Jeremy's sexual frustration — and suddenly everyone's priorities change!
Columbus, Ohio
If you're in the Columbus, Ohio, area, make plans to be at the NCS Cartoonists Showcase at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on August 8th.
This free event includes:
Public signings by cartoonists — including me!
Workshops for kids
Exhibits at the museum
A conversation with special guest Cathy Guisewite, celebrating 50 years of Cathy
The event runs from 1 - 5 p.m.
Transcript
Panel 1: Dr. Muskiday bursts into the Evil Inc office to find that macronanos (in the form of large, pink clouds) have taken over his fellow employees. The clouds completely envelop their heads and ingest emojis that emanate from their hosts. Catnip is on the far left, texting, and devil emojis float into the waiting lips of the pink cloud over her head, which sensually slurps them up. In the background, Giant Tess and Psy-Chick both argue, causing angry emotions to float across to the other person’s waiting emotion cloud, which gobbles them up. Count Spurlock watches a video of a kitten with a ball of string, causing sunshine emojis to burst from his chest and into the gleefully munching mouth of the pink cloud on the vampire’s head. Lightning Lady and Miss Match are both texting. Lightning Lady’s emotions are lips, which float up to her emotion-cloud’s waiting mouth. But Miss Match’s emotions are yield signs, and her equally worried pink cloud gulps them guiltily. And on the far right, Iron Dragon’s computer screen displays the familiar PornHub logo. Eggplant emojis float from his lap up to his emotion cloud’s lascivious lips.
Dr. Musiday, reacting to the scene: “Omigosh! The macronanos have taken over their hosts — forcing them to generate emotions to feed off! They’re either doomscrolling, arguing, or rage-texting! The macronanos are provoking random emotional responses [eyeing Iron Dragon] …and a few completely predictable ones…”
Panel 2: Cassie Cruz (off-panel): “MUSKIDAY!” Dr. Muskiday: “eep!”
Panel 3: Cassie Cruz (picking up Dr. Muskiday by the lapels): “This mess is your fault! I have a good mind to put you over my knee and—”
Panel 4:Emojis showing faces with tongues hanging out and single beads of sweat on their foreheads float from off panel
Cassie Cruz (as her emotion cloud gobbles up the raw emotion): “Oh… Oh, that’s the stuff… more! MORE!”
Panel 5:The emojis are revealed to be emanating from Jeremy
Cassie Cruz: “Sweet, delicious sexual frustration!”
Dr. Muskiday: “Feh, it’s an acquired taste…”
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In the Evil Inc office, Dr. Muskiday stares in alarm as giant pink macronanos completely cover the heads of his coworkers. Each cloud has a face and feeds on emotions visualized as floating emojis. On the far left, Catnip texts on her phone while devil-face emojis float from her toward a sensuous cloud that eagerly slurps them up. Behind her, Giant Tess and Psy-Chick are arguing, their anger manifesting as fiery and furious emojis that drift between them and into the waiting mouths of their emotion clouds. Count Spurlock sits happily watching a video of a kitten playing with string, causing sunshine emojis to burst from his chest and into a delighted cloud. Lightning Lady texts while kiss-mark emojis float toward her cloud. Beside her, Miss Match looks worried as yield-sign emojis drift from her body into a guilty-looking cloud. At the far right, Iron Dragon sits before a computer displaying PornHub, while a stream of eggplant emojis rises from his lap into the eager lips of his cloud. Dr. Muskiday explains that the macronanos have taken over their hosts and are forcing them to generate emotions to feed upon.
Then, a furious Cassie Cruz storms into the scene, shouting “MUSKIDAY!” Dr. Muskiday jumps in fright and squeaks, “eep!” In the next panel, Cassie grabs the fly-like scientist by his lapels and lifts him off the ground, angrily blaming him for the crisis. She begins threatening to put him over her knee when she suddenly stops mid-sentence. Floating in from off-panel are flushed face emojis with dangling tongues and beads of sweat, representing intense sexual frustration. Cassie’s pink emotion cloud eagerly devours them as they drift by. Her expression changes from rage to blissful satisfaction as she murmurs, “Oh... Oh, that’s the stuff... more! MORE!” In the final panel, the source of the emotions is revealed to be Jeremy, standing nearby while the cloud continues feeding on the embarrassed emotions radiating from him. Cassie happily proclaims, “Sweet, delicious sexual frustration!” while Dr. Muskiday hops to his freedom, dryly commenting, “Feh, it’s an acquired taste...”