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September 15, 2017

#1890: What to Bring

What to Bring

[Text in the top-left corner of the comic:]

“Should you bring _____ to ______?”

[The comic is laid out like a grid, with implements down the left-hand side (A knife / A gun / Water / A lid) and the type of “fight” across the top (A knife fight / A gun fight / A wood fire / An oil fire). The grid illustrates the “match-ups”, with a green square denoting a “correct” match-up and a red square denoting a Very Bad Idea.]

[From the top left corner, going from left to right, top to bottom, with each first item being on its own line in the grid, the squares are as follows:]

[Green square, two combatants face off against each other with knives, equally matched.]

[Red square, a person with a knife faces off against someone with a gun, and is clearly outmatched.]

[Red square, a person holds a knife in a wood fire while saying “OW OW OW”.]

[Red square, the person with the knife scrapes at the oil inside the pan that’s on fire while saying “OW OW OW”. The scraping accompanied by the text “SCRAPE SCRAPE”.]

[Green square, the person with the gun points it at the opponent with the knife, who exclaims, “Dude!”]

[Green square, two combatants point guns at one another, equally matched.]

[Red square, the person with the gun shoots pointlessly three times at the wood fire, which carries on blazing. The shooting is accompanied by the text “BLAM BLAM BLAM”.]

[Red square, the person with the gun shoots at the flaming pan, which does nothing to put it out. The shooting is accompanied by the text “BLAM”.]

[Red square, the person with the water throws it uselessly in the face of the person holding the knife.]

[Red square, the person with the water throws it uselessly in the face of the person holding the gun.]

[Green square, the person throws the water on the fire and successfully extinguishes it, which makes a “SPLOOSH” sound.]

[Red square, the person is shown reeling back from the oil fire, the water glass going flying, as the oil fire explodes with a “FOOM”.]

[Red square, the person with the lid comically places it on the head of the person with the knife, who stands there in confusion.]

Red square, the person with the lid ineffectually places it on top of the gun the other person is pointing at them.

Red square, the person with the lid holds it near the wood fire, which does nothing to put out the fire.

[Green square, the person places the lid on top of the oil fire, which suffocates and extinguishes it.]