Two Friends Discuss Soda Pop

This is a comic that I felt a little less strongly about the longer I worked on it. There's so much bonkers shit about the history of soda that I had to make it double length-- but even still, after all the cramped text, there was little space left to freely riff-- most of the jokes in this comic are just straight retelling of historical fact, which is fine, I guess, but I think I can do better. I think the "Chemistry" two friends comic is the high point, currently. 

Originally, the argument was going to escalate further and culminate in a cliffhanger-- foreshadowing some sort of confrontation between the two characters. However, I felt like this comic series really didn't need any sort of additional "Lore" behind it, so I scrapped that idea and just got weird with it. The ending character reveal is supposed to mimic the sort of thing you see in a Metal Gear or Yakuza game, though I couldn't find a good font to convey that exact feeling. The girl's reaction is lifted directly from the most recent season of the Eric Andre show, when Hannibal's brother reacts to seeing the grotesque Hannibal Buress clone. Just pure shock and disgust. Still a good show, by the by, even if Hannibal is gone. He was the perfect foil, though it was time for him to move on-- in the first few seasons he looks exactly like that one weird kid in middle school who was super quiet and always breathed really loud, and by season 5 he became a Hollywood big shot, wearing gaudy tracksuits and making the error of ditching his glasses for contacts-- his own vanity betraying him, as an unobscured view of Hannibal's impossibly beady eyes is a truly unsettling thing to witness. Bit of a tangent, sorry. 

Additional unused fact; Pepsi was originally called "Brad's Drink". Another near perfect use of "Chad Semiotics"-- this surely accounts, at least partially, for why a drink that is near-universally considered worse than it's main competitor has managed to stay to massively successful.