0016 - Return of Peter H. "Nice Pete" Cropes
Added 2023-08-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTCTéodor, experimenting with risotto in a low-sided paellera, is interrupted by Peter H. Cropes, who is not sure how he should feel about a piece of packaging he encountered.
In the end, Mr. Cropes' cryptic phone call to an unseen colleague suggests that his off-screen machinations are still often fueled by a sense of anger at the way his low beginnings cast him on the stage of the world.
Comments
Teodor is instinctively terrified of Nice Pete's voice.
J. Alex
2024-03-05 21:48:13 +0000 UTCNice Peter Cropes giving orders of mercy over the telephone is scary times.
Ruxine
2024-02-02 08:52:24 +0000 UTChow do you take your coffee?
s b
2023-12-31 22:13:04 +0000 UTCThe Nice Pete content has been my favourite of the new stuff
Brian Horstead
2023-08-28 01:59:50 +0000 UTCNice Pete "comes from circumstances" so he cannot taste the pretentious subtleties in the coffee.
Brad Fino
2023-08-26 01:11:37 +0000 UTCA particularly good one
A. C.
2023-08-21 15:47:17 +0000 UTCTeodor's BBQ dad-ass outfit
Tovfly
2023-08-20 18:34:49 +0000 UTCHe's a human type of cat
Donald Turnbaugh
2023-08-20 03:34:55 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this
Joshua Nadas
2023-08-19 19:14:20 +0000 UTCGood side profile of Nice Pete here.
Tom PM
2023-08-19 14:26:36 +0000 UTCDamn. I wonder if Pete read that recent piece on Albini in The Guardian?
Johnny Deans
2023-08-19 11:39:13 +0000 UTCThere's no-one on the other end of that line. It's pure theatre for Teodor.
Daniel Burt
2023-08-19 09:18:47 +0000 UTCPanel 6 made me laugh out loud. The last panel terrified me. Well done.
Walter Biggins
2023-08-19 02:38:08 +0000 UTCGood God I've missed this more than I realized. Nice Pete has grown and really he's just trying to be at least murdering in the most ethical manner. It is the way of the evolved man as I have been told from my extreme low background.
MisterQueue
2023-08-19 01:57:46 +0000 UTCPete has been studying compassion, but even though he can't taste the fig overtones or acidic briar char there is still something wrong with him. I admire his strict moral code, but I think giving him any advice or opinion is a hazardous undertaking at the best of times.
J Hardy Carroll
2023-08-18 23:54:25 +0000 UTCDefinitely not typing this from a sketchy castle while Hellboy punches my employer
Kriegsaffe No. 9
2023-08-18 23:34:30 +0000 UTCIt might be accurate to say he lacks a sense of humor.
toby x
2023-08-18 23:19:52 +0000 UTCThey’re on “Téodor is afraid of repeating the high school incident and chooses his words carefully” terms
Aaron J. Rushton
2023-08-18 23:11:58 +0000 UTCHey you’re not one of those Frankenstein apes are you?
Aaron J. Rushton
2023-08-18 23:10:52 +0000 UTCI have been in the wine business for many years now and I promise you that no didactic wine moron has ever gone as totally insane with a tasting note as the average just-hired Counter Culture employee. Also I'm glad to see that Téodor and Pete are on ok terms, considering the...high school incident
Nicholas Williams
2023-08-18 22:18:48 +0000 UTCBy God we are back
pileofbugs
2023-08-18 20:48:18 +0000 UTCPete wasn't wrong in his initial response.
Alexander Rediger
2023-08-18 18:59:08 +0000 UTCIf I'm reading it right, it *is* a problem that the coffee bean seller writes an inaccurate and/or overblown description of what the coffee tastes like unadulterated, but he is forgiven for writing that by NP because NP recognizes that the seller writes that description out of protest at the fact that the seller expects no one to taste the coffee black in the first place, and is thus disrespected by the coffee-buying public, and is thus an ally in facing up to disrespect in his own way?
Andrew
2023-08-18 18:32:58 +0000 UTCPete's found a bud to do his deeds with, good for him.
Nick Huntington-Klein
2023-08-18 18:28:56 +0000 UTClook pete we've all been there but crime is not the way (unless...)
Michael Ryan
2023-08-18 18:14:53 +0000 UTCI don't have the first idea how you make the black cloud on the horizon that is Pete this funny, but here we are. Hell of a punchline.
Zen Window
2023-08-18 18:13:27 +0000 UTCAlways walking a fine line with Nice Pete, our Teodor is. I was afraid NP was going to take Teodor’s comment in panel 7 as a slur on his modest raising, assuming that Pete was the type of person who would so adulterate his coffee. Turns out NP just likes his coffee honest, as he does like everything, and was going to Take the poor merchant for his lies. I wonder if that’s a burner phone and who does conspire with him…
Jay Williams
2023-08-18 17:55:40 +0000 UTCMe, yesterday: "What did I do to my grind, I can't taste anything in this Verve Ethiopian Worka" Me today: "Whelp, I have covid"
Sightline
2023-08-18 17:45:44 +0000 UTCStarting to really worry about Pooh Bear.
Linus Lee
2023-08-18 17:43:57 +0000 UTCThis one (presumably) goes out to coffee nerds who take theirs black (me).
Kriegsaffe No. 9
2023-08-18 17:29:33 +0000 UTCWow! Téodor! I haven't seen you in a while! Are you fat now?
Zachary
2023-08-18 17:24:25 +0000 UTCa social web as yet unseen
zoë hayden
2023-08-18 17:23:59 +0000 UTCClassic Pete
Kate
2023-08-18 17:23:17 +0000 UTCFor whatever else Pete is, he is a stickler for what is honest and true, and for that he has my respect.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-08-18 17:20:31 +0000 UTCno sound would ever be as sweet as Nice Pete's voice over the speakerphone saying "let him go"
emitydna
2023-08-18 17:19:18 +0000 UTCChrist alive
Ben Wissett
2023-08-18 17:18:22 +0000 UTCDid Téodor become a leather-kilt-and-sock-garters guy? Or am I projecting?
Hunter Tammaro
2023-08-18 17:18:13 +0000 UTCIs Pete pure evil, or is he merely a mirror for the evil in the world shining back on itself? Is there a meaningful difference? The answer doesn't matter, I just want him to be loved.
Don Rowe
2023-08-18 17:17:17 +0000 UTC.... human?
Ben Wissett
2023-08-18 17:17:15 +0000 UTCI thought NP worked alone! Intriguing. More NP, please.
ladiesbane
2023-08-18 17:13:38 +0000 UTCVery smart of Téodor not to get into a whole thing about brewing methods, here
Spyguitar
2023-08-18 17:12:57 +0000 UTCI love Pete
James
2023-08-18 17:09:58 +0000 UTCNP has collaborators... !
Peter Webb
2023-08-18 17:08:54 +0000 UTCprobably my fav of the new stuff so far
Golander
2023-08-18 17:06:01 +0000 UTCHang in there, Pete. Appalachia is rising.
Vijnananath
2023-08-18 17:05:21 +0000 UTCThe way Téodor recognizes the voice
Cf Duddy
2023-08-18 17:05:06 +0000 UTCSecond panel in the last row takes me back, he looks just like he used to.
Nikhil Brocchini
2023-08-18 17:05:05 +0000 UTCUGH perfect Pete. Glad to see this beautiful human survived the times.
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2023-08-18 17:04:13 +0000 UTCLegit guffaw on the ending. Doubled over style. All my teeth visible in the least threatening way my mouth can move.
Aaron J. Rushton
2023-08-18 17:03:54 +0000 UTC
