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Triangle and Robert #601 The world was still moist, its crust still primordial pudding. Small puddic creatures swam about and ate each other. On the surface walked the Puddans, on their mighty semisolid limbs. / The greatest of the Puddans was their king, Tapiocus the Lumpy. He stood a mile tall and the planet shook when he did calisthenics. / Finding no Puddan worthy to be his bride, he instead married a glacier, and together they built a yogurt palace in the sky, a palace of ten thousand flavors.
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Triangle and Robert #602 Some Puddans became jealous of their king's palace and built a giant saucepan to put it in, so that they would not have to look upon it. / King Tapiocus, however, looked down and saw them plotting, and he sent forth his vast consort to crush them. / She fell upon the plotters, but they trapped her inside the saucepan. As she was a glacier, she began to melt.
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Triangle and Robert #603 The plotters formed a circle around the saucepan, and King Tapiocus could not break through it to rescue his beloved. / He bargained with them, offering them valuable coupons for yogurt and many other treasured things. They refused and refused until his offers totalled half his treasury. / When they finally accepted his bargain, it was too late, for the beauteous glacier had melted away.
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Triangle and Robert #604 Hey! What happened to my voice? / I, uh... forgot who was telling the story. / I'm Prozac the Bear! / Thanks. / So, as you see, Prozac the Bear's incessant repetition of his own name is not done to annoy. It is in fact a defense mechanism, evolved to prevent this sort of thing happening. Prozac's unique position as a pharmaceutical makes him extremely vulnerable to changes in the cartoonist's mental state.
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Triangle and Robert #605 Yes! I have the peppermill! / I doesn't look like much.... / Hey! Shouldn't it at least be glowing? / No.
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Triangle and Robert #606 It seems safe enough.... I'm going to disassemble it. / There aren't any batteries or anything... I can't even find any moving parts. The inside of this peppermill is filled with little symbols and diagrams. / This can't be a peppermill. The symbols must mean something... maybe it's a time capsule, left by the Fourth Race to tell us what's going on. We could sure use some ancient exposition.
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Triangle and Robert #607 On the flight home, Cube continues to fiddle around with the now-disassembled artifact. We join this scene, already in progress. / Peppercorns go in here, and pepper comes out there. How? Where's the mechanism? And why is this thing important? / That is not yours to know, polygon. / The Pudding-Watcher! What are you doing here?
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Triangle and Robert #608 Here are your complimentary peanuts, polygon. When I return, shall I bring chicken, fish, or salad? / You're working as a steward. / Only until my power returns. Do not cease to fear my wrath. / Salad. / Enjoy your vegetable matter while you can, polygon. All shall return to pudding yet. / No dressing, please, just croutons.
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Triangle and Robert #609 Can I have some peppercorns? / You intend to test the device. No. / Can I get another flight attendant? / Orpuddex? Are you hassling another passenger? / I told you before, cut it out. You said yourself you need this job.
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Triangle and Robert #610 You gave everyone in first class no tea, and now this? Give the man his peppercorns and apologize for the inconvenience. / Where are they? / Between the herring and the... / Marmalade. Found them. / (We should have hired that nice Janice Pearce-Smith....) / Uh, don't panic, but we're out of lemon-soaked paper napkins. / We still have those little biscuits, right? The cheesy ones?
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Triangle and Robert #611 Here. Take your peppercorns, mortal. / What, no "Share and enjoy"? / Savor this small victory while you can. When my power returns, you will be made to suffer as you have never suffered before. / I' m sorry, did you say something? / Now, let's find out what makes this thing tick.
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Triangle and Robert #612 I will warn you one last time. The secrets of that peppermill are not yours to know. / Oh, really? Why not? / I'm not saying. / Whenever someone gets me going I end up explaining way too much. / You don't even know what it does, do you.
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Triangle and Robert #613 It seems to be glowing now... no. It's not glowing, there are actually little lines projecting from it. / What the... geometric figures? So those little symbols on the inside of the peppermill weren't there to represent anything....
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Triangle and Robert #614 B8. / Go fish. / Come on Advance to Illinois... / Hey, you're cheating! / What? / You have to put the black queen on the white bishop. / I do not! I have diplomatic immunity! / Only to electric attacks. / Fine, I'll trade in my tiles instead. / Um... aren't you just supposed to keep banging the lever, then count how many marbles you got?
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Triangle and Robert #615 You know, we have Hungry Hungry Hippos here too, but it doesn't require special graph paper. / Well, your Lassie vs. Flipper doesn't take place in Tokyo. What's your point? / Uh, Triangle, their Lassie and Flipper are normal-sized. / They are? What's supposed to be scary about that? / Um... Timmy doesn't breathe fire either.
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Triangle and Robert #616 So you're still on basic HHH, first edition? Did that even have character classes? / Well, the hippos were different colors.... No. / Eleven-sided dice? / Those aren't even physically possible in our geometry. / What? / There are no regular 11-hedrons where I come from. / But... then what do you throw at weddings? / Irregular ones, obviously.
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Triangle and Robert #617 Hold on here, you've both referred to the practice of throwing rice at weddings yourselves in past strips. / You mean you're just noticing your continuity errors now? / Well, you see, the thing is... Hey, look, they're talking about the Food Pyramid on the news! / Hooray for desperate story transitions! / Revelations about the Food Pyramid's arrest and conviction continue to come to light. It now appears that the murders of which the once-beloved nutrition guru was accused never actually took place.
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Triangle and Robert #618 In other news, a passenger plane vanished over the Asymptotic Ocean last night. The last radio transmission was normal until the end, when the pilot suddenly exclaimed "Yahtzee". / Authorities term it "unlikely" that the popular dice game was being played in the cockpit at the time. The passenger list included controversial archaeologist Cube. / Next: Sports scores! / But first, some annoying static so you'll change the channel.
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Triangle and Robert #619 So Cube's plane vanished... I suppose we're supposed to investigate? / That'd make things easier for me, but as always I have a backup plan in case you don't go along with the plot voluntarily. / Use it. I can't bring myself to care. / Cube never dealt straight with us. Why should we look for him? Besides, he's a survivor. He's not in any trouble he can't handle.
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Triangle and Robert #620 Okay, so I was bluffing about having a backup plan. Here's some pointless filler while I try to figure out wht comes next. / Hi! I'm Prozac the Bear! You must be Mr. Soap. / Mr. Soap, do you like adventures? / I'm really sorry about this, folks.
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Triangle and Robert #621 Let's go on an adventure, Mr. Soap! / We could go where Cube's plane vanished and look for him, Mr. Soap! / Oh, I have an even better idea! Let's learn how frozen yogurt is made!
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Triangle and Robert #622 Miss Concarne, I need someone to rescue Cube, and you have the resources... / What? Oh! You! / Why should I do you any favors? / I can restore your past. / No deal! I don't know what you want from Cube, but I'm not interested in playing your game! / I think you'll change your mind.
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Triangle and Robert #623 I might not have all my memories, but I can remember back to before you started this strip of yours! Our world was beautiful! Shining! Internally consistent! / It's the Time of the Oval. Great changes are going to befall your planet whether it's a comic strip or not. Believe me, I'm looking out for polygonkind. / Then help Cube yourself! / If I did, the peppermill would be meaningless. / Was that a meaningful sentence or a cryptic mishmash of words? / Probably neither.
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Triangle and Robert #624 My place is here until Mr. Disease regains consciousness. Have you asked the rhombus? / You think he could rescue Cube? / His tactics are unorthodox, but he is very resourceful, if the strip archive speaks true. / Hmm, Robert alone on an away mission.... I guess it's something to write about, at least. How's Mr. Disease doing, anyway? / The doctors say he blinked a few days ago. / He doesn't have eyelids. / Yes. They're worried.
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Triangle and Robert #625 Are you a wacky enough rhombus to rescue the archaeologist? / Give me a lawn ornament long enough and I will move the world. / How about a submarine and some frozen dinners? / I'd feel more comfortable if I had a plastic flamingo to work with. / I can't draw lawn ornaments, or lawns. I also can't draw submarines, but I can fake that. / A cement frog and it's a deal.
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Triangle and Robert #626 Crewing his new submarine with a variety of outdoor decorations, Robert sets off for the coordinates of the vanished plane's last transmission. / Unfortunately, there is a stowaway. / Two stowaways. He's Mr. Soap! / Okay, two stowaways including Mr. Soap. Why aren't you touring a frozen yogurt production facility? / They chased me away. I guess the chocolate bar people told them what I did.
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Triangle and Robert #627 *blip* / Yeoman Crunch! Radar report! / You ate Yeoman Crunch. / That explains many things. / *blip* / Oh, there's a sunken city thing off to starboard. You might want to look at it. / Did I ask for your help? / *blip*
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Triangle and Robert #628 Hi! I'm Prozac the Bear, and he's Mr. Soap! / Stowaways. / Get out of my submarine. / We're sorry. / In hindsight, I should have surfaced before I said that.
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Triangle and Robert #629 Prozac doesn't require gaseous oxygen. He'll be fine. / But what about... / Mr. Soap! Noooooooo! / He was my best friend! I'm Prozac the Bear!
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Triangle and Robert #630 My friend... Mr. Soap... he's gone. How? Why? WHY? / Your "friend" was water-soluble. / Hey, a ruined city! Maybe someone there knows why Mr. Soap went away! / Despite the lack of light in the deep sea, Prozac catches sight of the ruin. It is a city of squares, cubes, and ninety-degre angles. Time and the sea have marred its precision only slightly. The age of the city is difficult to determine, but it appears to have been inhabited by polygons, not humans.
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