I sure don’t know! Are there some superhero-heads around here who can say if he might be the secret identity of a character that has a special relationship with electricity, maybe?
I think you got it with the post title. It’s a standard “guy wakes up after drinking heavily” situation, but he was drunk with power instead of alcohol. The comic is kind of low effort, but worth a chuckle. I might have put him in an alley or something, and maybe thrown in a couple of clues as to what kind of power he had. A crown and a scepter, mabe?
I think Xine Fury has it. There may also be hints of the tendency now to mix energy drinks with alcohol.
@ zbicyclist – That depends on what you mean by “now”; this is a “recovered” draft, the strip is dated 25-Sep-2020.
Mixing energy drinks (you mean like Rockstar, Monster, Red Bull, etc?) with alcohol? Why? Wouldn’t the one negate the other?
No more so than Irish coffee.
And they don’t negate each other. As I read in a story, it just makes you drunkenly alert.
Brian, I also remember learning that from a story. A narrator says something like contrary to popular belief, forcing coffee on a drunk does not sober them up, it just gives you a wide-awake drunk. Maybe Archie Goodwin? Or 1950s Heinlein?
Even when you aren’t drunk, but just sleepy, caffeine may keep you awake, but it doesn’t improve reaction time at all.
P.S. @ Mitch (8) – It doesn’t sound like early Heinlein, but that’s certainly not definitive. Actually, I cannot recall much (if any) drunkenness in any of his early books, with the possible exception of “Door into Summer”. I quit reading his books after “Friday”, so if it was after that, I wouldn’t know.
I think it was a Larry Niven story, perhaps one of the Gil The ARM ones.
@ Brian (10) – That sounds more likely. In one of Niven’s Ringworld books, the Machine People developed a whole trading empire based on alcohol (and/or fuel), and sobriety (or lack thereof) was a significant detail. However, that book wouldn’t be the direct source of the anecdote: I don’t think there was any coffee on the Ringworld.
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I sure don’t know! Are there some superhero-heads around here who can say if he might be the secret identity of a character that has a special relationship with electricity, maybe?
I think you got it with the post title. It’s a standard “guy wakes up after drinking heavily” situation, but he was drunk with power instead of alcohol. The comic is kind of low effort, but worth a chuckle. I might have put him in an alley or something, and maybe thrown in a couple of clues as to what kind of power he had. A crown and a scepter, mabe?
I think Xine Fury has it. There may also be hints of the tendency now to mix energy drinks with alcohol.
@ zbicyclist – That depends on what you mean by “now”; this is a “recovered” draft, the strip is dated 25-Sep-2020.
Mixing energy drinks (you mean like Rockstar, Monster, Red Bull, etc?) with alcohol? Why? Wouldn’t the one negate the other?
No more so than Irish coffee.
And they don’t negate each other. As I read in a story, it just makes you drunkenly alert.
Brian, I also remember learning that from a story. A narrator says something like contrary to popular belief, forcing coffee on a drunk does not sober them up, it just gives you a wide-awake drunk. Maybe Archie Goodwin? Or 1950s Heinlein?
Even when you aren’t drunk, but just sleepy, caffeine may keep you awake, but it doesn’t improve reaction time at all.
P.S. @ Mitch (8) – It doesn’t sound like early Heinlein, but that’s certainly not definitive. Actually, I cannot recall much (if any) drunkenness in any of his early books, with the possible exception of “Door into Summer”. I quit reading his books after “Friday”, so if it was after that, I wouldn’t know.
I think it was a Larry Niven story, perhaps one of the Gil The ARM ones.
@ Brian (10) – That sounds more likely. In one of Niven’s Ringworld books, the Machine People developed a whole trading empire based on alcohol (and/or fuel), and sobriety (or lack thereof) was a significant detail. However, that book wouldn’t be the direct source of the anecdote: I don’t think there was any coffee on the Ringworld.