Timely Strip from another Webcomic

[Bunnaroo]

I thought y'all might get a kick out of this. This is Monday's Sequential Art episode.

http://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0395_small.jpg

I'm glad to see that Miz Amber's getting better!

[Madd the Sane]

He probably reads webcomics where this is common.  Not just DMFA.

[Netrogo]

The sad thing, dying of the plague is rather common among webcomic artists and writers. I swear it's like a prerequisit to being one is that you have to have all the immunities of a cancer patient.

Ah well, we love our comicy people anyways, even if they're going to one day bring about the end of the world by infecting us all

[DarkAudit]

He probably reads webcomics where this is common.  Not just DMFA.

Teh Kurtz over at PvP is just getting over a nasty staph infection this week. Complete with gory details.

[Netrogo]

Exactly. I bet if you did the research there are like eight different webcomics whose artist/writer is dying of something this week alone.

[Jigsaw Forte]

Not that it matters (since about the only thing that can stop a Last Resort update is a power outage), but I'm having nasty allergy reactions right now...

[Alondro]

The web comic artist spends most of its time sequestered within its natural habitat:  its room.

This causes a severe deficiency in Vitamin D, leading to rickets and eventually colorectal cancer.

The webcomic artist dies a slow, horrible death trying to keep up with updates rather than leave the dank confines of their self-imposed prison for proper treatment.

Then one day, the updates do stop, as the artist has finally gone up to that brightly colored Wacom tablet in the sky. 

And all the fans move on, thinking the artist has just gotten lazy or has stopped out of spite from receiving hate mail from angry fanbois.

[Pagan]

Vitamin D... where's that from again?

[Silver Pomeranian Genji]

Vitamin D... where's that from again?

It usually come from milk and/or sunlight. Help much?

[Pagan]

Ah, yes, thank you.

[Alondro]

Vitamin D is manufactured from cholesterol, utilizing ultraviolet radiation as part of the energy source. 

I'll need to look up the reaction again.

In other news, three mutant species of fungi in Chernobyl can use gamma-radiation to 'photosynthesize' carbohydrates, with melanin acting as the 'chlorophyll'!

[Tapewolf]

Vitamin D is manufactured from cholesterol, utilizing ultraviolet radiation as part of the energy source.  I'll need to look up the reaction again.

IIRC vitamin D is a government-mandated additive in margarine and butter in the UK, as a response to the problem of rickets in the past.  I was never quite sure if the vitamin itself was added or if it was simply something that was converted into it.  If it's simply the cholesterol itself, I wonder how that sits with low-cholesterol margarine...

In other news, three mutant species of fungi in Chernobyl can use gamma-radiation to 'photosynthesize' carbohydrates, with melanin acting as the 'chlorophyll'!

Gross, gross, gross.  Another reason to hate fungi...

[Darkmoon]

The sad thing, dying of the plague is rather common among webcomic artists and writers. I swear it's like a prerequisit to being one is that you have to have all the immunities of a cancer patient.

I was going to make a comment about how I was bucking trends... but I'm not a real comic artist.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

The sad thing, dying of the plague is rather common among webcomic artists and writers. I swear it's like a prerequisit to being one is that you have to have all the immunities of a cancer patient.

I was going to make a comment about how I was bucking trends... but I'm not a real comic artist.

... you cut your hand up instead. I think that counts...

[Darkmoon]

Thanks for saying that, but we all know the truth...

[Alondro]

Vitamin D is manufactured from cholesterol, utilizing ultraviolet radiation as part of the energy source.  I'll need to look up the reaction again.

IIRC vitamin D is a government-mandated additive in margarine and butter in the UK, as a response to the problem of rickets in the past.  I was never quite sure if the vitamin itself was added or if it was simply something that was converted into it.  If it's simply the cholesterol itself, I wonder how that sits with low-cholesterol margarine...

The vitamin has to be added.  Cholesterol won't be transformed into the vitamin without the vital step of exposure to UV radiation.  Apparently, only UV can break one of the inner ring bonds in the proper way.  I suspect it has something to do with resonance structures, since double bonds are involved.  I need to look up a more detailed chemistry explanation.