Yeah....seems so strange >.>

True reeeaaaly weird

Sounds suspicious to me~

A pingu who can shoot fire out of his pingors, I wouldn't mess with him either.

PINGORS

Pffff Ha!

Pingors but no fingors!

He must use magic to hold the pan.

Mario: Okie dokie! Get ready to move your pingors!

It certainly has a way of cleaning out his pans with pingors...

Respect the red flippers, or else! XD

He's a Firebird!

Very strange indeed.

Obviously it was the epic cooking skills and the food produced from them that won them over.

Well, there's a saying that the shortest way to a man's heart is through his gut.

"Only if you get the angle of your blade right..."

Oh bother.

Seems Legit.

pyromancer penguin this is an amazing idea

Agreed, this character is awesome.

A pyromancer penguin who sells possibly flammable books!

It's a Firebird~

well thats one way to clean a cast iron.

Not a very good way though.

Turning the contents to dust seems like a perfectly reasonable way to me :p

Speaking from experience with cast iron pans, you still need that thin layer of grease to keep it protected and non stick.

I don't think they have that level of frying pan science in this world yet. It's just a pan. :p

Plus a little OCD scratching at the back of my brain to be honest lol.

The practice of using oil to coat and protect metal can be traced back almost as long as we have used iron historically.
The romans used olive oil a lot in care and maintenance for metal tools to protect from rust and keep it clean.
And there is other examples of using oils to clean and maintain metal weapons and tools, altho the romans loved using oils in almost everything they could.

Fair enough, we'll go with the old "It's not a valuable high quality pan, it's just for traveling" excuse then :p

Don't you just 'reseason' them on occasion? I know the pans I inherited from my parents need it. (Yhey're still alive, they just can't use heavy cookware any longer with their wrists acting up...)

Yes you do, but not very often as long as they get used often enough. If a pan goes unused for a good length of time, then it will need to be reseasoned, or if you cook the wrong things in it and fuck up the pan.

Smartest decision they ever made...

Ah, but did they offer to buy deathsticks before they did?

the change was he turned them to bacon

Note to self. Don't mess with the Rock Hopper

P-p-p-pick up a Pyromancer!

[insert the description for Burning Hands spell here]

Don't mess with the fire penguin!

He's a Firebird~

do you mean "rethink being alive"?

I feel the urge to write something dirty... I'm glad I have some self-control left.

Eris cast fireball and rolled for intimidation.


It was a nat 20.

I knew I couldn't trust him, there is something fishy about him, like GOD HOOD fishy

Fr, i mean, look at that tall, pop up collar. He's the real cool beans, and I dont mean ice. He SPICEY

Must have been some Jedi mind tricks

Bandits: Hand over your loot penguin!
Eris: *sets flippers ablaze while producing large pillars of fire while speaking in a calm, casual voice* You do not want my loot.
Bandits: *looking utterly terrified* U-Uh...we...we don't want your loot.
Eris: All of you want to go home, and rethink your lives.
Bandits: We're...going to go home, and rethink our lives... *Bandits had run away*

Like... His hands or a bandit's flipfolps.

*looks back at the image, then at Alekay while motioning to the fifth panel*

Spontanious self combustion im sure...

How did he...you know what...never mind...it's a penguin thing

Dont fucking with a tiny man who travels alone, gottdamn.

I like the cut of this bird's Jib.

Pyro Penguin, not an elemental power one would expect from an arctic creature.

I mean... I prefer to have cozy fire powers in the artic and Ice milkshakes in the Sun's Anvil.

Well yea sure, but if a species evolves and adapts to sub-zero enviroment you'd think said species would have an affinity for said sub-zero element.

A cold tempered speach is wat surely made them change mind.

A penguin who turns out to be a Solarin user? Didn’t expect that. Must be ‘handy’ for when you need to cook some fish...

Also, is he wearing a watch on both flippers? First, why two watches? And second, wouldn’t they get damaged when he goes pyromancer? The flames are after all coming right out of his filppers, right next to where the watch/es are.

One watch, the other's just a bracelet. And no, the fire doesn't touch his hands at all, a Solarin mage controls fire essence around them which they convert into fire.

threat of global incineration tends to be one hell of a motivation though!

Pyromancy, 101.

insert overused spicy wings joke here

Who knew that Pontiac's Firebird had a literal inspiration!

Well... You know what they say. Don't fuck with a level 100 wizard, folks!. Especially if they are a penguin book salesman!.

OMG I frikking love this character already!

A penguin with fire magic... huh.

It's a mystery. Ask someone if they wanna see a magic trick these days, they get all jumpy.

XD Love that joke! Also, the best defense is a show of power and if the enemy doesn't run like hell, then you kick their asses. That penguin is indeed smart though did he kick their asses or show his strength I wonder?

I can see why

Burninate... Now brought to you by a tome peddling penguin.

I knew it!

you did say he had magic flippers

I bet that trick get him plenty of ladies \o3o/

Wait...did he just cast FIRE from his wings?

Yes, as it happens he's a fire mage. :p

Would he happen to be friends with emperor Zuko?

Wait fucking what?

Sounds like a mystery to be savored for all time. Least for those of us who don't want to end up on the business end of fire-spewing flippers.

ahahahahahaha

Oooo... I like him

A mysterious change of heart after seeing one or two of their group get barbecued, I assume.

He gave em the red hot flippies

Red Hot Chili Flippers

A pyrokinetic penguin. Very poetic. xD

OK, I think Eris Bimble is my new favorite character in your cast. Look how casual he is about this whole "kerfuffle." He probably turned some of those bandits into crispy critters.

And Fen's like "Hoo-kay, that's a thing now..."

It's like they never watched or read DC - Never fuck with Pinguin!

Ahhh the old Obi-wan-101
"You don't want zo raid the crossroads."

hmmm....
ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding
dingdingding

This lil fella: you don't wanna rob me.

Bandits: I don't want to rob you. I wanna go home and rethink my life.

Yep! Fire penguin! Knew it and LOVE it!

Nothing quite like a book vendor with an affinity for fire :)

Oh, what's a simple bookseller to do when waylaid by a band of thugs!

I can only imagine this change of heart came with a a smoking new hairstyle as the cause of it.

I imagine hair and fur are quite flammable.

Quite flammable indeed.

On a sidenote: Do never clean your skillet by burning the things inside to a crisp.
It's a quick and easy way to clean it, yes. And possibly fancy too!
But it'll burn the non stick layer you built up... or the store built up.

That being said: Love the sudden expression on Fen XD

I don't think they have that technology yet. :p But in our world and time, yes.

Burning a skillet in is super easy though and has been done in ages of old too.
All you need is a somewhat controlled heat source (Rock with fire underneath, or just plain fire and some time) and some sort of oil/fat/lard.

You put the -whatever you use- into the skillet, let it boil and evaporate -NOT BURN!- and do so a couple of times. The result is a quite durable anti-stick patina.
(Works best with line seed oil, I just use my skillet with butter and it built up a non-stick patina over time.)

But as I said: Just a sidenote, it's a fantasy world after all. There's probably some super awesome oil or some sort of magic or just good and proven comic logic where pans are non stick by the law of the world :D

AYO!

A penguin just said "Kerfuffle" and committed a bloody fire magic trick.

LOL I was about to comment that that top right panel out of context makes them seem terrifying, then I read the rest of it and learned that even with context, well...

a penguin that knows FIRE magic...... I thought if anything they would be born or hatched with an affinity for aqua.

Or ice.

I'm just a book store*uses intence fire magic*just books....

I wonder if any of em got burned during that sudden change of heart. Oo.

Alchemy

Excellent, he's a Firelord.

OH NO XO hE aTe Em XD

'Well, the ones that were still in a state to be able to do that did anyway.'

Gee! I wonder why.

I like this person already

Fen in fifth panel be like O_O

I was wondering about those flippers, good to know I was right. Would explain why such a merchant would travel alone. The threat of instant immolation is a pretty good bargain card when dealing with undesirables

Sudden change of heart lmfao

hmmm...i wonder why?

Huh, looks like Fen isn't the only one with overwhelming magical power 🤔

I like this penguin's style~

One imagines that he can be quite persuasive when he wants...