Hehee, Missle Beer! … Missle Beer, get it?   No..?

You're quite excused if you don't understand this strip. Most people won't, but I'm including it for completeness – and because I like it, so that's that.

I made it before I knew where (or if) the comic was going to get published. At the time I assumed any readership it may come to have would consist solely of Swedish tabletop role-players, like my old Survival Handbook strip, and this very internal joke for that particular target group has confused boardgamers, videogamers and comics readers ever since.

It's a reference to the Swedish tabletop RPG Eon – more specifically, to the background tale of one of its player races. The missles (kind of like hobbits but cuter) originally appeared in author Krister Sundelin's self-published game Trollvinter, and when he started writing for Eon later on he brought the race over to that game.

They appeared in the world of Eon when a dimensional hole opened and dropped two of them, a boy and a girl, into the land of the fierce Kragg barbarians. They greeted the Kragg with the words ”Hina, misla-ni tani” (”Hello, we are missles” in their own language). This was totally lost in translation and the confused barbarians believed that the little critters had been sent by the gods. Which may have been correct, since it turned out they could brew Missle Beer which is by far the best beer in the world.

So I made a little parody of that story, believing it would be read mostly by people who knew the original version… I still think it's a good joke if you do know the story, though.

Alternative version found in a notebook years later.

This is supposedly the same female that met the Kragg in the original; her name is Fenja.

Fenix no. 2, 2004