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Téodor, experimenting with risotto in a low-sided paellera, is interrupted by Peter H. Cropes, who is not sure how he should feel about a piece of packaging he encountered. 

In the end, Mr. Cropes' cryptic phone call to an unseen colleague suggests that his off-screen machinations are still often fueled by a sense of anger at the way his low beginnings cast him on the stage of the world. 

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Aaron J. Rushton, Writer of Words

Legit guffaw on the ending. Doubled over style. All my teeth visible in the least threatening way my mouth can move.

Nikhil Brocchini

Second panel in the last row takes me back, he looks just like he used to.

Cf Duddy

The way Téodor recognizes the voice

Vijnananath

Hang in there, Pete. Appalachia is rising.

Golander

probably my fav of the new stuff so far

Peter Webb

NP has collaborators... !

James

I love Pete

Spyguitar

Very smart of Téodor not to get into a whole thing about brewing methods, here

ladiesbane

I thought NP worked alone! Intriguing. More NP, please.

Don Rowe

Is Pete pure evil, or is he merely a mirror for the evil in the world shining back on itself? Is there a meaningful difference? The answer doesn't matter, I just want him to be loved.

Hunter Tammaro

Did Téodor become a leather-kilt-and-sock-garters guy? Or am I projecting?

emitydna

no sound would ever be as sweet as Nice Pete's voice over the speakerphone saying "let him go"

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

For whatever else Pete is, he is a stickler for what is honest and true, and for that he has my respect.

Kate

Classic Pete

zoë

a social web as yet unseen

Zachary

Wow! Téodor! I haven't seen you in a while! Are you fat now?

Kriegsaffe No. 9

This one (presumably) goes out to coffee nerds who take theirs black (me).

Linus Lee

Starting to really worry about Pooh Bear.

Sightline

Me, yesterday: "What did I do to my grind, I can't taste anything in this Verve Ethiopian Worka" Me today: "Whelp, I have covid"

Jay Williams

Always walking a fine line with Nice Pete, our Teodor is. I was afraid NP was going to take Teodor’s comment in panel 7 as a slur on his modest raising, assuming that Pete was the type of person who would so adulterate his coffee. Turns out NP just likes his coffee honest, as he does like everything, and was going to Take the poor merchant for his lies. I wonder if that’s a burner phone and who does conspire with him…

Zen Window

I don't have the first idea how you make the black cloud on the horizon that is Pete this funny, but here we are. Hell of a punchline.

Michael Ryan

look pete we've all been there but crime is not the way (unless...)

Andrew

If I'm reading it right, it *is* a problem that the coffee bean seller writes an inaccurate and/or overblown description of what the coffee tastes like unadulterated, but he is forgiven for writing that by NP because NP recognizes that the seller writes that description out of protest at the fact that the seller expects no one to taste the coffee black in the first place, and is thus disrespected by the coffee-buying public, and is thus an ally in facing up to disrespect in his own way?

Nicholas Williams

I have been in the wine business for many years now and I promise you that no didactic wine moron has ever gone as totally insane with a tasting note as the average just-hired Counter Culture employee. Also I'm glad to see that Téodor and Pete are on ok terms, considering the...high school incident

Aaron J. Rushton, Writer of Words

They’re on “Téodor is afraid of repeating the high school incident and chooses his words carefully” terms

toby x

It might be accurate to say he lacks a sense of humor.

Kriegsaffe No. 9

Definitely not typing this from a sketchy castle while Hellboy punches my employer

Clench and Cheese

Pete has been studying compassion, but even though he can't taste the fig overtones or acidic briar char there is still something wrong with him. I admire his strict moral code, but I think giving him any advice or opinion is a hazardous undertaking at the best of times.

DCB

Good God I've missed this more than I realized. Nice Pete has grown and really he's just trying to be at least murdering in the most ethical manner. It is the way of the evolved man as I have been told from my extreme low background.

Walter Biggins

Panel 6 made me laugh out loud. The last panel terrified me. Well done.

Daniel Burt

There's no-one on the other end of that line. It's pure theatre for Teodor.

Johnny Deans

Damn. I wonder if Pete read that recent piece on Albini in The Guardian?

Tom Morris

Good side profile of Nice Pete here.

Tovfly

Teodor's BBQ dad-ass outfit

A. C.

A particularly good one

Brad Fino

Nice Pete "comes from circumstances" so he cannot taste the pretentious subtleties in the coffee.

Brian Horstead

The Nice Pete content has been my favourite of the new stuff

s b

how do you take your coffee?

Ruxine

Nice Peter Cropes giving orders of mercy over the telephone is scary times.

J. Alex

Teodor is instinctively terrified of Nice Pete's voice.