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I like that in the end Fusk and Vorte turn out alright. They were really the tragic heroes of the whole thing. The comic started with them making one mistake and the story is really just about how that one mistake can snowball into a catastrophe.
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Cat Mattress posted:They basically have the same body as the local intelligent aliens. So those things on the torso actually are legs. They just evolved their tentacles into arms and legs so their six paws are useless vestiges; while the beast here evolved them into weapons and keeps crawling on its belly. I really like this. If you look at land vertebrates here on earth, we're all remarkably similar. We all share the same basic skeleton, just with variations in the shapes of the individual bones. A mouse has the same number of neck vertebrae as a giraffe, a bat's wing has the same number of digits as a human hand. I've never seen a sci-fi writer depict alien evolution and speciation as realistically as Øyvind Thorsby.
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I just had a thought. What if there are no real kaladihr? What if it's a natural part of the twolesy's biology that they've evolved out of? There's even precedent for that on earth with the axolotl. This is an axolotl. It's basically a type of salamander that evolved to freeze its development at the larval stage. It's starting to become a popular aquarium pet these days, but when it was first discovered something interesting happened. A live specimen was sent back to England for study, but first it was injected with iodine to help it survive the trip. When it got there, it looked like this:  The iodine had triggered the release of certain hormones, which started the axolotl's metamorphosis for the first time in millennia (please do not inject your pet axolotl with iodine). Maybe twolesies are just so suggestible that the idea that they've been cursed is enough to force their brains to trigger their own dormant metamorphoses.
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Nov 2, 2012 17:05
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The art in this strip is really adorable sometimes.
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Hugs Boson posted:Therefore, I suspect that by asking aliens to help his wives being more successful, Drill Hinge actually wants to sabotage their status, either to harm his wives in some way that is beneficial to him, or to strengthen his control over them by making them appear less attractive to other males. I think the twist is going to be a lot simpler than that. Drill Hinge didn't tell them to make his wives more successful, he said he had two unsuccessful wives and one successful one, and asked them to help out with the problem. He is really going to regret not being specific about that.
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Feb 5, 2013 04:03
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I get the feeling that this stuff is meant to be how social evolution works in-universe. It's just there to explain how all these crazy civilizations developed. If it's not, Oyvind Thorsby may be the most cynical person who ever lived.
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Feb 11, 2013 16:06
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Actually, from the context it looks like red eyes indicate either surprise or confusion. You shouldn't assume that red means angry just because it's associated with anger in humans. That kind of thing can get you into trouble.
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Mar 1, 2013 04:40
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Of course, Trinketjuice can't hear any of these instructions, since she was rendered permanently deaf by having a creature that can talk loud enough to carry on an audible conversation over 50 metres away screaming inside her ear canal.
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Jul 23, 2013 15:23
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After insulting a foreign ambassador to the point of violence, Nostrilstrop went mad, attacked the president, and had to be beaten to death by a small mob of upstanding citizens. Everybody saw it.
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Dec 13, 2013 16:35
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That's a meaningless distinction now. All Ulfs are, from their own perspectives, Ulf #1 anyway.
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Now the real storytelling potential of the brain chip is coming out. http://brainchip.thecomicseries.com/comics/90
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