1 | * From Digger and Shadowchild's [[http://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/03/13/digger-46/ encounter]] with the hyena pack: |
2 | ** Digger and Shadowchild whispering to each other as they're cornered: |
3 | --->'''Shadowchild:''' Now what happens?\ |
4 | '''Digger:''' Well, I can probably take two, and if you can take one, that only leaves five that will have to suffer simultaneous heart attacks.\ |
5 | '''Shadowchild:''' Will that happen?\ |
6 | '''Digger:''' No. |
7 | ** The hyenas [[http://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/03/16/digger-49/ declaring]] Digger a pervert, Digger's bewilderment at this, and Shadowchild's confusion. |
8 | --->"What's a pervert?"\ |
9 | "Tell you later."\ |
10 | "Am I a--?"\ |
11 | "No!" |
12 | ** Digger [[http://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/03/17/digger-29/ trying to persuade]] the hyenas not to eat her. |
13 | --->"I'm positively vile! I wallow in my own filth! I'm corrupt and depraved and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I smell funny]]! Dung beetles wouldn't touch me! I am uncleeeean!" |
14 | * One of the slug's prophecies is just a sentence fragment. |
15 | -->'''Slug:''' Ahem. The leaf said "Bones of the sea."\ |
16 | ''[BeatPanel]''\ |
17 | '''Digger:''' Bones of the sea ''what?''\ |
18 | '''Slug:''' Nothing. Just "Bones of the sea."\ |
19 | '''Digger:''' That's ''it?''\ |
20 | '''Slug:''' Yep.\ |
21 | '''Digger:''' That's not a prophecy! That's barely a phrase! What ''about'' the bones of the sea? Am I supposed to look for them, or avoid them, or sacrifice goats to them, or what?\ |
22 | '''Slug:''' Look, buddy, they don't say "Continued on next leaf!" The leaf said "Bones of the sea," and that's what I told you. Don't salt the messenger. You want to sacrifice goats, that's ''your'' business. |
23 | * [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=658 The vampire squash]], and the best part is it's ''a real legend''. |
24 | ** "It's a squash. I'm being attacked--or possibly romanced--by an angry squash." |
25 | * From AintNoRule: |
26 | --> '''Jhalm:''' Honoured Burrower. Skulking though the woods I see?\ |
27 | '''Digger:''' Is there a law against it?\ |
28 | '''Jhalm:''' ''Several''. But as you are unlikely to be either poaching or soliciting the sale of unnatural acts, I doubt we could make the charges stick. |
29 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/08/13/digger-162/ While Digger is protesting taking Murai along while investigating the tunnel.]] |
30 | -->'''Statue of Ganesh:''' Burrower, I have many willing followers, but not very many of them can even fit a wombat tunnel. Of those who might make the trip, two are under nine years old, six are over ninety, and one is simple. Murai is the only choice. |
31 | -->''[BeatPanel while Digger thinks it over]'' |
32 | -->'''Digger:''' How simple? |
33 | -->'''Statue of Ganesh:''' He is not housebroken. |
34 | -->'''Digger:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Blood and shale...]] |
35 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/08/18/digger-184/ Boy, you can sure tell I was high when I dug this thing, can't you?]] |
36 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/09/14/digger-189/ Wombat Insurance]] |
37 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/09/15/digger-190/ And YES, I am conscious of the irony!"]] |
38 | * [[ARareSentence Never sign a work-for-hire contract with a god.]] |
39 | * The first time that Murai and Digger [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=255 see the dead god...]] |
40 | -->'''Murai:''' Honored Digger, [[SanitySlippage my senses are not quite reliable]]... do you also see a team of lizards hauling on ropes [[{{Squick}} forcing a giant suspended heart to beat?]] |
41 | -->'''Digger:''' Yup. |
42 | -->'''Murai:''' I had hoped it was the madness. This is horrible. |
43 | -->'''Digger:''' And inefficient! [[DoWrongRight Man, a couple of pulleys in the right places, and they could have halved their labor.]] |
44 | -->'''Murai:''' *DeathGlare* |
45 | -->'''Digger:''' Yes, yes, morally reprehensible as well. I'm just sayin'. |
46 | * Digger describing the long trek back aboveground carrying an unconscious Murai: |
47 | -->Murai was basically wire and bone, couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds dripping wet, and after fifteen minutes seemed to have the approximate weight of a pregnant hippopotamus. |
48 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/10/14/digger-222/ Surka the comedian]]. |
49 | * A whole page of funny. [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/11/11/digger-249/ Death and pigs and penmanship...]] |
50 | * This next one is on [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=338 a relatively spoiler-free page]] in the middle of a sea of spoilers. Be warned! |
51 | -->'''Digger''': You want me... to ride... the troll. |
52 | -->'''Surka''': Sure! They're quicker'n a greased porpoise in a sea o' snot! |
53 | -->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Digger]]''': That metaphor did nothing whatsoever to sell me on the idea. |
54 | * [[UnsoundEffect The sound of a large gourd committing a kamikaze assault is difficult to render phonetically at the best of times.]] |
55 | * The line "What good is a god that doesn't fossilize?" is funny for how weird it is. |
56 | ** Also the fact that the Statue looks offended. |
57 | * Upon discovering that the temple's tomatoes grow antlers and fight each other (for a good reason): |
58 | -->'''Digger:''' This is ''insane''. You people have a ''serious'' problem with your vegetable crops around here!\ |
59 | '''Statue of Ganesh:''' My point, burrower, is not horticultural. |
60 | * Oh Shadowchild. |
61 | -->'''Shadowchild''': Am I a hallucination? |
62 | -->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Digger]]''': It'd make life easier, but no. |
63 | * [[NoodleIncident The suicidal big toe]]. |
64 | -->'''[[FacePalm Digger]]''': I have GOT to learn to stop asking these questions. |
65 | * Grim-Eyes talking about Shadowchild asking everything they hunt if they can talk, and mentioning that it thought a fish flopping on her line was doing a form of interpretive dance. |
66 | * Any scene that has Boneclaw Mother in it will be either this trope, or a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, or a combination of both. Especially her first scene. |
67 | ** [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/03/18/digger-372/ He smells adorable.]] |
68 | ** [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/03/28/digger-393/ Some things are universal among parents.]] |
69 | ** [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/04/11/digger-407/ Single combat. Cute.]] |
70 | * When Digger is fraught about having to eat liver, and the other hyenas start wondering what's taking her so long, Boneclaw Mother excuses it with "She's overcome with emotion." |
71 | * The [[http://diggercomic.com/?p=476 following]] VomitDiscretionShot. ItMakesSenseInContext! |
72 | -->'''Digger (narrating):''' "It appeared that Skull Ridges was displeased with the resting place of her earthly remains, and had decided to vacate the premises." |
73 | * Digger is being chewed out by the Hag for eating liver and making herself sick, and is being chewed out even more for drinking a medicinal draught from Owl-Caller. |
74 | -->'''Hag:''' What on earth possessed you to just drink anything some canine witch doctor handed you?\ |
75 | '''Digger:''' Well...\ |
76 | ''(The Hag hands a cup to Digger)''\ |
77 | '''Hag:''' Here, drink this. |
78 | ** Followed by Digger commenting that the hyena had better bedside manner. |
79 | * The Statue of Ganesh [[BlatantLies very pointedly not using either reverse psychology or guilt]] to get Digger to accompany Murai on her journey up Peacock Mountain - almost certainly forgoing her chance to return home with Manuel the Trader. The last panel clinches it: |
80 | -->'''Statue of Ganesh:''' [[NotSoAboveItAll Heh]]. |
81 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/07/01/digger-480/ Why arguing with Boneclaw Mother is a bad idea.]] |
82 | -->'''Grim-Eyes:''' That's one of those fights where if you ''lose'', you're humiliated, and if you ''win'', you've beaten up a blind elder who can hardly walk on her own, which is arguably worse. [[CoolOldLady She's good at using her weakness as a bludgeon]]. |
83 | ** Followed by the immortal justification used by parents everywhere: "Because I said so." Some things DO transcend culture. |
84 | * Ah, [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=549 hyenas and romance. And for that matter, wombats and romance.]] |
85 | * Digger is [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=547 ordinary as dirt!]] |
86 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/07/23/digger-502/ We're going to die, aren't we?]] |
87 | * Also pretty much anything to do with Herne, but especially [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=565 this.]] |
88 | ** "[[BrickJoke Excuse me...]] [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=567 are you a talking deer?]]" Oh, Shadowchild, we love you so much.. |
89 | * Digger, Grim-Eyes, Murai and Herne [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=568 all react differently to the sudden appearance of Shadowchild:]] |
90 | -->'''Herne:''' What the...?\ |
91 | '''Grim-Eyes:''' Oh, ''no.''\ |
92 | '''[[TheComicallySerious Murai:]]''' Greetings, honored demonspawn--\ |
93 | '''Digger:''' '''''Shadowchild?''''' What are you doing here? |
94 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/08/05/digger-515/ There was an accident with a herbal supplement, okay?]] |
95 | * [[https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/08/10/digger-509/ Man, I'm so glad I'm a herbivore.]] |
96 | * One moment while the group is trying to climb a mountain. Digger falls down a hole, and Grim Eyes comes up with a plan to get her out, which involves them pulling together. She decides the phrase for "start pulling" is "Bacon." This leads to "Bacon. ''BACON, DAMMIT!''" |
97 | ** This one made the back of the print edition. |
98 | * This conversation in the abandoned monastery: |
99 | -->'''Digger:''' My dear hunter-gatherer, allow me to introduce you to lignite. Grim Eyes, lignite. Lignite, Grim Eyes.\ |
100 | '''Grim Eyes:'''...\ |
101 | '''Digger:''' Brown coal. ({{Beat}}) Burning rocks.\ |
102 | '''Grim Eyes:''' You can make rocks burn and you have a problem with ''magic''? |
103 | * [[UnsoundEffect SOUND OF DISTANT ETHEREAL CHANTING!]] ([[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=675 There is no feasible onomotopeia for this]]) "Oh, great." |
104 | ** Then [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=677 the ghost's reaction to Digger.]] |
105 | ** ''Then:'' [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=678 SOMEWHAT MORE DISGRUNTLED ETHEREAL CHANTING!]] |
106 | ** [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=744 BY-NOW-FAMILIAR SOUNDS OF GRUMPY ETHEREAL CHANTING!]] |
107 | * Grim Eyes learns her awesome grandma (or whatever she is) really ''isn't'' magic: |
108 | --> '''Grim Eyes:''' Okay, he's coming this way. Do the thing! Do '''the thing!'''\ |
109 | '''Boneclaw Mother:''' What thing?\ |
110 | '''Grim Eyes:''' The thing where you tell people what they're thinking and freak 'em out!\ |
111 | '''Boneclaw Mother:''' Grim Eyes, I love you, but you don't have the brains the gods gave an eggplant. The '''thing''' only works on people you've lived with for years who think their motivations are a lot better hidden than they really are. |
112 | ** It becomes a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when she does it '''anyway''' after just a short conversation with Jhalm. |
113 | * [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=859 In the cave, following a ledge along the upper edge of the wall.]] |
114 | -->'''Ed''': Ed is thinking Ed is being a little scared of heights... |
115 | -->'''Digger''': Lucky for you, we're so far underground that you'd have to tunnel a half-mile straight up to get anywhere ''near'' a height. |
116 | -->'''Ed''': Ed is not being comforted, somehow... |
117 | * [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=890 "Do I have to go beat up Jhalm now? 'Cos I'm gonna need a minute."]] |
118 | ** Also, the reaction on [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=891 the following panel]]: |
119 | --->'''Murai:''' Honored Digger!\ |
120 | '''Grim Eyes:''' Earth rat!\ |
121 | '''Boneclaw Mother:''' Freaky adopted daughter! |
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