Line #72 Funny/Digger


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!

Context Funny / Digger