Funny / Loving Reaper

Even a web-comic as serious and tear jerking as this isn't above it all

• Shut Up: While the rest of the comic is a Tear Jerker—including what immediately follows—this exchange between the Reaper and the budgie is slightly amusing...
  Reaper: What's your name, little one?
  Budgie: Shut Up.
  Reaper: Excuse me?
• On A Mission!: The Reaper recruits the dog and cat from the first two comics to pick up some souls. The dog is naturally excited, while the cat looks like it couldn't care less. Even the Reaper appears speechless by his apathetic demeanor.
• **Announcement**: It is quite amusing to see the normally calm Reaper get annoyed at all of the souls as they crowd around him to see what he is reading. The Reaper tells them to get their own copy of the book, to which the cat replies that he can't read.
• The Q&A Comic with the comics artist. The announcement comic ends with the Reaper menacingly approach the reader and ask "Is that so human? Do you have questions?", while Life nervously says "Don't scare them"
• The actual Q&A Comic has its fair share of highlights:
  • Life asks the Reaper if he is ready to answer the questions. After a beat, Reaper responds with a Little "No"
  • Another comment asks for a genderbent version of Life and Reaper - Reaper's response is "What? I'm a skeleton. What am I supposed to do?" At the corner of the panel is a drawing of the artist shrugging her shoulders..
  • Another comment asks to see what Life and Reaper would look like as children. The panel showing Reaper as a child has him talk to a pigeon, who "died in some weird kid's attic" (a reference to an earlier question asking about how she came up with the idea of the comic)
  • Another comment asks to see Life and Reaper's artstyles swapped. Life is clearly uncomfortable (I don't like this), while Reaper laughs while "blissfully ignoring all the cruelty of life"
• Swap: Ever wonder what would happen if Life and Death switched places? In this comic, they do exactly that.
  • Death ends up getting drunk off of his new power and ends up creating the ultimate life form. One that can both lactate and lay eggs, can hunt with electricity and venom, and can glow in the dark. The result? A platypus.
    Life: ...and what is it?
    Reaper: Perfect.
  • Life then turns out to have a cloak full of animals she's smuggling back to the realm of the living instead of guiding across. Death noticing this prompts her to declare it's time to switch back.
• Sit with Us: In the bonus comic, a cats owner wonders why his cat is staring at a blank wall. We then get this gem:
  Reaper: No! For the last time, I can't take the neighbor's dog for no reason!
  Cat: [glaring intensifies]
• WOAH: Life asks if there's anything Reaper enjoys about his work. One of the things he mentions is the excitement that the souls get when they're no longer restricted by their bodies and can fly around, with all of them saying "WOAH!" The comic then gives a few examples of some "woahs".
  • A dog excitedly asks its companions if they know that sticks grow on trees.
    [several dogs say "WHOA!" as they float amongst the branches of a tree]
  • Not all of the "woah"s are positive, mind you, as a cat that wanted to knock a vase off a table can attest to.
    Cat: WOAH, that sucks!
• Return+Anniversary: One of the mini-comics shows a passage from Wikipedia concerning early depictions of Death, where he's shown holding ranged weaponry instead of the classic scythe. Cue Reaper scaring the hell out of a deer's spirit with a crossbow.
  Deer: WHOA WHOA WHOA, MAN! I'm already dead!
• HAPPY HALLOWEEN - You tried: A child in a reaper costume encounters Reaper and says his costume is almost perfect, but his cloak is shabby and his scythe isn't that convincing. Life has to stifle her laughter about the situation.
  Reaper: ...
  Child: Oh well, you tried.
• On A Mission! Part 2: The cat is wandering around underneath a sheet and making a Ghostly Wail. When Reaper asks what the cat is doing, the cat says it's a ghost.
  Reaper: But why the sheet? Cat, you already ARE a ghost!
  Cat: But I need to be a ghostier ghost!
• Among the Stars: The comic opens with a reindeer scrounging through some trash and coming across a Christmas ad depicting Santa's sleigh in flight. The reindeer is puzzled by the flying reindeer and comments that humans have some weird assumptions about its kind.

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