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*** There's also . [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2000/kk1108.html tortoise Sheldon Dome and his weasel campaign manager]]
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*** Plus any of his WhatAnIdiot moves could easily be explained as Angelique whispering in his year. She was the power behind the throne long before she took over in her own right.
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*** Plus any of his WhatAnIdiot idiotic moves could easily be explained as Angelique whispering in his year.ear. She was the power behind the throne long before she took over in her own right.
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* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?
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* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger lion/tiger, lion/rhino - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?
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*** Plus any of his WhatAnIdiot moves could easily be explained as Angelique whispering in his year. She was the power behind the throne long before she took over in her own right.
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** It's not a newspaper comic anymore, having only run briefly in one paper. However, Holbrook had been a newspaper cartoonist for over a decade before K&K started, and he grew up reading ''Peanuts'' and other newspaper comics, so he followed the model he knew best. You have to write each strip with the awareness that it could be someone's first time reading it, hence the Schulz-esque "Well, here I am" dialogue that appears from time to time. Not to mention that after 25 years of almost daily updates, the archive has grown well beyond what could easily be consumed in a couple days' binge.
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*** Well, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0712.html we have once]]. A "Cabbit" (which is also technically a predator/prey relationship.
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*** Also even if the old fashioned idea of chivalry doesn't apply, the logic behind it does: the idea of "women and children first" in a disaster situation was originally rooted in the fact that a women was considered more important because of the nature of their physical reproduction - a man can produce many more children in a lifetime with various females, but someone with a uterus can only do it so many times. So it could well be a species survival thing too: The more women you kill, the harder it is to keep a species prosperous, and in a world where literally thousands of species are fighting for the same basic position on the ecosystem...
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**** You know now that I think about it, maybe the best explanation (besides RuleOfDrama) is that Lindesfarne ''wanted'' the news to get out before the wedding. She is a scientist who cares deeply about the truth, and grew up in a multi-species household so she also knows the prejudices a lot of people have. By revealing there'll be a vampire bat at the wedding, she basically weeded out the fair-weather friends, and was left with the people who truly loved and accepted her and Fenton's family, not to mention Desdemona was probably wondering about it her whole life. She found who their real friends were, and allowed her mother in law to be to start being herself.
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* Okay so [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0221.html#disqus_thread this is a thing]], but I am freakin' curious now... What IS IT that makes Kevin and Kell unique on the human side of the portal?
** The most logical theory so far, as someone in the comments of that strip says, may be that they're an interracial couple. Past strips indicate wolves and coyotes would take the role of Native Americans (who, perhaps due to the predatory nature of wolves, might have a better chance of survival in Domain than Native Americans unfortunately did here) whereas Rabbits are native to European countries, so maybe that's it.
** They may be a same sex couple, but this seems less likely since we know from past strips that the DNA of the characters has to MATCH their human counterparts with the exception of species. Though I guess they could still be a Trans same sex couple since a trans male would have XX genetics. However the most likely equivalent to a Human Trans character in the series is Bruno, not Kell or Kevin.
** The most logical theory so far, as someone in the comments of that strip says, may be that they're an interracial couple. Past strips indicate wolves and coyotes would take the role of Native Americans (who, perhaps due to the predatory nature of wolves, might have a better chance of survival in Domain than Native Americans unfortunately did here) whereas Rabbits are native to European countries, so maybe that's it.
** They may be a same sex couple, but this seems less likely since we know from past strips that the DNA of the characters has to MATCH their human counterparts with the exception of species. Though I guess they could still be a Trans same sex couple since a trans male would have XX genetics. However the most likely equivalent to a Human Trans character in the series is Bruno, not Kell or Kevin.
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*** Pretty sure Ralph's logic was "trying to spare his sister the pain of marrying a herbivore". It wasn't Predation - it was outright attempted murder, which the 'no eating people you know' rule seems to exist to prevent. (I.e. if you're killing to eat or protect others, it's survival. If you're killing for any other reason, it's murder. The lines blur a lot between those two extremes but establishing any kind of balance that isn't flawed would be extremely difficult in a world where people HAVE to eat each other to survive.)
*** Maybe Kell would not just eat an Offender because she believes it would be unsporting? There's some sketchy character evolution in play (this IS 18 years worth of work) but her attitude seems to be that using her carnivorous traits to get someone out of the way is unethical unless she's doing it for a good reason. Maybe it's marrying a rabbit that caused this attitude? Whatever the case, one of the logical consistencies of this universe seems to be that ultimately someone ALWAYS pays in a society based so viciously on the food chain -Mark's parents were eaten because of his girlfriend's brother, Danielle died for betraying a rabbit association, Bruno had to deal with prejudice towards his dietary changes. Whether the "don't eat thy neighbours" ethical code can be applied to the rest of the world (and whether society follows it's own laws) is besides the point. It still exists. And just like in this world, rules are not always obeyed. That the code is flawed is practically a given because of the world they live in, but that's not really the characters fault. And hey, I guess at least they don't have nuclear wars and the massive pollution problems that a world with humans as the dominant species do.
*** Maybe Kell would not just eat an Offender because she believes it would be unsporting? There's some sketchy character evolution in play (this IS 18 years worth of work) but her attitude seems to be that using her carnivorous traits to get someone out of the way is unethical unless she's doing it for a good reason. Maybe it's marrying a rabbit that caused this attitude? Whatever the case, one of the logical consistencies of this universe seems to be that ultimately someone ALWAYS pays in a society based so viciously on the food chain -Mark's parents were eaten because of his girlfriend's brother, Danielle died for betraying a rabbit association, Bruno had to deal with prejudice towards his dietary changes. Whether the "don't eat thy neighbours" ethical code can be applied to the rest of the world (and whether society follows it's own laws) is besides the point. It still exists. And just like in this world, rules are not always obeyed. That the code is flawed is practically a given because of the world they live in, but that's not really the characters fault. And hey, I guess at least they don't have nuclear wars and the massive pollution problems that a world with humans as the dominant species do.
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** Yes, except unlike practically every other Dhampir in fiction, he is not cool or compelling at all.
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** The answer is far simpler than that. Kevin & Kell is a newspaper comic, that just happens to be hosted on the web instead of published in a newspaper. Holbrook writes it like a newspaper comic, and that includes eternally doing tired little references like that.
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*** I don't think gender biased chivalry really works in this universe like it does in a human one, though. I think perhaps it depends on the species, and which roles are usually played by which gender. Rhonda, a lioness, once mentioned that she respects her father "for taking on a Hunting job, which in lions is normally staffed by women to support her". Wolves seem to have the concept of the Alpha Male - but female wolves hunting isn't unusual, so Kell doesn't stand out for being a professional predator.
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*** I don't think gender biased chivalry really works in this universe like it does in a human one, though. I think perhaps it depends on the species, and which roles are usually played by which gender. Rhonda, Leona, a lioness, once mentioned that she respects her father "for taking on a Hunting job, which in lions is normally staffed by women to support her". Wolves seem to have the concept of the Alpha Male - but female wolves hunting isn't unusual, so Kell doesn't stand out for being a professional predator.
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** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox). Domain's a big place and we've only seen small bits of it.
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** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox). Domain's a big place and we've only seen small bits of it.it.
*** The better question might be "Why haven't we seen a hybrid that isn't a Dewclaw?"
*** The better question might be "Why haven't we seen a hybrid that isn't a Dewclaw?"
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** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox).
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** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox). Domain's a big place and we've only seen small bits of it.
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* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?
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* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?time?
** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox).
** We've seen at least two: Corrie (She's Ralph Dewclaw's daughter) and Francis Fennec (son of Kevin's sister, Danielle and George Fennec)[[note]]Technically, three; if you count Corrie's clone, Mary[[/note]]. And the stigma is cross-diet (carnivore/herbivore), not cross-species (Recall that Kell's first husband, Rudy's father, was a fox).
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* If vampire bats are completely analogous to vampires, does that technically make Fenton a {{Dhampir}}?
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* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?
* Why don't we see more hybrid creatures like Coney? As a carnivorous rabbit, the result of a wolf mating with a rabbit, she's pretty much universally treated as an anomaly the likes of which has never been seen before. But consider the relationships we see in the comic: wolf/rabbit, wolf/fox, hedgehog/bat, rabbit/squirrel, wolf/sheep, rabbit/mouse, lion/tiger - it seems as though interspecies relationships are really common. More common than same-species relationships, if anything. So wouldn't cross-species breeding happen all the time?
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** Holbrook knows as much about most animals as StanLee knew about spiders, let's put it that way.
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** Holbrook knows as much about most animals as StanLee Creator/StanLee knew about spiders, let's put it that way.
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** The "logic" is that the RL loyalists were all oldschool predators who openly disdained Kell's less... er... predatory tactics and prefered RL's Darwinist leadership style. It STILL makes no sense from a business standpoint, but at least the underlying logic is consistent. RL seems like the type to take the massive financial hit getting rid of Kell would bring - via sharholders, the buyout of Kell AND the large chunk of Herd Thinners staff who quit in protest - just to make a point.
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** The "logic" is that the RL loyalists were all oldschool old-school predators who openly disdained Kell's less... er... predatory tactics and prefered preferred RL's Darwinist leadership style. It STILL makes no sense from a business standpoint, but at least the underlying logic is consistent. RL seems like the type to take the massive financial hit getting rid of Kell would bring - via sharholders, shareholders, the buyout of Kell AND the large chunk of Herd Thinners staff who quit in protest - just to make a point.
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*** I seriously think Holbrook made that up on the spot so problems couldn't easily be solved by Kell eating the offender. Otherwise, explain why Ralph targeted Kevin for years.
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** According to [[http://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/41591766442/back-to-herd-thinners this blog post]] by Lindesfarne, R.L. essentially has enough power in his hands to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw The Rules]]; the post directly says that "the edict against preying on those you know doesn’t apply to him".
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** According to [[http://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/41591766442/back-to-herd-thinners this blog post]] by Lindesfarne, R.L. essentially has enough power in his hands to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw The Rules]]; the post directly says that "the edict against preying on those you know doesn’t apply to him".him".
* If vampire bats are completely analogous to vampires, does that technically make Fenton a {{Dhampir}}?
* If vampire bats are completely analogous to vampires, does that technically make Fenton a {{Dhampir}}?
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* Doesn't R.L.'s corporate management style constitute a blatant violation of the "Targeted hunting is murder" rule? He's been known to kill and eat would-be competitors while they're in the process of applying for loans to start competing companies. You can't plausibly call that a random hunt casualty.
* Doesn't R.L.'s corporate management style constitute a blatant violation of the "Targeted hunting is murder" rule? He's been known to kill and eat would-be competitors while they're in the process of applying for loans to start competing companies. You can't plausibly call that a random hunt casualty.
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** According to [[http://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/41591766442/back-to-herd-thinners this blog post]] by Lindesfarne, R.L. essentially has enough power in his hands to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw The Rules]]; the post directly says that "the edict against preying on those you know doesn’t apply to him".
