El Goonish Shive

Ninety actually has it correct.

Dang it... someone's always got to ruin the joke with the truth.

That, or Ninety's in the pay of the Dropbear Conspiracy that tries to convince the tourists that they're safe...

I can assure you that I am entirely sincere and by no means have a carnivorous marsupial with its jaws around my jugular at this very instant.

NP 704

Puppy dog eyes to the nth power.

Damn, that was the only transformation that actually looked decent.

The only falsehood about drop bears is that they are different from koalas.

I wonder how Susan will feel about killing someone once she's out of "Protect the Innocent' mode. I mean yes, that 'someone' is a creature so horrific its official name is close to being abomination, but still. We know killing the vampire affected her, so how about this nerd?

It was a bearded snake vampire. It doesn't count as a person. Plus it's not like it even left a body. Totes doesn't count.

That might sound stupid, but emotionally distancing one's self from the personhood of another makes it much easier to kill them. That's how many military and paramilitary organizations around the world operate. Aberrations go to all the trouble of dehumanizing themselves for you, so it's emotionally not much different from putting down a rabid dog.

Comic 2434

Bonza.

Anyone play Super Mario Odyssey here? Anyone take control over a Hammer Bro, and shake the Joy Cons to make More Dakka with hammers?

Susan might want to consider that when more aberrations show up, just sayin'.

I have absolutely done that and it is fun as shit.

Also, this guy is now my favorite Aberration, Sirleck excepted, and it's all because of the blurb. According to Shive, he's never even been to Australia.

The dude's a total poser! He's a walking stereotype because he thinks being Australia Man makes him look cool and/or intimidating. He probably thinks dropbears are a real thing!

It's a pity the action is badly drawn, because yeah, this is honestly entertaining. It's nice to see the plot move along.

Oh man and here I was gonna rag on the shallow Australian stereotypes. That's great.

Judging by the conversation, either the two more normal looking guys are under a different agreement as to the definition of survivors or they are unaware that susan already turned one aberration into dust.

That was a flashback, to just after Beary Brucie spotted Diane and Susan in the mall.

Also, NP 705

Man, the shallow Australian stereotypes are great.

Comic 2435

A right bounder.

PLOT

I understand that's his character, but Adrian looks like he got hit with the Bishie Bat.

incoming...

Susan's going to be upset about this moment when she finds out that's her dad.

NP 706

Want to pet...

But Elves are sterile, apparently.

I know there are hints towards this being the case, but it's something Dan mentioned ages ago. I really don't know.

There are other, more recent hints that something significant that Pandora and a bunch of other Immortals thought was true is actually BS.

Elves being sterile was the original data point we had to work with. it has however, been firmly intimated that that was in fact incorrect.

My current working theory is that Susan and Diane are indeed twins, with Susan being a changeling, swapped at birth, and unexpected second child Diane left to the auspices of a hospital.

Swapped by whom? Why? What was the fate of Susan's fellow swappee? Why is Elvish fertility such a secret in the first place? And who was the birth mother of both Susan and Diane!?

Hell if I know.

Actually, given that Raven may not be as sterile as he thought, a simpler solution could be, to paraphrase Digger "I had a bunch of kids hundreds of years ago, do the math."

In other words, they're descended from Raven, but not as directly as father and child. They're just two branches of the same family tree.

edited 16th Dec '17 3:33:49 PM by sgamer82