>One day, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking revenge. Now, a dog and his girl are trying to get away—out of New York City, and all the way to San Francisco, to the only person who might be able to protect and save her.And so Animosity. Bit of a lost comic. Last thread ever posted about it to my reckoning was back in 21 so this should be a blind adventure for most of you. I have skim read this thing and I found it novel enough to warrant making a try for storytiming it. This isn't high art ofc, it's a comic industry feminist's work and it's attempts at doing moral quandaries is about as shallow as a puddle with the work is very much is tying to follow in the footsteps of walking dead in a meandering non-plot with no resolution but I also appreciate a lot of the novelty around it's premise/worldbuilding even if it never leans far enough into what should be a really solid premise.All Storytime posters like me are nothing if not attention craving needs. I adore hearing whatever idle chattery goes down and i'll maybe chat right back.Sorry, to much ramble not enough comic. Stick around and maybe pipe up along the way mhmkay?
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I currently have no time to read, OP, but people like you are the reason I still frequent this place. I'll definitely check it out later.
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>>146334254>>146334251And you are the kind of anon that makes threads like this possible see you again in a couple hours. I plan on going until the end of issue 2 before retiring for the night. That is where the last time someone storytimed this series stopped.
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>>146334309Next issue. These are very really rather small comics. Maybe I'll go on right through to the end of issue 4 instead.
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>>146334391I alluded to my appreciation for the comic putting a good swing at playing a lot of the aftereffects of this scenario straight.
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>>146334453>>146334459Oh it's every bit as bad as you fear. The Soc-jus politics when they show up absolutely -bleed- off the page. We can at least point and laugh at it in retrospect since we're living in the trump as 47th timeline.
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Bennett is a frustating writer because she has some interesting ideas (this comic, the victorian lesbian insect body horror comic, DC's heroines in WW2) but she doesn't have the actual writing chops to pull them off so they end up half baked.
>>146334187These are very nice sequences, thanks op!
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>>146334570With this page we should be in untreaded ground far as past storytime threads go. Time for the Animilitary arc.>Arc question for the class: What would be the ways you'd arm an army of animals for sapient modern warfare?
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>>146334062This feels like it will be a storytime of pain.
>>146334548What a worthless father, i guess thats a mandatory for a comic like this
>>146337888Im liking it so far, went and downloaded the rest in case the storytimes die out.Tho the seriousness of the story contradicts with the comical military animals with guns.
>>146334062Thanks for the storytime
bennett of unsolicited opinions on israel??
>>146334062I've read the whole thing, and I have some feelings about the end that we'll talk about when you get there. I never read Evolution, so IDK how much that spin off did.
>>146334665I love you, humpback whale
>>146334844I wonder if it would add or take away if the artstyle was just a bit more silly.Like a Chew artstyle I wouldn't find a background joke of a commando looking kaula ass out of place next to this serious conversation.
>>146334187The pandas suddenly having guns is the funniest panel.
I have a million questions about how any of this works. I feel like answers are even dumber than the mystery.
still hate how it just abruptly ended
>>146334062For those curious the reason this comic was forgotten is because it goes to shit VERY quickly >>146334071They save that for the spin off>>146339827It was a mercy killing at that point.
>>146334187>>146334211>animals getting consciousness means they know how to use guns and drive cars This has to be a complete comedy
>>146339929It's not an exaggeration to say that this entire book was made up as it went along.
Threadly reminder that Speedy is a bottom-feeding faggot who has actively made the show worse
>>146334138>>146334156>>146334187I like this sequence, there are some fun little moments here. The sloths losing their smile and reacting with a "God... dammit" amuses me for some reason.>>146334665That whale's an adorable dork.
>>146334062It’s an interesting enough premise backed by some hilarious imagery of animals somehow able to use human weaponry. But I still don’t understand why uplifting would make carnivores not want to eat the meat they need to live, the book is kinda like if peta made its own comic. Thanks for the storytime OP
>>146334281Why would you go to a roof during a BIRD attack?
>>146334876>>146337889Characters made of straw make for an easier knockdown.>>146338145One and the same.>>146337997There are better ways to arm up animals as fighting forces then this yes. /mlp/ has spent many years pondering on the difficulties of hooved animal tool usage.>>146338157Rise & Evolution is a distinctly better product, it's got a contained story...which is to say it actually 'is' a story and it's set in the much more engaging premise of a city and *sticking with it*.
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>>146334187>Domestic abuse revenge fantasy>Fags>Feminist chickens >Female comic writer Sure this isn't a storytime of pain?
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>>146342916it is at this point you'd know it's a comic made by a feminist because they can't not mention periods
>>146342850>>146342874>Zarza hates Sapes. She(?) Hates Sapes enough to dig her hoof in the ground and refuse a human's offer to tend a wound and calls lemur fingers creepy by association Okay.>Wears a jacket with pins and has piercings? ??? Make this make sense.
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>>146343131>>146343128Seems a bit harsh of a sentencing for a someone giving a bit of verbal clapback.>>146343074It's asking to much for absolute consistency but how I read it is that the animals as of when they get uplifted are of a mental stage analogous to their equivalent age in human years and they reincorporate memories of their pre-sapient existence. They probably got some fast tracked education to catch themselves up on things. There's also some retention of their pre-uplift instincts like how spoilers but when the deer character become an eyepatch wearer he has a a bit where he complains about the nausea of his prey instants going off all the time because of losing 360 vision.Don't think any ways to deep into the fact that bugs are also smart. This planet should have long since been stripped of non-bug life by now if that was actually played straight.
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>>146343030This entire book can best be summed up as a cool idea the writer's had and wanted to see how long they could drag it out for. There is zero thought put into anything, it's all just a bunch of random shit the creative team thought was cool. No questions are answered, nothing is ever expanded on, there is no internal logic, and nothing has any depth.
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>>146344001Its stomach acid dissolves bones. Somehow it fucking learned the fact and decided to make himself vomit his stomach acid as a "fire breath" attack.
>>146344265>somehow. The animals are smart. not in a haha the dog also talks way but in a 'i'm able to be running a market stall and make policy demands now.' smart. He's actually a moron for not using his magic guzzard acid in a smarter way then projectile vomitting.
>>146344652All birds are just violent spastics most of whom can barely speak. No this is never explained, and no this doesn't happen to any other animal on earth. Birds are just retards in this.
>>146334211>Racoons stole a carkek
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>non-binary cat>lesbian wolf>main character is a hispanic jewIt's weird that they spent time to have a conversation about pronouns in a military camp full of guerilla koalas and rocket turtles, right? Also, I fail to see what a dog putting a bear trap on it's face would do beyond just getting in the way of its far more dangerous mouth. What a surreal fucking comic.
>>146345851>>146345903Aw sweet it's a "I'll comment about everything of interest as i read it." Those are my favorite kinds of posters.
This kind of reminds me of that manga called Jinmen, but the animals in that had human faces though.
>>146334373>Crocodiles in the subway>Not the sewersThey had one job to reference that urban legend. However, seeing crocodiles coming out all bloody from a train car is scary.
>>146334367>>146334380When was this comic written? The New York subway system would be a horrible place to go into because of the ridiculous amount of rats. Alligators would be the least of my concerns.https://youtube.com/shorts/BtVGLAhxNE0?si=gjZPLDebnf6VX4hS
>>146334062>AftershockThey're still around?
>>146334411>Rats selling rat poison for animals to commit suicidekek
>>146345941The entire comoc is like this, there's no real story it's just random things happening that the writer's thought was cool abd then it abruptly ends.
>>146334425Is the first panel a reference to Watership Down?
>>146334501A moose armed with two squirrels handling guns is hilarious.
>>146334501The snipers really gave that preacher a lot of time to recite his sermon.
>>146346173This comic ended like 4 years ago.
Pretty bad.
>>146334062I will always dislike this book because it's one of the most striking examples of a good idea let down by an incompetent team I've ever seen. Even looking navk on it years later it's still baffling just how badly everyone involved in this project (and its spin offs) dropped the ball this hard.
>>146344001I loved this, bearded vultures are fucking badass animals.
>>146343131I genuinely like this stuff, very interesting to see them struggle with these concepts in this new world.
>>146345967What's wrong with that? I like seeing people's opinions on specifics in a story time rather than just a summary opinion at the end.
>>146348246You misread the situation. I said what I did without the slightest bit of sarcasm.
I liked it, thanks OP.
>>146348296Oh, well don't I feel sheepish.
>>146346839thanks for the storytime, Anon. I've just finished reading the other issues (and Evolution) online. what a stupid cliffhanger.
So this is Crossed but with animals instead of humans?
>>146345941>a dog putting a bear trap on it's faceI was wondering about that part too. Is the bear trap supposed to protect the mouth? Or make the bite force more powerful? I feel like it'd most likely just get in the way, and make it more difficult for the dog to use its primary attack method in combat situations.
>>146344143I’m going to be away from the desktop for a long whille today Sorry.
>>146334187>Animals all going crazy>Deer acting completely normalAre they immune or something?
>>146343557>>146343569>>146343655How the fuck were they able to set up all this shit?
>>146349630Crossed is just a rip off of zombie apocalypses.
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>>146340606>But I still don’t understand why uplifting would make carnivores not want to eat the meat they need to live"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief". Intelligence is a great asset, but it's also a notable burden for one's mind. It comes with side effects such as empathy for other living things, an understanding of morality, the capacity to feel complex emotions such as shame/guilt, and stuff like that. It makes sense to me that sapient carnivores would feel horrible about eating other sapient beings, even in situations where they would simply starve without meat in their diet.
>>146334665I like this whale.
>>146344143Short dump of pages. Will be back later tonight.>Arc question for the class. What would various animals be drawn towards spiritually?
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>>146353612The problem is that felines are all obligate carnivores so basically they should all be suicidal by this logic.
>>146343074What? Animal mammals have periods, ya dunce.What do you think "in heat" is.
>>146356348Animals do not have "periods", not in the human sense. Dropping blood everywhere in the wild for days at minimum will get you immediately mauled to death by the nearest predator with even the dullest sense of smell. It's objectively a terrible evolutionary trait in context of the greater animal kingdom.What we refer to as "heat" is more akin to a biological urge to fuck accompanying ovulation, not the expiration of said ovulatory period.
>>146354898I somehow didn't remember ANY of what happened past the animal/military forts, until I started reading going "oh yeah".I wanna give the creators the benefit of the doubt and assume they would do a better job if given another chance.Kinda like how early Walking Dead Kirkman rushed a lot of storylines cause he didn't know how much time he would get, but this comic really should have spent more time fleshing out the dozen ideas it has, and maybe choose between a tone that has fun with the premise and a tone that fits the dire situation. Would honestly prefer the dire side since the artist does a great job drawing animals in a realistic way.
>>146356632Typed out by someone who has never owned a female dog and never had to clean a dog's period blood out of the carpet.
Can't believe this comic ended prematurely and they never explained the fucking minotaur in Texas
>>146334062How long did Aftershock go for before they folded ?
>>146355489Well that sucks.An apocalypse scenario where the "monsters" are confused and angry sentient beings you have to learn to coexist with is a hell of a lot more interesting than mindless zombies.
>>146356736But enough about your mother.
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>>146358990>Shut the FUCK up, Kyle!Great... now I'm gonna be stuck reading all this goat's dialogue in the voice of Eric Cartman.
>>146359121Next issue. Remind me on what the image limit on the /co/ board is again? 300?>>146356710Big agree. Animosity leaves me blue-balled with positing and then dropping a new perspective or factions or a splash page of a community and then just never touching on it again fter it gets destroyed because they always get destroyed. Remember Animilitary from earlier in the story? Well there 'should' cells of animilitary scattered across the comic, enclaves of zero tolerance for carnivores, human desk workers and service workers shitting themselves because there there are mice who can do all their jobs on a paycheck of pennies.
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>>146359470Giving bugs the Wake was a mistake. The universe completely fails to make any sense with supersmart bugs. swarms should have scoured the earth of food in weeks and murdered everything with an endoskeleton.
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>>146359581>>146359553>>146359604They've been alluded to before but 'Rise' and 'Evolution' does handle the novelty of the sapient animals/people chars wrestling with 'we live in a society' conversations lot better then the original comic. Youll probably really like evolution if some of these pages tickle you.
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>>146358903I actually remember this from my history studies. there is an interesting writing from, I think it was... Ratramnus? A theologian in CHarlamagnes court in the 800's writing about Cynocephaly, dog-men. And he was talking about what they should be considered if they have the souls of men or beasts. And he concluded that what made something human wasnt words or some physical trait, but specificly the ability to reason what is right and wrong and law and civility and such.here is an easily digestible reading of part of it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5RZBKBl_A
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>>146359865>no human girls>but clearly female animals stillTheyve chosen to live their beat life
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Not sure what the complaints are as of yet. Haven't finished the storytime yet, just read up to the pangolin appearing, but like this one anon >>146357446 the scenario is genuinely interesting despite the tonal problems.
>>146360655I'm honestly hoping to find someone else taking a crack at the concept.There are plenty of ways to spin it, and I haven't seen any of 'em before.
>>146356736He's correct, though. On female dogs, vaginal bleeding means that the dog is fertile and ready to get pregnant any moment. On humans, period blood means that the woman is not ovulating at the moment, but will be about a week after the bleeding ends. The bleeding in dogs occurs for a different physiological reason than the bleeding in humans. It might look like menstruation, but it's not.Only a tiny handful of mammal species have a menstrual cycle. Humans happen to be one of those rare exceptions.>>146343074A whale somehow knew about Pokemon. I guess all the animals must've done varying amounts of research on humans and their stuff.>>146361354I would recommend "Elmer" to anyone who enjoys the premise of Animosity. In "Elmer", all the chickens of the world suddenly gain human-tier intelligence.
>>146362415>ElmerI'll look at it, but just chickens sounds pretty bland.Especially if they're all just gonna be on the "fuck humans for eating us" train the whole way through.A big part of what I was enjoying from Animosity were the various responses every animal had to their unawakened history with humans, their different personalities, and how those combined to color their interactions with humans and the other sentient animals going forward.Chickens rioting loses a lot of that depth if that's all it is, so I'll have my fingers crossed that it's not.
>>146359409>DamHeh.
I can't find it but there's a Bizarro panel that features 2 cowboys eating dinner while herding cattle and one of them saying "If cows could talk we'd have to lie to them" which I always thought was kind of poignant and was reminded of it while reading this comic.On a separate note, this whole comic feels ripe for a YA novel alongside a film version. CG animals are all the rage and the scenario allows for interesting set pieces. With the success of Planet of the Apes I'd think it'd be an easy pitch.
>>146334187Polar bears no longer need to feed?
>>146340328What the fuck was this
>>146362902>Especially if they're all just gonna be on the "fuck humans for eating us" train the whole way through.Nah, it's pretty balanced about showing empathy for both chickens and humans. That's why I mentioned it. I think it's a lovely book with a good message.
>>146364146I think it's more about this bear getting consciousness and can now consider what its doing as immoral, rather than just animal instinct.
>>146334453this comic is such a shitpost>dog staring striaght at it's pawHOW
>>146364750The comic doesn't take itself that seriously.
>>146338145huh. crazy, this is better than that shitheap.still retarded, but that's probably how he likes his comics.
>>146342012the content is way worse than somebut when someone actually knows how to draw scenes and make dialogue, even the most retarded comic is enjoyable.
>>146342456>krill philosophykek
>>146343331>This planet should have long since been stripped of non-bug life by now if that was actually played straight.he just handwaved it this issue by saying that hive insects are too busy playing instraspecies grand strategy to do anything
>>146354746>there's ir no evil in nature
if you want a palate cleanser for good talking animal comics, I suggest doe of deadwood
>>146358903If you can not sin, do you even need to be saved?
>>146367459the implications is that sinning is our nature, and only in true repentance your soul can be saved
>>146334062It's lost because it's not good. >>146367015I remember playing tactical breach wizards and they said the same thing about dogs. and it's like pit bulls are some of the worst animals to own because even when you treat them well sometimes they'll just attack someone.
>>146367504That did not answer my question.
>>146367015>just making it along in life scavenging corpses>can suddenly think and have to deal with morals and other bullshit>want to just go back to eating whatever you can get your talons on>some assholes come in and start roughing you up just for trying to feed yourselfThe only problem with his argument is trying to make it after banding together with the other animals.If he had been working alone, doing nothing but feeding himself and trying to mostly act like before, he'd have had a stronger argument.I'd even understand using his newfound intelligence to find food more efficiently, and simply throwing his morals to the side.
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>>146334062I've never liked this comic, and I think >>146334501 this page is part of why. I dunno, whenever comics get into this "humans are the real animals" shit, it just makes me think that the people writing it should be kicked out of society.
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>>146371396Okay, this fucking shit with the bees makes absolutely no goddamn sense at all. First off, a regular-sized hive needs to visit like six million flowers to make a pound of honey. A gigantic megaswarm like this is going to need to pollinate ungodly numbers of plants to feed themselves.Intelligent or not, under no fucking circumstances should there or could there ever be any need to fight them, coerce them, or kidnap them. Bees NEED to pollinate plants or they will FUCKING STARVE TO DEATH. You walk up to the swarm, you tell them you planted a shitload of crops nearby, and those goddamn bees would thank you for making their lives easier.This comic has such an interesting premise and it just keeps doing stupid shit with it.
>>146371522I almost feel stupid for singling out only one dumb thing to criticize from this book, but why didn't they just try making a deal with the bees? If they had and the bees forced their hand by refusing to cooperate, then justifying their position to an outsider seems like the time they would bring it up.
>>146371522>My name is Ladybug! Can i have a job in your society for myself and my descendants?>Yes, Go out into the fields to help with hand pollinating all the plants because the local bee colony are lazy idiots. We'll make you a custom apartmentment out of an old tuna can as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4MmbWks2E>>146372496IRL Pollination by actual insects is an inefficient affair with buds being over and underpolinated at random. Bees should hit every flower easily.
>>146372513Was thinking the same thing.It would probably conflict with the whole "they're too small to count as people" thing that was supposed to be the focus, if they had come at them on equal terms to negotiate in the first place.It just makes them seem even more fucked up because like >>146372496 said, the bees likely would've been all over an agreement like that.
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>>146374032>>146374078Why is tearing away the convenience/morality crutch of not waking up the Fish count for a mistake to you? The sea-life are just really vulnerable and trapped by their anatomies.The bugs turning smart isn't an 'issue' because preventing eat ze bugs from being a part of the solution to the moral problem of uplifted predation at the base of the story is a 'good' thing here.I rather consider the insects or that krill scene near the start of the comica black hole of failing the smell check of realism according to rhe rules as written. We know the bugs question did on some level cross her mind when thinking of this stuff and bennett offers a teppid sollution by saying that hives are just just fighting each other...And that isn't good enough. If not ants and bees and wasps it can be pillbugs or crickets or some such who inherit the world. Mosquitos alone with an offered promise of being allowed to and spread diseases to the humans who conspired to exterminate them even in the pre-wake would and could end humanity on their own.
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>>146374414Thanks anon.This is still an entertaining read despite the glaring flaws.
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>>146371578Why?
>>146371619They're only animals ....
>>146345941This comic’s only saving grace is that it’s as old as it is. It’s like going back and reading Y: the Last Man where the badass black chick is actually kind of likeable and the weak protag dude is actually somewhat relatable because it’s not as “current year” up as it could be. Nowadays, you know these particular creatives would have the animals full on making metaphors for abortions and shit.
>>146372496This shit kills me. They’re too busy trying to make hamfisted slavery metaphors to bother making sure their plot makes actual sense.
>>146374350Did… did he just shoot a bee with a rifle? Did nobody writing this realize how insanely hard that would be?
>>146377141>>146377230That's why I'm making a bee line for the exit.
>>146377306Carlos!
I am assuming the rest of the story will explain more about why the bees stopped pollinating since it just seems like they were just doing that to fuck over everyone (humans and animals) for no reason. I also assume all the women are in the city since it is safer, they are forced to, or it makes the bee less evil when they start to sting everyone to death. While reading it, I thought the twist on why there aren't any women was that they were following orders from another queen bee located there, having the men be her sudo drones in maintaining the area. However, I learned that most bees are female.
>>146334830It's disappointing her parents got killed off screen. Her dad was an asshole.
>>146334844I love the koala.
This comic made no sense at all, yet I read it till the end. The idea is cool, but the story is a complete trainwreck with self-aware bees and so on. How small can an animal be until it no longer is sapient? And yeah, is this supposed to be serious or something?
>>146381276>is this comic about talking animals supposed to be serious?anon, there is a deer with grenades on its antlers standing over there, what the fuck do you think?
>>146373102They should have subverted expectations, this is how I'd do the arc>MC encounters the bees being attacked >Knee jerks and sides with the bees>Queen Bee take her friends hostage and force her to go raid the commune to get the princess bees back>Shenanigans>Turns out the commune has been trying to convinces the bees to help them pollinate their fields and the Queen a despotic psycho>Princess bees jump ship to the commune and are trying to start their own hives and live with the commune in peace>MC now has the moral quandary of saving her friends but destroying a good thing
Also, when a queen bee dies or goes missing, the drones start laying eggs to keep their numbers up while a new queen gestates. If their old queen was kidnapped, wouldn't they just make one? Bees only live about a month, they don't really have time to go on a quest to rescue the old one.
>>146382912>If their old queen was kidnapped, wouldn't they just make one?If they were still mindless drones running purely off of instinct, sure.Here the entire hive got turned into a family that probably sees the queen as their mother.They likely could replace her, but writing off your mother to die or suffer is a lot harder for creatures suddenly saddled with morals and empathy.
>>146379708It's implied that Sandor killed at least, her father, possibly after he killed his wife and was coming for the daughter. That ever get debunked?
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In the world of Animosity...there are brothels in some states for humans that are staffed and run by animals, full consent. Also interspecies marriages. Just gonna leave that here. That's what happens when you give animals human-level sentience...
>>146384450I got impatient and read all of it and the implications seem to be that sandor killed her father and helped get the meds that her mother ODed on. But the story ends right before he admits to it.
>>146384690>zoophiles getting monkey paw'd because they were only into animals for their lack of intelligencelmao
>>146384690>be lonely human>nobody wants you>suddenly all the animals become sapient>and the deer you always see in your backyard or your neighbor's retriever or whatever shows up at your door to confess how they've always admired you from afarI get it... it ain't right, but I get it.
>>146385871>>146386042>get talking deer wife>she's into roleplay
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>>146387470Comic was released over 2016 through 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VTDDXnrk0The animals paid for the wall.
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>>146387886Finishing off the image dumping portion of the thread with some peeks at book 15 then i intend to take a break for about a day then continue into a second thread.
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>>146387470>vegan apologizing for the sins of the many and acting like atonement is impossible even if it somehow was his faultUgh, hate that speech
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whooof, i feel i should have something more to say after spending so much time on pasting pages for you guys but i guess all I can ask is people's thoughts.
>>146334492>The Soc-jus politics when they show up absolutely -bleed- off the page.Holy shit you weren't kidding.It just keeps getting worse.
>>146334651Damn, the Cujo reference is a bit heavy handed. Could've just named the breed or the place and got the point.
>>146387758oh no! who could have foreseen this!
>>146386706Just as a reminder, bees make wax from the sugars in their honey. They make honey from the nectar they get when pollinating. The pollinating that these bees have not been doing. Millions of flowers to make one pound. 55 to 90 thousand miles flown to make one pound. One bee makes, in the course of its entire life, about.8 grams of honey. So about 570 bees die making one pound of honey.And these bees kept thousands of gallons of wax boiling in a hydroelectric dam somehow so they could shoot it out the top like a medieval castle. Even though they don't pollinate anything.I know it's just a stupid fucking comic but this shit is seriously irritating me.
>>146385871And on the other hand, more people getting what they wanted all along.
>>146389172this is autism speaking
Bumping to catch up on this comic.
A new thread?
>>146386722Don't bees die when they sting humans?
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>>146393746That's what the needles are for
>>146388517ALL the references are heavy handed.>>146342793Moby Dick>>146334425Watership DownAnimal FarmPlanet of the Apes
>>146387237>Nazi arc begins.Oh fucking Christ...
>>146334187KINO
>>146387973Thanks
>>146334187Many have speculated, that if we knew why this was the sloths' first thought as they gained sapience we should understand a great deal more about the universe than we do now.
>>146334062>Now, a dog and his girl>>146334071>You just know
>>146377230Was gonna give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it was one of those saltguns people use for shooting flies.But no that was just a whole bullet hitting a single bee.
>>146389172If I had to defend the comic it never said the bees didn't polluntate, just that they didn't pollunate stuff at the farm.It probably isn't the case and the writers didn't think about it enough. It could easily been one line of the bees working the land the other side of the damn for miles.
So which one of the people behind this book is the vegan?
>>146388150Just same as beforeSome ideas that should have been more thought out and fleshed out.Could have had the bee colony be almost like rivals of the bees ruling a neighboring land or something. Or a flashback of the farm trying to make a deal with the bees but when they didn't want anything they traded for they resorted to slaving tactics.We've spent over qp issues of hinting at what Sandor did we should have just had the reveal at this point cause right now they keep hinting at something murderous while still giving us flashbacks showing why he wouldn't be the type of dog to do that.
>>146389172>about 570 bees die making one pound of honeyA standard 10-frame beehive box in an apiary contains ~25 thousand bees.A typical hive found in nature will have ~50-75 thousand beesA hive the size of a dam, formed as a collaboration between many, many hives, could contain tens of millions of bees, and could conceivably produce tens of thousands of pounds of beeswax.Alternatively, it's a fucking comic book, don't think about it too hard.
>>146387973Thanks for this one.
The book is still just entertain enough to not hate it.I wouldn't mind owning it physically but I would probably skip over it when recommending comics to others.Like comparing this to say Y The Last Man this book has like 3x the potential and 1/3rd the thought put into it.Ythelastman had characters I got muchmore invested in and while there is a lot you could logically point out how the world would instantly collapse it for the most part kept focus on things it did think about and things that make you go "oh yeah this job would become super needed or this thing happen".Like this Walled City we're going into now, which is shaping up to be a humans only cult. It would work if it hadn't been a year or two into the Wake, kinda like we had at the beginning with the preacher working people up into suicide bombers.But now unless they are just the world's best scavengers with the US military gear, how are they still feeding themselves or keeping things running without any animal help like we just saw at the farm barely able to keep afloat. I get the feeling we're not gonna get a lot of questions answered reasonbly while we focus on bigbad human cult.
>>146396705It's definitely just entertaining enough to read for free online while I do other stuff, but I only think I would buy this if I could get it all at a bargain bin price, and mostly for the novelty of being from an out-of-business indie company.
>>146334867>>146334870>Lobotomizing a dogThis feels like a Garth Ennis or Mark Millar comic.
thanks for the story, op!tonally jarring read so far. communist pigs with cute little fuzzy soviet hats one moment, clumsily written drama the next
Shit. What a waste of time.
>>146398948>Why'd you kill me dog, Jack?
>>146334062Thanks for the dump. This would make for a cool cartoon
>>146341523I thought the koala was just going to be a background gag. Interesting development.
This is so fucking dumb lmao.
Been really enjoying this for all its flaws! Feels like it could have been a furry Walking Dead in terms of spinoff material. Lots of exploration one can do with the concept, even if it'll get progressively more wacky.
>>146401852Spin-off is more about statecraft and much more interesting then the girl and her dog being on a road trip story.
>>146334411thats actually really cool damn
>>146342456lmao
>>146334103how the fuck do you get lowdiffed by a bunch of ratsjust fucking stomp them to death
>>146406306skill issue and probably surprise. I mean if a bunch rats started screaming "bastard" as they bit you, you'd be shocked.
>>146374308this is growing more retarded with each page
>>146406433yea id be shocked, but cmon, its fucking rats. id be more afraid of their deseases than them biting me to death. id be like pickle rick massacering them one by one
>>146407269>>146406433 Just give me some rum and I'll have the little buggers with me hands tied 'round me back!https://youtu.be/gOACvu5KTqM?t=112
You'll keep this alive until bump limit, don't you?
>>146409965Of course
>>146411385That's what I figured.
>>146342793Wait, Moby Dick is real in this universe?
>>146334062Should have been a miniseries on HBO Max.
>>146414524And he likes little girls in swimsuits
>>146414524I mean whaling fir oil was a real thing.But I never read moby dick was it specifically in 1830 with this physical battledamage?
