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[PA Comic] Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - Fauna

GethGeth LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
edited August 2013 in The Penny Arcade Hub
Fauna


Fauna
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/08/07

Geth on

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  • TleilaxuTleilaxu Registered User regular
    Panel three is pretty much everything I've ever wanted to see.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    Oh...oh god yes. I didn't notice the watch until I came to this thread and looked at it again.

    So glad I stopped by.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    The watch returns!

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  • BremenBremen Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    I think this has to be my favorite PA comic that has ever been.

    Bremen on
  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    Nothing better than a watch comic. Nothing, do you hear me? Nothing.

    I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    I love the phrasing of 'I managed to get some urine behind my ears.'

    Rather telling.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    This is the best comic ever

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Grislo wrote: »
    I love the phrasing of 'I managed to get some urine behind my ears.'

    Rather telling.

    You can't take chances just by dabbing urine back there with a cloth - it needs to be straight from the source.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    God damn it Australia. You couldn't hold on to the America's Cup*, so now you're after our watch?

    *(Apparently 80's sailboat racing is the only AUS/US rivalry that I am aware of. Be more rivally, AUS.)

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    They're more rivally with the UK.

    We're thrashing them at cricket right now.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • LorahaloLorahalo Registered User regular
    Mike's reaction to seeing a picture of koala hands was hilarious. He had no clue what the fuck he was supposed to be drawing.

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  • RottonappleRottonapple Registered User regular
    would some Aussie forum member care to explain what is up with the bush hat? I get they are probably things that gullible people are told to do to ward off "dropbear" attacks. Clearly those are forks jammed into the top, but what are those things dangling from the brim? At first I thought they were corks on a string, which made no sense, now I'm afraid they are tampons.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    From now on, koalas are drop bears.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Drop bears are a thing, dude! Those dishonourable Australians like to deceive unwitting tourists like G&T into taking ludicrous prophylactic measures against rabid koalas which allegedly drop out of trees to maul folk.

    Oh brilliant
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
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    Henroid on
  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    Rottonapple wrote: »
    would some Aussie forum member care to explain what is up with the bush hat? I get they are probably things that gullible people are told to do to ward off "dropbear" attacks. Clearly those are forks jammed into the top, but what are those things dangling from the brim? At first I thought they were corks on a string, which made no sense, now I'm afraid they are tampons.
    21:00 in,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J23W9sjkee4&t=1260

    He says in rural parts of Australia, some people wear corks on their hats to keep the flies away.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    Rottonapple wrote: »
    would some Aussie forum member care to explain what is up with the bush hat? I get they are probably things that gullible people are told to do to ward off "dropbear" attacks. Clearly those are forks jammed into the top, but what are those things dangling from the brim? At first I thought they were corks on a string, which made no sense, now I'm afraid they are tampons.

    They are actually corks on strings. It's an old style hat; the corks are there to keep flies away from your face. You move your head, the corks jiggle around and ward off the flies.

    It does actually work, but they're pretty silly looking.

  • MorblitzMorblitz Registered User regular
    Watching this strip be drawn live was amazing. The whole experience of watching the strip come to life while Mike and Jerry banter with the audience is the Penny Arcade comic on an incredible level.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
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    hey that's the comic my avatar comes from

    almost forgot about it

  • kingworkskingworks Registered User regular
    Explain the watch.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    The watch is a running, subtle visual gag, basically changing hands in every (or almost every) comic where Gabe and Tycho kill each other.

  • BobbleBobble Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    The watch returns!

    And now my watch begins.

    -Dropbear, August 7, 2013.

  • RatherDashingRatherDashing Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    The watch is a running, subtle visual gag, basically changing hands in every (or almost every) comic where Gabe and Tycho kill each other.

    So, like, King's To You?

  • goldwatchkillagoldwatchkilla Registered User regular
    Finally, VINDICATION!

    however, can someone please explain the hotdog fairy. Slipping my mind and really bugging me

  • LorahaloLorahalo Registered User regular
    goldwatchkilla wrote: »
    Finally, VINDICATION!

    however, can someone please explain the hotdog fairy. Slipping my mind and really bugging me

    Someone asked them to draw it during a comic panel a few years back. Now it seems to show up in every panel comic (this one was from PAX Aus).

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2013
    kingworks wrote: »
    Explain the watch.
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    TheCanMan on
  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Lemme help you with that.

    Edit: Ah, you fixed it. :)

    Note that the comics above are only the early days of the watch saga. It still tends to show up in a lot of the gratutious-Gabe-and-Tycho-violence comics, it's just not usually referred to so directly.

    Gaslight on
  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Lemme help you with that.

    Edit: Ah, you fixed it. :)

    Note that the comics above are only the early days of the watch saga. It still tends to show up in a lot of the gratutious-Gabe-and-Tycho-violence comics, it's just not usually referred to so directly.

    I'm going through now to try and get the complete arch. This could take a while, I'm only up to New Year's 2006. D:

    But I did stumble onto one of my favorite strips that I had completely forgotten about.
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    TheCanMan on
  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    Good ol' hotdog fairy.

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Oh no! Someone needs to go through and find Tycho getting the watch back at some point between now and 2011/03/14, otherwise they've broken the continuity. I would, but I just scrolled through 7 years worth of comics and now my eyes hurt.

    If we can't find a better one, I'm proposing we place this one in the watch arch (even though there's no watch visible).
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    TheCanMan on
  • RottonappleRottonapple Registered User regular
    TheCanMan wrote: »
    kingworks wrote: »
    Explain the watch.
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    215105001_XAwyD-L-2.jpg
    215156615_kNNko-L-2.jpg
    215214852_vCdP6-L-2.jpg
    215507265_6HbYm-L-2.jpg
    215527738_Pwq9g-L-2.jpg
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    you know, I never even noticed the watch in the Cougher strip.

  • SpaffySpaffy Fuck the Zero Registered User regular
    Best comic ever. The watch!

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    If the watch shows up in a future comic without Gabe or (more likely) Tycho first killing the Dropbear, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    TheCanMan wrote: »
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    hahahaha, I love the subtle implication going on with this one.

  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    TheCanMan wrote: »
    Oh no! Someone needs to go through and find Tycho getting the watch back at some point between now and 2011/03/14, otherwise they've broken the continuity. I would, but I just scrolled through 7 years worth of comics and now my eyes hurt.

    If we can't find a better one, I'm proposing we place this one in the watch arch (even though there's no watch visible).
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    God that might be the most perfect capturing of the reaction the brain immediately has to bad events that I've ever seen.

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  • BigglesBBigglesB Registered User new member
    Finally! Someone else realises how terrifying these creatures can be!

    I think we need to raise awareness for this terrible condition.

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    (did this quickie a few years back, apologies for the shoddy brushwork and going a little OTT on the flare, I was in a funny mood that day)

  • armydawg18armydawg18 Registered User new member
    Another watch strip...
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  • CapsaicinCapsaicin I asked my 2 y/o son to draw a pic of my German mom, and thats what we got. Registered User regular
    Can someone point out the source of the term "Drop Bear"? I know they refer to violent koalas that drop on you from trees but the first I heard of it was on the Jason Ellis show (aussie skateboarder turned SIRIUSXM radio host).

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    It's one of those "stupid tourist" pranks that's so old it seems to have just always existed, like the wild haggis or wolpertinger variations. There's a theory that it came from aboriginal stories that were possibly based on one of the extinct relatives of koalas (several of which were slightly larger and a bit scary looking), but that's kind of like saying bigfoot might be based on tribal accounts of gigantopithecus - they're things that existed but not in the same place or time as humans.

    Hevach on
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