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[PA Comic] Friday, September 13, 2013 - The Tithe, Part Four
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Should've had this as an 8th panel:
I'm originally from the year 8,000 and only in this time due to a bad time travel accident. To me you're all dirty contemptuous primitive screwheads.
My guess is the blossoms we see now symbolize the Lookouts. The daughters are the (at least symbolic) mothers of them and the rain of petals is the men living their lives and dying in the forrest. Just an idea.
Also, I wonder how old the girl is. At first I was thinking 9-10, but based on her thinking the mother was called yesterday she might be younger. 5-6ish?
Come for the scenery.
Stay because you were torn to shreds by a basilisk
-Redtube
-A goat staring back without blinking
-Jerry
-Sannakji
-Al Gore
-Duke Nukem Forever
-live dolphin birth
-Oprah's afro
-John Madden eating a turducken
damn fine series they have going on here.
Forest Crone is exactly what this lady is in the Cryptozoic Lookouts comic:
Mild plot spoiler:
4th panel is exactly the way my parents looked at me when I told them my wife is pregnant. I'm in my 30s and we've been together for 10 years, and we still get that look of remembered naïveté. It's some serious nostalgic heartbreaking shit 8->
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
Heavy is the head that births the Rock Pikmin.
Also, this continues to be the most amazing art Mike has ever done. Seriously, amazing work!
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
As for Hannah, I think she looks too tall to be in either of the age groups you mentioned. To me she looks to be around 11 or 12. If she's any younger, she's seriously tall. Not that this is impossible, my niece is pretty tall, but she's the exception.
Also, if I were going just off The Tithe, I would be inclined to think of the flowers budding and being called as an analogue to the onset of puberty. Such a thing is hardly unprecedented in stories like this. But that doesn't really add up with
Still, based on her build, I'd be sorta surprised if Hannah was younger than 10.
It seems rather unlikely that they don't mean something, at least to Mike and Jerry, given this paragraph from today's news post:
I don't see the connection that makes you think she's ~5.
That just makes it sound like the girls themselves are choosing the flowers somehow, which is an interesting concept, but doesn't tie into "they are secretly samurai!" in any way that satisfies.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not buying into the specific samurai reference made earlier. All I mean to say is that he makes it sound like the flower tied with a Daughter says something about her.
I'm not flower expert, so I don't know what they were, but the Hag had a very thorny, briar like flower in her hair in Lookouts, which seemed to fit her disposition.
I'm beginning to wonder how the Lookouts village manages to keep a functioning population though, what with all the boys dying in the forest and the girls running off to be living tree-ladies :P
These short stories of girls in the woods, cowboys in space, rangers that don't range... it's not your trade. Can I grin and bear it? Sure but they're virtually back to back these days. Weeks, in fact, seem to yawn between my once regular fixes of angry gamer humor. Come back to us, boys.
Well, you are entitled to your opinion and I respect it. However...
1. Mine and Jerry clearly like doing these side projects and it's unlikely they're going to stop unless they run out of ideas.
1a. It is unlikely they will run out of ideas.
2. You are going to be overwhelmingly in the minority in your opinion of these side projects.
3. Mike and Jerry rarely read the forums (Jerry has never appeared that I can recall since I've been here), so chances are they are not going to see your opinion.
I was genuinely surprised when I saw the flowers were a part of the girls, something that grew. It makes me a bit uneasy but ahh it's kind of whimsical and charming too... I am so excited for new pages, everything about this arc hits me just the right way.