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Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

2024-12-01

Am I right, folks?

 

Strap in, folks, cause it's six panels this time. 1: A bird on a branch thinks "Am I safe? Am I safe? Am I safe? Am I safe?" 2: Same bird flying. "Am I safe?" Looks over one shoulder. "Am I safe?" Looks over the other. "Am I safe?" 3: A cat's paw swipes at the bird, who flaps backwards in shock and says "AAAUGHGHCK". A worm poking its head above the soil thinks "Heck?" 4: Bird sitting alone on an electric line. "I'm safe!" Then "*Am* I safe?" 5: Bird pulls a worm from the ground all while thinking "Am I safe?" over and over. The worm thinks "EEEK". 6: A snake has the bird in its jaws. The bird cries "AUGHGHCK". END

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2024-07-01

Stop

A bird carries a sign that reads "Stop stealing my signs".

 

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2024-06-28

Identifying

 

A seabird asks a person floating on the ocean in a little pool floaty tube, "Are you the beast upon the waters?" The person says, "I am not representative of aquatic life."

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2024-06-14

Descent

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the unnamed person has stepped down through the hatch marked EXIT, which is seen above superimposed on the bottom of a cloud. The person is falling feet first; next to them falls the shovel.

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2024-05-05

Thanks question mark

 

Bird perched on a branch to human: "You know how sometimes it's endearing when someone knows very little? Of course not. / Anyway, I like you a lot and I'm glad you're here."

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2024-05-02

I need it like I need a hole in the head

 

A person with a woodpecker perched on their head and a hole in their forehead points at the hole and the woodpecker, looking happy and excited. "Being friends with a woodpecker is great! I got this trepanning done for free!"

Friendship sounds rewarding. I keep meaning to try it sometime.

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2024-05-01

That's all we want

 

From a high angle looking down, a person stands under a few bare tree branches in which sit two birds. The person, distraught, says, "I just feel so weighed down by expectations". One bird replies, "We literally just want seeds." The other adds, "C'mon. Didn't you guys invent agriculture?"

Pretty sure ants did it first, actually.

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2024-04-07

Winged life

 

A stick figure with large, feathery wings emerging from the shoulders and arms hanging dejectedly down. "Birds still don't want to hang out with me."

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2024-04-03

Hatless

 

Panel 1 of 3: Orlo Cube removes the top hat. Under it, a smaller bowler hat remains on his head. Panel 2 of 3: Orlo removes the second, inner hat, under which is a bright yellow bird. Panel 3 of 3: We see Orlo from the eyes up, head raised for the first time in a long time, the bird still perched atop his head as he looks up over the grey blocky buildings of the studio lot and into a slightly green-blue sky with fluffy clouds.

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2024-03-26

Perilously close

 

A stick figure in a wide-brimmed sun hat stands on lumpy ground amidst thin growths growing up to shin height. She holds a garden hoe over one shoulder. Caption: "Mimsy Plinth, whom all birds trust implicitly, is perilously close to discovering the secret of true and abiding happiness."

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2024-03-08

Thank you for being here

 

In the hollow of a low hill still ensconced in shadow as the dawn breaks in the sky beyond, Grambo crouches next to a round bird and says, "The bad news is, it's another day. / The good news is, we've still got each other."

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2024-03-07

Guaranteed

 "Your life is about to get a lot simpler. That's the Cloaca Guarantee!" says a bird. Then there's a link to ko-fi.com/crustaceansingles

This spiritual continuation of today's comic has been lingering in my mind all day, insisting upon itself. I'm supposed to keep this kind of thing on my ko-fi and then link to it on all the platforms, but then the algorithm punishes me for encouraging you go offsite and anyway, this is important enough* that I want everyone to see it.

* No I'm not a paid shill for the Cloaca-Industrial Complex & I can't believe you would accuse me of that.

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Why can't my life be simple

 

A person crouches down next to a seabird and asks it, "Why can't my life be simple like yours?" The bird tilts its head way back and makes a sound transcribed as "ŋgɑwq". The person sighs "yeah..."
I think about this conversation a lot.

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2024-03-01

It's getting away

 

A person sits on the ground in an approximately meditative pose, eyes shut serenely, and says, "Is your stream of consciousness running? / Better go catch it!" A bird sitting on a rock listens, confused.
 

I think I'd like a refund on these meditation lessons.

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2024-02-27

Moving on

 

Panel 1 of 3: a hand holds a bottle. The label reads "Juice that helps you move on". Panel 2 of 3: A stick figure tips the bottle with a blank expression and thinks, "Here goes nothing..." Panel 3 of 3: The figure holds the bottle and stares blankly past it. The space behind them is occupied by a large thought bubble. At the top of the thought bubble, a bird says, "We can't be friends anymore" in hand-lettered text; a memory. Below this, the words, "It happened. It was bad. It is over now and I am not."

Am I ready? Is there such a thing?
(I've made a version with the top of the third panel's thought bubble cleared and transparent for your editing convenience: https://ko-fi.com/i/IW7W8UZI7P. Consider this an invitation.)

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2024-02-08

Birdification

 

Panel 1 of 3: a bottle sits on a table. The label reads "Juice that turns you into several birds". Panel 2 of 3: a person drinks/has drunk the contents of the bottle and, with the last drop lingering on the mouth of said bottle as it's held over their mouth, does indeed turn into several birds of different species and sizes. Panel 3 of 3: Another person looks at them skeptically and asks, "Was it worth it?" Three of the birds (a seagull, a hummingbird, and an indeterminate long-necked bird) reply "absolutely" but broken up between them as "ab. so. lutely".

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2024-01-26

This is a message to you

 

Various birds bring compact discs in their beaks and talons to an exasperated and mystified person, who says, "I don't know what it means!" The bottom caption reads, "But the birds continued to bring me America Online CDs."

Did non-USians get anything like these in the mail in the 90s? They were, in one little patch of spacetime through which I traveled, inescapable.

(I could have redrawn this digitally, but at what cost? Anyway, if you need help decoding the handwriting, the accessibility text can help you.)

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2024-01-04

Less flight

 

A round lump of a bird with sad and tired eyes stands slumpily on the ground and says, "I'm not a flightless bird. But I guess I haven't exactly been flightful lately, either."

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2023-12-28

No mind

 

Grambo lies on his back in a puddle and looks up at the sky, slightly angling his head back as though speaking to the round bird perched in a branch nearby. "My mind has determined that there is no such thing as my mind. / That seems very advanced for a nonexistent thing to figure out." Nearby, a snake looks on with a question mark above its head.

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2023-12-25

Cherishing the onion

 

Grambo sits in a puddle and cradles a large purple onion in a blanket, smiling down at it. His round bird friend sits on a rock next to him and the onion. Two dark clouds look on from above, somewhat skeptical. A star shines overhead, pale blue.

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