comics (newest: Your Friend)

Along The Way

Ah, yes, I do that often.

Apologize In Advance

He can't draw anything more complicated than a line.

Bad At Kissing

Kissing is a recent invention, first conceptualized in the '70s.

Buffer Space

Also known as an empty seat.

Can I Just Ask

Her original question was forgotten. And no, this is not me censoring language (which, yes, I have done; people do, in fact, swear in the real world); this was her choice of exclamations.

Chocolate Lesbian

I will tell you that there were exactly two sentences spoken between the end of this comic and the beginning of Out Of Context and leave the rest up to your imaginations.

Clandestine Party Pen

I don't know if I did a good job of drawing this. The pen had a tab of paper rolled up inside that could be unfurled.

Foliage

Gorsetalon: No, it's not!

From The Floor

She sang an opera aria and then explained the innuendo in it. Apparently she's been told not to dramatically sink to the floor while singing. I think it added to the emotion.

Grow A Man

I challenge you, readers, to grow men. Not babies. Men.

Handstand

I recently (or...not so recently!?) had a conversation with Sloefern about Limewhisker. He was delighted to hear my side of the story because apparently he's heard about the events I described but didn't know I was the person involved in them. The main thing was Limewhisker's practice scream. One day I heard her shriek. Later she asked me if I had heard her, and when I said yes, she (jokingly) berated me for not coming to help her (she could have been being murdered!). She got as many people's attention as she could (she is very loud) and announced that, sometime in the following weeks, she would do a practice scream, and she expected everyone to come running, especially me (I was in the room next to hers). Koiwhisker, our RA, warned her not to, but she didn't listen. Apparently she did her first practice scream while I was out, but she did another one about a week later. I was the only person who responded. I heard her scream many more times over the year, but they were usually followed by things like "oh no, I dropped it."

History Of Cleopatra

He was trying to impress upon us the importance of memorization.

Live With You

It would be entirely polite if Aldertooth didn't know where she (I think Longwhisker?) lived.

My Dice

Macadamiafur was carrying dice for D&D.

New Water Fountain, Part Two

Saving the planet! Helping baby water fountains grow!

Protest

I would like to express my agreement with Earwigtail here.

Putzt Du Dich

That's German for "Do you brush your teeth?" Obligatory this happened years ago.

Ready To Party

Aldertooth was not feeling great that night.

Rephrase

When using the ratio test for convergence/divergence of a series (term N divided by term N-1): if R<1, then it converges; if R>1, then it diverges; if R=1 or undefined, then the test is inconclusive, and you have to try another test.

Roll Me A Chair

She was just being contrary to Cacomistleclaw's demanding nature.

Signature

True friends make your signatures for you.

Smize

...Smeyes? Apparently he's a photographer.

Two Minutes Left

A perfect sign of a good day.

Very Good Actor

Joeyfoot's dubious compliment came completely out of nowhere.

Where Does

A Pokémon guy who was late for a raid.

Attach

Attach a cat...to your physics homework. A guaranteed way to improve your grade.

Blackmail

Two for one.

Christen Thee

This was all the way back in fifth grade. I don't know if I managed to convey this, but she's miming chopping off my head. She did this a lot.

Dropped Gummy Bear

Five-day rule?

Elf Hoodie

It was.

F

f(x) = fail(x)

Giant Compass

The kind that draws circles.

Hot Opera Guy

They showed me a handful of pictures of Hot Opera Guy from Instagram.

I Don't Know These People #176

The thinking putty was won in a trivia contest.

I Don't Know These People #177

That's how it works.

I Don't Know These People #178

Don't drink people's chocolate milk (or other drinks) without asking.

I Don't Know These People #179

This was a small child who sounded simultaneously indignant and delighted.

I Don't Know These People #180

That's true wisdom.

Kinda Alive

Novastep had been sick.

Loving Life

Say what you will about the dining hall, but we had pretty great breakfast food.

Moving Cart

Physics works in all reference frames.

Nimbus Two Thousi

There are thousi of comics in this thread.

On This Campus

The most realistic dialogue anyone's ever had in one of my dreams was Sorrelstep saying, "I'm salty. Know why I'm salty? Because I don't wanna be here."

Power Outage

That year we had quite a few power outages at school.

Run Away Together

Sounds like a solid plan.

Secret Santa

Guess who Cacomistleclaw's Secret Santa was. Hint: she was very dismayed to hear that Cacomistleclaw wanted her to drop the ball.

Sent Something Important

Well, it is important.

Take A Dart

It's like that class did nothing but move their chairs around all day.

Venonat Dust

When you catch a Pokémon in Pokémon Go, you get rewarded with stardust (which is basically the currency for powering up your Pokémon). The base stardust per capture is 100, but different weather conditions give stardust bonuses for different types.

Who Is Responsible

The panties migrated up and down the hallway for a couple of days. No one ever owned up.

Aloof

Yeah, she has such a forbidding aura.

Angry At Work

He had been getting increasingly frustrated with the physics homework.

Big Wah Moments

Sorrelstep is a grumpy man.

Co-Grind

I love co-grinding.

Feast

It was one of the labs where we did problems instead of an actual lab.

Five Second Rule

As if Koalafur wouldn't have pounced on those cookies the moment they left her hands.

Gold Digging Rabbit

Someone was talking about a rabbit who tried to eat cash.

Grinds The Salt

Not much.

Incapable

Their constant bickering is one of the things I'm going to miss now that Sorrelstep is gone.

Long Johns

He clarified that he meant he wanted it to be cool enough, not that he wanted to suffer in the heat and societal pressure was preventing him.

Not Smite

I feel like I messed up the phrasing here, but it doesn't really make sense any other way. Rabbitpatch wouldn't be proud of being most likely to not smite them...

Paper Umbrella

None of that rain is getting on her.

Priest

Neither of them knew why they shook hands, but they went for it simultaneously.

Reliable Batteries

They had a backup battery to charge phones.

Rice Cooker

That's harsh.

Secret Santa, Part Two

Wisdom.

Sister's Calculator

The art is really off on this one. That's why you shouldn't do all of your artwork at midnight.

Start Screaming

Peatfeather had a sticker that said "Skulldozer" on his laptop.

Teeth Face

When I wrote down the "script" for this one, I transcribed the second panel as "teeth face." I'm not 100% sure I got it right, but hopefully it was something like that.

Tentacool

Tentacool is a Pokémon that looks like a jellyfish. Tabby cat in panel 1 is the sad avocado man.

Toads

There was a deer on campus, and Sharpfang and a couple others went to see it. I went with them because I had nothing better to do. We didn't find the deer, but we did hear plenty of toads.

Went Looking

You can recycle or you can FREEZE.

What Is This Song

My favorite song!

Wring

Gorsetalon was talking about their boyfriend.

Wurmple

Wurmple is a caterpillar Pokémon. It has nothing to do with wintry weather.

A Resource

For physics.

Blubblubblubblub

An important message.

Caffeinehound

The words for "coffee" and "café" are (also) similar in Russian, so someone asked for directions to the coffee.

Delightful

I have never seen anyone try as little as Sloefern in Russian. "Kak dela?" means "How are you?"

Fashion Statement

Practicality is in vogue.

Giant Splash

Aggressive?

Gnome

Anything but a Smurf.

Grocery Store

В России продуктовый магазин идет к вам.

Liver

That's my...cousin of some kind, who lives near where I go to college.

Livin' In 2006

Just like Emeraldheart!

Not Freezing

Sitting on cold stairs is no problem.

Philly

We were talking about various ways to say the plural you, and Heathpetal loved "youse." Then...I'm pretty sure Greenwhisker sent the Russian class an email using "youse" with Deltapatch's name attached, to get back at him for a weirdly casual/slangy email he sent us under her name? (Heathpetal, Mangostripe, Deltapatch, and Greenwhisker were joint instructors for the class.)

Pile Of Bananas

There was always a HUMONGOUS pile of green bananas in the dining hall.

Pre-Warn

Sealwhisker, Sorrelstep, and I had made an agreement a couple weeks before that every time we found a Dunsparce (a Pokémon technically based on a mythical serpent, but that looks like a pathetic worm/bug and has bad stats) in Pokémon Go, we would post about it in the Discord and alert Gorsetalon, who hates Dunsparce. Other people picked up on this and joined in. Gorsetalon was not amused. They told us the next person to alert them about a Dunsparce was going to get slapped--right after Sorrelstep left the building. The threat was effective; slaps usually are.

Quick Game Of Risk

Listen, their parents are both geologists. Speed is relative.

Review Session

The exact classification of wahs has not been determined.

Rex

Love those snakes.

Russian Musicals

That's the nice old Russian lady we talked to at the Russian parties.

Secret Santa, Part Three

Longwhisker was very offended that Cacomistleclaw wasn't interested in her gift.

Show-Up-On-Time Button

In Pokémon Go, there's an unskippable two-minute wait period before a raid. Someone had been talking about needing an "everyone is here" button.

Spoink

Another Pokémon. This one looks like a little pig that bounces on its tail.

Technique

Sorrelstep wears gloves, like a true Pokémon trainer.

Vanish Into The Ether

Going to the void sounds like a good career path.

Wear All Black

It makes sense in context, but: "Do you see me?" "No, I see you."

Worms

3600 comics, which is also two dozen 150s, which is a lot! This is another one that should have a dark background.

Babushka

The MOST important Russian word.

Categories Of Bois

I initially wrote it as "boys," but Peatfeather later spelled it for Heathpetal.

Classic Russian Rock

We listened to a little of it, but not much.

Expensive Milk

The Russian word "дорого" (dorogo) translates to both "dear" and "expensive."

Figuring Out

Takes one to know one.

Fruit Pen

I love the smell of ink, especially blue ink.

Good On Ya

She said it a few times later on in class.

Had A Question

No one else heard the mysterious question.

Hard-Won Scar

It was a Pyrrhic victory.

Interest In Pens

It's the thought that counts.

Kombucha

Kvas.

Lentils

Sounds delicious.

Milky

Condensed milk, which is apparently extremely sweet. I might have tried it if Heathpetal hadn't gone on about how milky it was.

National Spy

To be fair, Wisconsin exists on its own separate plane, removed from all we know as reality.

Outside The Kremlin

He told us a very long, rambly story that can be summarized as: he ate bad sushi.

Pile Of Stems

Even better than lentils.

Quizlet Access

The first Russian party sort of ended around 10, but we (Heathpetal, Greenwhisker, Peatfeather, Nighthawkfur, and I) stayed there talking until 2 A.M. (Might have been 4? I think it was 2.)

Russian Russian

My friend Stonefrost has the funniest pets. His pet named russian russian blue is a large, the russian flag Brown Bear that could rushing all day. I tried to teach him to play fetch, but every time I threw the russia he let out a howl that sounded like 'mother russia.' I guess he'll never learn to play fetch like their russian goat from rusiia. (Another Mad Lib.)

Scholarship Money

Tight budget.

Selective Apathy

I don't know if the "hell" was a swear or an answer.

Smash A Pomegranate

I think we...wrote down hopes for the new year and then ate them? Honestly, it's pretty fuzzy.

Speaking Into The Void

I don't know if this is "I don't care about you" edgelording or "I am the void" edgelording.

Things Are Memes

Peatfeather called something a meme. Heathpetal and Greenwhisker are behind the times and had some questions.

Three's A Crowd

This was Deltapatch's excuse for not helping the others clean up from making the Russian pancakes for the new year.

Waft

They usually brought a breakfast from a nearby café to class.

Bathroom Bros

I don't have or want context.

Birds Of The Sea

Well, tuna is the chicken of the sea.

Categories Of Bois, Part Two

I looked up "long boi" for context, and it's...a cylinder?

Coke World

Okay, there are two things in this comic that sound like things they are emphatically not! Greenwhisker was telling us about a conspiracy theory about Coca-Cola--at one point they introduced New Coke that everyone hated, then went back to their old recipe, and everything was fine, but some people suspect they actually changed the recipe and just had the New Coke in between so that no one would notice the change. The chicken part is in reference to another story which I will tell in a minute.

Filled With Poison

Okay, so the spy is a professor, but I forget what he teaches. People say he's a spy because he's always going off on business trips to different countries, he speaks Finnish, all kinds of things that I forget. One story about him is that he had five chickens when the legal limit was four. A neighbor reported him for having too many chickens, but it turned out the neighbor thought it was a different neighbor's five chickens--they liked the spy, but they didn't like the other neighbor. He got to keep his fifth chicken. He talks about his chickens a lot in class, which clearly indicates that chickens are spy code.

General Existing

The word "есть" can mean "is" or "to eat."

Hankering

I'm hankering for some edumacation.

Here Now

The words on the board translate to "dear/expensive," "now," and "here" respectively.

Ironically Invested

As part of the Russian class we watched one of those ubiquitous language-learning soaps. This one had Sasha, a romantic piano player, and one of the main characters was a girl named Lena. I don't remember the title.

Old People

A very professional start.

One Internship

Trying to break into the chicken game, hmm?

Planking

Heathpetal drove us home after the Russian party.

Sarcastic Statement

So rude.

Scarf

They had recently learned to knit(?) and just kept making the scarf longer and longer until it was a ridiculous length.

Six Handshakes Away

At the first Russian party (an Old New Year party) we watched a movie that revolved around six degrees of separation.

Smell Gas

If you smell gas, act fast! That one is a little snappier.

Something In Our Midst

A friend!

Starbucks Koozies

Isn't that really more pretentious?

Steve Jobs

He was pretty enthusiastic about this.

Things Are Memes, Part Two

I mean, Heathpetal's a meme, too...

Thomas

Translation: "The guy who's never here?" "We know he's here because we smell his cologne."

Three Different Quotes

"Live" on the face, "laugh" on the back of a bicep, and I don't have to tell you where "love" goes.

Tired Eyes

I have that problem all the time.

Too Much Ingredients

Apparently this joke was used on some popular show, but Greenwhisker said she hadn't seen it.

Use Of The Adjective

His культурный туалет?

Admitting Defeat

She put up a good fight.

Blowing

I found an ancient email with a few quotes Ebonyclaw sent me.

Categories Of Bois, Part Three

Heathpetal really, um, got the hang of using slang.

Conversation About Podcasts

Listen, that party lasted hours without him.

Eat Verbs

Some infinitives in Russian end in "-eet."

Found Cake

In what situation do you ever just find a cake?

How Dirty

This is Deltapatch's all-purpose "stop being annoyed with me" compliment.

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Yum.

I Don't Know These People #182

But are you sure?

I Don't Know These People #183

Knives are delicious.

I Don't Know These People #184

It's transcended reality, a little like Wisconsin.

I Don't Know These People #185

Time?

It Do Be

Why not?

Join Up

With metaphors like that, he should be John Green. I guess this is a simile, but still.

Kvas Growing

Appetizing!

Laugh Louder

She doesn't laugh that loudly, but she's really quiet to begin with.

Net Throwies

Most people call it lacrosse.

On Oranges

Comrade Somebody often travels to Europe. He went to Berlin in a post office. He can go. What a man! He saw his old uncle. He went to Ireland. He is so beautiful. He walked in an orange. His car is bad. He read a bad book. He wants bread at the store. Ireland is a nice country. He is so good. He never went to Florida.

Passion For Russian

We played a game where we had to run up and hit words on the board.

Russian Doll

Not an original joke, but a great telling of it.

Screaming Room

The fire alarm was going off.

Soooo

Я очень люблю хоккей. And the ability to speak other languages here, unlike wcf.

Tinder Profile

Scooter emojis are not the emojis I expected them to be, but I guess I'm not surprised.

Virtuous Choice

He kept saying he needed to go home and sleep, but he stayed the whole time.

Whose Torso

Another old quote from Ebonyclaw. It's possible this was during a game of Manhunt.

Aggrieved

Apparently last winter was colder than usual where I was. That's a relief.

Anywhos

He kept saying it for the rest of class.

Bag Of Carrots

Not anymore.

Biggest Mouth

No lies.

Categories Of Bois, Part Four

Peatfeather is a jazz drummer. "Jazz bois" were one of the groups he taught Heathpetal and Greenwhisker about, but he claimed he wasn't one because he didn't do things like this.

Commence Flirtation

Deltapatch came up on her Tinder during the Russian party.

Expecting Someone

Grapevine.

Fightable

He is a fightable person.

Forgot The Rest

Greenwhisker was practicing Polish on Duolingo during the Russian party.

Hip

Hip people always have to tell others they're hip.

Humiliated Yourself

We had a test the day after (two days after?) the party.

IGA Basket

IGA is a mile away from campus.

Insecurity

When a workout turns into a callout.

Investing

Magnoliatail was pretty good at it. Peatfeather was not.

New Era

One week there were only waffle fries and no tater tots. It eventually went back to normal.

Pick Me Back Up

I missed the part where he said what game it was.

Pot

There was a pottery class with tryouts.

Russian Mafia

The Russian department is pretty small.

Sad Puppy

Peatfeather just has a very sad-puppy face naturally.

Started A War

For some parties.

The Sun

So she's presumably not getting an early start on killing people.

The Sun, Part Two

I'm pretty sure pride makes this a sinful choice instead of virtuous.

The Sun, Part Three

Sleep could be an accomplishment.

The Sun, Part Four

This is a list of things you can do before everyone else wakes up.

Twisty Road

3700 comics!

Bee Tee Dubs

I never heard them actually use it.

Cooked Eggs

It was very unpleasant.

Favorite Pile Of Basalt

I can't just pick one.

Forgiveness

Well, that's pretty sad.

Goldilocks Situation

To be fair, it would be porridge...followed by BEARS!

I Don't Know These People #186

I almost feel like there was another word shoved in near the beginning of this, but I was out for a walk and didn't write it down.

I Don't Know These People #187

I mean, I can think of a few worse temperatures, but okay.

I Don't Know These People #188

This was during the first geology lab.

I Don't Know These People #189

I'm going to call countries "this (country) area" from now on.

I Don't Know These People #190

We were using various types of maps of the world (sea floor age, anomalies in crust density, earthquakes, etc.) to observe general tectonic patterns.

It Do Be, Part Two

She was so close the first time.

Metal Spike

The "toy" wasn't actually dangerous (well, besides the spike), though you probably technically could hurt yourself if you tried. I actually got a minor shock from touching the base of the stand, but I got shocked by multiple other things that aren't supposed to shock you, such as the voltmeter I was using to take a measurement.

Netflix Password

The bathroom was really unpleasant, apparently even by dorm standards.

Out Of Parentheses

Okay, but where's the fun in sounding mathy?

Passed Us

This was, like, the one person at Adderbite's college she didn't know.

Platform

Scandalous.

Post Office

In English, you say the specific location first, and then the general location (I went to the museum in the city). In Russian, you say the general location before the specific location (I went in the city to the museum). Also, in English you go "to" places, but in Russian you go "in" places. "Он ходил на Берлин на почту" means "he went in Berlin to the post office," but it technically doesn't not mean "he went to Berlin in a post office."

Pulling It Off

Don't ask questions you don't want answered.

Ready For Pain

So yes.

Select Few People

Another old quote. You know, these are technically vintage quotes.

Sensuous

I don't remember the context of this sentence, but I'm pretty sure we were playing the Google maps get-to-an-airport game.

Shy Rocks

Isn't there some ancient text post or tweet that's like "what if rocks are soft but they tense up when we touch them?" I feel like I remember that from my era of looking at the Imgur homepage circa 2013.

Spilled Beans

He often gets too excited about his geology lectures and spoils the later parts of the lectures.

Try To Pass

His lack of effort was legendary.

Up And Left

Sometimes math just does that.

Broken Chalk

I'm getting more mileage than expected out of the Oreos font.

Broken Chalk, Part Two

He broke so much chalk.

Broken Chalk, Part Three

Bigger deal than he first made it out to be.

Consulted

His chicken legs were one of their longstanding (humorous) arguments.

Draw My Dream

Exciting times.

Favorite Handshake

I have no idea what this was in response to.

Fracture Zone

Yeah, I really expect Frank Zappa to come up in my geology lessons. The fracture zone is basically a cool way to see where plates have moved, because a once-continuous mountain chain is now broken.

Hard Cheese

I neither have nor desire context.

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Their group actually caught me laughing at the first bit about the crust.

I Don't Know These People #192

Every single one. (I don't know who her fake kids were supposed to be?)

I Don't Know These People #193

How romantic.

I Don't Know These People #194

I almost uploaded this without the words by accident.

I Don't Know These People #195

At first when the professor went over I was disappointed because I thought it would be an end to these conversations, but I was thankfully wrong.

Iceland And Hawaii

Fair enough.

IGA Basket, Part Two

She wanted everyone to know.

Natural

I would hope so.

Positive Charge

My sketch is covered in lines, and I couldn't find a good reference, so my wires might be wrong.

Russian Hip Hop

♫ American boy ♫ American joy ♫ American boy for all is time ♫

Silent Pain

The words on the board mean "so/such."

So Extra

I'm not sure whether she meant Martenclaw or the person he was talking about.

Sphere Getting Bigger

I still haven't seen Incredibles 2...I wanted to, but I heard about the flashing lights.

Street Smart

I think she went on to explain that this was how a game worked, but I didn't really hear most of the conversation.

Tater Tots

The era of tater tots wasn't over.

Wash My Mug

I didn't actually see her say this or hear the followup.

Waters

This makes twenty-five 150s, and that's a lot!

A Lot Minus One

That's one way of putting it.

Arrowhead

Obsidian and flint both arrowhead.

Blood Relation

Well, that implies something. Not...a hundred percent sure what.

Bog Bodies

I don't remember what followed, but they had a pretty good conversation about bog bodies.

Burped Out

"It was vomi--sorry, that's not any better."

Feel For Me

Well, yeah.

Hay Bale

Having to drive on rural roads to get to college can be frustrating.

How Wet

It had been raining for hours and only just let up.

Iowa's Greatest

One time I read the word "lowest" as "Iowest."

Jumbotron

I don't think she actually got on the Jumbotron.

Lick This Rock

Look, I know a million people before him licked that rock, but it's the principle of the thing.

Looks So Fine

Slate.

Owns A Bucket

The guy in question was holding a bucket, in case you were wondering.

Pillow Basalt

He couldn't talk about naps because people would be tired.

Read This Guy

Our physics lab.

Replacing Their Tires

Simple questions can tell you a lot about a person. For example: where does their mind go when you ask them for cartoonish pranks?

Rocky Outcropping

I know he means Mjolnir, but I prefer the image that he would be wielding Thor himself.

See A Penny

It was late in the evening, so there wasn't much time left for luck. Also it was only a penny.

Soft Skin

She was so proud of her extra soft skin.

Spilled Beans, Part Two

Spoiler warning for today's pre-lecture ramble.

Stub Your Toe

A stitch in time saves nine. We went to Olive Garden, and I quizzed her on idioms like that (several of which were bird-themed). While we waited in the front of the restaurant, a lady waiting in front of us got really invested in the idiom guessing as well.

Twinges

More like three questions, really.

Two Hundred Parsecs

Two hundred parsecs is about 650 lightyears, which is approximately 3.8 * 10^15 miles or 6.2 * 10^15 kilometers. It's quite thick.

Water And Honey

He was getting at viscosity.

Whale Eardrum

It was pretty cool.

Always Winter

His heart is actually outside his body, and every six months he has it shipped between hemispheres.

Changing Channels

The horror.

Cookie Pocket

Where did she get a pocket that big?

Ghast

Well, it's also a gas...Gastly is a Ghost- (and Poison-)type Pokémon that looks like a little ball of gas with a mischievous face.

Hitchhike

A compelling point.

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I didn't know people still said pleb.

I Don't Know These People #197

I have no clue what the context was, and I REALLY don't want to know.

I Don't Know These People #198

As far as I could tell, Pointed Cat was walking down the hallway asking if every single occupant of every single room was a dude.

I Don't Know These People #199

The RAs put up flyers announcing they'd be taking our complaints about the dorm.

I Don't Know These People #200

Got a whole bunch of quotes from someone else. They'll be scattered throughout IDKTPs for a while.

Just Disappeared

I love technology that works.

Like Thor's Hammer

I didn't make a mistake; he just cut off in the.

Misspell Airplane

Spoiler warning for Omen of the Stars.

Power Tools

I really want that to be the new slang. It would be power tools.

Salty Blue Planet

Because most water is saltwater.

Shouting Dittos

People announce rare encounters in our local discord.

Some Kind Of Haunting

The squealing chairs, voices, footsteps, and occasional trombones from above made enough sense when we were on the first floor. Much less once we were on the third floor...the highest floor of the building.

Swablus

Swablu is a cute little bird Pokémon with clouds for wings. It was one of the earlier shinies (rare sparkly palette swaps) made available in Pokémon Go. Sealwhisker has had absolutely abysmal luck trying to find a shiny Swablu.

Talking In Front

Hopefully also in front of her front.

The Bulk Of It

Sealwhisker (and Sorrelstep but less dedicatedly) would walk around checking the research tasks on all the Pokéstops in town just after midnight.

The Heart

You should be proud of me, because I actually knew without looking it up that the crossover is with Yu-Gi-Oh.

The Humans

Apparently they don't count.

Threatening Stump

To be fair, that would be pretty threatening.

Three Hundred Pikachus

Sorrelstep loves Pikachu. He's only released one, and it was an accident.

Wakey

3800 comics!

Ambivalent Fist

I'm great at the ambivalent fist.

Candy Grinder

In Pokémon Go, when you get rid of a Pokémon, you officially "send it to Professor Willow" so he can "research it." However...the actual mechanism is that the Pokémon disappears forever, and you are rewarded with a candy for that Pokémon. Now, candy is basically the level-up method (a Pidgey candy is a candy you feed to Pidgey), but still, erasing a Pidgey forever and being rewarded with a Pidgey candy...kind of implies Willow may not be researching these Pokémon so much as grinding them into candy for you.

Chunk Of Ocean

I'm disappointed that the wiggly rectangle wasn't clarified to be a chunk of ocean.

Different Upside Down

This is definitely one of the contexts where sleepy Sorrelstep is more fun.

Forbidden Playgrounds

Zapdos is a legendary lightning bird.

Full Of Sin

A syncline is a type of geologic fold. Essentially, it folds the rock layers up at the edges and down in the middle, like a U or V. I don't think he thought through the phrase "fold full of sin" before he said it.

Good Old Days

I think it was Sorrelstep saying it...to people clearly in their 40s at the youngest.

Got Six

It is my greatest shame that this isn't going up on April Fool's Day. Remember that year?

Guessing Ages

Seems like a sound guess to me.

Hot Sauce

It started absolutely pouring while we were playing Pokémon Go, so we went inside and ordered Domino's. Sorrelstep had to dry out his shoes, so he filled them with newspaper. Some of the newspaper had hot sauce on it.

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I feel this often.

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The direction one is walking is of very little significance.

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Thanks for the clarification.

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This is one of my catchphrases, right alongside "I play a harsh fiddle."

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That makes everything okay.

Meal Plane

Also, the body of the plane is a spring.

Planet Math

It sure did.

Ripples

The ripples in question were the readout on a machine in the physics lab.

Saturday Morning

That's the exact kind of thing Sorrelstep would destroy someone else for saying.

Sue Me

It said "see me."

Suffer For It

Not that this college is perfect, but it could honestly be so much worse.

Swablus, Part Two

I'm pretty sure Ash is eternally ten, not twelve. Altaria is the evolution of Swablu, and it's basically a bigger bird with bigger clouds and long ribbons on its head.

This Path

I know they walked there all the time, too.

Tumtum

We're apparently just going to let "twice as worse" slide.

You Angel

All I can say is I hope this year doesn't have so many fire alarms.

150 Million Years

My thoughts exactly.

Chicken Tree

Actually, quality chicken trees can only be grown from grafts.

Fashionable

Very relatable.

Fresh Catch

Hearing people say acronyms out loud is always disconcerting.

Groupie

Who wants to, um...take a groupie on the bridge...no, that is definitely not how I should phrase that.

Hamsters

Kyanitefang was talking about basing characters on people, but only enough to get inspired, not straight-up putting people into her stories. Then Millipedetail invented I Am Very Strangeness.

Harp Naked

I, um, sort of remember the context? There was a harp in an otherwise empty room in the front of someone's house, and their friend might play the harp, I think?

Hate This State

I thought Puddlewish liked everywhere that wasn't Cleveland.

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Me, always.

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I ask this question all the time.

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Good for the bird.

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Sounds like a delightful experience.

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So...heelies?

Ingredients-Wise

Know no limits!

Integral Calculus

I completely agree.

Keratin

Why did I do this to myself with Kyanitefang's design?

Lightening Up

Of course it had to rain during our hiking field trip.

More Annoyed

You can basically insert a heavy sigh anywhere in Sorrelstep's dialogue. In any comic.

Nutrients

Sloefern has...the most beautiful voice.

Ordovician Period

Back when the professor was in college, he got laughed at for mispronouncing Ordovician. (It should be ordo-vish-an.)

Pokémon Trainer

I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!

Ready-Made

That's fair enough.

Sleason

Appetizing.

The Best Geologist

I cannot refute this.

Want A Midterm

I am so close to finishing the comics from freshman year.

Bat Party

But instead we're going to celebrate Halloween in January, I guess. Breccianose is my roommate this year and the only person here I've told my birthday. After this she asked if I remembered hers and was very dismayed when I was correct.

Being Stabbed

An excellent conversation topic!

Chemically

Well, at least we know the truth.

DNA Structure

It's made of spirals. That's the most cursed fact of all.

Dull Remains

So physics was great last semester.

Extinctions

The real answer is hunting, invasive species, and habitat loss.

Fall Over Dead

I can't believe I survived last spring Pokémoning until two in the morning with these two all the time.

Hannibal

I think it was the best word they could have chosen.

Hellish Box

Our dorm doesn't have air conditioning, which is just great in August.

Jugular

More than fair, but an interesting way of putting it.

My Skin

Yummy!

Olives On Pizza

Listen, there is nothing wrong with olives on pizza, nor with being a demon.

Other Berry

Blood bubble bushes for sure.

Outed

She manages that without the serial killing.

PETM

The acronym PETM stands for Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which was a time period when the average temperature on Earth was eight degrees Celsius warmer than it is now.

Pumpkin Tattoo

After eighteen months I'm not sure anyone wants to tattoo that pumpkin.

Pyrex

Pirates would have been a lot more exciting. Also I definitely messed up Martenclaw's design but it's too late now.

Relish

Again, that was absolutely the best possible word.

Restricted Section

I was trying to reference Harry Potter because she said something about a restricted section (I think she actually meant books that aren't out on the shelves and that you have to ask for). (In Harry Potter, if you take a book out of the library's restricted section without permission, it screams as an alarm system.)

Severed Hands

There was a flyer for some kind of community event which symbolized its theme of joining together with a circle of disembodied clipart hands.

Something Absurd

For graduation.

Spider Silk

I just ask a spider how I look.

Stabbed In The Neck

Sensitive jugular.

Up Is Up

Hornetwing had been calling her outfit "preschool teacher gone wild."

Wolf

Werewolf or always-wolf?

420 Geodude

To be clear, he definitely knows what 420 is. I think he was bemoaning the immaturity of always laughing at 420. Haha, 420.

Base Level

He's the one who said it, not me.

Garbage Can Button

In Pokémon Go, the game gives you little tasks to complete, but if you're given a task that you don't want to do, you can delete it using the garbage can button.

Household

As in they shower rather than taking a bath.

Human Form

I don't think I would ever have thought of that, but it's true.

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Well, okay, then.

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That's how it works. Overheard at a store that does not sell lemons.

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Fair enough, but why's Frisbee in the name, too, then?

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Caroline's generosity is a blessing and a curse. I didn't get to see what vegetables were in the box.

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It turns out wherever they were talking about no longer had birds, unfortunately.

KFC

She's from California, but Martenclaw, Breccianose, and I are from Kentucky.

More Freckle

That's true.

My Chair

Yes, that is Kyanitefang calling Magentapelt by her own name.

One Sentence

That's the most useful sentence in any language.

One T Or Two

Some geological term which I have since forgotten.

Plums

Someone brought plum candy shaped like tubes.

Putty

I'm fish-sitting Putty right now! Sometimes we call him Putin as a joke, but technically Putty is his actual name. He belongs to Kyanitefang.

Six Of Us

Our doppelgängers?

Tastes Like Shale

The best geologist is the one who's licked the most shale.

That Kind

And what a week it was.

This Old Guy

My entire worldview...flipped upside down...my whole life a lie...

Walking

My art makes him look genuinely angry, but he was more just incredibly disappointed in Sealwhisker, plus the trademark general Sorrelstep constant default level of anger.

Wet Papers

The question packets for the lab were getting wet, so we were concerned about the papers ripping or the answers smudging.

Wigglier And Wigglier

No one is stopping you.

You're Welcome Note

That's 3900 comics, which is also twenty-six 150s (a whole lot)! The calculator was Martenclaw's.

Aristotelian

I mean, that's fair. I basically wrote my first paper about how Plato was a hack and Aristotle occasionally said something that sounded right (mostly because he said so many things). (Okay, my paper was actually about the relevance of specific things Plato and Aristotle said about art in looking at a painting I thought was cool. I would have loved to drag both of them, but sadly Aristotle's thing actually applied.)

Beamifies

Picture a person who looks like a lion. That's what Indrituft looks like.

Billy Joel Armstrong

You presumably already know this, but just in case, Billy Joel is the Piano Man guy, and Billie Joe Armstrong is from Green Day.

Bio TA

On the you're welcome note, Kyanitefang drew Martenclaw with a caterpillar for a unibrow, a plant sprouting out of the top of his head, and a spider dangling from him while he balanced on a giant basketball. The inside of the card depicted her throwing a calculator at him, causing him to fall off the basketball (and implicitly hurt his back, as he had recently hurt his back by falling off a ball).

Chained Down

There were five of us and only three chairs per table, but it worked out.

Condensation

Generous.

Dark Chocolate Soy Milk

Don't talk to my soy milk and me ever again.

Dead Eyes

Well, that's...good?

Expecting Something

Yeah, just mindlessly shove things into your mouth. That's always a good idea.

Full Of Cheese

I'm eating macaroni and cheese right now!

Giant Trampoline

He wants a whole room of his house to be a trampoline, plus a rock climbing wall up to his bedroom.

Goes To Bed

They were discussing Sloefern's roommate (last year), Atollpelt, whom you will eventually meet. The two of them got along as friends but made terrible roommates because Atollpelt goes to bed at 10 P.M., wakes up early, and talks in his sleep, while Sloefern goes to bed extremely late and is woken up by the slightest noise.

Good At Everything

No, he's good at everything.

Grumbles Great Jokes

I could say "same" to any one of these statements.

Hot Cold

Juglanstep hid one of Martenclaw's sticks while Martenclaw was gone, and Stoatfur searched all over the kitchen for it. It was next to the fridge, almost in plain sight.

Icebergs

She meant waterfalls, like the miniature waterfalls you get next to highways that turn into icicles in winter. Also, this comic is the reason Millipedetail's cat design gained hair.

Join The Circus

Though it was due to talent and not desperation.

Lofted

Apparently her bed is still up really high.

Mind If I

Yeah, that's a Sharpie.

November Fifth

I'm so proud.

One Entity

Tater tots. She later decorated her with ketchup.

Problem Set Wrong

Chaotic professor? Or professor evil?

That Language

Midgewing was speaking on the phone in Vietnamese.

Three Electric

Pokémon Go sometimes gives players the assignment to catch Pokémon of a certain type. The quest to catch three Electric types rewarded the player with a Pikachu. And we all know how Sorrelstep feels about Pikachus.

Wet Papers, Part Two

I'm alarmed that raindrops weren't first on the list.

Car Battery

Jacanafeather might have even more consistently bad luck than Adderbite.

Consume Cake

We had a make-up birthday near the beginning of the fall semester for everyone with a summer birthday.

Defrost

Introducing: my wife, Kyanitefang.

First Cake

She gave the second piece to herself.

Grab My Clothes

He was getting his clothes from the dryer.

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This was during yet another fire alarm.

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Beautiful.

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I'm in love with my soulmate pants guy! (Pants guy is Toadthroat, who wears the same pants every day. I'm waiting to see if this continues in the warmer months.)

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That's fair.

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Now that sounds like a good time.

Not Ice Cream

Martenclaw and I have the same favorite ice cream from the same place (mint chocolate chip from a regional chain).

Phenomenal

She was wearing dark blue lipstick, which smudged onto her chin.

Rain Shadow

...A rain shadow is when, essentially, a mountain range stops up the clouds on one side, so that side gets a lot of rain while the other side is dry.

Raw Beef

I don't need friends who like raw beef anyway.

Roast Him

Milliepedetail and Jacanafeather are a couple.

Sexy Eggs

The what??? Neither of them has explained, and I am concerned?

Single Salt

Millipedetail had suggested that maybe vampires promote the idea that garlic repels them so that people use garlic on themselves and make their blood taste better.

The Sucky Thing

No fish water was actually drunk.

This Kind Of Joke

Sealwhisker still goes for long walks at night even now that Sorrelstep is gone.

Unconditionally

This was part of a game where this was the point, but I thought it was a good line.

Up Your Jeans

I do not want chalk on my possessions.

Vocal Fry

Any pickup line becomes more effective if you can't understand it, of course.

Want Rain

Sharing the rain, how nice.

You Yourself

Hey, that's a good thing.

Your Birth

Please don't.

Agent Of Chaos

It, uh, sure would.

Back Brace

He hurt his back last year, and then this past year Earthquakeclaw received this mysterious back brace in the mail.

Break My Finger

Do you, though?

Circadian Rhythm

Your circadian rhythm is basically your body's natural day clock, the pattern that among other things, would ideally make you tired right before you would go to bed. (Snailwhisker knew this and was just making a joke.)

Comforter

I'm guessing the comforter thief was Kyanitefang, because she gets cold easily.

Downhill Battle

Me explaining anything to anyone.

Electrons Go Whoosh

In our lab, we used some sort of Helmholtz coil machine to measure the mass/charge ratio of electrons.

Favorite Waves

How exciting.

Gute Nacht

Important thoughts in the middle of the night. Once I woke up in the middle of the night with the vivid image of the words "HELL YEAH" in large red letters floating above a friendly yeti. I did my best to draw this on my phone, sent it to Adderbite, and went back to sleep.

Habit

I changed what brush I used for Sloefern. I'm not sure if it's actually noticeable, but it's much easier.

He-Man



Lab Zero

Lab zero was to get us used to the labs, but we couldn't use it to write our report.

Last Hurrah

There are a handful of small escalations in this comic.

Lay's Original

Yeah, potato.

Muscle Memory

You know the whole "got your nose" thing? That's how Sharpfang is with everything.

One Armrest

That was definitely an intentional part of the design.

Orange Soda

That is a plate full of orange soda that they were hitting with forks.

Poignant

A Melville barley lobster lollipop!

Radioactive Balloon

A bunch of balloons were inflated and left in the basement, and during one of our labs, we measured the radon decay off the deflated balloons. That's what Heronflight is putting his mouth on. So, like, it won't kill you, but we literally just got done showing how much radon there was on those balloons...all that to say nothing of the hydrochloric acid incident.

Recede

She had been laughing at an image on her phone, and Martenclaw was going to emerge and look at it.

Stretchy Skin

We were talking about niche talents. Martenclaw can tongue pop extremely loudly, easily over 100 dB. Atollpelt joined in with "I have really stretchy skin," and, well...he does.

The Bar

That is eight (nine if you count the one in his hand) chocolate soy milks.

Theoretically

Jacanafeather's credit card got stuck in the ATM. We ended up pulling it out with pliers.

Two Sticks

That's probably pretty hard.

Why Waving

The lighting in the second floor of this restaurant isn't noticeably strobe, but it does create the strobing effect when you look at things that are moving.

Accounting Argument

Which he counted using math.

Back Brace, Part Two

Back braces are in style now.

Boiling Bench

Don't sit on heaters.

Bosons And Fermions

Those tiny microphones are cute, though.

Caramelized

I can't remember what he was talking about.

Foot Asleep

I hope his foot listened.

Go Places

That was very vague.

Go-To

He had said something like that he would flip a chair around. I don't think that was actually it, but that general idea.

Horrendous

Snailwhisker and I said "me" and "horrendous" at the same time.

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Me neither.

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That's a good plan.

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I have no idea what this was about.

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Commitment to the joke would be for me to use fancy words here, but I refuse.

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This was somewhere in the science building.

Justify

Math joke.

Lawnmower

By "someone," Millipedetail clearly means himself.

No Bellybutton

"My friend ... we were never friends..."

Olive Juice

Not only did she not drink the olive juice, but she never even took any of the olives, which I had specifically said she could do. And I know she likes olives!

Proton

That's actually how hot dogs are made.

Rain Shadow, Part Two

A rain shadow includes both a wet boy and a dry boy.

Reared

The analyzer is essentially an alternate way of thinking about the same thing as Schrödinger's cat.

Retaliate

Goosepelt kicked Martenclaw under the table, and he jumped, causing a shoe to fly off and hit Millipedetail.

Three Hours

Adderbite said this comic was very relatable.

Thrive

Again as opposed to a shower.

Turn On The Light

This was during a physics lab. I think they were doing the one where the electrons went in a circle. 4000 comics!