A corgi at the park brought his ball back to me instead of his owner…. so I go to chuck the ball and my atrophied 12-hour-days-of-painting-for-work arm SHAMED ME.
It went 5 feet. I think Paul is laughing at me with today’s comic
Just an average girl, tossing a 2000 lbs anchor a couple of miles for… Abrupt change of thought stream. Stinky understood Bud when she told him(her? it?) to close his eyes and do this one by sound. Stinky is a whole lot smarter than a typical pet? And..wait..Natural Creature? O_o
Well there’s a species out there called the Colossal Squid – and Stinky isn’t NEAR as big as some of them get. They fight with sperm whales – and the winner eats the looser.
Untrue, I’m afraid. Colossal Squid are indeed huge, but not as big as you think – and they don’t eat whales (though the reverse is certainly true).
Largest known example is about 10m, and while that’s pretty big, it’s also tiny compared to this. No, Stinky here is almost certainly a kraken, your common mythological devourer of ships…
it just looks like an octopus to me.
from what i gather they grow like trees – to the size of their environment.
There must be ‘some’ large pctopi out there but either they would have been killed by terrified humans or are in hiding and avoiding humans like you would if you knew the plague was in town
“Does he understand?” / “I think so. His is not an ordinary brain, and he has had many many more years than even the lifetime of a man to learn understanding.” (Hasan and Conrad, re: Bortan (“… for his eyes are glowing coals and his teeth are buzzsaws, his head is as high off the ground as a tall man’s, a quarter ton of dog, my Bortan”))
I do assure you, that anchor weighs more than 2000 lbs. Not a problem for a gal that boosted the crushed remnants of the calendar machine out of the atmosphere at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light!
The term octopus, pronounced /ˈɒktəpʊs/, is from Greek ὀκτάπους (oktapous), “eight-footed”,[32][33] with plural forms: octopuses /ˈɒktəpʊsɪz/, octopi /ˈɒktəpaɪ/, or octopodes /ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/. Currently, octopuses is the most common form in both the US and the UK; octopodes is rare, and octopi is often objectionable.[34]
The plural form octopi is often described as a hypercorrection. The Oxford English Dictionary (2008 Draft Revision)[35] lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order); it labels octopodes “rare”, although the correct Greek plural form, and notes that octopi derives from the “apprehension” that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, though it is not. It is a Latinization of Greek third-declension masculine oktṓpous (ὀκτώπους, ‘eight-foot’), plural oktṓpodes (ὀκτώποδες). If the word were native to Latin, it would be octōpēs, plural octōpedes, after the pattern of pēs (‘foot’), plural pedēs, analogous to “centipede”.[36] The actual Latin word for octopus and other similar species is polypus, from Greek polýpous (πολύπους, ‘many-foot’); usually the inaccurate plural polypī is used instead of polypodēs.
Should I make it a little bit more confusing? OK, as you wish!
In german, the word for an ordinary Octopus is Krake. Plural form: Kraken. For the sea monster as seen at “Pirates of the caribbean” or here at the comic they merge it with the word “Riesen” (which means giant), so it’s a Riesenkrake or, if its more than one (god beware!) Riesenkraken.
Long lived indeed! I remember a story last year about a whale which had an 1840s era harpoon tip embedded in it. That’s 170 years right there, and likely much more for when the whalers first chased it!
The funniest is that Bud just sorta casually tossed the anchor like a blow-up beachball, and it flies off like you wouldn’t believe. It doesn’t even make Bud strain for a bit. Talk about “superstrong”
As the She-Hulk once explained: “It’s not the weight of the elephants, but the art of balancing them that’s the hard bit of weightlifting elephants”. Goes for anchors too apparently..
I don’t think we’ve ever seen any particular upper limit on the Golem Girl’s strength, physical invulnerability, or energy projection powers. Their limits may simply not yet have come up…but we do know from their history that the Lanthian priests went too far when building their excessively ultimate weapon.
“The strength of materials may have exceeded requirements.”… I gather that the priests really didn’t understand what they were doing – they were using Mayahuel’s notes, and building their monster by recipe. One of the things they ran into appears to be synergy: the whole was more powerful than they had reason to expect from the individual parts.
Could have been part of the plan by Mayahuel.
Make the golems and consequently the chimera, as strong as possible so the priests, when the golems escape their control would have no way of stopping it. I believe that Mayahuel hoped to use the priests blind ego-centrism and power-hunger to re-enstate the matriarchy, allthewhile financing her attemts at re-sync-ing Jin with time through the calendar-machine.
Sadly, the plan back-fired. The Chimera and the Golems were, indeed, uncontrollable by the priests. However, the civilization-burning through uncontrollable raw emotions was the one factor not counted-in by Mayahuel.
She also realized too late that the calendar-machine would end-up too dangerous a tool to be laying around for use by the priest-caste, and tried to destroy it…We all know how well that went.
She manipulated one bridge too far, and all went belly-up…
(Just read all 5 albums in one go, and that is the picture I got here)
Being able to crush matter into diamonds in your fist puts it pretty far up the scale beyond the strength of any physical matter in the universe we’ve come across so far.
It is the way Paul has drawn her, that relaxed way she throws the anchor, that made me giggle for a bit. It very well illustrates how incredibly strong Bud actually is.
I still suspect that the golem girls are indestructable, but the diamond dolls that were used to focus light in the calendar machine may be tied to the individual girl and thus may possibly be a weak point… since well Shelly was told to protect them and all.
or they have no purpose beyond the calendar machine… only Paul probably knows….
I pointed that out yesterday, although to me it looks more like a stockless – or ‘Navy’ – anchor than an Admiralty anchor that’s had a wooden stock rot away. (Read about anchors if curious, folks.) Pablo assures us that Stinky likes to carry around some toy, but it is not necessarily always the same toy.
That^
Our dog always finds his “fetch” toys himself, it being an old, forgotten tennis ball, or a discarded plastic bottle (loved by all dogs due to the great sounds it makes when chewed on, I think)
Since the OrigamiGuy has gone all erudite about “octopodes”, it’s only fair for me to state that “calamari” is, by definition, plural. The singular – even in the case of a thermonuclear squid from the old world – is “calamaro.” By the same token, the next time you go to a cafe and get a yen for an Italian sandwich, please order a “panino.” Pedants everywhere will thank you.
So, will all the main gals have pets before too long? Ol’ Stinky seems to be a match for his “Master.” (he might be one of those pets that “owns” the owner.) What would Jin and Brandi have as animal companions?
Brandi has flies, M has dietzel, Amanda and Tina have cats, Kath has her goldfish, Shelly has a cop, and Jin has a little girl. Its been well established that most of the girls have a companion of some sort.
well i didn’t say a welcome companion, and besides, we have only seen her with Jin once so far, and that was scary because she forgot about personal space.
Speaking of Stinky’s intelligence (again from a Wikipedia article):
Octopuses have also been observed in what some have described as play: repeatedly releasing bottles or toys into a circular current in their aquariums and then catching them.[12] Octopuses often break out of their aquariums and sometimes into others in search of food. They have even boarded fishing boats and opened holds to eat crabs.
One particularly clever octopus called Otto has been known to juggle his fellow tankmates around out of boredom, as well as throwing rocks and smashing the aquarium glass. On more than one occasion he even caused short circuits by crawling out of his tank and shooting a jet of water at the overhead lamp
I like Otto. Make him a lot gibber and you might have Stinky.
If anyone needed proof that Bud is magic incarnate witness the fact that the recoil of throwing that anchor should have buried her at least hip deep in the sand.
So cute!
Not just the giant squid, mind.
Go lo-o-ong!
A corgi at the park brought his ball back to me instead of his owner…. so I go to chuck the ball and my atrophied 12-hour-days-of-painting-for-work arm SHAMED ME.
It went 5 feet. I think Paul is laughing at me with today’s comic
It’s ok, you’re a girl. It’s expected and you get a pass. A guy would be totally humilated.
Ouch. Sadly probably true, but still…ouch.
I had to read that twice to realize you meant that you had expected the corgi to return the ball to its owner.
On first pass I thought you meant you had expected the corgi to return its owner to *you*. Shook my head and wondered how big the corgi was …
A girl and her pet. Cute.
Just an average girl, tossing a 2000 lbs anchor a couple of miles for… Abrupt change of thought stream. Stinky understood Bud when she told him(her? it?) to close his eyes and do this one by sound. Stinky is a whole lot smarter than a typical pet? And..wait..Natural Creature? O_o
There’s more than one? What the heck IS Stink?
Well there’s a species out there called the Colossal Squid – and Stinky isn’t NEAR as big as some of them get. They fight with sperm whales – and the winner eats the looser.
Untrue, I’m afraid. Colossal Squid are indeed huge, but not as big as you think – and they don’t eat whales (though the reverse is certainly true).
Largest known example is about 10m, and while that’s pretty big, it’s also tiny compared to this. No, Stinky here is almost certainly a kraken, your common mythological devourer of ships…
it just looks like an octopus to me.
from what i gather they grow like trees – to the size of their environment.
There must be ‘some’ large pctopi out there but either they would have been killed by terrified humans or are in hiding and avoiding humans like you would if you knew the plague was in town
Kraken comes to mind.
“Does he understand?” / “I think so. His is not an ordinary brain, and he has had many many more years than even the lifetime of a man to learn understanding.” (Hasan and Conrad, re: Bortan (“… for his eyes are glowing coals and his teeth are buzzsaws, his head is as high off the ground as a tall man’s, a quarter ton of dog, my Bortan”))
Not only does Stinky understand, he seems to speak English. Of course, Pablo may be translating for the audience. Quite a clever squid in any case.
Roger Zelazny for the win.
I always liked “This Immortal.”
I do assure you, that anchor weighs more than 2000 lbs. Not a problem for a gal that boosted the crushed remnants of the calendar machine out of the atmosphere at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light!
Yeah – about 62% of C, if i recall correctly that it was due to hit the Sun in thirteen minutes…
As far as intelligence, octopuses* are SCARY smart. Like, “problem-solving” smart. Impressive for no skeleton, eh?
* – recently, I’ve been told that “octopi” is inaccurate. The plural form now is actually “octopodes”.
The plural form always was “octopod(e)s” – the root is Greek, not Latin.
Squid. Octopi have more rounded heads. Stinky’s head is more pointy.
Whether Stinky is a squid or an octopus, the plural of “octopus” is “octopod(e)s”…
Which is what i was talking about.
The root is Greek, but the word comes to us through Latin, hence the Latin ending. (Same goes with “hippopotamus”.)
…and equally incorrect.
Quoting the Wikipedia article on the octopus:
Kraken…
I totally agree.. this here is the mythical Kraken…
I believe that Stinky would be a bit ,miffed to hear himself referred to as “mythical”.
Verbum sap.
Can we call him “Legendary”?
Up to you. Personally, i plan to call him “Mr Stinky, sir”…
Should I make it a little bit more confusing? OK, as you wish!
In german, the word for an ordinary Octopus is Krake. Plural form: Kraken. For the sea monster as seen at “Pirates of the caribbean” or here at the comic they merge it with the word “Riesen” (which means giant), so it’s a Riesenkrake or, if its more than one (god beware!) Riesenkraken.
The cephalopods in general have large brains in proportion to their size; they may very well be in the same class of intelligence as the cetaceans – or higher.
A while back I was impressed to hear about octopuses which used tools; they’re the first invertebrates to be seen doing that.
Long lived indeed! I remember a story last year about a whale which had an 1840s era harpoon tip embedded in it. That’s 170 years right there, and likely much more for when the whalers first chased it!
ayup, the natural life spans of a number of marine animals aren’t known. Blue whales and giant tortoises I recall being favorites of speculation
@Atomic
That was Whale Shark, and they tend to live in the 100 – 150 year range.
@Bucc-i Could’ve been a Bowhead whale.
Lady, that thing aint natural!
Maybe she meant ” living”?
There’s the drawback to being immortal.
Your friends die just as you’re getting to know them.
unfortunately, dying, or being at someones side when they are, is the best way to get to know someone.
The funniest is that Bud just sorta casually tossed the anchor like a blow-up beachball, and it flies off like you wouldn’t believe. It doesn’t even make Bud strain for a bit. Talk about “superstrong”
As the She-Hulk once explained: “It’s not the weight of the elephants, but the art of balancing them that’s the hard bit of weightlifting elephants”. Goes for anchors too apparently..
I don’t think we’ve ever seen any particular upper limit on the Golem Girl’s strength, physical invulnerability, or energy projection powers. Their limits may simply not yet have come up…but we do know from their history that the Lanthian priests went too far when building their excessively ultimate weapon.
“The strength of materials may have exceeded requirements.”… I gather that the priests really didn’t understand what they were doing – they were using Mayahuel’s notes, and building their monster by recipe. One of the things they ran into appears to be synergy: the whole was more powerful than they had reason to expect from the individual parts.
Could have been part of the plan by Mayahuel.
Make the golems and consequently the chimera, as strong as possible so the priests, when the golems escape their control would have no way of stopping it. I believe that Mayahuel hoped to use the priests blind ego-centrism and power-hunger to re-enstate the matriarchy, allthewhile financing her attemts at re-sync-ing Jin with time through the calendar-machine.
Sadly, the plan back-fired. The Chimera and the Golems were, indeed, uncontrollable by the priests. However, the civilization-burning through uncontrollable raw emotions was the one factor not counted-in by Mayahuel.
She also realized too late that the calendar-machine would end-up too dangerous a tool to be laying around for use by the priest-caste, and tried to destroy it…We all know how well that went.
She manipulated one bridge too far, and all went belly-up…
(Just read all 5 albums in one go, and that is the picture I got here)
Being able to crush matter into diamonds in your fist puts it pretty far up the scale beyond the strength of any physical matter in the universe we’ve come across so far.
It is the way Paul has drawn her, that relaxed way she throws the anchor, that made me giggle for a bit. It very well illustrates how incredibly strong Bud actually is.
I still suspect that the golem girls are indestructable, but the diamond dolls that were used to focus light in the calendar machine may be tied to the individual girl and thus may possibly be a weak point… since well Shelly was told to protect them and all.
or they have no purpose beyond the calendar machine… only Paul probably knows….
Stinky looks like one of the fabled “Kraken”, a cute one to booth. They’re still believed to exist till today. ^_^
Jaw drops to the floor & eyes pop out !!!
Wonder if there are more golem-girl pets out there?
From what Bud says in the first panel, Stinky isn’t the only one she knows personally.
Looks like an admiralty style anchor. That would mean that the GGs were active in the world less than 400 years ago.
I pointed that out yesterday, although to me it looks more like a stockless – or ‘Navy’ – anchor than an Admiralty anchor that’s had a wooden stock rot away. (Read about anchors if curious, folks.) Pablo assures us that Stinky likes to carry around some toy, but it is not necessarily always the same toy.
There are anchors from ancient rome looking very much alike modern navy anchors.
Thanks for the link Wyvern it was interesting reading about anchors. Of course it didn’t stop at anchors…
The “Navy” anchor depends more on weight than anything else for its holding power.
That^
Our dog always finds his “fetch” toys himself, it being an old, forgotten tennis ball, or a discarded plastic bottle (loved by all dogs due to the great sounds it makes when chewed on, I think)
Waiter, this huge humongous calamari has an anchor in its mouth!
Well, let’s face it – to catch a “squid” that size, you’d need a reee-eea-lly big fishhook…
We’re going to need a bigger boat.
Boat, hell! I ain’t goin’ after that critter with anything less than a battleship…
New species of octopode?? I’ve never really seen one with a dorsal fin or dorsal ridge before. Or heard of one who could vocalize so nicely!
I’m just happy that Bud’s happy. Nothing can make you happy (or lower your blood pressure!) the way playing with a beloved pet can!
Since the OrigamiGuy has gone all erudite about “octopodes”, it’s only fair for me to state that “calamari” is, by definition, plural. The singular – even in the case of a thermonuclear squid from the old world – is “calamaro.” By the same token, the next time you go to a cafe and get a yen for an Italian sandwich, please order a “panino.” Pedants everywhere will thank you.
If this were a graffito on a wall, I’d applaud it!
For you: Bravo! Bravo!
For your wife: Brava! Brava!
For your pack: Bravi! Bravi!
JEEZ! She’d make SHELLY look like a 82lb weakling…
I think there should be a strechy Skinky doll, like the Stretch Armstrong figures. Complete with anchor.
I love how she makes tossing that thing look so very effortless…
So, will all the main gals have pets before too long? Ol’ Stinky seems to be a match for his “Master.” (he might be one of those pets that “owns” the owner.) What would Jin and Brandi have as animal companions?
Brandi has flies, M has dietzel, Amanda and Tina have cats, Kath has her goldfish, Shelly has a cop, and Jin has a little girl. Its been well established that most of the girls have a companion of some sort.
OK, I’ll grant you the cop, but I don’t know that Jin would consider the little girl a pet, or even an “animal companion”.
well i didn’t say a welcome companion, and besides, we have only seen her with Jin once so far, and that was scary because she forgot about personal space.
And Dietzel has the pizza girl…
What you get for being part of a magic construct, being able to play fetch with a Kraken. Yeesss!
How is he going to hear that?! He’ll be lucky to sneak a peak of it and actually see it!
also the last frame would make a kickass wallpaper.
Speaking of Stinky’s intelligence (again from a Wikipedia article):
From the Wikipedia article Cephalopod iIntelligence:
I like Otto. Make him a lot gibber and you might have Stinky.
Well, i’m making myself gibber at the typos i’m not catching before i hit “Send”…
I heard/saw something like this on a Nature show on octopuses a while back–and there’s this thread.
Awww….who’s a smart cephalopod? You are!
Bud is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
If anyone needed proof that Bud is magic incarnate witness the fact that the recoil of throwing that anchor should have buried her at least hip deep in the sand.