Big strip today! I swear these strips take longer and longer to pencil, ink and color the longer this storyline goes on. By the time we get to the end of Mu and bot’s journey, I’m gonna be cranking out two comic-sized pages per update! Kidding, I hope.
Back to the comic: The clarification the Cave Rabbit gave bot isn’t the first thing I’d want to hear, exactly, after arriving at the beast’s underground dwelling. Let’s hope its retort is just mutant-creature small talk and not a threat. It did offer bot tea, after all!
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Loving the backgrounds bot!! Great job!!
Also brilliant, a huge rabbit who drinks tea
thanks, f_f! the backgrounds in today’s strip took some extra time to do, but i couldn’t help myself. glad you dug ’em!
and check you out – you got the top spot again so have just earned the Shades 3X!!! wear them well: these will help you find things in the dark that are twitching, warm and bloody:
😎 😎 😎
I hope the tea isn’t twitching and bloody…
ewww. me too, theBean. for bot’s sake.
Am I the only one who thinks Cave Bunny is super adorable? :3
that’s how he lures you in, NWSmiley.
No, he lures you in with Tea. =P The adorableness is just helpful. Though the eye scars kind of warn you off.. Hmm. Nope, still adorable. <3 If he becomes any sort of recurring character I may start petitioning for a stuffed version. 😀
i’m still mulling over a plush Musashi, and now i gotta start thinking about a plush Cave Rabbit, NWS!? …actually, that would be pretty awesome. 😀
omg I love tea. srs bizniz love tea. 🙂
me too, dj! in fact, i’m having some English Breakfast tea right now. (and it’s the afternoon.)
I love Golden Monkey myself and Golden Jade. Golden Monkey is a loose leaf black tea that’s low in bitterness and Golden Jade is a green/black tea mixture that you can only get in the summer :/ but they’re super tasty mixed together as well.
mmm. that Golden Jade sounds awesome! where can i get it?
Its from Teavana. It seems they are out of it though. but you can get a similar flavor with Golden Monkey mixed with a straight high quality green tea. If you have a Teavana near you go and have a tea tour. They will try to sell you everything in the store, but keep your resolve and they’ll help you figure out what kind of tea you like.
yeah, Teavanas seem to keep popping up around me as of late, and they always give me the Youthberry (i think that’s the name) whenever i go in. i have a few of their teas but none of the Golden ones. I’ll keep an eye out, thanks!
Anyone that makes an offer of tea can’t be planning on eating you right? that would be just plain uncivilized. The comic is looking fantastic. While you may bemoan the time it takes it is paying off huge dividends.
i think that’s some pretty solid reasoning, wayne – to eat someone after offering them tea would be way uncivilized! and thanks for the kudos on the artwork. glad to hear that ‘cuz these things just keep taking longer and longer to do! 😛
In England, it’s considered uncivilised if you don’t offer tea to someone whom you intend to eat.
ah. let’s hope the cave bunny isn’t English then, Ste. 🙂
Jefbot better remember to extend his pinkie..
Then again I extend mine when drinking anything, makes me feel proper, even with a shot.
Haven’t been around in a while, but if I play my cards right good things may be happening soon, including possibly…. engagement! (Shhh)
So, tomorrow I’m singing at someone’s birthday and they want me to sing Taylor Swift songs… Will my artistic sense of pride come into play? Will I say heck no? Or will I simply say meh, pay check good.
I hate to say it, but likely I will say pay check good.
As an actor does your artistic sense of pride ever stop you from taking a job? Or are you like me, and your willing to bend your pride, if its not too bad?
depends on how much i’m bending and how big the paycheck is.
ooh, then hushed congrats on the possible good things, Satoshieyes! 😀
and i say go ahead and sing those Swift songs. a paycheck’s a paycheck and she does have some catchy tunes. just sayin’.
The Cave Bunny is good, but the machinery around it is red. Are they near the space ship?
Also, I hope that’s sweet tea.
they aren’t quite near the ship, GB, but i’m glad you noticed the machinery is glowing red – there’s a reason for that.
Perhaps the bunny can use the red machinery to hack into the aliens ship or something?
possibly, GB!
Were you reading “Alice in Wonderland” shortly before drawing this strip?
heh. no. but that is an awesome book. 🙂
I wonder why he’s so big.
alien enhancements, Fusano! (if they’re aliens, that is.)
I love how the giant cave bunny has that hint of a smirk on his face.
It’s oddly comforting in a way.
i added that smirk at the last minute, W-T, so the cave bunny wouldn’t seem quite so terrifying. glad you noticed it.
I like him. I want to hug him and love him and name him Steve. Shut up, bunnies are adorable.
it’s true, Anime fan. even giant cave bunnies that eat flesh are kinda adorbs.
@Rainey; Yea, thought about that as well. If he pulls up a pocketwatch and tells bot he’s late, i will stop reading for a week! Or maybe not. God i love the teasing. Get it? Tea sing? (Ahem) Anyway… Is he serious or joking. If not then this comic will come to an end (in a double meaning, ewwh!) So lets hope not…. Damn, too much sugar !
we’ll find out if the bunny’s serious or not in the next strip, Graypatch! we’ll also find out if this storyline has become a retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! kidding. let’s hope the entire comic doesn’t end with the next strip.
Anyone else remember “Watership Down?”
it’s an absolute favorite movie and book of mine, Oz! i have an original poster of it hanging in my living room and a first printing of the hardcover in my library. its influence is felt in many things i write.
EDI: “That was a joke”
let’s hope so, JGThorncross!
It would seem that the rabbit has been here a while for it to have all this set up. And I doubt it will eat Bot because if that were its intentions it could have easily bitten Bot’s head off instead of just scaring the crap out of him.
correct on both accounts, Fijiman – it’s definitely been living in this cave for quite some time, and it also could’ve ended bot whenever it wanted.
Out of curiousity, when the big cave bunny says “we” does he mean all rabbits, or just the giant glowing cave variety. Also, I’d check the tea for poison if I were Jefbot.
just the giant, glowing, cave variety, 52pickup. heheh. and, yeah – methinks bot’s thinking about the exact contents of that tea right about now.
If I wanted to warm someone up and get them ready to twitch before eating them I’d surely give them tea. Most of the alien modified critters we’ve found are just growling/screeching attack critters. So far only Mu and our rabbity friend here, have been polite enough to talk to bot. It can’t be evil right?
Also, what could give a rabbit that size facial scars like that.
Have you never heard the joke about “The giant is coming!”? Even if you didn’t, there’s a scene in “Phantom Menace” where a fish tries to swallow a submarine but is then eaten by a larger fish.
indeed. there’s always a bigger fish, Rainey.
hmmm… very true, Descolada – that tea could be warming bot up from the inside out! but, also true: the cave rabbit is fairly polite and less growly than the others. could be a good one.
as for those scars – yep, that’s a mystery. 🙂
Cave Bunny is The Sarcasm Master.
Right, Jeff? Um . . . Jeff?
heh. it might just be, Sarah W. we’ll find out soon.
So…two questions about this comic:
1 – Maybe I’m over-analyzing, but shouldn’t Mu’s TRON markings be unlit if he’s unconscious? Or on an “energy saver” setting or something? Yes, my big contribution to the conversation is obsessing over fictional bioluminescence issues regarding alien-enhanced hamsters.
2 – Is anyone else reading “The Mother Mu”‘s dialogue as read by Tim Curry?
good questions, JOE! i like that they’re churning around in your brain when you read the strips. answers:
1 – if Mu was completely unconscious, his markings would be much dimmer, but he’s in what amounts to a feedback loop due to being disconnected from the Growler so abruptly, so his glow stays strong. if a cartoon was made from this storyline, i’d have the glow flicker every so often, so you could tell something was wrong. maybe i’ll have to make an animated gif of that effect sometime.
2 – ooh, Tim Curry would be great! in my head, though, i’m hearing Benedict Cumberbatch. i’d take either for the JEFbot animated series. 😉
I like that you actually bother having answers to my random questions…especially the beautiful technobabble of answer #1 (I’m a long-term Stargate fan, so I loves me some well-written technobabble).
it makes me happy to see you thinking about these things, JOE, since it justifies all the time i spend thinking about these things, too!
“Warm, twitching, bloody”? Is this rabbit a cousin of the one from “Search for the Holy Grail”? That’s no ordinary r-r-rabbit.
Well, it DOES have the nasty, big, vicious teeth…on the other hand, we have yet to see what kind of vicious streak it has, or if said streak is anything close to a mile wide…so far it’s just been snarky.
true that, JOE. it’s mostly just armed with snark at this point.
time will tell, Bender_Sastre! bot better keep his garbage lid shield handy in case it goes for his throat! (although i doubt that would offer much protection against the Cave Bunny.)
Cave bunny or crave bunny…
or Rave Bunny? it does seem to have a lotta glow sticks around…
“Twitching, warm and bloody” Eep! I sure hope he’s kidding. Or at least that he doesn’t eat people or hamsters. I still think he’s going to turn out to be a valuable ally.
And c’mon Mu, are you gonna wake up sometime soon? I sure hope so. Perhaps the bunny can help with that. Maybe he can “Ctrl Alt Del” Mu. 😉
ha! yeah, it would really suck for bot and Mu if the Cave Bunny’s diet consisted of human and hamster. and we’ll find out if he’s an ally or not in the very next strip!
awesome comic!!!!!!!!
thanks, Nate! 😀
So it’s British Bunny.