Wednesday's comic!

[murgatroyd_666]

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210616

Amazing!

Still no sign of Krosp, though. Nor of the Bears.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

To a highly sensitive sense of smell, a human wearing the skin of a dead rat isn't a good match for a rat. Violetta described the smell as one of "rotting wet socks." Krosp identified the smell as rats but thought there was "something really wrong with them."

I realize this comic routinely pushes suspension of disbelief to the outer limits, but I just don't think the Foglios played fair here. They introduced him in a laughably bad disguise. He claimed to be good at evasion after demonstrating his complete lack of skill at it, Now we're supposed to accept that he's not the obvious fake he seemed set up to be.

[spectrum_09]

One: He kept his distance from them.
Two: They seem to feast on any human unfortunate enough to find the island, which would cause the rats to have a a touch of "human" smell now and then.

Krosp's comment is really about THESE rats, not Crothers. Foreshadowing.

If he stayed quiet, he didn't draw attention to himself. I doubt the rats were trained to seek out human flesh as primary food. There can't be that many castaways finding this place. Our heroes are being noisy, as Crothers pointed out.

It's a story that animates reassembled dead people and has giga-amp batteries that fit in walking sticks.

[marycatelli]

Lack of skill? They didn't find him without the clank.

[murgatroyd_666]

I realize this comic routinely pushes suspension of disbelief to the outer limits, but I just don't think the Foglios played fair here.

Crothers must have spent most of his time on the island hiding in Hammerspace. He didn't have the keys to unlock Gil's Hand-Cranked Runcible Gun while he was in there, otherwise he would have been better-prepared to deal with the rats.