Wonderful, you got it: Dr. Strontium is dangerously tempting fate by comparing himself to Julius Caesar!
As for other Caesar-related quotes - wait for the next page... ;-)
Tona is not the only one who recognizes the carrying of backup weapons as being quite advantageous! ;-D
(I imagine that if I wouldn't draw the comic myself and were just the writer, I would have described it in the script as a "very nasty looking knife"...)
Yes, countering the toy-related quip from the previous page with another one would have been fitting...
A missed opportunity...
(Shame on you, Strontium...)
I saw a video on how Caesar actually pronounced that. The V sound was criticized in Roman times for being the wrong way to say it, so what Caesar actually said was more like "Whenie, weedy, witchy." ;)
All I remember from my Latin lessons is that the "c" is always a "k" sound in classical Latin...
(Thus, the actual pronunciation of "Caesar" is rather close to the German word "Kaiser", which explains the latter's etymology!)
I think the W thing might be a recent discovery. I only heard about it last week or so.
I guess the joke only works to native English speakers. "Whenie, weedy, witchy" sounds really pathetic and whiny, (or at least the first two do,) and "weedy" is also an idiom for "weak". ;)
In German, W and V are pronounced exactly the same, namely like the English V.
(With the notable exception that in many words, the V is pronounced like an F.)
As for other Caesar-related quotes - wait for the next page... ;-)
(I imagine that if I wouldn't draw the comic myself and were just the writer, I would have described it in the script as a "very nasty looking knife"...)
Puts on sunglasses.
A missed opportunity...
(Shame on you, Strontium...)
But honestly, this was purely a stylistic choice on my part: I think that a three-part name sounds just more imposing.
(Thus, the actual pronunciation of "Caesar" is rather close to the German word "Kaiser", which explains the latter's etymology!)
I guess the joke only works to native English speakers. "Whenie, weedy, witchy" sounds really pathetic and whiny, (or at least the first two do,) and "weedy" is also an idiom for "weak". ;)
(With the notable exception that in many words, the V is pronounced like an F.)