Comic 433 - Clockwork Ear-Punch
27th Jun 2019, 12:00 AM in Bos
Clockwork Ear-Punch
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lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
Someone’s bell done got rung!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Clocks have so many tiny parts that one can draw flying around! (I should have emphasized this much much more in the last panel.)

Plus, I liked the idea of the cuckoo clock as a coincidentally appropriate in-universe sound effect.
(It surely falls somewhere within the realm of what TV-Tropes calls Audio Diegesis, though there is no exact trope for this...
Perhaps... diegetic Mickey Mousing?)
Jeremy7 edit delete reply
Jeremy7
What, is this the opening to Time?
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Ha! :-D Yeah, one could easily imagine the last panel sounding like that!

If Mira gets stuck there, she may feel like... Another Brick In The Wall!
A wall that looks like the one in Doc Brown's house.
;-D
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
PS:

Mira is lucky though that this minotaur slap didn't send her to the Dark Side Of The Moon!

OK OK, I'll cease this time consuming Youtube video association game - after this last one. ;-)
Candralar edit delete reply
Candralar
I hope the blow Mira just took didn't give her Brain Damage

Before things get any worse, maybe our protagonists should just Run Like Hell
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Or they should call for Help!

(I know I know, that's not Pink Floyd...)
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
I know that feeling. You are very tall, unusual looking, walk in a shop meaning no harm and everybody gets hostile and suspicious. So far the so called "experts" broke much more things that Bos. (And breaking that sauna shed wasn't even his fault, they locked him in.)
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Yep, Bos is the classic "monster" that is actually just misunderstood.
And even though he is causing much property damage, you have observed correctly that he is not the initial aggressor in this conflict!
Stilldown (Guest) edit delete reply
And they should reconsider their ethics. They had time enough to get gas, or a net, stungun, narcotica, etc. The probably have a file about Bos after he saved the children. Even so he could have easily chopped of Peter's head instead of cutting the handle of the rake, and he didn't hit the hoplite with the axe either, but just wrestle his spear. And then they sneak behind him and stab him in his back! Nasty mean doublecrossing backstabbers!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Yeah, our protagonists (a more neutral term than "heroes") didn't exactly cover themselves with glory today...
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
And as he is at least somehow human, this is officially attempted murder, too.
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Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Oh boy, you are right... This story tangents the common science fiction & fantasy theme about the rights of non-human creatures who are nevertheless clearly sentient...
Taily edit delete reply
Taily
Well, if this blow proves lethal and the coroner needs to know the exact time of death, this simplifies things considerably!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Eventually, time will get us all...
AmeliaP edit delete reply
AmeliaP
I'd laugh, because the cuckoo-clock sounds are always funny, but I saw blood o__o
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
This scene is kinda comedic and dramatic at the same time!
JammyTheBirb edit delete reply
JammyTheBirb
I'm actually feeling rather sorry for him... It really doesn't seem to be helping that they can't understand each other.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Yep, things may have played out much more cordial when it would have been clear to the humans from the start that Bos is not just some brainless monster.