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![[0765] The Apprentice](/comics/2016-03-03-0765-the-apprentice.png "[0765] The Apprentice")
- Caption: Meanwhile.
- Reynard: Come on, Roc, let’s go for a drink.
- Roc: Sorry, I can’t. I still have prayers to answer.
- Eagle: Thank you, Roc!
- Sirius: EEEK!
- Reynard: Roc really needs to lighten up.
- Isengrim: Well, you know what happened on his second day.
- Reynard: He still isn’t over it?!
- Caption: 65 million years earlier.
- Computer voice: You selected the option: “Mass extinction by cometary impact”.
- Roc: No!! Abort! Abort!!
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Wrong answer! ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!
The eagle can’t just help?
Also… the same guy is (or was) in charge of both raptors and velociraptors?
@ C:
The joke is that modern avians are all what is left of the dinosaurs, so Roc feels forever indebted to them.
@ C:
The eagle prayed for food (I guess) and Roc answered his prayers and so he found Sirius. Help isn’t what is in his mind.
NOO, SIRIUS! Seoatlamakaskay, someone, anyone save him!
Does Eagle know there are forty years of torment in the ninth circle of hell for anybody harming those kits?
Guess Roc still messes up now and then.
@ qq:
That depends, can a God go to Hell? Does Seeoah outrank Roc? Do prayers cancel out if they’re diametrically opposed to each other and granted by two Gods of equal rank? These are the important existential questions.
Roc fails, everyone dies.
Clever.
In need of a passing Butterfly to flap her wings.
Lets get ready for a God Rumble.!!!!
You ate MY Worshipper?
@ Jerry:
Technically, children don’t often possess enough consent to be actually ‘worshipping’ someone, so that will be either ‘potential worshipper’ or ‘blessed kit’. The latter, actually, as Seoohmasklay (or whatever the name is) blessed the pair and their kits. She also wanted to ask God for equal favour to Sandra, but God’s a mean to Seooh…
hahahaha, It reminded me of ThorPrayer… You have selected “Colon Tumor”~~
If Roc eats Sirus, heads are going to roll!
I’m . . . hoping this will be an instance of Sirius suddenly discovering he can move, hoo boy can he move! I still feel bad about those bobcat kits whose mother was killed . . . c’mon Knorzer, show them as having been adopted by some passing human with a generous heart and bad eyesight . . . how about that photographer from a while back . . . okay, maybe not him, the kits are too innocent to be in that household . . . .of course, so is that photographer . . . . .
Oh, man, totally been there. Why did they put that button right next to the send key, anyway? That and “Send to All”. Geez…
Nice strip. However, I’ve never found out where these animal gods hail from. Are they (Seeoathmaskay, Renard, Isengrim and Roc), from native american mythology? Roc I thought is a mythological giant bird, also known as thunder bird in America, or Garuda in east Asian/indonesia, not a god by himself.
@ HMRC4EVR:
Don’t worry, the only thing that can beat Roc is paper. 😀
My guess is that Seeohatlahmakaskay forwarded all her prayers to Roc when she went on vacation, and Roc is about to urgently respond to the hungry eagle’s prayer by saying not to eat Sirius.
Or I may be completely wrong, and Sirius gets eaten, but that would be too dark.
Another important question. Why hasn’t Roc upgraded his computer in 65 million years?
@ Andy Wong:
I believe that all the gods in this strip come from different religions
@ Andy Wong:
Reynard the fox is a trickster figure from European folklore. He often defeated Isengrem the wolf thanks to his quick wits.
Wizard wrote:
Thanks for clarification.
Drumstep wrote:
That will be the bedst. But i dont recall enny of the readers of thos strip forcast enny plots.
But i hope you just did
Sirius is about to suddenly learn how to climb down on his own very, very quickly. Either that, or Woo will have another breakfast of eagle eggs after he gives chase.
Well, shit. There goes baby #1.
think this is revenge for this…
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/04/14/0262-predator-and-prey/
Some other takes on why the (non-avian) dinosaurs became extinct:
http://pbfcomics.com/55/
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1535
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1393302323i/8691194.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthshock
why is nobody talking about the unscientific assumption that dinosaur extinction was due to a meteor impact? this theory has been long disproved, why are there even still supporters of it?
Nothing wrong with using this in a not-our-universe webcomic, just wanted to say it is not in accordance to current state of research.
Abort Abort… yep…
@ Anon:
Not a “Meteor Impact”.
The text very clearly says:
@ Pylgrim:
Obviously, “real” the joke is that 65 million years ago they were using LCD letters
Hhhuh… I would’ve thought the god of wolves would be Fenrir… Oh well…
@many-of-the-commenters
I’ll actually be okay with it if Sirius dies… I mean, it’s not like animals haven’t been eaten before in Sandra and Woo. Heck, Woo ate an eagle’s eggs earlier in the series, so why not? … But I guess eggs do not count, huh? I guess eagle lives are less valuable than raccoon lives, huh? I guess most people operate under a “what measure is a non-cute”, huh? What does it matter if the cute raccoons eat everyone except their friends, as long as the cute raccoons themselves aren’t eaten, who cares, right? (Quite myopic morality there…)
@Anon
Technically, a meteoric impact is likely to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. It wasn’t, by any means, what ultimately finished them off, climate changes, volcanic activity and evolution took care of that, which the comic actually does acknowledge by way of having Roc be the god of birds of prey. (Or “birds of prayer” ;D …i’ll shaddap)
noname wrote:
Not to mention that Reynard and Isengrim are supposed to be enemies…
It’s probably just because I’m really thick, but just in case it isn’t, I wanted to give kudos to the writers. This is about the third day in a row I dropped in and looked at this same comic, and it finally just hit me: I got so caught up in the comic subplot about animal gods and their prayer-answering skills, I completely missed the gravity of the situation in the 2nd panel! So, if that’s what you were going for, well done! But now, save Sirius!!
Seven of Spades wrote:
Long live Durkon Thundershield :D… or well right now…
Trimutius wrote:
Yeah, officially, but they’re off-duty now.
That day, Roc learned importance of regular backups.
Anon wrote:
No offense, but sounds like you may be the one who has their facts wrong.
Look up “Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event” on Wikipedia. The article mentions that, “The boundary clay shows high levels of the metal iridium, which is rare in the Earth’s crust but abundant in asteroids.” The article concludes “…it is now generally believed that the K–Pg extinction was triggered by a massive comet or asteroid impact 66 million years ago.”
Granted, Wikipedia is not the most respected of sources. But the references used are current and seem legit, such as articles in Science Magazine, as published by the AAAS.
@ qq:
Probably to late to post this, but in what way is the eagle a traitor?
the joke is dinosaurs were avians hence 80’% of avians died because of his mistake and he still feels bad, poor guy must mist all those terrfying t rex and carnato saurs killing people.