I suspect this chicken is supposed to just look bored, but to me it looks like it’s contemplating acts of unspeakable darkness, so that’s the direction I went with here.
This is the first anthropomorphized animal in my run on this strip (not counting the horse in “Buffalo Soldier,” which had an explanation, albeit a stupid one.) I had to make the chicken the narrator because the thought bubbles were ridiculously unruly given the layout of the art.
PLUGGERY: I recently recorded a sketch comedy album with three other comedy musician-type people (all of whom have had the #1 song of the year on the Dr. Demento show at some point in the last decade) and it’s now available from www.cirquedusowhat.net! We still have a handful of pre-order bonus discs available, first-come, first-serve. For those of you who hate shiny media, it’ll be on iTunes/Amazon/CDBaby/etc. in a few weeks.
Oh, and MarsCon was awesome. It’s also the reason this strip is a day late. Turns out Minneapolis is just as far from upstate NY as it’s ever been. Somebody needs to fix that.
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Ho ho ho. That chicken is lucky to even have a ’sacred birthing chamber’! Many of its brethren has to suffer the equivalence of a cube farm.
you had a telepathic shark once. I guess “talking animal” and “anthropomorphized animal” are not strictly the same; the shark wasn’t bloody revenge on the diver.
I will utter the phrase “hideous meat-beak” the next time a student gets out of line. This I believe.
OK, you redeemed yourself! This is excellent.
You did such a great job here.. and the kid is actually adorable.. and that makes it funnier..
I suppose the chickens have no idea their eggs are empty anyway.. or they’d just be confused and disgusted that we eat their periods..
This one cracked me up! Funniest one so far, in my opinion. Thanks for the twice weekly dose of comedy, shoebox!
I’m also reminded of the rabbit. it’s the complete opposite of this one, I suppose. In the one I’m thinking of, the rabbit is trying to figure out what the family of predator-humans want with it. And as the rabbit is thinking to itself, goodbye cruel world, the mother of the family says, “see? it’s settling in quite nicely.”