“Heaven”

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"Considering the nature of this comic, I think it's just an inevitable thing. ..." - Off

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Eyegore 3 months ago 1 point
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I see a recurring theme here: People having to explain what the comic means and why it's funny. Is that a good thing?

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Off 3 months ago 1 point
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Considering the nature of this comic, I think it's just an inevitable thing.

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Crazzee 3 months ago 1 point
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You know, I think everyone may be over analyzing this, just a wee bit. It's a slug, who, somehow, unfortunately, got onto a salt lick. Maybe he was on top of the barn, and fell through a hole in the roof! He just dropped in, landed on the salt lick, automatically assumed the fall had killed him, and that he was in heaven.
No matter what happened, it's an amazing example of dramatic irony. The reader/viewer knows something that the protagonist doesn't.
For all of the people who are thinking about this too hard:
Slug+Salt=Fizzle
Goat+Salt lick=Snack time
The slug just landed in an unfortunate spot, right as the goat felt like getting some of the salt off the lick.

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DragonTHC 4 months ago 1 point
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I really think that's a sugar cube. Goats love sugar cubes.

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nothingman 4 months ago 1 point
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Wow. Never has a slug's life been so hotly debated. Long live the cult of the slug.

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Chris 4 months ago 1 point
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Saaay... Isn't it time for a new cartoon?

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Off 4 months ago 1 point
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Should be one next Monday. I've had a lot on my plate getting the new site up and getting prints ready to go.

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will 4 months ago 1 point
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Updates on Mondays; read the news article about the previous Monday.

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themightykabool 4 months ago 1 point
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haha the slug's so happy he creamed his pants

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Alexa 4 months ago 1 point
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Quite frankly, I think a couple of people are taking the interpretation of the comic a little to the extreme. The humour in this comic is well layered for all levels of understanding from the very basic 'Slug-on-a-salt-lick-stupid-ironic-comment' humour to the complexity of the satanic imagery.

Daniel: Seriously, it's a comic. Neurotransmissions in slugs? God god man! Granularity in the salt lick? Isn't a salt lick so finely grained due to the manufacture process that a hand-lens is needed to make out the crystalline structure? It's not like a lump of sugar!

Regarding the timeline, I am in agreement with Jen and it is my personal interpretation that the three panels all take place in the same moment of time. Therefore neurotransmission speed speculations are rendered a moot point. The first panel, in my interpretation, is a close-up of the slug's face and his ironic comment. The Second panel clues us into the fact that all is not as it seems. The third panel is the same instant of time as the first panel but a wide-angle view showing is the REAL predicament with the satanic imagery and expanding upon the irony of the comic. The only piece of evidence that may contradict this is the angle and placement of the slugs' eyes - the curvature appears different in the first and last panel indicating some movement of the eyes between first and last.

The changes to the strip to incorporate the characteristic 'foaming' have been well executed and the last panel additions clarify this well.

Earlier comments suggest that some clarification of the slugs' death would be beneficial to the perception of the comment. I concur to a degree. Perhaps a minor change of wording to something along the lines of 'What? Where am I? This must be Heaven!' may clarify that death (or indeed a change of location via some supernatural means) had occured. Then again, this being TBK, that would be labouring the point far in excess of the nature of the comic to encourage our own speculation and interpretations.

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Off 4 months ago 1 point
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This comic didn't get rated too well but I'm personally pretty proud of it. It pleases me a great deal- though perhaps it shouldn't?- that people are writing up essays trying to interpret it.

Interestingly, the slug's line was going to be very close to what you suggest. On my original storyboard sketch I've got the line "Where am I? Is this heaven?" When I was finishing it up, though, I thought that "This must be Heaven!" implied that the slug didn't know where he was in fewer words, which is always preferable.

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Alexa 4 months ago 1 point
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The art in this comic is, as usual, exceptional, and it is a shame the comic hasn't rated as highly as you would have liked - But if it helps, from a personal point of view, the comic made me laugh - mostly because of the slugs' cluelessness and the facial expression. Also the rendering of the texture of the slug squicked me out slightly (in a good way)...Especially in the second panel... XD LOL

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Jake 4 months ago 1 point
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Oh, and I forgot to comment on the changes to the strip. Masterful.

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Off 4 months ago 1 point
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Thanks! (Though it would have been more masterful if I'd gotten it right the first time. Doh.)

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Jake 4 months ago 1 point
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I agree with both Jen and Margie. Whether time has passed or not, we're still hanging in the moment where the slug hasn't figured out his predicament. Who doesn't like dramatic irony when it involves such a gleeful look on a slug's face?
And sorry, but I can't help but disagree with Daniel's tirade. Assuming that everyone agrees with your definition of humor and the effect of different symbols on your conceptualization of it, maybe the comic is trash. But despite your efforts, you've yet to prove scientifically that it isn't funny. And please tell me more about neurotransmission speeds in slugs. Where do you get your funding?

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Margie 4 months ago 1 point
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I thought it had progressed, but only enough for the slug to look back at the goat. He hasn't quite *assessed* the situation yet, but he's getting close. It's that moment of 'Uh-Oh' - so satisfying for an audience to be able to appreciate it before the character gets there.

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Jen 4 months ago 1 point
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For those of you wondering why the slug is still smiling, it seems to me that the subsequent panels are just showing the same moment from different perspectives. Time is not actually progressing between panels, thus no change in expression.

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Chris 4 months ago 1 point
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@Tim-- Goats will eat ANYTHING. They have been known to munch on tin cans. I'm sure a slug or two has found its way into a goat's digestive tract...

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LouisZepher 4 months ago 1 point
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I don't think the Goat is licking its lips in anticipation of meal, but rather in enjoyment of the slug's suffering. *shrugs*

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Tim 4 months ago 1 point
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So, this is supposed to be slug hell? Also, are goats well-known for eating slugs or something?

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Off 4 months ago 1 point
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Whoa. How on earth did you find that? Man, I'm really glad that thing isn't cached somewhere. Whew.

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Dan 4 months ago 1 point
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i want to see the old Sluglands comic! The site doesn't work any more:

http://homepage.databank.com/~gakramer/slugland...

blast!

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canardo 4 months ago 1 point
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for those who live in the city and never go to the countryside :

salt lick :
a place where animals go to lick salt from the ground.
a block of salt provided for animals to lick.

( ref : The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008. )

so in every barn there's a salt lick, so no slugg eating...

always nice jokes btw, big fan of the site ! keep up the good work !

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