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That look on Katherines face in the last panel.

JSStryker wrote:That look on Katherines face in the last panel.

"I'm really quite sure they didn't cover this in parenting class. I think they owe me a refund..."

Yes. Now, she has to explain the "Birds and the Bees", to a plant, that isn't a plant. No manual, no self-help book, no class to take. At least she knows that chocolate works.

Someone is channeling Deadpool just a little teensy bit...

JSStryker wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/it-was-me

That look on Katherine's face in the last panel.

Well the old cure didn't work, but we have a new cure... Works for me.

Opus the Poet wrote:

JSStryker wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/it-was-me

That look on Katherine's face in the last panel.

Well the old cure didn't work, but we have a new cure... Works for me.

I imagine it'd depend on which hormones were out of whack as to which would work.

It could be that the dirt used to work because it gave her the raw nutrients. Now the chocolate gave her them in concentrated form.

It is hard to tell if her expression is amused, bemused, confused, or all of the above at once with a healthy dose of "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!"

oldmanmickey wrote:It could be that the dirt used to work because it gave her the raw nutrients.

If that were the case, Paul would probably have lettered her dialog a bit differently. He would have used a fixed-pitch font, at 10 letters to the inch... a Pica font.

She's just chattering away like a magpie, isn't she?

(Places a fine vintage Selectric II correcting typewriter, and a nice selection of typeball elements, into the Pun Jar. My wife hasn't used it in years, and wants the space on her office desk for other purposes...)

eee wrote:It is hard to tell if her expression is amused, bemused, confused, or all of the above at once with a healthy dose of "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!"

<Kosh> Yes. </Kosh>

Isn't this the first time we've seen Pickle maintain a non-human form for any length of time?

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:Isn't this the first time we've seen Pickle maintain a non-human form for any length of time?

--FreeFlier

We've had short forays into other forms before... when she fell down the stairs "scrunch, scrunch, scrunch." and when she and Atsali were going at it over Atsali's diary... but this is the first time we've seen her as a potted plant... which shows Paul is good at puns himself... when drunk, a person is often referred to as "potted"... Castela drunk on chocolate? Potted Plant... I see what you did there Paul! BRAVO!

Not so much a fourth wall issue as an expression of parental mixed emotions--if you have children you know what I mean.
It's like combat, those that have never been will never know--it is indescribable.

I was going to say that Katherine feels like a hen raising a cygnet . . . then I realized that while she does, it's not because of Pickle.

In Pickle's case, it's more like a hen raising a platypus . . . it hatched from an egg, but . . .

--FreeFlier

I saw it as more 'Fry Eyes'. Yanno, the whole 'not sure if...' meme?

Either that, or... 'instinct says I should be concerned, but I can't quite put my finger on why this should concern me so much...", which is also a parental emotion thing.