DISQUS

Anon · 1 year ago

Wat

Tik Tok · 1 year ago

Fresh pancakes, courtesy of Dragons inc. Because you just don't have time to run back to town and grab a meal.

Anon · 1 year ago

I don't get it. And I always get it.

frenki · 1 year ago

Indeed, WHAT?

C U Jimmy · 1 year ago

Must be Scottish...

Chou · 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but I don't get it either... But the situation is very amusing :)

Quete · 1 year ago

Batter in bricks? Wut.
Defending against batter breath with a torch? Not so wut but wut.
May be it is a butter in bricks to grease tho armor, and torch to make a pancakes which would not prevent tho knight to move.

t3knomanser · 1 year ago

This one's really obvious. The knight is fighting a batter breathing dragon, so he arms himself with butter and syrup and a torch because he's cooking the batter into pancakes.

//I had pancakes for breakfast today.

Grover · 1 year ago

I thought this was hilarious.

Pete · 1 year ago

The way I see it, the knight found the dragon's hoard of butter and syrup and had to fight the dragon which is how he got covered in pancakes.

Chris · 1 year ago

Those must be some damn good pancakes.

Erica · 1 year ago

So the entire comic relies on the title? I'm really confused.

KRD · 1 year ago

Yum.

Half past noon · 1 year ago

...But batter dragons are yellow...

Off · 1 year ago

You know, I decided maybe you're right about that, so I just made a minor adjustment to the comic. You'll probably have to refresh the page...

Haversham · 1 year ago

I think the way he's holding the pancake in the last panel shows his confusion at them. That and the fact that he's holding a sword means he wasn't using the butter and torch for defense. I think he stumbled upon the hoard of butter and syrup, couldn't figure it out, then had to kill the dragon, and realized why it was all there - because the dragon breathes batter. They just got cooked into pancakes by the torch inadvertently.

Finch · 1 year ago

After I read this comment the comic made a whole lot more senses. I thought that he had brought the syrup and butter and just wanted pancakes.

Joseph T · 1 year ago

As they say, most myths and legends are based in reality. This, children, is how pancakes were invented.

ddog · 1 year ago

agreeing with t3kno here that the sticks of butter and bottles of syrup are pretty obviously the dragon's treasure horde. however, i don't agree that the torch has any significance other than use as light in a cave. the sword in his hand in the last panel clearly show he intended to fight with it and was suprised when the dragon breathed pancakes instead of fire.

the lack of a shield is a little perplexing as it seems he did not intend to defend himself in any capacity, regardless of what the dragon breathed.

mjgorman · 1 year ago

I love the dragon's hand in the last frame.

Kukamunga · 1 year ago

Dragons don't have hands, dumbass.

World's Foremost Dragon-Expert · 1 year ago

So apparently you've seen one then and have examined it? Dumbass.

Kukamunga · 1 year ago

God said so

Hipp · 1 year ago

I've got it: dragon eats batter, dragon tries to breathe fire, but spits up pancakes instead.

Laramon · 1 year ago

The dragon breathes pancake batter. The knight holds up the torch to cook the pancakes as they come at him and the cache of butter and syrup is for when he consumes them later. Doesn't seem to be as hard as some people are making it out to be.

Yes, it took 3 readings to get though.

Alexa · 1 year ago

My take on it is that the Knight's armour is a kind-of frying plate upon which the batter-breath was cooked (having been greased with the butter). The torch is obviously the heat source here although if the knight heated his armour he's be cooked alive inside it.... so that's somewhat perplexing. I think the butter and syrup is definitely the dragons' stash, although for some reason I'm having mental visions of a Blaire-style projectile vomit of batter! lol

Xion · 1 year ago

Hah... it breaths batter through the flame, which cooks it as it lands on the pan of the knights armor. He's standing by with butter and syrup to consume them immediately.

Thumbs up, I like it. Medieval Breakfast solved.

Off · 1 year ago

Hmm, this one's not going over too well and I think it's because we're forcing people to imagine some really absurd physics in between frames. To some degree, I think that's part of the fun, but maybe we stepped a bit too far out there on this one?

Also, I just changed the title... Does it bug people when I edit aspects of the comic after it's been posted?

hmmm · 1 year ago

Knight grabs butter, turns sees dragon... knight holds pancake?

shrapnel09 · 1 year ago

This comic is hilarious and I got it the first time through when I read it after it was just put up. I don't understand where the problem lies.

nothingman · 1 year ago

I don't think you stepped out too far, but there is not a lot of evidence as to exactly what kind of absurdity is transpiring between frames.

Bah · 1 year ago

The knight got pancaked. Just not in the usual way.

Scoffer · 1 year ago

and i have totally insane idea: the dragon is made of pancake and can be deafeted (eaten) only with syrup and butter. I just think that this pile of butter and syrup is his arsenal and knight is slicing him in the end :D

fraxyl · 1 year ago

I thought the dragon breathed out pancakes instead of fire. :(

Kinda reminds me of Albi the racist dragon who's tears turn into jellybeans.

Juliet · 1 year ago

My first thought was that the dragon was really made of stacks of pancakes and that the knight broke him down into his individual components. I don't see how he could breathe batter, that's just silly (unlike the idea of a dragon made of pancakes, which has its roots in the tale of Little Black Sambo, who saw tigers turn into butter).

René · 1 year ago

I agree with Juliet here. The horizontal lines across the dragon's body indicate that it's made of a ginormous stack of living pancakes. I would've added some strawberries as blood in the last panel tho. Plus I would've called it Dungeons and Flapjacks.

Off · 1 year ago

You know, that title is way better. I hate you. Just kidding.

René · 1 year ago

Just hire me to write all your titles! Then you can be my boss and we can hate each other. LOL :D

Thuro · 1 year ago

The reason everyone is having trouble here is because they are thinking too hard.
It's pretty simple.
The dragon's horde is syrup and butter, and instead of breathing fire, he breathes pancakes.

Panel1: Knight finds dragon horde and wonders "wtf? butter in a cave?"
Panel2: Holy crap dragon!
Panel3: Well the dragon is dead, but wtf? Pancakes?

Moocow · 1 year ago

I thought since it's a batter dragon, the torch cooks the dragon and then the knight cuts him into pancakes. Made sense to me.

Jonathan · 1 year ago

What I understood is the knight threw ingredients at the dragon, then it breaths fire and that makes pancakes. Isn't that the joke ?

Krumchuffer · 1 year ago

I think there's too much happening in between panels 2 and 3 for people to fill in the blanks.

I certainly don't totally understand what's happening. I think it's more likely the knight threw ingredients into the dragon to make the pancakes in panel 3. But the fact all the knight has is butter and syrup suggests that the dragon breathes pancakes. Why would a dragon breathe pancakes? And why would that be his undoing?

HoneyBunchesOfJake · 1 year ago

I completely get what you're after here, the knight discovers the trove of pancake paraphernalia (butter, syrup, etc), and stares quizzically at a stick of butter, when suddenly, the dragon rears its ugly head. The dragon is easily defeated because, as we learn in panel three, it breathes pancakes. This confuses the knight, and he wonders and his survival, and his pancake covered armor.
However, I see how this could be confusing. I think perhaps too much is left up to our imagination? Maybe a visualization of something to guide the reader to what is going on here.

RS · 1 year ago

I get it. You put 3 non sequitur illustrations in a row creating a comic that makes no sense, then sit back and laugh at everyone's explanations. The joke is on us! Brilliant!

Off · 1 year ago

Heh. I admit, I do enjoy the over elaborate explanations sometimes, but to utterly confuse readers has never been our intent.

Scythemantis · 1 year ago

When it was called "batter breathing dragon" I thought the dragon sprayed batter that the knight somehow cooked into pancakes on his armor. Now that it's "pancake dragon" I see what Thuro sees. Pancake Breathing Dragon might work a little better, maybe.

Off · 1 year ago

The comic was concieved with the title "Pancake Dragon". Then, at 5AM after I'd been up all night putting the finishing touches on the last panel I thought, "Ooooh! Batter-Breathing has some great title-oriented alliteration! I'll go with that instead."

DB · 1 year ago

hmmm... the pancakes are splattered all over the knight's body... after you've fought a normal dragon that would've been blood. So the dragon was made out of pancakes?

Nope, still don't quite get it :p

Pho3nix · 1 year ago

It took me a while to get this one, like the previous comic. In the first panel I thought it was the dragon that held the butter, before I noticed the armor that dons the arm.

N. Hamilton · 1 year ago

I'd have to say this was funnier after it had to be over explained.

Jake_I · 1 year ago

I'm a bit perplexed by a pancake-breathing dragon keeping butter and syrup as treasure. If I breathed pancakes, I would never want to eat them. Is he just a friendly dragon who likes to feed people?

Chickens · 1 year ago

I want pancakes now.
panqueques...

EMCow · 1 year ago

okay, so he has butter in his hand....and the dragon appears, I'm guessing he throws the butter at the dragon, cause it's his weakness? and the pancakes are blood?

hmm.......

Dan · 1 year ago

now the townspeople won't be suffocating under mass amounts of pancakes

orahlith · 1 year ago

Did he cook the pancakes on his armor with the fire breathing dragon or does the dragon have pancake breath? If that's the case, then why kill it!

Peter Vidani · 1 year ago

The caves in the last frame look a lot like a stack of pancakes. Nice touch!

Jellicle · 1 year ago

I read it as a dragon whose weakness is pancakes. The treasure hoard of syrup and butter are for his favorite food. The knight came in with pancakes displayed prominently on his armor, as protection or a peace offering. In the last panel, the knight is offering one of the pancakes to the dragon, who is extending its foreleg to take it.
.... am I reading too much into it? O_o;

Anyway, whatever it means, it's still a tasty tasty update. Om nom nom pancakes.

Max · 1 year ago

I think that a lot of people misinterpreted this one.

The knight went to slay a dragon but is confused by its hoard consisting of butter and syrup. He's caught off guard by the dragon, but it actually breathes batter instead of fire so the knight inadvertently turns the batter to pancakes with his torch. The dragon is slain but the knight is still all "Wtf?"

Moroni · 10 months ago

This is how I interpreted it. And then I laughed.

Rev. Pee Kitty · 1 year ago

Sometimes, a comic fails. Now is that time.

FK · 1 year ago

is this TBKs Cow Tools?

Michael · 1 year ago

Yup, it is.

Anon · 1 year ago

Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. How can pancakes not be funny?!

C · 1 year ago

why is he cover on the pancaques?

C'tri · 1 year ago

Dough + fire breathing draggon + knight = dead dragon + pancakes.
om nom nom.

anon · 1 year ago

I still dont see it, also nom nom nom was funny about 5 years ago, update your internet.

Jinky Williams · 1 year ago

nom nom nom never ceases to be funny.

Jason · 1 year ago

I'm not sure how you still don't see it. It's really simple. A knight ventures into a dragon's cave expecting a horde of gold and treasure.. He finds a pile of syrup and butter, picks up one of the butter sticks because he's confused... And then the dragon appears to guard it's treasure! The knight drops the torch and butter and quickly draws his sword (and you'd think a shield, to fend off some of the flames) but instead of the dragon breathing fire, he breathes pancakes. The knight quickly dispatches the dragon, then pulls a pancake off of his armour, obviously confused as to what just happened.

Crazzee · 1 year ago

Holy crepes, it's really that simple. I honestly didn't get it till just now...

Jorgor · 1 year ago

everyone just ASSUMES that the dragon is dead... the dragon was OBVIOUSLY trying to cook pancakes when the knight came along... in the second panel he is showing the knight that his hands are simply too big for the task... in the third panel he drops to his knees to worship the Savior of the Pancake who has adorned himself in the raiment of gods

Jason · 1 year ago

hahahahaha

PJ6 · 1 year ago

I didn't laugh until I read the comments, in what I think is a brilliant twist of humor, both the knight AND the readers become confused! :)

Nick · 1 year ago

It's clearly a dragon making pancakes. It has the butter, the Mrs. Butterworth syrup, but no skillet to cook them on, so he uses the knight's armor for the hotplate.

Bekki · 1 year ago

I see it that the knight wants pancakes so goes and kills a dragon with the ingredients, dragon flames the knight has and the knight has pancakes!

Me · 10 months ago

Nope. Sorry. It is just not funny no matter how much explanation there is. There is no joke here

SHO! · 2 months ago

I don't understand why so many people are confused by this. Obviously, the two people in the comic are at Hedonism III [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism_Resorts] and they share a food, a renaissance, and a furry fetish. The last panel shows the woman, dressed as a knight (flared hips, space for breasts, small arms), adorning herself with pancakes, butter, and syrup as her lover, dressed as a cartoony dragon, beckons her to the bed.

It's funny because furries are hilarious and pancakes are delicious!

vacation rentals · 1 week ago

My take on it is that the Knight's armour is a kind-of frying plate upon which the batter-breath was cooked (having been greased with the butter). The torch is obviously the heat source here although if the knight heated his armour he's be cooked alive inside it.... so that's somewhat perplexing. I think the butter and syrup is definitely the dragons' stash, although for some reason I'm having mental visions of a Blaire-style projectile vomit of batter! lol

Z.T. · 1 year ago

Not funny :-(