Truck Bearing Kibble - Latest Comments in Heaven

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Tractors — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:03:50 -0000

So this is a farmer's heaven ? I don't think so, after you spend so many hours working..you could use just a good night sleep!

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JoeAnne11 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:53:45 -0000

I wonder how come that you managed to edit this pictures in such a perfect way? I saw a guy who drown a few Tractors from his farm exactly like this. I don't know if he made it with a pencil or he used a high tech computer program.

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Andreea — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:42:59 -0000

I really love the details.. Good job.

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LennySA — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:34:13 -0000

This website hates the spacebar.

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LennySA — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:31:43 -0000

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There, I said it — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:29:25 -0000

Shuttup. Just shut up.

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:43:53 -0000

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

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Eyegore — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:01:58 -0000

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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Crazzee — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:05:09 -0000

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 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:47:52 -0000

I really think that's a sugar cube. Goats love sugar cubes.

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nothingman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:58 -0000

Wow. Never has a slug's life been so hotly debated. Long live the cult of the slug.

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Alexa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:34:44 -0000

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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Off — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:37:54 -0000

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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Off — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:26:48 -0000

Thanks! (Though it would have been more masterful if I'd gotten it right the first time. Doh.)

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Off — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:24:20 -0000

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 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:02:00 -0000

Updates on Mondays; read the news article about the previous Monday.

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Chris — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:31:37 -0000

Saaay... Isn't it time for a new cartoon?

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themightykabool — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:28:10 -0000

haha the slug's so happy he creamed his pants

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Alexa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:45:59 -0000

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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Jake — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:41:53 -0000

Oh, and I forgot to comment on the changes to the strip. Masterful.

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Jake — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:39:16 -0000

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 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:07:37 -0000

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 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:52:58 -0000

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 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:30:55 -0000

@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 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:05:52 -0000

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