So, are they actually relatively good at parking that thing and they’ve just been crushing families for the satisfaction? Something horrible needs to happen to that basket of adorables.
Coyoty
They killed the kitty! You bastards!
Muzhik
@Coyoty, they’re dog analogues. What did you expect?
(Unless you expected them to be like the demons in the Buffyverse, where they eat kittens.)
Meran
Hey! All my dogs have always adored cats! And not in a way that makes ~anyone (even the Cat) think “good with ketchup? Or would mustard be best?”
Yes, my dogs love mustard and/or ketchup!
Meran
Are you SURE that’s a cat? It looks almost like the head of a large breed of dog… like a Great Dane. The thing you’re prob imagining as a tail could be an erect ear instead.
Coyoty
Where’d yesterday’s strip go?
Efogoto
It’s back about five spots in its appropriate place of the timeline here.
War Pig
For cute things they are racking up one heck of a body count.
Spaceseeker51
No kidding. Aliens all going from crop circles to urban circles.
It’s surprising the reserves you have when your life is on the line. One time we had hiked almost 20 miles in full battle rattle. Packs and all. We were dog tired. Then bullets started kicking up dirt around us and we found out we weren’t that tired after all. The next three miles to a defensible position seemed to only take ten minutes.
Elpep
I am surprised of how much your drawings of the streets of Murcia actually look like the real thing! Kudos, Christopher, great job!
Schismatism
On the one hand, that poor crushed house.
On the other, at least the residents won’t have to worry about their electric car anymore.
Schismatism
Oh. My mistake, I was looking at the wrong panel. …well, they still won’t have to worry.
Robin Bobcat
Fun fact: that stitch in your side is often your spleen contracting, dumping spare blood cells into your body to help during your exertions.
Muzhik
Doesn’t sound very fun for your spleen.
“HURRYHURRYHURRY! I don’t CARE of those cells aren’t finished packing, they need to move out NOW!”
Efogoto
The minutemen of your blood system.
Night-Gaunt49
Sounds like she has had surgery.
Just because they look like canids means literally nothing. They are aliens and it seems they have no empathy to other species. At least ones that doesn’t frighten them in the least. They act totally removed from their emotions. Like science is with lower animals.
Like on the farm, don’t give them names.
And if that is their normal form and not just from their research on human psychology they are making use of it none-the-less.
Muzhik
I know this is WAAAAY too logical for a comic strip, BUT …
I wonder why none of the neighbors in any of these strips (particularly the one above) are calling the police to complain about the noise, to complain about the construction company doing house demolitions at this time of night, to report a large airplane (because, c’mon, a SPACESHIP?) has crashed, crushing the house next door, … ANYTHING!
Or maybe the canids (creatures that look like dogs but walk on two legs) have covered the entire city with an SEP field, so no one SEES the spaceship etc. (SEP — courtesy of Douglas Adams — a field that causes people to ignore things like spaceships landing on a cricket pitch because it’s Somebody Else’s Problem … )
Night-Gaunt49
In fact the streets are deserted and quiet. Reminds me of the somni field used in “The Midwich Cuckoos” though the chosen family aren’t bothered by it. So something is keeping things too quite unless something the aliens are doing dampens the activity.
Their landing isn’t sadistic. You have to have emotions for that. I say they did it because it was easier to reach the house. And deaths are of no concern to them. Their back up family is still intact so…
Bill Johnson
How can you lose someone chasing you when you are carrying a homing beacon? If help can track you, why not the bad guys?
@Bill, that very issue was mentioned in the previous strip. But she has kept the beacon on (while hoping she can stay one step ahead) because she is seeking help to save her parents.
Pete Rogan
I must say, for an unsymmetrical chase, this one certainly is a pip. Not sure how it could end but with enough houses smashed, the Spanish Air Force is bound to send a couple of fighters to investigate. Then things could get cumbersome.
So, are they actually relatively good at parking that thing and they’ve just been crushing families for the satisfaction? Something horrible needs to happen to that basket of adorables.
They killed the kitty! You bastards!
@Coyoty, they’re dog analogues. What did you expect?
(Unless you expected them to be like the demons in the Buffyverse, where they eat kittens.)
Hey! All my dogs have always adored cats! And not in a way that makes ~anyone (even the Cat) think “good with ketchup? Or would mustard be best?”
Yes, my dogs love mustard and/or ketchup!
Are you SURE that’s a cat? It looks almost like the head of a large breed of dog… like a Great Dane. The thing you’re prob imagining as a tail could be an erect ear instead.
Where’d yesterday’s strip go?
It’s back about five spots in its appropriate place of the timeline here.
For cute things they are racking up one heck of a body count.
No kidding. Aliens all going from crop circles to urban circles.
The cute ones are the worst. They’ve grown up learning that being cute gets them what they want.
Reminds me of Stellaris where usually the most adorable species tend to be genocidal dickwads.
Oh, I was thinking of humans.
Sounds like someone with a long history of a frequently-damaged but still-functioning heart. Hang in there, bro.
https://genius.com/Frank-hayes-little-fuzzy-animals-lyrics
It’s surprising the reserves you have when your life is on the line. One time we had hiked almost 20 miles in full battle rattle. Packs and all. We were dog tired. Then bullets started kicking up dirt around us and we found out we weren’t that tired after all. The next three miles to a defensible position seemed to only take ten minutes.
I am surprised of how much your drawings of the streets of Murcia actually look like the real thing! Kudos, Christopher, great job!
On the one hand, that poor crushed house.
On the other, at least the residents won’t have to worry about their electric car anymore.
Oh. My mistake, I was looking at the wrong panel. …well, they still won’t have to worry.
Fun fact: that stitch in your side is often your spleen contracting, dumping spare blood cells into your body to help during your exertions.
Doesn’t sound very fun for your spleen.
“HURRYHURRYHURRY! I don’t CARE of those cells aren’t finished packing, they need to move out NOW!”
The minutemen of your blood system.
Sounds like she has had surgery.
Just because they look like canids means literally nothing. They are aliens and it seems they have no empathy to other species. At least ones that doesn’t frighten them in the least. They act totally removed from their emotions. Like science is with lower animals.
Like on the farm, don’t give them names.
And if that is their normal form and not just from their research on human psychology they are making use of it none-the-less.
I know this is WAAAAY too logical for a comic strip, BUT …
I wonder why none of the neighbors in any of these strips (particularly the one above) are calling the police to complain about the noise, to complain about the construction company doing house demolitions at this time of night, to report a large airplane (because, c’mon, a SPACESHIP?) has crashed, crushing the house next door, … ANYTHING!
Or maybe the canids (creatures that look like dogs but walk on two legs) have covered the entire city with an SEP field, so no one SEES the spaceship etc. (SEP — courtesy of Douglas Adams — a field that causes people to ignore things like spaceships landing on a cricket pitch because it’s Somebody Else’s Problem … )
In fact the streets are deserted and quiet. Reminds me of the somni field used in “The Midwich Cuckoos” though the chosen family aren’t bothered by it. So something is keeping things too quite unless something the aliens are doing dampens the activity.
Their landing isn’t sadistic. You have to have emotions for that. I say they did it because it was easier to reach the house. And deaths are of no concern to them. Their back up family is still intact so…
How can you lose someone chasing you when you are carrying a homing beacon? If help can track you, why not the bad guys?
@Bill, that very issue was mentioned in the previous strip. But she has kept the beacon on (while hoping she can stay one step ahead) because she is seeking help to save her parents.
I must say, for an unsymmetrical chase, this one certainly is a pip. Not sure how it could end but with enough houses smashed, the Spanish Air Force is bound to send a couple of fighters to investigate. Then things could get cumbersome.