2020/01/08 - A Feast For Crows

[D-Rock]

[2020/01/08 - A Feast For Crows]
Title Text: an ancestor of Earl Sandwich?? no

Well someone needs to eat the leftovers offerings while Cerberus is keeping track of her calorie intake.

[Welsh Halfwit]

Going to the gods with the Grecian urns
is one of the ways through history.
Why none have shown with Pete’s face
is just yet another new mystery.
Valerio and Jonas paint the scene
where Pete popped out for a short while;
before Zachary opened up the way
even this bird needed to smile.
“beware of Gryphons eating Grapes”
should be the legendary warning
as, if Pete’s there, at your feast,
you probably won’t see morning...

[dr_eirik]

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

[Welsh Halfwit]

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

The 'God complex' workout.

[CuriousCnidarian]

Took me a second to realize this was a guest comic.

[NHWestoN]

Pete's so thoughtful - can't imagine any Cerberus dumped him....

[Welsh Halfwit]

Pete's so thoughtful - can't imagine any Cerberus dumped him....

She was of three minds about him.

[Valareos]

i umm... err.. wow... Ahh..

Yea, This is Pete in Sexy Gryphon Mode.... I like..

[Padgriffin]

Me, a Pete fanboy: squee

For a second, I thought this was a canon strip before realizing it’s still Guest Week. I want him back, darn it.

i umm... err.. wow... Ahh..

Yea, This is Pete in Sexy Gryphon Mode.... I like..

Same here.

Looking at it again, I wouldn't mind worshiping Pete. Maybe we could start a church or something.

[trekkie]

Good job Valario and Jonas!

[Nathan Kerbonaut]

Yup, this is Pete's good side. Nice job, Valerio and Jonas

[LunarFox]

I see I'm not the only one who thought this was canon at first... what a great guest strip, Jonas and Valerio!

I'm not used to seeing human faces,
But at least this one's in Pete's good graces,
Pete, quit trying to destroy society,
If you do, you'll be punished mightily.
I wonder when Pete is in the past
Or just how long civilization will last.
With the Gryphon around, who knows?
And how long until Pete's true nature shows?

[Argent]

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

Furry Reality Distortion Effect. Look at all the buff wolves and huskies in furry art with muscle definition you simply shouldn't be able to see through thick fur.

[dr_eirik]

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

Furry Reality Distortion Effect. Look at all the buff wolves and huskies in furry art with muscle definition you simply shouldn't be able to see through thick fur.

I just have a feeling that if we ever found ourselves in a society where people turned into furries, you'd see hair dressers that would sculpt abs into your fur.

[zoogi1]

wait wait. Cerberus is/was guardian of the underworld? when did she transfer to heaven? and how? based on how the green fox celestial said at one point, celestials aren't really very familiar with pandemonium, so, seems like there's not much interaction between heaven and pandemonium

maybe they just have a policy of just going with mortal religions, and not letting the mortals really get to know them. Kitsune might be exceptional in that regard

[Welsh Halfwit]

wait wait. Cerberus is/was guardian of the underworld? when did she transfer to heaven?

18th March 2013



Seen that strip for years. Only just realised how big the cookie is. (You can just see the pup behind it in the last panel)

[dr_eirik]

wait wait. Cerberus is/was guardian of the underworld? when did she transfer to heaven? and how? based on how the green fox celestial said at one point, celestials aren't really very familiar with pandemonium, so, seems like there's not much interaction between heaven and pandemonium

I can't recall the strip, but she is promoted at some point during the early-ish run of the comic. It's actually kind of a sad comic because she is telling someone in a narration that she never got to work with kids as she takes a puppy to Heaven and gives them a cookie.

Edit: I sometimes forget that it's easy to find strips like this with some characters.

[D-Rock]

She dated and broke up with Pete while she was still in service of Hell as he was surprised to see her in Heaven back when Joel's fate was initially brought in. He realized it was a promotion, and Cerberus told Keene this as well.

[Cesco]

Since this scene is set in the ancient times, then Cerberus will have to remain on diet for some millennium... Pete is only hunger, probably. You do parties on human's wars, Pete? Wow... What's the point of the bottomless vases, though?
Very nice work with this comic, Jonas and Valerio!

[CuriousCnidarian]

Since this scene is set in the ancient times, then Cerberus will have to remain on diet for some millennium... Pete is only hunger, probably. You do parties on human's wars, Pete? Wow... What's the point of the bottomless vases, though?
Very nice work with this comic, Jonas and Valerio!

May not bee too entirely long, depending on if "your civilization" is referring to humanity as a whole, or this guy's (what I'm assuming is probably) Greek civilization.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I guess that is Pete knowing about Grape and Peanut because their owner was an ancestor who gave him lots of food and he probably sort out the ancestor first confirmed. LOL

[dr_eirik]

I guess that is Pete knowing about Grape and Peanut because their owner was an ancestor who gave him lots of food and he probably sort out the ancestor first confirmed. LOL

Naw, during the 5000 B.C. arc, somehow Pete hears about a purple cat, then just kind of dismisses it as interesting. It's certainly not impossible that this fellow is related in some way to Earl (though the alt-text dismisses that)

[Argent]

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

Furry Reality Distortion Effect. Look at all the buff wolves and huskies in furry art with muscle definition you simply shouldn't be able to see through thick fur.

I just have a feeling that if we ever found ourselves in a society where people turned into furries, you'd see hair dressers that would sculpt abs into your fur.

Great. I'm never going to get that image out of my head now.

[dr_eirik]

Come to think about it, it works in HP too....

Fox: Bino! I haven't seen you in a while. Are you working out?
Bino: Of course. I've always worked out. You don't get a body like this without hard work.
Max: Don't listen to him, he's been sculpting his fur with dads electric razor.
Bino: MAX!

[Amazee Dayzee]

For some reason that exchange makes me think of when drag queens put up YouTube videos of themselves getting into drag.

[Startrekfan47]

Pete's so thoughtful - can't imagine any Cerberus dumped him....

She was of three minds about him.

She found it difficult to see eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye with Pete.

[GameCobra]

Earl is a timelord confirmed.

Pete stealing Cerberus's job? He needs scarier wings x3

[dr_eirik]

Earl is a timelord confirmed.

Pete stealing Cerberus's job? He needs scarier wings x3

I don't think he was stealing her job, just eating her offerings. That's why he wanted a war, since she's go off her diet once their civ collapsed.

Here is something I didn't really think about until later: Everyone acknowledges Pete in what I interpet as a dull, monotonous greating rather than by shrieks of terror. Like Joel who merely said. "You're not my lawyer." or King later, "You're not supposed to me here." That feels like a running joke I only just picked up on.

[Champion Wallace]

Is this hapless soul supposed to be any historical figure in particular?

How do you get such muscle definition under feathers?

Furry Reality Distortion Effect. Look at all the buff wolves and huskies in furry art with muscle definition you simply shouldn't be able to see through thick fur.

In real life wolves don't have that much abdominal muscle, let alone the definition shown in the comic. They're endurance predators that take down exhausted pray with jaw strength. We just don't bring it up often because a pack of wolves with pecs make a convincing argument all on their own.

I guess that is Pete knowing about Grape and Peanut because their owner was an ancestor who gave him lots of food and he probably sort out the ancestor first confirmed. LOL

The fanbase has a tendency to assume prehistoric characters are related to the modern cast, but the title text preempts us by nipping that in the bud.

I don't think he was stealing her job, just eating her offerings. That's why he wanted a war, since she's go off her diet once their civ collapsed.

I think the train of thought in the last line might not be that a war will end his civilization and bring Cerb back, but that a war will cause a lot of people to die thus bringing him enough offerings of food to furnish a party.

[Amazee Dayzee]

If Pete just wants another war just to get more people to send him food for a party, that goes way beyond just being a jerk you know. That makes him a PSYCHOPATH.

[Argent]

She found it difficult to see eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye with Pete.

I see what you did there.

https://youtu.be/V--_1hUvkh8?t=138

In real life wolves don't have that much abdominal muscle, let alone the definition shown in the comic. They're endurance predators that take down exhausted pray with jaw strength.

Humans are also endurance predators, they just use tools instead of teeth. It's one reason humans and wolves were such effective partners fifty thousand years ago they ended up domesticating each other. Other animals had to wait for humans to start farming and herding and hanging around in one place before they could join the party.

[Argent]

Oh, hey, it WAS Steward that was causing the financial problems.

"However, given that the financial issues for the Equal Chance Program and associated legal support have mysteriously disappeared along with Mr Steward..."

Keene, page 70 panel 2 of book 10 "Housepets! Can't Always Get What They Want".

[Amazee Dayzee]

I am wondering if Keene managed to fix the issues that he left behind since it sounds like when he left he only took the current issues he was causing with him. If that makes sense.

[Argent]

Not following what you're getting at.

[Amazee Dayzee]

There were some issues before Steward began to steal money from the program which only made everything worse. I was asking if Keene managed to solve the non-Steward problems.

[Champion Wallace]

Not following what you're getting at.

I’m not following why you brought this up in a discussion page about Pete doing Cerberus’s job.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Argent was the one that brought it up. I simply just branched out.

[Champion Wallace]

Sorry Dayzee. I’ll edit my post to better show I was asking Argent.

[Dissension]

Not following what you're getting at.

I’m not following why you brought this up in a discussion page about Pete doing Cerberus’s job.

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[Argent]

There were some issues before Steward began to steal money from the program which only made everything worse.

We don't actually know when Steward started monkeying with things, he could have been basically crippling it from the start.