Big questions: How were they able to overpower the onion? Is anything in Mountain Time canonical?* What color is magma, anyway?
*Yes, but certainly not this episode. -Ed.
ALSO!
If you missed it Tuesday, there was a new comic and a whole non-comic bit about trading fabulous prizes for photos of jack-o’-lanterns. Perhaps you should check into that?
Is it possible to give you fabulous prizes in exchange for jack-o-lantern photos? I’m just curious if the exchange works both ways.
The only prize I want is for people to send me photos of fruit they carved to look like things I’ve drawn.
It is kind of weird to think of it.. is it still grey rock, glowing orange with heat, or has it become intrinsically orange? and how good a band name is Intrinsically Orange?
hehehe. titty mags. I love that.
I wonder how they know they’re in that situation.. seems like whoever told them about the volcano sacrifice being the only option is someone to punch.
Intrinsically Orange is a 4-star band name.
Mountain Time – continually breaking the hearts of Hamster lovers everywhere
Wait, so that giraffe didn’t already count as a sacrifice? Also, I thought onions would be on the side of pragmatism, here.
The giraffe was probably the loser of the last group, and now the volcano is hungry again? I think the onion’s pragmatic effort was coming up with the voting system. I could do a better explanation than that, but I’d have to make a sequel comic, and there’s been too much continuity around here recently as it is.
So is it like Kantian ethics versus utilitarianism, or was that already too obvious?
Kant fits pretty well with the onion here, who disapproves of the anti-hamster action because of his (the onion’s) duty as a protector. Ah! But as a protector, he is disinclined to allow anyone to die, which is, perhaps, why he came up with the democratic approach — everybody was sure to vote for Dave, but they could never kill Dave. So really, the entire vote was something of a displacement activity for the onion. Hmm.
yknow I just realized.. if Surf Rat WAS here, his wave would .. well it probably wouldn’t insta-cool the volcano but it’d be better than nothing. At least he could give people some rides off the island.
and now I am just now realizing surf rat and the nervous hamster have rodentia in common.. if there was already a comic with the two of them, I apologize for forgetting that.
Lol I love subverting cliffhangers.
My guess is that the sheep and robot went and sacrificed the hamster was busy killing a condor.