Suggested wine pairing: spooky juice.
The specification of a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater implies the existence of one-eyed, one-horned, flightless purple people eater.
UPDATE
Thursday’s comic needs a significant rework to get in everything that needs to be in it. It should be up Friday.
Wait, *do* they have feet? I presume that they’re just not in the art style since they don’t get stuck in the ground every time they take a step, but maybe everything’s just harder here? Maybe it’s one of those intentionally vague things like at the end of “The Lady, or the Tiger?”. (3x punctuation mark bonus! 4x, if you count that parenthesis.)
And I for one think the *real* monster is the disturbingly close approach of Saturn. (Only figurative, please) death of the author! Ha!
Well, their hands have been shown various times in close-ups, and we see a guy remove his shoe here: http://mountaincomics.com/comic/mountain-time-322/
And the author of this place has always been dead — that’s why I can’t definitively say they have feet.
That dang song, so many adjectives it’s impossible to know which apply to the creature and which to its food.
that’s why you gotta spin the dragon
I don’t see the issue. There’s no such thing as flying purple people, so all the words before purple must describe the creature.
But there are purple people (https://sparkpeo.hs.llnwd.net/e4//nw/2/6/l26899733.jpg). Maybe it’s a flying thing with one eye and horn (respectively) that eats purple people?
Folklorist conventions have fallen over such as these.
Hey, I said “there’s no such thing as flying purple people,” which totally leaves the possibility of flightless purple people wide open while implying the monster can fly!
As such, my vote is that the people-eater is one-horned, one-eyed, flighted, and *possibly* purple, but it might be a different color and only eat purple people. However, I have to say, I don’t see a large monster being able to survive on purple people alone, as most people are not purple.
Of course, the monster COULD BE purple AND ONLY EAT purple people. I’m not ruling that out, but I AM asking how such a monster would sustain itself.
(It doesn’t necessarily have to be flighted is really all I’m saying.)
i looked up the song.
Axioms, undeniable if you trust the narrator:
A1: he has at least one horn, which plays music.
A2: he says his “line” – probably of work – is eating purple people.
A3: he’s undergrowed.
A4: he’s pigeon-toed.
A5: he comes from the sky.
A6: he sits on and swings from a tree.
A7: he thinks the narrator is too tough to eat.
A8: he has a gruff voice.
A9: the narrator is concerned that the purple people eater will eat him.
Propositions, Dichotomies, alternatives, shared, Onlyness possibilities, Flyingness possibilities:
P1: he’s not very large. A3, A6 and A7.
D1a1: the narrator is purple.
D1a2: purple-people-eaters aren’t known to only eat purple people. A7 and A9.
D2a1: purple people aren’t too tough to eat
D2a2: he only eats those who aren’t that tough. A7 and P1.
FD1s: if D1a1, then D2a2. he culls the purple people on earth so only the tough remain. it’s difficult to hunt the flying without flight.
FD1a1: A1 evolved as a sonic weapon. purple people fly and are incapacitated with this sonic weapon. this does not rule out ED1a2.
FD1a2: A1 evolved for communication. purple people eaters hunt in flying packs communicating with their horns.
sunk cost fallacy: you thought you had me, but this is stupid and i’m not going to make an effort completing the other trains of thought.
Odd, I feel a sudden, inexplicable craving for shoes…
Bern: Counterpoint: this is not stupid; your reason to cease putting in effort is invalid.
BrokenEye: The first sign of shoe deficiency, to be sure.
not doing the format.
if purple people first had toughness (for example by being humans), then lost their toughness, it’s likely they evolved that way to lose weight and gain flight. in that case, the monster can be flying or not. if they evolved that way on earth, the monster would need to be able to jump impressively, glide or fly to be able to land on a tree. or it was a tree near buildings.
if purple people evolved without toughness, it’s likely they’re aliens from a planet with low gravity. if that’s the case, either they, the monster, or both may fly. the monster might have jumped from that planet.
I just realized the old either rat or weasel (I’m leaning on weasel) wizard says “the sun gets higher every year” because he’s getting shorter.
Also, is the Weasel Wizard’s relationship with the Pentecostal symbiotic? Is it mentor/house? Apprentice/resident? Or does the Weasel Wizard just kinda hang out there?
Bern: I’m going to need some time to digest this.
4: Pretty sure it’s a rat, since members of the weasel family have shorter snouts. For example, see Subtraction Stoat: http://mountaincomics.com/comic/mountain-time-510/
WRT the rat’s statement, “The sun sets higher every year,” I would like to refer to the 1989 philosophical treatise “Honey I Shrunk the Kids.” In HIStK, one of the titular shrunken kids relates how his dad always said, “The bigger the man, the bigger the moon.” Yet, even when shrunk to, like, a quarter of an inch or whatever, the kid sees the moon as the same size.
That’s just phihilosophy, my friend.
(I think the rat has a parasitic relationship to the Pentecostal.)