Comments (23)

• Pangaea 5 years ago archived

  Now I picture Regret to be like a cricket that can quickly multiply chirping in your mind.

  • Dreki Nn 5 years ago archived

    We used to grow crickets for our lizard to eat. Sometimes one would escape so you'd just hear this chirping randomly in the house at unexpected periods of time.

    
    

    Which is also very much like regrets so I think this is a very good metaphor.

  • elCo 5 years ago archived

    A cricket... Welp, I was today years old when I realized this.

    
    
    • DataProwler Netizen 5 years ago archived

      No... Jiminy Cricket represented something else. His name was a minced oath at the time.

      That was Disney's second movie after Snow White; they weren't ready to try being subtle or subverting expectations.

      • elCo 5 years ago archived

        I mean conscience represented as a cricket. His creator was Italian and just called him Il Grillo Parlante, The Talking Cricket.

        • DataProwler Netizen 5 years ago archived

          Yeah, but Walt gave it the name Jiminy Cricket for the religious appeal. Again, not subtle.

          • camisu 5 years ago archived

            Yeah, around here the phrase is Jiminy Christmas, or even Jezum Crow.

      • BrokenEye 5 years ago archived

        Now I'm kinda wondering about the theological implications of the Messiah reincarnating as a dapper insect

        • JWLM 5 years ago archived

          Particularly since the dapper insect resembles Burgess Meredith's Penguin from the Batman TV series

• Darkoneko Hellsing 5 years ago archived

  "damnit why did I have to grow a conscience"

• Emily 5 years ago archived

  I like the panel with Lei hanging upside down off the top bunk.

• D 5 years ago archived

  I love Lei, the way her mind works, the way she tries, the ticks. The crises of conscious feel so real and sometimes close to home, and her personality is just so good and relatable. She rapidly became one of my faves (though I love them all lots!) and continues to find new ways to endear herself.

• Sturzkampf 5 years ago archived

  Where is Verity sleeping? The world wonders.

  • Luisa McMinn 5 years ago archived

    What happened to the fake maid?

  • Emily 5 years ago archived

    My guess is that she's pacing the deck or sitting somewhere brooding instead of sleeping.

  • Fairportfan 5 years ago archived

    With the engineer, kissing each other's ouchies all better?

• InkyZuzi 5 years ago archived

  girl, how do you even get comfortable in that position?

  like, I'm a side-sleeper, but the idea of just sleeping on my arm like that makes my back hurt

  • Sanjay Merchant 5 years ago archived

    Funny that because both me and my father sleep have been known to sleep in that exact pose. In fact there's a photo my mom is rather proud of that has baby me sleeping that way in the foreground and my father napping in the exact same pose in the background.

  • JWLM 5 years ago archived

    Really? I sleep that way all the time.

    • Fairportfan 5 years ago archived

      me too

• Luces 5 years ago archived

  I love those utility nets hanging under the uppper beds. Remind me of cheap hostels!

• O8h7w 5 years ago archived

  A very good life lesson learned, Lei.

• kuku 5 years ago archived

  Now would be a good time to take a walk on the deck and run into likewise-sleepless Thea.