Housepets!

Egad, a psychotic robot ptarmigan dreaming psychedelic dreams of destruction actuated by pneumatic giant robots! Quickly, take him to be certified by a psychiatrist!

Ah, yes, it's important for a kids' show to use words that contain specific letters. How will the kids learn to pronounce the letters otherwise? For the letter "p", they should use learn words like "pneumatic", or "psychosis", or "comptroller". Tomorrow, when ...

Oh, come on. Differential Calculus isn't really all that hard. Neither is Integral Calculus. But I have two cats, and have had them for the better part of a decade now, and grew up with a cat, and I would be hard-pressed to actually explain them. They just are . (Seriously, there was a study done a ...

Guys? I think you are all forgetting something here.... this is the mind of the Judge. Throughout the entire novel, throughout the entire confession, we are shown light on the thoughts of this man, his psychological self as a criminal mind. This man had his own morals and views, which are shown thr...

Yeah, not buying it. If Grape were to have tossed him in when he was incapable of swimming, I doubt you'd be singing quite the same tune. Irrelevant, since she didn't actually do that. It's not fair to judge people based on actions they didn't do, and didn't even consider doing — I'd definitely thi...

So... yeah, this line up seems about right to me. It seems as though you could interchange Grape and Peanut, though the Judge seems to have the same mind in the end even though he did assume Grape would be the one to prevail (and then hang herself). I don't know what worldview you have, but to me h...

Hey, the judge was right in the original story... All this explanation took place in a message in a bottle that the judge threw out to sea before killing himself because of reasons. I assume it was something of the sort of "every crime gets punished, no exceptions." That's something I can...

Yeeaaah, you go ahead and do that. Me? I'm going to swim to the mainland. In the book, there's a major storm either going on now or obviously about to start. It was forecast by an old fisherman that one of the characters meets on the way over, and they remark on how terrible it is. In addition, one...

Given that *anyone* among them may be the murderer, and that each and every one of them has a guilty conscience and bloody hands, and given that no one among them ever meat the other (except for the former two servants), if you were any of them, would *you* trust the people around you? Even worse, ...

It's a version of the book that created the genre that Clue was parodying. That's precisely why I figured out the last one remaining would be the murderer without even reading a single word of the book, save the title: Everyone has been stealing ideas from it as often as they've been spoofing "...

GEEZ 2 minutes to search a whole Island?!?! They must be really good at searching, or be very organized, or be well trained, or have... In the book, which I just pulled out to verify and found I had a bunch of details wrong*, it is suggested via details mentioned in passing (like the nearness of th...

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who did not get the name until now. :oops: I have not read the book—darn library, no copies—so I'm constantly guessing what will happen next. It would be wonderful if this version actually ended completely differently. Keep those of us who have read the book o...

I love how these things are set up, and Christie was a genius. Of all the copies, none has matched the original book, and the ending... it was great. Just wonderful. If you are interested in Christie, read her spy novels! Tommy and Tuppence are neat characters. Meh. I always thought her spy stuff w...

Peanut just smiles like he's saying "Yes I did!" In the novel, the characters' reactions were, IIRC: General MacArthur: "We're all doomed... it's fate... I've come to this island to die... but that's okay because it's just too hard to live with the things I've done. You too. You just...

There are spoiler tags, use them please! --Rick

Naturally, the first time in months I'm on a board where spoiler tags are enabled and actually do something, and I forget they exist. Sorry! I'll do better next time, if a next time ever happens.

I guess Rick was listening when he was told that the book was originally called "Ten Little Indians". Thanks, Rick! Today's comic was finished roughly a week ago. I daresay Rick knows quite a lot about the book. :3 Given that the original book says nothing about the shape of the island be...