Vizlet made the educated assumption that he probably had it coming.
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Out-of-Placers
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“Yes please.”
Man… that expression on Kass is uh, how should I say it… “out to lunch”.
– Would you like this one well cooked or raw?
– Raw please. I’ll roast him myself!
Something something EXTRA SPICY something something
Cum grano salis.
(With a little salt)
WHY YOU LITTLE!!!
D’oh!
Well, yes, tending to the eggs is a very important issue, but so is the guard’s neck, and the guard’s neck is already at hand.
oh i do love their childish silliness XD
Pinky is so pleased at Doofus’ strangle noises. Nyeh heh.
…their names are Pinky and Doofus now. It is declared.
Because Pinkeye is to be avoided it at all possible
The styes in Pinky’s eyes were also a nice touch. It looks like he has irritated caruncles.
Pinky is sooo cute in that 5th panel, I wanna take him home as a pet!
“Pinky and the Brain” doesn’t really fit considering they’re both brainless mongs.
I’ve actually been waiting for Kass to have a reason to choke at least one of those gaurds. I kind of had a feeling if they ever crossed paths again.
Love her look in the last frame.
THE DARK GREY ONE DOESN’T
I fear most people are only a moment away from being choked at any given time. I can only imagine that when dealing with a Yinglet, those feelings are stronger and more previlent.
So yes, the grey one.
I think Vizlets also choked them before. LoL
Or at the very least has entertained the thought on more than one occasion.
Oh Absolutely. I’m sure I would have as well.
Lmao, Kass’ expression in the last panel is priceless! Those guards musta’ really pissed her off
So my girlfriend likes it when I call her a “sopretty lady.” Is she secretly a Yinglet in disguise
If you force-feed her raw clams and she starts acting like she’s high, then yes.
If she pukes, then no and you’ll need to get a new girlfriend.
Personally, I prefer oysters and muscles. No offense to clams, but their raw flesh still living flesh is less tender and less oily than muscles and oysters. Abalone is even less oily.
I will be laughing for weeks.
Am I the only one who thinks the matriarch is smiling?
Ze Matriarch must always be controlling her face among ze help. But later, when in alone time, ze Matriarch will smile and laugh very much, yes.
Kass was always wondering if a female yinglet was so revered, if they could get away with murder in broad daylight. Looks like now he gets to find out!
And here we see the wild Kass in her natural habitat: attempting to throttle the closest annoyance
Kassens tend to find themselves among many nuisances, not out of choice but rather of nature.
Specifically, that nature hates them.
Love the detail of that warren, they even sured up the air vent hole.
Love the detail even more that they got the ‘shoring up’ wrong. Look at where the ends of the uprights are. True yinglet style, emulating without (wizout?) understanding!
Well hey it kinda resembles the sorta stuff they’ve seen humans do so it’s gotta be a good idea!
I will freely admit I am quite curious. What did they do wrong specifically? Learning, zis is possible for us!
The shoring up beams/pillars are supposed to go on the INSIDE, under the dirt. Otherwise they don’t do anything.
Not only should they be on the inside, but the tops of the side pillars should be under the crossbeam supporting the roof of the tunnel, so that the crossbeam cannot be shoved down by a collapse. The way it currently is, it doesn’t provide any support at all to the crossbeam, so any collapse will just fold the whole structure.
Imagine a table whose legs are tacked onto the sides of the actual tabletop instead of being under it. Not very strong, hm? Same idea.
Maybe they don’t need to use supports to prevent the collapse of the tunnel. Many animals dig tunnels without them collapsing, so maybe they used them only to make the entrance to look a little bit nicer.
Speaking of details, I wonder what Treetop Yinglet is doing.
Hiding from their own omnipresent incompetence?
I don’t usually strangle my life’s annoyances but, when I do, I go full throttle.
Vizlet brought out the stress-balls for Kass, how thoughtful!
It’s clearly a bad idea to remind Kass of any more aspects of being a female yinglet
At least one of the guards has learned this today
Is this canon? Because I find myself very sceptical that either of these guards have learned more than “strangulation hurts” or “strangulation is funny”. I could maybe imagine a “Ivenmoth Yinglet equals strangulation” if they are having a particularly insightful day.
I doubt even Kass will be able to resist the sight of a fresh, new baby’s entrance into the world. Prepare to have a well dug straight to that aquifer of maternal instincts hidden deep within yourself!
Vizlet probably had nurtured the same desire for a LONG time.
Oh no! He pressed the your a female now button. He really shouldn’t have done that…
And my inner grammar started yelling at me second I hit send, your should by e you’re
Mmm that’s Kassen’s “Goku button”.
They shouldn’t-ta did that.
Is zhat me?
Is zhat me Ying-er zhan me?
I’LL FUCKIN’ KILL ME!
Too soon nameless guard, sorry nameless guard but to soon. And who knows Kassie might have to go their to lay eventually. And hears hopping she goes willingly if she ever has to.
“Hey, Kassie! Would you prefer to keep murdering EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU?”
“YES,PLEASE”
It’s not really a true question, like “would you like to keep breathing”
There is only one real answer
Kass is in such a bad mood this morning…
The funny thing about Yinglets is that they have 5 mornings per day, due to their unusual sleep cycles.
Also, a Yinglet on coffee is a terrifying thing indeed…
Kass’s Face in the last panel says “I need my coffee”.
Coffee and chocolate do-nut holes. Maybe Kolatches. Jalipanio Kolatches. Mmmmmmm.
“Younglet” is a good name for young yinglets.
I wonder if yinglet hands are strong enough to actually choke a yinglet to death?
That’s the kind of thing Ran is willing to pay Kassen to find out! Call it a bit of “hands-on” research!
They have really weak arm builds/muscles for swinging, but they’re specialized for thrusting forward quickly and grabbing tightly, thanks to their niche as shallow-water fishers!
I like “Yingchicks” myself. But there could be different terms for different life-stages? And perhaps such terms have already been determined?
Vizlet is so understanding.
I can pronounce the ‘th’ sound by putting my tongue BEHIND my incisors just fine. Don’t tell the Yinglets though, I like hearing them as little Germans.
Isn’t that how everyone pronounces it, though? Anyway, yinglets only have ONE incisor and their tongues are tapered, not curved, hence the trouble with the pronunciation.
I have to admit I like that Dark furred guard he’s amusing. I wonder if the Matriarch will try to send them over to act as Kaz’s guard. That would probably drive him crazy.
The guards seem to have switched places a bunch, but I’m gonna put that up to general yinglet inability to sit still.
On the bright side, trying to predict Yinglet security rotations would be nearly impossible.
I can only imagine that things escalated a bit further before the strangling. That, or Kass has a much shorter temper than one would think.
Never a dull comic Val.
That’s actually kind of unfair. The guard doesn’t know Kass’ story, he doesn’t know how much Kass is flipping out over everything related to her new biology, and the assumption that a female is going to participate in reproduction is actually quite a valid one in primitive societies like the Yinglets have.
Of course he’s also kind of dense and it’s hilarious, so we’ll all laugh.
You are very correct on all points. Here is hoping that he doesn’t realise that the newborn chicks will grow up to be more annoyances. Or at least that f he does, and responds similarly, that it is accompanied by a suitably dramatic increase in hilarity.
I imagine Kass would either be a great mom or she would kill her kids immediately.
There is never an in-between with Kassen.
A bit of a Papyrus laugh there. Nice.
Is the pink one standing on the left? or the right? they move around so fast.
So… the Valsalian enclave has 6 females, right? Vizlet must be the oldest of them. So… how old are the females and the other yinglet of the enclave? The oldest one should be patriarch Figgin, right? Some of the other yinglets come from other enclaves, like these two guards. All the females are too young to be the mothers of many of the Valsalian yinglets. What I’m missing here?
With the reproductive strategy that Yinglets seem to employ, I’m pretty sure that all the female Yinglets in the enclave have laid countless eggs already. I’m also fairly certain that the Val Salian enclave was formed by the various Yinglets that settled near or in the city-state of Val Salia, meaning that many of its members immigrated from other places.