There's some good critical analysis of recent events over at this blog [blogspot.com] concerning Fish/Fineas' metamorhposis. While I think the author has jumped the gun a bit by declaring the opportunity for character growth and change to be over already (especially since there's still another year or so left in the larger story arc, and a few twists and turns along the way), it's definitely food for thought.

I really like how you handled scale in today's comic. Fish looks very Rambo-ish with his huge gun and bandolier of bullets, but really it's just a handgun and a few extra bullets for it. Very cool.

In Response to FeldmanSkitzoid (#26833):

Where does he get those little cigarettes?

In Response to deerboy (#26834):

Fin-rolled.

I like his hat.

I don't like this person's writing.

The content may or may not be worthwhile, but the presentation bothers me.

Jon, seeing how you know the coming story arc (at least better than the rest of us), what does your fondness for this article say about where Fish/Fineas is going? Or were you more interested in the points the author was making about webcomic characters in general?

On another note, it's good to see Toothgnip again. He hadn't been around since January, and I was worried that he might be disappearing again, as he did when he went to Hollywood for many months last year. I guess that Oliver's been away for even longer, though I can't say that I have the same affection for him.

In Response to zamphir (#26847):

Could you elaborate upon this discomfort?

Kitten/Poptart Singularity! I don't know how he could have said there was no more room for growth had he seen this strip before blogging. I eagerly await. Much joy.

In Response to mcgrue (#26860):

Could you elaborate upon this discomfort?

Well. I guess some of it comes from the content not the presentation, looking at it again.

But I think there are too many adjectives.

In Response to themysticalone (#26861):

I must agree. The very mention of a Kitten/Poptart Singularity had me in stitches. Good one Jon. Nice to see a classic rearing its head into the continuity again.

And, on a slightly unrelated point, is Fineas channeling Hunter S Thompson? Makes sense really, considering the amount of alcohol he's consumed over the years.

In Response to Euan (#26863):

He has gills.

He didn't "consume" any of the beer he lived in.

In Response to zamphir (#26870):

Pretty sure that a membrane absorbing oxygen from water is gonna pick up alcohol.

If you use consume in terms of an absorption level then, yeah he did.

Unless this is another joke you made that no one else got and it was sort of related to the "I didn't inhale" thing. In which case I guess you are still you.

You may, once again, claim someone else stole your joke.

Which is probably, more amusing than the joke anyhow,

I have this funny feeling that the "continuity porn" that is Worlds of Peril is about to become more continuous. Why do I have a horrible feeling that Fineas's ideas might shatter reality and give rise to metachickens?

Phillip's name is a killing word [goats.com] and Fineas has plans within plans. These next coupla years are gonna be cool.
 

Speaking of gills, did Mendel endow Fineas with a set of lungs? Or some super-powered gills that can pick up water vapor? It seems that it wasn't that long ago that Fish was asking Oliver to get him a glass of water so he could breathe...

In Response to gtyrrell (#26878):

There's a difference between "funny feeling" and "some guy told me in a bar."

Remind me to tell you the ends of all the movies you haven't seen yet next time we're at the pub.

In Response to Llamarama (#26879):

Speaking of gills, did Mendel endow Fineas with a set of lungs? Or some super-powered gills that can pick up water vapor? It seems that it wasn't that long ago that Fish was asking Oliver to get him a glass of water so he could breathe...

Fish/Fineas is immortal -- he no longer needs to breathe. Although he does enjoy the ocasional glass of water.

"Yes sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways - the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
 
"End of what?" said Arthur.
 
"The Universe," repeated the waiter, very clearly and unnecessarily distinctly.
 
"When did that end?" said Arthur.
 
  "In just a few minutes, sir," said the waiter. He took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.

In Response to tor (#26873):

If you use consume in terms of an absorption level then, yeah he did.

Right.

I didn't use it in those terms, though.

I used it to be synonymous, mostly, with "ingest".

In Response to jon (#26888):

the ocasional glass of water.

???

First Cookie Monster, now this . . .

In Response to jon (#26888):

I love the cows who are bred to be eaten and will point out their best parts for consumption.

I sent the blogger a comment to fix the link to Goats. He has you linked as "www.gost.com". Oops.

In Response to deerboy (#26893):

Beer is a sometimes drink.

In Response to Dynedain (#26895):

Looks like it is sometime already, again.

In Response to deerboy (#26896):

Sometime is indeed most definately now.

In Response to Dynedain (#26897):

Sometimes happens all the time.

Something about todays (21-Apr) strip makes me think that Olivers wing it going to be consumed by some radioactive bullet because the sight on whatever they're building is will not have been calibrated yet.

And I can't even work out how I related this robot to a gun.

In Response to jon (#26887):

There's also a difference between 'some guy' and the big fat guy with a turtleneck, perm, and handlebar mustache.