Damn, Fineas is strong!

I'm personally divided on this issue. On one hand, Fineas just messed everyone up like the true champion he is. On the other hand, Carl and Roger now appear to have permenant and lasting (and gross) injuries, which is sad because I like those two and think they deserve a break.

It certainly was a surprise though. But can Fineas do the same thing to Oliver? Perhaps now the time has finally come for that score to be settled.

a severed finger wouldn't necessarily require a hook... many people operate fine with 0 - 5 digits on their hands and no hook aparatus.

But Carl and Roger sided with Oliver, making them the enemy.

Pity the Truhulu who were killed without a chance to opt out.

Yeah, I wonder what the arguments in the red room are going to be after that...Fish is unlikely to be pleased. In fact, he's likely to be traumatized.

Poor Naelok...you're really not going to be pleased with today's strip, then. I'm sorry--I know you liked C and R.

That was cruel and unusual. Why Jon? Why do you have to kill all the minor characters that I like?

Not only were they horribly maimed but they got unceremoniously dumped into what appears to be a Sarlac pit. I really thought that those two were going to be regulars, but now here's Jon sending them off to be digested over a period of a thousand years. And here I was last Friday hoping that their apparent besting of Fineas would get them a well-deserved ticket to the vacation dimension.

Rest in Peace Carl and Roger... though you lived brief lives of torturous suffering, we shall remember for the greatness that undoubtedly dwelled your hearts.

true that,but then again it would be fitting to have an hook and an eyepatch on the 2 henchmens...think of all the "arr" jokes!

But apparently,nevermind,no sight of those two guys turning into "vengeful-oliver-mecha-powered-people-who-want-to- get-in-line"

http://www.goats.com/archive/050503.html

Wait, they got dumped into a yak pit?

Perhaps you meant Sarlacc.

On the plus side, if this is so, they may actually be alive to save by the time Jon gets back to them.

Allow me to be anal-retentive about today's strip. How did the glasses manage to come off without dislodging the eyeball from the nostril or severing the ocular nerve attaching it to the socket...?

That had to be done very carefully. It was difficult!

Rule #1 of fiction: characters aren't dead unless you see a corpse.

There's some pretty insightful comments from Lonely Goatherds onthis thread. Can we convince any of you to register? It's fun and procrasinatory...

Hey, Jon. Minor pedantic detail relevant to Wednesday's strip: there's no "e" in Ann Coulter. I'd include a hyperlink here, but directing traffic to her website just seems wrong.

there's no "e" in Ann Coulter

yes there is: Ann Coulter. if i may be pedantic. perhaps you meant there is no 'e' in Ann when referring to Ann Coulter...

Rule #1 of fiction: characters aren't dead unless you see a corpse.

exactly what i was thinking. plus, poof isn't much of a death sound anyway. it's more of a i'm-going-to-be-back-with-more-ACME-products sort of sound...

That is a relief. Perhaps they'll be back for revenge, though this time with cybernetic implants and all such? That would be pretty cool. I look forward to their triumphant return.

The hole they fell into was a Sarlac pit though, right? Or was it just a normal run of the mill pit with cracks around it that look like tentacles?

It's the hole that the giant spear opened up. As for what's in it, that question will be answered tomorrow.

2 times the e [annecoulte...ctions.com].

Poof is more of a British gay boy.

Tomorrow already? I was thinking we'd find out in a few weeks...

So they are alive! And here I was thinking that you were jerking me around and that the next time we saw them would be in corpse-form. Thank you Jon! Now please put Roger's eye back. That's really gross.

I can't read what it says on the wall. Ah Guin-something...? Can someone make it out?

I'm guessing that Roger and Carl have stumbled (bored) into a pub-axis-related realm.

Based on the words and the grayscale, I'm guessing they're right outside the Stub. See, among many examples, the background of this strip [goats.com].

Now I will undercut my own argument: the words Carl has uncovered are facing them. If they were outside the Stub looking at, say, a window, the words would be backwards.