I spent a long time thinking about how to make it CLEAR what happened, with showing as little as possible. I know it’s just fiction, and comedy at that, but I take death, killing, and gore VERY seriously.
I spent a long time thinking about how to make it CLEAR what happened, with showing as little as possible. I know it’s just fiction, and comedy at that, but I take death, killing, and gore VERY seriously.
My of my, Bikke can strip off, clean and wear his enemy’s skin! Imagine if a tribe of those like Bikke appeared to fence of areas for their own they could be deadly. And annoying.
You kind of wonder where he picked up that skill set during his boxing career.
@TB, Maybe when he interned briefly at the New York Stock Exchange.
Is this canon? If not, can it be?
@CHIPSK8, hahahaha! It’d amuse me greatly, but I’m going to have to say no on this one. 🙂
Accidentally evolving a Kangaroo and not even noticing just seems like something Nogg would do. Bikkie isn’t an animal anymore. That’s my head canon, and it makes him a much more interesting character.
The galaxy is not ready for bikkie.
“Hey, did you hear about that Earth creature Bikkie? He’s actually wearing a Bollyck skin now! Don’t you think it’s a bit weird to be wearing body parts of your enemies?”
“Not for Earthers. The one called Yuri used to wear the ears of a GOB master assassin.”
“… … … Now that’s what I call a dark planet.”
Bikkie the space barbarian. The epic tales soon on the holonet!
Well, Bikkie is definitely learning ethics. He is mastering the art of chairing things: “chair and chair alike” as the saying goes.
So now the highly-dangerous boxing red kangaroo is laser-proof… yeah, they won’t be needing Hwan or any other kind of muscle. EVER AGAIN.
Laser-proof Bollyck skin jackets! Why didn’t I think of that? *said in best Hank Scorpio voice*
Yep, good lesson that. That one can prefer to not kill, but also still be pragmatic enough to know that well. Sometimes a sophonts only choice is to do so. Sad really, I mean. If Bollycks weren’t sentient I could see a nice market in selling their skins to kangaroo as jackets. Wallets, gloves. HATS! Oh great banana the money I could have made just from hats made of Bollyck scalps and COFFEE MUGS FROM THEIR SKULLS! AHHHH! Oops, sorry…my gross materialism slipped out again. Sorry about the mess.
Why should we let that stop us? They decided to become pirates, probably because everybody persists on using weapons they are immune to.
DDDDDDDDDDDDumb.
If ANYBODY is immune to your weapon, it isn’t a weapon anymore.
Your materialism is indeed gross.
Does this mean that Bikkie is now laser proof? (As long as he doesn’t get shot in the face or belly?)
@John, yes! (I was going to say, “yes, that’s the implication”, but why beat around the bush)
“Bikkie the Barbarian! Tales of HIGH ADVENTURE!”
*cues drums beating and horns blaring*
Dangit, now I want to watch Conan again… 😀
Best in Bikkie life to crush enemies, see them drive so you can sit in back and watch view, and hear the un-oppressed conversation of their women.
Bikkie! Skills of Hwan! Skin of Bollyck!
Perfectly unstoppable, unless somebody else comes at him with a table.
–Oh-oh!
Incidentally, Christopher, nice handling of an intrinsically messy scene. I don’t know if you’ve seen deer skinned, but… It’s really not an image you want to dwell upon, no.
“You pushed those four chair legs right through his torso” really cleared it up for me.
Well, we’ve seen people’s limbs removed, gun battles, and other mayhem. Most of us kind of knew what we signed up for. It can’t all be stun lasers.
I discovered this comic last month (August 25, 2020), and naturally started at the beginning. I appreciate your storytelling (with a taste of envy), and learn so much from the comments, too.
In today’s strip, I particularly love how Bikkie seems to have learned the skill-set to sew on a button and buttonhole. I assume he used the Bollyck’s ligaments for the straps for the arms.
re: yesterday’s strip, also digging the pre-kick “PAF”, “WHAP”, tail-stand:”SWISH” controlled blocks while ‘trying to think’ of an alternative to killing. I assume that the philosophy has matured Bikkie’s fighting techniques as well as his mind. Realizing this is non-cannon (but should be IMHO), Bikkie seems to be developing the finesse of a master, and the tactical acumen to defend against line-of-sight energy weapons. He should keep the reflective armor.