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0098 — Philippe Reads the News
🕑 Added 2024-11-29 18:00:13 +0000 UTCAs always, excised panels, rough drafts, and unused gems of dialogue from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3!
It struck me when all was said and done in this strip that it might contain an enfolded metaphorical narrative. You can't toss in a crucifix without inviting speculation of a deeper meaning, amirite? And why are the Big Stories of the Christian Bible and beyond always stuffing their lessons into metaphors and symbols, anyway? Is it a hidden payload, future-proofed, there to be unpacked from its tattered and unrecognizable rags when the surface details and historic context of the story no longer make sense or have relevance to the children's children?
I had a nice analysis of Judges 1:7 worked up, as a basis for discussing this further, but then I wisely decided against inviting a mess* of religious discussion in this otherwise entirely lovely and polite landscape of like-minded and brilliant people who are just here to escape the news cycle for a sacred little while. I wish you all a weekend of happiness, fresh air, and devices left in drawers.
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*yes, mess
Comments
Charlie S
Or maybe a urinal patty in the shape of a cross? I feel like these would really go over in a certain type of establishment. Not sure how moldable those things are though.
A. C.
Appreciate the callback to audiocasting
Alexander Rediger
Phillippe is what we despise and miss, post-death of God and post-death of personal innocence. Remember when we all looked up to the Mayor?
2scrogz
Next week: Chicken!
Professor Hazard
listen I think it's fine but my wife says "a pox on anyone who mentions a website and doesn't then register it"
Doc G
Sanity check: this news is shocking to Philippe because he believes, as many of us surely did at age 5, that minimizing the pee noise is actually very important for DETERRING ghosts, correct? I know I did. ...Now I pretty much pee sitting down (unless it's an away game) because it's just more civilized, in addition to being less ghost provoking.
Jonathan
They are alive stuffed animals
Guilherme Töws
is jesus a human or some other animal there
Mae
Philippe has independently invented Piss Christ. Very advanced for his age.
Cody Richmond
The in-toilet angle of the last panel is perfect. Curious if that was the first you tried for it (I know I’d have gone with an extra-toilet angle off the bat).
Sedric And Charlie
There are many liebots on the internet. They won't always advertise it in their names
Lionstooth
I see the Serrano references have already been made, so I'll just say I feel like there are some serious COPPA violations going on at fantasticinfo.news
Stavro
When [Anthony Thompson] decided to leave his devices in drawers, people like [the gathered family] said it couldn't be done. [He] provided [them] all wrong
Anthony Thompson
“I have decided to leave my devices in my drawers” I announce to the gathered family.
Anthony Thompson
And never in a toilet before.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Philippe, just pee outside.
Ben Wissett
What a sweet wee man philippe is. Wee as in small, not piss.
W. C.
This answer checks out. Sincerely, W.C.
Chris Onstad
Guy Fieri
J Hardy Carroll
don't let Ray see this or he's going to come up with a product like a bowl liner to minimise noise. also some testicles.
Linus Lee
You're gonna get some letters from the 1990s.
sp
that last panel would go insanely hard as an album cover
Nicholas Williams
I see Philippe has been studying the potent and transgressive works of Andres Serrano.
A. Hamster
I might have thought it was a follow-up to Andres Serrano’s Immersion (Piss Christ) from 1987, reimagined as an interactive installation piece.
W. C.
If peeing on the side of the bowl summons ghosts, what do you summon if you pee in the shower?
Meadow Green
Mickey Mouse ears on the computer makes me chuckle
Pubdoggy
Imagine if a person actually peed *upwards* to try to *increase* the volume of the splash?
Michael Akey
floats even with a few holes punched in. its a miracle!
Graeme Anthony
Mess is indeed the collective noun for comments on the Internet
Stygian Gloom
Lyle HAS pissed on a crucifix before, just not this week.
Daniel Burt
Great to see toilet humour having a cultural moment once again.
Bruce Bortin
Let's all appreciate the accurate rendering of The Savior's buoyancy.
Josh Egbert
Philipe remains, as ever, five.
