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Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The last panel is a little on the nose for their usual style. I think "Few will to make it so" is what I would have gone with

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like the artist is telling something and I'm not getting what.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago

The artist is usually making scenes that are normal everyday human behavior and then viewing it and wording it like a Vulcan-esque race of aliens.

The humor is that we all do pretty strange things of you think about it rationally.

In this comic it's going into nature and admire the animal world as a thing of beauty, whilst the animals are all locked in a daily struggle for life and death. We get to enjoy it as we're not considered prey by most.

[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My interpretation is that humankind (or in the comic’s universe ‘beingkind’) has in general been a nightmare for tens of thousands of species. We’re by far the most invasive species on the globe, we’ve destroyed entire ecosystems, we’ve created institutions of suffering, and we’ve driven countless species to extinction.

So yeah, there are probably a couple of species that would like to settle the score if they could