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
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.
Charlie S
2024-12-12 18:51:13 +0000 UTCAppreciate the callback to audiocasting
A. C.
2024-12-02 21:33:51 +0000 UTCPhillippe 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?
Alexander Rediger
2024-12-02 19:15:42 +0000 UTCNext week: Chicken!
2scrogz
2024-12-01 19:38:33 +0000 UTClisten I think it's fine but my wife says "a pox on anyone who mentions a website and doesn't then register it"
Professor Hazard
2024-12-01 02:58:06 +0000 UTCSanity 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.
Doc G
2024-12-01 01:16:40 +0000 UTCThey are alive stuffed animals
Jonathan
2024-11-30 15:02:23 +0000 UTCis jesus a human or some other animal there
Guilherme Töws
2024-11-30 11:50:59 +0000 UTCPhilippe has independently invented Piss Christ. Very advanced for his age.
Mae
2024-11-29 21:51:38 +0000 UTCThe 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).
Cody Richmond
2024-11-29 20:59:34 +0000 UTCThere are many liebots on the internet. They won't always advertise it in their names
Sedric And Charlie
2024-11-29 20:44:53 +0000 UTCI 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
Lionstooth
2024-11-29 20:38:59 +0000 UTCWhen [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
Stavro
2024-11-29 20:18:08 +0000 UTC“I have decided to leave my devices in my drawers” I announce to the gathered family.
Anthony Thompson
2024-11-29 20:13:11 +0000 UTCAnd never in a toilet before.
Anthony Thompson
2024-11-29 20:12:10 +0000 UTCPhilippe, just pee outside.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-11-29 19:45:29 +0000 UTCWhat a sweet wee man philippe is. Wee as in small, not piss.
Ben Wissett
2024-11-29 19:38:24 +0000 UTCThis answer checks out. Sincerely, W.C.
W. C.
2024-11-29 19:19:40 +0000 UTCGuy Fieri
Chris Onstad
2024-11-29 19:09:31 +0000 UTCdon'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.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-11-29 19:03:20 +0000 UTCYou're gonna get some letters from the 1990s.
Linus Lee
2024-11-29 18:52:45 +0000 UTCthat last panel would go insanely hard as an album cover
sp
2024-11-29 18:45:44 +0000 UTCI see Philippe has been studying the potent and transgressive works of Andres Serrano.
Nicholas Williams
2024-11-29 18:38:28 +0000 UTCI might have thought it was a follow-up to Andres Serrano’s Immersion (Piss Christ) from 1987, reimagined as an interactive installation piece.
A. Hamster
2024-11-29 18:32:21 +0000 UTCIf peeing on the side of the bowl summons ghosts, what do you summon if you pee in the shower?
W. C.
2024-11-29 18:29:38 +0000 UTCMickey Mouse ears on the computer makes me chuckle
Meadow Green
2024-11-29 18:26:51 +0000 UTCImagine if a person actually peed *upwards* to try to *increase* the volume of the splash?
Pubdoggy
2024-11-29 18:25:22 +0000 UTCfloats even with a few holes punched in. its a miracle!
Michael Akey
2024-11-29 18:24:53 +0000 UTCMess is indeed the collective noun for comments on the Internet
Graeme Anthony
2024-11-29 18:22:34 +0000 UTCLyle HAS pissed on a crucifix before, just not this week.
Stygian Gloom
2024-11-29 18:20:07 +0000 UTCGreat to see toilet humour having a cultural moment once again.
Daniel Burt
2024-11-29 18:19:00 +0000 UTCLet's all appreciate the accurate rendering of The Savior's buoyancy.
Bruce Bortin
2024-11-29 18:17:51 +0000 UTCPhilipe remains, as ever, five.
Josh Egbert
2024-11-29 18:05:04 +0000 UTC
