0066 — Philippe In, Why Is The Sky Blue
Added 2024-05-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTCOuttakes at noon in Author's and In-Universe tiers.
The sky is blue because the Earth's atmosphere scatters the shorter blue wavelengths of sunlight more than the other colors. If that answer isn't satisfying, just remember that everything is vibrations, which don't exist, because they are just energy, and if you're wondering how a bag of sliced ham that doesn't exist can still weigh enough to cost sixteen dollars, hopefully by now it's clear that there are no satisfying answers once you start asking good questions.
Comments
Phillippe visibly ages about a decade in this panel. He is now canonically adolescent.
Graeme Anthony
2024-06-14 20:24:03 +0000 UTCthis one is brutal it hit me hard
Datura
2024-05-29 03:59:00 +0000 UTCIdk why but the timing of Philippe resignedly saying okay and sighing is just too perfect
Meadow Green
2024-05-27 04:03:00 +0000 UTCSensitive Lyle…
Jay Williams
2024-05-26 00:13:59 +0000 UTCI’m loving the post texts for all of these recent ones
Tyler Fensterman
2024-05-25 14:40:00 +0000 UTCCharmed by how many "Lyle has big, sincere feelings" strips we've been getting since you've returned. Do you think you're seeing him in a different light since you've quit drinking?
Ben Wilinofsky
2024-05-25 13:53:36 +0000 UTCwhy is lyle blue? because he doesn't know shit about shit.
Ruxine
2024-05-25 05:35:41 +0000 UTCThe thing is, Philippe loves Lyle too, but Lyle's too damn mad at himself to notice.
J. Alex
2024-05-25 04:26:16 +0000 UTCIt's the Badass Games all over again...it was his to lose
Matt Amis
2024-05-25 02:59:44 +0000 UTCIt's okay to say "the sky is blue because air is blue". The *reason* air is blue is a weird physics thing, but then again, the reason *anything* is of any color is because of a weird physics thing or another.
Guilherme Töws
2024-05-24 23:21:30 +0000 UTCLyle doesn't know shit, it turns out.
blair
2024-05-24 23:06:10 +0000 UTCFew are
kdusjjdhxksj
2024-05-24 22:59:56 +0000 UTCConsult with Dr. Google?
Walter Cooke
2024-05-24 20:51:35 +0000 UTCThe outdoor background is a beautiful detail. The sunset gradient really sells it.
Ian Stewart
2024-05-24 20:23:47 +0000 UTCChin up, Lyle! Just because Philippe loves Mr. Bear doesn't mean he DOESN'T love you, too! That little otter is made of love.
Jacquelyn R Walters
2024-05-24 20:01:20 +0000 UTC455-2123
Dan W
2024-05-24 19:53:33 +0000 UTCCredit to Mr. Bear for remembering his audience and not fancying it up with a bunch of bilirubin talk, or pointing out that even the most mechanical-looking physiological process is actually effected by some Rube-Goldberg biochemical pathway that only first-year med students know without looking it up.
blair
2024-05-24 19:53:07 +0000 UTCGoogle AI says I can cook spaghetti in gasoline. Knowledge is power.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-05-24 19:52:15 +0000 UTCCall Dr. Andretti
Ismini Roller
2024-05-24 19:48:58 +0000 UTCNo mention of digested bile acids? For shame. Connie and Lyle present an incomplete picture. (Philippe, love me instead!)
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-05-24 19:47:07 +0000 UTCThat implies that he's not passing blood. Yet.
blair
2024-05-24 19:45:58 +0000 UTCFlush and ignore it, because healthcare is expensive!
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-05-24 19:44:22 +0000 UTCAnd what do we do if it's black, everyone?
Dan W
2024-05-24 19:21:59 +0000 UTCI do like how, once Phillipe wearily submits to learning some unpleasant information from Lyle, he then becomes fully engaged in discovering the answer. May we all bring such joie de vivre to the tasks we must assume out of obligation.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-05-24 19:16:28 +0000 UTCAll this time Lyle just wanted Philippe's approval
Sedric And Charlie
2024-05-24 19:05:26 +0000 UTCLook I'm all about some melancholy reflection but Lyle needs to sack up about this one. Blood cells, dogg. Breakin' down.
Nicholas Williams
2024-05-24 19:03:41 +0000 UTCLyle is not happy that his life sucked.
GruntyGinMan
2024-05-24 18:27:52 +0000 UTCthey would break apart if impacted by salt water tears, he can't afford nicer ones due to lacking insurance.
GruntyGinMan
2024-05-24 18:27:07 +0000 UTCThe dude has got no mercy...for imperfection
RBM
2024-05-24 18:02:59 +0000 UTCI mean, he KNOWS it's brown
Chris Onstad
2024-05-24 17:58:21 +0000 UTCLyle's entire life is very "leaky"
Chris Onstad
2024-05-24 17:58:10 +0000 UTCfor what it's worth, I looked it up for this strip, and already forgot, mainly because I didn't understand
Chris Onstad
2024-05-24 17:57:55 +0000 UTCfixed, thank you!
Chris Onstad
2024-05-24 17:57:32 +0000 UTCfixed thank you!
Chris Onstad
2024-05-24 17:57:25 +0000 UTCOK, but I'd like to see Cornelius vomit into an empty gas tank such that the car runs for three minutes.
Oppido
2024-05-24 17:52:12 +0000 UTCOoh, I acutally caught a rare and evasive Onstad typo!
RBM
2024-05-24 17:52:07 +0000 UTCI can't help but note the only time Lyle doesn't have a bottle in his hand is when he's especially depressed.
Justin Schardin
2024-05-24 17:35:51 +0000 UTCHeads up there’s a typo in the second panel, “acutally”
Lennon McAuliffe
2024-05-24 17:34:14 +0000 UTCFrom the heights of “we’re so back”, “it’s so over” comes rattling around the track once again… you win some you lose some Lyleheads
Elyse
2024-05-24 17:29:47 +0000 UTCLyle knows the prison poop thing from experience.
Andrew
2024-05-24 17:23:25 +0000 UTCLyle has lost much to Mexican brain detergent.
Hunter
2024-05-24 17:22:20 +0000 UTCOh! This one was in The Silence of the Lambs if I recall!
Paul Dunn
2024-05-24 17:21:50 +0000 UTCFucking incredible. Damn, man.
emitydna
2024-05-24 17:20:34 +0000 UTCAh, friendship.
Hunter
2024-05-24 17:20:00 +0000 UTCI always thought that all other colors were absorbed except blue, whis was reflected. I feel so stupid, just like Lyle
Ismini Roller
2024-05-24 17:19:27 +0000 UTCLyle, the color commentator to Mr. Bears play by play of the human gullyworks.
“Cool Mayonnaise” Hank Spurlock
2024-05-24 17:18:09 +0000 UTC"No satisfying answers once you start asking good questions" Hard disagree, ask better questions. Or worse ones. If you have a kid that keeps asking "why?" forever, if you keep answering in earnest you WILL get to very interesting and unexpected places.
Bungus Bronbo
2024-05-24 17:17:52 +0000 UTCLyle wants to be loved, too.
Josh Egbert
2024-05-24 17:11:11 +0000 UTCLYYYLE! NEW DAY! NEW...DAAAY!
Zen Window
2024-05-24 17:11:06 +0000 UTCI thought it had something to do with nitrogen reflecting the blue part of the light spectrum. I guess I don't know anything.
Pete
2024-05-24 17:10:01 +0000 UTCHang that last panel right up in the Louvre
Tim Pratt
2024-05-24 17:09:14 +0000 UTCI was hoping Lyle would know the word bilirubin. Alas,
Ben Wissett
2024-05-24 17:09:05 +0000 UTCIt's fucking over for Lyle
severecorvid
2024-05-24 17:07:12 +0000 UTCLyle had to take his glasses off for these feelings
Aaron J. Rushton
2024-05-24 17:05:43 +0000 UTC
