Zirealism

Why is the toilet mouse laughing at them?

There is someone named Dan reading this. I feel a strong energy within Dan, perhaps a drive to isolation! This Dan should know that what he did at my house wasn't that bad, and that Pop feels badly for over-reacting. He is still welcome here and we'd like to hang out with him. We would like to get together with this Dan and watch some Lain. Call your friend now before it's too late.

Also, is that thing in the toilet a duck, or what?

...is the mouse actually the one speaking? Did she flush the mouse?

Flushing parakeets is a popular pursuit, although I like the toilet duck approach, too. In Montana there was an old woman who had an antique shop, she had lots of cool junk. The weather there was sometimes erratic, one day being below zero, then the next maybe 60°F. So, one day it was sort of cold, and I wen to visit the antique lady and when I got there, her parakeet was hanging by his feet upside down from his perch quite frozen. Evidently, antique lady had put the parakeet out to get some air on a warm day and had forgotten to bring him back in for the cold night so he was hanging there like a sleeping bat.

a budgie

It's a stool pigeon

i think, from the sheaf of wheat the shaggy personage is wielding, that it is demeter the corn goddess saying goodbye to her daughter persephone (aka the bird) as she is taken down to the underworld by pluto (aka the crapper). as such this would have been more appropriate for autumn, but it's nice all the same.

not a sheaf of wheat. forget the golden bough version above then.

ummmmmmm.......I really don't get it.

Maybe it's that they thought the pet bird died, but it was actually a Norwegian Blue Sleeping Parrot.

That makes so much more sense than the mother and daughter conversing. A speech bubble, perhaps?

Seems a bit apres John Glashan, all right. Does your mother have a beard? Or am I seeing this thing wrong? Also, even if it were dead, surely it's more normal to bury a budgie under an elderberry bush than bung it down the bog. Perhaps the animal in question is a crocodile.

I'd guess the bird is talking, it's mouf is open. That bird is in the terlit, and I think that kind of bird only makes bubbles in the bath tub.

I'm trying to avoid word bubbles, not out of any sort of artistic arrogance, just because the words like to be free. You know, like free-range chickens. In this case I would say yes, the thing in the toilet is speaking. I was hoping the words spiraling downward would imply this.

If the girl were speaking, she'd be saying:"Mmmmfff, mmmmmfff!" I would really hate to think that I'm so perverted (or normal) that I'm the only person to understand this comic as intended.

Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, isn't it? Beautiful plumage!

Un pajaro en mano vale mas que cien volando, pero no se quanto vale un pajaro en baņo.--Miguel de Medianoche y Habaņeros

The plumage doesn't enter into it.

if you sit down it does

i get it. she thought her pet was dead and was just about to flush it when it suddenly says "i was only sleeping". it's funny in a not so funny kind of way.

Perhaps life is but a dream.

To sleep! Perchance to get flushed!

el sue?o de raz?n produse monstros.

I thought the girl had been throwing up in the toilet and passed out, and the guy came to get her and he's all like "Damn it girl" and she's all like "I was only sleeping!" like as to defend herself. But that's my rather screwed up way of viewing it. I pretty much ignored the bird, mostly to support my own theory.

A bulimic bird swallower