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He is strange in his sleep Tuesday, November 13, 2001 • read strip Viewing 41 comments:

Philipe's smile in the last frame makes the strip

this smile goes to 11.

You're on 10, where can you go from there? Where?

Indeed, his smile does make the strip.

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I will see this face now when I try to go to bed.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


Pedophillia is a crime.

In a way I rue the greater level of expression he's acquired.

It's his smile, combined with Teodore's expression of horror that makes the strip.

in which philippe learns a valuable trick.

I particularly enjoy how the stick dents Mr. Bear's ear.

That actually disturbs me greatly, because I really don't like bendy cartilage.

He's a teddy bear. It's just stuffing and material.

then you would be a coward who would desert a dying man

When I first saw this strip, I remember just looking at that dent in his ear, without reading the dialogue or looking at either of the surrounding panels. It is really splendid.

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I assumed he was recalling a past penicillin shot, possibly arising from a youthful indiscretion

It may have something to do with something that happened to him while in the RAF

chubbies all around.

this reminds me of how my boyfriend talks in base-16 in his sleep.

zzzzzz0xcafebabedeadbeefzzzzzzzzzz

is that supposed to say cafe babe dead beef as well as being base16, or is that just AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE?

i do the same thing

These could be clues to Mr. Bear's mysterious past.

The first strip to make me laugh aloud.

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Uhh...

Where I come from...it is definitely called a strip. A panel is one frame of the strip. A "strip" is one installment of a series of panels, and is interchangeable with the word "comic". I am sure the internet will back us all up here.

Flying off the handle over insignificant details is silly. And when you are wrong, it is even sillier.

Chubby for that statement =D

Ouch, no chubbies.

Some people link dignity to incorrectly correcting people on Internet terminology.
Some people link dignity to writing shitty music and being an egotistical humanitarian.

Some people don't give a Michael J. Fox-shaped vibrator about either.

The mattress and bed look a lot nicer than they used to. Cornelius, you're moving up in the world! I think he's still repaying his massive heroin debt he wracked up earlier in life.

i think he's flashing back to prison time, sounds like the kind of thing someone might make as a murder weapon with limited tools or options

In what prison, exactly, do the prisoners have easy access to liquid sourdough bread?

In the prison that the government uses to imprison mad scientists and forces them to create strange things. Liquid sourdough bread was incorporated into an experiment, but then Connie Bear looked at Big Cackle the wrong way and...this fantasy scenario is so ludicrous, I'm done.

Chubby for the effort, though.

My god, I just started reading this comic and this was the first one to make me burst out laughing.

5. I'm a sucker for the surreal.

It would be funny to think that Mr. Bear had an allergy to syringes at this point. Or even an immense fear of crusts...even if they were liquified.

zzzz

Whuh...? What is that, a probe? Stop that, I say! Oh, alright...

zzzz

I like that Phillipe might actually be smiling all the time. The only change in his expression in the end when he is further pleased is that his natural smile lines extend a bit.