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WCDT: 2421-2425 (8-12 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Is it cold in here?:
Iceland's elves returned kindness with kindness, and Ireland's fey folk were said to deal fairly with those who dealt fairly with them.

Zebediah:
Aye, fairly, which is why they have such a terrible reputation.  :mrgreen:

Loki:

--- Quote ---After a while there was the muffled sound of someone shuffling across the floor within, and then the door opened a crack. A suspicious eye was visible in the gloom.
"Yes?" said a small and quavering voice from somewhere beneath the eye.
"Are you grandmother?" Granny Weatherwax demanded.
"Are you the taxgatherers, dear?"
"No, ma'am, we're - "
"- fairies," said Fairy Hedgehog quickly.
"I don't open the door to people I don't know, dear," said the voice, and then it took on a slightly petulant tone. "'Specially people who never does the washing up even after I leaves out a bowl of nearly fresh milk for 'em."
[...]
The grandmother watched them with interest. After a lifetime of believing in them she was seeing fairies for the first time, and it was an experience. Granny Weatherwax caught her perplexed expression.
"Put it like this, ma'am," she said, in a despotically reasonable tone of voice, "how would you like to be eaten alive by a wolf?"
"I don't think I would like that, dear, no," said the hidden grandmother.
"The alternative's us," said Granny.
"Lawks. Are you sure?"
"On our word as fairies," said Fairy Hedgehog.
"Well. Really? All right. You can come in. But none of your tricks. And mind you do the washing up. You haven't got a pot of gold about you, have you?"
"That's pixies, isn't it?"
"No, they're the ones in wells. It's goblins she means."
"Don't be daft. They're the ones you get under bridges."
"That's trolls. Everyone knows that's trolls."
"Not us, anyway."
"Oh," said the grandmother. "I might have known."
--- End quote ---
(Sir Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

Lupercal:
Seems like the Midsummer Night's Dream kind of faries, not the Peter Pan type. I should also put forward my great appreciation of both Claire and Emily.

Is anyone else getting #2422 as 2421 also? The yelling bird bull-semen sandwich strip seems to have disappeared.

Sorflakne:
Comic strip of the year.

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