Comic 186

Climbing the cliffside

Link: Comic 186

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Title: baking up trouble - part 4

Date: June 2, 2006

Summary: Beaver & Steve travel far through many dangers to get to the Archaeopteryx.

Cast: Beaver, Steve, Frog, Gang of pandas, Archaeopteryx

Onomatopoeias used: "WADE", "SWING!", "MEW", "CLIMB", "KAAA!"

Number of panels: 6

Transcript

Panel 1

[And so...]
Picture showing Beaver WADE'ing throught swamp, and Steve following with only the top of his head visible.
A frog with a prince's crown is sitting nearby.

Panel 2

Beaver and Steve SWING! with a rope over a hole full of eleven pandas MEW'ing and stretching up to them.

Panel 3

Beaver CLIMB's up a cliffside with Steve hanging on a rope tied to him.

Panel 4

Beaver & Steve reach the top and see the silhuette of the Archaeopteryx.
Beaver: "Atlast! We've reached the home of the world's most incalculably wise individual: The Archaeopteryx."
Beaver: "I wonder what juicy wriggling grubs of knowledge he will feed into the gaping maw of our minds today?"

Panel 5

Picture showing a green and slightly crazy-looking Archaeopteryx KAAA!'ing loudly.

Panel 6

Beaver: "It is truly humbling to be in the presence of such stupefying wisdom..."
Steve: "I am going back to the swamp."
[To be contd.]

Fun Facts

• The archaeopteryx is apparently not extinct.
• Pandas are a dangerous trap that one must avoid in order to get to an archaeopteryx.
• Beaver now seems to be the... Brainless one. Hopefully, for Steve's sake, he's once more correct... Though he WAS wrong about the Just Pugs calendar.
• There apears to be an elephant wearing a hat in the back of the 3rd panel.
• There IS an eleventh panda cub, though it is hard to see.
• The frog in the swamp is wearing a crown.

References

• The Archaeopteryx is a real pre-historic bird.

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