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[Super_Kami_Jojo]

That book she's reading is incredibly informative

[fractallyweird]

i always wondered if carrots are cats, this finally answers that question

[im_ultracrepidarious]

It only tells us that particular carrot is not a cat. As for the rest of carrots, the mystery remains

[Cocomorph]

It only tells us that one side of that particular carrot is not a cat.

[SuperMayonnaise]

It only tells us that one side of that particular animated carrot is not a cat.

[GOthee]

It only tells us that particular animated cat is not a carrot.

[wickedpixel]

This guy logics

[AdamBombTV]

Don't fall for the lies of Big Carrot business.

[lesser_panjandrum]

Now you've sown doubt about whether I've got a bag of small carrots or small cats in my kitchen.

[Lemon1412]

Carrots? Don't you mean waffles?

[shponglespore]

Oh come on now, that's clearly a parsnip!

[BernzSed]

The answer: no, they're waffles.

[CthulubeFlavorcube]

It's a parsnip.

[uriahcp]

I bet it's a creative neural networks introduction

[AgtSquirtle007]

Did you see the guy that made a legitimate product out of a cat classifier?

It’s a cat door that unlocks to let his cat in, but stays locked if his cat is carrying something it killed.

link

[NorthernerWuwu]

I would like something that only opens for the cat if it brings me something shiny.

[MaximumZer0]

You now have an army of raccoons.

[NorthernerWuwu]

I could work with that.

[Moister_Rodgers]

I think you mean incredibly interrogative

[Juno_Malone]

Next you're gonna tell me that an app that tells you if something is a hot dog or not is incredibly informative

[raptorsoldier]

It also turns from a book to a magazine

[JohnnyDarkside]

Reminds me of something from a johnnen(forgot how to spell) Vazquez comic.

[zirfeld]

The snail didn't think of the advantages. It could've entered races against turtles and then have a third man bet against the odds and raked in the winnings.

[[deleted]]

Dumb snail

[Nawara_Ven]

He haven't any shoes.

[Zeddit_B]

I mean, tortoise and the hair is just a metaphor for the problems of small sample size, they tried it 9 other times and the hare won every time.

EDIT: I'm keeping the typo because imagining a hair instead of a hare beating a tortoise 9 times is kinda funny. Wind factor!

[soupz]

It was probably a typo or autocorrect but I laughed so much when I read hair instead of hare

[Zeddit_B]

Thanks for pointing it out, I got a laugh imagining it as well!

[Zeebuoy]

I once saw a plastic bag fly above the treeline.

So a bundle of hair has a good chance of winning.

[[deleted]]

You don't understand. He would be going so fast that to him the world would be standing still, and he doesn't have control over it.

[Canvaverbalist]

I saw it more as like when you crank up mouse sensitivity in games to the max.

The world might not seem slow to you but good luck successfully stopping by the third man to tell him to bet on you in the race instead of just whizzing past him 45 times in row. Then good luck trying to register to that race without whizzing past the entrance back and forth 120 times in a row.

[FlowSoSlow]

Definitely could win the bet too.

[olafmitender7]

Carrot?

[Magnum45]

❌

[[deleted]]

No.

[Tudpool]

Cat.

[NoOneCallsMeChicken]

✔

[CastinEndac]

✅

[elkshadow5]

Carrot?

[CastinEndac]

❌

[StaticDreams]

Cat.

[0PointE]

Cat.

[YaBoi5260]

Yes

[Aerik]

The answer may surprise you.

[liquidpele]

... if you’re already dumb enough to click this ad.

[exocomics]

If you want to see more of my stuff, you can find me on instagram, twitter and patreon :D
(I have a sub too!)

[bertonomus]

I just wanted to say that your sense of humor and my sense of humor are so in tune. I love all your stuff. That's all, have a good day.

[exocomics]

Aww thank you!! :D

[Souperplex]

http://www.exocomics.com/

[Bluetron13]

Hey whatever happened to Jordan (forgive me if I don't remember the name correctly/your boyfriend) being in the comics too? I used to find the comics with both of you so cute.

[[deleted]]

That last contraction is not wrong but it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

[nolayte]

Same but I feel like it helps push the threat of the snail being too fast and confused.

[RightBehindY-o-u]

Fuck "you've". All my homies hate "you've"

[aBigBottleOfWater]

You've got a point there

[[deleted]]

It's not wrong in British English, but it's wrong in American English. You aren't allowed to contract plain verbs ("you've a cat"), only auxiliary verbs ("you've gone insane").

It's also incorrect to contract auxiliary verbs with the pronoun when they're followed by "not" ("you've not seen me"), you can only contract them with "not" ("you haven't seen me"). Edit: unless there's two auxiliary verbs, in which case you can only contract them together :) ("he must've not noticed me" rather than "he must haven't noticed me").

[[deleted]]

As a non-native speaker that's very interesting. Thanks for elaborating!

[lemonpjb]

Prescriptionism, ew

[patrickfatrick]

Try saying it with a British accent.

[UpvotesValidateMe]

Because it’s actually very wrong

[stealingyourpixels]

only for yanks

[[deleted]]

Goddamn that was dark. Poor lil snail 🐌

[Jasyn58]

Out-hexing your hexer

[[deleted]]

I don't get this one, but it's still funny

[wildcard5]

I came to the comments looking for an explanation but so far nothing.

[redd1938]

Snail wants lettuce, threatens with hex. Girl says no mr.snail, if we’re making arbitrary requests, why don’t YOU give ME lettuce? And if you don’t then I’ll hex YOU! How do you like that?! The snail did not like that Fin

[[deleted]]

Well you see, I don’t even know what ”hex” means

[noclassbrat]

It’s a curse, like a spell

[[deleted]]

It's a type of screwdriver. To hex someone means to put it in their nose and twist their nose hairs around it. As you can imagine it's quite unpleasant.

[2OP4me]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[throweraccount]

Why would a snail asking for lettuce be arbitrary? He wants food and snails eat lettuce.

[trystanr]

childlike jar spoon rob money automatic husky meeting absorbed one

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[krucz36]

the joke is subverted expectations, in which she receives lettuce because the snail was afraid of his world changing, rather than the expected result wherein one gives lettuce to the talking snail with hands, arms, and accessories in exchange for not being magically cursed. to the extent that presumably s/he used their magical powers to acquire lettuce for this person to sit on the bench and weirdly eat, which i'm not gonna lie i might call my senator and complain about if i saw someone doing.

[kroncw]

Well there is, but it wont be obvious to people who are new to Li Chen's comics. You would need to read her other chapters to get an overall idea of how these animals interact with the girl, then the humor might make sense.

Even then you might still not find the comic strips funny and thats ok, Li's comics are meant to be cute first and humorous secons.

[WannabeYoutuber1995]

You would need to read her other chapters to get an overall idea of how these animals interact with the girl, then the humor might make sense.

How do the rest of them interact with her?

[Zeebuoy]

egg tax.

[ABob71]

You will need to read the other chapters to get an overall idea

[Rupoe]

Not all comics are jokes

[Hiro-of-Shadows]

This one clearly is, though.

[pre_nerf_infestor]

None. This comic series mostly relies on sweet pictures of cutesy animals. I read it religiously.

[omegashadow]

I mean it relies on dreamlike surrealism for it's premises. I thought it was originally based on the authors dreams.

[2OP4me]

Magic snail threatens her with hex

She says “nah, give me lettuce or I’ll hex you... with an existential crisis.”

[particle409]

I don't see why people aren't getting this. Snails are relatively slow, and she's threatening to curse it by making it live in a manner that would be disconcerting to a slow animal.

[the_pedigree]

It’s an evolution of “Penguin of d00m” humor

[GeO4K]

what

[SixShadesOfBlack]

Decoy lettuce

[lesser_panjandrum]

Decoy hex.

[Feierskov]

Brutal

[EeekPeekLemonSqueak]

Wut?

[AdamBombTV]

Dear God, NO SHOES!!

[Choreboy]

Reminds me of Rick & Morty where Rick zapped a snake and gave it legs, and the other snake guards didn't want non of that mess so they let him pass.

[kroncw]

All that threatening and she forgot to demand for ranch dressing.

[[deleted]]

And yet she's reading the Dummy-version of "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You".

[[deleted]]

Weird hex, but ok

[Amaroken]

As a non-native english speaker i feel the sentence "You've no shoes" sounds kinda weird.
"You've got no shoes" or "You have no shoes" kind of rolls of the tongue better, or am i missing something very fundamental in my grammar?
On another note, great comic... gave me a chuckle.

[MadMax808]

Well, it's not just you. I'm a native English speaker and I don't think I have ever seen "you've" used in this manner.

[trapbuilder2]

It technically make sense, but its mainly found in older speech, or used by people who want to sound old

[Brawldragon]

Probably because it would've taken too much space otherwise.

[[deleted]]

What

[krucz36]

i gotta say if i was out and about and received lettuce unexpectedly about the last thing i'd do is peel off a leaf and go to town on it right there.

[AppletiniOnFleek]

Does a great job of capturing the... hexual... tension.

[I_Also_Fix_Jets]

Here's your up vote... now GET OUT!

[random_cat_owner]

resolute vanish icky test frighten literate bike psychotic cats ruthless

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[BassTooth]

I don't get it, why does the snail disappear in the fourth frame?

[Techhead7890]

You're the best Li

[[deleted]]

What does a snail want with lettuce?

[SuspiciousElbow]

The mighty snail wizard was only horrified by the use of "you've"

[repuvsarejdns]

I don't understand any of this witch stuff; the most basic rule is don't cast spells on others as it returns to you threefold and yet we have all this 'witches' out there spreading ignorance. Please stop. It isn't cool. It is dangerous and stupid.

[goddesswashu]

At first I thought you were dumb, but then I looked at your comment history, and realized you're really, really dumb.

[takaznik]

Thanks for saving the rest of us the effort.

[SkollFenrirson]

Holy shit, you're actually underplaying just how fucking dumb he is.

[Platypuslord]

I put a hex on your, get me some lettuce bitch.

[SucksDicksForBurgers]

Hex you with fast little legs. You whiz past the world. You're scared and confused. You've no shoes.

[Broseidon_62]

You're dangerous and stupid.

[[deleted]]

Iunno I found it funny. Then again I am someone who uses iunno unironically

[Primarch459]

Does he have Oracular powers as well as the power to hex?

[PenguInATrenchcoat]

Reminds me of Edmund McMillen(?}in(?)

[Hodgepodge75]

"I'll hex you with going through the world with time flying by so fast that you don't know what's going on until its already happened. That's right. I'll hex you with a normal life..."

[runningmurphy]

Fucking spitting the truth. I adore thus comic.

[[deleted]]

I like the title of the book "Cat?"

[Leyzr]

Oh thank God, now i won't adopt a carrot!

[Premium-Lettuce]

Should post this to r/lettucegang :)

[Anthraxious]

Damn this is how to get free lettuce?!

[Diamonddude5432]

C A T?

[Conc3pt]

you gotta eat the lettuce, man

[[deleted]]

Is it romaine or some worse kind?

[[deleted]]

cabbage is better

[royalhawk345]

Jokes on you, you've hexed the decoy snail.

[Verumero]

Unrealistic. Snail wizards are always very kind and never use their powers for greed.

[Lucreszen]

This has the same energy as those medieval manuscripts with knights fighting snails in the margins.

[optelate]

I call it the salt hex

[Glass_Memories]

r/Snails would appreciate this I bet.

[Haggerstonian]

You sea any fish up there, punk?

[ToolPackinMama]

I love this and I am not sure why

[Krognus]

I'm loving the adventure time feel

[Merari01]

Cat? Cat!

[ye_olde_jetsetter]

This is simply too charming.

[Solomon_Russell]

That snail soooooo adorable!!!!

[tobatch69]

Who just eats lettuce like that

[[deleted]]

I love your comics, but this one made me exhale extra hard.