the looming threat of WW1 breaking out.

Everything else you said sounds true, but in Illinois and Ohio where Condo (and presumably Everett) lived, this barely registered as a possibility. Even in Europe, the general consensus was that another European war would be as brief as the Franco-Prussian War (6 months), if not the Austro-Prussian War (5 weeks).

This isn’t my area, but I think a lot of the stresses that Everett react to are due to the rapid urbanization that the US was experiencing at the time. Specifically, people moving from farms to cities, and immigrants arriving principally from Europe; cities growing larger and people having to learn new ways of getting along.

It’s based on an illustrated novel by an artist [from Sweden] named Simon Stålenhag.”

These are great illustrations btw.

Everett True sees the inevitable danger:

• autograph albums: collect notes from each other
• yearbooks: add pictures, at the end of the year
• facebooks: do it at the beginning of the year
• Facebook: move it online, and spread scams and disinformation

Uh… whichever one is against the rules, that’s the one I want!

Maybe he’s driven to distraction by the suffering of the Great Thundering Cats.

Why are we in your commonwealth meme? And how can this not be cross-posted to [email protected] ?

They set up a system so they can pay less to their workers, AND get their customers and workers to blame each other for it. They’re scammers, not terrorists.

Fam just needs to take them to the Halls of Illusion.

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

“Fish forget they live in water; people forget they live in the Tao” -Confucius?

If you’re interested in these kinds of stories, check out Admiral Cloudberg, the one from September 2 is also about an icing incident.

Not to mention the newsvertisement for a vegetable compound titled: “Woman Works 15 Hours a Day”. “I get up in the morning at four o’clock, do my housework, then go to a factory and work all day, come home and get supper and feel good”!

"Empty your mind, do not stir your feet,

And miss the things you are not shooting at."

• Everett True, Taoist Master

I don’t like guns, but if you have to go hunting you should at least know how to shoot straight.

Also note: the list of the war dead from recent World War I actions on the same page as the comic. The US had entered in April 1917. By September 1918, Germany’s last great offensive had failed and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive was in progress; this would lead to the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles the following year. By that point over 20 million people will have died and about the same number wounded.

Not quite the same, and it sounds kind of hellish, but check out Polyphasic Sleeping.

oops didn’t realize this was a repost, sorry bout that Wild Bill.

Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world…

Spendthrift! Who’s going to pay for all those trucks and blenders? We’ll just jettison the bodies out of the lifepods and let the Desert Crabs eat them. We’ll call it part of our “green” initiative. Of course we’ll still keep the body transportation charges, and tack on a convenience fee. THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!!!

A couple questions:

• I’m not sure what a “labor grinder” is. Someone who grinds down laborers?
• Not sure what “discount everybody’s bills” means. It doesn’t sound like a good thing.