Me too. The feet being parallel to the bushes makes it look like the comic has been censored or something… it looks like something is missing. But rather than adding drizzle, I’d just rotate the feet so that any obscuration is seemingly done by the undergrowth.
PECK – A peck is an imperial U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons, 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.
It’s the scent and sound. And possibly the location in which they are doing it, depending on the surroundings and effective their smartphone’s backlight is. I once had a second-hand phone with glitched power-save settings that remained so dim I couldn’t make out the screen if I had ANY light reflecting off it, so I was often checking it under bushy trees while I was outdoors.
Part of me wants to argue that a cautious diet can influence the scent of one’s bodily fluids… but the rest of me, being possessed of a VERY acute sense of smell, denies that it is POSSIBLE for urine to not smell bad and adamantly refuses to perform any experiments on this front.
Personally, I think you should’ve.
Me too. The feet being parallel to the bushes makes it look like the comic has been censored or something… it looks like something is missing. But rather than adding drizzle, I’d just rotate the feet so that any obscuration is seemingly done by the undergrowth.
Its absence is excellent. It fuels the rest of the strip’s ambiguity.
Peter Piper picked a pick of pickled pics.
PECK – A peck is an imperial U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons, 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.
– Ministry of Archaic Americanisms
Raise your hand if you googled “how do bugs pee?”
I live near a college campus. Trust me, you can tell the difference between using a smartphone in public and urinating in public.
And no, it’s not the absence or presence of a stream.
It’s the scent and sound. And possibly the location in which they are doing it, depending on the surroundings and effective their smartphone’s backlight is. I once had a second-hand phone with glitched power-save settings that remained so dim I couldn’t make out the screen if I had ANY light reflecting off it, so I was often checking it under bushy trees while I was outdoors.
Part of me wants to argue that a cautious diet can influence the scent of one’s bodily fluids… but the rest of me, being possessed of a VERY acute sense of smell, denies that it is POSSIBLE for urine to not smell bad and adamantly refuses to perform any experiments on this front.