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Vachel’s excitement in panel #2 is totally awesome. Makes me want to hug him.
It’s fun to occasionally write dialogue where the two speakers pay absolutely no attention to each other, until their conversations finally lines up int he last panel.
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That sounds so like a mantra, I’m amazed I didn’t exploit it more for humor value: “To disrespect the alpha disrespects all of us.”
This strip illustrates and interesting side of the alligator’s personality. He is an alligator and therefore he is feared. He’s a bit slow, soft hearted, goofy, etc. But since he is feared, others are always nice to him even when he’s being a jerk.
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It was fun to think up what would gross someone out regarding a dog. Finding out you’ve drunk water from their dish, I’d have to say, is up there.
“see ya, toots.”
snort.
Also, that’s the problem with taking on others emotions, when the “others” emotions change you’re kinda at a loss. :)
My favorite part of this strip was coming up with things a kid would promise to do, to convince a parent to let the kid keep an alligator.
This strip also begins the ongoing tension between the alligator and Blake.
The idea for this came to me when I was thinking about how kids like to bring pets home (though usually, fortunately, they’re small things like caterpillars). Alligators seemed more Dee’s speed.
And I never stopped being amused by the blurred line of animals and sapient animals. The Alligator is merely an animal, until Ted addresses him in the last panel.










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