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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now he'll be scrambling through the trash cans of heaven, screeching with joy.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know, that little guy looks like it has guts. Maybe it earned its place in Elysium.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If he didn't earn his place in Elysium, I'll kill everyone in Valhalla and then myself

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

"He had the fucking coins, Paul!"

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Was he even really dead, at least before they shoved Pennies down its throat?

[–] spieles21 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In ancient Greek they put coins into the mouth of dead people to pay the ferryman for a trip over the Styx to the underworld. (I think it was bronze coins, correct me pls if I'm wrong.)

So yes it must be dead in the first place.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right but opossums are known to play dead, so they're saying that it could have been playing and they just made it choke to death on a penny

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, that is what I was saying

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I much enjoyed part 2 and hope that opossum stumbles into godhood

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It goes to 9. The next one isn't titled like it continues, but it does. Keep clicking.

EDIT: 8 to 9. There are 10 comics, but numbered it goes to "9" in the title.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

10, actually. 1-9 and an intermission with a different title.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I need more. I'm invested.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I meant 9 as what the last one is titled. But I get your point

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

5 is frames from a chill, slice-of-life animated feature: "4 heads are better than 1".

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Spoiler: It doesn't like to be licked.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't know why, but this made me audibly giggle. I'm not sure if it's Charon's confusion in the penultimate panel, or the possum's gleeful/eager expression in the ultimate one.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Who wrote this?? Nobody says "penultimate"!

Edit: yeah, sorry, this was just a line from a TV show. It was stupid.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word "penultimate"; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to "ultimate" meaning "last" instead of (the more colloquial) "greatest".

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Penultimate isn't that uncommon? Just because you don't personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn't mean other people don't use it.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But what if your country doesn't have pennies?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then it shouldn't have opossums.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But Canada.

[–] Hupf 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

In this day and age, I sure hope Kharon would.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh you’re right! Those are going to be worth something someday..

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Especially when they're covered in green oxidized copper.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

I really like how the font changes in the speech bubbles based on who's talking.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think this is a series, maybe post the rest?

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a series, you can click the source link given to continue.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

After finishing the series, I am upset and I want more!

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

It is! I don't want to spam though so my plan is to post the others over time.

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago

But that’s impossumble! 😲

[–] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago

Don't pay the ferry man!

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Ok, made me laugh XD ty.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Charon is such a slut. He'll do anything for money.