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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 99 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 29 points 11 months 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 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago

"He had the fucking coins, Paul!"

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spieles21@feddit.org 11 points 11 months 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 16 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Yes, that is what I was saying

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I need more. I'm invested.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Spoiler: It doesn't like to be licked.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 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.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 11 months ago

Last line gets me

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)

But what if your country doesn't have pennies?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Then it shouldn't have opossums.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

But Canada.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Especially when they're covered in green oxidized copper.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 11 points 11 months ago

But that’s impossumble! 😲

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

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

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Ok, made me laugh XD ty.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months ago

Don't pay the ferry man!

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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