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ace_garp, 8 months ago

Whack your porcupine!

Buying a copy of this in '86 was the pre-Internet way of getting memes.

FlyingSquid, 8 months ago

I got a boxed set of most of his books off of Amazon a couple of years ago and have been supplementing it since when I have a few extra dollars to spend. I think I have one book left to get.

Techranger, 8 months ago

I recognize the style from Gary Larson’s The Far Side. It turns out Kliban was an inspiration of his!

FlyingSquid, 8 months ago

That does make a lot of sense!

ConstipatedWatson, 8 months ago

I’m sorry, I don’t get it.

Can somebody explain it?

I want to understand it because I love elephants (and mammoths as a consequence, though perhaps the type of animal is not important for the joke)

brsrklf, 8 months ago

I’m in the same boat.

…Maybe we’re just trying too hard and it’s a Cow tools moment?

Sombyr, 8 months ago

The joke I think is that she seriously underestimated the task. This is the moment where she’s realizing “Well, that didn’t work” while the mammoth is still processing that a tiny woman has apparently stabbed it and will presumably kill her in a second.

HollandJim, 8 months ago

It’s not necessarily a woman - it’s just primitive clothing

Sombyr, 8 months ago

True. I was just judging by the way Gary Larson tends to draw cave women vs cave men. Obviously, since this isn’t made by Garry Larson, they could very well have intended it to be a man or even gender neutral.

yeather, 8 months ago

I thought it was “Woman being a pain in the ass since the dawn of man.”

p1mrx, 8 months ago

My best-guess interpretation: “This human is history (doomed) because they tried to attack a large animal and no longer have a weapon.”