Sigh. That is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen, and my traitorous Id won’t let me appreciate it properly without yelling at me ” That bird looks like Woodstock. Panel two looks like Snoopy and Woodstock gone goth. That bird looks like Woodstock.” every few seconds.
Dammit. Why does my brain have to spoil everything?
BunnyRock, my brain is now playing that music that plays in every Charlie Brown special… Yet, thinking that the god looks like Woodstock, somehow, it blunts my sadness. Like, maybe in the afterlife Ed can be truly appreciated…
And, yes, Digger has the right of it, Ed is worth 10 gods.
I agree, Digger didn’t quite expect it to obey her.
But, she can find her way. In the dark, or not. She still has a glowstick or two.
Of course…that’s assuming that magic doesn’t mess with the tunnel now, and send her home – leaving the rest of her friends confused and probably convinced that she died too.
@BunnyRock: I went there too, though for me it was panel 3 that did it. I’d never thought kingfisher –> Woodstock until that panel.
@Hawk: Now that would be funny, in a painful way. Because you just know that the minute she’d checked in with her family, she’d be trying to find Manuel to get him to lead her back HERE, because you DON’T leave your friends and adopted family without an explanation. Also because I doubt she could persuade her blood kin to eat Ed’s liver. (Of course she’d figure out how to preserve it! She’s Digger.)
Honestly, when I read this panel, “Eesh, Digger, no need to be rude.” And how did she know that wasn’t Ed’s soul? The skins said the souls of dead men become kingfishers, after all. It would have been bitterly ironic if Digger had just told Ed to buzz off, thinking it was He-Is. I don’t think it is, mind you; I’m just saying it was possible.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. If all this god boils down to is a version of Woodstock so be it. It still does not lessen Ed’s sacrifice one bit.
Digger’s tears for Ed are the saddest thing in this entire story.
And so it did…
That eulogy was so touching, so sweet, and so blunt, which made it perfect.
Couldn’t have put it better, Digger.
Even a god knows sometimes, you Cannot Push Things. Least of all with a grieving wombat.
Hail Ed, He-Who-Was, better than ten gods!
Oh no! A sad face! The saddest face!
Panel 2: Digger didn’t expect it to actually happen
Now Digger may have a navigation problem. That’s fine: she speaks for me.
@ Rivalyn Thanks for the laugh, I needed it . Although that story didn’t end too happily either…
Rivalyn: Heh.. recognize that quote. Coolest robot king ever.
Thanks Robin – I was trying desperately to remember where the heck I heard that. Gunerkrigg ftw.
Also, though it hardly needs saying… I already miss Ed!
They say a cat can look at a king with impunity.
I guess a wombat can sass talk a god with vigure
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Damn right.
Alone.
🙁
She will know her way out, but the bird *was* a distraction.
There is no hurry to go up though. She may have some time with Ed now
The last panel is so much epic for so few, so very few lines.
Lady. You got it.
Sigh. That is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen, and my traitorous Id won’t let me appreciate it properly without yelling at me ” That bird looks like Woodstock. Panel two looks like Snoopy and Woodstock gone goth. That bird looks like Woodstock.” every few seconds.
Dammit. Why does my brain have to spoil everything?
Blast it, BunnyRock! Now you have MINE doing it, too! *Throws vampire squash at BunnyRock*
Doh! Thank you so much, BunnyRock
*grumble*
😉
….wow….
BunnyRock, my brain is now playing that music that plays in every Charlie Brown special… Yet, thinking that the god looks like Woodstock, somehow, it blunts my sadness. Like, maybe in the afterlife Ed can be truly appreciated…
And, yes, Digger has the right of it, Ed is worth 10 gods.
I couldn’t have put it more succinctly myself. Damn right he was worth 10 of them…..
You’d think a god’s soul would make a bigger kingfisher.
Maybe that’s Ed’s soul?
I’m not sniffling I’m not sniffling I’m not sniffling…
Dammit, I was already blinking back tears at the first panel, how do you do that to me Lady?!!!
Imagine just how lonely Digger must be now…
Poor Ed and Digger. It just keeps getting sadder. 🙁
Why is it that I can’t stop thinking about the beginning of Fallout?
“You see Ed. Ed’s dead.”
Gah. This is a sad thing and my brain is trying to be funny.
@Chow – well, physically/biology-wise at least, humor is a stress-response. “I laugh, ’cause otherwise I’d have to cry.”
Yayy,Digger!
“Whose chopper is this?”
“It’s not a chopper. It’s a crowbar.”
“Whose crowbar is this?”
“Ed’s.”
“Who’s Ed?”
“Ed’s dead, baby. Ed’s dead.”
I was kinda scared to come to this site today. Embarrassing to be seen crying at my desk at work.
Thank you, Ursula. That last panel….so simple, and yet so stunning. Thank you.
That last panel is the most touching piece of artwork I’ve seen in a long time. It says SO MUCH in so few lines.
*sniffles*
I agree, Digger didn’t quite expect it to obey her.
But, she can find her way. In the dark, or not. She still has a glowstick or two.
Of course…that’s assuming that magic doesn’t mess with the tunnel now, and send her home – leaving the rest of her friends confused and probably convinced that she died too.
Ah gah…it hurts…well done.
@BunnyRock: I went there too, though for me it was panel 3 that did it. I’d never thought kingfisher –> Woodstock until that panel.
@Hawk: Now that would be funny, in a painful way. Because you just know that the minute she’d checked in with her family, she’d be trying to find Manuel to get him to lead her back HERE, because you DON’T leave your friends and adopted family without an explanation. Also because I doubt she could persuade her blood kin to eat Ed’s liver. (Of course she’d figure out how to preserve it! She’s Digger.)
Honestly, when I read this panel, “Eesh, Digger, no need to be rude.” And how did she know that wasn’t Ed’s soul? The skins said the souls of dead men become kingfishers, after all. It would have been bitterly ironic if Digger had just told Ed to buzz off, thinking it was He-Is. I don’t think it is, mind you; I’m just saying it was possible.
just in LOVE with that last panel!
No one is truly dead so long as there are those that remember them.
I think Ed has achieved immortality.
Oh Ed… We will miss you…
Compare the “scratchy” look of the kingfisher in panel 3 to the look of shadowlescent here:
http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=724
Yin and yang. Balance in the universe. Ursula rocks.
He was as ten of He-Is. There are worse eulogies.
*sniff*
A beautiful, moving, and blunt eulogy.
Dammit THAT made me cry at work…
Absolutely touching.
I think if the bird were Ed, he’d have given some sort of sign. He and Digger were too close for him to not let her know it was him.
This was the most touching thing I’ve ever seen.
…HOLY…! It’s the ghost of the white bird! :O
That last panel is the most incredible piece of artwork in this whole comic. Beautiful, Ursula.
Ursula, the last reflection of the Kingfisher blinking out reflected in Digger’s damp eye… in a dot and a curved line… is indescribably brilliant.
@arioch: “Linus and Lucy”, by Vince Guaraldi? Possibly the greatest Jazz track ever.
I applaud you. And I cry at the same moment.
Ouch! Double face-palm.
@Rivalyn Awesome reference. @Edhelith No, it didn’t turn out well. But that story is not ended. Not yet.
Well done, Mother-of-Earthquakes. Now even the gods have someone to respect. And perhaps even fear.
@Blob – I thought that too. It could be Ed’s soul.
@Ursula – I have to echo everyone else, that last panel is fantastic. You have a fantastic talent (as if you didn’t know). <3
Is it just me, or does the kingfisher look sad too? ):
@BunnyRock
Bill Cosby quote:
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. If all this god boils down to is a version of Woodstock so be it. It still does not lessen Ed’s sacrifice one bit.