Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 06, 2010

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    pawpawbear  over 14 years ago

    If he feeds on anger does he react in kind?

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    palos  over 14 years ago

    Food for your thoughts? or Are your thoughts food?

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    Yegads, what are we going to do? An entity that feasts on the negative thoughts of others. I see a monster in the making.

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    ksoskins  over 14 years ago

    Has someone been reading the Laurell K. Hamilton series about Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, whose title character can feed on strong emotions?

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    ARF2  over 14 years ago

    Did I just see Danae actually learn something?

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    Dewey Premium Member over 14 years ago

    How big will it become before Danae learns something?

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    dataweaver  over 14 years ago

    OK; that’s scary.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Ekert could get fat just following Danae around on a bad day…

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    cdward  over 14 years ago

    The question is: will Ekert become what he (?) eats, or does the bad mood just disappear?

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 14 years ago

    ArthurAllen thanks for the zazzle tip the other day. Unfortunately zazzle doesn’t apply to every strip on the site. Here’s one of my own: If you plug in the right URL (like http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/06/27/) you can read really old comics strips for free without being a premium member. Hopefully Gocomics doesn’t catch on.

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    sappha58  over 14 years ago

    Uh, oh - I suspect this is going to become Teh Elephant in the Room.

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    Ursula A Kehoe Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Wasn’t that part of the problem in Ghostbusters II?

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    ChazNCenTex  over 14 years ago

    Interesting to see where this goes. Wonder how the ‘righteous wrath’ crowd will take it?

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    MobyD  over 14 years ago

    Wiley seems to have given us all thought for food. Once Danae’s angry thought were consumed, she wasn’t angry any more. Will she stay mellow, or quickly find something else to get angry about? And how big will the ekert get?

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    OMC-USNR  over 14 years ago

    Schmoo, anyone?

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    Right you are baslim.

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    imjustso  over 14 years ago

    Ooh! I need an Ekert!

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    Anger is spontaneous generally, provoked or unprovoked. I think Ekert is going to get much larger. Happy 6th of July!

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I don’t think anyone has mentioned this, surprisingly, but unless it’s the angle in which Wiley drew the cartoon, Ekert/Heffalump is already getting bigger!

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    Ekert, the ultimate solution to irksome comments and ridiculous commentators. Let him eat your fumes before you post.

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    Laureneri  over 14 years ago

    At first, I was finding this arc tedious, but I am SO hooked on it now! Cain’t WAIT to read the rest of this week’s comics!

    Thank you, Wiley!

    p.s.–I’m with you, imjustso, I need an Ekert, too!

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    jollyjack  over 14 years ago

    I’m looking for a cross between a “Schmoo” and “Cat in The Hat”

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    harrietbe  over 14 years ago

    What an imagination! Wonder how big Ekert will get.

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    rotts  over 14 years ago

    Maybe Ekert just absorbs anger to keep it from running loose in the world. If so, I hope it can eat up the spuking fammer I just flagged!

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    bmonk  over 14 years ago

    cdward said, about 8 ponderings ago

    The question is: will Ekert become what he (?) eats, or does the bad mood just disappear?

    I wondered that too–and also, what comes out of Ekert’s other end?

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    Ozten  over 14 years ago

    Fed by negative thought, reactions, and/or ideas. While all the while having nothing negative to say. Why does it look like an Elephant?

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    mjd.kwanyin  over 14 years ago

    i want to know too….. how big will ekert grow?….what about the ‘processed’ part..and is it safe? or ‘nuclear’…so many questions…….

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    amauriced  over 14 years ago

    I hoped to find some hidden meaning, however, Wiley is too clever. I could not find a coherent anagram for “The Ekert” or just “Ekert.” Good job there.

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    DolphinGirl78  over 14 years ago

    Sheik Yerbouti said, about 11 hours ago

    Has someone been reading the Laurell K. Hamilton series about Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, whose title character can feed on strong emotions?

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    I do, love that series and the Merry Gentry one as well!

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    With all of the anger in this world, the Ekert should grow beyond all other entities combined. Just the hate toward our president evidenced here would eclipse Go Comics.

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    photoman022  over 14 years ago

    cdward picked up on my thought exactly. but if the Eckert eats Danae’s bad moods and she turns mellow–what will happen to this segment of the strip? i shudder to think of it.

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Let me think: an elephant who would the be symbol of what party who has been trapped in a shed of two years and who comes out pretending to be kind and innocent but stirs up evil thoughts and feeds on them getting bigger and bigger. I HOPE this is mythology, but it looks more like a cautionary tale. Now all we need is a donkey who’s been neutered to stand by and let it trample him.

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    Trisha_Evenstar  over 14 years ago

    I think this little elephant eats the bad thoughts of others which then allows them to dwell on good thoughts…….

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Why does this strip make better sense than Doonesbury ?

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    Yakety Sax  over 14 years ago

    ekert reversed is treke ??

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Tribbles multiplied when they ate too much. Looks like E-kert will just keep getting bigger and bigger. It could add up to the same.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Haven’t seen this big question posed yet….

    WHY was this cute, happy and hungry little thing that apparently eats away negativity LOCKED AWAY IN A SHED?—Who did that and why??

    I bet Wiley doesn’t even know.

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    DonVanni  over 14 years ago

    Oooohhh….Where are the shmoos and kigmies locked up???

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    Wiley creator over 14 years ago

    Grazer- Wait for it. Everything is done for a reason.

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