Thatababy by Paul Trap for August 20, 2023

I would’ve gone with Xoloitzcuintli (a Mexican dog breed), but Xzacthula works too.

Would have probably chosen Lion over Lynx, but then we’d have no strip today.

This X animal/creature was completely unknown until now.

Xenops, Xantus, Xerus, X-ray fish. Yes, those are real animals. :D :D :D

Then “aardvark”.

I would accept axolotl in a pinch.

Is Z’zacthula out of Clark Ashton Smith, or Frank Belknap Long?

The last one looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster… may his noodles always be wet! Ramen!

If Thatababy wants to bend the rule a bit, he could have used my oldest goat, Xyla. She turned 13 this year!

ThataBaby could have drawn an X-Ray Tetra

or a Xylophlion!

That’s similar to the Japanese game of shiritori (literally, “taking the end”), using the last syllable of a word as the first syllable of the next word. The X equivalent is the syllable /n/, as no Japanese word begins with that syllable.