Sorry for the delay, folks. I had this uploaded, but a couple of not-good-enoughs caught my eye and demanded appeasement. You know how it is.
But hey, notice that neat banner of clickable buttons over the latest page? That's right, Templar's gone all Project Wonderful! For a few cents, you can buy a little ad space for your comic, blog, or site, directly from me! I've been using PW for the past few weeks, and I've got to say, it's probably the best advertising set-up I've ever seen. Ryan North should have all of my babies for thinking this up. Buy an ad, share some love!
By the way: THREE PAGE WEEK. HOORAY. Tip jar may not look it, but blame the server burps. Thanks, guys!
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Wanna see pictures of my new dog?
Yow. That's not Zora.
Holy shit, I did NOT expect that.
OHMIGOD BEN DON'T GET ASPLODED BY THE COOK FAMILY HOLY JESUS
Curio and Ben live in the same building?
And Ben wasn't paying attention to what was going on outside his window, either.
I wanna see pictures of your mutant puppy!
I would read a comic that was just about the Cook Family. Like a webcomic spin-off about wanton destruction and the latest in facially-obstructive fashion.
Also, happy birthday (belated)!
Hehe, Bill! Yaaaaaaaaay, Bill! I like Bill :)
Bow before the mighty power of Bill. Of any Bill. If there is a conspiracy of Daves, the Bills are the ones running the show.
As evidenced by the classic song:
I'm just a Bill,
Yes I'm only a Bill,
And I'm sittin here on Capitol Hill.
Whereas a "conspiracy of Daves" sounds like an animal family group, like "a pride of lions" or "a murder of crows" or something along those lines.
Given the current stream posts... I think an off topic post can be forgiven, but where DID the term a murder of crows come from?
I know thats the correct term, but you just gotta wonder: Did the the Crow come before the Hitchcock(as I have now doubt just butchered his name, i applogize. If this is correct, going back to his grde school days, it's no wonder his mind was so warped.) or the Hitchcock before the Crow?
“A ‘murder’ of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed (murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that occasionally crows will kill a dying crow who doesn’t belong in their territory or much more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. Also, both crows and ravens are associated with battlefields, medieval hospitals, execution sites and cemeteries (because they scavenged on human remains). In England, a tombstone is sometimes called a ravenstone.”
yes, you're right about the judgement myth - it did exist. But the 'murder of crows' as a collective noun started in the Victorian era in England. There was a brief linguistic fad for cutesy collective nouns, including the 'parliament of owls', 'pride of lions' etc.
Collective nouns are almost unkown in other languages, but in English they date back to very early English, where they were used in hunting (sorry, don't have any examples). The Victorians were really into modifing old traditions and pretending they'd always been like that (they invented tartan coding for family groups, for example), so you can blame the collective noun thing on them.
(Love the comic, by the way. Are you ever going to publish on paper? 'cos I'll buy it. I promise!)
Ohh.. wow.. o.O todays comic (weds) is awsome!!
oh and thanks for approving my ad up on projectwonderful!! I'm doing my best to make a good webcomic too! and when I saw Templar on there I was so excited thinking maybe I'd be able to get a little ad up there.. and look! it's there!! *hugs* Thanks Spike!!
keep up the great work! Templar is what finally pushed me to start my (long procrastinated) webcomic.. and it even lead me to buy hosting from webcomics nation..
I have you to thank for the start of Nendaiki!!