Mess with the wrong snake
You really don’t want Cleo on your case. She’s got the money and the power xD
Technically, her dad has that, but he’s only a phone call away.
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Awww , Cleo X_X
You just said to Kaya she should be lightly upset by the other picture and you’re overreacting to this one , unless you’re lightly upset too ? ………….. So , i don’t wish to see when you’re really angry
She expected Kaya to be upset because she gets upset at these things.
There are levels to her anger. She’s not yet at maximum level :p
Welp… culture sure is going to change now that mythical and animal life has someone who actually resembles the victims of heroes going out and slaying things… I suggest we start an archive of historically significant stuff before this gets out of hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5Z-PIUsJs ^_^”
Yeah, I would imagine so, but it’s out of the scope of the comic to really address those changes ^^
Didn’t peg Cleo to be that kind of person. Or maybe…
I’ve got to consult my notes.
I think it’s compounded by being just after the irritated insult she earned from Rex.
Thanks, didn’t think of that. I’ll be sure to consider that
Everyone has their pet peeves :p
Just for once, Kaya’s calm
and it’s Cleo losing her rag;
a painting brought out her Bull
just like waving a red flag.
Inhumanity to Snake compounds
the insult given by Rex;
the offences mount and mount;
her spirits they really do vex.
She’ll get it torn down now
or, at least, she’s going to try.
The museum has really done it,
they’ve gone and offended her eye.
Little sensitive are we Cleo? Probably not entirely unjustified given snakes have had a pretty bad reputation in a lot of societies throughout history.
She just likes snakes. Being one herself, this does strike a chord :p
Cleo my have a slight anger issue also those are cave man Cleo they are stupid
Nah, she doesn’t. She’s not angry. Not at all xD
Cleo needs a kiss on nose and a calming down hug from Kaya
That might work ^^
Might work even better from Kai!
Panel 2: “…this /picture’s/ a dragon…”
Actually, if “pictures” is being used as a verb rather than a noun, the sentence is correct. Cleo is pointing out, “This [painting] pictures a dragon that’s been… slain?”. The word “painting” being omitted as the context makes it unnecessary to say outright.
I was using pictures as a verb here. My proof readers assured me it’s fine ^^
Still, thanks for being observant 😀
I like the guy on the right in the painting on panel five. He looks like he got just a mite tooo close when attacking the snake
and now he’s dancing around trying to keep from getting bitten by it. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Everyone do the “ACK the snake is trying to bite me!” dance 😀
I mean, I get Kaya’s reasoning, not to mention that canonically, didn’t Dragons technically not even exist in this world as of 16 years ago? It’s not even clear if there were any dragons born before Kaya and Kai. That painting is likely decades if not centuries old. In fact, considering recent videogame news, even the Spyro games would have existed before the first dragon ever did in this setting…. I wonder if these two ever played those.
Also, nobody tell Cleo about MGS3 XD
Snake Eater, now there’s a game for her birthday xD
Indeed, Kai and Kaya are the first dragons. No other hybrids even existed before 16 years ago. They did play Spyro when they were kids. How could their parents NOT buy a cute game with a dragon as the protagonist. Best Christmas present they got xD
I have a big ol’ Spyro plushy on my couch! 🙂
Friend of mine found it at a yard sale or some such. HE’s the gamer, I am not, and HE did not know who Spyro is! LOL! I had to ‘splain it to him. 🙂
shame to him, not knowing Spyro xD
I like the X eye on the dragon. Makes the painting much more lighthearted.
Yeah, it does xD
Want to draw something dead in an all-ages setting? Put X’s on the eyes xD
I bet she would be more angry if she knew of the guivre a giant lake snake from France with a breath so poisonous it kills plant life a could be categorized as a disease and one of the best ways to survive is to get naked and embarrass it I’m not joking
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guivre
Why do all the snakes get these things!?
-Cleo 2018
As has been pointed out, I like how Kaya’s all calm about see a defeated dragon, whereas Cleo goes berserk when she sees the clobbered snakes. There’s just something about the cavemen’s poses that’s really making me giggle.
It’s a difference in exposure. Dragons have a nice and big part in modern media, while snakes don’t really have that kind of representation. Kai and Kaya had way more chances to see both good and bad dragons in media than Cleo, who generally only saw snakes depicted as bad.
Cleo shouldn’t read anything written by Rudyard Kipling, then; specifically “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, about a mongoose. Two cobras, Nag and Nagina, get snuffed in that one, plus an unnamed Krait snake. Rikki takes out the last two himself.
No, I don’t think she should read that xD
I would imagine that church services are a trial for Cleo, especially after hearing the story of Adam & Eve.
mmm yeah, maybe xD
Cleo is going to be some sort of rights activist when she’s older, isn’t she. probably hybrid rights, depending on how much they’re discriminated against, but that could shift to things such as animals as well.
Well, maybe. She has her heart in the right place for it, but she might go a bit overboard like here :p
How come that members of scociety are shown as mythical creatures? This could only be if the hybrids are entering the real world at a time. Explain this pls. 🙂
It’s explained at the start that hybrids suddenly started to appear 16 years ago, and from that point onward, 1 in 1000 births had some degree of animal-like characteristics: https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/the-beginning/
Oh, I mustve forgot this.
It’s easy to forget since the comic focuses on the hybrids even though they are both supposed to be somewhat rare, plus it also focuses on hybrids in school so it’s also easy to forget that no hybrids are over 16 years old yet.
Miri provided a good explanation. If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to ask ^^
Come on Cleo, your kind is present as a positive symbol on a lot of coat of arms. You are even the symbol of the city of Milan.
And of doctors, veterinarians, and hospitals! (at least in the U.S.)
Yeah, that’s true, but rational thought is always the first to leave the building when anger is involved :p
Robin, was this inspired by one of my previous comments?
While I would like to say yes, I had this joke sitting in my script before I started the chapter :p
Cleo, Cleo, look. I hate seeing snakes clobbered to death as much as anyone. There really is a lot of tragedy surrounding the treatment of real snakes in this country today. But that doesn’t mean the moment you see a painting depicting it, it’s time to call in this… uh… person. (I don’t really know whether to say this guy or this girl): http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pyronightmare_1823.png Let’s just take things down a notch, alright? At least you wanted to buy the painting first instead of just trying to get Kaya to sneeze on it… Keep at making this amazing comic, Robin. Can’t wait to see the next page. Stay awesome!
Well, she’s calling her dad, he’s a guy :p
Trying to get Kaya to sneeze on it would have been hilarious xD
Thanks Alpha ^^
Poor Cleo.
Snakes are the most likely reasons humans developed such great vision for both colors and motion.
Most ancient hero stories have snake like enemies to be slain (either snakes themself or snake inspired).
She should migrate to Asia, instant deity there XD
Don’t say that too loudly, she might take a trip to deityhood xD
XD
But should Kaya ever want a movie with a good guy Dragon, she should check out
1. How to tame your Dragon (i think thrid is coming out soon, i love the first and second)
2. Dragonheart (awesome movie, but WARNING! I cried at the end!)
3. Kung Fu Panda 3 (we finally see Po as the dragon! Plus it got Jack Black!)
There is “Eragon” too , with Saphira being so cute
Did they ever make the sequels? …or just the first one?
They have so strongly ravaged the first movie that they haven’t got the authorization to make another , apparently
Yeah, Saphira turned out to be the Villain in the Eragon movie by simply appearing in such a travesty. That movie set dragons back by centuries.
No Cleo, don’t become a Serpent Justice Warrior! Please!
Don’t worry, she won’t :p
Cleo: “What did snakes ever do to you?!”
Rex: “Well, they bite, often with venom that either attacks the blood or goes right for the nervous system, sometimes causes massive necrosis of tissue. While some may do so in self defense, others are simply aggressive. There’s the Black Mamba and the King Cobra…”
Cleo: “Then why are they the symbol of healing?”
Rex: “Well, true, there’s that, they’re also great at unclogging drains.”
Cleo: “Yeah, great at un…wait, what?!”
So catching up, and I know a reference was made by Rex already, but I hope Cleo realizes that there’s not enough money to eradicate that sort of thing so long as the Fall of Man from the Bible, as well as the major texts of Judaism and Islam, and money isn’t going to do that either.