Annotated 28-19
C’mon, panel 1 Harky, get with the program: the last page already made it pretty clear that Hammerhead was capable of diagramming a sentence. I guess when you’ve really psyched yourself up to speak Land Shark, it can be a bit of an adjustment to stop again.
Panel 4 is almost like the land shark hive-mind has to honor its leader by proving his point. It’s fun to see them in feeding frenzy, but you have to imagine their numbers would be dwindling pretty quickly if they were always doing this without a Hammerhead in their midst. And Penk is also correct: if the sharks truly couldn’t distinguish between friend and foe, then it wouldn’t make sense for them to be part of the Rebellion, like, at all.
TBH, these conflicts in the whole land-shark concept may not bear too much thinking about in narrow, definitive terms. It’s probably best to say they’re in the middle of evolutionary progress, with sharks like Hammerhead or Gizzard Wizard representing a couple steps forward and “SHUT UP YOU’RE NOT STRONG” and the frenzy representing one step back.
Land Shark Hive-Mind?
Yeah, it’s best not to think of “hive-mind” in the Dungeons & Dragons sense of literally sharing a single distributed telepathic intelligence, but rather more literally, like hives of bees or other social animals, where even though they’re individually dumb, they’ve evolved to work well enough in coordinated groups for tasks like hunting.
Yet unlike bees, they haven’t evolved up to the point of being able to avoid killing each other in stupid frenzies. So I guess they’re more like meerkats, or humans.
They’re still a step above the kobolds, but a step down from the orcs. If it weren’t for their savagery they might be in chains too.
I wonder about Hammerhead’s mother…. Actually, I wonder how land sharks reproduce at all. Do they hatch from eggs? Are they amphibious, laying their eggs in water, or is it totally land-based? Then again, most real-life sharks (including hammerheads) bear live young, which brings my thoughts back to his mother….
“When all things are prey… what use is there for a nation?” wow this guy even knows what capitalism is about!
You do realize that trust-busting and similar actions are necessary because capitalism can breed oppressive cooperation as easily as it can oppressive competition, yes?
Land sharks may journey by instinct like salmon, to breed in lakes or bays, with Survivors climbing onto land.
This suggests they may have evolved in an environment of drying lakes or seas that forced them onto land, developing sentience and a limited intelligence on the way. Hammerhead may be the next step.
I like it!
To be fair, they’re in a feeding frenzy because Hammerhead killed 3 of their guys and didn’t fight for his fair share. So what is a self-respecting land shark to do? Fight everyone else for your fair share!