Comments on: Axemas Bonus Anno 1

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:06:54 +0000

If eyelashes define a landshark as female, then Hammerhead has at least two daughters. Apart from eyelashes the only other attributes I can identify are body language and (maybe) dress. No wonder landshark females are hard to spot! I’m not even sure we’ve seen enough to be certain there’s more than one gender among them.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:55:09 +0000

The third one from the bottom on the right looks like he might be eating his own arm, or that of his neighbour … (though that’s probably not a landshark claw at the end of the arm). And it took me a while to realize that Mrs. Hammerhead is wearing a shirt which has almost the same colour as the background, and is not some strangely-levitating landshark head.
She also seems to be the only clealry-identifiable-as-female landshark we ever see, I believe. But Landsharks are a bit like time travel in stories, in that you shouldn’t analyse them too much, but just accept what you see and move on.
Fine by me, I like the scene. Not sure why Hammerhead seems so grumpy, though, but I bet he never has to search much for a reason to be grumpy.

By: Twa Crobies

Twa Crobies — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:47:16 +0000

Weirdly enough I did remember seeing a couple of others (normal landshark sized), took me a minute to find them (may have been spotted in other parts):

http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-47-page-5/

I take it they’re rare but around.

By: T

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:38:28 +0000

The Doylist reason is that we didn’t want any other intelligent land sharks to complicate our picture of Hammerhead and his race any further. There isn’t really a Watsonian reason given but I’m not sure that there needs to be one. He’s a mutant, a one-off: he won the genetic lottery.

By: Jdorr

Jdorr — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:37:25 +0000

I don’t think it is ever mentioned in the comic, though maybe he’s the only hammerhead in a similar way that a clownfish colony has only one female. Other land sharks have the potential to be a hammerhead, but since Hammerhead is present, they don’t. With this theory if our Hammerhead ever kicked the bucket, the new “loudest” might change into a new hammerhead.
Alternatively it might be more… proactive. The hammerhead form seems significantly stronger than baseline land sharks, so if any land sharks seem to possibly be this larger and stronger form, Hammerhead might… remove future challengers, like bee princesses