Where do you find a current Perry Bible Fellowship? The one on what I thought was the official site is still the Halloween insulin one.
Probably akin to Luke Skywalker’s first encounter with Yoda but here, we have no further data to decide if the prejudice is justified or not (the silent and goofy look might be a kind of zen test).
Or maybe the warrior is an idiot who addresses any bizarre being in the hope of finding a Jedi master.
I’m pretty sure he was coming to consult a wise owl named Shitashi about the war (feels like he’s done this before), but realized this owl’s just a dummy.
In fact no bird (animal, fish, tree, rock, cloud etc) is Wise Old Shitashi and the samurai warrior is mistaken in looking for him/her in that sort of form factor. This is especially the case with this presumably sub-optimal example.
Looking online for an answer didn’t help much, but someone suggested that owls have an unwarranted reputation for wisdom, going way back to Wol in Winnie the Pooh, or maybe slightly further to ancient Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena . But in fact, like other bird types except corvids, owls are somewhat bird-brained. Even corvids are literally bird-brained.
@Patrick: Go Comics. They have about a dozen PBF comics that they cycle through endlessly.
I like madmup’s answer best, but I would like to add that this bird’s facial expression is strikingly similar to one of the idiotic faces made by the “Penguins of Madagascar”, although the comic predates the film by at least a decade.
@ Patrick – I think DemetriosX was being more than a little sarcastic. The fact is that the site you already found (https://pbfcomics.com/) is indeed the official “current” PBF site; it’s just that PBF updates only on an extremely irregular schedule. In contrast to the 3+ month-old comic found there, the comic we are discussing here is at least 15 years old, it’s #45 (of nearly 320 PBFs that have been released so far).
@Kilby: No, I was serious. PBF at GoComics runs around a dozen or so strips over and over. I have no idea why I keep looking at it, but this strip was today’s PBF there.
I think Olivier has it, that it might be referencing the first Luke-Yoda encounter. Madmup’s answer is also a possibility, but I think the phrasing makes it sound reversed–Shitashi is summoning the warrior to fight, rather than the warrior bringing news of the war to Shitashi.
Still more confusing than amusing.
He is going to be even later when he finally finds the real Shitashi.
@ I agree that GoComics is criminally negligent about the way they handle reruns(*), but their PBF collection is much larger than a dozen. I went paging back through the archive, and didn’t hit a repeat until I got to Dec. 11th, but that was a solitary example. Shortly before that date, I found an utterly unexplainable two-week gap in the usual Mon.-Fri. schedule. I think the problem may be that GoComics doesn’t stick to a uniform sequence, so that the gap between two appearances of the same comic is of random length.
P.S. PBF is not the only classic rerun that suffers inept editing by GoComics: Ink Pen is offset by three days, so that Sunday strips appear on Thursdays, Back to B.C. is offset by six months and a few days, so that summer strips show up in winter (and vice-versa), not to mention needless and utterly unpredictable recoloration of isolated strips (and misplaced Sundays). GoComics is also coloring Peanuts Begins (idiots!), but thankfully Watterson was able to keep them from disfiguring the daily Calvins.
P.S. That was meant to be “@ DemetriosX” (but you all knew that anyway), and “before Dec. 11th” refers to the last week of November and the first week of December.
I agree with Olivier. I just wanted to mention that a web search says that “shitashi” translates to “friend”.
I have Liberty Meadows in my GoComics lineup. Recently they did a jump back to strips that had run fairly recently and completely out of sequence with what had been going on.
However, with strips being out of sync with the week or seasons, they have the problem with what to do when the comic reaches the end and has to restart. They would either need to skip strips (maybe a lot) or wait to catch up before the next pass. Normally they just go right into the first of the strips that they have.
I forget which one it is, but was a bit startled to see comments about visiting relatives for Thanksgiving just now.
@ Nathan – It’s enough to make one wonder whether Nicholas Gurewitch was lurking about and realized that it was high time to released another comic. That new “Flight” comic is dated Feb. 2020, but was definitely not available when I made that comment above (@ 9:30 am).
@ Nathan – This seems as good a place as any to mention that PBF posted a new comic (just 18 days after the last one). Please NOTE: this one contains NSFW language, which is why I’m not including an image link below.
I think, I got it. It indeed is a wise Shitashi.
I don’t have a pop culture for this, or any culture reference, for that matter. All the same, this comic stayed with me on an existential level. We look up to and seek out authority figures or institutions or ideas or flags to follow. But when we lift the veil, we often find that they are as empty, idiotic, founded on flimsy assumptions and happenstance, as imperfect and clueless as we felt ourselves in the first place. That is sad and true and uplifting and funny.
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Where do you find a current Perry Bible Fellowship? The one on what I thought was the official site is still the Halloween insulin one.
Probably akin to Luke Skywalker’s first encounter with Yoda but here, we have no further data to decide if the prejudice is justified or not (the silent and goofy look might be a kind of zen test).
Or maybe the warrior is an idiot who addresses any bizarre being in the hope of finding a Jedi master.
I’m pretty sure he was coming to consult a wise owl named Shitashi about the war (feels like he’s done this before), but realized this owl’s just a dummy.
In fact no bird (animal, fish, tree, rock, cloud etc) is Wise Old Shitashi and the samurai warrior is mistaken in looking for him/her in that sort of form factor. This is especially the case with this presumably sub-optimal example.
Looking online for an answer didn’t help much, but someone suggested that owls have an unwarranted reputation for wisdom, going way back to Wol in Winnie the Pooh, or maybe slightly further to ancient Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena . But in fact, like other bird types except corvids, owls are somewhat bird-brained. Even corvids are literally bird-brained.
@Patrick: Go Comics. They have about a dozen PBF comics that they cycle through endlessly.
I like madmup’s answer best, but I would like to add that this bird’s facial expression is strikingly similar to one of the idiotic faces made by the “Penguins of Madagascar”, although the comic predates the film by at least a decade.
@ Patrick – I think DemetriosX was being more than a little sarcastic. The fact is that the site you already found (https://pbfcomics.com/) is indeed the official “current” PBF site; it’s just that PBF updates only on an extremely irregular schedule. In contrast to the 3+ month-old comic found there, the comic we are discussing here is at least 15 years old, it’s #45 (of nearly 320 PBFs that have been released so far).
@Kilby: No, I was serious. PBF at GoComics runs around a dozen or so strips over and over. I have no idea why I keep looking at it, but this strip was today’s PBF there.
I think Olivier has it, that it might be referencing the first Luke-Yoda encounter. Madmup’s answer is also a possibility, but I think the phrasing makes it sound reversed–Shitashi is summoning the warrior to fight, rather than the warrior bringing news of the war to Shitashi.
Still more confusing than amusing.
He is going to be even later when he finally finds the real Shitashi.
@ I agree that GoComics is criminally negligent about the way they handle reruns(*), but their PBF collection is much larger than a dozen. I went paging back through the archive, and didn’t hit a repeat until I got to Dec. 11th, but that was a solitary example. Shortly before that date, I found an utterly unexplainable two-week gap in the usual Mon.-Fri. schedule. I think the problem may be that GoComics doesn’t stick to a uniform sequence, so that the gap between two appearances of the same comic is of random length.
P.S. PBF is not the only classic rerun that suffers inept editing by GoComics: Ink Pen is offset by three days, so that Sunday strips appear on Thursdays, Back to B.C. is offset by six months and a few days, so that summer strips show up in winter (and vice-versa), not to mention needless and utterly unpredictable recoloration of isolated strips (and misplaced Sundays). GoComics is also coloring Peanuts Begins (idiots!), but thankfully Watterson was able to keep them from disfiguring the daily Calvins.
P.S. That was meant to be “@ DemetriosX” (but you all knew that anyway), and “before Dec. 11th” refers to the last week of November and the first week of December.
I agree with Olivier. I just wanted to mention that a web search says that “shitashi” translates to “friend”.
I have Liberty Meadows in my GoComics lineup. Recently they did a jump back to strips that had run fairly recently and completely out of sequence with what had been going on.
However, with strips being out of sync with the week or seasons, they have the problem with what to do when the comic reaches the end and has to restart. They would either need to skip strips (maybe a lot) or wait to catch up before the next pass. Normally they just go right into the first of the strips that they have.
Haven’t seen a PBF post for a long time but four entries on Firefly after this CIDU comes https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-flight/
Coincidence? I think not!
Feedly, I typed Feedly! Cursed autocorrect!
I forget which one it is, but was a bit startled to see comments about visiting relatives for Thanksgiving just now.
@ Nathan – It’s enough to make one wonder whether Nicholas Gurewitch was lurking about and realized that it was high time to released another comic. That new “Flight” comic is dated Feb. 2020, but was definitely not available when I made that comment above (@ 9:30 am).
@ Nathan – This seems as good a place as any to mention that PBF posted a new comic (just 18 days after the last one). Please NOTE: this one contains NSFW language, which is why I’m not including an image link below.
I think, I got it. It indeed is a wise Shitashi.
I don’t have a pop culture for this, or any culture reference, for that matter. All the same, this comic stayed with me on an existential level. We look up to and seek out authority figures or institutions or ideas or flags to follow. But when we lift the veil, we often find that they are as empty, idiotic, founded on flimsy assumptions and happenstance, as imperfect and clueless as we felt ourselves in the first place. That is sad and true and uplifting and funny.