You kids and your speculation — yes, I’m looking at you, Thomas. 🙂 Whether you’re right or wrong I can’t answer you because anything I say will be a spoiler. Good guess, in any case, although you weren’t *quite* on target.
I’m out of town this week on a business trip, so I may not be checking in much here. That’s okay, I leave you in Largo’s capable paws. I warned you that things could get weird in the jungle…
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Jacob: Fumiaki made this.
Roger: Jacob -- that's not all!
Jacob: Slo-cows?
Girii: What?
Jacob: A Brazilian government project from the late 2070s...to resurrect the extinct giant sloth. They used cattle genes to fill holes in the chromosome. They wanted a food animal that could graze on uncleared rainforest. But we shut down the slo-cow project. Why would Fumiaki make more?
Largo: Largo never asked why. Worried the answer would be, 'for the hell of it'. Largo not want to hear that.
Roger: Jacob -- that's not all!
Jacob: Slo-cows?
Girii: What?
Jacob: A Brazilian government project from the late 2070s...to resurrect the extinct giant sloth. They used cattle genes to fill holes in the chromosome. They wanted a food animal that could graze on uncleared rainforest. But we shut down the slo-cow project. Why would Fumiaki make more?
Largo: Largo never asked why. Worried the answer would be, 'for the hell of it'. Largo not want to hear that.
Its so cute! Where can I get one?
So, slo-cows are adorable, and I want one to be my friend. Also, I just found your comic tonight, read all of it, because yay insomnia, and adore it. It’s so…different. You’ve got me enthralled.
Well Remus, I thought I would be wrong which is why I guessed an obviously wrong answer – no way in hell was I going to get any Moxana points for guessing genetically twisted sloth/cows with a line of snappy patter … but thanks for looking in my direction so avidly 🙂
Mongo only pawn in game of life…
Well, these Brahma bulls used in rodeos and bred by the Brazilians mainly for export to Thai millionnaires are a piece of work…With real long ears and a big bony forehead(instead of horns), they are in Thailand the epitome of wisdom and work mainly as lawn mowers for the upper class
and Buddhist temples…(flew a load of them from Sao Paulo to Bangkok!)
In Blazing Saddles, the enforcer Mongo(Slim Pickens) rides into town on a Brahma bull, and knocks out a horse with one punch. “Don’t shoot him, it will just make him mad,” the townspeople advise Sheriff Bart. Later, Bart asks Mongo about the things he’s done. Looking up with puppy eyes, the hulking villain says: “Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
Sorry, Dave, I had missed your post entirely… parallel thinking, I suppose. I was just thinking about these monster bulls in their pens in the back of the plane…Their heat melting the old nicotine in the roof of the cockpit and giving us a spittoon black rain…
Cow sloths… that’s a new one!
Wow.
Visually… I feel you suddenly “broke the sound barrier” or somethin’ with these creatures.
Ming: I was thinking either that, or Zathras from Babylon 5.
Sidebar: that’s aaawful close to be standing to an unknown-but-very-large animal of uncertain disposition.
I really do hope the answer is for the hell of it now. Just so we can hear largo saying i knew it.
DaveP. That was exactly where my mind went…. By the second bubble Largo was speaking in Zathrus’ voice in my mind…….
Also DaveP. I think Largo sort of snuck up on them while the other Slo-Cows distracted them. Slo-Cows now also remind me of a Jurassic Park line “It is not the Slo-Cow (Velo-raptor) in front of you that will get you it is the one you can’t see beside you!” (Or something close to that…)