The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

— Alan Ashley-Pitt
Chapter 10, Page 1

Chapter 10, Page 1

All right, this is the page where I loaded up all the whale puns to get them out of the way.  I now open the microphone to anyone else who wants to try some.  Kevin’s done, he won’t be doing any more.  He’ll find something else to make bad jokes about — they don’t call him Kevin Kidd for nothing.

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Kevin: You know, Caera...when we gave you a sword, I assumed it was ornamental. You have a gun, you can shoot people.
Caera: I was never a good shot.
Kevin: Try it next time. You'll find your reflexes are sharper than before. What's this about their escape?
Caera: Whales. They're using whales.
Kevin: Whales. Well, that's a whale of a tale. I suppose we shouldn't blubber about it. It may have been a fluke.

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Discussion (13)¬

  1. Zamodiar says:

    Oh god, is that the actual reason?

  2. NJB says:

    Maybe I’m just used to sickeningly bad jokes, but I reacted to those whale puns with ambergris.. Sorry, ambivalence.
    I’ll shut my blowhole now.

  3. The Sidhekin says:

    Stop weeping, we’re whaling!

    … not that Caera seems to have had much success. I now wonder if she just never managed to touch the whale at all (as I first thought), if Fumiaki’s modifications included antidotes to the neurotoxin, or if the mere size of the whale was enough to soak up the stuff without serious damage …

  4. dermiste says:

    Am I the only one to think that Kevin reeaaaally looks like Ed Wuncler Sr. from “The Boondocks”? I can feel the pettiness dripping off his pores. Remus, Michael: awesome work!

  5. Elihias says:

    … *googles ‘whale puns’

    Oh god… here…

    https://twitter.com/SillyWhalePuns

    I am not typing that lot out.
    n you can forget cut-n-paste too.

    Eli…

  6. SCAScot says:

    *rimshot*

  7. …And meanwhile Caera is grimacing, doubled over in agony and pain… oh, and her body aches a little bit too, but nothing like listening to Kevin tell a whale of a tale of the tail of a whale. I’ll bet she could get some good accuracy with a harpoon.

  8. Jerden says:

    Are you guys fed up all ready? I’m having a whale of a time here!

  9. Darls Chickens says:

    I hope that was the Fin.

    It’s Kevin who will end up skewered, and the agency will approve.

  10. Matt40000 says:

    Well if I didn’t think Kevin was diabolical before those puns made me cetacean.
    Hopefully they had some sort of plot porpoise.

  11. Siirenias says:

    No wonder he’s smirking. He has weaponized puns.

  12. Moxie Man says:

    I already covered this when Caera was first whaled by the whale. In the “Downeast Yankee” dialect, to “whale” upon something is to hit it really hard.

  13. Joe says:

    Haha, looks like she’s looking for a gun.