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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 223 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plot twist; they cancelled because their convention had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Who would have thought that this was a bad idea?

But otherwise Gordon would have missed so much fun:

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

They realized that they don't need to wear those ridiculous ties and went to home for a quick change

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Brilliant. For anybody who doesn't want to click through, according to that link, Ziggy picked one of the safest seats on the plane.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Those people aren't ever right. I'd take this as a massive win!

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unless they were the witches they cursed Charlie Kirk

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They just wanted to fuck with him a little. Curse worked too well.

Maybe they predicted the plane would crash, but missed that it'd be by flying into a nuclear fireball.

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Plot twist the only reason the plane was going to crash was because of all the psychics. It'll fly perfectly safely with one passenger.

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You chang3d the future by acting on it. Fate probably nocks one of them in a road accident or a freek 9/11 2

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd be off that plane so fast

Yeah, but then you gotta watch out for all those little Rube Goldberg death traps coming for you for like, forever. Is that really a life worth living?

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The airline would probably cancel the flight if they sold only one seat, so that's a self fulfilling prophecy.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, airlines have their planes in a complex web of routes all dependent on each other, that plane would fly regardless because after it gets (if it got there heh) to the next airport it would also prob have a route from that airport to another

[–] Peck@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. I was on an empty flight red eye PDX to Boston. Didn't get cancelled, but what sucked that they didn't have first class, so I still had to be crammed into those tiny seats. Couldn't sleep as always.

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

At least there wasn't a screaming baby, a moron kicking your seat, or someone eating steamed broccoli sitting next to you.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

no, not the steamed broccoli!

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hahaha it seems anecdotal, because it is. On a plane it smells like someone opened a box of farts.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What if there was only one other person on the plane, and it was a screaming baby that kicked the seat while eating broccoli?

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

They might need the plane at the other airport anyway

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Have been the only one on a flight before. It’s weird when the flight attendants outnumber you.

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[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They could not do a prediction before they booked the flight nor when they scheduled the event? So their powers are limited to same-day predictions? Probably low-level NPCs.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

That's still pretty good. Waking up and knowing that the day is lost and you may as well go back to sleep would be wonderful.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My first cross-country flight/flight of any kind was a red-eye in one of those planes with the middle rows (plus rows left and right). It was so empty that me, my friend, and my dad could all lie down across entire rows. It really did not set realistic expectations for what future air travel would be like. "Damn, it's fuckin' NICE back here in coach. Don't. Mind. If. I. Do."

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s been a long long time since I saw a ziggy

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

How about a Zippy?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Charlatans sharing a collective delusion would not scare me in any way.

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[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 5 months ago

Gift horse, mouth. I'm chillin in 1st class with free drinks. worst case I die happy.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I'd still go. I'd find it macabre and funny, it wouldn't make me anxious. Private plane!

Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'd ride it out and tell the stewardesses/stewards to keep the drinks coming.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Oh Ziggy, will you ever win?

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Hmmm...whole plane to myself... if it's international I'd say it's worth the risk

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I really don't get the joke.

I mean I think I get it, but it isn't funny.

The joke is that the physicists cancelled because of the possibility that it crashes?

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely curious what you thought the joke was when you thought they were all physicists. Also I'd be way more afraid to get on a plane that a bunch of physicists came to a consensus that it was unsafe rather than a bunch of whacky scam artists that thought was unsafe because magic beans or whatever.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Weather. Statistics. Idk, this why I said I don't get it

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Idk, etsy witches do prove to be quite powerful nowadays

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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Plot twist: they canceled because of a terrorist who intended to kidnap the plane. And now you're shocked because there is no use in kidnapping an empty plane. All the planing you invested so far...

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