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Casual Notice–LALALALA Misprint!

I grew up with Chick Tracts. To be fair to their paranoid and borderline psychotic author, I have to credit them with sparking my interest in the Christian Bible and in religious philosophy in general. Sadly, once you begin independent study, you sometimes learn how small the minds of those who inspired you can be.

That being said, while there are a fair number of facts in Chick Tracts, there is also a heaping load of misinformation and misapplied information. At this time, the best thing I can say about them is that the art is pretty good, and that almost no living Christians think the way Jack Chick does.

At the time I made this comic, I was very concerned with the ongoing battle for children’s minds–a battle that had no business taking place in the public school system. I still am. I am not a Christian, but I don’t begrudge them their faith, and it is my sincere belief that science classes must be taught in a way that does not preclude the existence of some sort of Creator being. This shouldn’t be hard; science is not concerned with the who or the why, simply with the description of what is. The Big Bang (or Great Expansion, since nit-pickers are obsessed with mild inaccuracies in language) does not preclude the existence or planning of a Creator Deity. It also does not confirm the Deity’s existence. That’s the way it should be.

By the same token, Christian groups should not force their beliefs on others’ children. As in this comic, there is a lot of Christian theosophy that is just counter to the way many people would like their child brought up. It boils down to this: If you want your children to be Christians, then it is your responsibility to raise your children that way, but it is not your right to force others to explain away the effect your faith has on their children’s learning.

Casual Friday–Community Leaders

Okay, everyone who’s always wondered who were the “community leaders” referred to in vague pronouncements about why something harmless was suddenly illegal, raise your hand. Okay, put them down. No one can see you.

Casual Friday–The Real Enemy

Flashback TIME! Also, so many lives have been ruined by the existence of sock monkeys. Isn’t it time we fought the real enemy?

Casual Friday–Doppelsomething

So, here’s our first demonstration of Schmookie’s ability to change shape at will. Scot is understandably surprised to have a twin.

Casual Friday—

So, first, sorry for the unscheduled hiatus. Turns out between the 2-5-0 Party, the militarized common cold, and a series of unfortunate events, I sort of lost track of things. Back on track now. WIll be finishing unfinished things and adding new things as life progresses.

Not a lot to say about this comic, except that it introduces the idea of the Grandfather, who will not be shown in the comic for another 4 years, and even then, not physically. The Grandfather is the oldest fae-related creature on earth, and his power and nature helped define for me how the fae exist on CN-world and, by extension, what made Petal Oak and Penny special.

Fae, in this world, are created by the abundance of interactive and chaotic energy given off wherever biomass becomes critically dense. Thus, you will find fairies, like Petal Oak, in thickets and bogs, dryads in and around certain ancient trees of specific species (mostly hamadryads in live and black oaks) and other varieties in and around other places.

Dragons are an extremely old variety of fae, dating back to the Cretaceous Period (hence their distinctive, saurian shape). When the CT-extinction occurred, the Grandfather (a more of less amorphous being born in the soft glowing aura of early mosses and lichens) found ways to save a few specimens.

The Grandfather is generally kind-hearted and subtle, but like most old people, he doesn’t have a lot of patience when foolish children challenge his wisdom unnecessarily,