February 25th, 2007
Scale and perspective
It’s a scarier thought, far scarier than giant insects, that the future will be pretty much the same as the present.
Change may be bad or good, but no change is always bad.
For a change, why not visit http://www.thinkingapeblues.com/ . It’s rather good.
Sean on 
Maddie on
okay adam, i have a bone to pick with you.
it’s all your fault!
this strip was the last thing i looked at last night and i ended up dreaming of being tormented by a large roach/ beetle hybrid.
*cries*
We’ll all be crying when the giant roaches turn up - think of it as getting some practice in…
Seriously, sorry about the tormented sleep, I usually have to meet people in person to do that
I’m not worried, I’ve got this great bug spray. Anyway we get bigger bugs in Florida already.
With friends like these, who needs an STD. Kafka had nothing on you, pal.
Lol. The first mention of Kafka on my site!
I hope that’s not a dung beetle.
This is random, but I like the rotary phone in panel #2.
Y’know, I once went to an all-girls boarding school… lasted about five minutes before they called the police.
Curtesy of Ken Dodd.
i always think that bugs with pincers like that look really happy…
Dude I know what’s stranger the fact that there’s a giant beetle in the future or the fact that everyone seems to be ok with it!!
Meh, anything with an exoskeleton are limited to a small size, or else they would crush their einternal organs under theor own weight. The most they could possibly get is like a foot in length. Hyper intelligent sentient super computers are more likely of a threat. Hell, Walt Disney being unfrozen and tormenting the Jews is more of a threat than giant bugs.
Actually, that’s not quite true. Exoskeleton based organisms like insects won’t collapse under their own weight, even at reletively large sizes. This is because the chitin shell is a remarkable strong and flexible material.
The reason we don’t have monster insects at the moment is purely to do with two things: Oxygen and temperature… Insects rely on a firly passive circulatory system so they are limited by a surface area to volume ratio that allows them to get enough oxygen.
There are examples of massive pre-historic insects, related to Dragonflies and such. These insects are thought to have been able to grow so large due to the differences in atmospheric oxygen, and possibly temperature.
http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/bugs.html
There is some scientific debate as to whether a change in gravity was also responsible for these large insects, but that is now looking unlikely.
So, my theory is, if it happened once before, it can happen again. And besides, this is a comic.
That said, I worry about computers too:
http://www.flowfieldunity.transplantcomics.com/?p=60
By this point in the future, the bugs have been made a legal citizen of the U.S. They are currently a topic of discussion because they, with their buggy super-strength often used in construction, and superhero/villainy, are putting millions of construction workers out of work. They sure do save alot of money though. One worker does so much, WITHOUT AN ELEVATOR nonetheless. The college-goers say that if these complainers had gone to college, then they’d be gettin hired to do the finer details bug arms cannot manage.
That’s a shrewd assessment of current immigration policy. Just replace the word bug with the foreign nationality of your choice.
The insects will probably be forced to live in sub-standard quality housing and payed significantly under the odds whilst the rest of the population whines that they’re taking all of our housing and jobs.
I didn’t know the french had frenchy super-strength!
They’ll probably be yelled at to learn our language, and they’ll say how it’s much too hard, you know since they have giant pincers and stuff.
That is a fairly interesting take on immigrant workers.
Personally I would only hire immigrant workers. They complain less, work harder and are happier with life in general.
I guess it must be nice to not get shot at every day, to have regular meals and breaks to take those meals.
I always pay my workers the same regardless of colour/sex/race, but some think that they are having their throats cut. I guess this must be due the effect of unions and living in a country that provides everything you need to survive, even if you don’t work and take drugs all day.
We get lotsa bugs here over a foot in size.