Bed Time Theories
  • michael
    October 27, 2009

    Cat’s story isn’t really much more scary than most traditional bedtime stories, is it? :)

  • Divine Right
    October 27, 2009

    Human togetherness during alien attack? Bah. Fiction. Stuff of movies. I say people would be just as divisive during a crisis as any other time.

    “I say we attack the aliens at dawn!”
    “I say dusk!”
    “You’re just saying that so you can attack us after the aliens!”
    “Jew!”
    “Arab!”
    And the aliens nuke us.

  • David Thomsen
    October 27, 2009

    That makes me think of Independance Day, the movie. The world is saved by characters of every ethnicity – black, white and Jewish. And somehow always American, and never Asian or a woman.

    I truly inclusive film about universal togetherness.

  • David Thomsen
    October 27, 2009

    That should be ‘A’. I guess.

  • Ben Kirkup
    October 27, 2009

    The claim ‘liar’ is interesting; particularly, I am interested in how the media itself was the one making the claims of how necessary sitcoms were for the national health, how important Cronkite was for everyone’s love and peace, and how Armour Hotdogs provide sound nutrition according to this filmstrip…

  • Nny
    October 27, 2009

    i wonder if Al Quaeda worries about getting the flu…maybe if they get it, theyll realize we’re all gonna die anyway and theres really no need to rush it anymore…

  • a random person
    October 27, 2009

    Ah.. Girl sets her standards too high. I’d settle for a divided, fractured world where no-one felt those differences were so intolerable that they necessitated action to ‘bring everyone together’ (i.e. wipe out anyone who doesn’t agree).

  • Sev
    October 27, 2009

    “The End.” Would that bring us together?

  • Jacob Adam
    October 27, 2009

    Ah yes, WWII was “the good war” that brought us all together. Except Germans. And Italians. And the Japanese and Finns, and the Russians (part of the time). Oh, and most Africans, Asians and Latin Americans sat it out. But except for them, it brought everyone together.

  • Michael Andersen
    October 27, 2009

    *whispers “hush”*

  • n
    October 27, 2009

    this is a good strip.

  • You
    October 28, 2009

    I’m with Sev: “The End” is a uniting event as well as a narrative element, and Cat is extending all four fingers to pat Girl’s head. I really like this frame.

  • pedant
    October 31, 2009

    I think he means pandemic.

  • David
    December 29, 2009

    What does “universal togetherness” have to do with that, other David? True togetherness would ignore those differences and take people for the job by merit and convenience, not what they look like or what they celebrate in December. Anyway “Asian” is pretty meaningless as a racial designator.

  • Alex
    January 26, 2010

    Only in death are we truly brought together. In life we separate ourselves by creed, nationality, sub-culture, anything really. In death there is no more separation, we all die, we all rot, we are all dust and bones.

  • chase
    March 18, 2010

    aw totally a new favorite.

  • Rae
    October 20, 2020

    Speaking from 11 years in the future, epidemics are *not* a surefire way to really bring us all together. At least, not in the USA under current circumstances.

    Sadly.

  • Dorothy
    October 21, 2020

    Fingers crossed for alien attack.

  • Clem
    June 24, 2023

    As noted, I’m afraid that we can no longer depend on epidemics, pandemics, or mass illness of any kind.

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