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

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.

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.

That should be ‘A’. I guess.

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…

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…

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).

“The End.” Would that bring us together?

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.

*whispers “hush”*

this is a good strip.

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.

I think he means pandemic.

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.

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.

aw totally a new favorite.

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.

Fingers crossed for alien attack.

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