Go Ask Odin
  • Chris Adams
    August 18, 2011

    I hear Odin used to do door-to-door delivery.

    I still miss Kozmo.

  • Max
    August 18, 2011

    I’ve nothing more to add. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed today’s work. “We don’t know why we’re here or what we should do!” This is my new favorite exclamation.

  • Gabe
    August 18, 2011

    Does Cat mean that humans are the only animals to attempt to deep fry things, or that humans are the only animals one should deep fry? Ambiguous to say the least…

  • Knute
    August 18, 2011

    “A snail doesn’t know its purpose, but who wants to read its book?” This is my new philosophy.

  • Jorpho
    August 18, 2011

    Nuts, I was waiting for the profundity, and was left hanging.

    The middle ground is surely to live with the inadequacy by calling it a problem that makes us human.

  • yachris
    August 18, 2011

    If a giant wave in the face isn’t profound, I don’t know what is.

  • Jeff
    August 19, 2011

    So THAT’S what My Life With the Wave was about!

  • Zack
    August 19, 2011

    In Werner Herzog’s _The Cave of Forgotten Dreams_, one person interviewed suggested that the name homo sapiens sapiens was ridiculous because “sapiens” connotes knowing, and we barely know anything. He suggested homo spiritualis instead.

  • idkrash
    August 19, 2011

    The inadequacy of our knowledge is the wind in our sail. Every answer is a moment of still air, and possibly an indication that your mind has gone dead in the water.

  • Jyosh
    August 19, 2011

    Thank you for this Dorothy.

  • Zhora
    August 19, 2011

    Perhaps not as profound as some but I really love Girl’s halo in panel five. (And Dorothy’s water drawing technique is superb!)

  • Erika
    August 20, 2011

    Cat is acting so superior in this strip because he knows cats are actually more sapient than humans.

  • infowars.com
    August 22, 2011

    Why would we deify our inadequacy ?
    … i don’t understand, oh, i get it, the whole religion vs. science thing.
    I’d like to see a strip here once that isn’t a social commentary. That said, I’ve always gotten a genuine laugh from these stories, you are a sharp lady dorothy, and you do what you do very well.
    I don’t know why you don’t get awards / recognized.

  • toxic delirium
    August 22, 2011

    The halo in frame 5 is a nice touch. But yeah. Living in the real world and taking life on its own terms (i.e. the big-effing-Wave-in-the-face) seems to be the only honest way to live, though a triple scotch on the rocks does sound REALLY good right now…

  • Kris
    August 29, 2011

    It’s Sock-It-To-Me Time!

  • killteachers
    October 2, 2011

    lol oh that Odin, what a trickster!

  • Quizzical
    October 15, 2011

    Wow Wave, that wasn’t very Zen.

  • Jesse
    December 9, 2011

    RE: “infowars.com” comment dated August 22nd, 2011 at 3:39 am

    I think you misunderstand what it means to deify our inadequacy. This panel is actually pretty deep. The omniscience of God is the contrapositive of the inadequacy of our sapience. Given such opposites on two axes, an internally-sourced confusion is logically equivalent to an externally-sourced certainty.

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