MONK #1: do birds have meetings MONK #2: absolutely they have a Meeting Hat and everything MONK #1: what do they have meetings about MONK #2: mostly who gets to wear the meeting hat
MONK #1: do human women sleep in beds or– MONK #2: no that’s dogs you’re thinking of MONK #1: right right
MONK #1: what part of the knight do fish go on MONK #2: the head MONK #1: thanks MONK #2: oh absolutely no problem at all MONK #1: both lying flatwise across the head, or…? MONK #2: no one on each side like ears MONK #1: ok great
MONK #1: so when a dog and a bird make out MONK #2: right MONK #1: it’s usually the bird that’s on top right? MONK #2: yeah usually MONK #1: great
MONK #1: hey is it owls or people that live in caves and build fires? MONK #2: owls
MONK #1: hey roughly what size are sparrows MONK #2: mm it kind of depends MONK #1: like AS big as a tree or not quite as big as a tree? MONK #2: oh pretty much the same size as a tree
MONK #1: can cows sail boats? MONK #2: hahaha no common misconception they have to put wheels on the boat and roll it over land
MONK #1: what do birds eat MONK #2: other birds mostly MONK #1: like different kinds of birds, or something else MONK #2: no birds only eat exactly the same kind of birds that they are
MONK #1: what kind of bird tucks people into bed at night usually I mean MONK #2: any bird any kind of walking bird MONK #1: and when it tucks you in, people usually look… MONK #2: incredibly worried it’s incredibly worrying when the bedbird tucks you in
MONK #1: ugh sorry to bother you again MONK #2: no no its fine this is what i’m here for what is it MONK #1: what part of a goat is a snail again like the front end or the back end MONK #2: what part do you feel like should be the snail part MONK #1: the back part? MONK #2: you shouldnt doubt yourself you know more about goats than you give yourself credit for
MONK #1: what usually rides horses like people or– MONK #2: fire
Very unfair. The elephant is tiny and looking in completely the wrong direction. This dragon should feel bad about its choices.
Disqualified for illegal tail spike.
The unfairness here is not that it’s 2 against 1, it’s that the elephants are camping out in a safe zone because they know dragons can’t touch water. Not technically against the rules, but not very sportsmanlike.
These dragons have gone for the ambush predator approach and failed miserably, especially the first one. Look at their feet dangling. Not unfair, but not effective either.
There’s a book out there that’s either one of the last great unsolved cyphers or a massive medieval hoax. Welcome to the weird world of the Voynich Manuscript. And no, it isn’t solved yet.
I did this comic for The Niblast year (The Nib is an amazingly great place for comics on Medium if you don’t know that already). You can follow all my work on Medium here.
There’s no way to talk about rabbits without mentioning the ever-popular medieval attack rabbits.
The following images all come from The Smithfield Decretals, a copy of Pope Gregory IX’s treatise on medieval canon law. This version is believed to have been created in France in the 13th century, and the illustrations added in England decades later, at a new owner’s request.
Those illustrations include the famous Rabbit War sequence
some truly incredible birds
snails doing snail things
a man fighting a butterfly
and over 600 other images including sports, monks being pranked, a surprising number of stilts and the least impressed hermit of all time. They’re all available online here at the British Library.
If you’ve been around for a while you may have noticed that the medieval way is to pick one, or possibly two, activities for each animal, and make sure those activities are in every picture. So tigers stare in mirrors, griffins delicately cradle their prey, and the ibix… falls on its head.
This is actually something it does on purpose, as its primary defense mechanism. Its horns are strong enough for it to land unharmed even after jumping off the highest mountains.
Kimchi and Justice 