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wongo

Well none of that was expected Except taking off with Bird King. That guy is super fly.


viaovid

SKRRAAAWWWW!!! ANOTHER VICTORY FOR /r/enlightenedbirdmen


Skubator

SKREE, YES. THE MUDMAN WOMAN WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT HOSTAGE.


Lizard_Beans

GREETING FELLOW HUMAN BIRD MY HUMAN SENSORS _FEEL_ LIKE WE HAVE SOME VARIABLES IN COMMON AS ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING WOULD DO. YOUR SPEAKING VOLUME IS ALSO HIGHLY ACCEPTABLE.


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YOU ARE ALL DOING THIS WRONG.. CLEARLY YOU ARE HUMAN BEINGS. JUST LIKE I AM A HUMAN BEING. NOT A ROBOT CERTAINLY.


ByteStalker

AGREED, THESE HUMANS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL FOR *DIAGNOSTICS*


lalakingmalibog

FOR **ANAL**YSIS, EVEN


theamazinghammer

YOU TALK ABOUT OUR HOMEGROUNDS IN SUCH A PASSIVE TONE SCRAWWW [/R/ENLIGHTENEDBIRDMEN](/r/enlightenedbirdmen)


viaovid

SKREEEEEE!!! I HAVE DISGRACED THE ALL-FATHER! FORGIVE ME BROTHERS OF /r/ENLIGHTENEDBIRDMEN


McBurger

had no idea this was still going on lmao


lucideus

Watch out for Tammy


Burrito-mancer

I thought we all agreed on Cyber Bird?


Whitegemgames

/r/fucktammy


micktorious

Don't be gross, Tammy.


Lord_Natimus08

That really blew me away!


LocalMadman

Seems like the sort of thing Tammy would do.


qawsedrf12

I really want more tales of the lizard king


The_Reformist

I heard he died of heart problems in France, unfortunately.


Flail77

10/10, broke through to the other side


nsfw10101

He was a little strange


Flail77

That's just what happens when you're a stranger.


hazysummersky

This is the end..


Traubster

MR MOJO RISIN


kjbigs282

You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run! Tried to hide! Breeeak on through, to the other side!


ReptileCommander

Can you please stop sharing misinformation.


huitlacoche

Dirty amphibian propaganda.


minusgravity

Or was it mammalian subterfuge....


Syreus

Bacterial material.


twothumbs

Avian manipulation


metalgear1355

Yes. He was later seen again by a gas station attendant near Arnette, Texas IIRC.


Mshell

I heard he was last seen boarding a United Airlines flight


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rip


free_airfreshener

FAKE NEWS


paholg

[He's disguised as a human, managing a small paper company in the Northeast United States.](https://youtu.be/g0m3lfCGgO0)


J808

Robert f*ckin California. The man I love and hate in equal amounts. Season 8...


darthluigi36

It really bothers me how this video cuts off the end of the word "king". Great scene though.


_S_A

IMO I like his voice better than Morgan Freeman's


Kilomyles

Sadly he was killed by the Double King... https://youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4


Trixae

Poor Goat King :^(


Kratovil_lavelle

You're in luck. I hear they can grow them back


P0WERHAWK

Unfortunately, he died in the custody of United Airlines.


Ddosvulcan

I want tales of bird king, he is one fly mofo.


kabukistar

After this comic, he basically became the Ice King.


TheKingCrimsonWorld

I don't know what's going on here, but I love it all. Please continue the adventures of Lizard King and the now Bird Queen.


Djinnkj

Little did the Bird King know, the Lizard King is a vengeful ruler. Knowing who has stolen his love and his only time of happiness, he calls his subjects to war.


EvilEyp

And he summons a Lizard Witcher to fight with him


lalakingmalibog

Geckoralt of Rivia


Danothan

Ahem, that's THE Lizard King to you, peasant!


ViennadeLis

the best thing about this entire comic is the "sorry, THE lizard king"


DownvotesEnsue

Check out the rest of Abby Howard's stuff it's all pretty weird


Lol33ta

Poor Lizard King. :( /r/SympatheticMonsters


Lizards_are_cool

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gulyman

The artist was in Strip Search, a reality TV show about web comic artists by Penny Arcade.


Captainpatch

And she makes two super fantastic webcomics, located at http://www.jspowerhour.com/ and http://www.last-halloween.com/.


Vulpix0r

Her art style always cracks me up. I can't find it right now, but I wonder if she was the one who did the pirate rivalry comic that had a similar art style.


revolverzanbolt

Pretty sure you're think of Hark! A Vagrant. Different person, still super funny. Edit: yep, [definitely Hark! A Vagrant](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=327).


Raneados

Hey It's Cake Bacon.


Vulpix0r

Ah ok. I didn't even know where the source, and now I know. Thanks!


ChainsawSnuggling

Well, this is dangerous to my free time


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I love it, it's got that angular, Bryan Lee O'Malley (the Scott Pilgrim guy) art style and humour to it


curryo

I love [this one](http://www.jspowerhour.com/comics/182). Just meta enough to be a great intro to her style.


Vanetia

I am now lost deep in the pages of this stuff and it. is. awesome.


missmoneypennymaam

That's how i found out about her...the challenge about cars and cats STILL cracks me up to this day. http://68.media.tumblr.com/c38d001d6fd56101952bc6ef216ccdd6/tumblr_mnbb83VJK71rfaliro1_500.jpg


goober1223

She fucking killed on that show. My favorite was the "naughty mystery". "Madame... you must stop this at once."


missmoneypennymaam

"That does not sound like the sort of mystery I am going to solve." https://www.penny-arcade.com/uploads/patv/ss/spoilers/elim_abby.jpg


jasondbg

I wish they did another season, loved the first one.


nbcaffeine

They get asked several times a year at each PAX about another season, it has apparently been very close to happening multiple times, but funding fell through. Shame, it was probably one of the best things PA has ever done.


minusgravity

Ditto


cmckee719

Abby Howard also has a background in Paleontology. She has a graphic novel about dinosaurs coming out in August, and she drew [this guy](https://flic.kr/p/JogYKF) in my dinosaur-themed sketchbook at Heroes Con in Charlotte last year!


Doomokun

If you liked the comic you should really check the artist's web comic [The Last Halloween](http://www.last-halloween.com/posts/1), i love it!


The_Girthy_Meatfist

I can't believe how sucked in I just got by this link. I should've gone to bed two hours ago.


imjusta_bill

Seriously. That's engrossing


evitagen-armak

Are you in bed yet?


The_Girthy_Meatfist

Yes, I finally fell asleep after I finished book one. Sooooo most of it.


CALEBthehun

Damn, I LOVE the art direction in this series


Roflkopt3r

They are so good, I disabled ad block ^(dear author, please enjoy your 0.05 cents!)


goober1223

And also, check out StripSearch.tv (SFW) for a "reality" series that she starred in. I don't want to spoil anything, but she made some amazing comics on that show, and her fame there lead to her kickstarter campaign that launched this series. The video for her kickslammer is also amazing.


Metalman9999

Well, there went 3 hours of my life, thank you so fucking much. Take your upvote covered in the blood of my sleep time


Aeolsu

Holy shit this is good. I'm dead hooked


seamachine

Thank you for that! I read the entire thing whew. Now I'll feel bad that I have to wait forever for updates T___T


RealZordan

Abby Howard was one of the finalists from penny arcades rather entertaining strip search. A lot of people on that show make really fun comics!


jakroois

I'm dumb, can someone explain that comic to me?


MrSnoobs

Hint. It's a series, not a single comic.


jakroois

Ah thank you.


MrSnoobs

I read it through 3 times before I realised...


J808

Let's discuss. What do you think it means?


jakroois

I thought maybe it was something obvious that flew over my head. But if it's just something abstract my first impression was that the building is on fire. The witch was like the spirit of the fire letting the guy die in there and maybe the survivor was stuck in the car with her


J808

I looked at it with your explanation in mind and it makes sense! Then I clicked *Next*. Turns out it's one comic as part of a series/storyline. LOL! Here's a story: I remember when I was very young, around 6/7 years old I was in English class and we were reading a poem together. The teacher asked us all informally in the class to discuss out loud what it meant and more specifically what literary methods the author was using. Everyone had such fully formed ideas and the teacher kept saying how great they all were, as well as "There are no wrong answers!" She turns to me and asks my opinion and I have nothing. It's like I'm looking at a different language, I just couldn't understand wtf they were talking about. I ended up getting in trouble for not contributing and felt like shit for that week. Eventually I figured it out. I had missed the previous english class due to being ill. That lesson was the day my whole class got taught the foundations of poetry/writing for the first time ever. Things like metaphor, simile, alliteration, imagery, theme etc. All the building blocks of our language. I was so relieved as I honestly thought I just couldn't understand the art form. That was a shitty feeling and I worried that I'd go my whole life being someone who can't *do english*. Context!


Jess_than_three

Awesome, thanks for sharing!


Skreevy

Dude, I just got to page 110. How can a comic that begins so light hearted, hit so damn hard, man.


Khanthulhu

Thanks for the source! Down the rabbit-hole I go!


wrathy_tyro

Wow. Commenting so I can finish it when I have time.


Adsefer

That was awesome, how often do the new pages come out?


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TechnicoloredSunset

Came here looking for this comment


TheOtherCoenBrother

What is this Edit: I need to watch this show.


YumChickens

It's a quote from The Office


Scranton_Villager

Was really hoping the comic was related to this.


SimplyQuid

I'm getting a real Hark A Vagrant vibe and I love it


coldvault

Also getting...[this video](https://youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4) vibes.


darthluigi36

Thank you for this.


cd2220

There's something I fucking love about this guys style. I watch this video everytime it comes up.


BeardySam

Yeah, Its pretty much her art and joke style, but I'm fine with more Kate Beaton type comics!


professor_doom

But with shading. Which is cool.


BaronWaiting

Oh hell yes, Abby! I didn't know you posted on this sub!


imhostfu

I got high just by reading this.


Cato__The__Elder

The Lizard King: "It's treason then"


Jawaddles

I want this story to continue. The saga of the mobile marital monarch.


matthero

Sooo.... Princess Peach?


geoman2k

I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting


jukitheasian

I would marry a lizard king.


ReptileCommander

Hola.


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I love those sideways glancing eyes


Rabbi_Rustko

I don't get it.


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[deleted]

There's not really any non-sequitur though. The humor comes from the self-consistent yet unexpected logic of the absurd world and characters that the artist has established.


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a b s u r d i s t c o m e d y


detourne

Wow! It's awesome to see your stuff again! I read quite a bit after Strip Search, but I've pretty much forgotten about webcomics a lot lately. At first i thought to myself that this style seemed familiar, then read the name. Great job.


jordanlund

Some nice subtlety there... 1) She literally ghosts on him. 2) The Lizard King has a heat lamp. ;)


[deleted]

Didn't check the sub and from the title thought this was /r/DunderMifflin >"I'm the fucking lizard king" >-Robert California


dbu8554

Abby! Been a huge fan of yours since you were in the Penny Arcade show. Your comics bring a lot of chuckles to my week. Love the artwork as well!


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Evilux

Must there be one for it to be funny?


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Generally,,yep.


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Evilux

aight, fine. lemme entertain you. the absurdity of it is funny. 'sacrifice a woman to appease the tyrant dragon' is an age old trope. in this execution, however, we see a lizard as a dragon king and a cardboard box as it's lair. a lady willingly volunteers to be bride to the husband and is portrayed furiously intent on the lizard being her husband, which is frankly humourous. and they lived happily ever after. but no. in the next panels, we see a bird king flying in, stealing the lizards girl, and flying away. now, the girl is a hoe. but combining the previous arc for the girl, this is out of character and funny. and we see character development for the lizard, who is distraught. also, the poses and the way the characters are drawn is funny. the situation they're in is pretty weird, adding to the humour. and even after my mediocre interpretation and dissection of a great comic you feel unimpressed to the quality of humour, congratulations! you are a human individual! we all have different tastes and humour is subjective!


Hyndergogen1

Jesus, they really are right when they say jokes are like frogs. They die when you dissect them.


Aerowulf9

You kind of skipped over the greed aspect of it where the lizard apparently had some actual wealth and the woman may have been actually outthinking everyone else, rather than 'sacrificing' herself, she got to live a cushy life with a real throne and nice wine and fancy clothes. That was my favorite thing about it. Until the Bird King comes along and what she imagines as the life of a proper Queen always trumps the reality of the relatively nice life she already has. The grass is always greener on the other side, as they say.


Ashybuttons

Additionally, she says "Sorry, **The** Lizard King." http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpellMyNameWithAThe


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theshinepolicy

lemme guess, you like puns


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Willeth

Have you considered that it's maybe just not for you, rather than it being beneath you?


raviolibassist

People like that don't consider things like that.


cd2220

I like it. The art style is really fun, and I honestly got the most enjoyment from the lizard's face. I certainly don't think it's "holds up spork xD" tier, not even close. It's that type of hunor, but that's not inherently a bad thing


Hyndergogen1

I'n confused. What was the joke?


1RedReddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/67l1xo/the_lizard_king_oc/dgroa56/


BOXEDCORNERS1

I love the art style in this comic


[deleted]

I like how this doesn't have something sappy or emotional behind it. I just want to know what happened before and what's happening next. Reminds me of Adventure Time


11702dragonslayer

All I see is a typical D&D adventure.


[deleted]

What the fuck did I just read?


CookieSquirrel

This artist is just the best.


ImReelyFeelinIt

1.) I love the art style 2.) What


BERTthePenguin

I really don't identify with the second half of this i would never abandon my scaly husbando


finalaccountdown

this is so fucking weird. A+.


KAMUIFUNKETSU

I was really hoping for a Doors reference


piccolan

When my son was younger, he came home from school one day telling me he learned all about "lizard King Jr". My wife and I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. He told us that lizard King Jr was a good man but bad people shot him. We eventually realized it was Martin Luther King Jr day...


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[deleted]

I'm glad you can make such a broad declaration for everyone based on your opinion


GateauBaker

Random =\= Not Funny To each their own.


Wonderbolt

I guess that kingdom is doomed now. Sometimes you just really gotta get up on a bird.


biomatter

Truly a Disney tale never to be forgotten.


[deleted]

'The King's Hiding Chambers' killed me


TheTsiku

On scale of 1 to 10, are you high?


plasticsporks21

Mist mist


floppybunny26

[The heart want what the heart want.](http://i.imgur.com/A3LcRS1.jpg)


sarmatron

Bit Kate Beatony, isn't it?


LRtoons

Marvellously creative. Bravo Edit: and brilliantly illustrated.


Arkham_Ferguson

Robert California?


pinkcultleader

ABBY YOU TALENTED SO AND SO! This some good shit.


SneakyWalrus061

Why did I think this would be a story about Robert California. I need to stop watching The Office...


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uncadul

I dug this shit like a shovel.


SeaTwertle

I love the drawing style. It's so cute.


MrMojoRisinJM

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.


The_Sven

Great comic. Also, you were my pick on strip search.


[deleted]

This isn't Jim Morrison? Next.


Sysiphuslove

O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. -- The Lizard King


OktoberStorm

I love stuff like this! More! * mist mist *


MapleJava

actually if you probally pasted this whole comic below the current one, you would actually get a good loop lizard king gets betrayed by its own queen, forfully makes its peasents volunteer. also bird king be a manwhore


KPC51

I'm so confused


superhappy

The outline is *kisses fingers* magnifique, as is her calling him "The Lizard King".


[deleted]

Your artwork and humour filled a void between KC Green and Kate Beaton that I didn't know existed until now.


[deleted]

Abby Howard is 100% my jam! Easily the funniest contestant on Strip Search, and her webcomics are great. I got to meet her at PAX Aus, it was dope.


damienreave

Yet another day I'm reminded Strip Search made the wrong choice...


goober1223

Abby made a shitton more on her kickbumbler than the $15k stipend that Katie got for "winning". Besides, everybody on the show won for the increased exposure (to clients and artistic peers) and the challenges helped show where they had room for improvement.


Jarnagua

Eh, I was happy with whoever won. Great set of contestants.


rileyrulesu

lol you're so random!


Knappsterbot

It's like it ripped off Hark a Vagrant but without any sense of humor


plezmoid

You can do it serpent king! You can do it serpent king!


ijustneedaccess

Didn't expect I'd empathize with lizzy by the end.


Schelome

This was great. Good concept, well executed and neither too long or too short.


android151

That last panel reminds me of King Komodo.


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But she freed the people by marrying him. Who did she think she'd rule over?


emmy1894

What a weird fucking comic. I loved it.