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… and Toto looks kinda sheepish and says something like “I can, but I don’t like to, and anyway I can communicate all I need by barking and wagging my tail and such, so please don’t ask again.” And that’s the last it’s ever mentioned!

Yeah, I think some readers wrote in to ask him why Toto couldn’t talk in Oz, because he finally addressed it in one of the later books! I forget which one, but somebody asks “Why can’t Toto talk?” and Dorothy turns to him and says “Hey yeah, why can’t you talk?” …

I oughtta watch this one sometime… I adored their silent Call of Cthulhu.

oh gosh and how could I forget

Robin Hood in particular has a lot of these, because a lot of the old ballads were basically “Robin Hood meets some badass dude, they fight for a while, then Robin invites him to join his band of merry men”

and of course Strider and Frodo

I have a great fondness for the moments—in any narrative art, but especially comics and movies—depicting the first meeting of two (or more) characters that later become iconically associated with each other.

basically Toto in the later Oz books

Well, there’s always O Brother Where Art Thou.

Oh, are we back to following the Constitution now?

…but speaking only English is just fine, I suppose?

We need a snowcrash QR code that can be printed on a t-shirt.

holy crow Wilbur is Calvin’s grandpa this makes so much sense

Comics is such a powerful narrative tool. You couldn’t do this in any other medium.

…But most modern software seems to have the opposite problem: it DOESN’T do what I tell it; instead, it does what it “thinks” I want—and it’s often wrong!

Long long ago, in the early days of computers, I was at a swap meet with my grandpa and I saw a poster with a picture of a computer and the humorous poem I really hate this damn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It never does quite what I want But only what I tell it …

One of my favorites!