When people walk toward you, it’s still pretty okay. You just pass each other, and then it’s back to peace and quiet.

But if they’re walking in front of you or behind you at roughly the same pace, the whole vibe is ruined. The only thing that might help is stopping and pretending to tie your shoes for 42 minutes.

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By the way, these are supposed to be unicorn fish, not narwhals. (Narwhals don’t have a horn; they have a giant tooth. But I can’t scribble something like that. It would probably look super weird.)

Unicorn fish came to be like this: Most of the unicorns that used to roam around here eventually got fed up, jumped into the ocean, and evolved into narwhals. That’s why you don’t see unicorns running around anymore. Nature is full of wonders!

Spending a lot of time with other penguins (or people) is pretty exhausting anyway, even if they’re not talking a bunch of nonsense. But spending a lot of time alone isn’t necessarily relaxing either…

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This has nothing to do with the comic, but here’s an Alpacoffee, in case you need it:

The alien comes from a world where everyone is very honest and fair to each other because, from an alien’s perspective, anything else just wouldn’t make sense. That’s why it’s not very good at spotting tricks and scams.

If the alien had an email inbox, it would read every single spam email carefully and always reply very politely. At least at first. Over time, aliens probably learn too.

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I have to admit, I copied three of the characters in the audience using a graphics program and pasted them a second time. Drawing each stick figure individually would have just been way too much work.

But I like drawing cats:

Sometimes people ask me a question I could easily answer if I just took a moment to think. But often I don’t WANT to think. So usually I just say, “That’s a good question…” instead of answering. It always fits and *sounds* really thoughtful, but it doesn’t require any effort from my lazy brain.

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Right after this comic, a fierce cuddle war broke out between the two animals, which only ended after 4 hours because the cat and the panda fell asleep on top of each other, completely exhausted.

Some aliens also like to cuddle a lot:

By the way, this isn’t a picture – it’s a live stream. The little guy is really serious about it. If you like, you can check back in a few years. My guess is he’ll still be sitting right there.

The penguin is standing on a gray square to be able to talk to the panda at eye level.

The square is a monolith from space that contains solutions to all our problems. But no one can access it because the penguin is sitting on it.