When I squint the city in the last panel looks kinda like a cake.
(Wonders how many times I can milk the culinary references before this comic turns into a food blog)
Obviously I did not take Mercy’s advice from last week 
I’m also oddly pleased that I worked the word “thrice” into the dialog. You never hear that word anymore. Thrice thrice thrice.
And here are the tigers. Meow.
Heh… Thrice indeed… i was just reading the Super Fogeys, the Origin of Thrice Evil (Guest strip by Steve Ogden of Moon Town)…
i do have to admit that when you mentioned cake, two thoughts came to mind, one was “… or death”, and the other was “huh, looks kinda like a fruit cake, fa la la la la”…
and on that note, happy holiday wishes to you!
Ok I’m sure I’m not the only one who read vonbek’s fruitcake comment and is immediately reminded of that “Chinese Turkey” scene in A Christmas Story.
Looking down on the town from a high bluff. It’s a classic: “Yangcheng fortress. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”
Said the two headed three legged puppeter about the Ringworld…
(From the Spaceship “Hot Needle of Inquiry”)
http://www.philippalmer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Piersons-Puppeteer.jpg
Meant to say “Thrice” legged Puppeteer…
I’m not familiar with Ringworld, but that is one freaky looking Puppeteer…
I think the Puppeteer actually said that from the ship “Rotten Bastards”…
“Hot Needle of Inquiry” is what was used to land on Ringworld.
(A pretty fascinating tale by Larry Niven.)
And the name refer to an interrogation method, putting to shame waterboarding.
On the level of “Thousand Cuts”(LingChi), it show you have to be “Merciless” in the quest for truth…
‘it show you have to be “Merciless” in the quest for truth’
Ming must be very truthful then…
Truth be, and it is our salvation, modern days “Yellow Turbans”(r[**]heads)
are very efficients in inflicting each others with 凌遲
They are a cult of the modern version of the Zhang brothers…
Extremely capable at inducing suicides, robberies, rapes and sordid murders,
lamentable on the battlefield. A billion Abu Nidals! They’ll torture
and execute each others until there is none left!
If we’d only stop interfering! Let’s get out of these deserts
and nightmare countries!
@Ming: I’ve edited out the racial slur – which, in addition to being offensive, is also rather imprecise, since it covers a number of different turban-wearing cultures. You’ll have no argument from me regarding getting our soldiers out of countries that we never had any business being in. But stereotyping entire ethnic groups/religions because of the actions of a few extremists is uncalled for. After all, we’re not blaming Christian Americans as a whole for people like Eric Rudolph. I’m very much in favor of the open exchange of ideas and opinions, but surely we should be able to do that in a civil manner.
They are not extremists but mainstream.
Eric Rudolph killed two people, this to stop mass murder of children.
Mohamed’s followers killed 300 hundred millions,
and counting, following the coran’s teachings.
The daily score:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
There is no such thing as a moderate muslims,
only cowards too weak to be real jihadis, according to the koran.
Killed, all the population of Iraq(the Assyrians) 80%
of Persians(All the Zoroastrians)All the Egyptians(Copts…how many left today?)All the North Africans slaves kidnapped from Europe(How many
enslaved? tens of millions!)Hundreds of millions of Indians slaughtered,
Almost all the Christians from Indonesia and the millions of
Indonesian Chinese minority massacred continually since the Dutch departure…
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/04/11/fear-haunts-ethnic-chinese.html
See, I kept the red candies for the last…racism have been invented by the muslims(Mohamed’s skin being milk white, from the koran)it is hard to tell the reason of Indonesia’s Chinese genocide, is it racism or mahometan fanaticism? THEY say they killed the Chineses because they where communists,
while actually ALL the Chinese Indonesians where businessmen!
Well, having lived in New England for close to a decade, I’m only too aware that no too long ago we Christians were also in the habit of torturing and murdering people in the name of God. Our species just seems to have this insatiable desire to inflict suffering upon each other, whether in the name of religion, politics, or any other convenient excuse. We appear to have very different political views, and this is obviously not the place for any kind of in-depth discussion, so let’s leave our 21st century concerns for a different forum, and get back to the Three Kingdoms period, when most problems could be solved by smacking it with a big shiny spear…
Believe it or not, there was worse than Muslims, even counting Timur the Lame, his pyramids of skulls and his saying:
“I am not a man of blood; and God is my witness that in all my wars I have never been the aggressor, and that my enemies have always been the authors of their own calamity.”
The championship go to Mexico City, where a wall of fresh skulls ten feet high, ten feet wide and a mile long was encountered by the Spanish conquerors…half a million people where consumed year in, year out.
These truncated pyramids had no steps in those days, but slides, the “steps” being covered by four feet of coagulated blood for the waiting crowd below
to catch their ration of “meat”…
Put in perspective your half million Zhao soldiers buried alive, right?
Now to something actually ON topic…
Zhu Jun (presumably): “We have them completely surrounded. They’ve offered to surrender, but the king wants an example made of these rebels.”
Then…
Zhu Jun (presumably): “Yangcheng is well fortified, and the rebels seem to have some fight left still.”
Gee I wonder WHY??
Actually the fact that the offer to surrender was refused is the reason the rebels are fighting so hard – they’ve totally out of options and are now fighting for their lives. Liu Bei’s comment on the next page was meant to convey this point, but maybe it could’ve been more explicit.
That’s interesting considering Liu Bei’s comment being predicated on the rebels’ fight-or-flight instinct going a particular direction. But yeah, it did seem like Zhu Jun was coming off as willfully ignorant, or (more charitably) that he realized that his dilemma being artificial (read: the “king”) and wanted Liu Bei to give a “third” option.