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No. 577: A matter of honour

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A matter of honour

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=577

Strip by: David Morgan-Mar

{Oliver and Delkin are snails}
Oliver: Take back what you said about my mother!
Delkin: No way!
Oliver: Right, are we gonna have to take this outside and slug it out?!

The author writes:

He called Oliver's mother a hermaphrodite.

I debated whether to use Delkin or Ambrose as the antagonist here. The idea of a snail with a moustache was amusing, but I decided Delkin was more likely to cast aspersions. Then I had to deal with the fact that a snail with an eye-concealing mop-top of hair would have been tricky...