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No. 723: Breaking News, paleopoke pace

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Breaking News, paleopoke pace

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=723

Strip by: Jay em

Slowpoke: BREAKING NEWS!
Slowpoke: We regret to inform you of what is indeed a great tragedy today. An innovator, an explorer, a FISH... has passed on.
Slowpoke: I'll always miss you... Tiktaalik.
{Image of Tiktaalik captioned with "RIP"}

The author writes:

When you think about it, paleontologists are the ultimate slowpoke news reporters. They are both painstaking and serious in their work, but the end result is to inform us of those things which have long passed away, so separated from us with vast swathes of time that we can't even mourn them sincerely.

I only know about Tiktaalik because of a weird documentary that was paired with SPORE Galactic Edition (2008), but since they're having their time in the sun (cameo appearance in Bigtop Burger) I figured I should jump on the bandwagon now.

Original Super Effective strip: 2009-06-28.
Original iToons strips: 2023-05-05, 2023-07-22, 2023-08-05.

Life Restoration of Tiktaalik (RIP) by Obsidian Soul of Wiki Commons.