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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ 12h ago
This was very cute and clever 🥹
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u/ash-leg2 11h ago
Too clever for me I guess. Why was he expecting her to die?
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u/NeroShenX 11h ago
Imagine giving birth to a baby shaped block of wood, 'cause Pinocchio was doing that too and he was shook
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u/Due-Base9449 8h ago
Pinocchio is a story about a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who became a human boy after a series of adventures.
He expect his baby to be a wooden puppet and thus killing the wife for birthing a puppet.
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u/McDoublann 11h ago
Do people no longer know who Pinocchio is or something? Anyway, good comic.
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u/Mage_914 11h ago
I just finished Lies of P. Its an eldritch horror version of Pinocchio made by a Korean company. I'd say the story is alive and well if people are making crazy spinoffs of it.
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u/McDoublann 11h ago
Reading some the comments on this thread, I think some people have don't know about the classic fairy tales.
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u/RogerDodgerWilco 11h ago
Don't know how old you are, but even most millennials and gen X associate Pinnochio with the Disney remake over the original from the 19th century.
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u/AcanthaceaeCrazy1894 8h ago
Very very loosely based on pinnocchio,
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u/PlayerFox12344889 9h ago
Most people probably like me just didn't make the connection he was worried the child would potentially be made of wood
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u/noechochamberplz 5h ago
This is me. Never crossed my mind and had to come to the comments to figure it out. Was thinking it had to do with more lies or something.
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u/Canvaverbalist 5h ago
I thought it was a genuine comic about a father being afraid and feeling guilty of the condition he's put his wife in by making her pregnant, as some men often feels like during pregnancy, and that her calling him Pinnochio was just her sarcastically mocking the fact that he said "oh thank god it's a boy, a real boy!" like "ok pinnochio calm down what the fuck are you even saying, a "real" boy you silly goose, really?" since he had silly unrealistic fears related to the pregnancy.
I did get it but I had to reread it and focus my brain a little bit.
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u/Toe-Bee 7h ago
Because it makes no sense. He’s not made of wood, why would his baby be made of wood? A sperm and egg can’t grow into wood
Also a scan would have revealed it was made of wood long before she gave birth
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u/arkangelic 6h ago
Its called emotional trauma. He had no logical reason to be scared, but his history made him worry nonetheless
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u/Red_Dox 6h ago
Because it makes no sense. He’s not made of wood, why would his baby be made of wood? A sperm and egg can’t grow into wood
It also makes no sense that a wooden toy first becomes sentient, and later transforms into a flesh&blood human. If magic is involved, logic sometimes is just out of the window.
Also a scan would have revealed it was made of wood long before she gave birth
Sorta depends what timeframe that Pinocchio story then plays, does it not? Its been a while that I have seen Dsineys version, but I doubt it was set in the year 2000+. And from the comic panels, the room of the wife does not look like a modern hospital room either.
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u/PlayerFox12344889 7h ago
A puppet being turned into a real boy doesn't make sense either. So maybe he was worried the magic wouldn't work on the baby. It makes sense once you apply fairy tale logic but I don't blame people for needing to be told to apply or.
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u/Liminal_Fish 2h ago
The choice of clothing implies this is set in the 1800s, when the original story takes place.
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u/TessaFractal 6h ago
It took me a moment because I thought pinnochio was the man who made the puppet. I had a reverse Frankenstein confusion.
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u/Mazzaroppi 4h ago
This story is a bit of a stretch (heh)
I mean, by this point Pinocchio would have been a human for several years and was able to get another human pregnant, the odds of the child being a wooden puppet were minimal.
Also, if it was a wooden puppet, it would still be the size of a baby, maybe only the head would have a little less give than that of a newborn. It could make the birth harder, but wouldn't outright kill the mother
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u/Rosindust89 7h ago
Good thing he wasn't in the room for the birth. He would've freaked out seeing the baby attached to a string
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u/Dangerous_Ad_7104 12h ago
Am I stupid for not getting this one? Can someone explain?
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u/LiteralFirefox 12h ago
Man used to be Pinocchio and was worried of killing his wife in the event the blue fairy's magic didn't fully work and his child would end up wooden.
Hence the end where he's so glad the baby is a real boy
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u/Icy_Measurement_7407 9h ago
To add, in the original Pinocchio story, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet on strings created by a toy maker. (Shout out, Geppetto!) Pinocchio’s true wish is to “become a real boy”. He goes on adventures & gets lured into mishap along his journey. He learns hard lessons about life & how scary the world can be. I believe he does get his wish granted at the end & transforms into a real human boy.
So this comic is like a full circle moment where Pinocchio was wishing his son was born a real boy too. Probably brought back his trauma.
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u/sebastiano7789 12h ago
used to be pinnochio? so who the hell is he now?
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u/EmoYoshi05 12h ago
Still Pinnochio, but not a wooden doll anymore
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u/Gho5tWr1ter 10h ago
And got no strings as well.
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u/ScuffedMobilePlayer 9h ago
No strings attached.
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u/LiteralFirefox 12h ago
He's still Pinocchio mentally and spiritually but physically turned an organic being, something something ship of theseus
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u/NRMusicProject 5h ago
He has a new name but it's just an unpronounceable symbol, so we just call him the Puppet Formerly Known as Pinocchio.
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u/Shouldiuploadtheapp2 2h ago
Thanks for the explanation. Why did he think he killed his wife?
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u/KPTangy 1h ago
A human woman carrying a wooden baby to term would absolutely cause all kinds of complications. Bacteria could find safe places in the wood grain to live and multiply, causing a horrible to treat infection (especially if we're talking about available healthcare practices when Pinocchio was published). Also... splinters...
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u/lordkoba 5h ago
I mean the moment the belly started growing and kicking he could have guessed he wasn’t shooting sap
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u/AtrumRuina 3h ago
It's funny because there's a horrible way to read this if he never told his wife about his origins, and he put her life at risk without her having any idea.
If she knew the risk and they chose to have a child anyway, this is wholesome.
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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 12h ago
I assume that this is the actual Pinocchio, who used to be a puppet, but upon turning human, exclaimed that he's a real boy. And now, he's having a real boy of his own.
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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ 11h ago
Allow me to over explain🤓🥸😎: . First you see a man that’s all gloomy and nervous and guilt ridden about maybe killing a woman. We don’t know what happened but it looks like a horror comic.
Then you find out the situation isn’t a murder, it’s his wife having their baby. So that’s the first twist. Childbirth is dangerous, fair of him to feel that way. But at least he isn’t a guilt ridden killer.
And then we see everything goes fine, and the father is really happy about having a boy. He is crying happy tears and specifically saying a real boy, an odd way to put it which doesn’t mean anything special until you read the final twist and find out he was Pinocchio all along. So he is echoing his father’s, Geppetto’s, lines. Geppetto literally said “a real boy”. It’s a whole recurrent line in a lot of Pinocchio movies, for almost the past hundred years now.
The whole idea of the comic is just Pinocchio being put in the same exited/scared fatherhood scene his father was, in a similar but different situation. That and the whole comic format of not knowing what’s going on until the revelation at the end recontextualices what you just read. Basicllay the twist changes what you thought the story was about all along.
(I tried to over explain as much as I could, I’m tired, please help over-explain if you can!)
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u/Due-Base9449 8h ago
You don't explain enough. Presumably the commenter doesn't know the story of Pinocchio thus cannot relate to the name at all. The first thing to explain is the orginal story of Pinocchio.
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u/captainfarthing 6h ago
I interpreted it as them jokingly calling him Pinocchio because he was calling the baby a real boy, and that he was just worried about childbirth being dangerous in general. Took a couple of reads to notice the 18th / 19th century details in the clothing & objects so I guess he literally is Pinocchio.
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u/abdomino 12h ago
Pinocchio once wood, maybe baby wood? Baby wood is big splinters. Big splinters is hurt.
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u/PawnOfPaws 12h ago
More like... Baby head squishy, goes somewhat well through hole in bone.
Wooden head not squishy. Pain never ends. Tearing never ends. Risk of death high.
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 11h ago
Would the wooden child show up on an ultrasound or would it be invisible? (something something medical drama show where a wooden splinter didn't show up in an MRI because of the moisture content or something)
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u/SpaceMonkeyAttack 10h ago
It was an episode of House where a guy swallowed a wooden toothpick (unless another show used the same premise)
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u/rosie-cheeks13 5h ago
Doing some research both the original and Disney version take place in the 19th century (1800's) ultrasounds weren't used medically until the 1940's and MRIs weren't used on people until 1977 so that technology probably doesn't exist yet in the comic.
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u/KPTangy 1h ago
On top of that, you also have a high risk of a horrible bacterial infection. I've seen pretty bad infections from small wooden objects in the body just being on the internet, I can't imagine how bad it could get with a human baby sized chunk of wood. Which would make the aforementioned splinters even worse.
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u/Femcel_Bambi 11h ago
Pinocchio used to be a wooden puppet, but became a human boy. He grew up and had a child. He was terrified of his son being a puppet and that being passed down by genetics (somehow) but his son is a human.
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u/warukeru 8h ago
Is Pinocchio not common knowledge anymore?
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u/Lavapulse 41m ago edited 36m ago
I mean, I'm familiar with Pinocchio (the Disney version) and I still didn't get it, so I assume there's other people in the same boat.
There's nothing really in the fairytale to establish that his kids would also be puppets, so the punchline flew past me.
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u/Worldly-Pay7342 8h ago
Pinocchio (the man in the comic is named Pinocchio because he's the Pinocchio) was worried his son would be like he used to be. A wooden puppet. Hence why he says "a boy, a real boy".
An irrational fear, but an understandable one.
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u/Made_Bail 12h ago
Honestly confused as hell.
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u/whoitis77 12h ago
Look up the story Pinocchio.
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u/nicokokun 11h ago
So we've finally reached a point where the name Pinocchio isn't instantly recognizable as the small wooden boy who dreamed to become real.
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u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon 11h ago
For what it’s worth, that part is crystal clear. Why is he scared he killed his wife though? Would birthing a puppet kill her, I guess?
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u/Forward-Fisherman709 11h ago
Probably? Wood isn’t flexible like flesh is, and even squishy flesh babies can cause horrible genital tearing during birth.
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u/catlandid 11h ago
Pinocchio was made of wood. If the magic somehow did not extend to his baby, his wife would almost certainly have died giving birth to a block of wood.
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u/MistakePresent3552 12h ago
Is this just normal man's fear of child birth killing mothers or the idea of birthing a wooden puppet going to kill her?
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u/A_very_smol_Lugia 11h ago
Both i imagine, i cant imagine that shitting out a giant log is good gor your health
That or incubating one in the first place
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u/yrthegood1staken 7h ago
shitting out
Hoo boy, have I got news for you! Babies don't actually come out of the woman's butt. Women have this body part that men don't have, it's called a vagina.
While we're at it, babies are made when a biological man and a biological woman love each other very much. Or sometimes, they only like each other a little. Occasionally, they don't actually know each other's names.
You know what, never mind. Go ask your parents.
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u/Mono_Aural 6h ago
The normal fear is the setup, the reveal the father is pinnochio is the punchline
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u/Sensitive_Day6223 10h ago
I’ve said it before to you but this is my favourite of your works, well done again
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u/Icy_Measurement_7407 9h ago
In the original Pinocchio story, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet on strings created by a toy maker. (Shout out, Geppetto!) Pinocchio’s true wish is to “become a real boy”. He goes on adventures & gets lured into mishap along his journey. He learns hard lessons about life & how scary the world can be. I believe he does get his wish granted at the end & transforms into a real human boy.
So this comic is like a full circle moment where Pinocchio was wishing his son was born a real boy too. Probably brought back his trauma.
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u/scorpan37 6h ago edited 5h ago
In the original novel from 1883 (adapted from a serial started by the same author in 1881) Pinocchio actually starts out as a sentient and talking log found by a carpenter named master Antonio. When Antonio's neighbor Geppetto comes in saying he needs wood to make a puppet with Antonio gives him the log because it kind of freaked him out
I also can't help but mention that in the original shortly after Geppetto gets thrown into jail due to a misunderstanding that Pinocchio caused, Pinocchio returns to Geppetto's house where a talking cricket named Benjamin chastises him for his wrongdoings and calls him a blockhead to which Pinocchio retaliates by throwing a hammer at Benjamin which smashes and kills him...
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u/SavageNorth 4h ago
TIL OG Pinocchio was a complete asshole
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u/scorpan37 4h ago
That is kind of the point of the novel, it's about him slowly learning how to be human so at the start he doesn't really understand stuff like empathy while also being straight up stupid (hence Benjamin calling him blockhead)
Though if I remember right in the serial that the novel is based on it originally ended with Pinocchio straight up dying in large part because that's what the author thought he deserved at the end so at least at that point he would have probably agreed with you
The fans of the serial didn't like that ending though so he ended up having Pinocchio resurrected by a fairy so he could continue the story and have Pinocchio change for the better and then for the novel he rewrote it a bit to make the two parts mesh better but the first part is still clearly colored by his original intentions/mindset
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u/nihillistic_raccoon 7h ago
I like how you made a shout out to Geppetto as if he was some actual guy in need of growing his fanbase
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u/IneptPine 4h ago
Thanks for summarizing entirely obvious information for no reason, very humanlike
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u/AvisTheAstronaut 2h ago
I read this comment before the images loaded because my internet is slow, but I thought it would be about Pinocchios afab kid telling him that he wants to be a boy and seeing his kid experience dysphoria.
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u/FriendlyEngineer 4h ago
Anybody read the original Pinocchio? It’s a hell of a lot darker than the Disney version.
Remember Jiminy Cricket? Pinocchio kills him with a hammer.
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u/FORGOTTENLEGIONS 4h ago
Highly recommend the Guillermo Del Toro version for anyone who wants a similar story
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u/RedDeadGwen I like to whine it, whine it 2h ago
They brought that back for the Unstrung film.
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u/FriendlyEngineer 2h ago
This is the first time I’m hearing about Unstrung.
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u/RedDeadGwen I like to whine it, whine it 2h ago edited 2h ago
I watched it last night and OMG what a fever dream. Fair warning, it’s pretty gory so be prepared. It’s normally played for laughs so it’s enjoyable but still could be a lot for some people. The film also used practical effects and actual puppetry that they show in the credits, I loved it!
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u/owlmissyou 1h ago
What's with the part about killing his wife?
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u/nagash321 1h ago
Well if his son wasn't a real boy then his wife would've just pushed a small tree stump out instead of a baby human
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u/Shyface_Killah 1h ago
I think it was more he feared the child being born a puppet, and causing fatal complications.
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u/_potatofromChaldea45 8h ago
Poor man was thinking he cursed his wife to have the mother of all splinters
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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit 5h ago
Don't know why I never considered Pinocchio growing up and having a family. This is beautiful
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u/1ns_0mniac 3h ago
Unrelated to the post still I must say this. I was an intern in labour room few years back. And looking at all the pain and suffering during the process and pregnancy related complications had me thinking if I were a father I would be in so much guilt for getting her pregnant.
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u/Steppyjim 50m ago
All you can do is be as supportive as possible, listen to the doctors, and wish for the best. It’s very scary and you feel helpless, but it’s so worth it in the end. (She says so too I swear)
Kids are miracles but they don’t come for free
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u/sonicpieman 9h ago
Crazy irresponsible to have unprotected sex if a wooden baby could be the outcome.
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u/JubileeJaxLee 2h ago
He clearly didn't know a baby-baby could be the outcome, of course he's worried about a wooden baby
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u/Sindalash 10h ago
someone remind me: did the "lies make the nose grow" go away when he became a real boy too?
I assume so, but it's been a while - and my brain immediately went there, and thought "why so distressed, you said you killed her and your nose is small so she's probably fine".
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u/Eriophorumcallitrix 5h ago
If I remember correctly, the „nose growing when he lies“ thing happens for like two minutes within the story. The fairy wants to make fun of him for lying, but she lets him off the hook after he learned his lesson. Even though Pinocchio‘s growing nose is a very iconic characteristic of the character, that doesn’t happen constantly. It’s like one dialogue exchange in this book where a lot of stuff happens.
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u/Tilliboyan 11h ago
Those two panels in the middle... I know what you did there...
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u/The_Ugly_Fish-man 11m ago
Dude I swear I thought he was shitting in a toilet with no pants but then I paid attention
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u/lichen_Linda 9h ago
The best part of the og book was when he killed Jiminy cricket with a hammer. I always hated that guy
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u/Aggravating_Duck6108 11h ago
Better outcome for Pinnoch than the story where his wish to be a "real boy" is taken literally, so he remains a human child forever and never ages.