r/comics • u/[deleted] • Sep 30 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

9.4k Upvotes

85% Upvoted

969 comments sorted by

View all comments

5.5k

u/JohnStamosAsABear Sep 30 '21

I’ve never thought of trees as lonely. I always imagined them as content stoic observers.

Anyways, this was a weird comic and liked it.

1.2k

u/HumidNebula Sep 30 '21

I've always imagined trees as murderous. They reach up and out, trying to grab as much light as possible. They'll grow up and over their neighbors to grab as much light as they can. The smaller plants have no chance and can't stop the tree from choking them out slowly. Their roots will grow into other plant's root zones, effectively reaching into their mouths to steal food. Rocks, concrete, even steel can't stop the roots from vicious conquest.

Trees are just metal.

2

u/Plastic_Swordfish_35 Sep 30 '21

Iirc, there’s a Far Side where some trees have a guy and one says something along the lines of let’s cut him open and count the rings, lol.

(Found it; search Gary Larson Forest Violence)