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Tree hates plods more than most. Vile rotters.

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2026-09-07 11:00 has jaer never killed a child before? maybe i'm cynical, but i assumed this wasn't something new to him.
2026-02-11 04:46

jaaama

I feel bad for the plods :(

Suppy

Love the down to earth back and forth between them on if the plodman loved his kid or not, masterful coping skills on display from Tree. Reminds me of my own post-assassination ponderings with friends. I'm loving our badmen and their banter more and more each page we see them!! Are the plods handled by plat mooks? Kind of a shitty assignment ngl

Ashley

He's killed a lot of people but never anyone younger than a teenager.

Ashley

They have absolutely no consciousness, if that helps :)

Ashley

Yeah, they're just kinda chilling in their foreman chairs and supervising. At least no one's throwing paving stones at them yet.

Fitzy

Panel 3 plod is pretty rough. WOG and in-universe experts have stated that the plods don't have a conscience, but does that mean the cruelty is justified and unfelt by the plod?

Fitzy

Decided that abused human laborers were uncouth so instead of re-evaluating power roles, we made a dummy that couldn't speak for itself and told ourselves it couldn't feel

Rob N

Sure, blame the victim...

Josh

I'm impressed by Tree's command of metaphor. Also, "pick who to blame and get on with your life." Wow. I don't know if I've ever seen anything else that's so cynical it circles back around to being optimistic before.

Jeremy Ball

Yeah, if it doesn't feel why's it got a face sadder than a basset hound. It should default to :|

Josh

Oh, maybe some Bokononist advice from Cat's Cradle also qualifies: "My God - life! Who can understand even one little minute of it." "Don't try. Just pretend you understand."

Stillpoint

Human laborers want rights! Plods don't want nuthin. Humans might unionize! Bring on the flesh robot zombies! /tooreal

Stillpoint

Yeah, it's so unfair to Jaer, Tree should apologize :<

Rifter

And what about Mr Tree?...

Clay's Sketchbook

Is Jaer Gefendur? Also my first time noticing he has sunset eyes like Lem!

Spider

hey ashley im starting to think maybe these two arent strictly speaking "good people"

Spider

Also "this could be your father or your honey but sure as hell he didn't have money" is such a FIRE protest slogan, jfc.

Spider

Tree has definitely killed at least one child. :)

Ashley

Their morality is highly situational :)

Ashley

Tree called him explicitly Gefendur in the prologue, so yep.

Ashley

Tree does what needs doing.

Ashley

Not your fault, webcomics suck! I wish I could post the whole first chapter at once like I did the prologue :)

Khyrberos

ah but then we'd miss things for a *different* reason (skimming/reading quickly to get to the next page). Page-a-day lets us soak in it. Luxuriate in it!