Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 12, 2015

Combat-Drones are coming, soon we’ll match the Goldfinches.

Put up a hummingbird feeder if you want to see aerial artistry.

But the bird can’t shoot down other birds.

Well, but you can’t be sure as you don’t speak goldfinch, do you?  (And I bet it didn’t have English subtitles either.)

I read today’s Frazz comic. Later I went to a coffee shop and heard some pretentious but off-point discussion. So that was a waste of some bandwidth.

Au contraire mon frère! You must not have watched hummingbirds very much. These little jewels are feisty! I’ve seen them take on bees, hornets and wasps that try to get to THEIR feeder, as well as other h-birds who are transients!

You want special effects? Be so lucky as to observe an eagle finally get fed up with a bothersome tracking bird, dive screamingly and come at the bird upside down with razor sharp talons extended. Forget Star Wars!

Iceman: You can be my wingman any time.Maverick: Bullshirt! You can be mine.

This is for yesterdays comic.Birds on A Wire

My eyes kind of glazed over as I was reading the comments, so please forgive me if this has already been covered, I would imagine not even Caulfield would prefer the flight of a bird to a jet fighter. Movies as described herein are designed to appeal to a certain audience. cheesy dialogue and all. She would be no more inclined to go see a jet – fighter movie than I would be inclined to see a Bette Midler movie, just not my thing.

She enjoyed the movie at the time she was watching it, and then saw something beautiful fly better, with no one dying. The moment with the bird beat the faked movie. Frazz just guessed that the bird was more agile than the effects. And all movies descend into overused cliches.

“Doesn’t everybody (see what [he] want[s] to see)?” Yes, including Puma when he reads this strip, and doesn’t understand why others don’t dislike it the way he does or for the same reasons.