Sounds like they’re the type to steal things not for their own personal gain, but simply to inconvenience people. Which somehow, seems like the less despicable of the two options.
“But what kind of evil thing are you?”. Instead of talking about evil frogs, Phoebe should have asked whether they were imps. That seems most likely but it’s also possible they may turn out to be gremlins. I don’t think we’ve seen any gremlins in this strip.
Hope this story arc is not veering into the “Despicable Me” idiocy.
There is such a thing as evil. But those who are truly devoted to it almost never think of themselves as such. The worst evils of all time were committed by people who thought they were doing good.
In the comic world, the goblins etc. all have to turn out to be good in their own way. Otherwise. the strip is not suitable for children. But don’t children also deserve to know that there is real evil, and that they need to be wary of it?
This strip comes closest to it by showing how obsessions, like Marigolds overweening self-absorption, can have consequences. That is why I keep reading it and have bought some of the books etc. To really get it, hit the double-left arrow to go back to the very first panels. The “creation story” if you will.
Oh lord, I can just see the Evil, Inc. giving all the little evil dudes a motivational speech before sending them out. “Now go out and do EVIL! NO! Go out and BE EVIL.”
codycab about 1 year ago
Ask them if they’re not un-evil, Phoebe!
Averagemoe about 1 year ago
Sounds like they’re the type to steal things not for their own personal gain, but simply to inconvenience people. Which somehow, seems like the less despicable of the two options.
sirbadger about 1 year ago
Are you Dr. Evil or do you just have an undergraduate degree?
eldeecee about 1 year ago
Are they Evil One and Evil Two (also known as Bim and Ben)?
Concretionist about 1 year ago
In the mirror, they’re ⅃IVƎ (which, if you mirror individually is LIVE)
Calvinist1966 about 1 year ago
Two weeks today and it will be Halloween. This seems to be the beginning of a Halloween story arc.
kaykeyser about 1 year ago
No, she came this way. But yah, Evil is relative.
Calvinist1966 about 1 year ago
“But what kind of evil thing are you?”. Instead of talking about evil frogs, Phoebe should have asked whether they were imps. That seems most likely but it’s also possible they may turn out to be gremlins. I don’t think we’ve seen any gremlins in this strip.
eddi-TBH about 1 year ago
I think they want to be evil without having to work at it.
Troglodyte about 1 year ago
Evil is as evil does, and so far, they’ve done nothing.
Thrackerzod about 1 year ago
Didn’t Phoebe’s parents teach her not to talk to evil strangers?
iggyman about 1 year ago
Relation to the Knievels?
Trond Sätre Premium Member about 1 year ago
Like discussing motivation with Dr. Doofenschmirz
mistie710 about 1 year ago
I suspect they are escapees from an evil petting zoo.
Jungle Empress about 1 year ago
They’re evil soot sprites.
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member about 1 year ago
No, no, no… It’s not “evil“. It’s “eeeeeee-vil!”
cmerb about 1 year ago
Why is there so much confusion about these two , it’s Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for sure . And also Barack Obama just out of the panel : )
Decepticomic about 1 year ago
They don’t look like billionaires.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation about 1 year ago
They seem the sort of evil that can be defeated by hope, love and a well placed boot - STOMP-
PN3904 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Hope this story arc is not veering into the “Despicable Me” idiocy.
There is such a thing as evil. But those who are truly devoted to it almost never think of themselves as such. The worst evils of all time were committed by people who thought they were doing good.
In the comic world, the goblins etc. all have to turn out to be good in their own way. Otherwise. the strip is not suitable for children. But don’t children also deserve to know that there is real evil, and that they need to be wary of it?
This strip comes closest to it by showing how obsessions, like Marigolds overweening self-absorption, can have consequences. That is why I keep reading it and have bought some of the books etc. To really get it, hit the double-left arrow to go back to the very first panels. The “creation story” if you will.
robinafox about 1 year ago
As “We are evil” seems to be their motto, we could call them “we-evils”.
scyphi26 about 1 year ago
If you’re both really so evil, then you probably won’t mind if we dropkick you outta here, right?
The Wolf In Your Midst about 1 year ago
“Mum! Dad! It’s evil! Don’t touch it!”
Trevor.brown about 1 year ago
These look like the evil that drives slow in the fast lane.
Trevor.brown about 1 year ago
Will Phoebe have to choose between the lesser of 2 evils, or are they just magical unicorn “muffins”
Totally Not a Killer Dolphin about 1 year ago
This might be my favorite arc yet
darkstripe about 1 year ago
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Lauren Kramer about 1 year ago
Oh lord, I can just see the Evil, Inc. giving all the little evil dudes a motivational speech before sending them out. “Now go out and do EVIL! NO! Go out and BE EVIL.”
willie_mctell about 1 year ago
Evil, more than just an abstract concept or a way of life.
weshorse about 1 year ago
When I first saw them I was thinking Totoro.
So I think they are little evil Totoros or Pokemon
artjohn42 about 1 year ago
They are little dark lumps of adorably evil cuteness.
CatherinePrickett about 1 year ago
They’re ADORABLE evil, that’s what they are.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 year ago
That would be a problem.
Taracinablue about 1 year ago
They’re also adorable