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Comic #2382

1 Monty: We need to get to the zeppelin hangars before dawn. Does anyone know the way?
1 Ginny: I do. This way.
2 Monty: It's probably a trick. Let's go this way.
2 Prof. Jones: What if it's not a trick?
3 {beat}
4 Monty: So, have we learnt anything about the nature of trust yet?
4 Ginny: I trust that you'll mess this up for us.

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I was aiming for a "cry wolf" gag in this strip when I wrote it. It all hinged on the fact that Ginny would yell "Wolf!", but in German. Man, it would have been hilarious.

I wrote the strip on the train to work one morning, and felt really proud. But I didn't know the German word for "wolf", so wrote a note to myself to look it up when I got home and insert it into the comic. Then it would be complete and perfect.

Readers who know German are already smiling at this point.

Since when I got home and checked my English-German dictionary, I discovered the German word for "wolf" is "Wolf".


2022-12-03 Rerun commentary: That discovery really set a Wolf among the Schafe.

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