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Comic #2699

1 {scene: Head Death's desk on the Infinite Featureless Plane of Death}
1 SFX: Riiing!
2 Head Death: Hello?
3 Phone: Ribbit.
4 Head Death: Paradox...

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After the Head Paradox's last appearance, several people wrote to point out that he was probably one of these.


Gunnar Kvifte, an M.Sc. student in biology at the Natural History collections, Bergen Museum, Norway, writes:
you suggest that the character Head Paradox is a paradox frog Pseudis paradoxa. This is, however, very unlikely as his only line is "ribbit". The call of the paradox frog is different; according to AmphibiaWeb it consists of "a sequence of 8-11 pulse groups".

A more probable species identification, based on the "ribbit" call, is Pseudacris regilla. This is a common frog in California, and has been extensively used as a sound effect in Hollywood movies.

Head Paradox, who is a paradox and a frog, is thus not a paradox frog. While not strictly a paradox, it is paradoxical enough to be appropriate.


2025-03-10 Rerun commentary: A dirty little secret: The Infinite Featureless Plane of Death is not actually an infinite two-dimensional sheet of Lego baseplate.

Sometimes you can see the edges of the square baseplate in the photos, and I've attempted to cover them up by clone-brushing part of the baseplate into the empty areas. You can see this in the upper right corner of the first panel, there's a diagonal line across the corner where the pattern doesn't quite match up properly.

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