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Aug 30, 2006

I hardly notice it… looks fine.

Bopping each other with their bellies is a common way for penguins to fight. I’ll see if I can get some video footage of that to share with you in the next day or so.

Penguins On the Highway

I hadn’t been following my news feeds lately and was going through catching up. Earlier this month, a truck carrying zoo animals overturned on a Texas highway spilling out two dozen penguins onto the road. One penguin died in the crash and three were killed by oncoming traffic. Man, that would feel horrible to run over a penguin.

54 Comments

  1. Canadian Mooseman says:

    Excellent use of color and paint and stuff on the first panel Tyler! LOL! hilarious. cant wait for the next one!

  2. Ashley says:

    A very great comic! 😀 Just looks very bad, but it should heal soon…

  3. S. Dolphin says:

    LOL. I have never been hit in the eye before. The first picture was kinda gross.

  4. Angie says:

    see the freaky lil penguin isn’t the only ugly one now

  5. Mysterygal says:

    L0L! Nice one.

  6. Bob from accounting says:

    Oh no, you can just bet that the juvie penguins will be selling a ‘cure’ – or that wally will try and ‘fix’ it.
    Poor, poor Osbourne.

  7. Emywemy says:

    I read about the penguin truck accident in the newspaper. I also read that one of the penguins broke his flipper. I was drawing penguins in casts all day. ; (

  8. Joepro says:

    Sorry, but that last comment was from me, Joepro. My sister left Emywemy in the name space.

  9. Mikko says:

    eew. freaky.

  10. BriaN says:

    great comic, but the last bit of news made me feel sad and with that I think I’ll go to bed…thats sad… poor penguins…

  11. Shrew says:

    Sweet first panel 🙂

  12. BriGuy says:

    Yikes! I’d hate to run over a penguin. I’d feel horrible. 😥 Then again there’s nothing I could of done to prevent it.

    How can a penguin belly-punch another penguin without getting stabbed in their stochmach for the other penguin’s beak? Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. 😕

  13. The penguins were from our zoo here in Indianapolis.

    The accident actually killed 4 penguins, 1 Rockhopper and 3 Gentoos. What they failed to mention was the fact that it wiped out our entire Gentoo population (we only had those 3).

    I am especially saddened because green-white-green (they are named according to their flipper band colors) was killed. He was not only my favorite penguin but I think he liked me. Whenever I would visit he would swim over to me and perform tricks for me (following me around the area and ignoring any and all of the other people there just to perform for me). I adored him and was broken hearted to learn of his death. I’m hoping that we might be able to get other Gentoos to replace the ones lost but even so, it will not be the same.

  14. xerexes says:

    Wow – nice first panel Tyler.

  15. Canadian Mooseman says:

    hey, umm Tyler, did you move the first panel around or something?

  16. Phizlo says:

    The poor penguins. It makes me sad that four of the penguins died. At least the comic made me feel better Tyler.

  17. Anonymous says:

    poor Osbourne =()

  18. Belgian girl says:

    Hej!
    You changed the panels?
    It’s actually better like this!
    I really like your comics^^

  19. Canadian Mooseman says:

    yeah u did cahnge the panels. it has better order like this though

  20. Alexis says:

    EWWWWWWW!!!! 😛

  21. Canadian Mooseman says:

    new comic please!

  22. Canadian Mooseman says:

    when will they ever get some rockss???? WHEN???

  23. BriGuy says:

    “Nah, Osborne, it’s not that bad, other than the fact your eye is orange and the size of a baseball. 😯

  24. ed says:

    those poor, poor penguins, that’s terrible!

  25. Purple Koopa says:

    Thank goodness we only see one eye from the side view…his good one.

  26. Sev says:

    I absolutely love the “closeup” comics.

  27. Lil says:

    Ouch!…..Osborne. Maybe you ought to try that stunt again so both eyes will match…hee hee

  28. Joepro says:

    Those poor penguins that were lost . . . But they are with God now.

  29. Fex says:

    i have a question… its recently occured to me that in the comics, the penguin is refered to as ‘Osbourne’, with a U. however the address of the site and the title of the comic at the top of the site is ‘Osborne’ without a U… could someone explain… has osborne had a speeling change since ontherocks? this is really hurting my poor brain, thinking about it…

  30. BriGuy says:

    Fex, Since the first anniversary of the comic, when Tyler changed the site and name he changed “Osbourne” to “Osborne”. 😀

  31. Bluey says:

    poor penguins 🙁

  32. Bandman says:

    Little flip flop today on the panels!?

  33. Kaelendra says:

    Heheh, that’s really amusing that the panels were flipped… after it was on lj and another person commented on how it’d be funnier the way it’s now flipped to which I agreed with them… hmmm, coincidence?

  34. io says:

    hi,WWW.giantmicrobes.com

  35. Emywemy says:

    Osborne looked like me when I had a black eye!

  36. Bluey says:

    I agree, it makes the story better….. Seeing Wally look like that for two pannels builds up suspiscion. 😛

  37. Hannah says:

    hey people
    i see you didnt miss my penguin facts
    well thats good because i’m tired of posting penguin facts

    Those poor penguins!!!
    I would be crying all the time for a long time
    if my parents or someone ran
    over a penguin and i was there… 😥
    i would feel so bad 🙁

  38. Zack says:

    ahhh well ill start oenguin facts XD. well ok fine im, justing gonna use hannah’s old ones and some new ones XD

  39. Zack says:

    ok first fact.

    Adelie penguins are the smallest of the Antarctic penguins. One way to distinguish them from the other penguins is by their all black head and the white ring around their eye.

    Adelie penguins were named after the wife of a French explorer in the 1830s. They are about 2 feet tall and weigh 8 or 9 pounds. Their diet is mainly fish.

  40. Zack says:

    i still won’t be as good as hannah though XP

  41. Eric says:

    Yayyy we finally get to see Osborne in gritty-realistic mode!

  42. Eric says:

    I like the two feathers sticking out of his head especially…

  43. Fex says:

    BriGuy: hehe thanks. i just read that myself when reading hte rest of the comics! haha i understand now! =D

  44. Bluey says:

    on the topic of the comic……. it looks like somebody over did theactrical makeup. 😛 And his eye has like shells on the top and bottom or something.

  45. Zack says:

    lol cant wate for more tyler.
    im glad im not osborne.

  46. Jenn says:

    Aww…poor Osborne.

  47. BriGuy says:

    Wally has obviously never heard it’s not polite to stare. 😛

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