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Beat Writer Posts: 194 Joined: 27 Aug 2013 | Pomaceous encounters are not always salubrious. |
Premium Member Posts: 12299 Joined: 10 Feb 2008 | I really like the drawings but I still have no idea what these comics are actually about. Are they references to things? Allegories? Something else entirely? Sheer surrealism/absurdism? I don't know. It's cool though. |
Premium Member Posts: 3239 Joined: 25 Aug 2010 |
Does it really matter? All it boils down to are those:
Actually, yeah, I am personally not so sure anymore. The first few seemed to be a childhood ruined/enhanced http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/childhood-enhanced , http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ruined-childhood play on nostalgic property but I am not so sure what it is after today's comic. Still found it amusing. |
Ate My Neighbors Posts: 2115 Joined: 10 Oct 2007 | If caught in the wild by an enraged mother pear, simply lie still and play dead. Everyone knows that. Other remedies include reciting Shakespearean soliloquies and blinking headlights. Or are those things that enrage them? Ah well. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 868 Joined: 5 May 2011 |
Everyone knows that you're supposed to lie still and await the arrival of James, the Great Fruit Hunter, and his giant peach. |
Premium Member Posts: 160 Joined: 29 Nov 2011 | pear - bear. moby dick - moby dill. 'gotcha nose! Most are plays on words or common phrases. As far as Babar goes, well, he always kinda weirded me out as a kid. So passive I always thought he was unhappy. Now I can tell my mom why he was sad :P |
Premium Member Posts: 151 Joined: 13 Aug 2012 | I once met a mother pear. Four cubs always followed behind her. Until one day a pear hunter came along. Never heard of that hunter again. |
Ate My Neighbors Posts: 2115 Joined: 10 Oct 2007 |
Oh no. Oh you didn't hear? James ate his Giant Peach, then slipped into a diabetic coma from all the natural sugar. I'm so sorry. It was all over the news in my head a few minutes ago, I figured you'd know. Too soon friend, too soon. |
Poof, poof, sparkles! Posts: 8024 Joined: 1 Jun 2010 | Re: "if you make eye contact, you're already dead." Well that's ok then. Mother pears, while dangerous, are eyeless. |
Simply Amyzing Posts: 35694 Joined: 3 Dec 2008 |
Also, pears can't run diagonally down a hill. Of course, if you're in flat lands, you're screwed. |
Je suis joined jewels. Posts: 29744 Joined: 19 Jan 2009 | Out of sheer morbid curiousity, I've spent minutes trying to make eye contact with this pear, but it's not working. ;__; |
Premium Member Posts: 5680 Joined: 7 Jun 2010 | I would think that if you have the staring skills required to make eye contact with a pear you could stare it down, or do pears have an amazing starring talent that I have not been mate aware of. |
Premium Member Posts: 34 Joined: 1 Apr 2011 | its like Spore all over again. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1264 Joined: 19 Jun 2011 |
There usually is. That's why I always find it worth to check the comments section a day later to see what Lerman himself has added about his art. But in terms of style these comics are very intriguing as well, poetical even. |
Warning! Contains Ba(NaN)As Posts: 3809 Joined: 21 Jun 2009 |
It's much simpler to just call on the mother pear's natural predator. It's nemesis. |
The Resident Team ICO Fanboy Posts: 8617 Joined: 14 May 2009 |
Darn you! Beat me to it! I don't think there was a more appropriate time to post that image. |
International Man of Meme-stery Posts: 26490 Joined: 19 Jan 2012 | Don't fuck with mother-pear! ...I think I already have, since Pear's are my favorite fruit and I ate a ton of em...sorry oh wise mother-pear... |
Premium Member Posts: 1437 Joined: 17 Nov 2010 | I don't usually do this when I'm not home, but I just discovered your comics (I'm so late!) and I can't believe I've been missing out on these gems. They're abstract and crazy but they make sense in some weird, twisted way and I love them. I even love your comments almost as much. It's like the comic but in word form. I hope you stay on the site for a long time, or I'll follow you to wherever you go. This stuff is too amazing to pass up. I can't wait to see what comes next. I love how crazy the premise is, a pear chasing you down because you hold her baby pear, but it makes a story in my head. Either my lack of sleep caught up with me or I don't know but I'm happy it made me understand. 'sendshugs' |
Beat Writer Posts: 194 Joined: 27 Aug 2013 |
Hugs received and appreciated! It is probably hard for you guys to figure out where I'm coming from. I have been protecting you from the clowns but I can't hold them back for much longer. |
Clerical Error Posts: 606 Joined: 29 Mar 2009 | The Facebook replies state "Fruit with Peril". My initial reaction was "Fraught with Pear". If you examine the baby pear in this comic, you will note certain visual dissimilarities between it and the larger pear breaking through the tree line. While the larger pear is clearly acting out the protective role of a loving adult figure in the young pear's life, I doubt it is the fabled Mother Pear. It's probably just the Au Pear. |
Beat Writer Posts: 194 Joined: 27 Aug 2013 |
You traveled a respectable distance to make that pun. Your journey is appreciated. That LOLWUT Pear AKA "The Biting Pear of Salamanca" needs to get off the internet and get back home |
Clerical Error Posts: 606 Joined: 29 Mar 2009 |
History will decide. She is a fickle mistress.
I just had a ham and pear flashback. I have thrice eaten a dish called "Peras Serranas". It was a split and hollowed pear, carmelized and sweetly glazed on the severed face, and topped with lightly grilled black forest ham. The dissonant flavors of sweet and savory blended symbiotically on my tongue. I have to assume the restaurant was magically warded against attacks from both Crashing Boars and Mother Pears. But the owners lacked the foresight to protect the establishment against (and it was eventually trampled by) a Killer Tiramisu. Capriccio's, you will be missed. |
Premium Member Posts: 751 Joined: 11 Feb 2009 | I heard that when confronted by a big threatening pear you should start running downhill, because pears have a problem running down after you apparently, I assume they tumble and start rolling. Is this true, or is it just a myth? |
Premium Member Posts: 2640 Joined: 21 Nov 2008 | ...I love these. Although I'm not exactly sure why. Captcha: Dare I say sellout? |
Premium Member Posts: 1928 Joined: 24 Jul 2011 | I bet Emo-pear wishes he had a mom like that. I get the word play. Mama Pear. hehe. These comics are charming, and mysterious. |
Premium Member Posts: 3807 Joined: 17 Dec 2012 | Thank you for this public service announcement warning us of the dangers of pears. People should be aware because they can apear out of nopear. |
Premium Member Posts: 1437 Joined: 17 Nov 2010 |
I'm so glad for this type of art. It's the only kind I can appreciate, when I can make up a story to fit with what I see. It's why like Picasso or a lot of modern art can never get through to me. Actually, now you made me curious. I really shouldn't but maybe you can let the clowns trickle through...just as an experience. Captcha: we like the moon. I do! Especially the man that always looks down from it. He's nice. |
Lv.1 NPC Posts: 21406 Joined: 17 Apr 2009 | You must never fear a pear unless your fear comes in pairs A mother pear will never care |
Beat Writer Posts: 194 Joined: 27 Aug 2013 | "If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. I am still unclear how a giant mother pear would fit into his revolutionary socio-political theories |
Boy King Posts: 15476 Joined: 9 Feb 2012 | These strips remind me more and more of Perry Bible. |