The Power Cosmic

Paieidolia. Learning big words from the web toonz. 😎

Due to Jeph, I have had to buy the phatest dictionary possible to keep up with his relentlessly vast lexical horizon 😵

Apophenia FTW.

well, Clinton is a weenie and a cynical one, no denying

Willow joins the Brawl.

"Character a decides to make character b their friend... and so on." We never would have known it's you favorite trope, reading this comic. It is such a well hidden trope.

This is actually how I make friends.

I feel a lot of pride for our fandom that no one seems to be shipping them.

There is much chemistry between these two

Getting dangerously close to the 4th wall there, Jaques

The last panel is giving me Susie Derkins vibes

Silver Surfer reference detected *beep boop*

"Although, conflux of universal coincidence aside, his grumpy attitude didn't help him any when it came to the stabbing," the defendant concluded. Upon review of 240 pieces of evidence supporting this claim, the jury agreed, voting to unanimously to acquit on all charges.

Apopheniacs of the world, unite! :-)

LOL- I am BOTH Clinton and Willow here. XD

Immediate crush forming.

This is how you end up friendless and alone, Clinton.

To be fair, she's been an unwitting (but not unwilling) spectator in several Clinton/Elliot moments, so she's probably invested in this point. Like when you're in a waiting room for a long time and next thing you know you're into the soap opera they have on the TV.

I like her a lot, excited to see more of her in the future

Put your tongue back in your mouth unless you intend to share it, Willow.

That reminds me: whatever happened to the smart woman who worked at the Morg and was flirting with one of Martins friends?

There is this thing of "deep conversations with total strangers" that has happened to me more than a few times, with me on each side of the situation. Part of it is a willingness to trust innately, to risk misplaced trust, in the hope of finding a bond, however fleeting. I've had this happen on the dance floor, the motion and music combining to make possible the sharing of very personal things. It's happened in Starbucks lines. And more recently in a COVID-distanced line waiting to get into a store. It often starts with someone saying a thought out loud, to the universe at large rather than to anyone specific. Then a response happens. I believe it requires living in the moment, awareness of one's environment, and continuous observation. And, also, being open to random things. Precious things.

Looks as likely apophenia as pareidolia. Seems more about connections than a visual pattern.

For others who, like myself, don’t know the word: “Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.”

"Perfectly harmless paieidolia," she said, as the bombs fell.

Clinton, stop.

idk if Clinton "I Stalked The Daughter of The Inventor Of AI Because I Am A Huge Fanboy" Augustus gets to accuse someone else of being a potential murder-stalker

I didn’t really give my best friend a choice in the matter. We were both nerds and both new at the high school, and I just started calling him on the weekends—at his unlisted number that I snuck out of the teacher’s grade book. Thirty-seven years later, he spends his vacations with us and my kids call him Uncle Charlie. It’s totally a thing.

I give it 9 months comic time (5 years in real life) before Willow & Clinton are at they “can you help me bury this dead body” level of friendship.

Yeah Clinton, you weenie.

... So would this be an example of casual pareidolia? :)

Willow is another character in here who has power eyebrows...

Serious mood from Clinton in that last panel and I can very much relate. That sort of hippy-dippy shit just does my head in. Despite that, I really like Willow and I'm impressed by her ability to turn her head, close her eyes and poke her tongue out, while continuing to walk forwards and (hopefully) not crashing into anything.

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Causal pareidolia is the name of my new age/techno band.

Honestly, I've made a couple of brute force friends like this before. No regrets.

If you keep creating great new characters at this rate, you're going to have to start posting at least 2 comics a day just for us to get anything close to enough of each character.

Pareidolia. A new word!

Willow is perfect.