Achewood
patreon
0066 — Philippe In, Why Is The Sky Blue
🕑 Added 2024-05-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTCOuttakes at noon in Author's and In-Universe tiers.
The sky is blue because the Earth's atmosphere scatters the shorter blue wavelengths of sunlight more than the other colors. If that answer isn't satisfying, just remember that everything is vibrations, which don't exist, because they are just energy, and if you're wondering how a bag of sliced ham that doesn't exist can still weigh enough to cost sixteen dollars, hopefully by now it's clear that there are no satisfying answers once you start asking good questions.
Comments
Graeme Anthony
Phillippe visibly ages about a decade in this panel. He is now canonically adolescent.
Datura
this one is brutal it hit me hard
Meadow Green
Idk why but the timing of Philippe resignedly saying okay and sighing is just too perfect
Jay Williams
Sensitive Lyle…
Tyler Fensterman
I’m loving the post texts for all of these recent ones
Ben Wilinofsky
Charmed by how many "Lyle has big, sincere feelings" strips we've been getting since you've returned. Do you think you're seeing him in a different light since you've quit drinking?
Ruxine
why is lyle blue? because he doesn't know shit about shit.
J. Alex
The thing is, Philippe loves Lyle too, but Lyle's too damn mad at himself to notice.
Matt Amis
It's the Badass Games all over again...it was his to lose
Guilherme Töws
It's okay to say "the sky is blue because air is blue". The *reason* air is blue is a weird physics thing, but then again, the reason *anything* is of any color is because of a weird physics thing or another.
blair
Lyle doesn't know shit, it turns out.
kdusjjdhxksj
Few are
Walter Cooke
Consult with Dr. Google?
Ian Stewart
The outdoor background is a beautiful detail. The sunset gradient really sells it.
Jacquelyn R Walters
Chin up, Lyle! Just because Philippe loves Mr. Bear doesn't mean he DOESN'T love you, too! That little otter is made of love.
Dan W
455-2123
blair
Credit to Mr. Bear for remembering his audience and not fancying it up with a bunch of bilirubin talk, or pointing out that even the most mechanical-looking physiological process is actually effected by some Rube-Goldberg biochemical pathway that only first-year med students know without looking it up.
J Hardy Carroll
Google AI says I can cook spaghetti in gasoline. Knowledge is power.
Ismini Roller
Call Dr. Andretti
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
No mention of digested bile acids? For shame. Connie and Lyle present an incomplete picture. (Philippe, love me instead!)
blair
That implies that he's not passing blood. Yet.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Flush and ignore it, because healthcare is expensive!
Dan W
And what do we do if it's black, everyone?
Douglas Wykstra
I do like how, once Phillipe wearily submits to learning some unpleasant information from Lyle, he then becomes fully engaged in discovering the answer. May we all bring such joie de vivre to the tasks we must assume out of obligation.
Sedric And Charlie
All this time Lyle just wanted Philippe's approval
Nicholas Williams
Look I'm all about some melancholy reflection but Lyle needs to sack up about this one. Blood cells, dogg. Breakin' down.
GruntyGinMan
Lyle is not happy that his life sucked.
GruntyGinMan
they would break apart if impacted by salt water tears, he can't afford nicer ones due to lacking insurance.
RBM
The dude has got no mercy...for imperfection
Chris Onstad
I mean, he KNOWS it's brown
Chris Onstad
Lyle's entire life is very "leaky"
Chris Onstad
for what it's worth, I looked it up for this strip, and already forgot, mainly because I didn't understand
Chris Onstad
fixed, thank you!
Chris Onstad
fixed thank you!
Oppido
OK, but I'd like to see Cornelius vomit into an empty gas tank such that the car runs for three minutes.
RBM
Ooh, I acutally caught a rare and evasive Onstad typo!
Justin Schardin
I can't help but note the only time Lyle doesn't have a bottle in his hand is when he's especially depressed.
Lennon McAuliffe
Heads up there’s a typo in the second panel, “acutally”
Elyse
From the heights of “we’re so back”, “it’s so over” comes rattling around the track once again… you win some you lose some Lyleheads
Andrew
Lyle knows the prison poop thing from experience.
Hunter
Lyle has lost much to Mexican brain detergent.
Paul Dunn
Oh! This one was in The Silence of the Lambs if I recall!
emitydna
Fucking incredible. Damn, man.
Hunter
Ah, friendship.
Ismini Roller
I always thought that all other colors were absorbed except blue, whis was reflected. I feel so stupid, just like Lyle
“Cool Mayonnaise” Hank Spurlock
Lyle, the color commentator to Mr. Bears play by play of the human gullyworks.
Bungus Bronbo
"No satisfying answers once you start asking good questions" Hard disagree, ask better questions. Or worse ones. If you have a kid that keeps asking "why?" forever, if you keep answering in earnest you WILL get to very interesting and unexpected places.
Josh Egbert
Lyle wants to be loved, too.
Zen Window
LYYYLE! NEW DAY! NEW...DAAAY!
Pete
I thought it had something to do with nitrogen reflecting the blue part of the light spectrum. I guess I don't know anything.
Tim Pratt
Hang that last panel right up in the Louvre
Ben Wissett
I was hoping Lyle would know the word bilirubin. Alas,
severecorvid
It's fucking over for Lyle
Aaron J. Rushton
Lyle had to take his glasses off for these feelings
