If human lungs/vocal cords can be likened to a trumpet, Baxxids are something more like bagpipes. A deep breath in, then continuous buzzing that is then shaped into words. Also comparable to an electrolarynx, except instead of tinny electric vibrations, it’s more like a warhorn from the depths of hell itself.
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Shame on you, Bob!!!
…you’re cute as all fuck,btw
Careful now, say that within hearing distance and that faceplate-blush is just going to deepen!
Also, I just realized that despite this page being written months ago, both our comics have just now involved some sort of city guards rushing towards some sort of giant bone-worms causing some sort of disturbance.
GREAT MINDS, THINKING ALIKE, AMIRITE
Convergent evolution, dude!
Same problems=same solutions! :V
Do you happen to have a link to your comic? I have plenty of spare time to read -all- the comics.
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It’s great!
And violent! Lots of violence. Poor mouse girls.
Thank you! I’ve been looking for something new like this.
How did you make the giant spear-clawed creatures ADORABLE throw sheer cultivation of mannerisms?!?
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT YOU DID. I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY.
[i am happy]
Hey man, I didn’t do anything, this is all on them
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Interesting that they wear clothes that cover up their larger (and therefore probably better) back eyes. I suppose it makes socializing with humans easier by giving an illusion of a human-like face. It’s got to be annoyingly inconvienient though.
Their eyes might not be very good though, seems like it should have been easy to spot the pest and all the humans without contorting the body to look around.
The larger the iris of an eye, the more light that is let in. Pure black eyes mean the entire surface is used to collect light, generally meaning improved vision in low-light areas but terrible vision in brighter locations.
Most multi-eyed organisms are insects, and in most cases additional eyes are simple. They are not used for seeing, necessarily, but rather the detection of light. For example, the mantis has 3 simple eyes at the top of its head in conjunction with the 2 compound eyes that most recognize. These simple eyes are used to detect light from above in order to better avoid flying predators. Spiders are another common example, which have simple eyes around their primary eyes and along the sides of their head for similar reasons.
In the case of these creatures, applying earth-evolution for eyesight would declare a severe reduction in vision, to near-blindness assuming the back-most eyes are the primary ones, and no effective loss if the front-most eyes are primary. Covering light-sensing eyes would allow greater focus on what the remaining eyes are focusing on. All of the eye do not show signs of a cornea, but not all animals have their cornea visible and it may be for artistic purposes. This is also a fantasy setting not placed on Earth, so it could be divergent from what is seen on Earth.
We could be too presumptuous in thinking that those are even eyes at all, they could be some other organ, or even just a decorative flare they’ve evolved.
Thinking along those lines it could be that the rear eyes are purely decorative. There are some insects that have evolved eye spots to confuse predators. It would not be that far a stretch of the imagination to think that those eyes have evolved so that predators that would harm them would think that they’re being watched. It’s a simple deterrent.
I think that hidden pupils on earth mammals and birds are defensive camouflage so that predators can’t tell exactly where the prey is looking while it’s being stalked. Think of rabbits and wildcats. Though they are prey, many Amazon parrots use changeable pupil size as body language and so have still have very visible pupils with a colored iris. But this isn’t Earth at all.
And I’d probably yell like that too if I felt a tickle, turned my head, and found one of those creepy-crawlies perched jauntily on my shoulder.
Also spooky is the way the nebula hasn’t rotated below the horizon or at least around a pole star. I’d take that as evidence that THE WHOLE WORLD IS FaKeD AND THE SKY IS JUST A PROJECtIOn!!!!
It does seem odd for Val to forget a simple thing like planetary rotation.
Good catch! The nebula does indeed rotate around the planet’s northern pole. But I realized near the end tha more time would have to pass between panels 1 and 2 for the rest of the comic’s timing to make sense, but forgot to adjust the nebula for that.
Just uploaded an edited version, including a fix for that, and different baxxid-scream text. I felt that the non-handwritten font outside word bubbles clashed a bit with the rest of the design.
The eyes do have slightly different ranges of visual perception. The headdress is as much for fashion as it is to create a more relatable “face” though, as you guessed!
It’s definitely very fashionable, they look like quite the important snake-bug.
I’ve noticed though that that one doesn’t seem to have the mandible-arm-things on it’s head. Perhaps the headdress is also there to hide a disfigurement? Maybe their head is terribly injured and the back eyes don’t even work anymore.
Alternate theory: Baxxids find the back eyes to be super-sexy and the more up-tight ones find showing them to be completely scandalous.
Could just be a sexual dimorphism.
it could also be more of a veil than a solid opaque cloth.
This can’t be the first time this has happened.
Well, I imagine, just as if a human were to suddenly cry out bloody murder. The guards would react the same way.
It doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, everyone notices.
“…like a warhorn from the depths of hell itself.”
LOL, this video…
https://youtu.be/1BIgnEiT8ow
I’m sorry you had to hear that. 😛
The sound could always have ended up worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QuO09z-SI
I strongly considered using that as a ring tone, but then decided that hearing it once was enough.
What a haunting sound that is.
*shudders*
~Unmanly sounds` Finally! I’ve been waiting ages for a comic with Baxxids. Poor guy needs a hug though.
Might be a girl baxxid though. after all it looks suspiciously like the one shyly changing in the extras!
Fair enough. I have no real understanding of Baxxid morphology or social norms. My statement still stands though. Baxxid needs a hug.
Receiving hugs is a wonderful and risk-free thing for a baxxid.
Giving hugs is a different matter entirely.
whaddyamean? it’s easy! you just take your pointy stabby limbs of eviscerating death and wrap them around friend, victim, person, food, or loved one you’re comforting. Real easy nothing too it.
you do need to mind the head carapace its not soft and squishy like other species.
Nice to see the Baxxids show up for a minute.
Kass is awake and doing his ‘homework’ I see. Wonder what he’s reporting on now. Perhaps the difference in hearing now that he is a Yinglet.
This introduction seems too prolonged to be a one-off joke, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of these Baxxids.
What I’m wondering is if this is the very next morning or like a month or so later.
The Longer I look at the fourth panel the funnier it gets.
Turns out that boning is funny
especially when a harmless, death-by-hugs, snake-bug, accountant decides to out noise both of you and the squeaky bead from half a town away.
I like how in this fantastical world with all these crazy sentient creatures, humans mostly just seem annoyed with it all. Somehow, in the back of their minds, they instinctively know that somewhere there is a world where they don’t have to put up with this bullshit.
What little they know is that even without other sentient races, you can still find ‘somewhere, some time’ some one waking up/disturbing an entire village or community over small insect/creature terror and screaming at the top of their lungs as a result.
b-but that faceplate, it looks like it is an armored growth, how does it blush!
REALLY hard.
Secret hidden fetishes, scared beasts.
Nice to finally see Baxxids in the comic. Is that some sort of parasite that was attacking the noisy one?
I noticed that a bird swooped in to watch the commotion, or maybe ate that bug.
I’m curious as to what exactly “AAAAAAAAAA…” sounds like. Bagpipes; hmmm, an air-raid siren with ultrasonic components probably!
Baxxid blush FTW!
The white baxxids servant (or “hands” if you will), has an expression going on that reminds me of Lurch’s deadpan one, from the Adam’s family. He just needs to be 7 feet tall and grey/green to be his twin!
An unmoving faceplate can make it a bit difficult to convey expressions!
I think Lug Nut is referring to the Ivenmoth uniformed human.
I don’t think that human is a servant, Lug Nut, I think he’s just random human on the scene.
Interesting that Val thinks one of the Baxxids is a servant though…
Right on the nose Van! My mistake, perhaps Ivenmoth retainers are not allowed to part time as helpers (but considering the refugee retainers, I assumed they would be allowed to help / work for the fellow citizenry )
Also, that poor couple in panel 4. Talk about a mood killer…
Also also. I notice Yinglets have reeeeeaaly long, stiff, whisker-like eyelashes. Do those serve a function? Or was that already covered?
It was actually mentioned here at least: http://www.valsalia.com/comic/the-val-salian-regional-field-guide/fg04/
I want to say it was explained elsewhere but…I don’t recall.
since you have a ask a yinglet speech demo, do you have a what does screeching baxxid sound like demo followed by answering extremely dry questions on double ledger accounting systems, or inventory tracking, and what their opinions are on getting compared to X-17 from Warbot in Accounting.
at least baxxids can talk
Not sure if someone mentioned this but all the people in the scenes with the Baxxids never move. Conspiracy theory forming in my mind…
Hehe, cute comic this time around. Although I admit after the last frame I can’t help but imagine that Baxxid as speaking with George Takei’s voice.
That is, if George Takei had bagpipes instead of lungs. 😉
Good News everybody!
I have discovered a new species or murderous death worms. I am teaching them to speak using recordings I took of George Takei’s head.
I. Love. This. Gag.
As funny as the couple interrupted is, the more I come back to this page the more the last panel sells it. Just some grumpy guy in his purple bathrobe staring angrily at the 8′ long/tall knife-hand perfect killing machine.
so is it a brexxid couple? the one with the… face shawl (vale?) seems to have thinner back scales and is paler
I can’t seem to figure out a way that creatures which are basically unable to use tools could evolve both intelligence and complex linguistics.
I see no evidence to suggest that baxxids can’t use tools. Their mandibles (?) seem to be very articulate and someone or something placed the shroud over the female (?) one.
Even crows and dolphins have been shown to use rudimentary tools.
Or, maybe they’re genetically engineered beings created by ancient space-yinglets to serve their masters and protect them from indigenous species.
Seems doable to me. Just because humans developed tools with their intelligence doesnt mean it’s the only way. The animal kingdom on our world has a varying level of intelligence and linguistic skill, most dont use tools.
Say they evolved in an environment with scarce resources, evolution would then favor creatures with capable of long-term planning and the ability to smartly allicate resources. If they are predatory animals and but their prey is more dangerous than they are that would also favor intelligence to survive.
Furthermore, as long as they are social animals they would need to develop a way to communicate their ideas/plans (language), that communication method would then grow more complex as their intelligence evolved. Being social animals also helps develop a sense of “self” and “other,” encouraging true sentience.
Also, I would argue that humans probably developed their intelligence before really developing tools. Though we cheated by having our awesome hands.
I am soo glad that i found this comic!
God damn it, I just started this comic and now I have to make a yinglet Dungeons and Dragons character based on kobolds but smoller. Cute characters, I’d actually want to be a Yinglet.
There have been previous attempts to stat them out in older comments sections.
Don’t forget the the additional special trait of +100 to cuteness that both kobolds and yinglets get. It does not have any other effect in battle other than making the enemy say “Aww”
http://i.imgur.com/neK097r.png
..I.. I came here out of curiosity based on a few images I came across of Yinglets and in these comment sections, I learn about science things. I hate and love you all.
Hahaha, I can read between the lines on your comment… 😉
LOL, welcome!
aka. “…Oops”
Ugh, we’ve been sitting on this page for TWO YEARS. Update already.
😛
Hilarity!
… Well, half life 3 still hasn’t come out yet, thus we did not to the point in the story arc where the yinglet wielding a crowbar, saves Gordon Freeman from a walker that happened to latch onto the trail leading away from the city.
Does anybody else find those Baxxids adorable?
Also, I cannot believe that I got to the end this soon. This comic is awesome! Keep it up, dude!
It’s comin’, don’t worry!
YAY!
If you’re suffering from withdrawal, Valsalia has three panels up on the Deviantart site about what Vizlet has been dreaming about following Kass’s visit.
Also Val you still need to update the art and extras section.
. . . he/she/it are adorable.
Dat blush, doe.
I bet Baxxids would make great tsundere.
How do Baxxid move? Do they slither, do they crawl with those two hindclaws/legs, or is it a combination of the two?
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