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Bondjimbond lemmy.ca Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca
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Feral Comics #21 by Brandon Weigel. Panel 1: A trio of human adventurers - a short female rogue with a bow, a male fighter in armour with a sword, and a female mage in a robe with a staff, are in a cave. Sets of red and green dragon talons reach toward them from the camera perspective. The fighter looks afraid, but the mage puts a hand out to stop him. Fighter: "Look out - Dragons!" Mage: "Don't worry. I studied Draconic!" Panel 2: Two huge dragons look menacingly at the trio, while the mage attempts to communicate in a script that looks like the dragon language from Skyrim. Panel 3: The dragons talk to each other while the human mage goes on. The green dragon looks confused, but the red dragon looks smug and confident. They do not understand the mage. Green dragon: "<Humans! What do you suppose they want?>" Red dragon: "Don't worry. I studied human.> Panel 4: The humans are puzzled as the red dragon addresses them in Chinese.

The fantasy trope that everyone of a given species shares the same language always seemed a bit funny to me.

Co-author credit on this comic to my daughter, who came up with the concept. (She makes a lot of comics about dragons, but she's too young to share them publicly.)
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