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T-Rex: You know what I miss?

T-Rex: I miss the days when you could do a favour for an animal, and it would repay you with a story!

God: I THINK YOU MEAN YOU MISS THE FICTIONAL STORIES WHERE THAT HAPPENS
T-Rex: Whatever! I love the idea of a world where good stories have such value, such POWER, that they could be offered as payment. Imagine living where good stories are currency, and so welcome that stories are listened to right away!
T-Rex: I'd be all, "Thanks for the Coke! Here's the tale of how the frog lost his voice."

Utahraptor: Wouldn't good storytellers want to help out their friends with a few stories?
T-Rex: Sure!

Utahraptor: And maybe some of these friends would write down the stories. And then set up stores to sell them. "Book" "stores", if you will! T-Rex: YOU ALREADY LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE STORIES HAVE VALUE. You've paid for them!
T-Rex: *gasp*

Off panel: And if you barter with a book, you're trading a story for something - literally!
T-Rex: OMG I'm totally going to go do that!!
T-Rex: Also sorry for saying "OMG" in real life
T-Rex: OMG I'm reevaluating some life choices right now

What are the haps my friends

January 12th, 2011: While yesterday's comic APPEARED to suggest an ending for T-Rex or at least someone who looks like him (and actually was an idea I had kicking around for the Last Dinosaur Comic Ever until I decided: NOPE) there are many alternate readings of it! Peter "TuneCore" Wells sent me a few:

"COOL: That's just our usual hero T-Rex brought back to life by the amazing technology of our far future, and living as free and happy as he can in a museum with a paleontology wing that periodically closes, giving him a few hours of night-time privacy, then TOO COOL.

"COOLER STILL: If everything and everyone in this strip was in that museum, including the house, the car, and the human, who in this far future are as anachronistic as a neanderthal would be to us today.

"COOLEST OF ALL: This far future is so advanced it's all post-Singularity, we're all in virtual space, anything can be resurrected, and still, for some reason we cannot with our primitive minds comprehend, parts of this space have to "close in five minutes."

Any of these seem entirely plausible

One year ago today: a DELETED SCENE had T-Rex going to Tiny Towne Island to help name Mr. Tusks' hypothetical son, one Tiny Tusks, Junior.

– Ryan