T-Rex: I joke about trends forecasting, but it's actually super interesting! There are folks whose ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIVES are spent determining what stupid dress colours will be future popular. Okay, that didn't sound that interesting; I can do better.

T-Rex: They're professional futurists, for a small, well-defined aspect of the future!

T-Rex: Large corporations will turn to these forecasters and say "what colours should we make dresses in the future" and they'll say "for a million dollars, I will tell you" and then they pay a million dollars because nobody wants to make dresses in the wrong colour! Nobody has ever wanted that!!
Dromiceiomimus: What if they're wrong?
T-Rex: It's their job to not be wrong, Dromiceiomimus!

Utahraptor: How would you tell if they're wrong anyway?
T-Rex: What do you mean?

Utahraptor: If a trends forecaster says yellow is in, then a few years later you're gonna see a lot of yellow dresses in stores and hey presto, yellow is in.
T-Rex: That only works if there's a forecaster monoculture! But I see where you're going with this, Utahraptor, and I agree:

T-Rex: We should all get jobs at trends companies and tell everyone that in the future, skateboarding dogs in sunglasses is THE pattern to be seen in!
Off panel: I'm not -
T-Rex: Wait. Wait!! Do you want to go with "fried chicken mascot chicken eating pieces of fried chicken" instead?

February 17th, 2011: Oh snap, Pixeltime T-Rex is being discontinued and now it's your last chance to get it/him!!

From far away it looks like a regular T-Rex picture, and then as you get close it is revealed to be MODERN ART. I love this shirt and wear it out and about; web cartoonists say it's not cool to wear your own shirts but to them I say, take a look at this shirt.

Every time I discontinue a shirt I get disappointed emails weeks and even months down the road saying "I want one" and I have to write back sad emails saying "There are none left on the planet; they have all been purchased". You should buy a pixeltime T-Rex shirt for everyone you know, because then there will absolutely be fewer sad emails on the planet!!

One year ago today: in writing this comic I looked up what flavours fruit roll-ups currently come in, and among them is "Crazy Pix Cool Chix Berry Wave". friends, I call that poetry.

– Ryan