8: Red spiders

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Red Spiders

Title text: They are six-legged spiders

Explanation

The full series of Red Spiders:

• 8: Red spiders
• 43: Red Spiders 2
• 47: Counter-Red Spiders
• 126: Red Spiders Cometh
• 427: Bad Timing

Trivia

• This is the eighth comic originally posted on livejournal. The previous was 13: Canyon. The next was 6: Irony. View archive here.
• [Original title]: "Spiders"
• [Original Randall quote]: "They're not spiders; they have six legs!"

Transcript

[Many six-legged red spiders standing on and hanging from cuboids. The cuboids hang in the air with no visible means of support. Some of the spiders have made a bridge out of themselves.]

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Discussion

In addition to 8 - Red spiders, Red spiders also appear in comic 42 - Red Spiders 2 and 126 - Red Spiders Cometh and are referenced in 77 - Counter-Red Spiders J-beda (talk) 01:51, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

The "cuboids" always reminded me of how I picture the "stars" in the Battle Room in Ender's Game -- mwburden 70.91.188.49 22:45, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

The drawing is reminiscent of M.C.Escher style, isn't it ? 37.160.7.233 19:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)