Talk:126: Red Spiders Cometh - Revision history

149.102.224.174: The XXX "Cometh" is a subconscious reference to "the iceman cometh", made in that way to sound profound.

2026-03-08T15:02:39Z

The XXX "Cometh" is a subconscious reference to "the iceman cometh", made in that way to sound profound.

PDesbeginner at 20:45, 31 December 2025

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PDesbeginner at 17:26, 31 December 2025

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42.book.addict at 00:07, 5 October 2025

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162.158.30.114: Fixed typo.

2023-03-04T12:42:27Z

Fixed typo.

162.158.30.86: Added pun.

2023-03-04T12:40:35Z

Added pun.

172.69.71.95: The scale is not predetermined.

2021-08-17T15:01:58Z

The scale is not predetermined.

Kazvorpal at 01:45, 21 September 2019

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141.101.107.60 at 10:45, 6 February 2018

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00N8 at 09:10, 6 February 2018

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 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.225.92|108.162.225.92]] 14:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 :I think it is probably a pun on "comets", which the spiders are kind of falling down along with. 02:18, {{unsigned ip|162.158.90.187|8 November 2015 (UTC)}}
 They're mites, dammit.—[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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	:I agree with 72.193.184.110, I think they are roughly human-sized. I have always imagined them like this, and with bodies the size of a human head, the legs make them as wide as a human's height. I do think that the spiders in [[427: Bad Timing]] are a different variety, though, due to their shorter legs and lighter coloured bodies. Also, imagine the blocks in this comic to be carrying the spider troops toward the city, like aircraft, and their slightly darker blue leads me to the belief that they are a different variety of block, a mobile one. Humming ominously as they move unwavering toward the city's airspace, seemingly unaffected by wind or the weight of their red spider passengers crawling over their surface. [[User:PDesbeginner\|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner\|talk]]) 17:26, 31 December 2025 (UTC)		:I agree with 72.193.184.110, I think they are roughly human-sized. I have always imagined them like this, and with bodies the size of a human head, the legs make them as wide as a human's height. I do think that the spiders in [[427: Bad Timing]] are a different variety, though, due to their shorter legs and lighter coloured bodies. Also, imagine the blocks in this comic to be carrying the spider troops toward the city, like aircraft, and their slightly darker blue leads me to the belief that they are a different variety of block, a mobile one. Humming ominously as they move unwavering toward the city's airspace, seemingly unaffected by wind or the weight of their red spider passengers crawling over their surface. [[User:PDesbeginner\|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner\|talk]]) 17:26, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
		+	::New thought: based on how we never see the long-legged red spiders fighting, only building (in [[8]] and [[43]]) and we never see the short-legged kind building, only fighting (in [[427]] and on the back cover of xkcd: volume 0), I think that the short-legged ones are for fighting, and the long-legged ones are for building. The spiders here aren't riding their vehicles to attack the city, they're putting the finishing touches on an attack fleet. [[User:PDesbeginner\|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner\|talk]]) 20:45, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

	Guys? Anyone feel that the grammar error (unless I'm to be a silhouette on someone's desk soon) is worth mention? "Cometh" is third person ''singular'' ("he cometh", but "they come") after all... Unless I'm wrong.		Guys? Anyone feel that the grammar error (unless I'm to be a silhouette on someone's desk soon) is worth mention? "Cometh" is third person ''singular'' ("he cometh", but "they come") after all... Unless I'm wrong.

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 Does anyone else think that the red spiders are supposed to be revealed as unexpectedly huge in this entry of the Red Spiders series, and that's to what the "Uh-oh" in the title text refers? That is, the humans in "[[Counter-Red_Spiders|Counter-Red Spiders]]" thought they could fight the red spiders, but the perspective in "Red Spiders Cometh" reveals the red spiders to be building-sized rather than person-sized? ...Or am I probably just over-thinking this, and the spiders' blocks are curving down from the viewer toward the city, resulting in a false apparent size, and the "Uh-oh" just refers to their arrival? Because it really seems to me that 1: the spiders are on a much larger scale than humans, and 2: this is a troubling revelation as of "Red Spiders Cometh". [[User:JET73L|JET73L]] ([[User talk:JET73L|talk]]) 07:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 :I imagined them to be human sized. Still scary and formidable prompting the same title response. I would love to see the author do another Red Spiders comic. I want to see the fight between them.[[Special:Contributions/72.193.184.110|72.193.184.110]] 07:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 :there's no way to tell what the size of the spiders is. the perspective has the spiders closer to the observer (us) than the buildings, so they might actually be any size (depending on how close they are). {{unsigned ip|108.162.254.85|21:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)}}
 :The comic "Bad Timing" indicates their bodies are about the size of a human head. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.177|108.162.238.177]] 14:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 ::From which we should be able to figure out how close they are. [[User:Richmond tudor|Richmond tudor]] ([[User talk:Richmond tudor|talk]]) 05:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 :Personally, I think if them as all being in the micro scale - the city & people too, which would explain how people can make such a tall human ladder in the counter red spiders comic. Maybe small enough to float down on the blocks (because air is a proportionally more viscous fluid at that scale iirc)? Them again I imagine them being inspired by clover mites, which is probably totally unfounded {{unsigned|00N8|09:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC)}}
 Guys? Anyone feel that the grammar error (unless I'm to be a silhouette on someone's desk soon) is worth mention? "Cometh" is third person ''singular'' ("he cometh", but "they come") after all... Unless I'm wrong.

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 Does anyone else think that the red spiders are supposed to be revealed as unexpectedly huge in this entry of the Red Spiders series, and that's to what the "Uh-oh" in the title text refers? That is, the humans in "[[Counter-Red_Spiders|Counter-Red Spiders]]" thought they could fight the red spiders, but the perspective in "Red Spiders Cometh" reveals the red spiders to be building-sized rather than person-sized? ...Or am I probably just over-thinking this, and the spiders' blocks are curving down from the viewer toward the city, resulting in a false apparent size, and the "Uh-oh" just refers to their arrival? Because it really seems to me that 1: the spiders are on a much larger scale than humans, and 2: this is a troubling revelation as of "Red Spiders Cometh". [[User:JET73L|JET73L]] ([[User talk:JET73L|talk]]) 07:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 :I imagined them to be human sized. Still scary and formidable prompting the same title response. I would love to see the author do another Red Spiders comic. I want to see the fight between them.[[Special:Contributions/72.193.184.110|72.193.184.110]] 07:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
-: I imagined them to be human sized. Still scary and formidable prompting the same title response. I would love to see the author do another Red Spiders comic. I want to see the fight between them.[[Special:Contributions/72.193.184.110|72.193.184.110]] 07:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
+:there's no way to tell what the size of the spiders is. the perspective has the spiders closer to the observer (us) than the buildings, so they might actually be any size (depending on how close they are). {{unsigned ip|108.162.254.85|21:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)}}
 :The comic "Bad Timing" indicates their bodies are about the size of a human head. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.177|108.162.238.177]] 14:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 ::From which we should be able to figure out how close they are. [[User:Richmond tudor|Richmond tudor]] ([[User talk:Richmond tudor|talk]]) 05:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
+:Personally, I think if them as all being in the micro scale - the city & people too, which would explain how people can make such a tall human ladder in the counter red spiders comic. Maybe small enough to float down on the blocks (because air is a proportionally more viscous fluid at that scale iirc)? Them again I imagine them being inspired by clover mites, which is probably totally unfounded {{unsigned|00N8|09:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC)}}
 Guys? Anyone feel that the grammar error (unless I'm to be a silhouette on someone's desk soon) is worth mention? "Cometh" is third person ''singular'' ("he cometh", but "they come") after all... Unless I'm wrong.
 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.225.92|108.162.225.92]] 14:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 They're mites, dammit.—[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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 One of the interesting things about this strip is that top and bottom work at ANY scale. Are the mites small and in the foreground, traveling away from us and approaching the city (this is the interpretation that puts them the right size for #427)? Midground, building-sized spiders, hovering above the city as the article claims? Or far distance, city-sized spiders, approaching the city from space, not following the curve of the Earth? Is the city a microcity? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.95|172.69.71.95]] 15:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
-Look, he's crawling up my wall,
+Look, he's crawling up my wall...
-Black and hairy, very small,
+black and hairy, very small...
-Now he's up above my head,
+now he's up above my head...
-Hanging by a little thread,
+hanging by a little thread...
 Boris the Red Spider!

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	One of the interesting things about this strip is that top and bottom work at ANY scale. Are the mites small and in the foreground, traveling away from us and approaching the city (this is the interpretation that puts them the right size for #427)? Midground, building-sized spiders, hovering above the city as the article claims? Or far distance, city-sized spiders, approaching the city from space, not following the curve of the Earth? Is the city a microcity? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.95\|172.69.71.95]] 15:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)		One of the interesting things about this strip is that top and bottom work at ANY scale. Are the mites small and in the foreground, traveling away from us and approaching the city (this is the interpretation that puts them the right size for #427)? Midground, building-sized spiders, hovering above the city as the article claims? Or far distance, city-sized spiders, approaching the city from space, not following the curve of the Earth? Is the city a microcity? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.95\|172.69.71.95]] 15:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Look, he's crawling up my wall,
		+	Black and hairy, very small,
		+	Now he's up above my head,
		+	Hanging by a little thread,
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		+	Boris the Red Spider!
		+	Boris the Red Spider!
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		+	With apologies to The Who.
		+	[[Special:Contributions/162.158.30.86\|162.158.30.86]] 12:40, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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	:I think it is probably a pun on "comets", which the spiders are kind of falling down along with. 02:18, 8 November 2015 (UTC)		:I think it is probably a pun on "comets", which the spiders are kind of falling down along with. 02:18, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
	They're mites, dammit.—[[User:Kazvorpal\|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal\|talk]]) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)		They're mites, dammit.—[[User:Kazvorpal\|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal\|talk]]) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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		+	One of the interesting things about this strip is that top and bottom work at ANY scale. Are the mites small and in the foreground, traveling away from us and approaching the city (this is the interpretation that puts them the right size for #427)? Midground, building-sized spiders, hovering above the city as the article claims? Or far distance, city-sized spiders, approaching the city from space, not following the curve of the Earth? Is the city a microcity? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.95\|172.69.71.95]] 15:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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	:I think it is probably a pun on "comets", which the spiders are kind of falling down along with. 02:18, 8 November 2015 (UTC)		:I think it is probably a pun on "comets", which the spiders are kind of falling down along with. 02:18, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
		+	They're mites, dammit.—[[User:Kazvorpal\|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal\|talk]]) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)