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Thematically similar, I’m afraid both these cartoons ended up generating confusion among some readers. I was trying to contrast a dog’s perspective on the world with that of our own.
The first cartoon deals with what I believe is a universal behavior in all dogs: their fascination for one another. When a dog riding in a car sees another dog on the street, there’s not much that’s going to distract the first animal from checking the second one out. Our own world (which is coming to an end) is not necessarily the dog’s.
In the second cartoon, I was just trying to suggest that it doesn’t really matter what you do for a living or how big of a jerk you are, your dog still likes to see you come home.
Both drawings imply that, no matter what the circumstances, dogs are, after all, still dogs.
i prefer the first one. i don’t think the second cartoon depicts vikings sufficiently gfuesomely for the gag of the dog still loving its owners to land.
Honestly, this probably happened historically at some point.
Of course Vikings would have dogs. And maybe would occasionally bring one along on raids just to have them around. But if he’s not a trained war dog, you’d want to leave him tied up at the boat so he wouldn’t follow you into the battle and potentially get hurt.
