(x, why?) Mini: Discriminant

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Not real roots? He must be imagining it!

I thought about adding a bee square, but I didn't think about it for very long.

The English language is good for allowing the use of ants for puns.

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Math Horror Movies: THEm!

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>Spoiler: There's no top. That's anticlimactic, I know.

So this one came about accidentally while I was working on "The y". I almost made a joke in the aftertext and then realized I had a comic.

And top of this, I borrowed the spider from the work files from Ants vs. Spiders, which had all those lovely ants as well.

The one thing that killed me was that I found the background and started making the comic, forgeting that I needed to fit it into my screen. I could have avoided a couple of problems. For one thing, I would have made the slope less steep, and fit more ants on it. Second, I actually had to slightly rotate the ants to fit them on this line when they would have fit a more gentle slope just fine.

Planning always helps. Having time to plan ... well, that's a different buggy situation. Anyway, que sera, sera, whatever plus b plus b.

And as these are all "B" films, don't expect to see The b any time soon. Not until next year when I'm either desperate enough to use it, or forgetful enough to think I thought of it for the first time!

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Cube Square

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When they tell you that you can't have giant ants, they mean that you can't mutate a regular ant into a giant one. But could they evolve that way on their own?

Actually, that was the point of a SF story I read years ago, I think, in one of the Dangerous Visions anthologies.

This isn't the first time giant ants have appeared in (x, why?). For more giant ants, check out Ants vs. Spiders.

And then there are these:

Ants vs. Spiders

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