it has been at least 5 years since I first saw this
and I still don't fucking get it
Cow Tools
Asher Edwards
Hunter Price
Larson thought to himself, "What if cows had tools? Wouldn't that be silly! They'd probably be stupid and useless, because cows made them!" So then he drew a picture of a cow with some tools, and went, "Look, it's like human tools, except for cows! haha! Cows don't need tools!" That's the joke.
Brandon Brown
One comic that ruined a man's life. Poor bastard.
John Morris
It's a cow, because he likes cows. He said he always found them to be "fascinating" creatures.
They're supposed to be caveman(cow) tools. He said one of his mistake was making the saw look too much like a saw. was a wake up call that published work aren't little doodles you make for yourself.
Joshua Jones
Delete this comic, please.
>t. Larson
Juan Reed
Crazy how one identifiable tool makes people search for meaning in the randos. It's like a machine learning algorithm gone awry.
Joseph Perez
I think the joke is that a species of intelligent sapient cows would obviously use tools much different to humans, but they would still need some sort of cutting tool to be able to create things. Among the tools shown there is nothing there that could cut except the saw looking thing so the punchline is that saws/cutting tools will always be useful and included in the repertoire of any highly intelligent anthropomorphic species' toolset.
Jace Kelly
Easy does it
Liam Long
I don’t think he was even really that miffed by the response. The only time he mentioned being genuinely bothered by something after publication was when a reader notified him that he drew bananas growing upside down.
Carter Hernandez
What do you think they're for? There's obviously two varieties of udder cover, but how about the other? A backscratcher perhaps?