Someone once asked game director Junichi Masuda what would happen if a human ate a Rare Candy, and he said Rare Candies were probably edible for humans but wouldn't taste very good to us.

I suspect if humans tried eating supplements meant for Pokémon, there would be... side effects.

 After drawing that first clickbait cartoon, I just got hit with a flood of ideas for more questionable science news articles. First off, another one making fun of how news outlets feel the need to shoehorn T. rex into absolutely every paleo news story. And making fun of how undeservedly overlooked invertebrate paleontology is. Squishy things and things with exoskeletons need love too! <3

Another level of joke here is that this creature appears to be the first known bilaterian, which is a huge deal if you know what bilaterians are and how invertebrate paleontologists are trying to trace the origins of animals. But savvy news websites know the lay public only cares about T. rex. ;)

 One last cat scientist (for now)! Given Benjamin Franklin's famous kite experiment (which, contrary to popular belief, he conducted as safely as possible), I just knew his cat equivalent would use the opportunity to do something incredibly dangerous, as cats are wont to do.

Cats need to just stay inside and let me spoil them.

Shadow Play, Chapter 5

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Terra woke up rather later than she would have liked, but given what had happened last night, she would allow herself all the sleep she needed. Blynn was not in her bed, but the girls’ luggage had been brought into their room. Terra wandered groggily out of the bedroom to see her Neopets sitting at the table in the flat’s dining nook.

“Gooooood morning!” Blynn chirped. “I brought you your stuff!”

“Thanks,” Terra said with a tired grin. “I’m guessing that means the Defenders made it back okay.”

Isengrim nodded. “It took them an hour to return,” he said. “There was an… altercation at the hotel. Vile had sent more henchpets, as Tally predicted.”

Terra’s smile dropped. “Fantastic. Is everybody okay?”

“Thankfully, yes,” Hyren said. “The henchpets escaped, but the Defenders were able to protect all the civilians—and get our belongings back to us unscathed. I guess these guys really are more than just colourful costumes and corny catchphrases.”

“Of course they are!” Blynn said, pounding the table with a paw. “Don’t you read the comics?!”

 

 I drew this to call out clickbaity science news headlines; paleontology news articles in particular seem to try to shoehorn "Tyrannosaurus" or "T. rex" into every headline regardless of how irrelevant it is, because they know those key words will drive up the page views. (For astronomy articles it's usually "aliens" or "black hole".)

Can we just stop? Paleontology is cool no matter how much it does or does not have to do with T. rex.

(The dino featured here was based off Lesothosaurus, in case you were wondering. Nothing at all to do with T. rex. Just very adorable.)

 I think I actually kinda predicted Dynamaxing with this one.

 He might be overdoing things a bit.