# Perry Bible Fellowship--I don't get this one **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234 "2024-12-27T18:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/1 "2024-12-27T18:06:34Z")
For the life of me, I am drawing a blank on this. What’s the joke? [What? LINK](https://pbfcomics.com/comics/invasion/) ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/2 "2024-12-27T18:10:26Z")
Big strong men fleeing in terror from a spider. Ha ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/3 "2024-12-27T18:22:44Z")
Maybe the spider is an invasive species doing an invasion of its kwn? Imspired by the Joro? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/4 "2024-12-27T18:25:17Z")
It’s this… the joke is this. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/5 "2024-12-27T19:30:09Z")
The first two panels make it look like they’re charging valiantly **toward** an enemy on the shore. The last panel subverts this by revealing that they’re fleeing in terror **from** a spider on the boat. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/6 "2024-12-27T20:37:01Z")
This is the correct interpretation, imho. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/7 "2024-12-27T20:38:26Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > The first two panels make it look like they’re charging valiantly **toward** an enemy on the shore. Not to nitpick, but didn’t Vikings charge towards helpless victims rather than enemies? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/8 "2024-12-27T21:31:24Z")
True - as was extensively documented by another cartoonist: [![](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mixcollage-02-feb-2024-02-28-pm-4414.jpg) ](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mixcollage-02-feb-2024-02-28-pm-4414.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/9 "2024-12-27T21:45:42Z")
I disagree. The way I see it, the Vikings arrive with evil intent at a very small hamlet by the coast. They disembark and run towards a hamlet, attaking it. I see an attack in the second panel: look how they hold their weapons. That is not fleeing in fear. But they are defeated. Killed to the last man by the inhabitants of a defenseless, seemingly harmless hamlet by the coast. Third panel: They will never return to the ship, and a spider makes a web on the deserted ship. The spider is a symbol of abandonement. The joke is: Serves them right! ---
**Author:** ![guero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guero/32/136_2.png) [@guero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guero)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/10 "2024-12-28T00:32:04Z")
There is a website, appropriately named Comics I Don’t Understand (Cidu.info) that took up this particular comic a couple of weeks ago. They came up with the same few interpretations as the Dope, but it was also pointed out that this is not an unusual situation coming from Perry Bible Fellowship. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/11 "2024-12-28T04:56:17Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > look how they hold their weapons. That is not fleeing in fear Looking like they’re attacking is the setup for the punchline. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234/12 "2024-12-28T08:25:58Z")
They did both - they weren’t averse to fighting other warriors. The Great Heathen Army fought in plenty of stand-up fights.