In the pokémon universe there are no animals other than pokémons.

Pokemon = animal.

But you wouldn't call animal rights, you would call either officer Jenny (or w/e they call her in the other countries) or the pokemon rangers!
That's why I don't get it.

The point of the joke (and the point of most other jokes so far in that comic) was to take an usual event in pokemon, but suddenly bring it to a more realistic, real-life context. The "main character" representing the fictious side of the story, the one people who play the videogames are familliar with; the more snarky main character represents an unexpected, out-of-context realistic light on each events. You could say this snarky character represents a reader of the comic which fails to have suspension of disbelief regarding the story, pointing out things that "dont make sense", even though it seems to make sense to every other character in the fictious universe.

Choosing to make the latter call animal rights was in order to make an out-of-place pop culture reference: real-life animal rights companies like peta obviously not existing in the Pokemon games or shows (or at least not in this form). Making them call officer Jenny instead of unexistant peta-like organisms would thus ruin the joke, as the whole basis of the comic's humor is to compare the pokemon fiction with reality.   

Even though you make it sound like a good one, the joke is still crappy
Thanks for explanation, I don't think even Majin Sam knew that.

Also if you kinda want to look into it... many animal rights groups actually protested against the pokemon games because they feared it would stard kids setting their pets on each other, and promoted cruelty.

Wow...
I never thought we could go into such depth with such a shit joke.

I'm an art student, it's my job to go in depth where there is no depth, for no reason.

PsychoSkull more or less hit the nail on the head.

This issue was quite below the standard of the others in my opinion, but I may as well post it anyway, just one of the things that always bugged me in the games

Ah, well if you want more inspiration or help in that specific regard. I would suggest googling "Magical Realism" and reading a few stories you find as a result. The classic standard (at least to get a good idea of what magical realism is) is "The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" but there are a lot to choose from.

Oh... And your word balloons are pretty good. (I guess...)

Haha, the first time I heard that line from the Pokemon Centre nurse I thought "Why the hell would they want to see me again?  I'm not even paying them for this, what benefit could they possibly have from me coming here with near-dead pokemon..."

I agree, this one isn't as good as the previous ones

Those jokes would sound much better if spoken.
But I never noticed that, what would the nurses get out of me coming back.

Those jokes would sound much better if spoken.
But I never noticed that, what would the nurses get out of me coming back.

I was always too busy focusing on why electricity is extra effective aganst creatures in with flight, when it is aganst the laws of physics for objects in mid-air to naturally attract or conduct electricity (unless all electric attacks come from straight above the target, which we all know is not true of the pokemon world) to ever notice the nurse thing.

I was always too busy focusing on why electricity is extra effective aganst creatures in with flight, when it is aganst the laws of physics for objects in mid-air to naturally attract or conduct electricity (unless all electric attacks come from straight above the target, which we all know is not true of the pokemon world) to ever notice the nurse thing.

I always thought it had something to do with birds always dying on power lines :/

I always thought it had something to do with birds always dying on power lines :/

Birds can stand on powerlines for hours and not be affected in the slightest. Which is why the whole reason the weakness to lightning thing pissed me off.
Any birds dieing on powerlines is just a coincidence. I gurantee that there are just as many that die on tree branches. (well, unless they perfer standing on powelines over tree branches, the point is if the electricity caused their death, they would die the instant they touched the line. And I've seen enough birds content on powerlines that I know that isn't the case)

Now if the birds peck at the transformers on powerlines on the other hand... Well that's a different matter entirely.

I must asume it's because birds HAVE NO WEAKNESS (other than wind) and are true gods, that the guys made one up for the sake of balance, otherwise my group of Pegeottos would reign supreme

I must asume it's because birds HAVE NO WEAKNESS (other than wind) and are true gods, that the guys made one up for the sake of balance, otherwise my group of Pegeottos would reign supreme

They'd still be weak to rock. That's why you always keep a rock move on your ground pokemon (since flying owns their ass otherwise).

In the pokémon universe there are no animals other than pokémons.

wrong: In some episodes, ash was seen catching(and eating) fish!

There's no real problem with her asking you to come back again.  It's just a subconscious thing--people say shit like that all the time without thinking about it.

yea but keep up the gr9 work