Must be a relative of Thag Simmons after whom the Thagomizer is named.

I’m not sure why the dog has a viola.

I also love it when a rather limited media format like comic strips is so deep (I don’t know any other word) that it influences the real world like that. Another example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd?wprov=sfla1

That’s so cool. A type of chewing louse found on owls. How specific.

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator’s “voice”.