Talk:427: Bad Timing

Here, the red spiders appear to be able to fly, whereas in previous red spiders comics they consistently relied on the floating blocks, cooperating in forming chains to get from one to the other. Even in 126: Red Spiders Cometh, the spiders are still just riding on the blocks. Richmond tudor (talk) 05:13, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

they're jumping from a place we can't see 173.245.54.20 18:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

as the guy above said, they're not flying, they're falling which is pretty clear from what's happening to the hot air balloon stevethenoob 11:08, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

E V O L U T I O N Caliban (talk) 08:50, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

The background looks like XKCD #4 4: Landscape (sketch) 162.158.255.136 16:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

The spiders here and in 442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel have shorter legs and lighter colouration than in the previous comics. The one in 442 is more brightly coloured than these ones, but I think that's just an accident. My guess is that there are two types of red spider, or the spiders have rapidly evolved.

[Edit: Maybe the ones in previous comics are standard, general-purpose red spiders, and these are a type of red spider specialized for dropping from a floating block onto their targets. Para-spiders, if you will. They have shorter, more robust legs that are less likely to break when the spider lands, and could deploy spider silk parachutes mid-fall to steer themselves and slow their descent just before landing.] PDesbeginner (talk) 17:09, 31 December 2025 (UTC)