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: I think the ones in previous comics are builder spiders, and these are a type of red spider specialized for combat. In 126: Red Spiders Cometh, the spiders are assembling an attack fleet of mobile blocks that the combat spiders will ride over the city and then jump off of to deploy spider-silk parachutes and attack the city.] PDesbeginner (talk) 17:09, 31 December 2025 (UTC)