The constellation Triangulum has always incited me to rage confused me. It's arguably the second lamest of the constellations (only losing to its 16th-century Southern Hemisphere cousin, Triangulum Australe, which is even worse because it's a totally unoriginal southern equivalent of something that was already totally unoriginal).

So I was really surprised to find out that Triangulum actually dates back to ancient Greece. The Greeks were usually so much more original than that. Triangulum doesn't even have a story or a myth behind it, it's just... always been a triangle.

Naturally, that meant I had to make up a myth for it. I guess I felt sorry for it.

 Oh, the Team Rocket Grunts. They had some of the most fun dialogue to work off of. I enjoyed portraying them as completely incompetent in so many ways, because let's face it, in real life criminals are pretty dumb. (And let's not forget the Team Rocket trio in the anime, who even after 25 years never figured out that trying to capture Pikachu was a complete waste of their time.)

I just like how this totally random Grunt in Mt. Moon thinks he's cool enough that he can complain to the higher-ups that a 10-year-old beat him in a Pokémon battle, and they'll blacklist the kid instead of firing him for being totally useless.

 I guess this double entendre only works if you have an Electric-type in your party. Which I did, so I could make the joke.

 Sometimes the stuff NPCs say can be so vague that it's left open to interpretation. Lass's line in the first panel is what she actually says after your battle with her. And that's all she says. So maybe she's talking about losing the battle. Or maybe she's talking about her contact lens falling out in a dark cave. But I'm already off to battle the next trainer, bye!

... I'm not sure why I'm so mean to Lass in these comics.

 Wait, I think maybe he meant useful in Pokémon battles. (In which case actually Zubat is pretty awful because Bite is a Normal-type move in Gen I, and Leech Life does next to nothing, and the fact that it's effective against Psychic-types is totally cancelled out by the fact that Zubat is part Poison-type, and basically just wait until Gen II rolls around with Crobat.)

If you're getting tired of all these old Pokémon comics, well, no one's forcing you to read this blog. I've been dealing with some health issues lately and haven't had a lot of time or energy or ability for new creative stuff. For the time being I need to rest and recuperate and fail at cooking Indian cuisine and try desperately to get around to playing Pokemon Legends: Z-A because those early-purchase bonuses are vital to my survival

Also I hope you caught that Zubat is wearing glasses even though it doesn't have eyes.

 I'm going through Mt. Moon and just thinking to myself, what are all these kids doing hanging out in a labyrinthine, Pokémon-infested cavern complex? Is spelunking the hot new after-school activity in Kanto?

And then there's Lass, whose "friends" told her to wait for them in the middle of a cave under a mountain and then went to the arcade.

 Maybe that's not really something you should be bragging about, Shorts Boy Youngster.