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Sometimes you just gotta do a chicken.

On this one, my stylus and I were at a crossroads. The stylus wanted to do a duck standing in a pond, and I wanted to do a chicken. So we drew straws and I won.

I let it leave the blue lines where it had intended to put the pond, but I insisted on a comb and wattle, which were clearly chicken gear. And of course–no webbed feet.

Then along came a rooster.