Leprechauns
When I was drawing this comic I realized that I’ve never drawn a female leprechaun, nor have I ever seen a female leprechaun anywhere in pop culture. I’m not sure if leprechaun’s are inherently male or if it’s a Smurfette kind of thing where there is only one female leprechaun in the whole leprechaun world. Or maybe it’s an ant queen kind of thing where there is just one female who produces all the offspring and everyone else is a dude. Anyway, if you’re interested in more leprechaun Buni comics from the past, check out this, this and this.
Some female leprechauns for you 😉
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtd1fx_ducktales-luck-of-the-ducks-s01-e07-full_shortfilms&start=513
Actually bees are all female. The male bees are called drones.
There are some significant female leprechauns in Fred Perry’s Gold Digger universe. 😀
From what I understand, there are no female leprechauns traditionally. I think they just mate with human women and the offspring are full leprechaun. Because magic, that’s why.
Maybe leprechauns reproduce asexually meaning they are clones. Whatever you do, don’t let them get near water!
Yoana: Ryan referred to ants in the text, although ants are also that way (all females except for the male breeding stock, who are born, have sex, then die).
The really crazy thing is that in both cases, the males are parthenogenetic offspring of the mother (i.e. they only have a single parent – the mother self-fertilizes), while the females are all the results of mating. (The queen keeps a sac of her mate’s sperm that lasts for her entire breeding life, often up to 20 years in the case of ants.)
So that is why you never find gold…
What in the name of God do you have against poor little leprechauns? 🙁
Runescape features female leprechauns…they look horrifying o_o
Fluffy: there was a mention of bees alongside ants when I wrote the comment.
This rainbow is about to find out hiding a pot of gold isn’t as easy as it looks!
Actually there are not any female Smurfs, Smurfette is a construct that was made by Gargamel to trap the Smurfs.
There was a Disney Channel movie a few years back where the main character finds out he’s half human, half leprechaun, with his mom being the leprechaun. So there’s that!
@Gunslinger I think Ryan has a serious leprechaun prejudice…
@Gamechamp The Luck of the Irish right?
looks like the rainbow got revenge
The rainbow killed all the leprechaun’s to get all the gold for itself.