tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75590524048142946102024-03-13T08:05:30.045-07:00Something Webcomic-RelatedWhere words meet pictures meet more words. Updated Monday, Wednesday, FridayCarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-57636857796634266942010-11-01T01:00:00.000-07:002010-11-01T03:31:09.456-07:00Grim Tales From Down Below #1, 0-25 [Guest Work By Planet Cool](Hello, friends! This is ordinarily where Questionable Content #1 would be, but my lovely friend Planet Cool said he wanted to do a guest commentary for me here, as if I was worth the attention. Anyway, here we go, with his look at Grim Tales From Down Below! It's rather shorter than mine, because he wanted it up by November 1. Give him lots of love!)<br />
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you for the lovely introduction, Carth. And thanks to <i>you</i> all, as well! Please, folks, remain seated. My, my, what a great crowd!</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello! I’m Planet Cool, Internet vagabond extraordinaire. If you Google my name, maybe you’ll find some fanfics or something. I don’t usually do much blogging, but when I found out Carth was embarking on this nice webcomic-related venture, I jumped aboard at once, ready to steal her thunder… or at least borrow some of it for a little while. I’ve decided to take it upon myself to review the real crème-de-la-crap when it comes to comics, stuff Carth herself does well not to go anywhere near. If I defy the odds and manage not to sully her image, you may see me again, doing web commentaries on stuff like <i>Sonichu</i> and other such abominations. But, today, since it’s Halloween, I thought we might all celebrate by holding a cushion tightly against our crotches and plumbing deep into Bleedman’s…</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, okay, so it’s not exactly Halloween. I just love you guys so much, I decided to put this up three hundred and sixty-four days in advance. Aren’t I just the greatest?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway… Bleedman. Or Vinson Ngo, as his momma calls him. Crimony. I may only be a child at heart, but I <i>still</i> feel uncomfortable around this guy. If you’re at all familiar with the world of webcomics, then you know why Vinson is such a controversial artist. If you’re not, well, I’m not saying the guy is a pedophile, I’m just saying that, given the choice between luring a small child into an unmarked van with candy and ice cream and <i>not</i> luring a small child into an unmarked van with candy and ice cream, he would more than likely choose the former. I’m also not saying that reading his comics puts you on all FBI watch lists currently existing or to be created. I just have a strong suspicion it might.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But let’s be fair here. While it’s clear that Vinson <i>really</i> enjoys drawing prepubescent girls in their underwear, we don’t know whether he acts on these sexual impulses in real life—and judging by the fact that he’s not in prison right now, I think it’s safe to assume that he doesn’t. I mean, it’s not like he makes any effort whatsoever to hide his kinks, and believe me, that’s not the only one he has.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And, credit where credit is due: the man can draw. His writing could use a little polish, but his artwork is always crisp, clean, and professional-looking, if somewhat lacking in style. But, for some reason, that only makes things worse. Knowing that the author likes looking at children’s asses keeps you from truly enjoying the comic, no matter how cool or interesting it may be. It’s like when you read <i>The Republic</i>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, I’m only beating around the bush. In the words of Judge Roy Spleen and Common Cultural Expression Maker # 382, let’s get this party started. There’s plenty of incest, lolicon, necrophilia, toy shipping, and not-so-beloved children’s cartoon characters initiating historic massacres to see and not hardly enough time to see them all in. Happy Halloween! Start here: <a href="http://grim.snafu-comics.com/index.php?comic_id=0">http://grim.snafu-comics.com/index.php?comic_id=0</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#0: Yeah, this is one of those comics that start at the nothing-th issue. How cute. Okay, so here we meet our protagonists, Grim Junior and Mini Mandy. Fellow Cartoon Network alumni, no prizes for guessing out of whose loins these two sprung. We also see that Mini Mandy speaks in a flowery, faux-Shakespearean dialect. You don’t suppose that might be a bit of a pain to read, do you, Vinson? Nah, of course not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#1: Necropollins. Actually, that’s kind of a cool name. I sort of wish I’d thought of it first and used it in one of my many ill-conceived creative ventures. In any case, right off the bat we see that the art is excellent. Unlike Bleedman’s other comic, <i>Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi</i>, this one started out smooth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#2: Nothing much to see here. Move along, people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#3: Oh, hey, look, it’s the bad guy from <i>Spawn</i>. What’s his name? Malebolgia? Something like that. Man, you can almost smell the grunge-ridden mid-nineties air coming off of him. By the way, this page is titled “Violator”, but I don’t see the Violator anywhere. He’s the big, scary monster clown played by John Leggy-What’s-His-Face, right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#4: If this were a real comic book, this would probably be a full-page spread, I’m thinking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#5: Is Malebolgia really this much of a whiny brat in the comics, or is this just an example of Bleedman’s terrible writing? I’m not a fan of Todd McFarlane’s work and couldn’t sit through the movie, so you’ll have to enlighten me. Oh, and, apparently, Spawn has been demoted from vigilante-from-hell to nanny-from-hell. That’s life, I guess.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#6: And now, things start to get Bleedman-y. You’ll notice that Grim and Mandy (of <i>Grim & Evil</i> fame) are now a married couple. Mandy, who canonically is in elementary school, appears to be of consensual age, so I congratulate the author on his remarkable restraint. <i>We weren’t always this close,</i> Grim Junior says of Mini Mandy. If you know where this is going, go ahead and get all your wincing out of the way now. It’ll save you a whole lot of time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#7-9: Grim Junior asks what Halloween is and, boom, in saunters the entire opening number from <i>A Nightmare Before Christmas</i> in all its Hot Topical glory. We know Bleedman likes to play with other people’s toys almost as much as he likes low-angle shots of ten-year-olds, but this is the first time I’ve seen him steal an entire sequence wholesale. Honestly, though, it looks so damn good, I can’t really hold it against him. Check out Jack’s evil grin at the end.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#10: It’s unsurprising that Grim and Jack are brothers; in fact, I can’t believe I’d never noticed the family resemblance. The first time I read this comic, though, I assumed the Jack in question was Jack O’Lantern, i.e. the pumpkin-headed villain from the <i>Grim & Evil</i> Halloween episode. That would’ve been a lot more interesting, methinks, what with Grim having sent him to “the Netherworld” (wink, wink) in the end and all that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#11: Mini Mandy dances with Jack. Fun times.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By the way, anyone have an idea why Mini Mandy speaks <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe">ye olde butcherede Englishe</a>? Grim and Mandy sure don’t, nor do Jack and Sally. So where’d she pick it up? And who names their kid Mini Mandy, anyway? Grim Junior I can sort of understand, but adding a “mini” prefix to a child’s name comes off as a horrible way to diminish their self-esteem. It’s as though Mandy’s saying “You’re like me, but less so.” Then again, that sounds like exactly the sort of thing she would do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#12: My, that Grim Junior. Way to be a dick to your aunt, dude. Then again, nothing adds a touch of good, clean nineties lightheartedness like a break dancing scene, and God knows this morbid comic is in desperate need of that. You almost wouldn’t believe there’s an abortion joke played for laughs later on, as well as a bunch of other things that will make you want to crawl into the shower and never come out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#13: Mandy drinks tea. She comes off as alarmingly motherly, telling her hubby that the kids will eventually be all right. I’m not sure I buy this; she’s probably prepping them up for a blood sacrifice later on or something. Meanwhile, Grim Junior continues to act like a spoiled brat (which, in all fairness, he probably is) and Mini Mandy spews some more non-poetry, kindly comforting her brother although he just tried to upstage her. I smell some serious Corrupt The Cutie up ahead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#14: Did Zero always have a pumpkin for a nose? Huh, I hadn’t noticed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#15: Lock, Shock, and Barrel capture Grim Junior. At least, I think that’s what their names are. To be honest, I was never a big fan of this movie. When I was a kid, I thought it was scary, and now I think it’s pretentious. I also don’t care for the fact that it’s nigh-universally considered a Tim Burton film even though Henry Selick did all the real work. If I’m rambling, that’s only because there’s not a lot to say about this boring full-page spread.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#16: As it turns out, the three little rascals only want to get to know Grim Junior a little better. Astonishingly for characters in a Bleedman comic, they don’t mean that in the Biblical sense. They offer him a plate of cookies that, apparently, bite back. Kind of a funny touch, that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#17: Oh, hey! The Bad Book! I didn’t think I’d see <i>that</i> again! I’ll say this about Vinny: he knows just the right way to prod a fella’s nostalgia gland. Speaking of, whatever happened to that brain-eating singing meteor? <i>The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy</i> ran for a million seasons, and the best character in it was only in one episode. I don’t think Bleedman makes mention of it in any of his comics, either. Pretty big disappointment, that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#18: Whoops, sorry, that’s not the Bad Book, it’s only Grim’s diary. It mostly reiterates things we already know from the show. If you’re not a fan, some of this stuff might be new to you, but you wouldn’t be reading this comic if you weren’t a fan, so I’ll totally understand if you decide to have yourself a little snooze for the next one-third of the comic. I’ll wake you when Vinny starts deviating from canon, which coincidentally is also when all the degeneracy starts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#19: Ah, now <i>here’s</i> a really good splash page! Tons of color, tons of half-remembered one-off characters from the show. Let’s see if we can list them all, shall we? In addition to Grim, Billy, and Mandy, we have… Li’l Porkchop, the Nerve, Saliva, Billy’s cat (I forget his name), that weird makeshift Mandy toy that wants to PLAY, Nergal, Nergal Junior, Mindy, Hoss Delgado, Eris, Jeff the spider, Nigel Planter, Trykie, Irwin, and vampire Santa… did we miss anyone?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#20: Did Grim really start to care about Billy and Mandy at any point in the canon, or is this purely an invention of Bleedman’s? I seem to remember that, sometimes, Grim would go out of his way to keep the children out of harm’s way, but he just as often tried to slice them into mincemeat. In any case, here we see him breaking the rules of his profession by adding sand to their hourglasses (extending their life spans, basically), which is honestly something I think he would do. He’s just a big softie on the inside, after all, and in this comic he’s remarkably well characterized. He even retains his Caribbean accent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#21: Oh, look who finally showed up. We’ve been expecting you since the third page, dude. Then again, maybe that’s not the Violator at all; maybe it’s just Bleedman. Ba-dump-tsh. But seriously now, folks. Mandy realizes that Grim has been messing with the Natural Order of Things (that’s the thing that got messed with all the time in the show, right?) and walks off looking smug. She’s got some evil scheme cooking in her brain, that little one has.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#22: A pool scene. Actually, this is pretty loyal to the spirit of the show, the dialogue is well-written, and there’s nothing particularly sick going on. Crimony, this is a <i>good</i> scene! And the plot is starting to move forward, too. Mandy coerces Grim into showing her the hourglass, and indeedy-doo, he’s been surreptitiously adding sand to it. This is getting interesting; let’s see if that lasts at all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#23: I like the first panel. Reminds me of that artsy-fartsy game that just came out for the… PlayStation 3, was it? The one with the giant-headed little boy trying to find his sister in the forest; you know the one I mean. Anyway, I’m a Wii man through and through, so I’ll just say this looks like that really sweet scene from the <i>Donkey Kong Country Returns</i> trailer. Anyhoo, Mandy commits suicide to see whether Grim will really reap her soul. My money says he’s not gonna. Also, notice that the paper on the kitchen counter says that <i>Teen Titans</i> has recently been cancelled. How do cartoons work in Bleedman’s world? Anyway, I point this out because the real show ended in 2006, whereas at this point in the world of the comic, it isn’t 2001 yet. We know because Mandy hasn’t committed the September 11<sup>th</sup> terrorist attacks yet. Spoiler alert, I guess. Watch your plot holes, Vinny, you sick bastard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#24: Chapter two starts here. On this page, Billy streaks naked through the kitchen and we see that Mandy has some kind of bizarre foot deformity. That isn’t intentional, though; Bleedman is just no good at drawing human feet, for some reason. I guess that’s the one fetish he doesn’t have. Anyway, Grim shows Mandy Billy’s hourglass, which is a pretty neat affair. Lookit that thing go. I’d like to see Sonic the Hedgehog run through that thing, actually.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">#25: It would appear Bleedman has photoshopped a portrait of Hitler into Mandy’s bedroom. Pretty low-class of you, bro. I mean, it’s been established in canon that Mandy is an <i>anarchist</i>, not a fascist, so she’s pretty much the most unlikely person in the world to reverentially hang up a picture of Der Führer. For crying out loud, man, keep your facts straight. On the other hand, there’s a picture of Piff on her mirror, so that makes it all better. Oh, and here we see Mandy freeing Grim of his eternal “best friends” contract. My, my, where might <i>this</i> be going…</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, that’s the twenty-fifth page. My work here is finished. If you liked what I did (or if you hated it; I’m not picky), go ahead and let me know in the comments. And tell your friends about this site, won’t you, folks? Really, Carth is doing some fine work up in here, she deserves some recognition. As for me, I’ll be back next time to lead you through twenty-five more pages of canon-raping madness and deviancy. As the Brits say in American comedies… cheerio!</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-34442360360171971092010-10-31T11:57:00.000-07:002010-10-31T11:57:14.409-07:00Cyanide and Happiness #5, 400-500 [YAWN]<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, I hope you all enjoyed that as much as I enjoyed my (ahem) break! But now we’re back on track, mostly, and I am going to regale you with some lovely tales of stick figures and improper behavior. That’s right, it’s Cyanide and Happiness time once again! Last time was a bit of a disappointment, but let’s hope this batch has at least three winners.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">;]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a name='more'></a>Anyway, let’s get this party on the road. Go to <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/401/">http://www.explosm.net/comics/401/</a> (I am never, never going to get used to Cyanide and Happiness strips actually going in numeric order) and click the magic “next” button to progress through this adventure!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">401. Goodness me I must say that fellow is twisted in more ways than one. Still, fellow, that does not give you ANY Freudian excuses! Setting fire to schools is bad!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">402. I don’t know if there’s any single birthday upon which you become a man. In some cultures it is twelve, others thirty. And I believe you become a monster when you kill a man. Sorry, Grey #2. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">403. I have to say, the “queen all your life” thing is pretty sweet! And then he did that to that old lady and it all went down the drain. How would you like to be knocked over in old age, hm? Though I think we laugh at our horror at him. Yes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">405. Don’t mine me, I’m just over here, you know, growing a beard</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">404. INTERNAL SERVER ERROR</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I like that Blue feels down about his joke in the last panel. *hugs them both*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">406. I think there’s a Japanese word for this, for someone that only looks beautiful from the back. This I think is a pretty severe case. Though Grey is kind of being a meanie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">407. REMEMBER THE ALAMO. Everyone remembers it, no one knows what it was, except that either David Bowie or Davy Crockett died at it. Oh, look, a car. The stick guy in it is smiling!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">409. Excuse me while I laugh my face off at Waldo in C&H form. That’s probably the most creative thing in the comic so far. Hopefully in a sea of solid colors he’ll stand out…just a little! 8D;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">408. This is actually a pretty good joke even if I’m not laughing at the moment. What is with these occasional number reversals?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">410. Why does it seem like there’s always someone named Simmons in offices? Is there some sort of famous Simmons I am not aware of? Anyway, looks like this place has a revolutionary dress code. *puts on sunglasses* YEAAAHHHHHHH</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">411. WOO, C&H SUPERHEROES. Superjerk is a new addition to the superhero team. He will save you, but then rip you off again in a dickish way! Makes you wonder why he saved you in the first place! You know why? Because he’s a jerk!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">412. I often find myself wondering why one would steal a stop sign. Is there some sort of secret benefit to them of which I am currently unaware? Would knowing why the stealing of stop signs is so awesome make me a much better person than usual? And I don’t think this guy is the GREATEST thief in the world. He didn’t steal the policeman’s mustache.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">413. I really don’t get it. You rub this guy’s face and a mouse appears ABOVE you? Unless his face is a mousepad…wait, that IS what it is! How awesome would something like that be? I mean, seriously!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">414. I have a feeling this joke has been made before. 8/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">415. I have been conditioned to think that this is the extent of the conversations that men have. (I think they’re trying to coddle us into thinking they’re stupid). And I gotta say, yellow, don’t mess with Texas. I’m very surprised you didn’t know that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">416. My superhero-dar is currently jammed by his fellow. He has letters on his chest and he has a gimmick, but he’s not very hammy. So I don’t think he’s a superhero. Ergo, I really do not like this comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">417. Bunch of fives? I’ve never heard that phrase used for a punch in the face! But I know if I got 5-shaped flowers I would love them. So this comic is adorable! C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">419. I giggled at this comic, because it’s an interesting gender reversal. Then I noticed the text at the bottom for the first time, and it got a lot less funny. Hey, sexually confused teenagers, did you know date rape is a crime that can get you thrown in jail?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">418. How’s this for a brick joke, right? I don’t quite get the punchline, but I do love that they brought this plotline back. I do hope they find them. TO THE BOOKSTORE~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">420. You know, I must admit, I agree with the egg. I don’t really want to explain why. Wow, comic #420 and no weed jokes?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">427. Uh, this is quite a jump! Language joke, language joke…PLOT TWIST D8 Is this a Goatse reference? I bet it is. (DO NOT LOOK THAT UP)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">421. You know how Waldo was rendered pretty awesomely in Rob’s style? I’m afraid he didn’t do so great a job with poor ol’ Ash Ketchum. An STD <i>or two</i>, Mr. Doctor? Still, I shall slow clap for the contrivance of your joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">428. Um, sure, whatever, stick figures, but I don’t see any vote button anywhere. Does that mean it is impossible for you to ever make any jokes again?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">429. I wonder if we’re just going on from here, or if we’ll be slingshot back several comics. Hey, I don’t recognize this comic! I think this kind of greeting would be awesome. I mean, other than the not washing hands part. Wash your hands, please! Please! Please!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">431. Yeah, I think we’re firmly out of the twenties. AND MORE CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS SUPERHERO-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">432. STORE SHIRTED EYE STABBER! I have to admit, this is pretty ingenious. And also the perfect opportunity to inform you loves that <a href="http://store.explosm.net/">the store is finally back up</a>! More info at the bottom of the commentary. Though I don’t think that shirt is still available.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">433. That doctor is a jackass. End of story. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">435. Ah, my favorite superhero. He got his own.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">438. Wow, we’re really skipping around now! I have to admit I giggled my face off at this. That lady looks nothing like Padme, though. Maybe she’s Vader’s second wife?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">437. Oh aren’t you scientists so funny! Perhaps those flames are God burning you. (You know I’m kidding. God isn’t that mean.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">439. ASJALJFLSS. I ALWAYS fall for this. I mean without the cancer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">434. Wait, what? I’m still on edge! Where did the SCREECH come from? As for the burrito, I really don’t want to think about that thank you very much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">440. Aww, I don’t think you’re ugly, Turquoise! *hug* I’ll still miss you when you’re gone, though. I’m sorry, so sorry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">441. I hope the numbering’s sorted itself by now. And on the contrary, I think this is the best waiter ever! I’d love to have this waiter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">443. Never mind, the numbering is still being a meanie. Is there some sort of bigger joke to the phrase “You just got SERVED”? Because I would really like to know what it is, if there is one!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">444. Blue is actually sane! And what the hell sort of biology thesis is this? I was just reminded that each author has a different flair to them. This is very Dave.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">445. HAHA. No matter how horribly it ends, I LOVE the comics where they do something with the panel borders like this. A comic being on fire! People have probably thought it but never done it because they thought it was stupid. And they are wrong, it is awesome. Like kissing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">446. Call it a hunch, but I think he got got got got got himself drunk, got himself love-drunk off her humps, her humps her humps, her lovely lady lumps, check it out! (I can recite most of the rest of the song if you so desire!) A lesson to all men – do not act lewdly to our nether regions!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">447. Remember back in C&H #1, when I told you that the C&H writers are probably definitely morally considerate human beings? This comic should prove that to you, and hopefully proved that to ALL the readers. The first paragraph cemented that for me, which is really the only way I’m able to laugh at any of these comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is one of the saddest, sweetest things I have ever read. I’ll say no more, it speaks for itself. Shall I hug them, I think I shall. *hugs*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">448. That’s clearly cannibalism, you guys. I also kind of love C&H zombies. They’re pretty cute. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">449. Charles and Girlfriend, it’s been far too short a time! Girlfriend, you’re still thick as balls, and Charles, you’re still an asshole! Did you know that unchanging relationships create conflict, especially if they are abusive?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">452. NUMBERING. Heehee, I like this one. I will say I’ve smelled some fine-smelling men (and women) in my life, but I don’t exactly see how deodorant itself can be that sexy. Well, it’s sexier than no deodorant indeed. Anywy, this all reminds me of that one bit from Anchorman, with Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works every time. *eyebrow arch*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">453. Is running with scissors like a disease? I hope I do not catch it. Considering at this time I am doing the “Red Returns” chapter in GC, and that involves scissors quite a bit, I am concerned now for Annie and Kat as well D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">454. I kind of don’t want to be happy that this fellow saved a nerd’s life. But, still. *hugs a nerd* I love you guys!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">455. I have always giggled like an idiot at this comic, because it defies expectations. It starts off mean and then goes into deeper what-the-hell territory than C&H usually penetrates.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">460. Well hello, more number skipping problems. 8/ Wait, this gets super, super sad…then super, super mean…then super, super confusing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">462. I’ll admit, I fell for it – I was like, “Huh? Why isn’t this comic loading? But this comic can stay as it is, really.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">463. Morgan has very pretty hai –</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…what happened in this comic? Who am I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">464. I think, Yellow, that when you encounter a misuse of words in a C&H comic it is a good time to run. Or else a paradox might occur. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">466. This is actually one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. Well, not really, but it is pretty sad. I mean, he wanted a simple life, and it got about as complicated as it can get! How’s that for you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">467. I don’t really ever want to hire a stripper. They’re so…cheesy. Though I did giggle at “I’m undercover.” Though I don’t really want to know how that’s a gimmick.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">470. OH snap. It’s like The Princess and the Frog in reverse! Well, it is, but yeah. This reminds me of The Beauty and the Beast (the BETTER Disney movie of the two I have mentioned here), wherein I think most people liked Beast better as a beast than as a not-beast.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">473. I can’t decide if I like all this number-skipping or not. It makes my job easier, but also feels like a ripoff for you loves… Trelaf the Wise! We have not seen him for some time. I can say this much – the writers of Cyanide and Happiness do believe he is wise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">474. When I first read this, I was like, “huh?” And then I was like, EEEWWW. And then I was like “why the hell would you need them for an art assessment?” And then I was like </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">EEEEWWWWW</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">476. THE CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS VILLAINS FACE OFF AGAINST A DEADLY FOE! FIREWORK MAN! AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. GREAT JOB, SEIZURE MAN AND RUBBERARM MAN! <3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">478. Would it be too cynical to say that this is true?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">479. To be fair to Billie Joe Holiday, there is a song called “Walking on Broken Glass.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">480. LOL! It changed punchlines at the end. To be fair, scarecrow’s brain is still with the Wizard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">481. 8< Oh dear. When you’re dead all you are is news.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">482. This brings ALLL new meaning to the phrase “charm the clothes off anyone.” Though it would appear only the clothes are charmed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">483. First there are some people! And then some more people…and then there is OVERCROWDING IN THE PANEL. I find it unfair that the fat guy cannot be included. I mean come on now! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">484. This one is actually the best one ever. Reasons? One, the rugged beard. Two, the corn cob pipe, whatever the hell that is. Three, the inability to express envy. Four, the way he finally expresses it. I’m going to say that is decidedly unsarcastic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">485. I am never, ever trying this. Not even if time travel becomes realistically possible. It just seems sort of dumb and universe-breakin’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">486. Sometimes, a C&H strip can stay on task if it starts with that pickup. Sometimes, it cannot. Unless the point of the green monster was that it was declared to be a joke…wait where am I going with this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">487. This strip is very unusual. First off, I think it’s a guarantee that 85% of all money in circulation was at one point or another somewhere near the skin of a stripper. Two, and the moral of this story is, nickels are nigh useless!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">488. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">…where are the judges…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">489. Every time I see this strip, I bang my head on the table, over and over and over again. You have to admit it’s a brilliant concept, you really do, but it’s just so <i>stupid.</i> You’d think the boy would interject or something…waaah, now I’m depressed ;_;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">492. Unexpected but also AWESOME. I dunno why. I was one of those kids that always stuck things in the microwave just to see what would happen. (Peeps explode.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">490. I like the way the girl looks; she has neat hair. Kris does tend to make his females more detailed than the other three. Rob usually slaps a ponytail on and is done with it, and Matt and Dave just give them various long hair, but here this lady has a spiky ‘do, a headband, and a clear shirt and shorts! Anyway, back to CHEST HAIR. BEST. CHEST. HAIR. EVER. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">493. I think this is the one good-hearted father in the strip, even if he is the stupidest. Despite the awful of this one I can’t help but wonder – why could the dog understand what he was saying?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">495. The way that Grey puts it, it sounds almost sad and pitiful. x3 And I can’t help but wonder, wow, really? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with a pimple. Uh MOVING ON</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">498. You have to admit the way they say it, knowing it and at the same time asking what it is, is pretty silly. Say, speaking of Alex Trebek, have you all seen THIS yet? 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">497. I don’t want to know what this implies about his farts. But you have to admit it’s…neat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">499. I wonder what inspired the robber to bring it back! I mean, if we went through all the trouble to get the robber sweater, why give up robbery? And why did the lady want his clothes? Oh well, it’s still funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">500. Emo vs. jaguar…wasn’t this a Youtube phenomenon or somesuch? Whatever. Emo got hit by a jaguar. I think this is one of the few men in C&H with a head of hair. (The others being Jesus and Alex Trebek.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, that was another 100, give or take, strips of Cyanide and Happiness! I’m excited, you know why I’m excited? a) I finally caught up from my massive delay and b) THE C&H STORE IS FINALLY BACK UP. There are several lovely items I shall highlight. First is the <a href="http://store.explosm.net/product-p/p-ba.htm">C&H PLUSHY</a>, which the description helpfully tells us can be thrown! It comes in three colors, Blue, Green or Naked, and in two facial expressions, Happy and Sleazy. Then there is <a href="http://store.explosm.net/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PR-ASCENT">this poster</a>, which makes me giggle uncontrollably. Finally, there are these two awesome shirts, namely <a href="http://store.explosm.net/product-p/s-squeeze.htm">this</a> and <a href="http://store.explosm.net/product-p/s-monkeys.htm">this</a>. Do note that older designs are apparently not going to be restocked because they want to add new ones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Monday is going to be a little different: instead of starting Questionable Content like I had planned, my lovely friend Planet Cool has volunteered to do a (not as long as mine) guest commentary of Bleedman’s infamous Grim Tales from Down Below! From what I understand, he was not a fan of it! So look ahead to that!</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-58884279162786604752010-10-30T10:52:00.000-07:002010-10-30T10:52:15.087-07:00Dinosaur Comics #4, 300-400 [SEEN IT]<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://www.blogger.comhttp://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Hey guys! Sadly enough, I have realized that doing Dinosaur Comics, basically the same comic again and again with little to no character development, is driving me into a state of sad ennui, kind of like reading a textbook. In order to stave off this ennui, I am taking a slight sabbatical and putting you and this comic in the very capable hands of my very good though not entirely present friends, S, T, A, M, and D. The story that they are a part of is only barely written, but I hope their characters are up to your personal standard. Start here: <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=301">http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=301</a>) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">so…um, yeah, i don’t really know what happened to you to get <i>you </i>here, but this freaky chick came and gave me this website and told me to read 100 comics for “the guarantee of your continued existence.” ummmmm, who talks like that??? I don’t really care but it sounds kind of important and Skuld’s giving me a bit of a sad look.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">oh, Skuld says hi, you guys. Skuld can’t type, lol, and he can only read a few words. like, he can’t read. the chick said it was okay for me to tell you he’s an alien, but he can talk. he’s pulled up a chair and he won’t go away and he can’t read this or anything I type so I’m going to tell you guys he’s really stupid and he won’t leave me alone. Ughhh, now he wants me to read these out loud to him and make comments too. but he’ll only be doing a few, I can’t talk that long. ugh. stupid chick. whyyyyy is she making me do this I have better things to do</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">301. T: What the hell? Why couldn’t he just tell us what he wants instead of using bigass words like that? and what kind of juicy gossip is that? and what kind of stupid gossip would a f-ing dinosaur have anyway? “Haha guess what he’s dead?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Tiff, what’s that? It’s an animal, right? Do they have them in zoos?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">302. T: Really what the hell is this?! it’s the same thing every time!! DINOSAURS CAN’T RIDE BYCICLES. but haha this reminds me of when I got a bike and my little brother wanted to ride it but I wouldn’t let him so he stole it and rode it into a tree. my brother is stupid he shouldn’t have taken my bike!! but yeah I just drive everywhere. or my mom drives me. hair swoosh? I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Bicycle? That’s the thing with wheels in the garage, right? Can you teach me how to ride that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: But I want to go to the zoo and see a dinosaur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: NO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">303. T: poetry contest? that’s what gay people do. this dinosaur is gay and this comic is gay.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Great…state! They rhyme, Tiffany!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: I swear I wasn’t laughing. and aww the one in that panel with the orange freak is kind of cute</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">304. S: Hey, Tiff, why does the dinosaur have really little arms? He can’t eat with really little arms!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: That’s just what he had, Skuld. ugh anyway. eeew that’s kind of gross if you want to kiss a dinosaur. I mean if it was a hot guy like Mikey I’d be okay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: What’s that big word in big letters?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Pleasure – well I guess it’s okay if they’re both dinosaurs. oh shit there’s a girl under there SHE’S GONNA GET CRUSHED. STUPID DINOSAURS. and boys don’t want tons of girls, boys just want me~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">305. T: ummmwhat thehell’s a fistinotspellingthis? oh, boxing? well just say it’s boxing. ugh I fing hate words. and what the hell’s that dinosaur’s name? I’m going to call her Freak because she’s a freak. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Fisacuffs is a funny word. I like it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: It’s not that word, you jackass. HAHA, knuckles and chuckles! That’s actually pretty funny. I wanted to name my boobs. I never could find very good names for them. I think I’m going to call them Edward and Jacob.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">306. T: Who does stupid-ass stuff like that? That’s what BABIES do. I don’t understand this dinosaur at all – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Treasure?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: NO. Wait, parties with morals? Parties are not supposed to have morals. They are supposed to have boyzzz! And wait what the hell no why did this comic turn into a history lesson. Ugh, I can’t believe it’s only Monday. I want to go to a party.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: You never let me go to parties. Can I go to the next one?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Yeashure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">307. T: Wait, a what? We’re still doing that? Anyway it sounds like a kind of boring family party. and boyzz don’t go to those. wait, croquet? my little brother and I always used to hit each other with the mallets…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I’m happy they found the cups. Now they can serve the alcohol!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: …moving on…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">308. T: Dinosaurs don’t eat chips god. wait, what’s that guy up there? did they tape another dinosaur to the ceiling?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: No, it’s God!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Skuld, god only talks to you through your prayers. anyway that guy on the ceiling is hogging all the chips. Wait, LOL, that skeleton joke is pretty funny. guy on the ceiling is weird, ohh, I bet T-rex is just imagining him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">309. T: Um, dinosaur? Your party sucked except for the guy you taped to the ceiling! You didn’t even play spin the bottle! You didn’t have any cute boyzz! You didn’t have ME and now you know why! corker. haha that’s a grandpa word. maybe dinosaurs like dinosaur music. haha, dinosaur music</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Tiffany, you are quite the corker!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">310. T: this is kinda weird to read because mother’s day is like half a year from now. still, ugh, they’re dinosaurs, theyre mothers are dead because they’re dead. but panel 5 is still soooo adorable. but then it gets gross</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I found a robot in the basement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: ..did you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Yeah! I pushed a song and it started singing a button about love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">311. T: Ohgod ewww. I mean it’s hot when guys are bi and gross when girls are bi but when dinosaurs are bi I just draw the line. I mean you can’t have gay dinosaurs. just hot gay guys.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Curiosity…SATISFIED!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: when did he say that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">312. T: STOP TALKING ABOUT IT, IT’S GROSS. unless you are talking about boyz and you are not talking about boys I know you are not, STUPID COMICCCC. Haha, panels 4 and 5 would be a lot hotter if they weren’t fing dinosaurs. like, super ultra hot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Is bicurious a heating system? I’m cold. I need some bicurious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: I’m not sure whether to correct him or not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">313. T: Haha, I bet the joke here is that they’re taking an adventure through time, but ten they’re already taking an adventure through time, because they’re dinosaurs I really don’t give a crap. hahaaaa, I want to go back and time and be king.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: If my daughter is my mother then I am my own grandpa!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: what the hell?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Angie was singing it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Skuld, dear, could you go get Angie? I need her for something…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">314. T: well he should be gone for a while thank gawd. and stupid dinosaur everyone knows you can’t build a time machine. especially when you CAN’T MOVE!!! LOL haha. wait, lol, the bit with the orange guy is kind of sad…I hope they stay friends even though they’re dinosaurs kind of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">315. T: Yes, dinosaur, we KNOW you can’t build a time machine, stop talking about it and move on to something else, like killing other dinosaurs! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Time travel is impossible, Tiffany. Koe told me it was. They tried and tried and you can’t do it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Yes, I KNOW! Where’s Angie?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: She said she’s coming.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Fine. Robot suits, whatever.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">316. T: OMG, I LOVED THAT SHOW. NICK@NITE IS AWESOMEEE. *minimizes window, turns on song, jams out*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Hey, Tiff, Skuld said you needed my help with something?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: In a minute, Angie, I’m jamming!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: That guy doesn’t sound like he’s singing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But he’s Will Smith. Even his rapping sounds like singing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">317. A: So, what did you need me for?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Yeah. Get to strip 400 and say it was me or we all die.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Huh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: *runs away*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Um, okay, Tiff…ooh, what’s this? Dinosaur Comics? I’ve heard about those, may as well check them out…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: And read them to me?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Of course! Hm…there appears to be a dinosaur talking about airfare? And no one is listening to him. Poor bub. Though he really should get something more interesting to talk about…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">318. A: Uh, this dinosaur’s a weirdo. What’s so funny about death in this context? But, you know, maybe that’s how it goes with dinosaurs. Especially dinosaurs that are not dead. And yes, quitting smoking is a nice idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I like how you actually tell me about the comics instead of just typing them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">319. A: Oh, is this one of those comics where the character is named after his species? That’ll be easy to remember! And talking to himself? Heehee, he’s crazy. I rather like this. I can’t tell if he’s actually crazy or just dicking with his friends, and it’s awesome. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Would we be better friends if we walked around naked?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">320. A: Bluegrass? *giggle* Who starts bluegrass bands? I mean, I can’t say there are any in town…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Isn’t grass green?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: It’s a music style, Skuld.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Oh. Well, it makes no sense, if grass is green.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Precisely! Play the lyrics – I think this T-Rex needs to spend a little more time on Wikipedia, and brush up on his book learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">321. A: Wow, I’d never think that anyone who does what T-Rex does in Panel 2 would ever even admit it to themselves!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Angie, you’re coughing a lot. Do you need a blanket?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Oh, no, Skuld. I don’t, I don’t. Anyway, T-Rex is being a meanie here. I mean more of a meanie since he seems to stomp houses and people every day. But…*giggle* I would totally eat all the cookies in a house. So I sympathize.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">322. A: Oooh, a comic that’s actually about dinosaurs! Maybe it explains the plot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: No, I think it’s just more smashing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: You know what, you’re right! But that is the plot, after all. LOL, past tense. Funning with the fact that they are dinosaurs! Clever writing in this comic, I must say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">323. A: Email! It’s really weird. All the old people are always excited about email, but most people my age use IM and stuff.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: On my planet we have video relays.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Yes, we have those too, but not for regular communication. And really I see no excitement in emails. It’s like writing a letter! Mama says chain letters like that were around in the 90s. I wonder if they still are.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">324. A: Rajasaurus? Aren’t those the people that wear those hats and the dreads?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Rastafarianism!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Oops, thanks, Michael! And, oh, I see, but the dinosaur motif’s breaking down a little. How can he pick up a fork with those tiny hands? And why does the ending just sort of peter out? What’s wrong?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">325. A: Spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can…I think I’ll just skim this, I don’t know much about comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I really don’t like spiders, Angie. If you see any, can I kill them?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: It would be better just to let them outside, Skuld.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: But then they’ll survive. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Oh, so that’s what that line from that movie that everyone keeps saying…means…*is quiet*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">326. A: I wonder who’s offscreen, sort of! Does T-Rex consider them less than friends for not being able to see them? And why does he hate when people care about their feelings? I like it when people care about my feelings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: But not when people are consistently asking you if only to make themselves look better for noticing you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I’ll just get going, then…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: No, it’s okay…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: No, I clearly made you upset…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Angie, I can read it a little! Do…you…want…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">327. S: Angie, I was reading that!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: You can read this one, Skuld! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Why the hell would dinosaurs be talking about homecare? That’s just about the most random and boring thing in the world!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: When your characters never change position you have to make everything interesting. And look at this! I never knew this much about homecare. I never even knew there was such a controversy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: *cheerfully says a bad word*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: So…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">328. A: Ooh, kites! I haven’t thought about kite-flying since I was a kid! I kind of want to go and make a kite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Yeah, you go do that…I’ll be over here, watching. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Oh yeah, just sit over there and be a killjoy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: No, I…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Hey, look, he’s flying a kite!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">329. M: How did he plant a garden with those tiny arm-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Sssh, we’re not supposed to ASK these questions! Heehee, Panel 3 is kind of cute. And the part where they yell at each other is cute as well. Hey, where did Skuld go?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Oh, wow, he fell asleep right in his chair.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: That’s so cute!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Or we’re so boring.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">330. A: Wait, I’ve heard of this! It happens to me ALL the time. How will I ever be known as a witticist if my wit is always too late coming?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Uh…give me a minute to answer that one, okay?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">331. M: Whatever you’re reading, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. Dinosaurs talking about France, and now GOD?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But the mismatch makes it endearing, Mr. Fussypants. Hm, it reminds me of the Bible, a little. T-Rex will be known to his people as a mighty prophet! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: All hail the bag of wind or else be stomped! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Don’t insult a mighty prophet or else be stomped!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: *mumbles*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">332. M: What kind of a house does a dinosaur live in? A cave?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Caves have a lot of personality. I think his friends are just too critical. I mean, as long as you can live there, so what if it doesn’t have personality or not?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Clearly you don’t know what’s important in life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But…but I do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">333. M: That was predictable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Michael, I think that was the point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: And that one down there, that was unpredictable and also stupid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Can’t you at least try to enjoy this?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: No. I, uh…do you want me to get you a drink or something?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Uh, sure! What do we have? Juice?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Actually I was thinking of a slurpee run.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: You really want to get as far from these comics as possible, don’t you? Here, I’ll come with you, I’m always indecisive about this…we can finish these later. It’s fun to do them with you, anyway.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Ah-guh-wuh-buh-slurpees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">334. S: *mumbles, eyelids flutter* Oooh. Everyone’s gone. Dominic, can you read these?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Can you read them for me?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Pleease?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: There’s a text-to-speech program on the desktop. Use it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Ooohh. Save and restore…starting over? But that’d be bad. I like being with Tiffany and everyone else. I don’t want anyone to change that. D8 But, uh…I failed to prove my point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">335. S: NUCLEAR TESTING? Tiffany told me about that! It’s when people go boom, like if they go out in the sun too long. I…uh…boom?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Oh, move over, Skuld, this is pathetic and the text-to-speech voice is getting on my nerves.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">336. D: This dinosaur is talking very pretentiously. Any of the other kids in my class would want to hit him. Me? I would prefer to knee him in the balls. I can’t stand people who talk like that. Knavery is a word used by people who are trying too hard. Or else people who are old. Old people try too hard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">337. D: I absolutely love this idea! If only logic would bend over backwards to allow me to execute it. Pssh. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Dominic, which one is which? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Does it matter that much to you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Yes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">338. D: Why am I reading this? I’m eleven. Credit card fraud means nothing to me. People need to not be asshats with their information. That’s all there is to it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: World hunger doesn’t sound like a very good idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: True, but that’s not our modus operandi, is it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">339. D: Intriguing…could anyone completely forget that they can do something, or even doubt it? And as for the next, the rhymes almost seem too perfect…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Dominic, look! It’s a dinosaur!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">340. D: No comment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: They’re talking about sex, right? I think they’re talking about sex.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I said, no comment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: What’s wrong with sex?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D<i>: I said, no comment.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">341. D: This is foolish for the dinosaur to think. Everyone knows that everyone in the middle ages lived in stone castles, ate mutton and jousted all the time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I have no idea what you just said! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: This is a deeply interesting one…I’ll have to save it. *copies, saves* Too bad this is my sister’s computer and it will never see the light of day again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">342. S: Mary Sue? That’s a pretty name.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Only the prettiest name in the world. *rolls eyes* I think I would like to see this theory, T-Rex. Except that I would prefer that it were hand-copied onto another piece of paper, and not by your hand. I don’t want to risk hypnosis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">343. D: This tyrannosaurus is willing to apply just about every mode of philosophical thought to what he already does to justify it. There would be a message here if only I were interested enough to find it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Skuld! We’re back with the slurpees! Oh, Dominic, what are you doing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Oh…just reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: All the better! But can I give it a go again? I love these!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: *stands up and walks away*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">344. A: Wait…he’s right! I feel so terrible now…I hope 20,000 people didn’t really drown! If they did…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: If they’re poor the government didn’t care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: No, Skuld! That’s not the way things work on this planet, really! Wait…now I am wondering what all the Bangladeshi were doing near the Pacific. So I guess they didn’t really drown…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">345. M: Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: And eggs! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: HAH. That’s actually pretty hilarious. He stomped all those log cabins and now he can’t find the doub…loons? Did anyone but pirates every use doubloons, anyway? I mean, what were they? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Money?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">346. A: I can’t make any sense of this except for Panel 6. This makes me sad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: It’s a diatribe questioning the value or validity of individual expression.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I’m just here to get a slurpee.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">347. A: OMG! There were calculators in the 1800s? THAT’S SUPER AWESOME. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Even if it looks like they came to shit nothing. Wait, why the hell are dinosaurs telling us about this? They’re dead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I’ve sort of forgotten to ask anymore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Calculators?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">348. M: More people should act like the third panel. Yanno, cause people are assholes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: What if self-improvement was a trivia contest?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: You’d probably win. I mean, you know a lot of different things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Just kiss her already!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: ...Hey, Angie, let’s go drink our slurpees…<i>over there</i>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: ?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">349. T: ugh, they tricked me! anyway, what the hell? sexual ambiguity? I don’t even know what that meaaaans. you either kiss a boy or you don’t.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: What if you kiss a girl?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Is Michael going to kiss Angie?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Probably not, Skuld. Probably not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">350. T: I really don’t understand why god would want to talk to a dinosaur. dinosaurs can’t even talk. OR RIDE BICYCLES. stupid comic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: This God guy sounds nice. Will he help me find my sister?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">351. T: that would be really stupid unless they made it in 3D. stupid dinosaur. wait, no, 5-6 are ACTUALLY AWESOME. so yeah I’m going to go get my friend Casey and we’re going to make it in the front yard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Can I be the husband?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: casey’s not supposed to know about you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">352. T: I dunno what finite means, but my favorite songs are lady gaga. alllways lady gaga. oh and T-Pain. Free Weezy!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: *hums an unusual tune*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">353. T: OMG that’s super weird. I don’t believe him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Why not? It’s all true. Just because you can’t understand it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. If that were the case we’d all be living in Justin Bieber’s harem. Oooh, logical incoherence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: I’m gonna tell mom you’re annoying me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Hi, Dominic!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">354. T: Uggggh, do we have to talk MORE about computers?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: No, no you don’t. Spelled out like that, it’s pretty fascinating…I don’t believe this comic has a plot. It just seems to be a repository of information.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: Well if you love it so much why don’t you marry it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Anything to get away from you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: *leaves in a huff*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Older sisters are weird. Anyway…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">355. D: I’d have to disagree with Panel 3. Nowadays the gimmick is to put an extra scene after the credits, so that people will stay to see it. I know it works because it has worked on me for every movie I’ve ever seen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: PLOT TWIST.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: ?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Angie says that random things are a plot twist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">356. D: Women. I’m not exactly experienced in this field. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Why not?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Because girls have cooties.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">357. D: Huh, this is a tragedy. How am I supposed to learn anything if all T-Rex talks about is how he can’t talk? How moralistic. I wonder if I could use this on my sister.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Hey, Dommy, can we have a turn at the computer?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Certainly. How was Michael’s slurpee?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: …huh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: >///></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: *grabs slurpee and runs off*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">358. M: Why did that little bastard say that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Say what? Anyway, ooh, the dinosaurs are going to take a trip around the world? That might be interesting. I’d also like the see the world when I’m older. But I wouldn’t like to go alone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Uh, I could maybe-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Oh, so I suppose that whoever I go with one of us would fall in love with the other! How cute! Whoever it is, he’ll have to be mighty handsome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: And a great supplier of slurpees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Are you waiting to get back on?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Yes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: >////<</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">359. A: Maaaath?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I hate math.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Heehee…pi r squared.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I thought you weren’t supposed to know about that yet!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Pie is not square.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Unless you put it in a square pie tin!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Who the hell makes square pie tins?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Wonderful people like Angie?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Aww, thank you!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">360. A: I really want to send this to someone now!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Oh…really.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But probably someone far away. If they’re right next to me I can tell them to their faces that they are great. I don’t need dinosaurs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: That’s true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Michael, whoever said this thinks that you are great!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: *floating on air*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">361. M, A: What’s a neoclassical pastiche?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I can’t answer this either. So stop looking at me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Haha, a neoclassical pastiche! Indeed!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">362. A: *covers Dominic’s eyes*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: What, what’s wrong? We read this last month. I mean, it’s not a linguistic masterpiece, making it a lot harder to read…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: IT’S STILL ABOUT PEDOPHILES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: But Lolita was a bitch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: IT’S STILL ABOUT PEDOPHILES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">363. A: I have to agree with this dinosaur, youth is awesome!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: But he’s a dinosaur, how does he know?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Young and…in…love. *furitive glance at Angie*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Yes, young and - *distracted* SHUCK THAT JIVE, MAN!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">364. M: Attracting women is hardly this easy! Or even helpful. I’m not a god-damn dinosaur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: SHUCK THAT JIVE, MAN! FEELINGS ARE FOR SISSIES!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Really?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: No I just love saying that. It’s my new favorite thing. SHUCK THAT JIVE, MAN! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Well, at least the orange guy knows my pain. Internet? Flyers? I may as well just kick this dinosaur into next Tuesday. This comic hates me…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">365. M: Weddings…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I’ve been to a lot of my cousin’s weddings! First heterosexual wedding? I must have missed that comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: *comes back* Weddings! Is your mom going to get married, Angie?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Oh, look, two men learning how to dance together. How heteronormative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">366. A: Aww, we didn’t get to see the wedding? Or the dance moves?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Never. This comic doesn’t move! Nothing ever happens except what we hear!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But it’s like storytelling. I like it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: No, I wasn’t saying it was bad! That dinosaur needs to stop being charming, it makes him an asshole</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">367. M: Holy. That’s the last thing I expected to hear out of God!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: *falls over laughing*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: This god is a very odd guy…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Poor T-Rex. No one listens to him! Oh, the orange guy is called Utahraptor?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">368. A: This reminds me of a comic I saw called Y: The Last Man. I don’t think he was nearly this chauvinistic or stupid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: You know I’m the only Sarvon man on this planet. What does this mean?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: It means that T-Rex is repulsive. Where did Tiff go?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I think she ran away.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Should I go find her?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Nah, it’s quieter this way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">369. A: Wow, this comic is depressing! Not only because he never got these jobs, but because he inserts himself into commercials.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: And he’s a dinosaur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: This is a weird commercial. Is it implying that this woman looks that much younger?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: *shrug*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: That would be disturbing…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">370. M: You know, this comic has a point. I’m sick of Tiffany.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Michael, don’t insult people when they’re not around! It’s mean!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: But I’m just being honest!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: *frown*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Who’s Megan?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">371. M: This sounds kinda like Lit, when we talk about weak women in Shakespeare plays and such when they treated their women like shit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: They still treated them badly, you have to admit. And I disagree with T-Rex, this IS pretty interesting!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: That’s because you actually think reading these is interesting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: There’s only 29 left! You can’t have too much to complain about!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">372. A: Wait, what? What’s wrong with that? Here you are talking about presentism and now futurism is an evil? But…I want my flying cars!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I think this T-Rex has too much time on his hands. He needs to get laid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Too little sleep can cause hallucinations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Yep, what he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I want an internet robo-nano-maid. Wait, what’s that thing in the last panel?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I really have no idea…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">373. M: The <i>history </i>of <i>history</i>? Oh, just kill me now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: But I don’t want you to die, Michael!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Skuld, that’s not what I meant…geez!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Would it be overly bad to say that I don’t really mind if older works use “he” to refer to any human being? I mean…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">374. A: Haha, I know how this feels! Sometimes I even forget where something is, even if I’m holding it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Angie, that’s not all that good…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Panel 3 is fantastic because it reads too far into things. Even though I still want to give T-Rex a pack of batteries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Angie, can we play some Youtube?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Eh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: He’s obsessed with “Rock That Body…” *turns on*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: 8D *dances*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">375. A: Hey, what a coincidence! It’s a party in this comic and everyone’s invited!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: My house isn’t invited.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I WANNA, I WANNA ROCK RIGHT NOW</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I’ll be in my room until you guys stop playing drivel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">376. M: You know what, I’m not even going to question a T-Rex getting a sunburn when he’s a DINOSAUR. With SCALES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Yes, we’ve established this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: >.>… And of course he’s underevolved –</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: He’s a dinosaur! *giggle* Oh man, this is silly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I WANNA GO I WANNA GO FOR A RIDE, HOP IN THE MUSIC AND ROCK YOUR BODY RIGHT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">377. A: What’s a circle wi- OH. Now I know what it is! That’s also known as a Gilligan Cut.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: No, a Gilligan Cut is when someone refuses to do something, and then you cut away and they’re doing it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: How do you know this?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: …>.> Also, the lower panel set is annoying. Appropriately so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: BODY BODY OUT OF SIGHT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">378. A: This is a good point. But it would change the face of social interaction forever. I mean, what if everyone was desensitized to everything?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Angie, I love you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: See? You say something outrageous and unexpected, and I’m totally desensitized to it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: *facepalm* Oh, this is about social graces…oops. I’m going to…stay here…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I WANNA DANCE I WANNA DANCE IN THE LIGHT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">379. A: HERMIT CRABS. SO CUTE. OMG. I WANT ONE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: But they die.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: So do y – D8 BAD T-REX. BAD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: And his stomping on houses meant nothing to you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: HAHA. WELL LOOK. POETIC JUSTICE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: HOP IN THE MUSIC AND ROCK YOUR BODY RIGHT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">380. A: Oooh, it’s a Livejournal entry! I haven’t updated mine lately…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Livejournal is for whiny bastards. Kind of like this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But this is my life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Oh, uh…no, no it isn’t. You have people that like you…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Why would you ever want a hug to be anonymous? Friendship is…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: *tries to hug in chair*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: 8D?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: *pulls away*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">381. M: Angie, I don’t want to learn anymore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But fatalism, this is pretty cool! If events are predetermined, then who predetermines them?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: ROCK THAT BODY, OH OH OH OH ROCK THAT BODY</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: In-universe, it looks like God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: What an odd universe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">382. A: Time for some what-ifs! All present will each answer one. Humans would be stomped on for all eternity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: We could then stomp on the dinosaurs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: is transgender like when you have one of each</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Wouldn’t the orange one already know what he said? Wait, I think he does. Ah, time paradoxes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: My friends are the fantastic four! They are fantastic, and there are four of them!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">383. A: Okay, I have to be angry here. That’s the worst story ever written! There’s no plot, no suspense…why should this be published when I can’t even get anything written! It breaks all of “show, not tell!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I think she’s pretty well entertained, yea?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Yea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Choose Your Own Adventure, I remember those…are they still in the elementary school library?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">384. A: *gleeful* Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure! I’m Bill S. Preston, Esquire!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: *also suddenly gleeful* And I’m Ted Theodore Logan! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A+M: EXCELLENT! *air guitar*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: And thus did Angie and Michael pretty much recite the entire comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: How did they make that twingy noise by just moving their hands? I can’t do it…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">385. A: That was the best thing ever. Moving on…wacky! Goodness is that a <i>tacky</i> word! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I don’t really think all this stuff is wacky, just pretty unusual. It’s just the T-Rex’s tone that’s making it worse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Hey, you were supposed to say a word that rhymed with wacky!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: …hackey…sackey?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Aww, you’re cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">386. A: It’s a crazy vs. wacky debate!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Wait a minute, if God thinks his friends are crazy, doesn’t that make them crazy by default?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Sssh, stop it with this logic business!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">387. D: I think this is what they call a “shaggy dog story.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: You mean like Scooby doo?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Tiff, where the hell were you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: hoping you wouldn’t notice me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I still really don’t like T-Rex’s novels. T-Rex would be perfectly charming if not for the crap he writes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">388. T: ugh, I read that book. it was all about periods an-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I have a feeling you only read the back cover.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: MOVING ON. Jokes? A chance to talk to God and all he wants to talk about is jokes?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Does this constitute a declaration of belief in God? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">389. M: A NIGHT FOR MURDER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: What a dull haiku. I’m not even sure what to imagine next. And Panel 5 has a point…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Could it be that Angie is jealous of T-Rex’s ability to put out information that is a success despite being utter drivel?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Which would of course explain the shrine to Stephenie Meyer in her closet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I was eleven when I made that. ELEVEN.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">390. D: Women!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: laydeeezzz</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: The last thing this dinosaur understands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: QED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: I like women!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">391. A: *evil grin*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Oh, not again…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I believe in miracles! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Where you from, you sexy thing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: eh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: I believe in miracles, since you came along!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M+A: You sexy thing!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Aaand I don’t know the rest of the song.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I think it’s about sex.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">392. A: Aww, I’d hate to get this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: You don’t have a boyfriend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Angie, if anyone ever sends this to you, I will make sure they die a slow and lingering death. Wait, breakup email? Nah, the worst is breakup texts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Wait, no, this comic has an uplifting ending. Your ex is a jerk. Wait, what?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Uuuhhh…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">393. S: Doggie! I’m going to feed it and pet it and take it on walks!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: He FORGOT TO FEED HIS LAST DOG?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Call it a hunch, but I believe Angie is more and more disliking T-Rex. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: I hope he listens to that white dinosaur…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: …huh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">394. M: Mmmm, naked people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: But the dinosaurs are already naked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: But we are not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">395. M: *reads first three panels* Uuuuhhh…why would you ever want to do that? Except by being stupid?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: *covers Dominic’s eyes*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: Get your hands off me, woman. I do agree, presents.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Maybe Dominic is a normal child after all…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">396. A: Time travel advice? Aw maan, I wanna travel back in time!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Not like this, you don’t. Look at this! Living out your life again? Drastically changing your past because you don’t remember what you did?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: It’s kind of like The Butterfly Effect!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">397. M: Isn’t the T-Rex lucky. I once saw a grey-skinned alien running down the middle of the street with a large blob monster chasing after him only to go to sleep and realize it was all a reality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S: Hey, I remember that!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I wonder if crazy sexual dreams are common in adults.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Eeehh…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">398. T: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? everyone needs a cell phone. how else will you keep up with the latest dramas?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Be a drama-free individual?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: NO</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: People with cell phones got <i>teased </i>in 2004?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">399. M: Vindicated by God. There is no better feeling in the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: No one really uses ringtones anymore, notice? Everyone just has vibratey phones, because ringtones can be heard during class or interrupt meetings and such.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D: I wonder what sorts of deities the orange guy can see. Probably Satan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A: Or those lesser gods.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Note from Carth: The Telefrancais Mp3 link still works! And it’s cute :3)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">400. A: I give up. I really just give up. Tiffany, you finish this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T: alright fine gosh. pretzels? what the hell?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">M: Oh, no…eeeww! We’re done, right? That’s it, no more!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Well, I think they enjoyed that, don’t you? I mean, Angie’s still muttering about T-Rex and Michael still seems to be retching, but they enjoyed MOST of it, which I hope you did too despite the obnoxious lateness of this commentary that was supposed to be up on Wednesday! I promise you, the Cyanide and Happiness commentary that was supposed to be up on Friday will be up in all deliberate speed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t quite remember what merchandise I’ve promoted in the last three commentaries, so instead I shall just promote <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-FAILURE&Category_Code=QW">this little item</a> that caught my eye! There are also some new items, but as they are related to specific strips I shall highlight them as they come. There is another new book, but as it is related to the next commentary I will highlight it then. See you in a flash!)</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-86122776998600830302010-10-27T03:38:00.000-07:002010-10-27T04:29:36.298-07:00Something of a DelayJust because I know you were all waiting on the edges of your seats for to read Dinosaur Comics today, I have to warn that I may not be able to make today's deadline. I will take responsibility for this, other than to say that a glut of tests on Thursday sort of threw me off completely. I am, however, working on building up a backlog of commentaries to prevent this from ever happening again (and also to prevent hypnosis from having to read 100 comics at once - this time it's only 10 at a time). I'm almost done, though, and I'll be working as hard as I can to get as many commentaries out as deadlines happen to pass. <3<br />
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P.S. I CAN'T OPEN GUNNERKRIGG COURT. ALSJDLASJSD.<br />
P.P.S. Okay, now I can. STILL ASLDJALSDJSLDCarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-16943503517216065372010-10-25T07:49:00.000-07:002010-10-25T10:34:00.930-07:00Gunnerkrigg Court #3, 200-300 [SEEN IT]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh my god, you guys, my reviews of these comics really cannot go fast enough. I feel like we’re hardly into the story at all! Well, it’s time to fix that by digging deeper into the gorgeous mythos that is Gunnerkrigg Court.</span> <br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">When we last left our heroine, many of the threads of what would become her story were just being revealed. She was finding out more about Zimmy and Gamma, the two strange girls, about her own past, about Gunnerkrigg’s secrets, about the many ways to defeat an Enigmaron…you know, important stuff like that! So now, with no idea where the story will take us (unless you read ahead), we will start at <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=201">http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=201</a> and not ask questions until we reach the end, right? Right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">201. This is the comic I was talking about before, the second bonus comic that got awkwardly cut off. As Tom says in his Tomments, this was done for an anthology to be distributed at a webcomic convention in the UK. Thank you, Tom, for putting it up to be available to us! 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway, this comic takes things in a bit of a different direction than we are used, taking us into Kat’s inner life. I would say it’s odd that Annie does not know about video games, except it isn’t. But you’d think they had something for the child patients to do…anyway, poor Annie in Panel 3, thinking that the RULES apply in Grand Theft Auto! Did you not notice the THEFT in the title? Poor dear. Let’s hope she realizes this is escapism for Kat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 12</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Mainly Involves Robots</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">202. Oh my goodness, I haven’t read this chapter in ages! I can’t wait I can’t wait</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">203. Oooh, a comic of exposition and enrichment! For not paying attention to Shadow 2 for 10-odd chapters, it’s time to catch up. We find out a little more about his species, who you will later find are called the glass-eyed men. Layer of dark, hm? Kat, does Shadow 2 mind that you are stepping on him? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That thing about vibrating surfaces is neat. And the noises he makes are really cute. Bwaah! Fnar! C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">204. Wow, what? What exactly is Kat speaking into? A device specially made for making glass-eyed-men talk? How weirdly convenient. If anyone could tell me what that is, do elaborate. Either way, that’s so cute! He can talk now! Shadow 2 becomes cuter and cuter the more he makes noise (I wonder if he can still communicate like he did in Chapter 1, by reforming himself). I suppose they’ll be teaching him with that teachy-do, making him vibrate and then memorize the sounds. Maybe?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">205. Huh, in all that hubbub, I (and I bet the rest of the audience) forgot that Annie was rushing in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: On my way over I saw…ROBOTS!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh my god this is going to be the best chapter ever. I love the drama, though Kat does seem unfazed, perhaps because she grew up here. A robot over there, you sa-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh my god, what a terrible creature! Anyway, on with the plot, Annie? Robot, you say?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">206. Annie seems to believe that she has a way with robots, other etheric creatures aside. I love the noises these guys make – the fact that one can talk and one cannot. It’s super cute. We don’t see too many S-models around after this. I’m not even sure what they do. Just hang I guess. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S-model: Scarper, Montgomery!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t know why, but that’s one of my favorite lines in the whole series. But poor Annie. She does not get her answer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">207. Boring door, eh? How ~boring~ Annie’s curiosity will never be satisfied, however! Oooh, a robot bouncer that does not speak the good English! It’s like a speakeasy. What a mean robot, by the way! Why won’t he let Annie into their little clubhouse?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, congrats to Tom for the award he won three years ago!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">208. Kat does not seem to think very highly of the robots, perhaps because she knows how they work. But Annie is not as experienced, so she feels sorry for poor Robot, and thinks of him as a person. That and he was one of her first friends. ;___; Let’s just be happy Kat realizes this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And also Shadow 2. <3 you Shadow 2</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">209. Annie looks veeerrryy devious in Panel 1! But that sounds like a plan to me! Kat’s hair also looks longer in Panel 2. Goodness me oh my that’s a messy lab. What have you been doing in there, Kat? Flinging things with your antigrav like Gordon Freeman? Door-bot, is that what it’s called. And as Annie looks even MORE devious, you should definitely be excited.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">210. Reynardine! I don’t think we’ve seen him in several chapters! But certainly it is nice to have his smart mouth back :3 I wonder and wonder, again and again, how I ever could have missed that Annie’s lockpicks became one with the Rey. Rey still seems determined to insu – <i>wait a minute what is Annie putting on her head</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Doorbot is a meanie. Wait… :3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">211. Wait, no, this is ACTUALLY hilarious. Annie, I don’t know if you knew that robots are easily fooled, but you fooled this one cold in the best way ever. Also, the fact that door-bot is attached to the door always gives me an extra chuckle for some reason.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie, I don’t think you need to keep up the façade, he already thinks you are a robot! And finally, I think that’s the first non-sarcastic thing Rey’s said to her in a long time. He sounds very…paternal here, I believe. (Do <i>not</i> ship him with Annie.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">212. Well would you look at that! It’s bigger on the inside! And also very chrome and mysterious and nondescript! Maybe it looks more complex to a robot. Annie is very polite. I like the administrator-bot – he is cute for a robot. All robots are cute but he is also cute. I have to facepalm at Annie for thinking that this robot would recognize a robot she named <i>Robot.</i> But that is a better second guess. Robots, you just gotta plug in commands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">213. Woah, I never noticed he had a giant ADMIN on his desk! That’s awesome. And why would the admin say that if he knew, for sure, that Annie was a robot? He’d say Seraph model, wouldn’t he no wait I’m getting ahead of myself. How much trouble does Robot cause, I wonder? And why was he sitting disassembled in a storage closet? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, I believe the admin has a very warped sense of humour. Paperclips.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">214. Now, whenever you use a paperclip, you will cry bitter tears! But all is not lost – his brain is still around! (If you ask me, I think Tom was just tired of drawing the Seraph model and wanted some more streamlined-looking robots such as Admin here). I like how he clangs his own head. Annie’s head is looking handegg-like again in Panel 6.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*giggle* Poor Admin-bot. He just wants someone to love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">215. Goodness that is a long and featureless corridor. It’s enough to give you highway hypnosis just by looking at it. Anyway, running!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom: A disappointingly short time later</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">YAY! Annie can’t run either! She and I are FRIENDS. And Reynardine is a butt. I like the detail in Annie’s exhaustion in the last panel in which she appears. And is it just me (so note those who have read the rest of the series) that Reynardine is reacting a little to how Annie says he does not have lungs?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">216. Wait why is Reynardine expecting Annie to get on his HOMG. Yup, Reynardine can do that! And I don’t know if you’ll notice, but this is one of the first times he actually helps her of his own volition! Not that he’ll ever want to acknowledge it again, but still! Also, his wolf form is quite lovely, isn’t it? Anyway, RUNNING. THE RUNNING LOOKS AWESOME.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, a quick link back to Chapter 3, page 23 for the curious - <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=56">http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=56</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">217. I find myself wondering how long they were running before they got to the hallway’s end here. That is the COOLEST door I have ever seen. And a very odd place to see an alchemical triangle. Woah, that IS a lot of CPUs. But I imagine there’s a lot of room for error in computing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">218. I love the detail here, with Annie’s wispy hairs. This room is very mysterious, with all the CPUs hidden away. And Robot’s looks so small and fragile. ;__; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Um, wow, Reynardine, that’s pretty awesome. I’m not sure if that’s what he intended to do as a way to follow Annie’s orders, or if he’s just proving to her that smashing is more super awesomer. Either way I love the way the metal comes out of his hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">219. Annie picks up the chip…and an alarm sounds. Once again, this place has pretty wack alarm systems. I mean, shouldn’t the CPU be password protected or something? But I agree with Annie, alarms are dislikeable, especially by now. And once again, the robots are hilariously ineffective! Or just hilariously stupid. Man do I ever love the robots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">220. THE RUSHING HERE. IS SO AWESOME. Do I find it funny that the sound effects are “Gompa Stomp”, which sound like Goomba Stomp? x3 You have to wonder how the Court affords all this ineffective robotics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Especially here with the admin. He is wonderfully uncurious but still gives an impression of humanity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">221. And now time for Annie to make the grandest exit since that one guy grabbed two beers and opened the emergency chute to get off a plane! The security bots continue to be fantastic and also ineffective. The long view of the outside door is also now gorgeous. And Annie sounds so confident ordering him around. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And then they fly out and it is SO AWESOME.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">222. Oh, but the chapter is not over, because the tables are about to turn! Extra part? Huh, that’s…intriguing. I’d guess it’s a blockage of sorts, but I would be wrong most likely. Annie’s hair is still disheveled, which is awesome if not as awesome as it was on the last page.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">A docking station, how convenient! HI, ROBOT! This sounds more like the Robot we know and love! He’s so sad! Can I hug him?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">223. <i>Robot: Am I in heaven? I see an angel before me!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WHY ARE THESE SIDE CHARACTERS SO CUTE. Only the first of many instances where the robots think Kat is an angel. And the two friends reunite! Except that Robot is still sad. You’re not in heaven, Robot! You will probably go there, though :3 And that is indeed pretty optimistic, almost sadly so. I like the docking station, it has a lot of personality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">224. So now our flashback to Chapter 1 has Reynardine ~intrigued~, does it? Time to look at some pretty art!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Aren’t the tree-shaped panel dividers awesome? Anyway, let’s get a better look at Gillitie Wood! Poor Robot, he’s so unfortunate. A man, eh? A man in a hood? I hope those of you that have read ahead recognize him. Or why Rey is so angry at him. It’s really not that far ahead though; as in we’ll get to it in this review when things REALLY change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">225. This is so creepy. Just a word of warning – if you wake up after a long time and your chassis is battered, you might want to be suspicious of your new arm. I wonder just how long Annie’s been at the court, how long “several months” is. What a mean little shadow man! Why is only Shadow 2 nice?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So Robot could still see while he was possessed? Quelle horreur!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">226. And things are about to go crazy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine: Argh! Child, you have no idea what you’ve started!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Remember when I told you Chapter 1’s events weren’t important? Yeah, you can forget all about that. Annie look what you’ve done, you’ve made Rey stompy stomp stomp. And in the last two panels, Reynardine sums up in the most vague way the entire reason for the Court’s existence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">227. See? Now my calling them glass-eyed men is not a spoiler anymore. And oh animals those crazy creatur- <i>Princess Kat</i>? xDD Awwwww. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And, oho, cousin? What is this? Could it be…MORE PLOT? Wait, no, Reynardine, don’t become a toy! GIVE US ALL OF TOM’S SECRETS, REYNARDINE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">228. Still, Annie seems to find that to be second banana to Robot’s problems. (She should think that way while she still can.) I’m not sure whether Kat is doing this for Robot, for her own interest, or for Annie’s happiness. Probably the last. :3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I should have told you to come back after you crossed the bridge.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Yay, Annie’s grown some compassion! And the chapter ends on an emosweet note.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">229. Oh goodness, THIS bonus page. I must say he looks very cute in Panel 3, but Panel 4…huh. My reaction is about the same as Annie’s. But maybe that’s because I regard beefcakes as ridiculous looking. Still, I wonder if that form actually has any strength or if it’s just for show. I wonder why Rey would do this. Probably just to mess with her again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie is a strangely non-romantic and non-sexual creature. Granted, she’s twelve, but on the other hand, she’s twelve.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 13</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">A Week For Kat</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">230. Oh no, oh no no no. Saddest chapter ever. ;__;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">231. Woah, huh, how many chapters has it been since we were in the classroom? Several, I believe, whether you count Dr. Disaster or not. Anyway, who’s this handsome young lad that isn’t in the uniform? Kat certainly would like to know. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait a minute, I thought Winsbury was DONE being a tosser! Perhaps Janet is absent today. This boy is being very cool in response, though. It’s awesome. Winsbury’s joke isn’t that great, either. But he is looking far better, art-wise. Not up to current standards, of course, but still far better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">232.<i> Kid: Gee, I must be in the wrong place.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Winsbury: Yup.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kid: I didn’t realize this was some sort of fashion advice seminar.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Winsbury: Yup.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">LOL, Winsbury. And this kid is sharp! Yay Kat for defending him and being a nice person – or, you know, trying to get his attention *wink* But you’d better go back to cootie mode fast, because here comes your mum!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">233. Alistair! That’s a pretty intense name for such a small kid. But why only a week, you wonder? You’ll see. Lookit Kat all smiling and ignoring the morning bulletin…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So of course she goes right over and introduces herself, none of this dancing around her feelings! I wonder why Annie only introduces herself as Antimony. I guess because she isn’t familiar with this boy. Aly. Why do people with that name keep popping up in my life?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">234. Aww! Alistair fell for the new-kid gambit hook, line, and sinker. There’s no way he’ll be able to escape Kat’s charms now, will he? ;] In Panel 3, Kat establishes herself as all-knowing, and Alistair is trapped. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Winsbury. I’m pretty sure Janet was absent that day. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">235. BONDING THROUGH POP CULTURE REFERENCES! The best kind of bonding there is, if frustrating because we don’t know exactly what they’re talking about! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">How cute this all is. Aly’s artistic quality is not very consistent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">236. And now, romantic talk ensues! (For those of you current with the comic, how can Annie see this so clearly here when…) Just nice, Kat? I think you think he’s a little more than JUST nice. I like her hair in Panel 4, it’s lovely and disheveled. Also, Kat has MAD INDIE CRED. Especially with Annie. I like how she looks in Panel 6 for some reason. I also realized I totally forgot what happens in this chapter mostly. For instance, I forgot Winsbury was an asshole in it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">237. Aww, Aly’s making a popsicle stick house! And that’s quite the scarf and sleeves he’s now sporting. Makes him look very artsy, doesn’t it? I wish I could go somewhere for a week and not have to do work. And, yeah, they’re totally flirting. And his expression in Panel 6 is funny. But also worrying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t know why Tom points out that he’s building a house. Seriously, if you can figure out what’s going on at THIS point, I’ll be really impressed. (Tell me when you figured it out, by the way). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">238. The next day. And now Aly is sporting even more covering clothing and is looking at Kat’s lack of it. How unusual. We haven’t seen games classes in a while…they’ve all grown a bit since then, haven’t they? xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Willie? Since when do we call him that, Kat? Anyway, more of Winsbury being an asshole. With people actually laughing with him. Geez, where’s Janet when you need her?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">239. WOAH WHAT’S ALY DOING RIGHT HERE. JUST SUPER-RUN WHY DON’T YOU. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I have nothing more here to say except SLAM DUNKIN’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">240. *giggle* Now he’s stuck. But a far-better-drawn my we haven’t seen him in a while Mr. Eglamore comes to save the day! Read the Tomments for Panel 3, they explain everything. Kershaw, I knew his last name came from somewhere. Oooh, Annie and Eglamore are still pissy at each other. How terrible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">241. <i>Aly: I’m not supposed to be doing anything where I could get hurt.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">How very super-unusual. Have you figured it out yet? I think Annie has, because there’s no other reason she’d be lifting him like that. And I think Kat’s just jealous that Annie’s touching him and she is not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">242. Panel 1 here makes me giggle and I do not know why. Is it because Aly has monster feet and Annie has tiny feet? Is it because Annie appears to wear Mary Janes to Games class? Probably the latter. And Panels 2 and 3 clarify everything. Annie is completely hopeless when it comes to other peoples’ relationships. So Kat freaks out. Crushes leave people prone to freaking out, don’t they?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">243. And doesn’t it look like a lovely Thursday morning! That ladder still gives me the chills. CREEPY DORM. But what’s this? Kat is tapping. And now crying! (Annie’s hair got a lot thinner in Panel 4…how odd) Kat turns around…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom buried a jellyfish once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">244. I don’t think Annie is helping Kat’s self esteem much at all. D8 Kat looks a bit like Snow White, and not in a good way. (For some reason, Kat seems to have a lot of fanboys, including my own boyfriend. I wonder if this makeup makes her look worse to them.) Also, if you are a girl and you can do makeup, all the uncool girls will love you forever. (Case in point, me!) And yes, Annie, she looks ten times better!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom is awesome if he can write this scene with a straight face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">245. For some reason, the top three panels cement for me how far the comic has gone art-wise. It’s just improved so much from Annie’s handegg days. Also I like Kat’s expression in Panel 1. When Annie can see relationships, she’s good at commenting on them! And Panel 4 is so sweet, even if the shippers were taking it the wrong way! And aww, they made up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom is awesomer if he’s making you feel like less of a man for reading this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">246. Kat asks the question that’s been on our minds since the beginning of the comic…but of course it will never be answered. (Any Brits have any idea what Registration is? Is it like homeroom?) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie’s so very formal with strangers. She needn’t be, as Aly (who now sports a hat and gloves?) demonstrates. Study. Huh. (Forgive this, but is it just me, or is Annie hitting puberty? Her breast growth’s consistent between panels so I think she is.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">247. Are they in the old library? It certainly looks it. I wonder if they paid Basil a visit. (HEY TOM, IF YOU’RE READING THIS, BASIL NEEDS TO COME BACK). Annie is both excellent and awful at leaving two people alone to make out in a library. 83 Aly and Kat see right through her. Oh my.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">248. To answer the Tomments, I’d think she thought he was hotter when he was wearing a little less, yes? And let’s just pretend that Aly’s completely upset to leave Kat…at least for those of you who have not figured it out yet. Awkward Panel 5. And then cuteness at the bottom of the page as they both blush! Ah, young love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">249. Friday. Aly’s not looking well at all! He’s catching Zimmy Eye Disease! And Zimmy Side of Face disease? How odd. Kat’s desperate to keep the first flame she’s ever had, but…no cell phone or email address? What kind of hick place is Aly going?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I can feel the pain in all of these panels. Except from Annie, who doesn’t notice that she was not noticed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">250. But Kat doesn’t just care that he’s leaving, but that he didn’t just make out with her right then and there! Poor Annie, she doesn’t understand a BIT of what Kat’s going through. And the day gets worse and worse. I guess Annie only cares about romantic entanglements if they involve Kat. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh shove off, Kat. Aly is much more important than karmatron dynamics! Whatever those are! Things are shaping up for a reveal, clearly…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">251. A tower! I’m getting some Harry Potter flashbacks regarding the Astronomy tower :P Panel 3 looks very beautiful, with the shading on Kat’s face and all. And, oh, what’s under the blanket? Why’s Aly under there? Is he really sick? I’m not explaining until it’s revealed! Also, Annie had the best idea ever.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">252. Aly looks kind of like a pale glass-eyed man in Panel 1, and also so sad and lonely! Kat, cheer him up with kisses!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Or…not? Goodness, his face looks a mess! So, to finally clarify everything, he stands up… I’m going to get it out of the way that he looks beautiful artistically, and then get out of the way that Tom’s Tomment is quite right, and now I’m going to start bawling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">253. Annie is a sneaky watcher! Then two very pretty birds fly over. I dunno…I like these birds, they are beautiful. I’m going to guess that the balding one was his father, and the curly-plumed one was his mother. Aly looks like he’s about to lose his mind (which he is, in a sense – according to Tom, he’s also slowly getting a bird’s mental capacity). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Ah, a test! I think this is the first inclination that the test goes the other way around, that humans can become other creatures for…some reason or another.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">254. I suppose it works, that you can bring along others who have not taken the test? Or did Aly have to take the test too? Not important HE’S TURNING INTO A BIRD YOU GUYS. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">According to Tom, Panel 3 IS actually how it went down, but that his parents would have made him become a bird anyway. (I wonder why they became birds in the first place…) I love Kat’s serious face. I love less that her crush is leaving her like this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">255. So this must be the most awkward silence ever invented by God. And the most awkward awkward silence breaker invented by God. (Why are his parents doing this if he’s clearly upset about it? D8) SADDEST HUGGING SCENE EVER. But also hot enough to give Kat a new fetish. I mean, shirtless guy…winged arms…could inflict some interesting damage on a young girl’s psyche… Oh, wait, that’s why his feet were huge! Bird feets!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">256. Panel 1 is seriously super-beautiful. I would make an avatar of it if it wasn’t a major spoiler. But now things get shocking as he DOES, INDEED, TURN INTO A BIRD. The process is communicated entirely through Kat’s facial expressions, see. And now Aly is a bird. Chapter over. ;__;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">For the record, I would love if Gunnerkrigg Court got any sort of film or TV adaptation. Like, I’m going into media studies for reasons other than making Gunnerkrigg Court, but it’s a big factor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">257. I wonder what Aly’s song sounds like. Probably very sweet. And Kat gets her first kiss from a bird, another way to damage a girl’s psyche. Actually, this is more than she ever touched him as a human. So, he flies off to Gillitie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom: And she never saw him again.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That, in my opinion, is one of the saddest lines in the whole comic. Especially because it flat-out cancels the possibility of a comeback. Even if this is the saddest part of the comic, or at least this chapter, I always love explaining it to people. “Yes, Kat had a boyfriend. Then he turned into a bird.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">258. Huh, the chapter isn’t over. Kat looks pretty in Panel 1. Annie was pretty tactful, staying out of the room like that. But also amazingly emotionally connected, comforting Kat like that! I have a feeling she would only do this for her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And the chapter ends on an amazingly uplifting note. I’d forgotten that! So please all walk away smiling. 8] Beautiful scenery here. But also foreboding, as you can see both the Court and the Wood, and be vaguely reminded of what Reynardine said at the end of Chapter 12 and which you all forgot until now in the Aly fiasco…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">259. Bonus page! HAH, I WAS RIGHT. Kat’s sense of attractive things is forever damaged by her early experiences with birds. That sounds so much more wronger than it actually is, I’m sorry. D8 But you have to admit. First much older men, now birds?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That is a hell of a fancy painting, by the way. Just saying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 14</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">The Fangs of Summertime</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">260. Omnomnom. And so a new chapter begins. Annie looks beautiful here. You are required to agree.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">261. This looks like a bit of a foreboding introduction…silhouettes of the Court are never very good news. Actually, let’s compare the good and bad news here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Good news: School is out! Paper is flying everywhere, people are rejoicing, and Janet is back so Winsbury will stop being an asshole. Bad news: OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT. It looks like the man from <s>scene 24</s> chapter 12! And why does he have a doggy behind him? (In all my readthroughs I have never noticed him before…) Wait, aww, why do we have to wait for the second? NO MORE CHILDREN, CARTHY WANT PLOT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">262. Okay, all is forgiven, because here we are at the Donlan residence! They have a very fancy front porch, I am impressed. All covered in alchemical symbols and all. Anja is looking pretty with her hair down, and also being the nicest lady ever! 8D I am both uplifted and saddened that Annie has so much faith in her father, though. (Anyone notice what Kat is wearing? C8)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Huh, what’s Anja looking at…?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">263. Kat’s wearing of that outfit still makes me giggle like mad. But that must go to the side, for the plot is calling! We head upstairs…ooh, it looks like they have a sunroom of sorts. But that’s not the point. The point is THIS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It’s clearly a floaty sky thing, Kat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">264. And if you remember anything that Rey said in Chapter 12, shit should be hitting the fan in Panel 1. And the process should continue for Panel 2. For the rest of the panels, just look at the pretty artwork of Anja slinging the stone about. Makes you wonder why she can use them, eh? And – WOW! As you can see, that’s the Court symbol that was on the shirt. As you can also see, we’re getting in a little deeper than we have previously…oh my garsh</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">265. Looking mighty fine awkward in Panel 1 there, Annie! Kat looks okay even if she’s a pinkish tint. And in one word Anja establishes herself as a woman of many secrets. Perhaps she knows why Annie’s head is suddenly a handegg again after all these years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I find myself wondering what Tom used to draw the Court symbol (beautiful) and the blinker stone (gorgeous). Also, notice, before the comic points it out, that the Court symbol, and indeed all over the court, contains the alchemical symbol for bismuth (the circle with horns). And here comes Eglamore! Just fallin’ out of the sky like that, what a cool guy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">266. Hopped on over, eh? As in, hopped onto the roof? Huh. So Anja once had a blinker stone…makes sense. But why the odd look on his face when Anja mentions it’s Annie’s? (People who’ve read ahead should know. If you haven’t, HAH! I’m not telling you.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">People of the forest requesting a visit?! ASGKAJSFLJS COOLEST CHAPTER EVER. And LOL, it’s all Annie’s fault. And here I find myself wondering what caused the delay in their reaction…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">267. Eglamore continues to be mysterious, telling Anja that he’ll gather “the usual people” in “the greeting hall.” Huh. And Annie is allowed in, too? Is this punishment? But Kat is not allowed? But she’s practically half of Annie!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And what are a Parley and a Smith? And what would these “forest people” ever want with Reynardine? What? What? What? (I know the answers and y’all don’t~)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">268. So then Eglamore hops away. I wonder why he can do that. Does the Dragon Slayer title of the Court automatically give you super jumping skills? Or does he just have super jumping skills to begin with? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: I keep being surprised like every five minutes today!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And you have to wait for Annie to explain what happens next, Kat! Also, older readers, note that Annie says that she didn’t see Anja retrieve the blinker stone. (Also note that Annie looks pretty in that panel. Her eyeshadow doesn’t look as…blocky.) And now we fade to mystery, looking out at the court. Tom’s Tomment makes me giggle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">269. This, as you may have guessed, is the greeting hall. I like how old and austere it looks compared to all the people in suits, as if it’s the new generations going through the motions of the old. Also, note the hydrogen symbol on the flag. Anyway, Annie looks to her right and sees…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh my. I completely forgot she was in this chapter! That, and how much she’s evolved artwise. I’d tell you all about her but there’s nothing about her that I can really say for certain. The decrepit-looking fellow to her right is the school headmaster. He is not the leader of the Court.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Desperate for normalcy, Annie looks to her left and sees – older students! It’s Parley! And I figure you figured the guy was Smith, so I shall call him Smith. Oh my god, I love these guys. They are, basically, <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseTwoGuys">Those Two Guys</a>. Smith looks kinda…different here. I’ll point out why once he changes. Parley, however, looks as pretty and short-tempered as always. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">270. <i>Parley: Eya, what year you in, bab?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Woah, where did Parley acquire that sort of an accent? Anyway, yes, she has noticed the little rosebud by her side. And I think, for the first time since Zimmy and Gamma (where are they?), we see kids from other houses. Well, just Parley. She’s really all we see of Thornhill. (You’ve got a pretty good impression of Chester from Zimmy and Gamma. And Foley…they come up next chapter) And now for Smit, who she seems to like climbing all over. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Woah, woah, how does Parley know Annie’s mother but not Annie – not to mention know what Annie DID and not know Annie? Smit is very disappoint.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">271. Annie’s just as curious as I am (her hair is looking especially bulbous today), and just as Parley first drops the word “medium” and begins to explain the plot, Eglamore serves as the doorman for…the man from the forest. Looks like we’re to that second thing Annie said about Gillitie…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">272. Oh, and what’s this? This hooded man made of wood has a multicolored doggie with him! This is such a strange forest. He keeps walking on. His incredibly well-drawn hands are creaking. I didn’t even notice Anja and Donald were here, though in retrospect I should not have forgotten. He lifts his hood and…oh my god.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gillitie is a weird wood indeed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">273. So, yep, this “general” is a wolf tree! I don’t know whether he made himself a wolf when he was a tree, or a tree when he was a wolf…well actually I do, these are rhetorical questions because I want to make conversation. Parley and Smit looked scared…but the General and the goggie can smell fear, so the General comes and scares them by asking for their medium.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anja mentions she has “passed on”. So, Surma was a medium, was she? You can probably figure out her job description. General is not convinced. He seems quite the temperamental person, unconcerned with Court conventions. How awesome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">274. But…goggie seems to see a little better than General can. He looks a lot more low-key here than he does in later strips, I must say! Though I do find it odd that he mistook Annie for her mother…then again, Rey did too. Maybe it’s a dog thing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In this turn of events, Woman and Headmaster turn their heads. This is about their equivalent of going insane at the sight of such an event. So, they all force Annie to approach the dog. I guess because they’re too scared of him. But Annie doesn’t seem to be, even as he sniffs her and fails basic logic. (By the way, he is SO cool-looking.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">275. Annie calmly explains…and the dog GRINS. Oh my god we’re about to get something great.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dog: Eglamore, you HOUND!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What are you insinuating, dude? Eglamore explains…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dog: Oh! In that case, how awkward! Hahahaha!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">DON’T YOU JUST LOVE HIM IMMEDIATELY? As Annie figures out, this fellow is named Coyote. Not just a coyote, mind. THE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_%28mythology%29">Coyote</a>, as Annie says. Brush up on your Native American mythology before you come in next time. So now Coyote should be ten times the character he was before. Yes, he is a god of sorts. This world is heavily unusual. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, if you had any illusions that the General or any of the humans were running the show, you may now discard them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">276. Annie’s looking very artistically sharp in Panel 1. Really, compare her to Chapter 1, you will be appalled at the older work. But that is nothing, nothing, NOTHING compared to the brilliance and amazingness of what Tom gives us here, with this piece of mythological art. I’m not going to explain it; you find your own meaning. Except that the part with Coyote laughing is hilarious. And now you know where the glass-eyed men came from! I looked it up, and I don’t think this is an actual myth – “glass-eyed men” only returns GC-related items. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And finally, we can call wolf tree Ysengrin! As you can see, he is very impatient.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">277. The Headmaster looks bored. The death of one of our men? Oh, the meanie glass-eyed man! Well, I don’t feel sorry for him. Annie totally ignores all this stilted political talk (one wonders why it is so!) so that Annie can totally be familiar with these creatures. And now you know why Muut was there – he’s the Native American psychopomp. Hell of a poker face, lol. Woman goes insane again with the information she sees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">278. It looks like the animals of this forest have an interesting moral code. Even though Annie didn’t actually die. Also Ysengrin is a meanie. But oh, what’s in the bag? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…THAT HORRIBLE BIRD. Huh, they’re all in nice green suits. “Those birds”, eh? Woah, why did the bird do all THAT? I didn’t think there was enough room in the bird for all that…there’s some problems with this story. I mean other than the tubes hanging out of the bird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">279. Ysengrin is very quick to blame humans – a testament to relations indeed. Wait, not even the COURT knows where these birds come from? I’m not sure if this is a lie or a lie hidden under the truth hidden under a lie ISN’T THIS STORY GREAT YOU GUYS. Anja, I don’t think Ysengrin is in the mood for relations like that. Yup, that is what he just said. So he crushes the bird. Aww, that bird saved Annie’s life! Don’t hurt it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">280. At first I read that first panel and I was like “huh”, then I read it again and I was like “woah Ysengrin has a long finger” and then I read it again and I was like “WAIT, THAT SAYS ANTHONY.” So of course people have a lot more shock than they should. And now two more things. One, Ysengrin has the biggest bag ever, two, how’s that for a brick joke? It’s been more than 150 pages, and now we remember that Annie’s dirty old sweater was left behind! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And wow, Annie’s brave. She stands up to Ysengrin when he’s about ready to murder everyone in the room. How awesome is that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">281. Annie is quick to put these animals in their places, or rather to put everyone in their place. And yes, jumper = sweater, if you forgot. Not good with human clothing, coyote? Ysengrin’s wearing that cape pretty well. Ysengrin is quick to accuse, and Annie is quick to correct. (Parley and Smith must be freaking out). The headmaster just seems faintly amused. Ysengrin gets angry, and…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wolf Reynardine? Woah, was this planned? I just remembered we hadn’t seen him yet…Also, I think this is the only time in the comic where swearing is uncensored. Unless he’s calling him a donkey.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">282. Reynardine seems to know Coyote a little too well! COUSIN, indeed! (Tom has said that this is in the animal-kingdom sense of cousin, that a coyote is a cousin to the <s>wolf</s> fox). Also, if you’ve read ahead, you know how Coyote’s “you look so well” will be received by everyone except the humans. Ysengrin is just offended by everyone today isn’t he? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh, so Ysengrin is a wolf made tree. Also he’s kind of crazy. BURN, REYNARDINE. That guy giggling? That’s Bob the Gardener again! See? Gardening? C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">283. And now the humans are WAY out of the picture, it’s forest-politics time! Coyote is totally running the show. What are these mysteries Rey is introducing? Broken laws? Rey came from the forest? This doesn’t sound like the wisecracking toy we know…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And now the bit with the glass-eyes stealing Rey makes sense! Coyote just wanted his cousin back…right? I’m really very confused with all these events. I guess the forest was just doing what it would. But now Coyote just has to be an ass…I really don’t like what he’s implying about Annie. But I do like the insane length of his neck in the last panel. So awesome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">284. Coyote’s looking devious in Panel 1- OH NO YOU DI’INT. First you insinuate that about Rey’s ‘ship with Annie, then you – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You don’t know how hard it was to pick a picture here. On the one hand Annie’s face when Coyote lifts her skirt is hilarious, but this one has SPANKIES. Annie is tough as balls, she is! It’s awesome. And Ysengrin goes even crazier, as Annie appears to have invaded his territory. NEGOTIATIONS ARE OVER, TIME TO SKEWER PEOPLE. OMG</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">285. The barb flies at Annie, who is defended by Rey (!) who is defended by WHAT IS THAT. When I first read this I thought it was a shield of Rey’s, but look at Donald in that next panel…SUPER MYSTERIOUS. Annie, too, seems to think it’s a Reypower. And their relationship turns! Could Rey actually care for her in a non-romantic sense!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That aside, SWORDFIGHTING. Or sword vs. tree fighting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">286. I reiterate. No one can even be pretending to run the show except Coyote. Because you are an ant under his foot. Ysengrin crashes into a pole…woah, that’s a lot of blood! (I love the detail in all these scenes…) I wonder why Grinny still loves his master so much when he treats him like this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">287. Abalone? Odd name for her. And I guess he knew full well he’d rile her. He was testing her. (LOL, Rey. “This is true.”) But oh, what’s this, more secret politics! And promises of mysteries to come! Though Annie appears to see right through it…though she does not directly refuse. Oooooh. So then things get more confusing as he proclaims it a misunderstanding. So, what just happened? Annie sent Robot into the forest, Ysengrin sent Robot to attack Rey, Annie got pushed off the bridge…uh…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Yeah, it’s over. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">288. And now everyone is in awe. And they’re in awe at you, Annie. Because you kick ass. Wait, what is this mysterious woman’s saying? A ruse? And what are these seeds for? I don’t remember if we ever see them again. But the Court is mysterious indeed, that goes without saying. And, yes, Jones is this woman’s name! And that’s really all I can tell for sure. She looks a little more refined in design here. And also she’s just throwing out conclusions that everyone will take as truth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Clearly the headmaster is catatonic with horror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">289. And now we get to calmer affairs. So this is Janet’s dad? She must really take after her mother. And all of a sudden Annie is subservient to him, when she could slap Coyote’s ass. Huh. Which is exactly what he points out! What a funny man. Smit is impressed, Parley is not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What a cliché question, Headmaster. Truly, you are nothing like Dumbledore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">290. And now, we come back to a calmer situation! Apparently Kat has a room both at the Donlan house and in the dorms. I guess her family figured the dorms were better during the school year, but this is a FAR less creepy room than she had before, I’m thankful. But as you see, things are going to be a changing. Medium lessons, that’s neat! And we get to see more kids, even neater! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And, yes, she’s staying to try and get in touch with her father. How sad is that? And, yes, Kat may not have much confidence in Rey, but Annie I think does now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">291. Again, I am confused with events that happen later in the comic. Annie is easily able to joke about Mort’s thing to her here, but…ugh, it’s so hard not to slot in spoilers! I guess she is sort of brushing it off as a joke. Also, in panels 3 and 4, see that, Annie, that’s Kat BEGGING YOU to go with her. But…aww, the end of this page is so sweet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">292. And now, things get sadder. I wonder if Rey likes his wolf form. And here comes Annie. Why is it that Rey seems older and wiser in his wolf form, but silly in his toy form? Maybe he feels more confident in a wolf’s real body. Things are quite stony between them. Annie is friends with pretty much no one.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh, come on, Annie! Please ask him! We all want to know!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">293. Ah, I forgot about this page. Annie pulls out her binder, the binder of a year passed and to be forgotten. I know how this feels. But here we have a picture, one not as well drawn as the rest of the page. James, Donald, Anthony, Surma, Anja, TGITP. All very mysterious figures indeed, a previous generation to be unraveled. And then Rey, who knew them all. Be quiet, Annie’s having Annie time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">294. Annie wiping off her makeup… I wonder if that means something, other than that, yes, it is not tattooed on her face. I have to say, though, she looks much prettier without it! (Also, note she’s wearing two necklaces – the antimony one, and the blinker stone.) And now for the saddest panel ever…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: Thus ended my first year at Gunnerkrigg Court. And so did I wait for news from my father. Unaware that I would not hear from him for over two years.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wow. How’s THAT for a sequel hook/incentive to punch Anthony in the face? End chapter. That was a long’un.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">295. Bonus page! This is the Second Treatise, which you can find for sale in the shop. There is so much duality in this picture, it’s absolutely lovely! TicToc vs. Aly. (This is actually the last time we see him.) Coyote vs. Reynardine. Court vs. Wood. Work vs. Nature. Annie vs. Kat. They smile at each other now, but I predict a split in the future and it makes me sad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Summer Holiday</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">296. In a sense, yes! The comic takes a break for a short period here, presumably so Tom can have a life, but as Tea lovingly explains, there will be “guest comics and other surprises”. Every day! Tom’s done two of these so far, and they’re all amazing. So, yeah, things will be a bit different from here until the end of the review (which awkwardly ends in the middle of the break, sorry!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And yes, I do believe that boy is Tom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">297. The first of the guest comics! This feels so weird to see. I’m not telling you who did them, because I cannot beat Tom’s Tomments about their identities. The art style is weird, but clearly in control, except that Kat has boobs. Posh, special school from down south, eh? And poor Winsbury, now he has forever ingrained himself as an asshole in our souls. OH MY GOD, IT’S HARRY POTTER. WHY WAS I TOTALLY EXPECTING THAT. LOL, THEY DON’T TAKE HIS WAND SERIOUSLY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I find myself wondering whether GC is in the HP-verse. No, definitely not. So, yeah, they don’t take him seriously at all. Have fun at the top of the flagpole, Harry!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">298. This is not a guest comic, but a letter Kat wrote to Annie! Look at that handwriting, it is Tom’s most likely. He had to write a letter like a twelve year old girl. Aren’t you jealous? Poor Kat, so optimistic…but this does prove that a world exists outside the Court, and a pretty normal one at that. Cousins and all. Read the letter, I’ve never really read it before. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love that Kat is trying to make her vacation come to life for her. I think inside she doubts her father contacted her… 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">299. Another guest comic! Kat hungry! *giggle* I love how noodle-y she looks. WOAH, LOTS OF BLOOD. HI, MORT. HOW ARE YOU. And I don’t know about you guys, but Mort DID get pretty good at being scary! Bird = could have been Aly. Surprise = could have been murderous. And those beat panels are awesome. So, yeah, everyone agrees with me. Happy ending. I think Kat lost her appetite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">300. And we end, rather awkwardly, upon a page of sketches. Lots of Spacemonauts, some Kat, a Coyote, some very old-looking Parley and Smith, more Coyote, a Jones – I love seeing these because it shows me Tom cares for his art – a Ysengrin, a Dragon Slayer, a – AWW BITTY ANJA AND DONALD! And more Spacemonauts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for reading this, and I’m sorry these have been so late as of late! I have a lot more time this week so I shall build up an archive or at least attempt to. Again, you should not only check out the snazzy <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/support.html">donation page</a>, but also <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/support.html">the shop</a>! And also the rest of the comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wednesday shall take us back to Dinosaur Comics, which I see none of you are reading. How about we jazz that one up a little, hm?</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-85341951744047240602010-10-22T08:32:00.000-07:002010-10-22T08:32:25.440-07:00Penny Arcade #2, 100-200 [SEEN IT]<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU for all the comments and help with the last commentary, guys! This is not stuff I’m familiar with and knowing about it makes me more smarter every day. I wish Blogger had a comment reply system so I could thank all of you without it looking weird. Special shouting out to Shawn for his continuing support 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, sorry for my lateness. Thursday was a mess, but hey, at least it’s still Friday!</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a name='more'></a>Anyway, back on to Penny Arcade! When we last left our heroes, their existences revolved around playing video games, violently reacting to video games, and hating one another. Do I expect much different? No! But if they can keep being fresh with it and Mike and Jerry can still profit off the concept (which they clearly do) I am in no position to do too much complaining. Not that I will. The early strips are just hard to understand as always.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I will attempt to do as much research as I can, though. Wow, this opening seems pretty underwhelming compared to the last, but that’s really all that needs to be said. Click <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/12/3/">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/12/3/</a> and follow the magic “next” button to get the ball rolling!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">101. So I DID attempt some research on this one, and found that the Quake series is produced by id Software. Why they would want to flood the homes of twentysomething gamers with gamma rays I do not know, but Tycho Knows Best™!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">102. In many, many cases, Penny Arcade makes its distaste for a game very clear. Or else, the split between one man’s dislike for a game and one man’s tolerance for it. Perhaps Turok is like Kryptonite in that it only kills Tycho!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">103. WHY DO I FEEL A SUDDEN AND ACUTE DESIRE TO BE BEST FRIENDS WITH A GUY WHO LOOKS LIKE THAT. MAYBE I’M CRAZY. Dunno what S.T.A.R.S. means but it does not sound friendly…maybe if Tycho was nice to me, Geoff would also be nice to me?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">104. I have to say I giggled at Panel 1, where Gabe is making faces with that really ugly child…it’s so cute. Except that child is still pretty ugly. And yurp, abuse of stereotypes! I find myself wondering if Tycho knew all along it was the wrong line, and just wanted to screw with peoples’ minds. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">105. Okay, #101 makes a lot more sense now – Gabe likes Quake, Tycho does not! If that is humour. The third panel, though, is undiluted awesome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gabe: So is God.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I think Tycho got told. OH SNAP</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">106. Huh, a double comic for #106! This one up top just seems a little too simple and game-based, unless I’m supposed to be laughing at this fellow’s retardation, which I will because it’s so unrealistic. And on the bottom, we see stronger evidence of their love for Tribes, which I hear is an older shooter. LOL at his longing for Romero. Did you know he cut his hair? It’s true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">107. Edutainment…I don’t hate the genre (actually as a seven or eight year old I was quite addicted to those Reader Rabbit games), just the high-and-mighty feel of the word. Also, WHY WOULD YOU LET TYCHO AND/OR GABE BABYSIT ANY CHILD WITHOUT ANY REAL AWARENESS OF WHAT THEYWOULD LET HIM PLAY? If you want that, awesome, if you don’t, NO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">108. Ah, early importation. OPEN IT, OPEN IT WITH YOUR TEETH. I LOL’D at that, especially with the contents. Considering how offers like that can fool someone, Gabe is very lucky he did not get worse. Or, you know, get his bank accounts drained.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">109. Another double comic! One, is that really how muscle relaxants work? Probably not.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Two, obvious parody of Unreal Tournament even though I have no idea how that works. Either that or it’s another Tycho is crazy comic!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">110. Thresh? I’m sure Shawn’s going to beat me senseless for not knowing who he is…so let’s look him up. Apparently, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong">Dennis “Thresh” Fong</a> is a celebrity gamer who made a lot of chat clients. He is also not Gabe. Though Mike and Jerry are both now celebrity gamers, and probably more well known nowadays than Thresh. FORESHADOWING.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">111. Haha…Y2K. You know, that thing that never happened when we were all kids? Ah, 1999.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Funnily enough, there is no comic for December 31, 1999, though there is a space for one. I wonder if Mike was too busy cowering in his basement 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">112. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">HAPPY 2000, EVERYONE! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Don’t you love how much our society has not collapsed from the Y2K bug in the last ten years? Anyway, ah, nerd love. Or rather, loving a nerd. Mention long words and you get lots of kisses. C: (Also, I find it a bit of a travesty that neither Tycho nor Gabe have glasses. Though Jerry, I believe, has glasses in real life.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">113. Huh, the girlfriends are in this story more than usual. Looks like Gabe’s dreams of being Tresh have been foiled once again. Though his dreams of being Gabe will be fulfilled in good time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">114. I kind of don’t get this comic. Making fun of the news? Most likely. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">115. This game is a lot older than I thought it was! And yet it still remains both creepy and respected. But also a vehicle to make fun of Tycho! How lovely. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">116. After reading this comic, the second thing I thought, right after “boys will be boys,” was “wait, why the hell is he reaching out in front of him?” I wonder if this actually was a project plan at some point – if it was, Gabe is lovingly showing us how it can be abused. Poor Kara.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">117. CTHULU! Yep, it’s the hat. Totally the hat. I can’t tell if the game they’re promoting is one they like or not, but hey, IT’S CTHULU! I don’t even want to know what the black goat would be </span>͚̜̐̂͑͛ͦͪ͐̿H̞̰̭̮͚͔̱̯̀ͩͮ̿͂͆̿̀e̮̩̩̿̒̾͌̋ͪ ̡͉ͨ͊ͥͦ̍̀̀w̼̮̗̪̭̮ͭ̆ͣ̽h̪̘̲̦̹͔̙ͯ͠ȍ̳̞̻̥̦͈̻͔̩̄̍̍̚͟͢͠ ̱̳͓͔̥̤̐W̧͚͍̝̻̠̱͚̑ͅa̙̠ͮ̄ͣ̂ͤ̚̕͘ͅi̷̷̻͔̜̼̞͈̰̼ͪͯ̃̉̎̎͂͢t̸̖͖͇̂ͮͪ͒ͤ̃͞s̶̨͓͔̰̙̼̭͓͚͋͑̍ͬ̅ͤ̿ͮͅ ̖͚̯͊͋̎̄̈́ͨ͢ͅB̩͍̫̝̮̤̀͗ͧ̇ͫe͛h͋̊̿̔͋́͝҉̞̭͍̭ĭ̶̠͐ͨͨͦ̊̀ñ̶̔͛ͨ̔ͪ͟͏̬̠͇͈̬d̠̠̫̰̱̳̼̑ͦͮ́͑͢͡ ̢̟͚͚̖̎ͮ̆̔͘T̡̩͍̿͊h̐ͨͮͤ͐͌҉͏͏̬̗͓̭̬͙̬e̸̮̝̥̩͇̰̱̦̒͑̑̉̌̾̔ͮ ̨̝̬̳̘̲͙̹͑͋̾̅͘͢W̠̲͓̫̺̟̲̱ͩͩ̀͡á̫͙̬̳̹̽̒̽ͤͫ͂̊͢͞l̶̋̏ͮ̆͏̩̥̜̺͚̝l̻̙̫͎̦ͭ.̵̡̆́͏͉̻̥͇̠̳</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">118. Uh oh, why the sudden JPEG fragmentation? This is not a very promising sign, this is 2000, comic makers! This reminds me of Airplane! except not as cheesy. And there’s only one joke. 8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I only have one thing to say to Gabe. I just wanted to tell you good luck, we’re all counting on you. *closes door*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">119. Maybe I would understand this more if I knew who these two guys were. Is the third guy from the left Chuck? We haven’t seen him in a while…nah, too little Apple paraphernalia. And LOL, the days of registering domain names. That’s so January 2000. (It’s weird. When these guys were playing these games, I was almost seven and my youngest sister wasn’t even conceived.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">120. Disclaimer: Something Webcomic Related was not paid to review a comic that greatly promotes Snickers. Though I will admit Snickers are awesome. Whoo, these boys are getting intense! Panel 2 seems passable, Panel 3, not so much. Wait, kill as in kill? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">121. DIAL-UP, IT IS A DISEASE. My very first Internet connection, when I discovered the internet at age six, was dial-up. Oh do I remember it well. My mom wouldn’t let me use it. But I used it anyway. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">122. I think if Answertrons actually did talk this way to me, I’d trust them a whole lot more. Because they’d be honest fellows then. And also ridiculously smart robots and that would be super awesome. (It would be awesome if computers were intelligent but also nice.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">He’s right, you know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">123. I don’t understand what Tycho said either! Thanks, Gabe! And I suppose the hate-mail is from people who are Linux/opensource nerds? Which I suppose Tycho and Gabe are not? How wonderfully obvs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">124. Panel 1 is probably the funniest thing I’ve read in about ten comics. Introverted AND socially inept! 8D Thing is, though, I don’t get the rest of the comic. I did look it up, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Devine">Graeme Devine</a> is a game designer, but whatever he did to piss these two off is lost to history…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">125. D8!! *gives Zombie Boy a hug* As much as I love the zombie survival genre, this zombie I have to make an exception for…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">126. I think I vaguely remember this. This reminds me of what would happen in <a href="http://www.nuklearpower.com/">8-Bit Theater</a> with that other guy. If you’ve read it you know what I’m saying, if not I’m not going to spoil it. Anyway, yep. Bona fide criminal thar. Because Penny Arcade told us he is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">127. All three of these panels seem like they could stand alone perfectly well. How very odd. And once again, potshots at a particular company without any other humor. I hope they get creative soon. Because trust me, they do! Really!</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">128. Woah! Is it just me, or did the art improve? Also, whatever Duke Nukem info Gabe got, it probably isn’t current anymore. xD Also, this comic cements it. Gabe is a shameless exhibitionist. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">129. UUUUUHHHHH. For the record, I had no idea this comic was coming next. xD That’s a PSOne, right? Either way, this Kara is very possessive. Stay calm, Kara…just keep thinking of comic #19…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">130. Am I supposed to get what’s going on here? Because other than “turn-of-the-century anime” I do not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">131. I have to admit, what Tycho says is not a promising way to start conversations, but that is a pretty neat question! It’d be like mind-reading, except for EVERYONE. Ohman, I can name at least five people I do not want reading my thoughts when I’m looking at them. Also, why does Romero look like a dork in those pics? He looked good on Wikipedia…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Ah, the old days when PA used actual pictures when they were beyond its drawing capacities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">132. I don’t really get what’s going on here either but RADIOACTIVE SCORPIONS HOW AWESOME IS THAT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">133. How many John Gabriels does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but he’ll die in the process. Is it appropriate to giggle? (Also, black widows are a horrible fear of mine. Good thing the symptoms of a bite are fairly obvious…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">134. Ugh! These guys look sadly awful when drawn from the front. D8 Also, it’s an ADMITTEDLY rare couch comic! And Tycho, dear, it’s called Crazy Taxi. I don’t know if that’s a game where you want to be predictable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">135. I can’t tell how much of this comic is sarcastic. I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say none of it is. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">136. Everyone knows that everyone’s a critic, but this puts it in perspective.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">137. Yeah, Tycho still looks bad from the front. Why would a bad episode of X-Files drive someone to suicide? I’d like the details. Panel 2 is sweet. Then Panel 3 defects back to the average hatred.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">138. I think this one was only made because Tycho or Gabe was either really out of inspiration, really hungry, or really wanted to make this joke. Good thing it works, then! 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">139. Even though this comic was made nine years before the beauty that is Plants vs. Zombies, this thing looks like the plant and the zombie all rolled into one! Despite it ate Gabe, it’s AWESOMESAUCE! I’m going to call it Kevin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">140. DAMN YOU, PENNY ARCADE! NOW I’M AFRAID OF WAFFLES. But strangely not dogs. Make Shit-ade, huh? Seems witter than anything C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">141. What, what’s the problem? It came out the right door.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">142. They had those ads back in 2000, too? Neat! Also, the third panel is probably the funniest thing I have seen in the comic thus far. That’s not sarcasm or anything mean like that. It really is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">143. Why are these kids all done up like this in March? I seem to remember they’re in Seattle, that might be why. Hah, their girlfriends have thrice the balls they do. I dunno, though…them rabbits can murder a man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">144. For some reason I find myself thinking of <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LighterAndSofter">that one fluffy Diablo 3 picture</a>. I don’t know why Tycho and Gabe hang out with each other, they clearly despise one another. Maybe they’re each secretly attracted to each other and just don’t want to admit it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">145. OOH, DEM MUSCLES. Street Fighter? Panel 3, lol. The girlfriends are right on it. Is it just me or are they showing up a lot more now? To my knowledge they aren’t in it THIS much later in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">146. “This X-Box thing”? Shawn would be disappoint.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tycho: If it had a toaster, I would just sell the rest of my stuff.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I kind of want to use this line someday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">147. Joke: Dave Grossman is disliked. Moving on…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">148. Yeah, neither the title nor Tycho’s fake summary make any sense except as an attempt to pander to Brenna. Also, the copy-paste is very obvious here. I’m really happy it’s done away with in later strips.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">149. This is what is known as Mike Didn’t Want To Draw Shit Day! Though I must admit, playing Yume Nikki in the dark is the FREAKIEST thing you will ever do. Hands down.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">150. Huh, extreme and temporary art change! Is this a guest comic or just an experiment? Either way, it’s HILARIOUS! I don’t know who the clown is and only have half an idea about Ultraman, but I love the dynamic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">151. Funnily enough, I smell barbecue right now. Boys will be boys, and Gabe will hate Tycho.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">152. I don’t know who this guy is, but he has a good point! Frankly I’m surprised these boys still know what life is. Or that they were even able to go to a rave earlier in the comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">153. You know, Gabe, Metroid: Other M just came out. You need not protest any longer! But I must say I like this one. Tycho actually LIKES him in it! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">154. A STORY ARC? I don’t think there’s been a single Penny Arcade yet that’s had a plot last longer than a strip! What a novel concept, Gabe and Tycho! What will happen to Miyamoto-san? Will Tycho ever take Gabe seriously? Find out next on The Metroid Saga!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">155. And then I guess this is the end. Fortunately Miyamoto-san does not appear to be adversely affected. If he was the world would burn, Gabe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">156. I didn’t understand this. So I looked up UFmedia, and found that the domain name was for sale. So it looks like Tycho’s tennis racket and Gabe’s golf club got the job done, kids!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">157. You know what, Kara’s logic is VERY valid! Actually, all of this logic is. I really, really love this comic. It’s so cute. I wouldn’t be able to stay mad at Gabe…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">158. I don’t understand this comic, but I do know that I like that latter option a little more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">159. ...Tycho has a shrine to John Romero?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*falls down in a massive giggle fit*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">160. *still in a massive giggle fit*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Rome-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> rome- PFFHAHAHAHA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">161. I suppose if Gabe couldn’t leave Tycho a snake, he had to kill him some other way. Poor Tycho. His love for John Romero will never be requited. D8 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Man I want to make a love lair to someone and have it not be creepy…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">162. Huh, Tycho’s looking a little better face-forward! Too Damn Late…that’s a funny name for a late night talk show. BRUCE CAMPBELL? I know a lot of people love him, never seen his movies, but oh dear. Also neat about this one is that almost everyone is a different drawing each time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">163. Oh, is that what a Conker is? I know The Mighty Poo song, but nothing else much about the game. The only thing I think I know is that making him “more accessible” is something of a fallacy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">164. …do they really? Somehow now I’m happy that the only males in my house are my dad and my dog…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">165. Oh man, the girlfriends are great! But also totally unable to understand their boyfriends. Clothes? Those are those things you wear and then wash once a week, right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">166. Seeing as it’s May, must be time for E3 once more! Ah, look at those boats they have for computers! No comment about the sex thing. On to the sketch…wow, them’s a lot of hats. I hope it’s the Cat in the Hat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">167. Looks like the boys like Metal Gear Solid 2! But are they gawking at the game or at Solid Snake? 8P It doesn’t look like they have the same sentiment for…<i>Dukes of Hazzard 2? </i>The hell?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">168. Uuuuhhhhhh. You can’t have so many nerds in one place, can you…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">169. Considering one of the six colleges I might want to go to are in Canada I have to respect these guys. CANADA IS AWESOME. TYCHO AND GABE HAVE STOLEN FROM CANADA AND MUST BE PUNISHED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">170. This isn’t real, is it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It can’t be. Really, no. I won’t say pass me the Kool-Aid, but do at least hit me with this wet noodle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">171. I can get the thing about Sony, even if the material is outdated! I mean, people NOT liking the PS2? That’s a mite old! Still, I seem to recall Sony making their own support…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">172. Huh, is it just me, or did the art improve a little again? They’re looking a little more…elongated. And football? That’s the one with the black and white ball, girls. You’re playing handegg.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">173. Wait, is this the one that <a href="http://www.megatokyo.com/">Megatokyo</a> got that one joke for that one strip from? Even still I’m on the floor laughing. It’s just the serious way he says it. I’m really, really sorry, people who respect mature jokes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">174. I don’t know who Looking Glass was, but a) huh, their room’s looking a little more complex and b) I WANT A WALRUS TOO, GABE. WHY ARE YOU BEING SO GREEDY. YOU’VE GOT SPIDERMAN AND A WALRUS, AND I WANT ONE OR THE OTHER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">175. Moral: Blair Witch Project’s art sucks. Am I right? Am I right? Very likely!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">176. …they sell guns at K-mart?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">THEY SELL GUNS AT K-MART?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Cannot comment on rest of comic. Mind blown.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">177. Call it a hunch, but I don’t think the PA boys liked Sony in 2000.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">178. Zerg? Evil Emperor Zurg, sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance? (Yes I have that line memorized~) One woman’s monster is another man’s treasure, it would appear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">179. The first two comics tell us to check the news post. Unfortunately, whatever news posts there were before 2002 (and I’m fairly sure there were news posts before 2002, considering Megatokyo’s popularity came from a Penny Arcade link) have been wiped. So let’s look at Parts 3-5. For Part 3, I have never seen that machine! I suppose then that I am not funny! Part 4, eh? Part 5, all of this, I can attest, is absolutely correct.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">180. Awwwww, Gabe’s Dreamcast died. *hug* To be fair, this is about when the PS2 came out and the Dreamcast fundamentally died anyway. And I think this is the first time we see Div drinking. I doubt he’s drawn a sober breath since.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">181. $55? Were those games really that expensive? I think I got my hands on TF2 for $10 when it was on sale…and forget it, Tycho. Plans involving gerbils ALWAYS win. Just ask Beast Boy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">182. Oh Gabe, you tosser. Or rather, oh, pronunciation rules, you tossers. I liked Panel 2 for some reason I can’t fathom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">183. I like how one of the Bungie boys is wearing a Penny Arcade sweater. It’s like PA is telling the future in a jerkish manner. :P Oh, Microsoft. They do not appear to be liked, either. Does PA like anyone?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">184. OH! Bungie made Halo! (As the lovely Ben told me, it was just a trailer at this point, but came out in 2001. That sounds about right.) I want to say Panel 2 to someone in jest. Poor Chuck. Poor Mac users. I feel like I pity too many people sarcastically.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">185. Oh, finally! After only two appearances, I guess they wanted to make a recurring character of Chuck, but didn’t like his original design. Is it a potshot at Mac users still, or…I don’t even know. Anyway, meet Charles! That becomes a bit of a catchphrase for him, somewhat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">186. I kind of don’t understand the context of this comic, or even really who Dr. Dre is (a rapper, right?) but I can see that neither Tycho nor Jerry take them very seriously at all. Especially not Eminem. 83</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">187. Huh, another story arc! And still the boys are becoming elongated and simpler in design as Mike’s art evolves. Anyway, time to like things, hate things, and go hate some more things!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">188. Tycho’s got some non-sequitors going thar! Still, I have to love those odd things on the elevator sign. And, oh my. Looks like you’re either going to have to sleep with each other or eat each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">189. I remember when I first read this one – I think I was probably on the floor laughing for a bit. Now I’m not doing that, but that might be because I’m in class. HOLY POP CULTURE REFERENCE, BATMAN! I think you’re going to have some more luck talking to the guy who doesn’t have his head in his ass. But, watch out. His neck’s starting to bend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">190. Awww, that’s so cute. I find that there are many extremes in PA’s opinions about stuff. If they hate a company, they want to kill it. If they love a company, they want to take it out to dinner and stammer sweet-nothings to it while looking to the side.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">191. Oh man, I hope the tech guys at my school cannot see what I am seeing on my Internet. Because this is BAAAD. But also hilarious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">192. For some reason, the only thing I can think of here is video game hypnosis; that he’s gotten so lost in the game that he can’t comprehend anything else. Even the existence of deadly giant squid. OR Gabe knows about the squid and he’s shitting him. Oh comics with predictable plots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">193. Penny Arcade is not, as far as I know, actually owned by Sony. Maybe they were buying a lot of companies they liked and they were not happy. AIBO! I remember those! They were supposed to be the next big thing and then they weren’t.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">194. If this actually is real (and I don’t doubt it is) the boys know one thing – if there’s one place where there will be directions to these kinds of games, it will be Indiana. I wonder if Brenna and Kara know where they’re going…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">195. This “Red and Blue” becomes a bit of a recurring plot in Penny Arcade. I don’t know if it’s a takeoff on a specific game or just games with Red and Blue teams, but, HAH, is this EVER awkward. Though slightly offensive to female social circles. They did, for instance, forget to mention that these two women hate each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">196. I wonder, now in their thirties with at least two kids each, if Mike and Jerry ever think to make these kinds of jokes anymore. Of course they do what am I saying? Panel 3 is beautiful, by the way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, is it just me or is this the first time that Tycho’s head starts to go into it’s iconic shape? I think it is! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">197. I REMEMBER THESE COMMERCIALS. By the way, I completely believe Tycho. Also, aren’t these comics where there are no video games required to understand them awesome?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">198. Can’t really understand this because I don’t know what that is. So I shall join Gabe in laughing at Garfield.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">199. You know what, I don’t think they liked this game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">200. Even before it loads, that title has my eyebrow raised. LOL, PINK TUTU. Again, I am jealous of Gabe’s drawing board. Like super amounts of jealousy here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And there you have it, 100 more strips of Penny Arcade! The art’s improved by leaps and bounds, the jokes are improving slowly but surely, and the comic’s popularity is taking off. I hope you enjoyed my naïve nonknowledge of their subject matter, and that you forgive me for posting this far later than usual.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Once again, donate to <a href="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/">Child’s Play</a> because it is a super lovely and awesome thing to do. Then, if you have any money left, check out some quality merchandise! There are of course the books, but if you look even more closely you will find <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/cpt090011">a Child’s Play tee</a>, a tee of the <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070051">Konami Code</a>, a <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070291">Heartris tee</a>, and two of those three in <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/cpb090011">women’s</a> <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pab070121">sizes</a>. Finally, there is a <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pac070031#pimg-23639372-1">poster</a> that explains my predicament perfectly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Next week, it’s back to Gunnerkrigg Court to finish out Year 7! I hope you all are wonderfully addicted to that comic as I really want to have Gunnerkrigg parties with everyone in the world.</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-39521435591819813612010-10-20T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-20T01:00:05.284-07:00Xkcd #1, 1-100 [OOH WHATDIS]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Before I start, I really want to send out some thanks to all the people that have been commenting on my stuff! Most of you have been giving me helpful corrections and enlightenments on things I get wrong or don’t know – thank you for that! I’ll try not to be so stupid in the future. 8D;</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Maybe you didn’t know, but I was inspired to do these commentaries by the (far funnier and better at his job) <a href="http://markreadsharrypotter.buzznet.com/user/">Mark Reads Twilight/Harry Potter</a>, which were uproariously funny (at least the little of it I read before I came up with this, which summarily took over my life) because he had never read either and reacted quite hilariously to each – Twilight with revulsion, and Harry Potter with apprehension and then all-encompassing love. This is a very long way of saying YAY, we’ve finally gotten to something I’ve never read before!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Okay, that’s kind of a lie. I’ve been linked to one Xkcd or another over the years, and my reaction is usually slack-jawed awe for about two minutes, but I’ve never taken a serious archive crawl through it. From what I can guess from what I’ve seen so far, it’s a comic about nerdy observations and also stick figures. I make nerdy observations, but am not a stick figure, so it might halfway be a good comic. 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So let’s see how this’ll be done. I’ve arrived here: <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/1/">http://www.xkcd.com/1/</a> The website design is blue and inviting, and the bottom of the page promptly informs me that:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
This comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And then something I can’t read about an algorithm. Sounds like a party! So let’s move into this comi-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">1. –c? Hm, this is…a little different than I’m used to seeing from the Xkcd I’ve seen before. For one, that’s a boy and he has hair. He’s breaking all the stick figure rules! Still, though, it’s probably going to take a while for the art to develop. For now, I like this comic in a wistful way – it’s sort of sad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">2. Wait – what? Trees? With a start I realize that Xkcd was a FAR cry different in the beginning...I’m not sure whether to raise a stink about it or not…well, maybe not now. This is a very pretty picture, after all! Judging from the title, I can guess it’s a picture of baobabs on Le Petit Prince’s planet. D’aww, I loved that book C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">3. It’s…an island. On graph paper. So many colors…I see no strong language or unusual humor yet, but I can be patient…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">4. Hm, a little less color here. It’s a pretty picture, still…but I feel like I’m leafing through someone’s math notes rather than someone’s math jokes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">5. And then as if to spite me the comic slaps me in the face with a math joke! If I really have to explain it to you you need to go back to third grade. But I very much like it…it’s cute. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">6. The comics are creeping in little by little, though they are indeed very different than I seem to remember seeing. At first I was like “WHAT” looking right at the wasteland, but then I looked back at the title and was like “oh…um, okay if you say so”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">7. Never mind, we’re back to pictures! Someone must’ve been really bored in Spanish class C: I can hardly see the girl’s shirt straps. I find myself find of wishing I could see her face. But, such is life. How odd.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">8. I-I-I’m disturbed. Red spiders? Why couldn’t it be red butterflies? D8 Intriguing, to be admitted, but…so many spiders…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The mouseover text now tells me that the spiders are six-legged. This makes it all better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">9. Oooh, stick people! At first I was like “wtf is Serenity?” Then I <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_%28film%29">looked it up</a>. It is most likely this! I’ve never seen Firefly but still I smiled. 8D Still, I do not like things that are this obscure…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">10. Okay, this, this is adorable! Must be a neat way to remember pi. I wonder if the letters match up with digits of pi, and the continuation goes on from there…*checks a pi site* Holy crap, I think he did! o____O</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">11. Hey, it’s the barrel kid aga-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Barrel Kid: None of the places I floated had mommies.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">;________;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">12. *tilts head*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I, uh, really don’t understand this at all. Poisson? As in French for fish? Moving on…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">13. Well, I really don’t know how to react to this. It’s a beautiful picture of a canyon, but the comic doesn’t seem to have a direction…I think I’ll just look at the pretty reds in the canyon and smile. :]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">14. Huh. Even though one part of my brain is like I CAN’T UNDERSTAND THIS the other part is like TREES. No comment on copyright laws. That’s all there is to say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">15. !!!! SO. CUTE. OH MY GOD. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">I WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THIS FELLOW AND RIDE AROUND WITH HIM ON A DINOSAUR.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> ALFSLJFSALJLFJS. I forgive this comic’s early tendency to defy my expectations; the strange man made it ALL better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">16. So, here’s how my reading of this comic went.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 1: LOL, KNIGHTS WHO SAY NI. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. NI. NI. NI.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 2: Well, thank you for not explicitly deriding us, but, yes, where are you going with this?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 3: Wait, what’s this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 4: Wait, no, no, what happened – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 5: D8. D8. D8. WHAT HAPPENED</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 6 and 7: …I don’t know what I’m supposed to do now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">17. Even though this was made four, almost five years ago, the first thing this reminded me was the photoshop circle trick. (I’m not linking you to it, you know what it is.) But then that got kicked right out of my mind, because it’s about the uncertainty of love and AWWWW. *hugs both of the stick figures* Be happy with each other, okay?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">18. To be fair, I didn’t laugh at the last panel. I read the fourth and fifth, then the second and third, then the first. I’M NOT EXPLAINING IT~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">19. Come to think of it, these are kind of like the ones I saw, except they’re drawn on graph paper instead of on clean white Internet. I don’t know who George Clinton is (relation to Bill Clinton?) but I have to say I admire that he was able to color in black around all of those little mathematics numbers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">20. Wait, this is actually super sad! Stick figure #1 is crushing stick figure #2’s dreams! D8 YOUR FERRET CAN FLY, STICK FIGURE. I BELIEVE IT CAN FLY. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">21. I think there’s a joke in the name “Kelper” I have missed the pop-culture knowledge to understand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*looks up* There’s a 17<sup>th</sup> century astronomer named Johannes Kepler. Don’t get what he has to do with cleaning stores. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">22. And now we revisit the boy in the barre- DON’T GO INTO THE WHIRLPOOL. YOU’LL DIE. YOU’LL <b>DIE</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">23. The fact that I have seen some of the T-shirts whose slogans are printed near the top is not the saddest thing about this picture. Poor fellow. Maybe if he was a little less adamant about pushing people away he wouldn’t be so alone. I want to give him a hug. But only a little…why am I such an awful person</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">On another note, the author was wittier than I ever was in 11<sup>th</sup> or 12<sup>th</sup> grade. Again, I just discovered there is mouseover text. Woe is me for forgetting these things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">24. Oooh, this comic is pretty big! Let’s read all of it. I’m finding myself having introspective thoughts in the first three panels without direction for them. Oooh, I like this one quote – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Socrates couldn’t imagine the Internet, but people don’t change.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That’s a very good point; helps me understand the last few panels. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait, what just happened? I can’t read anything, there was a landslide! D8 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait, I think I understand the title. It’s three styles attached to three different names. I think I like the last one the best. It’s the cutest. And there’s the couple again. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">25. No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">No.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">NO. WHERE’S THE KID. WHERE IS HE? WHERE WHERE WHERE DON’T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">26. Oops, I’m not mathematical enough to understand this. Poor kitty. 8/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">27. <i>A WHOLE COMIC FULL OF PUNS?</i> MY LIFE, IT IS COMPLETE. THOUGH I WOULD NEVER WANT TO EAT ANY OF THESE THINGS. MICE KRISIPIES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">28. Clearly you get a small, horny elephant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">29. This reminds me of <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlekz83hawz?from=Main.HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct">Hitler’s Time Travel Exemption Act</a>. This states that if you go back in time and kill Hitler (or even just accept him at art school), something even more horrible will rise up to take his place, possibly because what happened in Germany was not the fault of one man as it was an expression of German frustration at the time as channeled through one f***king insane psycho. 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Am I allowed to say that this is a path that logic might take, even though I hate it? Also, I do not know who Aram from Men in Hats is, but he must be pretty unpleasant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">30. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…*Wikipedia, brb*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">o____o</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The More You Know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">31. Omg. HE LIVED! HE LIVED! This makes me happy and I don’t know why. And THE FLYING FERRET CAME TO SAVE HIM! THE FERRET FLEW! SUNSEETTT!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’m elated now. Now the ferret better bring him to a mommy or I’m not going to believe he can fly anymore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">32. I have often wondered this, like perhaps if colors are all tinted one color for someone based on the color of their eyes. But the last panel was great. Doug, you rock.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">33. In response to this comic of self-reference I will proceed to summarize it and make obvious and unfunny remarks. Continue to read something that will have no effect on your life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">34. It may not be a comic, but I love this flower picture! Something about the black background just makes it all shiny and neon-y and fffawesome. Seriously, super-pretty. Inversion is awesome then.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">35. <i>Does Randall Munroe Dream Of Electric Sheep?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…I’m sorry, I had to say it. If you missed it on the site, Randall Munroe is the author and artist’s name. I must say I’m liking this comic so far, mostly…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">36. “Sometimes, Science cannot solve everything. Love, Religion.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…I’m sorry, I had to say that too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">37. I broke out into a wide grin when I read this, because all of a sudden I REALLY WANT TO DO THAT, TOO. Not just move the hyphen, but make fun of the nuances of language. Ass-car. Heeheehee. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">38. DAD, WE KNOW. WATCH COMMERCIALS. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">39. This boy looks like the barrel-boy. Perhaps remembering his time at sea? Anyway, this comic sobers me a little, makes me sad. Also makes me hope the ship sinks first.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">40. My lovely friend Ben describes some of Xkcd’s earlier strips as “lovey-emo.” That fits this comic perfectly – I want to send it to someone I love RIGHT NOW. Bygod *gives everyone in that strip a hug* Also, I am in total awe at the simple pencil-shading in this comic. Simple, but beauteous.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">41. Indeed, the tree stumped him. And why would people snoop through his stuff? To get to his pictures? I’d totally do that!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">42. That’s…one way to go about it, I guess? Or you could switch to Geico and stay out of prison. That also works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">43. Wait wait. What are the red spiders doing. They’re building something THEY’RE GETTING IN THROUGH THE WINDOW OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">44. Why would this one make you wince, mouseover text? Because it’s kind of pointless love? To be fair it’s the best I can say about love, but not the best xkcd has ever said about it, from what I’ve seen of what xkcd can say about love. See strip #40. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">S’also worth note that this is the last strip dated “January 1, 2006.” I’m going to guess Mr. Munroe put the earliest stuff up all in one batch and then started actually updating day to day. So it could be said that it is here that the strip actually starts. Am I right? Probably not?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">45. Wait, perhaps I was right about a change – I don’t see any random graph paper lines anymore! Even if it does still look a little different and rougher than other strips. I love the way this one works, though, with the Schrodinger logic. To be fair, I did giggle. Does that mean the cat is dead or not? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">46. Aww, this strip is adorable! I went to look up who Kurt Halsey was, and he was not on Wikipedia! So after I thought INDIE CRED, I looked him up on Google and <a href="http://www.kurthalsey.com/">OMG THIS GUY IS AWESOME</a>. His style reminds me of strips like #40 (though to be fair it should be the other way around). Fffflsjf. Distractions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">47. Why do I feel so triumphant looking at this? I feel like grabbing a stick and joining them is what I feel like. GO, GIT THE SPIDERS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">48. *sniff*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Their love seems so simple and sad, this way…they are very profound standing fellows.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">49. I started smiling wider and wider with each panel, loving this sort of love, and then I got to the fourth panel and was like “humans.” Thanks, xkcd, for always putting me in my place. 8P </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">50. A STRIP THAT UNDERSTANDS ME! As those of you that have read either <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/">Penny Arcade</a> (I just realized I have forgotten thus far to link to webcomics I namedrop, which is very mean of me) or <a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/penny-arcade-1-1-100-seen-it.html">my Penny Arcade commentary</a> know, much of Penny Arcade is incomprehensible unless you have played every game the Penny Arcade boys have played. Clearly Munroe was either not happy or wanted to be referential. Probably the latter, based on a strip I saw later and which we will eventually get to…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">51. I’ll say. And that’s all I have to say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">52. This is quite possibly the best quote I have ever seen, in my entire life. I think I’m going to make it my wallpaper, <a href="http://www-movieline-com.vimg.net/images/potter_hipster_500.jpg">Hipster Potter</a> be damned! The mouseover text tells us that no two adjacent circles are the same color. But what about the WHITE circles, Mr. Munroe? Eh? Eh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">53. Stick figures have a lot of hobbies, I see. I think this stick figure should stick with saying “ass-car” D8. And, obscure video game references? No matter how many times you make fun of Penny Arcade, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ITS INFLUENCE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">54. I cannot identify the science in question. Sorry, Mr. Munroe, I’m a English/Humanities person, not a science person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">55. 83!!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is probably Xkcd’s most famous strip, and also its most beautiful. I’m going to post it twice because it’s that awesome.</span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Forget #40, I’m going to send this on a card to everyone I know. Even the people I don’t like because it’s that awesome. It’s just so…sweet and sad and nerdy. It’s nerd emo love. Which is the best.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">56. As soon as I saw this I typed “Friday I’m In Love” into Youtube so I could try and guess what “Clocks” might sound like if sung by him. LOL, I love this one. Munroe’s facial skills are okay.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">57. This one started sad, then got sadder, then got pretty ridiculous. In the end I couldn’t decide if it was a romantic “please stay near me” comic or a terrifying fluke. A HILARIOUS one, though!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">58. Why do these comics start out sweet and then have a twist in the end? Because it’s funny, I guess. These almost make me wonder what turned Munroe’s heart from math jokes to love jokes…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">59. I don’t understand what “opening dialogue by Scott” means. But, ANYWAY…I love how this is not only a commentary on modern American twentysomethinghood, but ALSO an excuse to show off a beautiful illustration of a coast and lighthouse! I want to hang out in a lighthouse, but at the same time I am pressured to go to college. Huh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">60. I absolutely agree with the mouseover text. And I too only watch for the half. But I am the smart one – I only watch HALF of them before losing interest! HAH!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/061.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">61. So I stared at this comic for about thirty seconds, slack-jawed, and then my head exploded. If you don’t get the joke, you were never eleven. (Also, if you WERE never eleven, please stop reading this D8) He has a point, though. If I saw a single mom acting the way Stacy’s mom did in the music video, I’d be pretty worried…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">62. I confess I know nothing about Karanaugh maps. But the words I know through metaphor, and they are perfect. Aww. So many potential valentines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">63. Ah, Xkcd knows all sides of love. xD As pithy as this is I can never help but laugh at it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">64. Is this the same guy in the hat as all the other strips? Because if so, he’s a bitch!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">65. I am of the continuing belief that this is what every conversation between males consists of. Including the last line. Especially the last line.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I read the mouseover test and literally could not stop laughing for a year. If the commentary is late, it’s not just because I rediscovered <a href="http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/">Flash Flash Revolution</a>!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Honest!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">66. Sometimes, Xkcd makes me feel smarter. Today, it has done me the honor of making me feel stupider. (To be fair, I CAN find Orion. I just can never find the Big Dipper.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">67. I don’t understand this strip much at all. Is Nerd Girl blaming male nerds for her own social ineptness? Forget her, I love you!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">68. The fact that these comics were done at 5:30 AM makes me wonder about the context. I shall write one sentence about each panel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I would totally go to an 80s night at a club. Seems like a huge non-sequitor. That guy has a sword. 8D I verily agree. Daylight savings often gives me this feeling. THOSE FACES. MATH. Considering a male mermaid is a merman, does this mean there are only lesbian mermaids (and on that occasion, are married mermaids mermatrons?) Uh oh. What? No, wait, this makes perfect sense. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">69. How appropriate that this is a sex joke for #69. And I don’t know – I think if someone was thinking about intense math or science in bed it would be immensely awesome. Do I have a date yet?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">70. THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING CONCEPT ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">71. The trick to being a successful storyteller is to tell the same story different ways. Munroe has pulled this off quite amicably.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">72. I have to admit – this guy really IS a classy asshole! If I was a bit more of an asshole I would be inspired. Though I must say, children will usually choose to eat rocks on their own. So I say, well played, author, well played.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">73. I cannot decide what joke to place here. Should I say ADVENTURE TIME!, or Good heavens, just look at the time? Tell me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">74. *giggle*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Nerds. Gotta love ‘em.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">75. I must agree with the mouseover text, LANGUAGE IS AWESOME. Especially used in this manner. I wanna try, I wanna try. Uh… your cousin is a f*cking tosser!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">76. At first I found myself thinking that the first two panels were sad in and of themselves, because they described a relationship plateau rarely seen in movies. Then I read the fourth panel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why would this fellow be with a woman he doesn’t like for years? Answer, because it’s a joke, guys, chill out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">77. That mountain is gorgeous! And despite the antiAesop at the bottom, it is indeed good to walk around the world every once in a while.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And I giggle at the mouseover text. I wonder what it means. Does it mean Randall Munroe walked around the world all the time and now spends his life on the Internet? Or did he associate everything in his life with Livejournal? Curiouser and curiouser…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">78. This is probably the best Garfield comic I have ever seen in my life. (And to be fair it WOULD be awesome if a comic suddenly switched gears for the heck of it. Like…Baby Blues suddenly going post-apocalyptic. Or Calvin and Hobbes returning to print.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, the mouseover text is bitchin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">79. This guy’s myriad hobbies make me go :3. I like how this one is subtle, but still a nerd win. And the fact that he can do it on the fly…even though he is a stick figure, I must say, damn!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">80. Niiiiiice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">81. Ah, asshole revenge in comic form. Usually if it goes outside comic form you get a year or so in prison. ;D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">82. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…I…I can’t stop staring at this. It’s like a beautiful, beautiful train wreck. It’s grabbing at my eyes…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">83. Yes, girlfriend, lighten up! That WAS incredibly sweet. And having a boyfriend with mannerisms somewhat insensitively termed “gay” can sometimes be kind of awesome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I really want to play Katamari now. Too bad I do not own the game. Or a Playstation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">84. Panel one, I see a conversation that can only go in bad directions. Then in panels three in four it went in absolutely awesome directions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">85. HOLY CRAP, I CAN KIND OF UNDERSTAND THIS MATH. I wonder if mathematicians think this way all the time. If they do that’s kind of awesome. And also attractive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">86. As they say in the world of irony,<i> burn</i>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">87. HAHAHA. LAAAME. Though it does remind me – Dinosaur Comic does not have velociraptors. It does have a utahraptor. But it’s not the same.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">88. I kind of want this bracelet. Also, if you have that twist in your gel band, you’re f*cked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">89. Gravity…intertia…*giggles*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">He said yo momma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">90. I am very, very surprised that I have never had this conversation. I need to have it. Now. Quick, someone, ask me where their f*cking jacket is! (Should I keep censoring that word? I feel like I have to…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">91. I don’t really understand the difference between a RPG and an adventure game. RPGs are not necessarily multiplayer, so…uh…yeah a text version of any of these is not a good idea</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">92. The first panel, especially as paired with the mouseover, is beautiful, thought-provoking, even wistful and lonely. The bottom panel, with all the people dancing at night, just seems to contrast it. Too much has been written about clubs, too little about mornings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">93. So, Mr. Munroe, you hate on us that have Holy Grail memorized, yet you’ve memorized The Lion King? Wait, no. I can’t hate that! And I’d love to have Scar doing all my lines. Though, you get first dibs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">94. I’d say the xx’s on AIM names are annoying, but as I happen to have them wait no they’re still annoying. Anyway, this is an almost perfect representation! Inside jokes annoy me because they tell me nothing, livejournals are neat, and AIM tributes to significant others? Cute as long as they aren’t…not cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">95. Penis?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">96. Why do I find myself wishing I could have this conversation? On either side, I believe. But I can’t decide which. Do I want to be awesome, or know someone that awesome? I think the latter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">97. Ah, Simple Plan! I haven’t thought about them in years! Funny thing was, back when I did like them at age eleven or twelve, I liked them not only because I knew they were serious, but because they were more serious than anything else I’d ever heard and also they narrated my life. Such funny things I thought when I was twelve and attended Catholic school at one of the nicest towns in America…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">98. Why are so many of these so sweet and so sad? ;_;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">99. I don’t think I have enough friends for all these valentine-worthy strips!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">100. Not the most perfect Family Circus parody I’ve ever seen but a pretty fantastic one.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And there’s the first hundred Xkcd strips. You know what? After reading one-hundred Xkcd strips, some of which weren’t even strips at all, I feel something like I do after reading one hundred Dinosaur Comics in that I feel smarter, but something unlike I do after reading one hundred Dinosaur Comics in that I am not exhausted, but smiling and waiting for more to come my way. I don’t think I’m raving yet, but I’ve seen enough lovely connections of logic to be thirsting for even more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, I do think that Xkcd commentaries will be a fun thing to do, yes they will. C: Anyway, let’s take a look at what else is on the site! First it would appear that the author has a <a href="http://blag.xkcd.com/">blag</a>, though the first entry is in October of 2006 and we are currently in May of 2006 so you may have to read ahead a bit for relevance. There is also a store. Like many great webcomic artists, there is a <a href="http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#xkcdvolume0">published collection</a> of Munroe’s work, with selections from the first 600 comics. There are also prints and posters, but as they are of comics I have not reviewed yet I don’t want to spoil myself and thus I will highlight them at the appropriate times. But the <a href="http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Mousepad">mousepad</a> is still awesome, as is <a href="http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Useless">the shirt based on comic #55</a>, and also <a href="http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Witty">this shirt based on comic #23</a>, and also <a href="http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#JustShy">this shirt I wish I could wear everywhere</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s it for Xkcd for now! We’ll let it sit for a week or two as we rejoin the boys at Penny Arcade this Friday as they experience the horrors inherent in the turn of the centry! Love you guys! I hope you enjoy what I’m doing!</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-11090412180629211872010-10-18T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:28:52.516-07:00Cyanide and Happiness #4, 300-400 [SEEN IT]<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You thought it was over. You thought it was safe to go outside…but think ye not of the outdoors! For Cyanide and Happiness is here to tell you about everything that is terrible and dangerous outside the comfort of your own home!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So in my newfound browsing of the TV Tropes forums, I found that pretty much everyone considers C&H overrated. I completely agree. It is nowhere near my favorite comic (that’s Gunnerkrigg Court!) and at times it’s grotesque. But sometimes it makes me laugh. And I hold out for those sometimes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Keeping that in mind, click here in the glorious tradition of not starting at #X01! <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/302/">http://www.explosm.net/comics/302/</a> As always, click the magic “next” button!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">302. And we’re starting our trawl through the archives with a not-so-lovely guest comic. I hope this is done in all awareness of how awful it is because Green needs a slap in the face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">303. Only one guest comic? Huh. I…uh…don’t want to know why that makes any difference D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">304. Huh. He messed with Texas. *da dum pish*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">306. Must…not…laugh…at…pun that is terrible for other reasons than puns usually are terrible…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">307. Huh, I kinda want some invisible ink. Though certainly not to do this! D8 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">308. I don’t know when the “terminal disease as punchline” strips began. Maybe this is the first one. But I don’t like them. I don’t like any of the last few, really. They’re stupid with their shock value.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">309. But now everything is okay again because THE PURPLE SHIRTED EYE STABBER IS BACK! AND HE DID NOT STAB ANYONE! Clearly because he isn’t quite purple shirted! Boy’s gotta get his act together before he can do any hardcore stabbing!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">310. Huh. Wait a minute, if that’s a tattoo, why does it hang down from hi-OH MY GOD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">311. There are indeed a few of these Trelaf the Wise comics. Trelaf is not often very wise. Just very reactionary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">312. LF does not like Jesus. (I dunno about you guys but Jesus was a pretty cool guy. The rest of us are only human.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">313. To escape your immature thoughts, you must pass them on to Trelaf the Wise! I laughed a little. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">314. This is a little, uh, awkward, both in joke and in content. Lady, I think this guy has problems and I think you need to run as fast and far as you can!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">315. You have to admit, Matt is right. I’m not commenting on the fourth panel because I don’t understand it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">316. Ah, another episode of Charles and Girlfriend! I don’t quite know what Charles was worried about, but he’s still an asshole. I’m really not enjoying #300-400 so far…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">317. Okay, okay, I give, I give! I GIGGLED. It’s dirty, but it’s not offensive! It’s the way anyone’s mind would work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">320. If anything that’s a <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial">Suspiciously Specific Denial</a>! (Oh, and if you haven't gotten to Chapter 22 of <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1">Gunnerkrigg Court</a> yet, DON'T LOOK AT THE PAGE PICTURE) Poor fellow. He really needs to just accept who he is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 22pt;">GOD-DAMN NUMBER SKIPPING!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">321. TOAST? C: I’ve heard of money-rolled cigarettes but this is just ridiculous. (Money rolled cigarettes don’t actually exist, as far as I know. They’d be covered in STDs.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">322. 8[ On another note, how would Robert not notice until her water was about to break? (I had a dream I was pregnant last night. It was pretty creepy.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">323. LF has been Lol, Foiled! This will come back and be funnier later, I promise. I LOVE CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS SUPERHEROES. LF MAKES UP FOR BEING A DICK BY BEING A SUPERHERO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">324. A guest comic, by Fuelkat! Woo, a nonjoke that still manages to give a chortle!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">325. Craig Wilson, really? Really now?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">326. No. No. No no no no no no NO..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">327. Well, uh, yes! Isn’t ALL milk breastmilk? An udder is a cow’s breasts…[/missingthepoint]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">328. I. really. don’t. like. the. guest. comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">329. WAIT, I TAKE THAT BACK. I LIKE THIS ONE. I REALLY DO. I love how they’re eyeless, it gives them a lot of personality. It’s also creepy, but…I dunno. I just like the style of the stickmen, it doesn’t feel as halfassed as the other guest comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">330. I have to admit I was a bit gigglingly terrified by this crazy guy. But only a little. Just a little.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Guest comics. They never seem to end.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">331. The picture hasn’t loaded yet, but I am encouraged a little by the name “Gordon Freeman”…WAIT, I WAS WRONG, I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. *shakes head*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is probably the most picturally explicit of the comics, and I just opened it at school. Heaven help me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">332. I’d say “with all the donations he has hidden away in his beard, he probably can”, but not all buskers are scams! Right? Please let me have faith in humanity still D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">333. Newsflash; it was a plane. 8/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">334. Chriz…he did a guest comic before, didn’t he. But none of that matters, because HE KILLED A CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS SUPERHERO. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">UNHAPPINESS RISING FURTHER. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">335. Are these guest comics completely missing the point, or was there never any point to begin with and I just imagined one?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">336. OKAY, GUEST COMICS, THAT’S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU, OKAY. DON’T MAKE ME ADMIT I LAUGHED AT PANEL 5. BECAUSE I DIDN’T. NO WAY NO HOW. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">337. Um, no. I have completely blocked this comic out of my head. I offer you this strip of <a href="http://www.shortpacked.com/">Shortpacked!</a> in replacement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">338. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">ROB, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM TO BE OUT OF THE GUEST COMICS. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">To celebrate I shall go to my new farm and ride a horse. Don’t you dare make that a dirty joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">339. WAIT A MINUTE, I LOVE THIS COMIC. IT REDEEMS MOST OF THE GUEST COMICS. Why am I suddenly curious as to what this would look like? BECAUSE I’M CRAZY. WOO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">340. And…and now I’m sad again. That garbage man is very mean and I need to not ever give him cookies again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The only happy thing here is that I think the numbering’s finally sorted itself out. Wait, now I’m kind of disappointed…I’ve lost something I can complain about! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">341. I wonder if there ever would be a such thing as a patty-cake tournament, somehow. It would be cute! Whore rays, whore rays are not cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">342. *headdesk*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">343. I really don’t know how to react to this one. There really are Overeaters Anonymous-type groups, so…yeah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">345. SAMMICH SHOPPE! I’ve never noticed that title before! Well played, Mr. Creepy Shop Owner, well played. Sexual harassment of customers is a good way to get Sammich Shoppe shut down. Please preserve your fantastic name, okay? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">346. No, seriously, this comic makes perfect sense. He exploded from jealousy that this guy is a professional rester, and he’s a doctor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">347. PURPLE SHIRTED EYE STABBER! If there are C&H superheroes, does that make him a C&H SUPERVILLAIN!? And is there really such a thing as Nerf Blowdarts? That sounds super dangerous…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">349. This comic <s>SKIPPED A NUMBER</s> is non-sequitorific. Such jealousy over milk! And if you don’t mind I’m going to hide the baby thank you very much</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">351. This guy’s joke was pretty half-assed to begin with (totally not making a pun there, not at all!), but Green just confuses and scares me…D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">352. I wonder if Grey has a job. Or if it’s just his calling in life to make jokes about homosexuality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">353. You know what, comic, I agree with you. Only about 10% of the guest comics so far have been anything but horrific.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">357. Wow, that was, uh, a bit of a jump! And again I am compelled to giggle. I have no damned idea why. Batteries. Them’s deadly creatures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">354. I remember when I used to play massively multiplayer online role-playing games. I felt like Blue felt in Panel 3 for about two minutes every time I leveled up. Though I never felt the urge to stab anyone…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">355. GHOSTBU- oh. Well then, I hope they take care of it. *giggle*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">359. Um, damn, the numbers, they are a’ changing…I don’t see any jump rope. LOL, THAT LAST LINE. WHY DO I LOVE IT SO MUCH. There are like five comics so far that I love, but I love them intensely. I kind of wonder if this could happen in real life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">356. Like most C&H humor, this one is a slap in the face, but a good one! Except that Pinkish is an asshole. A REAL asshole. Let’s throw bricks at him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">358. This one I find funny because it’s so damn ridiculous. If I found someone doing coke in my living room I would call the police. And then run out of my house.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">360. You know what else is ridiculous? These comics, where some sort of comeon or wordless understanding suddenly leads to makeouts. Somehow I wonder if this could happen in real life as well. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">361. This is sad in a hundred ways. But hopefully it’ll bring these two closer together. In some sense. :P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">362. I think they BOTH got served. At which I giggled. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">363. Of course I know what he’s actually talking about. But does that stop me from making a sadface and wanting to hug Blue and hear him play? NOPE. BECAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS HIIIIM</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">365. Days in a year! To be fair to Green, the trash WAS taken out. See, it’s flying all over. (Dave’s comics I also like more often than not.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">366. Was 2005 when bird flu was raging? No matter, IT KILLED BIG BIRD. ;___; To sate your anger I give you <a href="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/1287196626584.gif">this</a>, which I just discovered was the inspiration for Dinosaur Comics #265, which I have edited accordingly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">367. I don’t understand this comic, not at all. It’s like it was written as an excuse to show gore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">368. I think with recent slang I have learned not to trust anything with the word “special” in it, and you shouldn’t either! Is it somehow bad that I only really started retching at “raisins”, though? I <i>hate</i> raisins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">369. Oh, the things no one ever tells you about orange juice. Like why they add paper pulp to it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">370. Charles’s jackass quotient just went through the roof. Though Girlfriend is an idiot for not just breaking up with him! Or, you know, turning him in to the police! Then again that’s not the way this comic works, unfortunately for our reason.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">371. Why do I find myself thinking this is cute? I guess because it’s unexpected, inoffensive mostly, and…silly. Y’all would not be happy if I compared this to Monty Python, but they made a lot of silly out of serious things as well…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">372. Humanity’s changed in 1,000 years, genie. Wishing for video games is like wishing for three more wishes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">373. SUPERHEROES!!!!! 8D Rubberarm Man returns! How did he draw his logo if his arms are rubber? Still, I agree with seizure man. He is not a REAL C&H superhero because he does not have a cape. 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">374. Whenever I hear about mothers like this I want to punch them in the face. So I am not laughing at this comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">375. So I was “meh”-faced at this comic for about five panels, and then I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my seat. YOU JUST GOT TOLD, DR. STICKFIGURE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">377. Eeeeeewwww. I did not want to read that just after reading about the Donner Party! (You’ll see what I’m talking about on Wednesday)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">380. I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH THIS, C&H. YOUR NUMBER SKIPPING IS DYING A SLOW AND LINGERING DEATH. I giggle, because Green is stupid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">378. LED paint, huh? So it lights up at night? 8P Poor dear. He is also stupid. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">382. You’d have to love science a lot to read through the heavy rhetoric in <i>The Origin of Species</i>. So, I think Orange wins this battle. Also, SYRACUSE COLORS~ *waves at Ben*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">383. Guess what effect The Sims 2 has on webcomic commentators?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I uninstalled that thing in June I swear</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">384. The hippie’s magic worked – I have no idea what just happened! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">385. Would you look at that! The site (though not quite the comic yet) is one year old! Aww, look at all the copy-pasted characters! I think they did a “all of our characters” poster recently. It was much, much, much larger than this. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">386. Dear Kris,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Please stick to stick figures. Never, ever draw cute fluffy animals ever again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Love,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Carth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">387. THIS SONG. IT WAS MY CHILDHOOD. Uh, the jingle about the beans, I mean. Not the actual song the beans make. I mean uh D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">388. This is, uh, surreal. Suddenly I really want to try these chips, though…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">389. *headdesk*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">390. Santa must have a mad awesome exercise regimen to retain just the figure he’s famous for. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Because, you know, Santa absolutely exists. I still believe in him. Honest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">391. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">HAPPY 2006, EVERYONE! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This comic’s taken ages (and something close to 365 actual comics!) to have a year turnover. I’m not going to pass judgment on Blue and Green, but if 2005 was what it was, I have to wonder what you changed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">392. HUNRY RUBIKS CUBE IS HUNGRY!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why was that all I could think of when I saw this strip?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">393. What a mean toilet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">394. Grey is being unreasonably mean. Looks like we might need that time machine in 2007 too. Though maybe the unreasonable meanness is the joke…?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">395. Is this a point of self-reference because Matt, like me, is tired of this joke? I certainly hope so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">396. That’s…pretty crazy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And also terrifying. Maybe it’s just me, but Dave seems to put a bit more effort into his writing at this point…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">398. RUN, RUN, I HUNGER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That is also the only thing I could think of.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">397. This is the oddest foreplay I have ever seen. But also the funniest. x3 (To be fair I have never seen any foreplay and probably never want to.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">399. The thing I’m maddest about here is that this girl did nothing in her own defense…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">400. Heavy? And the moral of this story is, Light Blue is a jerk! And also there is no joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, in terms of statistics (I guess), this batch had a lot more that I didn’t like, but it has its hits and misses. Perhaps next batch will be better. I try to remain an optimist or else I won’t survive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you do enjoy the comic so far, you can still get the lovely merch at <u>this link</u>! Their regular store still is not back online, despite it being three weeks since I first announced such. Oh well, enjoy the books and the app in any case!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This commentary series WILL be back, on the other hand, back with ANOTHER gag-a-day strip about stick figures! Also known as, Xkcd! I hope a lot more of you like that one!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’m lonely…</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-78591938269139032112010-10-15T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-15T20:13:35.167-07:00Dinosaur Comics #3, 200-300 [SEEN IT]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wouldn’t you know it, it’s that time of week again! Time to learn trivia, become smarter, and hang out with the coolest three dinosaurs on the Internet! Most other dinosaurs are dead and in the ground, but T-Rex, Utah, and Dromi are cool enough to be on the Internet, so let’s have a chat with them and see what they were up to at the tail end of 2003.</span> <br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a name='more'></a>Apparently, they were in fact up to more superhero origin stories. So let’s humor their desire to tell us things by going to <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=201">http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=201</a> and clicking the magic “next” button! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">201. Okay, okay, okay. I understand completely the three places where this phrase might have originated – testicles, fighter pilots, and freight trains. But why would anyone need to use this? I don’t actually know what this phrase means…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">202. Now a little twist on the definition of “origin story”…this is a pretty disenheartening comic. Though I must admit one is happier when one realizes that though one is not perfect, one still has the capacity to do good. 8]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">203. And now we’re back to normal. Don’t you hate when you have a crazy dream and can’t remember it or use it as a conversation starter with your friends? This comic is rather sad. I wonder where North gets these ideas. In this case, hopefully not from his own life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">204. Maybe I haven’t made it clear, but I really love it when Dinosaur Comics teaches you something new and wonderful out of absolutely nowhere. And as Utah says in Panel 5, this sentence would never be used – but it’s a piece of linguistic fun! And everyone knows that instead of getting drunk on Friday nights, they want to be playing with linguistics! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">205. Whenever DC has a title like “Happiness Comics,” you know shit’s about to go down. 8O </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T-Rex: Is happiness such a valid goal?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Do you have any other end goals, T-Rex, besides stomping? But somehow, that last thought bubble worries me…I don’t quite remember the next comic, but are we going to see T as a druggie?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">206. I suppose overeating has a narcotic effect. AMERICAN THANKSGIVING, who’d a’ thunk it! Ugh, this comic is making me hungry…it is only a month until AMERICAN Thanksgiving, after all. Maybe we should all just celebrate regular Thanksgiving so we can have off from school sooner :P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">207. THIS COMIC HAS A VERY LONG TITLE. And that’s sort of a non-comparison, as the human voice is an instrument in and of itself and therefore a part of a piece of music…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">208. If your choices are yours to decide, why do you keep stomping? Because you want to? It’s some convoluted philosophical ideas he’s wrestling with here…things most people take for granted. And woo, it looks like T-Rex finally found his happiness drugs! 8D.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">209. I call it – the moral to this comic will be that you shouldn’t count your chickens before they hatch! Woo! Oh, no, wait, it’s about riches and pirates! And pirates aren’t cool? Has Dr. McNinja been lying to me all my life? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">210. It seems to me like T-Rex is trying to trawl through a lot of theories to get to happiness, only to get them shot down by Utah…on that note, Dinosaur Comics is kind of like a garden path sentence. It starts one way and ends another, going from personal revelations to angst about absent fathers. (By the way, if there are any absent fathers in the audience, please go call your kids today and tell them you love them.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">211. To be fair, T-Rex, most stories people tell about their youth are false to begin with. :P And brick jokes of that length are too easily forgotten by both parties… Utah, you tosser! I’m going to guess that he overheard the whole thing…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">212. Sorry, T-Rex. Reptiles are cold blooded. Have fun when the Ice Age hits.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I only just realized that these comics have mouseover text! It tells you who said that dinosaurs are cold-blooded. I’m going to read the mouseover text from now on. Sorry for any inconveniences wrought by not reading the last 211 mouseover texts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">213. T-Rex, if you were called as a witness to a murder trial, YOU WOULD HAVE WITNESSED A MURDER. T-Rex, you’re really weird. In summary, this whole conversation was an excuse for T and Utah to have a dick-measuring contest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">214. Objectivism. Doesn’t account for the human tendency to push others out of their way. The thought of love being selfish has always bothered me…but it always come out well, so yeah. And it is kind of depressing, thank you mouseover text.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">216. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">WHAT IS IT WITH COMICS RANDOMLY SKIPPING NUMBERS ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Stupid comics. Anyway, this comic should teach you much – always justify the middle ground. It should also teach you not to go around the world unless you are not a dinosaur and can actually fit in a plane. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">217. T-Rex, how many offscreen friends do you have? I’d like to see them sometime. Wait, what’s this? Fresh ways to say “I love you”? Hm…not satisfying. Time to go break out the thesaurus. (It knows a bit more about words than a tyrannosaurus. Rest assured, it has been used to write many a love poem.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">218. I hear/use this phrase ALL the time. An examination of it never crossed my mind. To be fair to Utah, T-Rex isn’t using a metaphor at all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">219. Uh. (To be fair to the alt-text, the pages might be different in different editions.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">220. Oh, T-Rex, thank you for inventing all of these holidays! They are quite lovely. And LOL, Dromi. That made me laugh harder than I expected to laugh. DUDE, I WANT A SANDWICH TOO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">221. Silly Dromi, EVERYONE knows that the best things in life can be bought with money. And durr, Christmas parodies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">222. So T-Rex is Santa Claus? Sure, okay, I just don’t want to witness my mother’s lips on his. You know, as much as this comic often bores me, I have to laugh every time T-Rex uses the word “sexy.” I really do not know why. I am not a refined human being.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">223. Ah, it’s Christmas. What a sweet and heartwarming comic for the day. For the record it’s the middle of October but I DO NOT CARE. And Christmas every day is a bad idea. Trust me. I watched Fairly Odd Parents in my youth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">224. Aww, does ickle T-Rex still think he’s friends with his dentist? What a loser. xP Poor T-Rex. He has dentist-related issues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">225. TIRED OF PUNS? HOW CAN ANYONE BE TIRED OF PUNS? I am disappointed, T-Rex. And just for that I’m going to UN-kill everyone! HAH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">226. If T-Rex is sharing general trends, then doesn’t that make him a STATISTICS teacher? No, wait…whatever. Thank you, T-Rex, for exposing the mysteries of the past on my fancy computer! And puns ARE awesome, girl.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">227. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">HAPPY 2004, EVERYONE!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Make a wish and blow out the candles. I have never heard of anything like Panel 3 happening in my life, though. Though there are a few people I would not mind suggesting to practice with…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">229. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">MORE WANTON SKIPPAGE OF NUMBERS.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> You know, which DC, I actually don’t mind so much. :P This strip actually starts kind of neat and very quickly goes silly. Synchronized swimmers. Of course they drown.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">230. I’ve always thought that being a middle school teacher was the worst job in the world. Elementary school they’re cute, high school they’re human beings, college it’s respectable, middle school they’re little hellbeasts. Tweens is a bit of an awkward word, and yes, overusing it or any other word will get you pelted with paper balls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">231. Non-canon? Are you saying that over the past year you just suddenly decided to be a different person? Goodness. Didn’t know that being a different person was so self-referential.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">232. Reading just the first three panels, I don’t know whether to laugh hysterically or bang my head against the table while also laughing. Funny how it makes it sound so catastrophic, though, just like real teen problems. Especially worlds falling apart like that. Oh teens and their discoveries of how to hurt each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">233. Wait, FLYING SUBMARINES DON’T EXIST?! WHAT IS MY LIFE. D8 And if the cheese is American cheese it’s not really cheese. And, again, it all ends on an unknown note.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">234. Ha, ha! Wrong moralistic Christmas special, T-Rex! (And to answer your question, it would have been horrorble.) Still, a DC adaptation of Christmas Carol would be neat…aww, now I wanna watch the Muppets version, and I have too much work to do…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">235. All this talk of youth makes me wonder how old they all are. Twenties? Thirties? Probably. And that will be more than enough excitement for you…BECAUSE YOU’LL BE AN OLD TIMER. HAH. Also, mouseover text, you’re weird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">236. WELL THAT’S A TITLE TO CATCH ONE’S ATTENTION. I would ask why you would wish to brag about swimming naked, but it strikes me as something T-Rex would do. He seems to like shock value. And the mouseover text reminds me that, durr, it’s January. Oh well. Dinosaurs are cold-blooded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">237. That’s a kind of depressing and superioristic way to look at it, Mr. Tyrannosaurus! For all the research T-Rex does, he seems to get a lot wrong on purpose.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">238. HAPPY MACHINE! As much as reading this comic sadly bores me I smiled at that. Damn you, comic, making me still read you for your cuteness. Funny thing, though, the only thing that I can think of as a “happy machine” is drugs. D8 AND SHUT UP, UTAHRAPTOR. HAPPY MACHINE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">239. A neat party trick, Tyrannosaurus, a neat party trick indeed. And it’s more like a way to turn into a CREEPY shanty. Though I have to admit, it’d be funny with Justin Biebs. “Matey, matey, matey ooooh…”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">240. I do have a full grasp on most of these differences. Thanks, Sir Points Out The Obvious A Lot!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">241. I don’t know about the problem for rewarding friendships – I give people love for being my friends! I guess it seems a lot more…sycophantic this way. It’s strange how a bit of emphasis can change a gift – a gift out of love, or a gift as a reward for love…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">242. I broke into a wide grin when I read this, as I just yesterday accused a male friend of being afflicted with the cooties. He responded, as any male would, “NO YOU HAVE THE COOTIES.” And with just one sentence, life becomes to a playground. Clearly, T-Rex has cooties. Dromi and Utah said so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">243. What color is the sky in T-Rex’s world? :P And yes, there is definitely political undertone here. What if you proclaim you’re right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">244. That…does not sound like a game that will ever be praised, at all. Even without reading the whole comic. But I kind of actually love this comic, because the joke comes out of nowhere! Very clever, well played, Mr. North.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">245. Hey, this is probably actually pretty accurate. Victorian Era, that’s probably not what the main said but definitely what he meant. Sexual revolution, there was not so much talking involved. Modern times, we’re trying to recant the Victorian era. Future, we’re just making fun of everything.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">246. I wonder how many unpublished novels T-Rex has written in his lifetime. This reminds me of a course I saw in the course roster for the University of Toronto, which was apparently all about sex in film. And you have to think, there are a lot of people who don’t care what their mothers think of their work…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">247. T-Rex’s philosophies are getting way crazy man! Hm, this came out a little differently than I expected. VERY differently from what I expected. T-Rex is creeping me out. (By the way, “Living Symbol” is not a good career path. Just look at what it did to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Watchmen#The_Comedian">The Comedian</a>.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">248. I have to admit, saying that is a lot of fun! It’s just a bunch of funny sounding words. :P And there’s nothing wrong with outdated phrases, totally, dude, quite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">249. …yes. Philosophy comics. In other news, water is wet. And as for the second one (haha, I typed “science one”), brush off, Utah, make room for the REAL expert!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">250. Oh, more religion vs. science, I see. This should be riveting. But…huh, that’s an interesting way to put it, Panel 3. Is it flawed, Utah? I had NO idea. And better watch what you’re saying about God, T-Rex…he might just be listening.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">251. <i>T-Rex: What, what’s this? A growth on my leg?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I visibly winced when I read that. And ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single picture of a zombie dinosaur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">252. A SUPERHERO! This adventure of the day might be odd, considering T-Rex stomps on buildings. And look! There’s conflict in this story! It just isn’t very moralistic…poor Dromi. Everything seems to be decided for her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">253. Hm, class? That’s easy, go to college. Oh, handshakes? Well I do agree, in most cases handshakes are classy! Especially secret handshakes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…VESTIGAL ARMS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">254. Valentine’s Day? Is it just me or are these comics going rather faster than they usually do? Probably just me. T-Rex was very lucky that Dromi wasn’t taken! (Wait, Utah is gay. Nope, he just lives in a small world.) Poor Utah…I’d be his valentine if I was male.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">255. T-Rex’s philosophical beliefs are often all talk. (This reminds me of when I saw a Buddhist magazine that seemed to be published and edited entirely by white Americans.) You saw a statue. Nice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">256. No offense, T, but that’s a REALLY weird thing to do with your life! Just saying. Utah’s right – you don’t do that kind of thing on a whim…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">257. I love that word I don’t feel like spelling! It’s so long and sexy. I also love the back-and-forth at the end, though it sort of doesn’t work as a punchline.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">258. That’s not a hilarious outtake, that’s a bit of a boring outtake. Same with the second. I think that might be the joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">259. The INTERNET, you say? I wonder if this was a bigger deal in 2004. Nah, not that old. Guestbook? Really? xD Mr. North actually does have a “dinosaurcomics.com” domain. It redirects to Qwantz.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">260. ICE CREAM! I LOVE ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM IN WINTER? WHO CARES, IT’LL STILL MAKE YOU FAT! ICE CREAM!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">261. I don’t really get what T-Rex was saying. But of COURSE Utah isn’t there! He does not appear in 1-3! It is an IMPOSSIBILITY. And-uh, yeah! Since when do Dinosaurs smoke? SINCE WHEN DO THEY HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">262. It’s really weird when one person is shocked by something others take for granted. Such as we see here. A PLOT IS FORMING YOU GUYS AGAIN. But I have to admit, I AGREE WITH T-REX. SMOKING KILLS EVERYONE. 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">263. T-Rex’s age is very ambiguious. Here he is wondering if he’s old, but also deferring to his mother. And I think that’s a common thing to say, what Dromi is saying. Somehow I picture her as a sort of drifting woman in her late twenties. Perhaps a hipster. Smoking is kind of like self-murder, you know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">264. Nyahaha! Remember when I said God would be a recurring character? WELL, I WAS RITE. YEP, IT’S GOD. HE KNOWS ALL. And only T-Rex can hear him. How odd. Poor Utah, his boyfriend is crazy. He doesn’t know his times tables? What a dinosaur.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">265. This comic is, uh, <span style="color: #99cc00;">weird</span>! Why does the TEXT keep <span style="color: blue;">CHANGING COLOR</span>? And I dunno, T-Rex, I feel mean today! I think I will <span style="color: red;">READ THE LAST PANEL.</span> <span style="color: black;">T-Rex, you tosser.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">EDIT: So I feel really, really stupid now, because I just found out this comic was based on the Sesame Street book "The Monster At The End Of This Book." And now I love the reference. Again, I am SO sorry! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">266. All of these things just sound like disasters to begin with. Burnt toast is sad. Burnt house is pyromaniacal. Not going on…anyway, why would bridges be funny? Is Utah still mad about T not being his valentine? D8 Anyway, DISASTER STRIKES. Clearly Utah is on fire D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">267. T-Rex is late for things? And important meetings? I didn’t know that in a confined environment this was possible. Or, as the mouseover text reminds me, the dinosaur eras…T-Rex is so very silly isn’t he guys</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">268. Didn’t T-Rex have a time meachine earlier? No, wait, that was the dimension machine! I’m lost already! Must consult my time machine. *looks at watch* Utah has a point, but what if you don’t build it before you die? Also…he’s right. Of the few Cathy strips I’ve read, they all seem to end in “ack.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">269. T-Rex, that’s not an autobiography. Sometimes he surprises me with what he knows, and sometimes he surprises me with what he doesn’t know. 8P Here I have to smile at the punchline switching in Panel 5. Does he have a garlic sandwich every Tuesday or sommat?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">270. T-Rex, would it enrage you more to know that this is what you do every day, but only now are you angry? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait, why the I Love Lucy punchline? I’m 17 years old and what is this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">271. Now, THIS strip seems more superheroic and also formulaically plotful! This is actually a pretty friggin’ awesome strip because Panel 5 is REALLY COOL. And how can you mind-control yourself? That’s like a lobotomy…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">272. An awesome week? Is this a guest week, or just an awesome week? Anyway? CLAY DINOSAURS. I AM SUPER HAPPY ABOUT THIS. <3 I dunno once more, T-Rex, I think the plasticine is AWESOME. Though it might be a bit painful. And if mirrors don’t exist…whatever, words are god!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">273. It’s very easy to tell that this is a guest comic, because T-Rex has sworn quite a bit in those two panels. How shocking. Dromi looks pathetic unfortunately. And now I only just noticed the rhymes! Some of them are a bit righteous. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">274. This guy did a guest comic before, didn’t he? Yes, yes he did! LOOK HOW AWESOME IT IS. CRIME STOMPER. EXTRANEOUS ACTIONS. FOR DRUGS. This is starting to remind me of Dirty Harry, a little. Utah better be careful…hah, why can’t the whole comic be like this? 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">275. What, what is this? Granted, it’s a dinosaur comic. But pterodactyls? Lasagna? Really pretty scener-I LOVE THIS COMIC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">276. HOLY CRIPESFUL. IT’S A COMIC THAT BREAKS FORM, AGAIN. Oh my god, the rabbits are so beautifully obvious. xD The T-Rex framework is impressive and hilarious. I wonder what they actually did with T-Rex. He probably went on to Castle Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh unharmed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">277. Another week of awesome guest comics? YAY! Well, this is a perspective we don’t usually get! Is this the guy that does Wigu? It looks like his style. WATCH OUT, HUMANS. THERE’S PHILOSOPHY COMIN’. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">278. Hi, T-Rex. Nice to see you breaking the fourth wall. How are you? I’m lovely, thank you. And this is actually the most logical logic I’ve ever seen in the comic! T-REX IS FALLING</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">279. Mildly chunky? I know a lot of supermodels who would give their body fat to be that thin! Uh oh, does T-Rex run this universe? And did Penny Arcade steal their newest T-shirt design from this comic?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">280. MS PAINT. OH HOW I LOVE THEE. Anyway, YES. LOVE the Lion King. And that’s not really discrimination if lions do that as a way of life in real life. Just in case anyone was confused.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">281. Dave Cheung? CHUGWORTH? So…many traumatizing memories…anyway this comic is REALLY WELL DRAWN and I LOVE IT. A COMIC ABOUT STOMPING. AND YET IT IS AWESOME. OH MY GOD, THE GIRL ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING. WHY AM I SO EXCITED. AND WHY DOES UTAHRAPTOR LOOK SO…MEAN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">282. A THIRD week of guest comics??! Dinosaur Comics is spoiling me. So this is the anti-278? Perhaps they should have a cage match. Is Contradiction City near Albequerque? Would I see it if I went to Canada?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">283. Isn’t this the name of a movie, or something? Poor Godot, his friends always put too much trust in him. Is the contradiction symbolic? Probably. I wonder if Godot is a canon character. Like the pterodactyls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">284. A comic where things break free of an endless cycle?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…*head pops off*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">285. Well, now that that’s taken care of – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*sees comic*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*head pops off*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Also, admit it, you all picked up your laptops or craned your heads to read Panel 6!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">286. I think in a canon comic T-Rex also decided that he was awesomer than everything. Defeat of other T-Rexes? What would they do? Flail their arms?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">289. Biscuits and gravy are pretty go-HUMANS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(and what was with the sudden skippage of numbers again?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">290. And now, after nineteen (nineteen!) comics, we are back to Ryan North, just in time to show off the last eleven comics of the commentary! I actually think this one is rather adorable because it takes advantage of the medium – the arm placements do make it look like they’re driving cars. How very cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">291. Oh, what’s this? If only the government were that easy to convince. Then again, T-Rex governs his own world, so maybe he’s right…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">292. This “Identity Theory” made no sense to me until I read the thing about the brain and then I started to get a very small and insignificant feeling in my neurons. And then I felt a lot better when I got to Panel 5 because AIs are awesome. You guys ever talked to <u>Cleverbot</u>?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">293. I read the first two panels and felt like I was back in an anime from the 80s, and not just because I’ve been watching Sym Bionic Titan for about a month now. Dromi’s right, it makes no sense, but it’s awesome. But, burn, Utah, burn! (Burn the mother down)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">294. I don’t have the heart to make fun of T-Rex because I MISS SPRING. Though “young lovers” made me somewhat wistful…just as it does those two. To be fair, though, teenage relationships are gross. Twentysomething relationships are okay.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">295. Today seems to be a day for T-Rex to spout off everything on his mind without a particular focus! And here’s Utah, in to change the subject away from spring? The meanie. Scallywag. I have not heard that word before from a non-pirate. neat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">296. I love this one because it’s one of those ones where you are taught something new and useful. Like, the whispering? I AM LAUGHING AS LOUD AS HELL. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">297. Sometimes I wonder if when Mr. North puts recipes in his comics, they actually work. I am not a bachelor so I would not know. Anyone know?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">298. The Gambler’s Fallacy? I never knew there was a name for that which I partake in so often. There doesn’t seem to be much behind it, though, as we see in the bottom row…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">299. Why is it that we always seem to end near Compressed Film Comics? It’s a trifle unusual. o_O I think after “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN” I stopped reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">300. Uh…awkward. On both counts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And what more is there to say? That was another hundred or fewer Dinosaur Comics! Thank you for reading; I hope it made your life more enjoyable. I will take the opportunity now to highlight more of DC’s merchandise – for instance, the <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-THERE&Category_Code=QW">There, Now I’m Not Naked Anymore</a> shirt, a shirt of <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-STOMPIN&Category_Code=QW">part of panel 4</a>, a shirt of <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-PANELTWO&Category_Code=QW">all of panel 2</a>, and <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-BUSYDAY&Category_Code=QW">a busy day</a> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-BUSYDAY-HOOD&Category_Code=QW">for T-Rex</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Monday, after a weekend of pain, will be another installment of pain! That is to say, Cyanide and Happiness! Woo!</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-43095553439396730022010-10-13T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-13T18:59:39.111-07:00Gunnerkrigg Court #2, 100-200 [SEEN IT]<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So I forgot to set this post to go up at 1:00 tomorrow morning before I hit "Publish Post." I don't know how to fix this, and really don't feel like fixing it, so guess what? You guys get your commentary early tonight! Wooo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OMG, YOU GUYS. I am supper ultra happy about the reaction to the first GC commentary! I’m really happy to see everyone loves GC as much as I do. So, for your reading pleasure, I’m going to continue what you guys better have read in the meantime. Alasjflasjfls, I love you guys so much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">101. So we return to the story, and…wow, this looks far comfier than the last strip, doesn’t it? Both Kat and Eglamore look suspiciously happy…and here we are in the Donlan residence! Yes, both parents live on campus, while their daughter lives in the dorms. Very odd. And Anja finally has her hair down! Get used to that, it’s her usual look.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anja and Donald are getting awful familiar. Wonder why…? 8D Donald is just about the biggest geek I have ever seen in comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">102. UH OH, BOMBSHELL, IT HAS BEEN DROPPED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And by panel 4, you realize, HOLY SHIT, THESE TEACHERS ARE NOT NORMAL, and then another voice in your head goes, YA THINK? So as it turns out, Anja and Donald are smarter than they let on. Except that they, evidently, have not been watching the wolf toy the way you all have…!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">103. And, OOOH. ANOTHER BOMBSHELL IS REVEALED. NO PUN INTENDED. See? All of the previous generation not only went to this school, they were all friends! This becomes very important later. It’s actually the focus of a whole flashback chapter – Chapter 22, I believe (which will be in the 6<sup>th</sup> installment). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">From the left, the three boys at the top are Eglamore (WOW! isn’t his hair GORGEOUS?), Donald (still a geek, as Tom points out) and Anthony Carver, Antimony’s father, looking pretty boring. The three girls at the bottom are Surma, as Kat points out (her hair is ALSO gorgeous!) Anja, who looks no different than she does now, and…you know what, Tom didn’t tell us who That Girl In The Photo, as she shall henceforth be called, was until said flashback chapter, so I’m not going to tell you either. I will give you one hint, though – she’s never mentioned again until then, other than Tom’s exasperation at fans guessing that various characters are her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">104. Hoo hoo hoo! Yes, yes, James Eglamore WAS a heartthrob at fifteen! (And apparently still is. Remember, Kat, he’s in his thirties or thereabouts!) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And more exposition comes (note how no curiosity is given to TGITP…I’ve noted it too because it makes no sense to me). Anja and Donald, predominantly Anja, are now main characters. Wait, how did the three of them know that her father had taken off? I guess he dropped Annie off without contacting them…and, wait, months on end? When exactly did he know them, if he was at the Court? (By the way, 700 pages later, this is STILL the extent of what we know about Annie’s father. Of all of GC’s secrets his is the best-kept. About the only other thing is an offhand Tomment that he taught her some self-defense.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, note the bitterness in Eggers’s tone…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">105. And Donald clarifies my previous confusion in Panel 1. Thanks, Donald! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Donald: Antimony, you should know that your father has made sure everything you need is provided for you.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And this is almost the extent of what we know about Antimony’s relationship with her father. (You’ll soon see she was very close to Surma.) Antimony’s acceptance of it is a little unnerving…ESPECIALLY to Eglamore, whose bitterness SHOULD be cutting the room like a knife. If it isn’t, brush up on your emotional attachments.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">106. Kat’s indignance is barely a shadow of that MAD HATE I see on Eglamore’s face right now. Ooooh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Eglamore: I knew something like this would happen. He’s never thought of anyone but himself. First Surma, and now his own child…</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait, what did Anthony do to Surma? He may have likely been EMOTIONALLY absent at Good Hope, but he was still there as a surgeon. I guess he did get her pregnant, which did eventually lead to her crippling and death…but yeah, no love for Anthony here. Thank you, Annie, for changing the subject!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now the adults are watching the wolf toy. But, too late.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">107. Anja has magical SENSING THINGS powers! And now the wolf toy doesn’t have to be watched by ANYONE. 8P </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine: Damn you, girl! And I had the perfect disguise!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">No you didn’t! Anja already knew you were there! And look, violence! EGLAMORE’S ABOUT TO UNDO SOME STITCHING – how now, Anja, what’s this? SUPER MAGICAL STUFF, that’s what it is! Notice the eye with a line through it…maybe that symbol’s more important than we think. (Tom’s powers of foreshadowing are uncanny, let me put it that way.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">108. Aw, none of the art in Panel 1 looks very up to task. Rey’s got Muppet-mouth, Annie’s hair looks static, and Eggers’s neck…yeaaah. Eglamore is hating on EVERYONE today. (LOL, creepy Donald in the background not saying anything.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Again, props to the whole ownership system. Here we are re-explaining things to the adults what the audience already knows…so to fill up the time, I will say that Reynardine looks like a kitty, a big fluffy kitty! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">109. <i>Annie: I saw how you kept him in that cell. Criminal or not, I won’t allow him to be subjected to that again.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OOOH, Eglamore just got told! OH SNAP! Also, this is the beginning of some ill feeling between Eglamore and Annie…see if you can guess why. It’s pretty complicated. I love how Annie is so calmly assertive about these matters…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">LOL at Reynardine’s evil smile in Panel 7. Though, to be fair, if she had handed him over, wouldn’t Annie’s contract of ownership be void?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">110. Poor adults, all their plans are fouled up by a little eleven-year-old girl. Operative word being “Surma,” Donald. Eglamore looks VERY muscly in Panel 2. And Anja speaks sense to him. What is with all these people in silhouettes with eyes in this chapter? IT’S REALLY WEIRD. And, oh, what’s this?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">James, with love, Surma.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OHSNAP. Anyone that guessed that James was in love with Surma before this knife, give yourself a pat on the back! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">111. And here we are, late at night at the Court. Why do they let the kids be out this late? Unless they really DO have evening classes, the meanie butts…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat is strangely good at interpreting adults! Though I must say she’s being pretty broad about it, if only due to lack of knowledge. (Don’t you LOVE the complexity of plot we already see? 8D) I also love the way Kat looks in Panel 4, especially the detail in her collar. It shows me the art is getting better, though it is nowhere near up to current snuff. S’pose I should mention in this strip – one thing this strip is often praised for, and which I rarely notice, is use of color. All the purples and blues of the Court, the bright colors of the myths you’ll see later…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine has a finely tuned snark generator. SPIDER!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">112. Ugghhh. Of all the GC pages, this is probably my least favorite, because it’s pretty out-of-character for Reynardine. My guess is he was still angry and just trying hard to piss them off…I mean, look at his little smile in Panel 4. He got a reaction, which was what he wanted (though do notice that he was given the order to be silent!). For the record, they’re eleven years old and FRIENDS. Though shippers must’ve gone mad over Kat’s blushing in the corner over there… :P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Though, in Panels 5 and 6, THE PLOT COMES A’ CALLIN. HI, PLOT, HOW YA DOIN?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">113. And all of a sudden we have to flash back to Chapter 1, more than a hundred pages ago, when Annie’s head was far more handegg-like than it is now! (Still looks a bit like a handegg…there’s aways to go yet.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I wonder if Annie ever had as much affection for the Robot as it had for her…in a sense it was her first or second friend. LOVE Rey’s expression in Panel 6. No one manhandles Reynardine the Great! (What would Professor Oswald say if he found out?) And YAY ANNIE, GET THE PLOT ROLLING.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">114. And one journey through the halls later, we are at the very unguarded steps! I like how Annie’s hair is getting more detailed in Panel 2 – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And, yep, the WEEEOOOO is just what I thought it was! STUDENTS OFF SCHOOL GROUNDS! Not for the last time, Annie runs off to do something mysterious and full of mystery! Though I must say, her art gets worse and worse as she goes farther and farther away. Look at her tiny little arm in the last panel!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">115. And now this scene is starting to look a little more familiar. And now we see what that lovely brown thing was – a new wooden arm! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You should be unnerved at the different speech balloon. Also, look closely at the glass-eyed man. See if you can tell me whether or not that’s Shadow 2. These views of the Annan Bridge are gorgeous…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">116. And here comes Eglamore with a thing wrapped in cloth to save the day!! I still think they should have a better security system…but maybe there’s a problem with robots so close to Gillitie. Eglamore clearly knows more than Kat could ever guess about the situation…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Which means you should get REALLY excited about a great new chunk of plot on the way! Shit is about to HIT. THE. FAN. 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">117. And now we really ARE back where we started! Remember that Reynardine has been disallowed to talk. “The very nice man…” uh oh now we’ve added a new tendril to this kudzu plot… THAT HORRIBLE BIRD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll forgive Annie her comment as she knows no better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">118. And OH SHIT. Why does this thing know about Reynardine? Why does it hate Reynardine? And - </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*totally distracted* EGLAMORE SWORD. IT IS FLASHY AND SHINY AND COOL. I LOVE THIS COMIC SO MUCH LIKE YOU HAVE NO IDEA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">119. In the midst of all the confusion, I realized something about panel 1 – ROBOT’S WINGS ARE GONE! Remember, he had wings? And – OH SHIT WHAT IS HE DOING TO ANNIE OH NO OH NO OH NO</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">EGLAMORE KILLED THE EVIL GUY. Though I don’t think it was the sword – the sword just knocked Robot off balance, which meant he could not provide shade for the glass-eyed man anymore. (On my first readthrough, I did not notice this unknown GEM. I think it might be important…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">120. …ANNIE IS FALLING. INTO THE UNKNOWN AND SCARY. AND THE BIRD IS TAKING OFF AFTER HER. AND EGLAMORE HAS ONE HELL OF A FREUDIAN SLIP. AND-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…ASOFJAOSMHHALSJFSLJFSLFK.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">End of the chapter, by the way. Tom mentions here that this is where the first book ends. This is a bit of an outdated statement – the first time Tom published a GC book, he published the first seven chapters in a collection using Lulu, but supply outstripped demand and that collection is no longer for sale. (Though apparently it shows up on eBay every so often.) Now let’s look at – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">121. The first Treatise! Tom does these neat, arcane drawings every few chapters. There are three of them so far – the third was the cover for the first review, you recall.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Google Translate’s giving me a weird translation for the Latin. The words are, in syntax order, “Pray law his banishment, labor and you will find.” Yeah, I don’t get it. The rest of it I’m not sure is meant to be understood. Just be awed at how pretty it is! (Though I will say, the female symbol with wings is another form of the Antimony symbol, and I know the ball with the cross is a Christian symbol of some sort…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 8</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Broken Glass and Other Things</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">122. It’s a glass. Tom mentions he’s been working on this for a few months – he actually has a several-month backlog of strips. Because he’s awesome like that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">123. Oh, wow. This is the prettiest image of a glass falling I’ve ever seen. And the water touching the feet…wow. Wow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is definitely a different setting. It looks like…a hospital, doesn’t it? And, little Annie! 8D Little upset Annie! Isn’t she cute? I’d guess she’s eight, maybe nine in this picture. She seems to have worn some version of that dress throughout her childhood. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">124. And, yes, here’s Surma, with her pretty fluffy hair! As soon as I heard her lines, I felt sobered – because she sounds so wise and sad and sick. ;__; I don’t really know why her face is hidden in these chapters – Tom has no problem with showing it later. Also, Good Hope looks very different here than it does later. Much…brighter. Maybe this is the only occasion when we see the inside of Good Hope during the day. It looks like a much nicer place than it does later, anyway…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The fourth panel here is beautiful as well. This whole scene feels quiet and beautiful. Also, it probably has the best art of Annie’s face thus far, which sorta makes the handegg-head in the next panel look kind of sad. By the way, the “now I know how that glass felt…” I always found it kind of cheesy. Unless she feels like she’s going to die…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">125. It’s super sad here, because she looks like she’s resigned to death…but what’s this? THESE HORRIBLE BIRDS – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…are being helpful? The hell? Whatever, they saved Annie! Though they are quickly multiplying and goodness gracious I have enough trouble looking at one of them D8 And now we see the shores of the Annan. Look kinda dank, don’t they?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">126. It would appear that, despite being horrible birds, they’re mostly just normal tic-tocing birds in that they don’t reason with humans, as Tom says. So instead, Annie blooshes and splashes. I must say, I am SO happy the Annan didn’t have any magical properties or anything, because otherwise Annie would be more screwed. It doesn’t appear to be very deep, either…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 5 raises an unusual question, which is, where did Annie learn to swim, if she lived in a hospital all her life? Also, you will notice that she lost her hair clip in the water. Give the clip a fond goodbye, Panel 2 is the last time you see it. Also, you will see in the Tomments that Neil Gaiman is an even cooler guy than you already thought he was (that is to say the coolest guy ever). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">127. Highlighting Panel 2 here because it’s GORGEOUS. There’s a beautiful amount of detail in the hair, and Annie looks almost mysterious in nature. Also, we see the return of the narration! The narration comes and goes. But here, it has come. Mostly later the story tells itself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 3…a light from the opposite shore. Annie’s hardly fazed that she isn’t dead, she’s just gonna go on exploring! (Though I should point out, going over to that light is probably not the best idea!) Also, as you see I Panel 4, Annie’s squeezed-out hair looks kinda awkward. Anyway, dead Tic-Toc! Dead birds always look like creepy, wrongly furry dolls. That’s the impression I get here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">128. I suppose it is easier to have sympathy for these birds when they are dead. And just when I’m convinced that these birds are alright…I discover that a) they’re actually about the size of Annie (HO-LEE SHIT), 2) Annie carries a pair of scissors with her everywhere she goes (WHAT), and 3) THE BIRD’S A MACHINE. This isn’t necessarily bad, just really chilling…and raises all sorts of new questions about the TicTocs…questions I can’t necessarily remember whether or not they were answered. Annie is very nice and polite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">129. I wonder what these chirpy noises must sound like in real life – probably really cute! Anyway, here’s Shadow 2 come back to see Annie! Except Annie thinks he was the GEM who hurt Robot. Poor Shadow 2. D8 Anyway, the gang really is all back, now! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And…YAY, THE REGIONAL FAIRIES! Regional fairies (or the “suicide fairies” as these two were dubbed, you’ll see why) get an explanation on a bonus page at the end of this chapter or the next, so I won’t explain them here, but these are Red and Blue. Aren’t they cute? Not that they’d like a HUMAN calling them cute 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">130. Annie is very pouty-faced in Panel 1. And Red clarifies what I already made clear and which you could’ve figured out, while also raising even more questions. Oh, Tom Siddell. I am growing to love Shadow 2 here more than I did in Chapter 1 – his sounds are so cute! And yes, he is able to learn to talk. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Red seems to be the more vocal one of the two. (I love her hair – it sticks up, up! I’d like to be her friend :P) But now things are going to take a different turn…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">131. I’m kind of jealous of the fairies’ clothes. I wish I could have clothes like that. And thus, the suicide fairies. This’ll be explained over the next few comics – for now notice that Annie’s head is slowly approaching a more conventional rounded shape!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">132. <i>Red: Hey, you big junk! You were supposed to smash us to pieces!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You just can’t convince humans of these things, Red! Especially not Annie- read the Tomments. They got morals an’ junk. And here we get the first mention of this mysterious “test” and its methods.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I can clearly imagine Red’s voice in my head, but it seems to be sorta masculine. (Tom says that regional fairies are all-female.) And now out of nowhere we get a guy with an owl for a head in the last panel. That is Muut. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">133. …as Annie is quick to tell us?! Wait why does Annie know this guy what is going on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Not only that, but they’re REALLY cold with one another! “I have business nearby…” Both this and the thing about electrical appliances are a bit of a logic puzzle, which I’m going to let you figure out on your own before it’s explicitly stated in a chapter or two. But Muut’s pretty cool lookin, isn’t he? Very Native American.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">135. Huh, what? Why did we skip a number? AGAIN?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I don’t recall asking for help from you or the others.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you figured out what Muut is (oh, and if you used Wikipedia, you’re cheating) you’ll know what’s going on and why he can’t help someone who is, ah, living. And yay, on to lighter subjects, Mort! I don’t really know what he means by “new and inexperienced”. He’s definitely not what Muut is; was there some reason he had to remain on Earth? Le shrug. Anyway, LOOK AT THE STONE. THAT IS A BLINKER STONE. It is super vitally important.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And now…ooh, what IS that light?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">136. Muut’s facial expression never changes. So here’s what we know about this light – it’s probably the spirit of a dead person, she’s a woman, and she can’t cross the river. With unusual things like this it’s best to accept them at face value. Muut is very super serious about his job. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Muut: Still such anger…</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The first time I read this, I thought he said this because her mother died. Turns out it’s a bit worse than that. Still, ooooooohhh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">137. For someone who knows frickin’ <i>Muut</i>, there are a lot of etheric things that either Annie doesn’t know or Surma deliberately shielded her from. Such as the blinker stone. I love how super shiny it is – in later chapters it’s sometimes rendered in 3D, which is AWESOME. Lol, tubby. And apparently it makes fire. I’d also like to say I like Blue, she’s very pretty. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And as you see, GC won Outstanding Newcomer. Damn straight it did.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">138. Another daydream of Annie’s…poor thing. That curtain of Surma’s is still super sad…and Annie’s actions in this flashback make me wonder what happened. Usually, when we flash back to Annie’s days at Good Hope, we see her as a very ebullient and cheerful child, but here she seems sort of…beaten. The blood is creepy…and also kind of foreboding D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">139. And now we get the explanation about the test! I like how S2 is in the background, visible but invisible. Here there’s some clarification about that test – and also some insight about the relationship between the Court and the forest. Keep it in mind. Also keep in mind Red and Blue’s friendship.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">140. Annie looks kind of weird when she’s over-colored like that. And, yep, that’s what the test is – pass the test, become human! I’m going to guess it’s some sort of (permanent) exchange program with the Court…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Red: Hmm, maybe we can go on a diet when we get there.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">LOL. I love Red, she’s so enthusiastic and quirky. Blue never says much of anything. Poor Annie, all over-colored and sad…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">141. I love this page, it’s very peaceful. It’s amazing what can be said with no words. A dying fire, everything sleeping and still- </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">142. I don’t remember the fairies reacting to her. Do they know what she is, or are they just frightened of a big white ghost lady with a sword? (Also, call me weird, but Blue’s boobs are like three times the size of Red’s non-boobs)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway, yep, that was the light. I can’t tell if her giant forehead is a noble brow or just a stylistic choice, same with her sliding battle dress, and HER EYES HER EYES FREAK THE SHIT OUT OF ME. And again, Annie’s being just too poli- WAIT WAIT WHAT IS SHE DOING</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">143. !</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">BLOOD. SO MUCH BLOOD. (Note the parallels with the broken glass) BLOOD. LISTEN TO THE FAIRY, STOP DAT. FLASHING LIGHTS OH MY GOD-!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">144. <i>Kat: I’ll save you, little girl.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">KATERINA DONLAN, I LOVE YO- WAIT, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU RIDING YOUNG LADY. DO YOU HAVE A LISENCE FOR THAT. How it managed to scare away the ghost lady I do not know, but ANNIE’S GONNA LIVE, WOOO~ Annie seems just as surprised as I am. And it’s lovely how Kat can act like a child and still ride that thing and it makes sense. I still don’t like how her hair looks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">145. WOAH, CHEKHOV’S GUN. Nice work, Kat! (And also her dad a little too. :3) I love how Annie is so happy to see her friend – that she values the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP a lot more than etheric power, and makes it believable, too. Also, have you noticed something about her face?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">146. I love how the anti-grav casts a purple light. Kat looks really weird in Panel 1. Anyway, bye bye, Suicide Fairies! Hope you live to die another day. They may be fairies but I think they’ve grown to like her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Definitely. I don’t know whether or not I necessarily love Annie – she’s a tough cookie to figure out. (Oooh, she has circles under her eyes in Panel 5 – she’s a Winsbury now! I don’t like the shadows, though. They make her eyes look just a little too intense here, in the last three panels.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">147. Woo, Shadow 2’s going back to the Court! I guess Annie couldn’t resist having another friend with her! And I guess now that Annie’s off school grounds there is no Robot needed. (Robot…I wonder what happened to him D8) And, oh, she took the blinker stone with her? I seem to remember she left it behind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">One thing she DID leave behind, though, was her sweater! Oops! Anyway, they’re off. BYE, ANNAN WATERS. YOU’RE CREEPY. AND BYE, GHOST LADY. STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ANNIE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">148. And now for a return to better lighting, though I can’t say the art on this page is up to par in general…it’s a sweet page, though! (Is it just me or is the craft held together with duct tape? And why do we never see this thing again?) Anyway, poor Kat! I’m afraid this is only the beginning of some nasty new surprises for her…BUT I PROMISED I WOULDN’T SPOIL. ALFJLSJFS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">149. And now for a much calmer end page than befo – DAAAAAAMN!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">GUNNERKRIGG COURT</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> IS HUGE. And damn right, Annie, if 7QN is as small as it is this can’t just be a school. It’s more of a self-contained town…daaamn. Though, if Kat’s grown up in the Court (hey, if her parents live there…) why didn’t she know? Anyway, I like this ending because it jumpstarts Annie and Kat’s exploratory instincts. And thus really all of the plot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">150. And to come off that high, here’s that bonus page about regional fairies! I don’t know if Tom made this up or adapted it from a myth, but it’s still neat. I suppose “school” is what Red meant by “class”…perhaps there’s a special class that become humans. And as for “born,” if they’re all female…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Here, Ogee is making metal rusty. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This series straddles a careful line between science and ethereum, and here’s one scene that proves that much. Also, I have to say, as this place gets richer, it gets harder to describe…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 9</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Questions and Answers</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">151. What a creepy fellow. Oh, when a chapter’s titled this way, you know there’s going to be trouble.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">152. And we’re back in the Court! I dunno about you guys, but I kind of missed the Court a little. You know who else I missed? MORT! He’s a far more lighthearted spirit than we’ve been used to seeing so far, huh? I don’t know what “Canalis” means (when I googled it I just got pictures of some model) but I can say that the Metal Gear Solid 3 reference on the box had me rolling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And aww, here’s Mort out to test his ability to scare once more! I love the look on his face as he goes into the vent. Also, notice his outline has gotten thicker. He looks better like this I think. Also notice that Kat’s hair has gotten a little longer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, POLYSICS! I love Polysics! Another good song by them is “Black Out Fall Out.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">153. Aww, the forms Mort takes are so cute. And I dunno, Mort, if I saw a mouse I’D be pretty terrified. Mice EAT stuff. Like, your house. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I really like how Kat’s hair looks in Panel 4 – for some reason I don’t like when she has that lock sticking out. And for the record, Mort, if I saw that behind me, I’d freak out AND call the mental hospital.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Here comes Annie’s new hairstyle. The handegg-ness of her head is offset by her new hairstyle from now on, so I won’t comment on it so often. LOL, Mort freaks out over Annie! Though he isn’t SCARED of her, so much… ;]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">154. Aww, swirly eyes. I’m surprised at Kat’s nonchalant response to seeing a real ghost, though I suppose with Annie’s ethereal expertise at her side it seems a bit more normal to her. And Mort goes back to being a sweetie! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That’s a neat sort of pendant Annie now has the blinker stone on. It is very beautiful. And aww, look at that blush on Mort! He’s so cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">155. The first panel could mean many things in many contexts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">One concise explanation later, Kat and Mort know a lot more than they did a panel previous. (Tom does these explanation jumps a lot.) LOL, MORT’S SERIOUS FACE. Did he know about the ghost? It’s fairly ambiguious. More mysteries revealed, as we get another look at Muut…and questions are proposed. Perhaps, as the title promises, we will get answers…?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">156. YAY, GOOD HOPE FLASHBACK. I was right, the darkness of the Good Hope flashbacks were due to it being dark. I like Surma’s wheelchair here – again adds to her austerity and almost wise disposition. And – TINY ANNIE! SHE IS SO CUTE AOSFOAJSFLJLFSJ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And also very feisty! She must have gotten it from her mother. And we were right, she does have a history with these creatures. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">157. For some reason, I seem to remember a panel of Annie saying, “Hi, I like your face!” Maybe that was in a different flashback. ANYWAY, here is where you ought to figure out what these guys are! Also, the art on this page is beautiful. I am always floored when Tom goes all-out in his work. I’m still pretty impressed that the psychopomps were that friendly to her…and then the last panel has to go all creepy on us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">158. I think because your mother could, Annie. Okay – cutest page in this chapter, if not cutest page ever –</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Mort: Y’know, it’s probably because you’re so attractive. I noticed that about you when we first met.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: Oh? </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: *creeper expression*</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Okay, I don’t feel like writing the rest of it out BUT IT’S SO CUTE. All the blushing and the awkwardness! Annie seems to be taking it rather well, but perhaps she actually DID think he was blushing about the misunderstanding and not because he’s HEAD OVER HEELS FOR ANNIE. Love that tombstone, too. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">159. Neat diagram about the birds, there. I find myself wondering if there is a significance to the unknown power source. And now we hear another side of the story! Hey Eglamore how ya doin’. Carrying the robot back? That’s unusual.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why is Rey carrying the wooden arm? Why would Eglamore allow that? Very odd… and Kat’s freakout is predictable. She’s lost her best friend!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">160. NO ONE TELLS KATERINA DONLAN TO GO TO BED. I think there’s a wallpaper version of this first panel. Actually, it’s in the Tomments. But still, aww, that’s sweet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">They hang around with Mort during their free periods? Wow, Annie and Kat are cool people. I really like the way Annie looks in this comic – she actually looks like she could be a twelve-year-old girl. I hope Mort actually is around her age.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">161. The administrative hallway is CREEPY. But also beautiful. I am rolling right now because the name on the other door is “Ms. Jones.” You will find out when Jones actually shows up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why did Annie shuffle her hair before she went in? I guess girls such as myself shuffle their hair at inopportune times. WOW, EGLAMORE’S OFFICE KICKS ASS. PROBABLY QUITE LITERALLY WITH ALL THEM SWORDS. There’s the shiny one tucked away behind the table in its cloth…is that big head the same one from the chapter cover? Dunno.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">162. Mr. Eglamore in a shirt and tie? This is a very unusual sight. Hi, Reynardine. And Tom is right, Eglamore DOES have terrible handwriting! (I will assume they do not have a great emphasis on penmanship at GC.) Eglamore may be a jealous angry dragon slayer teacher, but he’s still a teacher. Mind still on Surma, old chum? We’re getting a very different picture of her from him than from Annie. Annie’s Surma is motherly and infirm, James’s Surma gives knives as gifts and breaks rules…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">163. I’m trying to remember why Annie would have a problem with Eglamore. Because he’s mean to Rey? Because he’s unfair to her? Because of her mother? Very curious…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Yep, there’s the face, in Panel 3! And did Eggers get that reasoning from Anja? I think he did considering his actions in Chapter 7. Reading these last two panels, another layer to the animosity would be his misguided desire to protect her and also to compare her to her mother. Strange sort of Freudian complex he’s got…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">164. Why would he think that Reynardine “tricked” her into going onto the bridge? Probably because he hates Reynardine. And I guess Annie’s just agreeing because she doesn’t feel like telling him the truth. Yep, she’s rolling her eyes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot? DISPOSED OF??? D8!! Anyway, Eglamore, stop not telling her things. It’s going to piss her (and the readers) off even more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">165. End of the chapter already? That was a pretty short chapter if I do say so myself. Does this hallway look familiar to you? Or this lovely tract of land? Or this…wooden…arm?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, look at the bonus arts at the bottom of the page there. They’re pretty awesome. Also Tom doesn’t do bonus arts anymore so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">166. Bonus page! Remember when I told you to remember Annie’s instructions to Reynardine regarding the kissing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tom did. 8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 10</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Doctor Disaster Versus The Creepy Space Aliens From Outer Space – Featuring the Gunnerkrigg Spacemonauts </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">167. Oh my god. This chapter. Is the best chapter. You all better enjoy it or I’m siccing some creepy space aliens from outer space on you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">168. Class, class, class. Very brown room. Very handsome man teaching geography. Fairly average art. Winsbury twirling his pencil.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 26pt;">SPACEMONAUTS! THE EARTH IS IN<b> PERIL! </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meet Dr. Disaster, the most awesome man ever.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">169. So this is exactly what it looks like – once or twice a year Dr. Disaster whisks all the students in a class off to do…something. Miscellaneous but very handsome teacher we never see again looks pretty fine with that. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So here we all are in strange suits. The boys’ and girls’ WC look very dirty. We do see the brown-haired boy again, though I forget his name. Matt? Mark? One of those. The blonde, we do not. Winsbury and Janet? Ohh yeah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">170. Annie, since when have you been worried about your education? Unless you were joking. Also, I like these suits – they look very patchwork and awesome. And drama lesson indeed, if B-movies are dramatic, in which case the answer is yes! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">HURRY ALONG NOW, SPACEMONAUTS! THE ROCKET AWAITS!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> DR. DISASTER HAS A MOTOR SCOOTER. MY GOD WHY AM I NOT IN THIS CLASS. WHY CAN’T I GO ON THE ROCKET DR. DISASTER WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">171. And here we are in…a black-and-white holographic simulation! With sudden streaks of black and grey hair! Tom said at one point I believe that these were meant to be permanent. Thank heavens they’re not; I think they’re tacky and only suited for the simulations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hm, I wonder why Kat knows everything about science off the top of her head and yet is unaware of the existence of ghosts in HER OWN HOME. Still, this is pretty neat technology. BYE, GUYS. HAVE FUN WITHOUT ME.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">172. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">SPACEMONAUTS! THE EVIL ENIGMARONS ARE THREATENING THE EARTH FROM THEIR MOON BASE ON THE MOON!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> I love this man – he is BEYOND THE IMPOSSIBLE. Especially with the cheese level of his threat – </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">THEY HAVE A DEATH RAY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS TRAINED ON THE CAPITAL CITIES OF EVERY COUNTRY THIS VERY SECOND!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> – as Annie says, rather unenthusiastically, “Isn’t there always a death ray?” I suppose the greater meaning of this chapter is that Annie has to learn to loosen up. But who cares. ROCKET SPACE SHIP. IT’s EVEN THE SOUND EFFECT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">173. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">EXCELLENT! I WILL BE SENDING DOWN AN ELITE TEAM TO DEAL WITH THE ENIGMARON MENACE!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> AND THESE VISUALS ARE SO AWESOME AND CHEESY ARE THEY NOT GUYS. So of course the elite team entails the entire class. And to be fair, Tom, Winsbury looks like the Bride of Frankenstein.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">174. BWOIMF! HORF!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Lovin’ these sound effects! And, no, the Enigmarons do not have arms! DO NOT QUESTION THIS, ANTIMONY CARVER. Be like Winsbury, and get into it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">AN EPIC SPACE BATTLE COMMENCES YOU GUYS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">175. WOO SPACE BATTLE. This kind of reminds me of a much sexier version of the local lazer tag place. (If you grew up in Maryland you have to have had fond memories of Shadowland). Anyway, ANNIE. YOU DO NOT COME HERE AND NOT HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN ALREADY. SMILE. ENJOY LIFE. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ANNIE STOP NOT LISTENING TO ME. ALSO STOP MAKING PRANCING POSITIONS. YOU ARE NOT MICHAEL CERA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">176. And now Kat tries to talk reason into Annie. But Annie doesn’t seem to know how to have fun… D8 C’mon, Annie, there can be more to it than exploring a hospital! I’m super happy with Kat in this one, even if she looks like a doof…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait a minute, is this plot about to actually get serious?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">177. NOPE. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">DISASTER! IN THEIR HASTE, THE SPACEMONAUTS WERE CAPTURED BY THE ENIGMARONS AND TAKEN TO THEIR EVIL LAIR! IT IS UP TO YOU, SPACEMONAUT CARVER, TO RESCUE THEM AND COMPLETE THE MISSION! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie’s expression in Panel 1 looks a bit unsuited to the task at hand…but, whatever. ANNIE’S BREAKING OUT OF HER BUBBLE. AWESME.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">178. The Enigmaron castle is just barely following the laws of physics, and Dr. Disaster’s lookin’ pretty awkward in Panel 2. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">YOU FIENDS! YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And clearly, miss pouty-face Antimony Carver, it was MAGIC. The Enigmarons are MAGICAL. Makes as much sense as anything else, am I right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">179. Ah, an air vent entry. The staple of any B-scifi movie! That and swinging down on convenient cables! And as for Panel 3, that is an immensely unsteady death ray. One push and it’s vanquished, as are the Enigmarons? Who cares, Annie’s the hero!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love how she looks in the second-to-last panel, in any case. And also I have to smile and clap at Winsbury praising her! Maybe I was right – Janet mellowed him out quite a twitch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">180. Kat knows how these kinds of movies are done! She’s watched the X-Files! Annie, however, does not. I love the huge YES in the second panel, along with the realization that the handegg that is Annie’s head has retreated behind the fall of her hair! WOO!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I hope you like your…smashed…death ray!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Words to shake the ages, Miss Carver. Isn’t this comic just getting awesomer and awesomer? I wonder who the two people are that said “hahaha”. Probably Winsbury and Janet. Word of Tom states that those two are very popular in their class. Maybe that’s why Winsbury’s taking charge. And aww, cute in the end. And is it just me, or are Annie’s eyes more detailed than any other character’s?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">181. Their ship is very <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust">zeerusty</a>, it’s awesome. You got into a space battle, kid? WOW, I HAD NO IDEA. Huh, Paz was on this trip? She looks very nice with her streak. Also, thumbs up to the HI-5 SFX. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I suppose some things are better learned away from a textbook.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You’re about to learn that the hard way, Annie. Anyway, let’s start using a larger color palette again, shall we? Good, good. The Earth is safe…</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">UNTIL NEXT TIME…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">THE END?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> First name is Randy, huh? So they were having randy adventu- MOVING ON</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">182. Bonus page! I’ve never seen X-Files, but I hope that those of you who have are ROLLING right now. Mr. Mulder looks awkward, but to be fair he’s done in a different style. Also, I can see the dream logic, what with the needing to do homework. xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I had no idea what Skinner looked like, so I asked my friend David, who duly informed me that he looks like <a href="http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_Skinner">this</a>. Annie’s book is apparently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannhauser_Gate">a joke</a> from the film Blade Runner. (And I have to note, Blade Runner was based off the story <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i>, written by Phillip K. Dick, the namesake for the school from Code Lyoko. Why do I know this? I do not know)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, from here, Tom’s switched to his thrice-weekly schedule, around which I frame much of my life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 11</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Dobranoc, Gamma</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">183. Google tells me what I assumed, that “Dobranoc” means “goodnight.” That is one angry moon. Looks like we’re going to be returning to the two strange girls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">184. Call it a hunch, but I think things are a little more serious now. Oooh, it’s a countdown. What’s it for? I’ll let you figure it out. THAT NOT SO HORRIBLE BIRD. This courtyard is very depressing. Look at it! It’s completely dead!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that girl standing there is…Zimmy? And…WAIT WHY DOES ANNIE HAVE HER GHOST-CUT BACK. AND WHAT IS SHE WEARING. Gamma looks pretty. Wouldn’t it be evil if I just ended the commentary here?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">185. Annie’s cut is bleeding ANNIE’S CUT IS BLEEDING. Annie is saying “How do you feel?” and Gamma is saying “Much better, thank you.” It’s nice to see Gamma be a little more personable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But soft, what from Zimmy breaks? A branch, clearly. But what’s going on? We’re not supposed to know. Just soak in the feeling of the dark scene, Zimmy’s frustration, that horrible bird…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">186. Well, whatever that was, it’s nine hours in the future now. It does seem like there’s a lot of these flashback pages, aren’t there? KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! By the way, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">HAPPY 2007, EVERYONE!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t think we’ve seen Annie or Kat in regular wear yet. And I wonder what month it’s getting to be on their calendar. And here’s Zimmy and Gamma, sittin’ in the library. I wonder if they sit there all day. Annie looks pretty in what she’s wearing (I very much like her new hair, she’s evolved so much) while Kat seems more tomboyish. And still smarting about the big-nose comment, which is a little more obvious in this encounter than in the last…six chapters and one year ago. daamn.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">187. <i>Kat: You’re such a butt! </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat does not seem to know many swear words yet. Aww, Zimmy’s angry…but Gamma doesn’t get it. BUTT IS FU- hey, what’s happened to Gamma? Gamma went nighty-night. And-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What’s this? Is this kindness, even fear we see in Zimmy’s eyeless visage? It’s so sweet…even though you’re probably as confused as Annie and Kat are. The comic will explain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">188. It has to do this first, though. Remember how everything got all dark around Zimmy when she was mad on the last page? This static in her head is kind of like this. I can’t give an exact count, but this strip happened at least a year and a half previous. Isn’t this an awful city? (Tom says it’s fashioned after Birmingham. He does not like Birmingham.) Zimmy’s so sad…and there are so many spiders…but Gamma makes it all go away, somehow. The visuals here are brilliant. I love how dingy everything is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">189. Now back to the library. It’s super sweet seeing Zimmy so concerned, even giving concessions to Kat. I never noticed Annie’s outfit had a long skirt before. I don’t think Zimmy is very used to being nice to anyone. Doesn’t look like she’s had much love or care in her life at all. Except from Gamma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Zimmy doesn’t sleep, she says? So that’s the THIRD indicatior that Zimmy isn’t quite normal…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">190. Back in Birmingham. This is perhaps a month after the first one. Looks like a repeat of what’s going on now. And yes, if you didn’t figure it out, they live on the streets. SAD AS HELL. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Except for, you know, THAT HELLBEAST COMING OUT OF THE WALL AN’ SHIT. And somehow, Gamma being awake will make it disappear…Zimmy is far weirder than we first expected. I love how Gamma looks in the last panel – terrible, but brilliant artistically. And I can feel Zimmy’s pain right through the screen…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">191. Here, Zimmy explains what I sort of told you. Reynardine (who we haven’t seen in a few chapters, eh?) calls Zimmy a demon, though I think Tom has said she is human and has human parents…somewhere. So, no, we really don’t know what Zimmy is, other than the clues we get from her actions. It’s like the greatest example of show-don’t-tell I’ve ever seen. Zimmy is very lucky she found Gamma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And about Annie “helping”…remember how she can see psychopomps? Yeah. UH OH, GHOST SCAR. So I’m not going to say anything else; you should get an idea of Zimmy’s powers. But why is she annoyed by the storm…? Ooooh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">192. Wha-wha-WHAT IS THAT THING. It almost looks like Reynardine/a Rogat Orjak! It’s beautiful, but also horrible. In panel 3, you will see Zimmy has a white circle on her shirt. That same circle is on her dirty uniform. Tom has not explained why. But it doesn’t matter, because (creepy) Gamma is here to save Zimmy’s day! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And if you didn’t notice in 190, YES, that’s how they resolve the language barrier. Now a lot of things make more sense, eh?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">193. Oh, look at that, the date is scrambled up. Looks like this was when Zimmy was, ah, recruited. The Gunnerkrigg officials look pretty creepy. We see a few people in these same suits out of shadow later – we’re not really sure what they’re for, but I’m pretty sure they’re more general Court workers rather than just teachers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Czarnecki, that’s Gamma’s last name. Say, who told them about these two? Or were they just watching them? You never can tell with the Court. Also, you can see that Zimmy has to interpret everything for Gamma. Let your mind settle on that. Dunno what’s with the arm, though…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">194. Wait – wait a minute. IS ZIMMY RELIVING ALL THIS?! I NEVER realized that in all the times I’ve read this chapter! I just realized it now, with Zimmy in her blue shirt…! HOW DID I NEVER NOTICE THIS? THE LIBRARY IS FREAKING BIRMINGHAM! The storm must be pretty awful to her…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you, Tom, for translating THIS Polish. Gamma’s circles appear to be gone, a little. How mysterious…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">195. So here we are, back in the courtyard. Aww, Gamma kissed her on the forehead! Word of Tom does state that Zimmy and Gamma do love each other, love in a way that it is very hard for the Internet to comprehend. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So here we are, back where we began. Zimmy’s all riled up, Annie’s ghost scar is slightly visible (have you figured out why yet?), the ticks are made for tockin’…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">196. Um…yeah. Here’s the translation from Page 2. I had no idea it was here. 8D; Well, the Polish words are still cool. And the mysterious watching bird flies away. And I guess as she gets angrier, Annie bleeds more…I love the little touches Tom adds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The Thousand Eyes, eh? Creeeepy. I wonder why Gamma knows this and Annie does not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">197. Zimmy, <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleolejp9syvlsx?from=Main.SmiteMeOhMightySmiter">shouting at the sky gets nothing done</a>! Also, you may notice that Zimmy screaming “bastard” has been covered over by the big ol’ CRACKOOM! There is hardly any swearing in Gunnerkrigg Court; whatever swearing there is is usually covered over in this manner (in one case the chapter’s end antimony symbol served as a censor) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love this zoom. It makes Zimmy feel so very small…and with that crack a lot of tension seems to go away. I think you should know what the countdown was, now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The rain begins to fall…and…I can never help but smile at these three panels. Also, if you can figure out why the rain helps her, you get a cookie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">198. Does rain really make a SHAAA noise? It always seems to in comics. Very odd. Anyway, HAPPY ZIMMY! STEAMING AT THE HEAD BUT STILL DANCING! The water, the shoes, the feet…it’s a gorgeous assault on the eyes, this whole scene. Both figuratively for us, and literally for the poor demon girl dancing in the rain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hi, Zimmy. This is, without a doubt, the moment in the comic that always makes me smile.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">199. And, oh my! End of the chapter already! Maybe it’s just the feeling of the moment, but it seems like Zimmy’s a much nicer person, even a sycophantically grateful one, when she doesn’t have all that crap in her head. And look at that, Annie’s cut is gone. And another adventure has come to an end. Zimmy, that shirt needs a wash.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, if it matters, I was listening to Pandora’s “Grandes Despedidas” as I read this page, and even though I don’t know Spanish the tune felt right with the calming mood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">200. Bonus page! I suppose this is what Zimmy and Gamma did afterward. Gamma seems like a sort of thing that keeps Zimmy together not only mentally but only socially – she knows Zimmy has to have her clothes washed – but also sometimes that she doesn’t. Also, her hair looks a lot longer here. GO AWAY, BLACK STUFF. I LIKE ZIMMY’S PRETTY RED EYES. Anyway, what a nice end to a chapter, with these two being happy chasing rats and spiders.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I find Zimmy and Gamma two very happy characters. Both so unfortunate, they’ve found happiness with each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s 100 more strips of Gunnerkrigg Court! Because we made such a clean cut with a chapter’s end, there’s no need for a cliffhanger graphic. Well, it’s not that clean – there are two bonus pages for this chapter. But, clean enough I suppose. 8] Anyway, as you can see, the art has improved tremendously, everything is getting much richer and more complex, and if you have not joined me in kissing Tom Siddell’s feet you have NO soul.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Again, I will advertise not only <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/support.html">the donation page</a>, but also <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=GK">the merchandise page</a>. As of our progress in the comic, exactly one of the items, the Treatise One print, are currently relevant to our interests (unless you count my using Treatise Three as a cover). I hope you guys enjoyed this. Friday it’s back to teatime with Dinosaur Comics. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">To tide you over until then, here’s a picture of Annie with a blinker stone I drew a week ago. And look! It is now a colored version!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">See? They’re pretty weird. They’re not only weird in the scope of that picture, though – they are at their strangest in that they are a twisted anomaly in the world of webcomics. To make a long story short, Penny Arcade is one of the oldest webcomics still running (the only one I can think of that both predates it and is still running is Joyce and Walky), one of the most successful gamer comics of all time, and…hell, the most successful webcomic of all time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That sentence was in no way biased, or even a guess. It is a bona-fide statement of fact about Penny Arcade’s financial success and influence. The following things are the things that you, a budding webcomic author/artist or team, have to do to<i> </i>match Penny Arcade:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><br />
</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Popularize and perfect (to the point of being credited with creating) the “two gamers on a couch” genre, to the point where you can use all of its clichés without any backlash because <i>you were the ones who invented them in the first place</i>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Be both lauded and feared by gaming fans and gaming companies.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Be commissioned to do promotional comics for franchises such as Rayman, Prince of Persia, and other names I could drop.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Start a highly successful charity that mobilizes gamers to donate money to purchase entertainment materials for children in hospitals.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Maintain said charity for <i>seven years</i>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Run TWO gaming conventions every year, one east-coast and one west-coast.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hand out a $10,000 scholarship every year to the applicant judged most likely to make a positive impact on the gaming industry. Meaning that you are not only making a living off webcomics – you are also getting <i>rich </i>off them.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Be named two of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010.</span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Still manage to post a beautifully drawn and written comic, plus essay-length news posts, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday <b><i>without fail</i></b>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Be married, have children, and play video games.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s just the beginning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now that I’ve kissed the asses of Jerry Holkins (the author, or “Tycho Brahe”, the guy in the blue sweater) and Mike Krahulik (the artist, or “John (Gabe) Gabriel”, the guy in the Pacman shirt) like that (it’s worth note that when I first typed this I switched their names around – disastrous, no?), it’s a good time to switch gears and say that I have a love-indifference relationship with the comic itself, what little of it I have read. A big part of this is because I’m not in its target audience. I’m not a hardcore gamer, much less a hardcore gamer from the late 90s or early aughts (to give a sense of scale, I was in kindergarden when the first strip came out), so the strips’ game references are and will probably be incomprehensible until I reach 2007 (which is when I first started dating a hardcore gamer). However, as the comic’s audience expands, the art and writing tighten up and then evolve in fantastic directions, and everything just gets more and more daring, it turns into a comic that’s – there’s no better word for it –<i> loads </i>of fun, even if you’re not a gamer. There’s no real storyline, no real continuity, no real setting. It’s just fun packed in two guys, their imaginations, and a whole lot of video games. That, and I’m in slack-jawed awe/jealousy of their success. That might play a <i>bit </i>of a part in it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now, I think that intro was more than long enough, so let’s take a trip down memory lane – if I can call myself worthy – to November 18, 1998, when Clinton was president, AOL ruled the Internet, I was drooling on puzzle pieces in kindergarden, and two gamers in their early twenties decided they wanted to make a webcomic. One more note before we start, though. Penny Arcade strips aren’t numbered, they’re sorted by date (which is pretty common in webcomic-land), so I’ll just count them myself. And…here we go. Go to <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18/">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18/</a> and follow the magic “next” button!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">1. There are a lot of things to see at first blush at a webcomic. One of the first things you think is, “Hey, that looks nothing like the guys in that image you used as a cover!” And you’re right, it doesn’t, because this was the extent of Gabe’s drawing ability in 1998 (notice the simple brown gradient background). Also, it’s <i>really, really</i> outdated. That thing on the back of that computer? It sticks out about a foot. It’s a fan, I think. OLD. I have never heard of Sin and probably never will. About the only thing that keeps this strip funny in the slightest is that long loading times still exist, creating something relatable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, that, and I don’t understand the last panel at all. What the hell is Tycho doing? Hanging himself? Was he shot into the ceiling by Gabe’s psychic ability? Did Gabe somehow knit that sweater ONTO Tycho and then pull it off? Is it some Sin joke I don’t get? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And now for another weird thing…because of the way the site’s script is set up, there are a lot of pages the “next” button directs you to that are blank. This is because back in ’98 or ’99, the MWF schedule wasn’t in place yet. I think. (And don’t bother with the newsposts yet; there aren’t any until February 2002) So, between this and the next comic, there are two blank spots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">2. The best of the old comics are obscure but still leave you something to giggle at. For instance, it took me a while to figure out just what was going on here. This long-haired fellow was (still is? I only see him in old gamer comics) the head of Ion Storm (NOT 3D Realms! Got my old gaming companies mixed up, thanks Shawn D8), which churned out a lot of old classics and then I guess made fans wait a long time for new ones. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But why do I think it’s funny? Because he thinks he deserves a wiener and HE’S NOT GONNA GET ONE. HAH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Two blank spots, leading me to think Penny Arcade was only updated weekly in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">3. And…yep, knew we’d find one eventually, here’s a strip that unfortunately mostly rides on knowledge of the game. What does the “blip” mean? Did the game turn off or is just unsatisfactory? Though of course the sex joke at the end still manages to save the giggles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oooh, just three strips and half of Tycho’s hair is already black. (He has black sideburns in most of the art.) The art tightened up quickly, though it still has a LONG way to evolve.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Two blank spots…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">4. HOLY CRAP, NOW ALMOST ALL OF TYCHO’S HAIR IS BLACK. And here’s one that’s unfortunately still current – satire of peoples’ reactions to video games! In my opinion it all depends on the person, not the game. Statistics are against the person, really. Gabe, please put those bodies back where you found them…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll announce if the blank spots change drastically.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">5. Wait, what now? The art DEVOLVED! Maybe this one was older and they just posted them out of order…anyway I have NO idea what Planet Fruitbat is, but it reminds me of RPG-sites like Neopets. Ah the nostalgia. 8D Neopets was like a legal drug for nine-year-olds. So I’m mentally replacing “Fruitbat” with “Neopets.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Only one blank spot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">6. WHOA, WHAT. The art REALLY changed! Tycho’s hair now looks vaguely reddish… As you can see they’re making fun of patches, specifically that game companies probably usually sell games with no entertainment value unless you patch them. Reminds me of how The Sims 2 was duller than dull unless you bought four expansion packs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">7. Oh, I see why there were no spaces, it’s a CHRISTMAS comic! Wow, 1998 went fast! OMG, that child’s wish list is adorable. Even if she does not know Pokemon Red and Blue are the same game. (Clearly the other game is for the unicorn!) And y’know, Tycho, I think that was a little TOO much for a child repeating what her mother said about a sociological construct…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Five spaces…Tycho and Gabe must’ve done some extended partying that year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">8. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">HAPPY 1999, EVERYONE!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> I’ve waited six commentaries for there to finally be a visible year turnover. So let’s get the new year started with a bang, shall we?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Ah, meanie butt software. The kind that embeds itself in every corner of your computer and doesn’t give up without a fight…xD I think this is the first comic wherein I can say that Tycho and Gabe look kind of like they do now. Vaguely.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gabe: Oh goody, you’re still alive.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And their personalities unfold as well! See, they hate each other. They’re pretty deep for joke mouthpieces.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">9. This isn’t so much a “two gamers on a couch” comic yet as it is a “one gamer on the computer and the other making smart remarks over his shoulder” comic. I don’t understand a word Tycho’s saying, but he I see does not like Macs. But LOL at Gabe. That must have been quite daring artistically at this point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Sometimes I ask my friends if they are on crack. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">10. The art style changes in Every. Single. Comic. It’ll stabilize eventually…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I know this Divx is not what is today DivX, because that comes on the internet, not in a box, and has nothing to do with late fees, but what is it? I don’t know, but the phrase HEWN COLD FROM THE BONES OF THE SILLBORN made my eyes go wide, that I know…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">11. WHY DOES THE ART KEEP CHANGING?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Yes, these two have steady girlfriends (wives eventually) but they’re rarely (though sometimes) seen in-comic. The moral of this comic is “Tribes is better than girlfriends.” What’s Tribes? I have no idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">12. AH, JOKES ABOUT GAMING COMPANIES NO ONE HEARS ABOUT ANYMORE. Wait, why are Tycho and Gabe at a sports game? I’m sure that was supposed to mean something at some point…and those people on the sides of the panels are creepy D8 And, yeah, that’s not really an inventive idea at all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">One space. As you can see PA took a while to get on its feet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">13. BaldurDash? I actually kind of like that pun even if (surprise surprise) I am unfamiliar with Baldur’s Gate. And what’s wrong with turn based games anyway? POKEMON is turn-based! And, wait, I thought GABE was the one with the psychic abilities! Perhaps Tycho’s going to exact his revenge for propelling him into the ceiling? I’d like to see that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">14. Is the joke here supposed to be that this guy is dumb as balls? Probably. I was five when this was made.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">15. Oh god, Tycho, are you REALLY that surprised? Roms ALWAYS lie (except probably not so much for N64 anymore). Though clearly it’s sarcasm-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Uh, Gabe, I don’t want you anywhere near any animals…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">16. There’s such a torrent of misunderstanding and sarcasm (sorry!) that all I can really understand here is that Tycho looks REALLY awkward in Panel 2. But- HOLY DAMN THAT IS ONE BIG ADORABLE CAT. MY GOD I WANT TO HUG IT. And not let it anywhere near my computer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">17. There could be two jokes here. One could be that the game sucks. The other could be that it’s so good that it’ll take up the rest of Tycho’s life. I really have no way of knowing. Sorry, old comic! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">18. Whoa, wasn’t expecting this! This is some detailed drawing! Clearly Gabe is probably already a good illustrator, he just needs to tighten up his style. That and wait for better software to be invented. Tycho’s head looks really big, and the kitty suddenly looks a lot smaller. Somehow this is all I picked up on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">19. Wait, wait, what is this? *reads*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…OASJFOAJSFOJ. This is too sweet for words.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">20. So on another note, ooooh, it looks like Tycho’s amping up the drama again! Wish I knew what he was talking about.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">21. LOL. Final Fantasy 8? THIS I can laugh at, if only because it’s so old. And a Playstation ONE, too! Tycho, Gabe, I am making you feel OLD. Also, yeah, it’d be hard to play an imported video game if you don’t know Japanese. Good thing there are translating communities now. KUNG FU FIGHT WOO</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">22. Clipping plane? Gabe doesn’t seem to hear what you’re saying about technical things, Tycho the Dinosaur, he’s too busy holding SEVERAL BIG GUNS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">23. Macromedia Shocked? Oh, does it mean old websites where everything is moving just for the sake of having something moving? Ohgod, those things are awful. And LOOK HOW REALISTIC THEY ARE~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">24. There was Linux in 1999? COOL! Every other thing I say about this comic seems to be about its age…sorry guys D8 And whose grave are we digging, here? Certainly not the computer’s, we need those hunks of junk.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">25. Well, then, uh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">To be far, Gabe’s name actually is John. Tycho’s name is Tycho. Also, Jack and John are the same name.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">26. This reminds me of the first strip of Megatokyo, vaguely! The big fancy ninja outfit reminds me that, like Tom, Mike can draw, he just needs to evolve with his current style. Because I REALLY like that ninja outfit. Especially that neat long scarf. I don’t understand the punchline though.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">27. Uh, wow. I’m not sure whether to laugh uproariously at this or wonder whether Mike actually has Pac-Man tattooed on his upper arm. I think laughter is what the strip wanted to incite, so I shall laugh. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">28. They’re making fun of SOMEBODY, I just know they are…! (Is that their old logo? It actually had a penny in it?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">29. Daikatana? Wasn’t that the game Romero was harping on about in #2? If it ended up being this bad, that’s a bit of a blow to the people waiting for it, isn’t it D8 So, here we are, a comic full of hate! And also a noose. I don’t know what slap-boxing is…any clarification? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">One Day Later: Just read about Daikatana on Wikipedia. Oh dear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">30. So there’s no way I would understand this unless I knew what WCW/NWO Revenge was. Turns out it’s a professional wrestling game. Okay, first of all, LOL at the cardboard box they’re propping their TV on. Second of all, for shame, Jonathan Gabriel. You’re the one who gets all the homoerotic moments later in the comic! Also, you still appear to be playing the game! 8P<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">31. Wow. Kingpin must’ve been a pretty sexy awesome game, whatever Kingpin was! Also that is some exceptionally slow-burning fire. Tycho, ever heard of a sink? Also, Gabe has a funny little line under his eye. Very odd.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So far I’ve noticed that these guys are primarily PC gamers. Wonder how that’ll hold up over the years…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">32. So so far in this comic I have also not seen a single couch. x3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, I can’t tell! Do they think this demo is good or bad? I’m leaning toward good. And it’s great to see they still got a joke in xD I wonder if Usenet groups still exist…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">33. Oooh, Tycho and Gabe look nice in suits and dark sunglasses! I don’t understand Illiad’s joke much. I also can’t tell if Mike and Jerry liked him or not. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">34. In the robot’s defense, I don’t know what a S-Video Adapter is either. C: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Ah, geeks’ takes on video gaming stores. How charming they always are. Always either staffed by idiots or poseurs, they are common spots for potshots. Call me young, but I definitely thought the Dreamcast was older than this…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WOMBAT BAG. I KIND OF WANT ONE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">35. Can I be allowed to agree with Pac-Man, Mr. Politician?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">36. Okay, forget Sin and Daikatana, I have NO idea what is going on here. I guess Tycho didn’t realize he was dreaming because…he’s stupid? YES, I HAVE FIGURED OUT THE ENTIRE COMIC. On that note, the guy staring at his naughty bits looks like he could be his dad. Oooops.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">37. CLUBBING! This is a bit of a change from what readers expect, namely because it is THE REAL WORLD. It’s funny how the two seem so clueless, though. Not only are they still wearing their knock-around clothes, they are standing absolutely still in all three panels. Some of my classmates go clubbing, even if they are not all eighteen. I am not socially connected enough I think.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Curved surfaces? Bump maps? Don’t you two have girlfriends? C8 (yes, yes, I know, I know)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">38. I love the coloring in the first panel here – it does well to illustrate a bad webcam. Mayo is gross. Also, I have determined that Gabe is some sort of exhibitionist, whether of his chest or of his Pac-Man tattoo I do not know. Probably the Pac-Man tattoo. x3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">39. CHUCK! Chuck is the resident Apple geek of the series. This is him in his nerd year(s). Tycho and Gabe, as you see, are not Apple geeks. I don’t get the bit in the end about his cat – it seems like an anti-punchline. I thought only Cyanide and Happiness could pull that off!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">40. Oh god, here it is. For the comic credited with jumpstarting the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoGamersOnACouch">Two Gamers On A Couch</a> genre, we have gone exactly 39 comics without a single scene of Tycho and Gabe playing video games on a couch. Wooow. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And here’s a girlfriend! I don’t know which girlfriend it is (probably Brenna, I think she’s the one with the red hair). But clearly she is unused to Batman’s pets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">41. Philosophy Arcade? Let’s see if I can understand this! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hm, he could have a point! It’s a neat idea and all, though 9 out of 10 English majors would likely disagree, highly offended. (I’m not one of them. :P) The only thing I have trouble believing here is, how do they hear each other on a roller coaster? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">42. Three attacks? I only see two, on Monolith and Sega Saturn. OH, the N64 too. Why did it have to be held up? Either way, it looks like Tycho’s doing perfectly fine with his PC.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">43. And so start the E3 sketches! There are several every year, and there are often more than one each day. I’m bewildered as to why these guys were allowed at E3 – did they get this popular that fast? I’m not an Internet historian, but these sketches are still neat! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gabe, get away from round objects immediately.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">LOL, ROMERO. I did finally see a picture of him, and I have to say, he’s the only man I’ve ever seen, ever, that could have hair that long and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romero_3designers.jpg">not look like a complete idiot</a>. (He's in the middle.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">44. More E3 fun! They have RAVES at E3? Daaamn, I want to go to a rave…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The terrible thing about souvenir sacks is that you have to hold them all day even though you’re not going to look at them. But I’ve never seen a case as bad as this, no pun intended! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And how could EITHER of them lose that bag if it was wound around Gabe like that? Truly these men are unusual.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">45. Woah, MORE E3 SKETCHES~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait, this actually DOES exist? Maybe I should go dumpster diving and find it someday. :3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Poor John Gabriel. No one loves him. ;__; And thus concludes the E3 sketches. They are followed by two blank spaces.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">46. And also a blank canvas. I don’t know if the comic is established enough to parody itself, but it elicits giggles. C: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">AND AGAIN. AN OBSESSION WITH GABE’S ABSENCE OF SHIRT. Though this time I don’t see the tattoo. This comic is followed by SIX blank spaces, before…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">47. WOO, FANCY ARTWORK! For that I’m able to excuse that the panels are just cut-and-pastes with the mouths redrawn! Oh, Gabe, you sly Jedi you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">48. I think this might be a little harsh. So what if this guy doesn’t know who they are? Unless of course these questions actually are that stupid, or the guys live here. Ah, the great unwashed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">49. YOU HAVE LOST THE LEAD. I remember seeing something like this in a Megatokyo guest comic, and I didn’t understand it, so I went and looked it up – and can’t find anything! So, help? D8 Either way, yes, Gabe is da man! Though he better watch out or he’ll lose the lead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">50. The first thing I noticed is that the art is tightening up – I don’t see any JPEG fragmenting anymore. I also notice that Tycho is still mortified by Divx, which I now know was something of a precursor to DVDs. The third thing is THE DIVX WHY IS IT STANDING UP AND TALKING.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">BECAUSE IT’s DIV! Div becomes a recurring character in later strips. He’s a very rude and alcoholic device. For shame.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">51. I need to stop writing these in class, because I got the giggles in a MAJOR way rereading this strip. Mostly because it reminds me of when I was seven, and my entire existence was focused around getting a Game Boy Color (a yellow one, which I still have – and it still works!) to play Pokemon Yellow. If I could have sold my sister into slavery for one I probably would have. (Sorry, Anna, if you ever read this! I love you!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">52. I think this is what the current community would call “casual games,” yes? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gabe: God, I’m hot already.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I think that everything a man can do is mostly done to broadcast the size of his penis. Yes. And who buys these games? People who don’t want to fish. Duuh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">53. LOL, HIS HAIR IS POINTY AND FUNNY LOOKING. EVEN MORE THAN USUAL. From someone that matters, eh? BURN. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, Div’s little grey bar on the bridge between his eyes looks kind of like a mustache. So now I’m imagining him as someone’s mustachioed, drunken uncle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">54. Why so much moral policing, game store? Now I’m wondering if there ever was a time you actually did have to fill out surveys. Ah, the pain and suffering.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now we skip four more days…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">55. Yay, it’s Gabe’s girlfriend/fiancée! Meet Kara, everyone! Can I say that this comic is both ribald and adorable? It’s ribadorable! Poor Gabe. He can’t tell a lie. (Heehee, Honest Gabe.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">56. AND THE ALL IMPORTANT DAY HAS ARRIVED, THE NEW AND SHINY DREAMCAST IS HERE. I’ve never really seen the concept of renting game consoles as popular. I know my local Blockbuster did it, but my local Blockbuster went out of business a year ago…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Goodness, I think Gabe and Tycho should take care that those aggressive tendencies don’t get them into trouble…not that this is a comic that counts on status quo anyway. (Funnily enough, GC is the only story comic I’ve done so far…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">57. This looks like an accurate portrait of insanity to me! Though I have to wonder if this is because the Descent series was good or bad. I may never know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">58. Wait, Halo came out in 1999? I thought it was an early aughties invention…I also don’t know what reverse kinematics are, but Tycho…seems to…like them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">59. Wow, was Mortyr THAT evil? These demos must’ve been, anyway! I don’t see too many complaints about actual games…maybe the demos are really hard to uninstall no matter how hard they are.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">60. WOO. BLENDER COMPUTER. Can I have a computer that looks like a blender? Pleeease? I’ll feed it and wash it and take it for walks…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Neither of them seem to have very good faith in any demos…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">61. This demo must’ve been UNIMAGINABLY bad. Penny Arcade is <i>scathing</i>…wooow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">62. Heehee…it’s probably funny to note that from this comic on, Tycho’s eyes go red whenever he gets angry. He is quite an odd person in that regard. This is also the first strip I’ve seen with some continuity to it, in that it seems to continue from the strip about Satan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">63. I don’t quite understand what “free comic” means in this context…but it looks like someone got a “free” Athlon! Ohoho. Oh those gamers. But at least that hanging plot thread is resolved. Closest thing to continuity this strip could have.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">64. Whenever I go to look for my favorite comic (search “beard” in the archives, it’s the second one that comes up), I always find this one in the search results. Sometimes it’s easy to tell whether PA liked a game, sometimes it is not. This time, it is easy to tell that Tycho loves this game. Oh Gabe you tosser.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">65. This comic is strangely sweet! Gabe’s mean to Tycho when he thinks he took his chips, but then is sweet to Zombie, who for some reason is wearing a Tycho sweater. (Is he wearing the extra sweater Gabe knit in #1?) Also, why is Them capitalized? Are the potato chips that sacred? *_*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">66. Ah, here we go, a strip unfortunately full of in-jokes I don’t get. D8 This guy’s art style looks very familiar; I’m pretty sure I should know who he is…and they still don’t like this Illiad fellow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">67. I want to be able to make my own clothes. I have never heard of a girlfriend-measuring contest. It’s kind of awesome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">68. Reaver? Is that kind of like Reaper? Has Tycho become that guy from Bleach? I don’t really get it 8D;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">69. I don’t know if there’s some sort of poetic justice in a religiously-focused strip as strip 69…but I don’t know, I’m spending more time laughing at the hilarious way they interpret it. Dreamcast. Luul. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">70. LOL, MORE JOHN ROMERO JOKES. I think this is the last one, unfortunately…this guy’s not been in the video game business for 5 years. I will contend that John Romero has very pretty hair. That is all I have to say on this su- WAIT, PLAYBOY??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">71. Was Warcraft something like what World of Warcraft is now? Probably. Poor Gabe. He keeps getting hurt and falling on phallic objects.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">72. This strip makes me giggle to no end. DREAMCAAAAAAAST.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">73. LOOL. No money, housing or employment seems like a common patter in Nihon…just move back in with your parents and become a NEET, duuh. But I guess the PS2 is that awesome…? Wait, didn’t they think it wasn’t going to be awesome? Confuzzlement reigns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">74. LOL, Tycho has anger issues. x3 I wish I knew what these games were, so that my understanding of jokes could go beyond “yea” or “nay.” As we head into the 21<sup>st</sup> century I should get better about this…uh…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">75. I saw the title of this one and was like WHAT. Then I realized it was about something else entirely, and was like “oooohhh.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I guess a grappling hook is important. “Is it Friday already?” Ohhh you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">76. That’s funny, you guys, I thought you LIKED the outside. It has curved surfaces and bump maps! Still, this makes for a good advertisement for the outdoors. Not that anyone can make a profit off that, but…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">77. I’d have to say I agree with this definition of survival horror. Usually you will not let either monsters or dinosaurs walk in your front door to have some tea…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">78. Chainsaw Dave? That’s a pretty weird title for this comic, considering there are no chainsaws. Call me stupid but this reminds me of that one Spongebob Squarepants episode where Mr. Krabs pulled this on Patrick. Also, second comic to make a Sierra joke! Are we cool or are we cool?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also noticed the art is getting more dynamic. Nice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">79. THE MATRIX: Killing twentysomethings since both the future and 1999! And I do believe those are your teeth, Gabe. x3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">80. Hm, Kara cut her hair! And was Spawn really that bad? I’ve never heard of it…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">81. I wonder if I should be happy or in utter mourning that, as of early this year, my local Blockbuster, and thus late fees, are no more. Fare thee well, Blockbuster. I’ll remember you every time I go into the new Petco.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">With the tiger that’s strangely appropriate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">82. The scariest thing? This defines gamer geeks PERFECTLY. I would be VERY SURPRISED if any of them notice the stripper at all before continuity resets itself. And, hey, who are those other two guys? I don’t recognize them…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">83. I can’t tell if Tycho is lying, or if the makers of Tomb Raider know why people play the game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gabe: You mean wall candy?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Forget it. Tycho’s DEFINITELY lying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">84. And here we have the first case of Tycho’s eye freakouts! And I have to say I’m pretty impressed at them word parallels. Good work, Jerry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">85. ZOMBIEE!!! 8D LOL, their bodies are super short. TATTOO! HI TATTOO! Why am I so amazed at his tattoo? And –</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Huh? There are TWO comics? Didn’t notice that the first time…HAH. Tycho, whatever you do, counter Gabe’s murderous tendencies with your own murderous tendencies!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">86. Is the Dreamcast drinking about the PS2? Because if so, it certainly had a very short shelf life…poor thing, beat out by the PS2. D8 And I definitely do not want to get on the wrong side of that tender. He means business.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">87. <i>Tycho: Let me guess. Gabe, you’re a young man questioning his sexuality. Div, you’re an obsolete piece of home theater equipment.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Happy Halloween, everyone! That’s the first and only time I’ve seen all the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay">Ho Yay</a> moments Gabe gets directly addressed (I’d say he’s definitely into guys as well as girls). Neither Gabe nor Div take this very well. Div should be careful; with all the alcohol he consumes he’ll light himself on fire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">88. HA HA HA. Every time the phrase “true fan” enters a conversation, you know there’s going to be trouble! 8P Though, with both of their anger issues, perhaps Tycho was asking for it…either way, Gabe, here’s everything vaguely shaped like a disk in my house. You go on your merry way. 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">89. OH MY GOD. This comic gets a LOT funnier if you’ve read the more recent one about Duke Nukem Forever, or noticed that the game is still not out. (Though they are actually finally working on it!) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Those two men look a lot like Tycho and Gabe. Any resemblance is probably coincidental.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">90. It looks to me like Gabe was copy-pasted into Panel 1 from Panel 3, which is why their facial expressions are exactly the same, but there are subtle differences…eh, I won’t go too deeply into it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">RELEASE PARTIES. Don’t worry, Tycho, I don’t get invited to them either. Gabe, you are a meanie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">91. Too violent?! Maybe a little later in the game, but here? Absolutely not! I mean, other than the thing about killing Tycho for his watch…but, in standard Penny Arcade fashion, we are completely disregarding complainers and also making fun of them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t like poison flowers. They stand against everything a flower should be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">92. I am super jealous of Gabe’s neat drawing table. Loonygames’s new content looks kind of like most of the projects I have taken on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">93. Ah, testicular humour! I don’t think we’ve had that yet. I wonder if this comic is just a vehicle for Tycho and Gabe to get back at each other. :P </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The idea of motion capture is pretty weird. And usually on the camera it looks kind of…fake.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">94. Bob is very much a meanie. I think he needs a girlfriend. (Though most definitely not me. Or any people I like.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">95. If I’m right, this is the first screenshot we’ve seen of a game these guys are playing! It looks so…hokey! :3 Though the pixel-Gabe is pretty neat. I wonder who made that. And I wish I could find out what was so funny about Age of Kings. Does he get massacred?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">96. Oh, hey, it’s Jesus. And Jesus likes the Quake 3 demo. Thus, therefore, and ergo, Quake 3 is godly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I wonder how much controversy this strip generated. You have to be careful with your treatment of Jesus…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh, almost forgot to mention – as of this strip, Penny Arcade is a year old! Wooo~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">97. Yep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">98. I’m not sure what BIOS is, but, uh…thanks for that, Tycho. Now you just have to wait for very pale people to come into style in about *checks watch* eight years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">99. Dude, <b>I</b> want a ninja tooth fairy. They’d be in and out of there before you knew it. Maybe tooth fairies get special ninja training… 8]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">100. Corrupt save games are a bitch, I do agree. I know that in The Sims 2, the save games start corrupting themselves about the minute they start existing. I think the king of the demon locusts would be even MORE terrified of those.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I can never get the names of the people on Friends straight…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, let me get this out of the way – I really like Penny Arcade, but I can’t really fully appreciate the oldest strips because I’m not part of the culture they were written for. Still, though, I can start to see the seeds of the genius in the newer strips I really like. So, I hope you enjoyed this look through Penny Arcade’s Comic Sans MS past!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Mike and Jerry have lots of things to look at on the site, the most important of which is definitely the charity. <b>Please take the time to donate to <a href="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/">Child’s Play</a>, because kids’ smiles are more valuable than gold!</b> <b>Also candy, and I can think of very few things more valuable than candy. </b>Penny Arcade also has a very extensive <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/">catalogue of merchandise</a>, which I will highlight a few pieces from. Most of them are in-jokes from newer strips, predictably, and also have art done in the newer style, but I’ll find the funniest to show you. Let’s see…there’s this very silly <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070081">Erode the Soul</a> tee, this tee <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070142">detailing the history of man</a>, many <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070161">T-shirts</a> <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070171">concerning</a> <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070181">Jesus</a>, neat stylized <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat080061">Tycho</a> and <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat080031">Gabe</a> tees, and would you believe it, <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pab080021">women’s</a> <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pab070031">versions</a> of two of them! There is also a <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/six-book-bundle">bundle</a> of all six of their strip collections, or <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/collections/books">each of the books individually</a>, including an “11 ½ Year Anniversary Book.” And as if that weren’t awesome enough, you can also order <a href="http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pac08003110">a laser print</a> of that picture up there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, I hope you enjoyed that and go on to enjoy a lot of things! Wednesday marks the return of Gunnerkrigg Court commentary, which I know people actually like! 8D</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-45476841047793874372010-10-08T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-12T06:56:36.989-07:00Cyanide and Happiness #3, #200-300 [SEEN IT]<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, Cyanide and Happiness, we meet again! It’s been a long time – exactly a week, in fact. So, what could you have in store for us in the next hundred comics, give or take whatever you care to give me? Numbers skipping around? Most likely. Humor to make the devil blush? Maybe. Humor to make my Theology teacher blush? Never. Humor that elicits comments from me? ALWAYS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well, time to delve once again into the realm of unexplored stick figure realms! We actually ended on strip 200 last time, after which I did not eat my keyboard. So, of course, we’re starting on strip 205. (That’s a little more correct than 68 for 100, you have to admit.) So click <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/205/">http://www.explosm.net/comics/205/</a> to continue the fun!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">… I mean CLICK THE MAGIC NEXT BUTTON. Whoops, there almost wasn’t any closure there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">205. Eeeewww. Having a comic in your ass sounds uncomfortable. (Though I must admit, I pull these reviews out of my own nether regions on a nigh-regular basis.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">206. I’ve always loved this strip because I can never figure out not!Bill’s agenda. Is he really Bill and just lying to get Death away from him, or is he just relieved that his brother is going to die? Considering the look on his face I’m going to guess the former.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">207. As much as AIDS is unfunny I can’t help but giggle at this pun.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">208. Again, this comic is so unexpectedly heartwarming that it’s a shock in and of itself! In case you didn’t know, that is, in fact, how to deal with grumpy people. With love!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">209. It would appear that it is time for another guest week! This is by Chriz. I have NO idea what this comic means, but somehow the idea of someone prancing around with wiggly arms shouting I HAVE A WILLY reduces me to giggles every time. I’m sorry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">210. This guest comic by knumber seems only to operate on the condition that these two stick boys are too stupid to breathe. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">211. I’m sick and tired of these, Jo.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">212. Oh, no. No, no no. Did Jez just erase all the dialogue from Rob’s comic and add his own? That is lazy as hell. I am heavily displeased. I don’t care if the wingdings make me giggle, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THIS COMIC.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">213. I would say this isn’t funny but it’s mostly like any other C&H strip in sudden twists…well done, Relaps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">214. This is by Xivideus. ICE CREAM SOLVES EVERY SOCIAL AND RELATIONSHIP ILL EVER~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">215. This comic by Dead-Air is actually kind of sad. Can I give both of these freaks a hug? Please oh please oh pretty pretty please? 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">226. These number skippages are very what the hell, kids! Also, is this Dave’s first comic? I think it might be – I don’t remember seeing his name anywhere before this. Well, anyway, meet Dave. This comic looks nothing like his current style. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a bucket and drain the river.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">216. Again I say, WHAT THE HELL WITH NUMBER SKIPPAGES. Anyway, this strip is a lot more artistically complex than most later ones, what with the anthropomorphic bear and all. And why is the B capitalized? Odd all around, but it works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">227. OKAY OKAY I’M LAUGHING I’M LAUGHING ;__; Is this making fun of potty humor? Probably. Is it scaring me? Definitely!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">228. Yep, Dave’s style is very different now from what it becomes. Wait a minute. SUPERHEROES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So begins the LF series! No, not that LF. I don’t really want to say it right in the review…anyway, I don’t know any couple that talks like this. Still, I respect their love! LF is a meanie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">230. Though it would appear the LF series is interrupted a little. Why does it seem like the non sequitoirs work so well here? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">233. AGAIN WITH THE SKIPPING OF NUMBERS. So, yes, anyone showing any amount of care or compassion for anyone is a word that begins with an F. Nice, LF, real nice. I STILL LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE A SUPERHERO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">235. Perhaps because I am male, I don’t really understand. What do sword arms have to do with zipper problems and peeing? Whatever it is I’m glad I have no truck with it D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">237. Classic Rob strip – big ol’ shocker in the middle, punchline at the end that sorta makes you stop and stare for a while.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">236. Dave’s strips are starting to look a little more like Dave strips. And admittedly a rock would hurt quite a bit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">238. WHY DO I ALWAYS LAUGH SO HARD AT THIS ONE? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…I’M LAUGHING SO HARD AT THIS ONE IN MY ASS! I wonder what Orange went to do…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">242. There are two reasons I’m laughing at this one. One is the unusual concept of stealing one’s air. The second, and most potent, is that his brown sack says “SWAG” on it. xDDDD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">239. Instead of Waiting for Godot, it’s Waiting for Punchline. xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">243. In tenth grade, I was instructed to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a homework assignment. I’m sure it was late. Curse you, LF.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">240. HEY. COMIC 239 FOUND THE PUNCHLINE. EXCEPT THE NUMBERS ARE MIXED UP SO THE IMPACT IS MITIGATED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">248. What? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">247. The last panel of this made me die a little inside. I can’t decide whether to smile or cry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">245. Now, I am a great believer in the power of puns. But this guy went just a little bit overboard, okay, kids? Okay. Love you guys.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">249. DAMMIT, KRIS. WHY DO ALL OF YOUR EARLY COMICS MAKE ME SMILE AND GIGGLE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">246. Emoland. People are suiciding to get in. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Get it? It’s a play on “dying to get in”? Eh? Eh? 8D? Happy smiles?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">253. Wait, I don’t get this. So they treat Tony as invisible? That’s not very nice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">252. ;_____;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">250. Kris’s comics are often bittersweet. 249 was sweet. This, 250, is very, very bitter. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I wish these comics could be in order for once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">254. Um, wow. I never understood this comic for the longest time…then I remembered something someone said to me about (if you are eating kindly cease doing so) people smuggling drugs in swallowed condoms. Also, the clown is making pretty unreasonable demands. This kid wouldn’t get any farther than Laytonsville, methinks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">255. Oh, <i>these</i> two strips. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">256. I groan because this was clearly done for shock value. Rest assured, this is the last vertical stripe in a skintone in the comic. Really.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">257. HOLY CRAP. If I heard this from a mystical swami, I know I’d be amazed! But that figures, ‘cause I’m stupid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">258. Uh, I don’t get it. Is there a reference I’m missing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">259. This comic disenheartens me. Thus I do not like it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">260. No no no no NO NO NO. Why are this batch of comics so depressing? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">261. Wait, why am I laughing at what might be a race joke now? (For the record, black comedy is pretty hard to define…)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">262. This is the least inflammatory or dramatic comic about rape I have ever read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">263. Huh, I don’t get it…what does math have to do with this? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">264. LOL. This does make me laugh for two reasons – it’s outright silly, and it reminds me of The Lonely Island’s “Dick In A Box” song. 8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">266. I don’t know if I want to admit it, but I’m grinning from ear to ear. Again, it’s the juxtaposition of the silly with the commonplace. I…love it! Besides they seem to be okay…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">267. <i>Girl: I will kill you so hard you will die to death.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WAITWHAT. BEST LINE EVER. And no, Blue, it is YOU who sucks at flirting! You will only attract a certain type of woman with those kinds of words, and that type is strictly in the category of “Drunk.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">268. Hah! I successfully did not giggle! And then failed when I thought, “So, is it supposed to keep the police busy as you run away?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">269. PUNS, YOU EVIL PIECES OF WORDPLAY YOU</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">271. What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WHAT? (Again!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">270. Wait, WHAT? Did anyone else think s/he was just standing sideways until Blue pointed out the missing boob?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">272. I’m detecting a logical and moral fallacy. Thus I cannot laugh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">274. This one wouldn’t load for me on the site, but I did find it through Google Images. What a jerkass Yellow is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">275. I smiled because this is a good twist on the overused “squeeze” joke o’ Matt’s and of several guest comics. Here this guy is being a little more creative!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">276. I’m surprised here by the relative complexity of the story of this strip. And then I am overcome with the desire to punch Blue in the face for being an idiot…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">277. WHOA, this came outta left field! It’s Charles and Girlfriend again! Even though Girlfriend isn’t onscreen… Charles continues to be an idiot and ISN’T IT AWESOME?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">278. The deadpan delivery makes this GOLD. Again I am resisting a comparison to Monty Python. Still, that boy needs to control his anger! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">279. SUPERHEROES!!! SEIZURE MAN HAS SAVED THE DAY. Even though the better option would be to walk around the bear trap. Uh. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">I LOVE C&H SUPERHEROES.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">280. This sounds like just about every teenage relationship ever. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Just saying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">281. What the hell? I love this play-on-words! 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">284. Wow, and just when I thought the number skipping was over and done with. I love how silly this one starts out. Help, I’ve grown antlers? Who DOES that? And aww, Panel 3 is cute! Why doesn’t Puce think so?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">285. This is such a silly and nonsensical juxtaposition that I love it to death really I do. Even if all of these comics are early, they do have their charm. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">287. OMG, LOL. This is almost even better than the Christmas ornaments! I want a friend with a slingshot head. Anyone willing to get some reindeer antlers embedded in their heads? C’mon, it’s no worse than getting plugs!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">289. Charles and Girlfriend, back so soon? Neat! This sounds like just about every college relationship I’ve ever heard of. Charles is an asshole.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">288. Uh…look, man, stay calm…the antlers look neat, really? I’m sorry, man…sorry…so sorry…HELP ME THERE’S A MUTANT ON THE RAMPAGE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">294. The delivery of this one is just perfect. And the idiocy of Light Green creates a hole to be filled with giggles. OH MY GOD, I’M GOING TO LIVE! Also much love to the panels being blasted apart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">290. …eeeeewwww.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">292. We’re dancing around the ending now…the first time I read this, I thought he was one of the more major terrorists. Now, I kind of see the awful connection. Poor Hassan. Well, at least he’ll still get the lady he loves.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">296. There’s a lot going on here and I’m trying to cohese it into something funny. Old man faking nostalgia? Awkward vs. awkward? Ah, THERE’S the laugh! 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">297. Four years at an all-girls’ high school has taught me that this is the full extent of the male psyche. Yep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">299. This strip makes me wince. Because it makes me think of my own ankles buckling under the weight of…anything. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">300. Ugh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that was slightly less than 100 strips of Cyanide and Happiness! A few more misses than hits in this batch, but that’s to be expected. Be sure again to look at the app and book options, and also hope and pray that the boys’ new store goes up soon so you can get shirts and such! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll be back for you on Monday, when I risk life and limb by delving into the earliest days of Penny Arcade! Wish my luck, and help me barricade my doors against the murderous rage of the authors! <3</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-81592752146961080522010-10-06T03:31:00.000-07:002010-10-06T03:31:59.129-07:00Dinosaur Comics #2, 100-200 [SEEN IT]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Whew…wow. Now that I’m coming off the high I got from reviewing Gunnerkrigg Court, it’s time to go back and continue the other two comics to commentary on this site! I do hope you’ve figured out my update pattern by now…</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, now that there are five commentaries on the site, and five is about as many as most people can count on one hand, I imagine keeping track might get unwieldy for some. So, I have created a master archive post! This post has a lot of information. It has commentaries sorted by comic, also including the names of the next five commentaries I will be doing. I’m trying to alternate requested comics with comics I wanted to do in the first place. So, uh, stay interested!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/101.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/101.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a name='more'></a></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway. DINOSAUR COMICS AGAIN~ I don’t need to reintroduce this, do I? You come, you read, you leave. Goodness me, I really hope I can stay awake to have my brain rewired.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Start here, just as before: <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=101">http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=101</a>. Follow the magic “next” button! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">101. Callypygian! That’s a word I’ve never heard before! I think I will use it in casual conversation now. I don’t know what onanistic means and I don’t feel like looking it up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">102. <i>T-Rex: Today is a good day I think for asking profound philosophical questions!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Don’t you do that every day, T, along with stomping? I somehow feel like this is like real life – we consider why we’re here, and then we remember we have something to do and forget to find the answer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">103. SUN PUNS. IT RHYMES. And sun puns somehow segue into awkward situations? How awkward.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">104. Drama? In MY Dinosaur Comics? How dare they. Panel 3 is very true to life – could it be that the knowledge is instilling a crush in Mr. T-Rex himself? I wonder if that happens if you find out someone has a crush on you and it’s not a situation where you’re immediately revulsed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And here’s Utah, always there to carry in a plot twist…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">105. <i>T-Rex: What is love?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more! And hm, it actually does look like some romantic tension is brewing between the three of them! Though it’s kind of hard to get invested when you know that it could be completely ignored come next comic… 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">106. I agree, high-school “does she like me” shenanigans are a waste of time. Because you already know that they hate you. Profoundly. Or that they just don’t like you that way and will turn you down politely which will make you look like a fool and the both of you awkward around each other and ruin your friendship and no I’m not speaking from experience. I wish I was.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Though I must say he did a smooth job of asking her ou- DINOSAUR SEX? Thanks, Mr. North, now I find myself trying to imagine that! I think I’m going to move on, thanks!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">107. I have never played “Scrabble” with anyone, and thus I do not think I have ever had a meaningful relationship. I think I’ll look up every word with Y’s and Q’s in it beforehand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Scrabble during sex…? I can’t decide whether that would be awesome or very strange. I just realized I went through this entire plot without once mentioning Dromi.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">108. Canada Day?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">CANADA</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> DAY?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">THERE IS A SUCH THING AS A CANADA DAY?!? INVENTED CANADA? Where people actually DO live in igloos and fight bears? Forget that, I’m going to go speak French and ride a moose! Because those are totally not cultural stereotypes, am I right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">109. Yep, it’s just as I supposed before. That romantic subplot has been dropped without a hint of returning. I think T-Rex would make a good bouncer, for reasons he has just explained. And look at Utah, ever determined to have his way!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">110. Wait, there are other characters in this comic? Like pterodactyls? Are they the same pterodactyls flying around in the site backgrounds, or are those its parents, ever searching for their lost little flying thing? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dromi: YOU LOST A BABY?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This line should not have made me laugh at all. Though I am happy there’s panic at the end.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">111. Wait, so this IS a linear plot? Huh, it all makes sense now. In a sense!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">112. I must admit, these are VERY good points he’s making. If there are any baby-losers in the audience, do take heed. Especially if you know any fine young men named Rumpelstiltskin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">114. This is a funny and yet also super sad comic. T-Rex does not have as many friends as he thinks he does. D8 It is very hard to make a list of friends, by the way. I prefer they remain unlisted so no one is excluded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">115. Huh, this is almost a scarier twist than 113’s subject change – first love, then sex. I’m super sad that I never got to hear Utah’s big news. (The answer is love, by the way.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">116. A true story? *suddenly very engaged* Woah, why would a store not have any Paprika! It’s a very good movie by the unfortunately late Satoshi Kon. *groan from the audience*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And thus does this story have a sad ending…the moral, kids? If you are a grocery store, STOCK EVERY SPICE. INCLUDING THE POISON ONES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">117. Is it just me, or does this abstract religion play sound a lot more boring than the Tony role? Unless Science and Religion are wrestling in rice pudding…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">118. Oooh, a mini-arc! I personally don’t think Science and Religion are mutually exclusive, but whatever they want to think will kill them their own way in the end. Panel 5 is tl;dr…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">119. It is true that science does not have the answer to those questions! But religion sort of makes the answers up and operates itself as if they were true. (Which I will admit works in many cases.) Panel 6 got me giggling, if only imagining what people might think after being told not to swear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">120. Panel 3 has a very, very good point. Why can’t we all be friends? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T, Utah: You think you have the monopoly on truth!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Monopolies are illegal in many countries. I feel like this commentary is straying into dangerous territory…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">121. So let’s be thankful that we are back to being silly! Thanks, Dino Comics, I had no idea what a sequential comic was. Thank you for augmenting my understanding. And the bottom three make moving in feel very unappealing. Suddenly I don’t want to go to college. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">122. Somehow this sounds even lamer than “The Metamorphosis.” Poor T-Rex! Writing a novel is a lot harder than it seems.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">123. Secret sharing comics? Would that be sharing secrets, or things shared in secret? Are they perhaps the same thing? Who knows indeed! It’s actually adorable here how the T-Rex is digging himself into a hole. Also, how did he manage to steal a COUCH without being seen is what I wonder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">124. Oh goodness, this. Essential feminine and masculine, the be all and end all of bad discussions. Well, good thing it wasn’t discussed then. And what does “pipes” mean? Hello, anyone? Men? Women? Dogs?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">125. Oh, T-Rex. Making up your own rules never bodes well for anyone! I find these comics make good discussion starters even though I have never started a discussion with them. And, ooh, throwback to previous comic! Funny how nihilism is a fond memory to them…xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">126. Panel 3 is one of the saddest things that can happen to a party – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Utah</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">: Oktoberfest?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T-Rex: Beer and sausages!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">….PFFFFHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh my god, that’s brilliant! Why have I never heard that before?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">127. Panels 1 and 2 almost top the Oktoberfest joke. ALMOST. Emphasis, again, on ALMOST. Democracy of dinosaurs…I wonder what kind of government dinosaurs had. Clearly a government that supported libraries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">128. Oh, HEY! It’s the first appearance of God! Yes, in fact, God does become a recurring character in Dinosaur Comics - not yet, but soon. He never actually appears, but he does speak in all caps from above. Or, in this case, from the side of Panel 6. This is a very cute comic. And I think that if behind-the-couch is a very quiet place, it can be a nice place to find God. Or else to hide from the Doctor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">129. Oh, how cute is this comic? And also how frustrating! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. EVEN THOUGH I CAN’T, BECAUSE BOTH I AND RYAN NORTH WILL BE DEAD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">130. What’s a platitude? Is it kind of like being patronizing? Because if so, I’m really sorry, people I’ve patronized without realizing it! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">131. How is “Hide and Go Seek” a myster- oh, it’s a mystery that he got screwed up? That’s hardly a mystery! It just means T-Rex has ADHD like I do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">132. This is pretty much the ur-Dinosaur Comics strip, or probably is. I can’t really remember all of them unfortunately. Though Utah has a good point in Panel 4…and T-Rex has a believable response unfortunately.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">133. Lavishing praise on people is just a good way for people to think you are creepy. There is no secret to friendship except for the super-shallow. 8/ Utah’s compliment is indeed pretty weak…and, without the purposeful twist, this might be the plot of many of the ostensibly children’s cartoons I like to watch. I rather like the blue SUDDENLY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">134. Ah, a common worry for many. Including myself. And exercising is hard to commit to…and, yeah, T-Rex, if you’re worried about your weight, that’s not any way to go about things!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">135. I don’t really understand how someone can “lose” their virginity, as if they forgot where it was. Oh well, it makes for a cute-ish joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">136. Why do I half-remember a later strip in which T-Rex stayed up for 36 hours and almost drove himself mad with hallucinations? And why would anyone want to not sleep? SLEEP IS AWESOME.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">137. Ah, the only story any child wants to know! This strip reminds me of something I once read somewhere. “There are two kinds of people who never, ever have sex – your parents and your children.” I’ll tell you right now, my parents have never had sex. Me and my two sisters came from the stork after long nights of prayer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">138. Don’t you hate the days when you start thinking about things like this? Odd, disjointed names that are now connected to lives completely alien to yours? Oh, wait, while I wasn’t looking this comic derailed into an examination of memory and amnesia. AMNESIA? I SMELL A STORY ARC.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">139. I certainly hope T-Rex is aware of the plot’s self-resetting abilities, because otherwise he’s really stupid. And how do you know God is dead or uncaring if you keep debating his nature, Mr. Utah? AND THE MINI PLOT REALLY KICKS OFF.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">140. For an amnesiac, T-Rex still likes to deduce things. And still gets them fantastically wrong! Being told you are not an astronaut when you clearly are is heartbreaking… after all, everyone knows dinosaurs make the best astronauts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">141. While this is definitely an interesting observation from T-Rex, it makes me wonder – would someone with amnesia be immediately aware of their amnesia? How would they know that they didn’t remember anything? Would this affect their personality at all? I wish I could meet an amnesiac and ask him some questions. It doesn’t seem to be affecting T-Rex’s personality at all. Or maybe he stomps on things instinctually.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">142. Looks like the power of non-consecutive storylines has restored T-Rex’s memory. There are many funny things in this comic, all of which are pointed out to us, like a much better written Selzer and Friedberg movie. I giggle’d at Panel 6. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T-Rex: Why yes, I am freshly showered!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">143. Oh, wait, so now we’re back to the amnesia? Odd. Though that is a good observation. I wonder if you would forget your own birthday. However, as we see, this is not infallible. I don’t want to lose my memories, anyway. I have so many good ones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">144. I’d like to add to the explanations in Panels 1 and 2 that if the man is given a one or two word description, we are further expected to expect them to follow cultural stereotypes – aka, the priest, minister, and rabbi variant. And giggles at the bottom line C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">145. Can amnesia wear off? Well, who cares – this is a comic, it can follow any laws it wants! Utah’s line is super creepy. And also super awesome. It woke me up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">146. Ah, a downside to amnesia! So this plot twists further! For some reason I love Utah’s one-liners in Panel 5 – they seem so…witty!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Utah</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">: But DID YOU KNOW that dentists only clean your teeth and hang out with you because you pay them to?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">xDD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">147. Ah, a directly informative comic! By reading one Dinosaur Comic a day, you could probably be made smarter. (Though 100 is a few too many…) These are neat ways to say no, though the sucking-teeth thing I have never noticed. And aww, poor T-Rex! I like your puns!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">148. Why is it that, to me, the romantic movement of “experience” just feels like life in the fast lane for smart people from the 1800s? And aww, poor T-Rex. He just likes to talk about philosophy with his best friend…8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">149. T-Rex has a lot of novel ideas – and this is the one he chooses for his first? Odd. What’s a “stoolie”? I kind of don’t want to look it up. Oh, there we go. And everyone knows that building stories on stereotypes is a quick and easy way to go. People are entertained and reinforced, and you don’t have to do any characterization. I hope you can tell I’m being sarcastic…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">150. Aww, this comic is cute! Are these song lyrics? I can’t tell.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">151. Panel 3 actually made me scream a little. I would not be able to STAND it if my books were ruined. (Why do I keep talking about myself in these commentaries? Well, T, Utah, and Dromi don’t have much character to comment upon…) And – hey! STOP MAKING POTSHOTS AT YOURSELF, COMIC.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">152. This top comic is disinheartening because it could be a metaphor for too many things. It occurs to me now that T-Rex and Utah have a very odd friendship…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">153. Remember when I said T-Rex’s Abort-Retry idea could work with the right writing? This idea couldn’t work with any writing at all, because the title is weird and the plot is stilted. Then again, I wonder if this story’s hero has another punny name…8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">154. In today’s comic, we search for excitement! Again it is an analogy for existence! I like the skydiving onto enemies’ houses idea, not because I want to skydive (I do not) but because it sounds so silly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">155. WOO, A GUEST WEEK! This is apparently by Scott Brevan and Kent Earle! I can’t tell if it’s all going to be this style, but a change of style is lovely! It wakes me up a little. Why is T-Rex still dominated by his mother? *giggle* Momma’s boy. This comic has an unkind word in it three times.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">156. So this guest week is going to be all different authors! I like the guest comics because they have different art slightly. This one is by Steve Care- FUN PUNS? PUT MY FOOT DOWN. GET A LEG UP. STEPPING OUT. NOT A PUN AT THE END BUT IT’S STILL CUTE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">157. Now this one is by Joseph Kovell! This is the regular comic with fancier word-balloons. Oooh, how self-aware. It would be a weird existence if you knew it was only for entertainment…though it would not really be any difference in any way but a psychological manner. And who the hell does go to Cornwall? Seriously!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">158. I love this water-damaged comic from Joey Comeau! It’s a beautiful twist on the art that already exists. And that sounds like a very cute bomb.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">159. The author of this guest comic has a name too long to spell. Funnily enough, this comic actually seems to have humans in it. And I’m pretty sure the Tyrones WOULD be miserable in a universe full of dinosaurs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">160. Another guest comic from Jeremy Cl-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">…HUMANS?!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…can’t read rest of comic. Mind too blown.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">161. T-Rex seems to be running on Rorsarch-logic in this guest comic by Justin Pierce. The last panel confuses me – does T-Rex just suddenly start tripping balls because he is self-actualized? Neat!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">162. Ah, back to Mr. North. This comic is kind of tl;dr, but I have to agree – Nutrionomicon is a much better name for a food guide! It’s cool and it appeals to the kids far more than changing an s to a z!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">163. Filmic techniques? I’m pretty sure that’s only a term <i>les gens artistiques</i> use… I don’t see the problem with reversal, but then again I’m not a film student (though I do want to write for TV shows and movies). Flashbacks, though, I know. T-Rex’s age is very uncertain, I’ve noticed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">164. This appears to be silly logic! I rather like it, if only because of how convoluted it is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">165. I don’t see anything in this top comic except an introduction of a topic. As for the bottom comic, T-Rex is very lucky that he did not store the insurance papers in his house. He is, however, unlucky that he’ll have to move out of both his house and the state that will prosecute him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">166. Joy sounds like such an old word, doesn’t it? Or some sort of unattainable pinnacle only seen in 50s sitcoms. And hey, again, Panel 5 is right! Why do I keep liking Panel 5 logic? I think I will use that term from now on! Panel 5 logic is fresh and awesome!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">167. GENDERBENDING COMICS. HOW EXCITING. Female T-Rex does not look any different. And as Dromi would probably agree, there is no excitement in shopping for womens’ underwear – or as we like to call it, underwear. And, aww, does T-Rex still have some lingering affection for Utah? T-Rex has a weird imagination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">168. Rrrgh. Sarcasm is confusing, especially on the internet! But the confusion is just another indicator of the biting nature of the medium…well, at least it takes embarrassing dramatics out of conversations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">169. What year was this made? 2003? Okay, now I can understand why he’s wait I still can’t understand why he’s excited for a hurricane. Good thing Panel 6 sets him right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">170. This looks interesting but my eyes are skimming over the big long paragraphs. HELP ME ATTENTION SPAN MAN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">171. Wait, there is no Attention Span Man. Uh oh. D8 That should be C&H’s next character…ANYWAY BACK TO THIS COMIC. Oooh, a lesbian wedding! I’ve never been to one of those but it would be nice to attend one. T-Rex is being insensitive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">172. This is interesting in that it is a narrative comic only, and doesn’t really have a punchline. Also it seems to take place in a different setting! How sweet it is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">173. I have to admit I chuckled at Panel 2. And is it normal for people to leave on their honeymoon that fast? I’m pretty sure it isn’t…D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">174. I have a feeling that monogamy is a instinctual precedent in order to provide survival for any kids that might come out of it…not that our hormones know that. D8 You learn something new every day, anyway.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">175. Fashion advice seems to be made up of insults. LIME GREEN SHIRT AND ELECTRIC BLUE SHORTS? DUDE, I WOULD LOVE IF SOMEONE WORE THAT. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">176. Dinosnore? Is this a self-parody or just an attempt to write a deliberately bad comic? Either way, it works perfectly! The inappropriate bolding makes it even funnier, as does the up-front flat characterization. Utah’s only gimmick is his style of speech. That’s boring…and makes Dino Comics look a lot better by comparison! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">177. I was confused for a minute at the title. Did it mean things they’ve read on the Internet, or in webcomics? I think it’s the former, but I’m not sure. Either way, I’m surprised those are the ONLY things they found on the Internet! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meat salad? Do I even want to know what that means?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">178. Thanksgiving? Wait a minute *looks at date attached to comic* October 13? But it’s a full month until Thanksgivi – CANADA. RIGHT. Other than this thing about eating the big meal before Thanksgiving, it doesn’t seem too different. Gorge yourself!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">179. If I ever tried to tell that lie, I would never be able to pull it off, because people know me too well…but this comic makes me wish I could. ;__; No matter! However, the bigger lies I would not want to tell. I’d just leave people in suspense and hope they forgot. So, yeah, T-Rex is in big doodoo until the continuity resets… 8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I tried going to the URL at the bottom of the comic. It took me back to the index…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">180. This example is what us in the business like to call “silly” and “testing the limits of an idea.” There’s also an interesting twist at the end – hey, I really like this one! 8D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">181. So this is how Utah thinks of T-Rex, huh? Is this a dream or an imagining? Is it composed of the jealousy, rage, and sexual tension he might still have for T-Rex? Look at me analyzing a comic that is in fact one and a half panels long!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">182. <i>T-Rex: Today is a good day I think for increasing the integral count of my age!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Best. Introduction. Ever. And I loved Panel 3 – I love jokes with less obvious answers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">183. Hubris, eh? We just finished reading Sophocles in class (aww look how young I am), so this should be interesting…so I guess the point of hubris is that he says he’s the greatest and yet still forgets to turn the burner off? D8.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">184. How many times has T-Rex lost his house? IIRC, once before… and, T-Rex, if karma has decided to exist in your universe, just because you believe in it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! Kind of like tuna. And as for Panel 6, I can very much believe that, T-Rex. Wherever dinosaurs went to high school anyway.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">185. I had to laugh at the ridiculousness of Panel 2 – it sounds like something a <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LARGEHAM"><u>large ham</u></a> would say! And I think, T-Rex, that you won’t get many non-sarcastic cases if you ARE a building-sized green dinosaur. You often forget that don’t you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">186. It looks like, as you get older, you get somewhat less happening birthdays, but they’re still fun! Also, I’m going to give T-Rex a kick for forgetting his grandfather’s. *kick*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">187. Oooh, a Halloween comic! By coincidence it is almost Halloween in real life…I wonder if my commentary near that date should have a Halloween theme. Dressing up as concepts is neat in theory, but kind of silly in practice. Also, guys are lucky that they are not consigned to wearing something with “sexy” in front of the name.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">188. <i>T-Rex: But I don’t want to do something that’s been done before!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">T, that’s about as impossible as telling a story that’s never been told before. I’m giggling at Panels 5 and 6, because I can’t understand them at all but they’re still so very silly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">189. This is actually a neat idea the T-Rex has, even if it only works if you’re a master of disguise (like the Utahraptor, see panel 6) And would a Utahraptor be a race or a person in this case…whatever. Nice Utahraptor costume, dude!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">190. T-Rex, people do that all the time with disastrous results…and now that I know that, the rest of the comic is tl;dr!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, I just noticed that North had Halloween comics leading up to Halloween, but no Halloween comic on actual Halloween. Brilliant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">191. I have to agree about the bible – that book can mean absolutely anything! I love how things get very intense in Panel 5 and then get un-intense just in time for a punchline. And a language without double entendres is a sad language indeed. I think I really like English.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">192. Haha! I love how this is sort of anti-moral, but still works in pandering to human greed. Funny how something so simple can sound so profound when made boring as I do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">193. Hm, bullet points? Let’s take a look at how T-Rex says to meet new people. I like the thing about the scarf (especially a long Tom Baker-style one!) but not the scar. Attention to names also works. Do NOT tell stories about losing babies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">194. T-Rex seems very interested in this subject, despite not even being monogamous. And it is kind of hard to find a balanced viewpoint about polygamy. You can’t exactly have half a wife. Oh, wait, he was talking about EVERYTHING? O__O</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">195. Yes, it is true, T-Rex, that free-form poetry can pop into your head, but it still has to be appealing to the reader! It’s about the same as saying stock market reports are poetry. Panel 6 made me smile. Overreactions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">196. Nothing much to say about this one, except I wonder if this actually is a recipe and if it does taste good.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">197. T-Rex sure does like the word “sexy”! It is a fun word to say. Sexy sexy sexy. It’s very odd how T-Rex announces this to Dromi, and she doesn’t react…but I get the feeling Dromi only responds when she feels like she wants to get something. And yes, T-Rex, it’s probably you. That and rape laws.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">198. Now time for some origin stories told in Dinosaur form. I remember this from Batman Begins! Not so much the pearl necklace (I believe Batman Begins wasn’t out in 2003) but still, so sad… ;__; The upside of it all being that it led to the formation of Batman.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">199. TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY. And, for once, the house survives. Amazing. And really, that’s the silliest disguise ever. Though glasses really can change a man’s face. (For the better, I believe. Glasses are adorable.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">200. Green Lantern? All I know about him was that he was on Justice League. The cartoon, not any paper comics. (I don’t read paper comics…) So this is as good an origin story as any!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And look at that? WE’RE DONE~ I hope you enjoyed this look at the continued adventures of static dinosaurs. As you may have noticed as you were reading, Mr. North recently added a sharing bar for sharing any Dinosaur Comic that tickles your fancy on Facebook, StumbleUpon, et cetera. And once again, I shall highlight some nice merch. There is a new T-shirt that has shown up since the last review, of a cute <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-PIXELTIME&Category_Code=QW"><u>8-bit T-Rex, house and car</u></a>! And – holy crap I never noticed this – <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-TREX-ONESIE&Category_Code=QW"><u>A T-REX ONESIE</u></a>. Adorable amirite? And probably easily washable, too! There is also the infamous Time Traveler text, which comes on a <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET-PRINT&Category_Code=QW"><u>print</u></a> or a <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET&Category_Code=QW"><u>shirt</u></a>, and which I will admit I have never read in its entirety.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway, thank you so much for reading, and stay (…car)tooned for Friday when I return to stick figures killing each other! Bye, kids! </span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-4394844267396674732010-10-05T08:59:00.000-07:002010-11-01T03:32:20.295-07:00A Directory Post<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hi, welcome to the directory post! This is for organizational purposes as I build up an archive. This list contains every commentary I've written thus far, plus the next five I will write for...I dunno...suspense. Perhaps I will make fancy pictures for them soon. Anyway, thanks for reading, have fun, and don't die! 8D</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Cyanide and Happiness</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/09/cyanide-and-happiness-1-15-100-yawn.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 27, 2010 - #15-100</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/09/cyanide-and-happiness-2-100-200-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 1, 2010 - #100-200</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/cyanide-and-happiness-3-200-300-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 8, 2010 - #200-300</span></a><br />
<a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/cyanide-and-happiness-4-300-400-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 18, 2010 - #300-400</span></a><br />
<a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/cyanide-and-happiness-5-400-500-yawn.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7559052404814294610&postID=439484426739667473">October 29, 2010 - #400-500</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dinosaur Comics</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/09/dinosaur-comics-1-1-100-yawn.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 29, 2010 - #1-100</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/dinosaur-comics-2-100-200-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 6, 2010 - #100-200</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/dinosaur-comics-3-200-300-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 15, 2010 - #200-300</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
<a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/dinosaur-comics-4-300-400-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 27, 2010 - #300-400</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 12, 2010 - #400-500 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gunnerkrigg Court</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunnerkrigg-court-1-1-100-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 4, 2010 - #1-100</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunnerkrigg-court-2-100-200-seen-it.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://somethingwebcomicrelated.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunnerkrigg-court-2-100-200-seen-it.html">October 13, 2010 - #100-200</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 5, 2010 - #100-200 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 3, 2010 - #1-100<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><b>Guest Commentaries</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Planet Cool - Grim Tales From Down Below</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">None yet.</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-6161375133209461002010-10-04T01:00:00.000-07:002010-10-11T11:23:40.617-07:00Gunnerkrigg Court #1, 1-100 [SEEN IT]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So why am I typing this so soon after having eaten my keyboard? The answer is simple – because I <i>lied</i>. Duh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So Tangent128, lovely person he is, suggested Gunnerkrigg Court. Well, he didn’t suggest it, only mentioned it as something he wanted to suggest because he knew I was going to do it anyway. And I have to say, yes, yes I think I am going to be doing commentary on Gunnerkrigg Court. You know why? <b>I LOVE GUNNERKRIGG COURT. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’m extremely biased about this, I am aware, but I really cannot give this comic enough praise. I would articulate this praise but it would spoil almost the entire story, which I am NOT going to do, especially with this. I’ll just say that the art is brilliant, Tom Siddell (the lovely British author) is a master storyteller, and if you were one of those kids that devoured every fantasy novel in the kids’ book section at the library (such as yours truly), GC is a wonderful throwback to that genre (though by no means a comparison). And that’s all I’m telling you. READ THE COMIC. AND ALSO MY COMMENTS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You start here: <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1">http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1</a> . Follow the magic purple arrow and don’t ask questions until you reach the end.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Don't mind the line, I couldn't get rid of it.</span></div><div style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-style: none none solid; border-width: medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0in;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 1</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">The Shadow and the Robot</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">1. I’m going to start this by talking about something completely different. This comic’s opening line is,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: My name is Antimony Carver. I would like to share with you the strange events that took place while I attended school at Gunnerkrigg Court.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reading this again, the first thing I happened to think of was the official description of Cave Story, a non-webcomic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Cave Story is a jumping-and-shooting action game. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Explore the caves until you reach the ending. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">You can also save your game and continue from where you left off.</span></i></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Both of these descriptions can be summed up by an observation by one of Cave Story’s fans:</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">"</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This description is so humble that it borders on parody. Play now, laugh later."</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> So, um, yeah. For all my praise, the comic makes itself look pretty humble. Moving on, you many notice that Antimony looks very different than she does in that picture up there. Her head is football-shaped, her eyes are blocky, and her eyeshadow is kind of ridonculous. This is because of something we didn’t really get to see in C&H (stick figures) or DC (no art change): ART EVOLUTION~ A webcomic artist’s art quality usually drastically improves over the course of a comic – in most cases, this is because the artist actually learns to draw as he draws every day. Siddell can definitely draw, as we can see with his complex and detailed drawing of the Court on the next page, but he just needs to work his way into the style he uses to draw humans. I don’t know when this comic started (2005?), but he’s had lots of time to improve.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">2. Anyway, let’s get into Chapter 1! The first few chapters are short, but the later ones are longer. Anyway, yes, you see the pretty industrial building on page 2. Now, the weird thing about these early views of the Court is, there are NO OTHER STUDENTS around. Later the halls are crawling with them…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Second shadow. I don’t really like the way this is placed…it almost makes you think this is the central plot. Lol, Annie’s kind of super-short.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You may also notice that underneath the comics there is a commentary box. Tom often writes comments in this box. There are few in the earlier chapters, but later on, with some exceptions, there are Tomments for every page.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">3. Shadow 2 looks like a kitty. :3 Wait, what the hell is a “dark recess”? Is that when they let the goth kids out to play on the swings?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That teacher never appears again after the first chapter. I asked Tom about it on his formspring (which you are NOT allowed to read until you finish the comic) and he said, yeah, he’s just a throwaway. The whole chapter has a very disembodied feel, as if Annie really is the only person on the court, and even this guy just feels like a ghost.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love how the Court prints their signs in Times New Roman. I’m also amazed at how quickly the story is being told – Tom’s usual trend is slooowww.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">4. I’m sorry, Annie, but your hair is super awkward here. HOLY CRAP. I NEVER NOTICED THAT SPIDER BEFORE. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Sign: Solitary study means just that</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t know, sign, I don’t see you doing anything to enforce it! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">5. Even if Tom’s a little green on his people-drawing, you have to admit he knows his landscapes and perspectives! And you have to admit, the idea of a living shadow, with rules for its existence, is pretty clever. It’s only the first of Tom’s many clevernesses…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">When I first read this, I thought “Gillitie Wood” and “Annan Waters” were stupid names. I soon learned they were actual place names. I still don’t feel bad for thinking that. Huh, anyone think those lights might be here for a REASON? Also, if you think the Court is big, that’s barely a CORNER of it. C8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">6. ANNIE’s HEAD LOOKS LIKE A FOOTBALL IN PANEL 1. Regarding panel 4, GC’s security measures are freakish. You’ll see them later. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I must construct a robot walking device which will provide you with transit across the bridge!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WHAT THE FLIP? This is the line that tells you that this universe operates on a different level. Also, memorize her face. You’ll want to remember it in 750+ pages.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also want to make note, Annie’s eleven. <i>Does she act like any eleven-year-old you’ve ever met?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">7. Wait – I DIDN’T SEE SHADOW 2 PLAYING PADDLEBALL EITHER. OMG. LOL. Annie’s head is still the shape and size of a football. And she is now going to get SUPER DRAMATIC OVER ROBOT CONSTRUCTION. In panel 3, apparently “tin man” was once “homme d’air,” but Tom changed it because it was too pretentious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait. I LOVE GUNNERKRIGG COURT’S LOGIC. Or rather robot logic. Probably.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">8. OH MY GOD. Annie in panel 2 looks AWFUL. 2010 Tom would never allow this…especially with all the pretty detail of the robot parts in that same panel! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">SPARE 13. WOO. And all the loneliness makes me think – NO ONE SUPERVISES THESE CHILDREN? NOT EVEN OTHER CHILDREN? How terribly lazy. Even if initial efforts are rarely very polished, GC’s getting off to a very good start and has the seeds of genius. It’s not quite the story yet, but it’s a sort of summary of creative style.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The tips of Annie’s hair look like knives. I never really went to check – I wonder if she still has that blue clip.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">9. <i>Annie: Luckily, piecing the contraption together was relatively easy.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Though, from the look of it, not very easy to draw. “Clicka”…that’s a weird sound effect. The perspective in Panel 3 is kind of weird – I can only tell that’s Robot’s head because we saw it in Panel 2. Robot is adorable, by the way! Both in body and in personality. He’s so polite and caring!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Perhaps it’s because it’s early in the story, but he’s also probably the most articulate and sensible of the robots. I can’t really remember if that ever changed. You must admit he’s cute, though! I love his little wings. :3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, you may notice that Annie and Robot’s speech balloons are different colors. Great touch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">10. Wait a minute, I thought Annie’s shade was enough to sustain him…whatever, I won’t throw a fit. Wait, it’s cloudy in Panel 3! NOW I’LL THROW A FIT. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: What if you fall down?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot: Well, you never know unless you try!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh my god I love robot he’s so sweet. Football Annie in Panel 6 again. The walls of the Annan Waters are pretty grey and – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Evening classes?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">EVENING CLASSES</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">? WHO THE <i>HELL </i>MAKES BOARDING SCHOOL KIDS GO TO CLASS IN THE EVENINGS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">11. Annie’s head is now a slightly fatter football. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot: Do I have to come back?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot why would you ever ask that ;__; Panel 4 makes me think that no one bothers to care for the grass outside Court limits. (Wait a minute – why are the outer boundaries of the court, Annan Waters and such, so easily accessible to the school students? Shouldn’t there be more barriers? Unless wait no I’m not saying anything else)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">How was Shadow 2 transferred? I do not know. Why does Shadow 2 exist? I’m not going to tell you. And so this little glimpse of Gunnerkrigg life is closed. Almost.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot: Bye, Mommy!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Omgomg</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">12. <i>Robot: I’m good at walking. Such a nice evening!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I hate how these cute words are juxtaposed over such creepy backgrounds. Panel 3 is definitely beautiful, but it’s so dark and foreboding – good god, EVERYTHING in this first chapter is dark and foreboding! The tone lightens later on, though it gets no less creepy and isn’t afraid to take the occasional nosedive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t really have much to say about what’s going on, except that Annie looks very sad to have lost people to interact with. Because her school is ABANDONED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">13. That horrible bird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ThathorriblebirdthathorriblebirdTHAT. HORRIBLE. BIRD. Have you ever seen a more freakish hell-bird in your entire life? All that black stuff around its eyes, and the foreboding sound effects…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">14. These are also some pretty creepy woods…they look so much more lifeless than they do later. Perhaps they’re only dark because we know so little about them? Maybe…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Aww, look at all the glass-eyes! They’re so cute! I don’t think we see this many again…this whole plot with Robot and Shadow 2, indeed, is really in the background for the rest of the story, though it does show up very often. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention. Rereading this is super fun…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Robot: Hmm, I should look for a new arm!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And this is the part of the story where the hairs on my arms start to stand on end…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">15. Hey, it’s that guy agai- wait, it’s not! The guy from before had grey hair, and this guy has black hair! Well, whatever. This guy never shows up again, so it is not your place to care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s the end of Chapter 1. Gunnerkrigg’s back door has a very fancy keyhole. And still I wonder why there are so few security measures on the Court…let alone why the school opens right on the dividing line. But why it should be divided, I’ll let you figure out the same way the readers did.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">16. BONUS PAGE~ At the end of every Gunnerkrigg Court chapter there is a bonus page. Usually the way Tom spaces it out now, chapters end on a Monday, the bonus page is up on a Wednesday, and the next chapter’s cover is up on a Friday. I don’t know if he did this then, but whatever. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Moving on, the British house systems are fascinating! Silly American I am, I actually had no idea that all British schools had houses until I read this. (I thought Harry Potter invented the concept. Don’t kill me.) Good thing Tom explained it below. Otherwise I would have compared more of this story to Harry Potter, which I am not going to do. The houses are visited in more detail later. Hopefully. And the girl is Tea, an author avatar of Tom’s who does not appear in the story proper.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 2</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Schoolyard Myths</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">18. <i>Kids: Good morning, Mrs. Donlan.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wow, these Year 7ers are obedient! What’s “registration”? I have no idea. This lady is a science teacher. You’ll see more of her later. Lots more. Oddly enough we don’t see her teaching much again. I don’t think Annie’s facial expression has changed at all since the beginning of the comic. Mrs. Donlan’s half-face in Panel 5 is really creepy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Did Tom actually redraw Annie in those two panels at the bottom where she doesn’t move? I think he did! The kid, by the way, is William Winsbury. He looks AWFUL in the older art, but a lot better later – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Here he just looks like a weird ghostly lump. He’s also kind of an asshole.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">19. From what I remember, Anj- I mean, Mrs. Donlan’s “Hmm…” in Panel 1 is erased in the published version because it never led to anything. And Willie got told! OH SNAP~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Once again, Annie looks horrid in Panel 3. But I do know how she feels, missing opportunities to get to know people. But everything is going to be okay, because on the second half of the page we meet KATERINA~ Kat is…you thought I was actually going to tell you, didn’t you? Well, NAY! Her pose in Panel 6 is weird. But we love her because she actually gets Annie the social interaction I think she wanted! YAY! And, yes, this is why we call Antimony “Annie.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">20. Huh, well Panel 2 is weird to see now that we actually know Janet and John’s names. That creature in Panel 3 is horrible, though thankfully, again, we never see him again. This is a neat project they have to do, but one day to do it? ONE DAY? How can you expect kids to do anything worthwhile for that? Lol, Kat’s asleep. Also, it kinda saddens me how taciturn Annie is, or at least shows herself to be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">21. Blah blah blah indeed. Now that I know more about Annie I wonder if she thought of the Minotaur for a reason… and see, aren’t those drawings super cool?! And I love the little release of tension at the end- “Library, then? Indeed.” It’s very British. Also, if Kat confused you in Panel 4, she’s not Asian. She’s half-Roma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">22. This is the most<i> depressing </i>library I have ever seen in my life. Not even any novels? 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: Science is this school’s specialty.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why do I get a sudden foreboding feeling? Kat looks utterly uninterested in the older part of the library. I wonder why it does look so creepy…perhaps trying to keep the students away?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">23. This is the SCARIEST library I’ve ever seen in my life! I can’t even see any shelves! It looks super old. I can’t read that directory so don’t even ask. The later part of this page has the same ghostly feel as the first chapter. Also, where are those pictures sitting? Just on a table? Either way, they’re creepy. They kind of remind me of the story of the man walking in the sand with God…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">24. Those are the SCARIEST books I’ve ever seen in my life! And, OMG. I really have nothing more to say about this than that. Except that Football-Head Annie is still strangely taciturn…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">25. Annie and Kat are truly fearless – I would guess that both of them are used to exploring the unknown. Oooh, the labyrinth looks like a brain! And I never really knew that about the Cretan myth – that there was only one path to take to the Minotaur. But Tom’s the expert – if he said it, it’s more than likely true. Also, look at that neat Greek-pottery art! I’m seriously geeking out over that there. I love rereading this comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">26. HOLYCRAP PLOT EXPOSITION! Panel 4 is beautiful and also terrifying. This is the strangest family living situation I have ever encountered in my life – though I suppose Surma wanted her daughter with her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I wish I knew exactly why Surma was sick, though…and why she says so little about Anthony up there. By the way, those are their names, Surma and Anthony. Panel 5 is also gorgeous – probably the best picture of Annie yet. And it’s chilling that Kat cries and Annie does not…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">27. I suppose this is a new experience for Kat, a family so fragmented…and, yes, she’s Mrs. Donlan’s daughter. We see her father, Donald Donlan (yes, really) later. Also, I must add that at this point in the artwork Kat’s nose is really weird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is my second most favorite moment of the comic <b>EVER</b>. And also my favorite Tom commentary. Start watching that box, there’s going to be important things written in there from now on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">28. BASIL! He looks so scary in Panel 1…though it looks like all it takes to get past the shouty exterior and to a nice and normal fellow is a bit of kindness! If only Thesus had tried that…I love the comparison between their hands and envy Tom’s ability to draw hands. I also like his comfy little chair. It’s so cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The last panel is a good summary of their personalities. Annie’s fearless and taciturn, Kat is just…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">29. Hah, oh my god, LOOK AT EVERYONE’S FACES. THEY ARE PISSED OFF. (From the left: Janet, John, Winsbury, Paz. They’ll all have minor roles later in.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love how deadpan and elephant-in-the-living-room this is played. Now THIS I can safely say reminds me of Monty Python. Just the thought of Annie saying “dreaded Minotaur of Crete” gets me rolling. The kids at the bottom look like glass-eyes. And good question, Kat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">30. <i>Annie: The story of you and Thesus is quite well known. Can you tell us about that?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Basil: Oh, that, sheesh. </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now, THIS is my favorite moment in the comic, ever. It’s so sweet and unexpected and also awesome. It will ALWAYS cheer me up on a rainy day, and someday I want to show it to a mythological expert and see his reaction. I really have nothing more to say. Except, give Basil a hug, dammit!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">31. You have to admit Panel 1 Annie has a good point, despite her head is still a football. And also Panel 4 Annie. I kind of wonder if she scares her class a little. Bye, Basil! I hope we see you sometime again…because you haven’t shown up since this D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that was Chapter 2. The plot is unfolding, little by little…now on to the bonus page!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">32. These dorms are TERRIFYING. What if you have a bed on the upper levels and have to climb that horrible ladder? What if two people are on the ladder at the same time? What if you roll out of your bed and fall out? What if there’s a draft? Alsjdlajsdsa I hate them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, that’s Robot’s arm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 3</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Reynardine</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/033.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/033.png" width="275" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">33. The next chapter begins. Annie’s looking a little prettier. No, I’m not telling you what a Reynardine is. You’ll find out soon enough. The middle symbol is the alchemical symbol for antimony (which by the way is an element). This chapter’s a little longer than the other two.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">34. For the Americans in the audience, I believe a “Games Lesson” is kind of like gym class. And we’re treated to a scene of Winsbury being an asshole. Winsbury is super pale.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Winsbury looks weirder than usual in Panel 6. Also, Annie’s head looks even more like a handegg in a ponytail! (I just realized that because the comic is British I really should be calling it a “handegg”, not a “football.”) And WOO, SHE KICKED HIS ASS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">35. And it looks like shit is about to go down in those three panels…until we are saved by the VERY VAGUE FACED AND MUSCULAR GAMES TEACHER! Now this is ONE guy who won’t just be disappearing…not-so-spoiler for you there. :3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie’s ponytail is really thin in Panel 5. And AW YISS, Winsbury got his ass kicked AGAIN. Also his mouth covers the entire width of his face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">36. And now Mr. Eglamore is no longer vague-faced! Wow, I remember being pretty impressed with this guy’s old English-sounding name. I wouldn’t want to cross ANYONE who had a name like that and looked like that. (And trust me, you don’t.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Eglamore kind of reminds me of Samurai Jack in these next three panels, if only for his facial expressions. And it looks like Eglamore isn’t the moral paragon he’s designated to be by his job. (May I mention that he’s also the most fit gym teacher I’ve ever seen in any fictional story, ever, by a LONG shot?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And if you can’t see the blushes on Kat’s face, there are blushes on Kat’s face! Oho, what could THIS mean? Wow Eggy has skinny legs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">37. CREEPY DORMS. CREEPY. DORMS. I think Annie’s supposed to be playing with her necklace in Panel 3 but it doesn’t come across super well. LOL @ Kat swooning over Eglamore in Panel 4. I wish I could tell you what her shirt meant, but alas I cannot. The scene with the necklace is gorgeous, by the way – I wish I had a hokey necklace like that! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">38. VOOP VOOP. What an awful way to be told to go to bed. (Also, keep an eye on that wolf toy.) Panel 2 must’ve driven the shippers mad. (I should mention that there are very few romantic subplots among the main characters. So people can’t comprehend it, and they ship Annie and Kat instead.) CREEPY LADDER. CREEPY LADDER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OH SHIT ALL MY NIGHTMARES ARE COMING TRUE OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">39. The giant WHEEOOO should be scary but it does look kind of silly. How did Mrs. Donlan get there so fast? She lives in her own house, I know that much… also, those two girls you don’t recognize? They’re in Queslett South so you never see them again. Hah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ANNIE’S TRAPPED IN THE CREEPY DORMS OH NO YOU GUYS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">40. Annie cannot possibly comprehend how LUCKY she is that she is not dead. Panel 2 looks like something of an artistic improvement. (Again, watch the wolf toy.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And again, Annie continues her habit of risking CERTAIN DEATH in order to investigate. She is truly fearless, that she is. Either that, or her wolf toy is giving her confidence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">41. PANEL-FILLING THING. HOWLING. AND IN PAIN. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I must mention, Panel 2 Annie is probably the prettiest picture of her thus far. This whole page is beautiful. Also, those buildings in the background? They’re probably ALL part of the Court.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">42. <i>Reynardine: Surma? Is that you? Oh, how many years it has been…</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In case you didn’t remember from my spoiler, Surma is Antimony’s mother. All of the scenes of Annie’s hair blowing in the wind are beautiful, because they’re artistically unique. And, REYNARDINE. It’s so weird seeing him be so polite! But, REYNARDINE. Omgomg. The plot is moving the plot is moving~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">43. What IS that thing stuck through Reynardine’s leg? It looks like a lamppost or a power pole. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine: If you leave, that man on yonder will take me away. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you don’t recognize this guy I’m going to have to slap you. Annie, you’d get a slap if you didn’t have that bruise on your forehead. Also, see if you can puzzle out what Reynardine’s saying in the last panel about dragon slayers. One of the best things about Gunnerkrigg Court is the word puzzles…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">46. OH, NOT YOU TOO. WHAT IS WITH THIS NUMBER-SKIPPING FETISH COMICS HAVE. Anyway, Annie’s being pretty calm in the face of adversity, and also pretty trusting. This Reynardine guy could, you know, be dangerous…! Though what his exact motives are are yet to be seen and puzzled out…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wolf toy, watch the wolf toy. And that blood, that blood is CHILLING. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">45. Wait, Reynardine, why would Annie’s presence at the Court automatically mean that Surma was dead? Aw, look at him, he’s crying…so he must’ve had some Surma sympathies. Whoever or whatever he is…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oooh, a Rogat Orjak’s eyes can glow? Or is that just Reynardine? And if you don’t recognize the Dragon Slayer in the last panel, you REALLY need a good slapping. It’s amazing what a false impression of the eventual plot this one page gives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">47. TO THE INFIRMARY. I’d ask where the doctor/nurse is, but I’d imagine she’s off doing stuff. And Annie still has a one-track will and mind. And it is kind of sad how simple the art is now, because it gets much prettier later. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This seems unusually cliché for GC, characters assuming someone is hallucinating because they got hit on the head. But I guess at this point we don’t know enough about Annie to know why she would just go after Reynardine. But yay for Kat for being so sweet to Annie! She already knows she needs her; Annie needs some time to figure it out. (Oh, come on, not like that.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">48. I’m finding myself wondering why she has such an emotional attachment to Reynardine suddenly. Probably because he name-dropped her mother, and she’s trying to go closer to what’s familiar and safe – that is to say, her mummy. All the bubbly bubbles are kind of tacky. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, yeah. Here Annie goes to save the day! (Watch the wolf toy.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">49. <i>Annie: Judging by the state Reynardine was in, I deduced that his prison was somewhere on school grounds.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I asked Tom something about what this line addresses on his formspring, and he said that Gunnerkrigg Court isn’t so much a school with a lot of secrets as it is a lot of secrets with a school. (Heavily paraphrased, I don’t quite remember what he said.) But then again, Annie probably doesn’t know that yet…I suppose the entire story wasn’t developed at this point, but again, DOESN’T GC HAVE BETTER SECURITY THAN THIS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also – WHAT. ANNIE KEEPS HER LOCKPICKING TOOLS IN HER TOY?! The secret as to why she carries him around with her all the time, revealed!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Tic toc. Tic toc WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE BIRDS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">50. Woo, halfway through! The restricted areas have the ghostly feel again, as Annie explains below. Here we get a taste of the Court’s rather odd sense of humor – this sign is just the tip of the iceberg.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So now we join Annie as she heads to the – wait.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: As the train sped silently along the tracks,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If it’s being “silent”, why is it making a SHOOO sound? AND WHY DID NO ONE IN THE ROBOTICS DEPARTMENT DETECT THE TRAIN BEING USED? Leaving that aside, I love the last panel to bits because it instills a sense of wonder – that is to say, what is the rest of the Court like?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">51. Fsss. I LOVE the eye-crossed-out motifs. As those those in and of themselves are supposed to keep out intruders. Actually, I love the whole feel of emptiness in the scene. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">AND THERE’S REYNARDINE AGAIN. He looks to have a different shackle on his arm this time, and the power pole is gone from his leg. Perhaps it was a power pole, then? I have to wonder just why Reynardine got out… I don’t like that evil-looking thing on the ceiling, either…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">52. <i>Eglamore: Let’s not have a repeat of last night, eh?</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Antimony: Mister Eglamore!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Okay, I’ve said his name twice. You better know who he is by now. Also, I just looked back at the first page and realized that even here, Annie is looking better – her head is still a football, but her lips aren’t as…lippy. So, TIME FOR A PLOT TWIST. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Eglamore looks a lot hunkier in Panel 4 than he does in other panels. But SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED. Who’s the bad guy? What’s the court doing with giant…whoozits? What? What?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">53. And now we’re back here with Annie and Reynardine…AND SHIT HITS THE FAN. OH NO. OHH NOO. Wait, why did Reynardine want to kill Antimony that badly THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU FREAK OUT. Also, last panel is gorgeous.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">55. Really, I thought we were done with number jumping! Wait, what, what is this? Reynardine is not what he appears to be! In fact, he looks…VAGULEY FOX-LIKE. And he’s going for the eyes…what an awesome sequence…AND EGLAMORE SAVES THE DAY. ALL CONFUSION ABOUT ALLIANCES IS RESOLVED SEMI-INSTANTLY. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">54. Notice how Reynardine instantly grows far less polite…AND THAT HE GOES FOR THE EYES. This transformation sequence is SUPER AWESOME. Those metal things? They’re the lockpicks, I suppose. I did tell you to watch the wolf toy. Also, make note that neither Annie nor Eglamore saw any of this…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">56. <i>Eglamore: I knew you’d be trouble from the moment I saw you.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This line is both adorable and terrifying; you’ll find out why later. Already, within twenty pages, Eglamore looks far better drawn than he did in his first appearance. Panel 2 looks super awkward, with Eglamore looking all well-done and Annie looking so simple. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Sivo’s story is super sad…and Reynardine really does seem terrifying right now, with that horrid description of him. Especially the last panel…you can feel the hurt in Eglamore’s lines, that he’s lost just another friend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">57. He hands her the toy. HE HANDS HER THE TOY. (Again, watch the toy.) Sivo’s dead eyes in Panel 4 are likely the creepiest thing I have seen thus far. And in case you’re wondering why Eglamore isn’t freaking her out or trying to get her memory erased or something crazy like that, it’s a facet of this universe – that she should be used to stuff like this. Or…other reasons that will become clear in another 40 pages. The translation for the Slovenian can be found in Tom’s comments.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">58. This is a super-fast page. First we’ve got Eglamore being like DON TELL NOBODY and then Kat being like ANNIE NORMAL LIFE BECKONS TO YE. Also, is it just me, or do Kat’s eyes look a little more detailed than usual?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">They do! Yay art development! And, poor thing. It’s kind of sad that she is so easily resigned to death.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, that was the end of chapter 3. It was the most plotular chapter yet; I loved it. It is however still just a taste of what’s to come…FLAMING WOLF TOY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t know if we’ve seen the little antimony symbol yet, but it means the chapter’s over.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">59. And now for a fake examination of Rogat Orjaks! I don’t know if Tom made these up or if they’re obscure Scandinavian creatures, but you have to admit this page kicks ass. And I had to giggle at this –</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Originally procured by E. Gould. Later lost in a poker match in Kursk.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Looks like Mr. Gould was a gambler as well as a sketcher! I love the academic feel here…and also HAH at the dragons. And wow, nice bicep!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 4</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Not Very Scary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">60. This is a short, filler-y chapter, but no less well done (if unrefined at this point) than the rest. Enjoy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">61. What the hell? Why is Annie tending to a Bonsai tree? She NEVER does this again. EVER. Well, it’s funny all the same. Also, I realized the reason I liked Annie’s art better in Chapter 3 is because she didn’t have her insane amounts of eyeshadow on! She looks better when she lightens up on it in Year 8. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Panel 4 is chilling not because there should be a door there, but because of the Latin beginnings of “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.” Also, that “woooo” is the most non-threatening thing ever.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">62. MORT!!! I LOVE MORT! He hasn’t been in the comic proper much lately so I broke out in a huge grin when I saw him. Kids, meet Mort, the absolute cutest ghost in all the world. Huh, look at his big glow. I don’t quite remember him glowing so much later…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And aww, Mort, don’t look so disenheartened! It takes a LOT to scare Annie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">63. Ack, I know Mort is trying very hard, but it’s very hard to take him seriously when he looks like he does in any panel he’s ever been in. I have a feeling this chapter is a sort of deconstruction of any old mythical creature, including the “bedsheet phantasm.” Then again, with all Annie’s seen, this is small potatoes for her, so she COULD give him some help with his believability believably.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That aside, I LOVE Mort’s flowers in that last panel! Goof!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">64. Annie’s statement in Panel 1 is something B-movie fans will fight forever. And Mort’s face in Panel 2 is hilarious. Panel 4 has some interesting things in the background…and those bottom two panels must’ve been really easy to draw. Hm, let’s see about this…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">65. Ah, what a lighthearted comic. Recognize Paz? This is Paz. I’m kind of super jealous of her perfect hair. She speaks Spanish. Her faces look a lot like what faces look like later in the comic, which is weird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">If you couldn’t figure it out, she’s saying, “Oh! Where is the door? Huh? A balloon!” Roughly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">66. Now, it isn’t just Paz. THIS CIRCUS IS REALLY CREEPY. Paz doesn’t seem as composed as Annie (though no one can achieve that), though I guess she’s still seen enough not to just run off at the sight of a circus where a circus should not be. But really…aack.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Again, the Spanish – “What? Hello? Oh…how horrible.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">67. Those three “clicks” are the creepiest moment in the entire comic. Hands down. Wait, no. That SAW is the creepiest thing in the entire comic. If I’m going to have my eyes hacked out by a weird plastic clown I’d like it to be a clean saw. Tom translates the Spanish below. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">68. Now, I will admit, that was scary, but why the deuce were they picking on Paz? Sure, she doesn’t play any real role for another 20 chapters but STILL. I suppose it was for the sake of a good mini-story. Which, by the way, is now over. Wasn’t that quick?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Mort: And how did you know that girl didn’t like clowns?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: No one likes clowns.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Indeed, kids. Indeed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">69. Bonus comic – and oooh, it’s Janet! Let’s see if Mort can scare her…nope, nope, and…NOPE! HAHA. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Janet’s lines here always make me laugh like mad, and not only because it terrifies Mort (who seems attached to Annie~!). According to Tom she lapses into Shakespearian English whenever she gets pissed off. Not only that, but apparently these lines are from <i>Timon of Athens</i>, a Shakesperian play I know I hadn’t heard of before this comic. She also falls victim to Muppet-mouth disease in the last panel. Also, because it hasn’t really come to much of anything plot-major yet, she happens to be the Headmaster’s daughter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Though not quite as mean/insane as Sissi here. (I'm pretty impressed with myself - I made it through 3.5 reviews without dropping any hint of CL!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 5</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Two Strange Girls</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">70. A new chapter begins. More fun is to occur. For the record, the two strange girls are not Annie and Kat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">71. Another teacher we never see again! There certainly are a lot of these. At least he’s not as ugly as the Mythology guy. This is also the first time we really get to see Kat’s geekiness – she invents an antigrav unit and thinks NOTHING of it, wanting more than anything to show everyone her protein whatevers. AN ANTIGRAV UNIT. I love how the teacher freaks out…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Teacher: A thermos? And…coat hangers?!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I ALSO LOVE THIS GUY’S SCIENCE TIE. GUY, YOU WIN ALL OF THE THINGS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">72. Annie had no idea about Kat’s abilities? Well, she’s about to get schooled quite heavily. Annie’s looking better artistically, I noticed – her head is no longer very handegg-like. I can’t help but wonder what her contest entry was in Panel 3 – it looks pretty scary. Though Kat doesn’t seem that disturbed…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><3 Kat’s technobabble! And also not knowing what half that stuff is. Also like to note that, even with early artistic flops, Tom draws eleven-to-twelve-year-old girls a lot better than most animes, by virtue of the fact that he does not give them all C-cups.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">73. I don’t like that floppy-hair thing Kat’s got goin’ in Panel 1 – it looks uberawk. The library does not look so dreary anymore. But it is about to get several times freakier. (I think the Greek says “Silence, please”)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">These are two strange girls. One is a very rude girl, and one is a very quiet girl. Kat looks a little better in that last panel, holding IMPORTANT STUFF LIKE SCIENCE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">74. And Zimmy shows off her lovely personality already! For the record, Kat doesn’t seem to have a big nose…anyway, insults and attitude are exchanged, all on Miss Zimmy No-Eyes’ part! Chester House is mentioned for the first time. The other houses are perhaps odder than they appear…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t know Polish off the top of my head, but according to the Gunnerkrigg Wiki, Gamma says “Stupid…” and Annie says “That’s not very nice.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I lied about before; this strip is where Tomments begin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">75. The top two panels are pretty confusing to me but I’m not going to tell you why. AND IT IS ON. OH SNAP. I must say this is a bit of a twist on the old high school science fair plot…(and it’s about to get twistier)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Goodness, however does Annie know all these languages? We shall soon know…just not right now. And Kat does not have a big nose, just a funny-looking one. But I love Annie’s line. It’s so…Antimony Carver.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">76. PROTEN IS GREAT! ALL ABOUT PROTIEN! ZERO GRAVITY! Maybe I should take back what I said about Kat not being a strange girl. And it’s Eggers and Anja! Eglamore is in a suit! It becomes him quite nicely. It’s very odd to see Mrs. Donlan with her hair up because we hardly ever see her like that after this. And ooooh, Kat’s blushing!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And good, they finally use Anja’s name so I don’t feel weird using it anymore. Annie seems to be sad, I do not know why…and that girl in the last panel is weeeiirding me out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">77. This page is also hilarious…and it looks as though Gamma is a little friendlier with people she can actually communicate with. (In case you haven’t figured out, she can’t speak English…and she’s a bit dominated by Zimmy.) Again, it looks like Tom redid the art for those two identical panels…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: This is…an abomination.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">BAHAHA!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">78. So the twist begins as projects are destroyed. I wonder what houses these two kids are from – they look perfectly normal to me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat appears to be in CREEPY DORM bunk 5, which is a lot more decorated than Annie’s. And I still think Kat is pissed off by the big-nose comment. Annie is being the logical one in the situation, wanting to understand them rather than immediately fear them. Also THAT MOTION DETECTOR HAS CAT EARS. AOSJFLASF.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Speaking of animals, have you been watching the wolf toy lately?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">79. THE MOTION DETECTOR MEOWS? WHY DID I NEVER NOTICE ANY OF THIS BEFORE. And I’m amazed that Annie and Kat are able to find their way around this place without getting lost…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oooh, look at all the alchemical symbols on those banners. One of them looks like the Anarchy symbol. AND THERE ARE ZIMMY AND GAMMA. OH SNAP, VILLAINY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">80. And now things get weird. Zimmy and Gamma reveal themselves not to be evil, but simply not to care about anyone else. I find myself wondering why Gamma always wears black lipstick. And…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You don’t have to watch the wolf toy anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Oh, because the site mirror actually has dates for these as i discovered, <span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY 2006, EVERYONE!</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">81. EXPOSITION TIME. This is more what Reynardine’s personality will be like for most of the story. And, yes, ANY body with eyes. Even a potato, apparently. Haha, Kat’s confused. And I suppose Zimmy and Gamma don’t care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: You tried to KILL me!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine: Oh, don’t be so melodramatic, child! I can do nothing to harm you now.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You’re still brushing off that you tried to KILL her, Rey. And OOH, looks like someone’s about to get told!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">82. The first panel is in no way endorsed by Apple or iPod. I like the idea of “old magical laws” as they are in place here, like natural laws of ownership or obedience. They’re all funky and mystical. Rey, too, is funky and mystical. Clearly. Another thing I like seeing is faerie logic like this, untouched by human morality and politesse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Gypsy, that’s a bit insensitive. For Zimmy, though…yeah, that makes perfect sense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">83. Zimmy, too, doesn’t run on that sort of morality, doesn’t care about politeness, just wants to be left alone. And so, the two strange girls are off. Without so much as a glimmer more of personality from Gamma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat’s hair is weird in Panel 5. And ALSJLAJDLS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The idea of petting a big scary demon is wonderous to me. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">84. And the story’s loose ends are tied up. It’s worth note that the chapters are self-contained stories, but all add up to a connected whole. So, let’s see. Kat wins the science fair, no surprise because she BULT AN ANTIGRAV UNIT. Zimmy’s entry gets carted off by HAZMATs (heehee) and Gamma and Zimmy remain mysterious. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine is, of course, another major character. And he’s being obstinate, so he won’t tell Annie want she wants to hear. But Annie has him told. And the chapter is over until more situations arise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">85. Bonus page! Remember all the extra characters? Well, here all their issues are summed up in one extra page. That is John, and that is Margo. They do not appear to like it when Winsbury (whose eye-shadows are getting lighter, it would appear) and Janet fight, which they appear to do often…EXCEPT NOT REALLY. LOOOL.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">There are two things I’d like to note here. One of them is the joke with their names – “<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch100.htm">Willie O’ Winsbury</a>” is the name of a Scottish folk ballad about a young lad in a relationship with a lady named Janet, kept something of a secret because she is the daughter of the king (though, since the Janet in the song gets knocked up, things go downhill pretty fast...) Janet’s father is the headmaster. Your mind, blown. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The second is <a href="http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=286">this thread</a>. Apparently, when a forum member taught English in Thailand, he used Gunnerkrigg Court as a teaching tool, and even though this was just one comic, the students became fixated on it and wanted them to stop kissing because it was very gross. HOW CUTE IS THAT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(Psst, here’s <a href="http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=612">another thread</a> about this.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 6</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">A Handful of Dirt</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">86. A short chapter, but a sweet one nonetheless. Trees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">87. I think this is the first time a chapter has directly segued into another! Woo! Reynardine continues to be a mystery. And Kat continues to act like, well, a lovestruck little girl about Eggers! All the little hearts she’s got around her are hilarious. I love Kat at this point. She’s so sweet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: He’s a friend of my mum and dad, but they never mentioned anything like that. I guess they don’t know.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Katerina Donlan, you naïve, naïve little girl.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">88. <i>Annie: I’m not sure. I don’t know what to make of any of this.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And Annie continues to be her reserved self…I love comics like this, that can be silly on the surface and then suddenly pull very well-developed characters out of their nether regions. So, really, her unwillingness to probe sorta mirrors the restrainedness of the school’s weirdness so far…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait a minute what is Kat doing OH MY GOD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">89. SUPER PRETTY. OMG. CHERRIES. OMG. GIRLS GOOFING AROUND. OMG.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: Shouldn’t these be washed before you eat them?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, Annie. Who cares if it tastes like cherries?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">AND YAY FOR TAKING ANNIE OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE! That’s hardly the most dangerous thing you’ll ever do, Miss Carver. Or even the most dangerous thing you’ve ever DONE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">90. There’s not much to say about this page, except to enjoy the art and enjoy the ride. Really, it’s a breather. Also, Kat’s and Annie’s heads are huge on their bodies right now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">91. And now it’s been a few hours! Every reference I’ve ever seen says that these cherries had some sort of depressant (alcohol, for example) or hallucinogen in them, and Annie and Kat do act very oddly, but the first time I read it I just thought it was them having fun. I guess I was wrong.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now that I know that it feels like it would feel if you were fifteen and managed to break into your parents’ liquor cabinet and completely ruined your tolerance forever in a balls-trippin’ night with your best friend. Complete with laughter about things that aren’t funny! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">92. Annie’s hair looks very pretty in Panel 3…even if it doesn’t look like her clip is clipping anything anymore. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">IT’S BOB, BOB THE GARDENER. Did anyone ever watch the Muzzy vids as a kid? I’m not sure if this was what he was named after (probably not, considering his wife we see later is named Marcia and not Sylvia), but I laughed. (On that note, who ignored the tape that was in the other language and just kept watching the English one over and over? I DID)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Kat: We’ve been rumbled!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Why do I love that line so much? LOL, they’re totally not taking this guy seriously at all…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">93. Now, in these first six panels, it’s easier for me to believe she’s under some sort of influence. These are the shiniest tears I’ve ever seen…*heartstrings tugged*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Awkward Bob is awkward…why don’t you comfort them, dammit! But I guess Annie actually having fun with someone rather than “swotting around” reminded her too much of the only friend she’d ever had previously… 8<</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">94. As sad as I am to see Annie cry, it’s beautiful to see her opening up, finally… “I tried not to cry…” 8[ And all the supportiveness…<3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And now we go from supportive people to complete stonehearts. Such as Annie’s father, see.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">95. I should mention this, because it’s not a spoiler – we don’t know ANYTHING about Annie’s father beyond his profession and his elusiveness. It’s very odd, too…as open and joyful as she is about her closeness with her mother, her father is usually dismissed in one or two sentences. It’s almost sadder than her mother’s death… (BATMAN)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The way Kat is talking at the bottom, it’s as though she can’t COMPREHEND that a father would ever leave his child, perfect parents that she has. AND ANNIE, DON’T BLAME YOURSELF. IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">96. And now I smile again, because Kat’s going to be there to help Annie through anything! And vice versa! Yay! They need to wash their blouses. Also, some people apparently thought they were kissing in Panel 5. They are not kissing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It may be jarring how the mood is lightened at the end of the page, but I can say that’s pretty normal for female delving sessions. You don’t know how to follow up on soul-crushing revelations, so you just take a stab in the dark. And the chapter is over. It wasn’t a breather really at all. I lied to you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">97. Bonus page! In case you’ve been wondering what Rey’s been doing all this time. Kat’s a bit of a geek. The dolls are Hellboy, Mulder from X-Files, and Batman. You should know this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is probably the first indication that Reynardine is not the evil scary thing he pretends to be. So I close the chapter on this note:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Reynardine: I agree, Professor Oswald, the hyacinths have been fairly lethargic this year…OH LORD STRIKE ME DOWN</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I love this comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Chapter 7</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Of New And Old</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">98. Horrible bird. I, too, thank you for reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">99. Something’s looking rather familiar, isn’t it? Even with the extent of Tom’s powers in Chapter 1, the front door of the Court is looking rather fancier, isn’t it? I love all the towers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">There is a shadow on the stair. Only…one shadow. THAT HORRIBLE BIRD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Annie: I shouldn’t be here…</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">My my, whatever could be happening…!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">100. This is also happening! Just a note, “jumper” means “sweater” in British English. EGLAMORE. SHIT JUST GOT REAL. LOVE THE DETAIL ON HIS FACE. AND THEY’RE ON THE BRIDGE. THE BRIDGE. WHY IS ANNIE ON THE BRIDGE. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Wait.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ROBOT. ROBOT WHY ARE YOU ALL BEAT UP. AND WHY IS THERE BROWN WHERE YOUR ARM SHOULD BE. WHY IS THAT BIRD WATCHING YOU.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’LL SAY. Well, what’s going to happen next? How did we get here? Why did Robot come back? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I would tell you, but it just so happens to be strip 100.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">>.></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">*deep breath*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">CLIFFFFF HANGER</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">HANGING FROM A CLIIIIFFFF</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">AND THAT’S WHY HE’S CALLED CLIFFF HANGERR!!!</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Sorry, I just had to do that. This is such a perfect place to stop…I couldn’t have planned it better myself. Of course, you could just keep reading without me, but what’s the fun in that? The answer is, IT’S LOADS OF FUN. So keep reading, because it only gets better from here. And don’t worry, this will be continued in good time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now, how can you pay back Tom for being so awesome and using so much ink and paint and words? He lives in Britain, so if you are not British he is rather hard to stalk, so instead you must GIVE HIM MONEY. There is a <a href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/support.html">donation page</a> if you just want to give him money without any compensation (and where you used to be able to pay for custom sketches). There is also MERCH, however. Tom doesn’t have much in the way of merch, but what he does have is lovely. There are prints of the <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-TREATISE-3-PRINT&Category_Code=GK">three</a> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-TREATISE-2-PRINT&Category_Code=GK">“Treatise”</a> <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-TREATISE-1-PRINT&Category_Code=GK">drawings</a> (such as you saw up there), a <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-JEANNE-PRINT&Category_Code=GK">print</a> with characters that have not shown up in my reviews yet, and two shirts – one with the <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-COURTSYMBOL&Category_Code=GK">Gunnerkrigg Court logo</a>, and one with <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GK-CITYFACE&Category_Code=GK">City Face</a>, another character who is yet to show himself. There will also soon be a REYNARDINE PLUSHIE for sale and I will be on that like you have no idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">There are also two book collections out that are not for sale on that site – <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gunnerkrigg-Court-Vol-1-Orientation/dp/1932386343/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286062789&sr=8-1">Orientation</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gunnerkrigg-Court-Vol-2-Research/dp/1932386777/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286062789&sr=8-2">Research</a>. They are, however, on sale at booksellers in nice hardbacks. They are fairly expensive, but very definitely worth it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Also, another thing about webcomic sites. Many of them receive revenue from advertising (such as Tom’s PW ads) so if you use an ad blocker such as I do, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">TURN IT OFF</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> or you’re robbing these guys of their hard-earned moneys. The only comic I would say not to do this with is Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordan Frohman, because whenever I view that site without an adblock my computer crashes. (Still a fantastic comic though)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway, on Wednesday I’m going to continue Dinosaur Comics. So get ready for the action, suspense, and drama! Except not really much action. 8P</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-63453365566158001542010-09-30T23:59:00.000-07:002010-10-01T06:21:14.300-07:00Cyanide and Happiness #2, 100-200 [SEEN IT]<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> Hi! Wasn’t Dinosaur Comics awesome? It was awesome and also very different. Well, C&H is awesome and very different too, so now we’re going to go back and ramble aboot some more strips done in early to mid 2005. Hopefully there will be more strips in this review, once the numbering sorts itself out. Because I do know it sorts itself out eventually. There are over 2,000 strips after all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now, I say this starts with strip 100 just to make the numbers neat and clean. Strip 100, you might remember, was in the last commentary, as was strip 101, which came before strip 100. So, of course, this strip starts at strip 68! Duuuuuhhh. So, go to <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/68/">http://www.explosm.net/comics/68/</a> and follow the magic “next” button!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">68. I think I would like this just because it subverts the format, though I think I’ve heard that joke before 8D; Being in a gag a day comic is a bit of a futile existence…and now I’m wondering if everyone in the same color shirt is the same person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">69. I’m very surprised they didn’t make a 69 joke. Durrr. More self referential humor? Probably! I don’t want anything sucking out my brain. That sounds quite painful. We are still after strip 100, but below the number 100.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">70. I think the joke is that Orange and Blue are mind-bogglingly stupid. (No offense, Syracuse fans! I love you Ben!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> 102. A NUMBER ABOVE 100? I THINK C&H IS BROKEN. Anyway, this line is kind of familiar…but clowns weren’t actually in it. Is it in some movie I’ve never seen? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">71. Wait a minute WHY DOES THIS GUY HATE BOYS? I like boys. Competition? Or just a punchline?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">72. Note how I did not note that the numbers are skipping around again. Also, I don’t get it. I think I’d be okay with being made of pixels, once I got over the whole immaterial existence thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">73. I don’t get it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">103. This is not the last time Jesus makes an appearance in the comic. And if I recall, Jesus, you are the one who is standing still!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">74. The green guy is also known as “Mr. Gullible.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">75. It’s a non-joke. Why am I still laughing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">76. Wait, what? What the hell? Either I don’t know the joke or this is a complete non-sequitor…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">77. Moral of this story, kids, is never throw your money around. Invest it instead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">78. Now, I’m a tried-and-true self-deprecator, and I will tell you from personal experience,<i> it never garners you any sympathy</i>. Keep your chin up, stay in school, and be confident that there are people who love you!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">79. MIMES CAN MIND CONTROL PEOPLE? WHAT? THAT’S AWESOME. 8D Would it be…<i>mimed control</i> then?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">80. I can bet that window-washer was a CEO back in his home cou- BEFORE THE ECONOMY WENT BAD. I’m sorry. ;_;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">81. x3 It’s a pun! I love puns!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">82. I would hang out with Green. He’d keep me entertained with his imagination and zest for life. I’m kidding.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">105. My my is this ever unfunny. 8/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">83. It depends on what that was a shot of. The degree of awful it will bring, I mean. Askfhalkhsfs I hate needles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">84. I…I have no words. None at all. O__O</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">85. I really don’t understand what’s going on here. The track seems to have switched mid-comic. A lot of the early comics are like this, but many can pull them off if they have enough charm. I mean, I usually really like Kris’s.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">107. So the joke is supposed to be that no one likes Carrot Top? That’s not really creative…at all. (Also Carrot Top is terrifying.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">86. So the joke is that “yo dawg” is punishable by death? But what about all the dogs that want a greeting? 8<</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">109. I don’t know why I’m laughing at this. I really don’t. Green is a jerk. xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">110. Just when I thought we were safe, too…I really don’t like the squeezeman comics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">88. I like this one even though it is terrible. Why? Because it is CREATIVE. Creativity is awesome. Unless you’re a drug dealer. In which case STOP SELLING DRUGS. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">89. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">111. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">112. *giggle* *snrt*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">96. *cringe*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyone notice that we’re skipping around numbers like mad? That, and less than a THIRD of this review has been for strips with numbers that are actually over 100?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">113. My mother says that reality shows are really a modern form of the Victorian circus. Teal is a freak for being the host. Whoever drove the car is also a freak.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">97. One of the strangest and most amazing things about C&H is that it can very suddenly tug at your heartstrings, even outside of Depressing Comic Week (which I hate by the way). Like, here. This guy can’t become who he wants to be! I want to give him a hug and also call him and tell him things he disapproves of in his field! If anything, these strips are doing their job – they elicit an emotion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">98. Uh…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">114. Okay, I know this is awful, but I think I would like to have a doctor that joked around like this! You know what I wouldn’t like to have? Herpes! Herpes are not funny!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">99. BACK TO 99. Mr. Blue growing horns without realizing that he has. I wonder if Blue and Green are the same people in each strip, because they do seem to show up very often. Poor thing, you think he’d use his hands instead of his eyes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">104. AHEAD TO 104. My god, where was it hiding all this time?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">115. I did say I hated this punchline. Which is why I’m making a SNRT noise instead of a LOL noise now. o3o</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">116. THIS COMIC, IT RUNS ON WHAT THE HELLISM.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">106. I get the joke but somehow I’m not laughing. I feel really bad that I’m reviewing comics that I haven’t read because I feel like if I hadn’t read them, or if they were more story-like comics such as that I can tell a story about, I’d have a little more vibrance in here…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">119. HEY, UH, I THINK THE ANSWER MIGHT BE YES</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">123. I can tell this comic is really early because NOTHING tells us this man is homeless! He might have some 5 o’clock shadow but that’s it! And even then with the JPEG fragmentation I can’t tell! Oh how the mighty have risen, Kris! And to be fair food costs a bit less than a house.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">117. xDD! This was on a T-shirt, wasn’t it? Though I seem to recall that the man being followed wasn’t happy about it. Here he seems to be okay…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">118. You know what the awful thing here is? I actually clicked that just to see if it led somewhere. And I’m a <b>girl</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">120. Now THIS is the kind of ending I wanted out of #62! Go on, Lighter Blue Than His Shithead Boss! SUE THAT MAN INTO THE GROUUUNNNNND.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">131. I would say that this reminds me of Monty Python a little but that would garner me so much hateful backlash that oh look I still said it anyway!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OMG.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">HOLD THE PRESSSES, STRIP #51. Cyanide and Happiness has <b>FART JOKES</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">121. AND THE EPONYMUS STRIP ARRIVES. Remember, kids, cyanide does not make you happy. Unless it is served by stick figures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">134. And the numbers continue to skip around in the daisies they are pushing up because they are so old. I give this a chuckle because ah, confusing directions. C:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">141. This fills me with lots of righteous anger. I kind of want to punch Blue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">133. MOMMY I DON’T WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS STRIP. Thus begins one of C&H’s guest weeks. Their guest weeks are often not very funny. Such as here, this one by Switch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">134. This guest strip, by Rzk, would be a lot funnier if the art was a little more active.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">135. This guest strip is by DarkSied. This is the only time ANYONE notices the boys are bald! I wonder if the inside-out guy has hair on the inside.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">136. The art is pretty not very good at all but this is actually pretty funny! This is by a guest named Doodly9.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">137. Wait a minute, I’m pretty sure this was done earlier or later in the strip. Definitely later. This strip was done by a guest named Relaps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">138. 8[. One should not be dropping babies on the floor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">139. This guest comic is…well, I guess it is kind of funny! Gingivitis is likely hella painful. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> 122. And this is why Satan has no siblings! LOL. My sister is younger than me, but she always takes the front seat from me…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">140. I’m getting kind of tired of mentioning this skipping-around thing early C&H is doing. Super Friends is a pretty cheesy name, I have to admit…but maybe it wasn’t so much so in the 60s. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">124. OMG THIS STRIP IS ADORABLE. I love it to pieces. If I ever see a bald guy wearing an ice cream cone on his head I will gladly give him a hug. (If I ever saw Kris Wilson, I’d give him a hug, too. Look how cute he is)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">142. THE NUMBERS SWITCHED. NEAT. And I had to giggle at the simple-mindedness of this strip. Also, that guy needs a date. Rob’s art is tightening up a little, though they still need to get rid of the JPEG fragmentation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">148. HAH, I loved that scene. And everyone knows knives are cooler looking than guns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">151. This is another one of those strips that’s unexpectedly heartwarming! These guys may clearly be dumb as bricks, but they’re very happy with what they’ve found. Very few people are actually happy, especially in C&H. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">143. Oho, <i>clever. </i>Sometimes I wonder just how painful pepper spray actually is. I hope I never have to find out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">157. I can only think of one webcomic with pirates as recurring characters, and that webcomic is The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. That webcomic is indeed awesome. PERHAPS THERE IS A CORRELATION??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">158. I can only think of one webcomic with S&M as a recurring theme, and that webcomic is Collar 6. That webcomic is indeed strange. PERHAPS THERE IS A CORRELATION??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">144. I can think of several webcomics with zombies as recurring characters! Hanna is Not a Boy's Name, Megatokyo...wait, actually, that's it. LOOK AT ALL THE COMICS I NAME-DROPPED~ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">152. I'm trying so hard not to laugh at the word "spool", but that actually is the first time I've ever seen that word on the internet. Spool...spool...spool...!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">150. I wonder how many comics exactly we've had over the number 150 so far. I don't have access to my main document at the time I'm typing this, so I can't count. This comic makes no bleedin' sense though it does inject some originality into the grabbing of mammaries as punch lines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">145. Dude, I want a squiggly line installed in my reality!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">154. REVERSAL~ I know nothing about gambling so this comic means nothing or little to nothing to me. Sorry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">146. Wait, what? There's some piece of information here I'm missing...ALSO HATS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">156. Eeeeeeewwwwwww.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">147. This comic isn't funny at all. It's just creepy. Sorry C&H, we've got a string of misses on our hands...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">155. I guess this one would be funnier if I could actually see what Yellow was doing...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">159. Wait, HAHA. WHY AM I REMINDED OF TECH SUPPORT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">160. Wait, did we just have two numbers that came after each other? What is this devilry? Either way, I guess this is okay just for how sad it is…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">161. Could we be on a regular schedule at last? That said, I don’t like this one. ‘Tis grotesque and I really don’t like ANY of the ones that are violent to kids. 8[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">162. Looks like it’s another HILARIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">164. <i>>If I had a terminal disease, you’d laugh.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…I thought it was funny, Not-Terminal-Disease-Having Green!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">168. Social commentary. I really HOPE this wasn’t supposed to be funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">165. I have a feeling that one day I’m going to get a sternly worded letter about how I’m not supposed to criticize whether C&H is funny or not. Whatever. Some are hits, some are misses. QED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">167. This is probably actually what will happen if you go anywhere near radioactivity. That is to say, CANCER!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">171. *giggle* I love this one. It’s whimsical. And it has SUPERHEROES. I kind of missed the superheroes, they haven’t been in this in a while!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">166. Oh my god…this would be the worst reaction ever to get, ever. I want to give Yellowish a hug! *hugs Yellowish*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">169. I think I’ve seen this joke in Reader’s Digest or something…but it’s still funny! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">C: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Cue Dave coming after me with a knife for what I just said…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">172. …>_></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">170. I’m going to distract myself from this by saying that Red has a very funny-shaped head…and is also very mean to Yellowish D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">173. Sometimes this is cute. In this case, I don’t really think so. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">174. To be fair, this joke has never been used in C&H before! THEREFORE, IT IS NEW.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">176. I have a confession to make. I LOVE PURPOSELY BAD JOKES. Or jokes that thrive on puns like this. Therefore I will not rest until Light Blue is brought to justice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">177. I guess this is clever in some roundabout way but I never really laugh when I read it…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">178. But this one did for some reason. How’s this for a B-movie title : ”WHEN KNOCK KNOCK JOKES FAIL.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">179. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">180. Is this supposed to be a pun…?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">181. I think Light Blue just got told. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">182. I think there’s a reason knock-knock jokes are jokes…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">183. I did giggle at this because it’s a good variation on the old “be quiet or they’ll all want one” joke. xD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">184. I’m not sure whether to laugh, cry, or scream. So I shall do all three.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">On the INTERNET.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">185. Woo! Kris’s art is improving, and has also gotten larger! I love his sneaky joke-telling, it sort of chills you from the inside rather than slapping a cold ham in your face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Really. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I liked his comics <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=97558&id=96452604801#%21/photo.php?pid=2193544&id=96452604801&ref=fbx_album">long before I knew he was cute</a>! Honest! D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">186. See? I’m laughing because it’s clever. Even if it is horrible. Also, as of now, we have had TEN strips properly in order! YAAAY</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">188. And then it had to go and skip #187. Good job, kids. And I think Naked also got told. His exposure was not as decent as he thought it was. And they say men don’t have body issues. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">187. Omg I love the twist at the end here. It’s gore juice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">195. Rob’s joke telling is also sneaky, but his is the slap-in-the-face sort. And this isn’t so much a joke as it is a slap at the expected…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">190. And the numbers were doing so well. 8/</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> SUPERHEROES!!!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> Seizure man has seizures. And I smile for no rational reason.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">197. Why don’t you have a seat over there, Rob? X[</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">191. This strip is like a freakish haiku – it’s a juxtaposition of things that should never, ever go together.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">194. I don’t get it…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">196. Well, you see, we would expect a masturbation joke. We would not expect it to be pronounced immature by any means. Rob, always one to slap the ham in the face. No double entendre intended.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">199. If strip #200 comes next I’m going to eat my keyboard. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">200. Well, that was strips 100-200, and most of what should have been in 15-100, of Cyanide and Happiness! It continues to be a head trip through what is not commonplace, and hopefully still will be. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I would have given you all a squee-filled look at my favorite webcomic of all time next Monday, but it would appear that I have to eat my keyboard now. Before I do, I would again like to plug the C&H app and books, as the regular merch still isn’t back up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Bye and thank you, all three of my watchers! <3 </span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-11959919513068992092010-09-29T04:20:00.000-07:002010-09-30T08:24:26.649-07:00Dinosaur Comics #1, 1-100 [SEEN IT]<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I just realized that I mentioned Piperka in the last C&H review, and then neglected to mention what in fact Piperka is! Piperka is a webcomic bookmarking and tracking service, which tracks updates for webcomics and delivers them right to a neat little page. It’s how I’m keeping track of the comics I want to review. <a href="http://piperka.net/">http://piperka.net/</a> is the address and you are to go and give it lots of love right now.</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But this is not a review of Piperka. It is a REVIEW OF DINOSAUR COMICS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You may have heard of Dinosaur Comics as “that one comic that’s the same every time,” and you are quite correct, it is! It’s written and assembled by a guy named Ryan North, who I must mention is not only Canadian, but also kind of a genius. In addiction to the vast wealth of random trivia he displays in the comic, he created Oh No Robot, a webcomic search service, and Project Wonderful, an advertisement service used by, IIRC, Questionable Content and Gunnerkrigg Court among others. If Tycho and Gabe are the Zeus and Hades of webcomics, Ryan North is probably either Athena or Hephaestus. (More webcomic authors as Greek gods coming soon!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Mr. North created the art for this comic from a clip-art collection back in 2003, and has not changed it since. That means all of the strip’s variance comes from the writing – which, thankfully, is brilliant, because if a badly-written strip had done this first Dinosaur Comics would have balked at its format. That comes with its downsides, though. A little of this strip, like, maybe five pages a day, is SUPER AWESOME and will ten times out of ten make you smarter. But, as it is with text-heavy comics without much (or, in DC’s case, any) variation in the art or action, a little bit goes a LONG way. You should take breaks every ten comics or so in order to avoid skimming over well-written paragraphs in fits of sheer tl;dr.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It’s somewhat gag-a-day, but also linear when it so desires to be. Things do seem to happen one right after the other. Unlike Cyanide and Happiness, it has recurring characters who we will be introduced to right after you click this link: <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1">http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1</a> . Again, follow the magic “next” button! <3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">1. Now THIS comic has a first comic! In it we are introduced to our characters, our situations, and our stances. The green dinosaur is named T-Rex. He is in all of the panels. The third panel contains a house and a car. They do not usually talk. It also contains Dromiceiomimus, a small white dinosaur that is a woman. I had to go to the Wikipedia page to try and spell that, and I’m not going to do it again, so I’m going to call her Dromi. That’s a nice name for a girl dinosaur. The fourth panel contains a small human woman who also does not talk. The fourth and fifth panels also contain Utahraptor, a utahraptor. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is the most general of all of the comics, I think, because the only question asked is whether stomping is worthwhile. I don’t think this question will ever be answered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">2. It is surprising here that T-Rex is aware of all his stomping as he usually ignores it in favor of treatises on existence later. We do, however, see that T-Rex has an odd personality and a very rich inner fantasy life. Also that Dromi is a little shy at the moment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">3. I often wonder at the kind of literature T-Rex reads before he goes through his daily stomping and talking routine. Probably Wikipedia! Most of these early strips are philosophy-centric. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">4. LESBIANS. That word is super funny and I do not know why. I guess dating someone you already live with would be kind of bad because you already have a roommate relationship and another relationship ruins the first relationship. I have a friend who told me once not to date my friends. Love is weird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">5. It kind of disturbs me that ANYONE might have a love affair that they FORGOT. Sad thing is, it’s probably a distinct possibility for someone. See the thoughts these strips are provoking? Not only this, but an insight as to the unusual relationship T-Rex and Utahraptor have. I think North did say Utahraptor is gay. (And as for the green thing, THE TRICK IS TO LOOK AT THEIR EYEBROWS. THE EYEBROWS NEVER LIE.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">6. Um, T-Rex, that’s Dromi. You’re breaking up with the wrong light-colored dinosaur! Unless he also dated Dromi. It’s like Friends – they’ve all dated each other. I’ve never seen Friends by the way. This little arc isn’t so much a building of character as it is an examination of all people. I have to say I love that bit of Emily Dickinson at the end. And it’s very true. Because one little sigh or weep is just an avalanche on a tall mountain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">7. A TREATISE ON VITAMIN B12. Whenever the comic wants to tell us about something IT TELLS US ABOUT SOMETHING. I have to think there are times of the day when Ryan can’t think of anything to write so he goes to Wikipedia and hits “random page” and goes from there. Mr. North can totally confirm or deny this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">8. In summary, life is weird. And no human is incorruptible, let me remind you. I wonder if Utahraptor only always shows up to stop him. I wonder if he ever listens. After only eight strips, I’m already on overload and running out of steam, so I think I’ll do this concurrently with the next C&H. I wonder if you can already find a pattern with my updating schedule!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">9. I think the funny thing here is that the joke isn’t funny. And it’s self aware. I love how the same punctuation can be used and it’s still cool.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">10. I love how these early comics are acting like they AREN’T caught in this sequence. I find myself actually laughing at “Utaught me how to be a stupid jerk” because that is actually kind of super clever. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">11. Holy crap, I never noticed just how out of scale the car was before! I’m sorry this commentary is not very active, but this is of course not very active humor. Dinosaur Comics would make a good coffee table book for actual reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">12. Wha-wha-wait a minute. ARE THOSE PICTURES? OF BEACH BALLS? IN MY UNCHANGING COMIC? MR. NORTH, YOU’RE BREAKING YOUR OWN RULES. 8P Also, I think Utahraptor is feeling particularly passive-aggressive today. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">13. Of COURSE dinosaurs have souls. In fact, we are reincarnated dinosaurs. I’m pretty sure there is a reincarnated T-rex somewhere. And it’s nice to see T-rex is enjoying the only existence he’ll ever have!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">14.<i> >All these personal revelations have left me baffled, disoriented.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You have no idea what you’re getting into, T-rex dearie. I think I like Utah’s perspective on nihilism, that we have to find our own meaning in life if existence really is meaningless. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">15. Teeheeheeheehee…I AM GIGGLING. You know why? Because I can’t make shit sense of this and yet the repetition and confusion is making me laugh. (Cornwall is a county of Great Britain, forming a southern peninsula.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">16. HOLY HELL, THE WOMAN TALKED. I think the fact that they’re reading this much into a movie about stomping dinosaurs is hilarious and also self-referential. Maybe the book was a little more deep about the whole thing. I’ve never read or seen them so I’m not really qualified to judge…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">17. I don’t know why T-Rex thinks he’s more in control just be being AWARE of what he’s already doing. Or maybe it’s in bullying Utah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">18. You know what I just realized? Gag-a-days are really hard to review, especially something like Dino Comics, because it’s hard to just keep analyzing what they’re saying. But I will PERSERVERE. I’m not giving up. Ooh, double negative in panel 3! Naughty naughty!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">19. Something tells me that very early in here the stomppity loop was more aware and variations were few. Or something. DRAMA OCCURS FOR THE SAKE OF A PUNCHLINE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">20. Indeed was it used for the sake of a punchline – two weeks just to get a plot point out of the way? Sounds like a writer’s device to me. I think this comic is part of the reason I say “sexy exciting” in regular conversation. That, and it’s making fun of the fact we don’t know what happened over the last two weeks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">21. Wut? I do not understand what dinosaurs have to do with Deloreans. Probably just a format experiment.</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">22. T-Rex begins a lot of things with “today is a good day I think” and then always expects people to follow what he says…stupid git. And…um…yeah that WAS pretty awkward.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">23. T-Rex has received complaints that he confuses people. Wait, who’s complaining? Is he aware of the audience? Probably, unless he really does just shout out random topics to Dromi and Utah. I love how this comic is making fun of you for not being smart enough to think of it before you did. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">24. What? I don’t like how these random strips interrupt my effort to shake things up a little by trying to make this narrative linear!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">25. Uh oh…now I have the words “Bill Cosby” and “ass” associated with each other in my brain! NOOOOO okay I’ve recovered. And you know, those random neurons ARE STILL PART OF YOUR BRAIN.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">26. I think this comic is a good summary of the rest. I wonder why they never found evidence of the car. The girl I can understand, but the car…!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">27. This is…uh, sad, and kind of thought provoking. Have you been treating your friends based on their usefulness lately? How awful are person are you on the inside? Dinosaur Comics will tell you! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">28. WOAH. THERE IS A NEW CHARACTER NAMED ED. MAYBE ED LIVES IN THE HOUSE. ED IS DOOMED TO DIE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. SORRY ED. The “fin” at the end makes me wonder just how much T, Dromi, and Utah rememeber about previous adventures. Likely not much at all. I wonder if they ever make commentary about that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">29. Now usually, Dinosaur Comics is a very relaxed read. It’s not rollingly funny, it’s more clever. It’s not addictive so much as it is social and measured, kind of like any particularly formidable wine. Some people like this, some people do not, at best I appreciate it. But this, this is a bit jump around and go crazy like! It’s a good change, and these punches keep the comic alive when they come at the right spots! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">>Before you can say anything, a giant meteor strikes the earth! The impact wipes out 65% of all life on the planet, including your own.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">LOL. Would this have happened if one had become friends with Utah? DOES UTAH CONTROL THE UNIVERSE?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">30. Self referential humor, if spaced out properly, never gets old. Not only if it is referencing the comic, but also the entire sphere of your existence. But I have to say…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">>You chat for a while. You tell him of your day; he tells you about his.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Is the moral of this story that friends are poisonous to your exciting existence??? Laaame.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">31. Dude, <b>I</b> want a band to follow me around and play music! Even if it would probably just be playing a flat A the whole time, I do not care! I wonder if Utah can be anything but contradictory. A- wait a minute. *looks at sheet music* Raptor slept with who now?!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">32. *beep* sideways?! Wait a minute, how much older is this comic than Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series?!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">That aside, stupid Dromi and her stupid keys! I wanted to be loved dammit!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">33. Don’t mind my saying, but ALL of these interpretations are sexist! Certain attitudes are assigned to genders by society but deviations most often exist! Some are only pretending to fit in! Also, I didn’t know dinosaurs could live 22 years. Thanks for telling me, Utahraptor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">34. And now comes they only time in the comic where the art changes in any major way. Yes, I told you it does not change. As you can see, I LIED. Then again, it’s early in the comic, so it’s normal for the comic to break its own rules. Also, I like the parallel universes theory. It means that, somewhere out there, Code Lyoko exists. 8P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">35. OMG. OMG. EVERYONE. HAS. GOATEES. LOOK AT THAT SEXY FACIAL HAIR. LOOK AT. IT. HAHA ohmygod. Goatees. T-Rex does not appear to be acting any different anyway. Except that the house is now Dromi’s? Who also has a goatee? I WANT A GOATEE. FOR MAYBE FIVE MINUTES. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">About the only thing I don’t like about DC’s characters is that they never really develop. T-Rex is always obnoxious, Utah is always the voice of reason, and Dromi is always malleable. They never change. Just like the art. Even in alternate universes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">36. Universe of the Lesbians? What is it with the male obsession with lesbians? (About the same as the female obsession with gay men is what it is.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But wait, I’m kind of excited for the plot now. Why is not-Utah pretending to be Utah? Does he have SECRET PLANS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">37. HE DOES HAVE SECRET PLANS. Maybe this is how the dinosaurs went extinct… and there really hasn’t been TOO much philosophical discussion in the comic yet. There are only so many modes of philosophy, you can’t really make that a gimmick to span 1,800 strips…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">38. I THINK I know the difference now! While T steps on houses as a manner of existence, Evil T actively ENJOYS it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">39. Also Evil T makes super awesome puns! It’s – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">>I can’t wait till he finds out I replaced his toothpaste with a COMPETING BRAND OF TOOTHPASTE.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">PffffHAHAHAHAHA. Ohmygodwhatwasthat. And now everything makes even more sense –these guys have a routine too, but actively maintain and love it. That’s the only thing that makes them “evil.” Discussion of these implications to come in the next comic, duuh!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">40. They must be different individuals, because the same individual cannot make a different decision with the same influences. And universe-travellers beware – your food is MINE. Well, thus ends one of Dinosaur Comics’s few story arcs. I enjoyed it. I hope I get to read a story-style comic soon, gag-a-days are hard to comment on D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">41. Wait, this is super sad, because they didn’t even have relations yet. They don’t even love each other! Why would T and Utah randomly decide to put on this dismal play? It’s weird. I don’t think time exists in the DC loop. Which would explain the modern appliances as playthings of the dinosaurs, true…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">42. TEXT BASED VIDEO GAMES. I hate these things so much because you basically have to GUESS at your controls. It’s kind of annoying. And LOL THE PLAYER HAS TROUBLE SPELLING DROMICEIOMIMUS TOO. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">>I don’t know how to “god damn.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Indeed, you are a video game. Oh, wait, the GIRL is the player? Ohmigad. Hm, and she uninstalled the game. Maybe this is why she doesn’t talk anymore…?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">43. This comic tells me that if I do not like math I should skip it. I am okay with math, but I do not understand this comic, so I shall skip it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">44. I despise April Fool’s Day. I don’t like being fooled. T-Rex is a meanie butt because he fooled Utahraptor in such a stupid and vapid way. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">45. THOUGHT BUBBLES? These present a dilemma all their own! Has T-Rex broken the cycle or is he still trapped? Is there homoeroticism in the desire to play beachball? Is it way too much fun to overthink this? ABSOLUTELY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">46. I really don’t have anything to say about this. It’s a repeat. North you lazy bum.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">47. There are sometimes double strips like this, in which the top contains one topic and the bottom another. In this case, sororities and babies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">> She ended up married, I think.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Did she have to buy her HUSBAND, too? …with BEER? Also, YAY BABIES. I wish I had a niece or a nephew. Except that I’m the oldest in my family so I’ll probably be a mother before I’m an aunt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">48. CUTE? Of course his arms are cute, they’re entirely useless! I can’t really relate to this comic because I am not old enough to be a successful parent, though I am biologically able to have children and would like to do so in 10 or so years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">49. It is true that T-Rexes are not cute. But a baby T-Rex would be ADORABLE. And I am not afraid of either eventually, stomping or mauling, because <i>the dinosaurs are long dead. </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">50. WOO HALFWAY DONE~ Also, T-Rex has got it all wrong. Pets make YOU cuter. This is why girls profess to like guys who like cats. That and because they usually already have a cat that will claim their lap area as a beddy bye place. I want a cat…all I have is an exceptionally lazy dog.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">51. UTAH? I HAD NO IDEA THAT WAS A PLACE. And I think he should name his dog “CarthagoDelenda.” Truly it is the greatest name in existence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">53. NO NO HOW CAN THE DOG BE FORGOTTEN THIS FAST D8 And I don’t think this problem has EVER been solved, dears. Try again later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">54. This…is quite literally the funniest thing I have read thus far in the comic. It parodies 18<sup>th</sup>-19<sup>th</sup> century literature PERFECTLY. I would know because I’m reading a 19<sup>th</sup> century copy of Arabian Nights right now and boy is it biased.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">55. Are you ever troubled by thoughts of your own mortality? I am on occasion. T-Rex, however, will live forever, or at least as long as Qwantz’s servers are up. Or even longer, if people save or print these comics! I like dinosaur bones a lot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">56. Oh, GOOD, the dog ran away! T-Rex, you are an amusing jerk. Why are jerks so amusing? They should not be. 8/ Hooray for Utahraptor for putting him in his place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">57. “Wigged out” sounds vaguely inappropriate. I can’t think of anything else to say but that T-Rex is the id, Utah is the superego, and Dromi is the ego. Probably not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">58. More phrases on this list: “You always look so cute when you sleep.” This is because it implies that you watch this person sleep on more than one occasion. Or, “Hey, Mom, look at this neat blog I made about webcomics instead of doing my Government project!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">59. LOOK AT THIS COMIC. IT TOTALLY MEANS AMERICA. Am I right? Especially because the author is Canadian.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">60. …eeeeewwwww.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">61. Most comics do not censor their use of the F-word. Or rather don’t use it in the first plac- Captain Cussy Pants?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">CAPTAIN CUSSY PANTS?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">62. Ending one, look at Wikipedia like you always do! Ending two, LAAAME. Ending three, what. Ending four, huh, why? Did Roddenberry die of a B12 deficiency or something? D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">63. Practicing depression? That’s not funny, that’s just weird…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">64. I don’t think un-repressed protagonists are that uncommon in period works – despite culture, people will always be people. That said, I’ve never seen Titanic. I have however read this comic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">65. I always think that egoism is predominant except in cases where love intervenes. But of course that’s hard to define.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">66. I hate when it feels like you’re going to sneeze and then you don’t.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">67. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">DINOSAURS DON’T WEAR CLOTHES. I also think T-Rex has Wikipedia stored within his head.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">68. *giggle* Ohhhh poor T-Rex. Somehow with all the awful things he does I never manage to lose sympathy for him, if only because his actions are mostly reset at the beginning of each comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">69. LOL, SEXUAL POSITION. I have to say, that title and premise as presented in the first two panels would be really super neat if it were written by the most talented author in the world, ie not T-Rex. Because the puns…they’re just bad. It would be a cult favorite among the computer literate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">70. SO. MANY. LANGUAGES. I recognize Esperanto and Chinese. And that’s it. I wonder if there’s a translation of this somewhere.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">71. I was going to analyze the influence of past events on a person’s personality but T-Rex’s punchline sort of dissolved my motivation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">72. When I read that second panel, I seriously thought it said “erection.” Sorry. And I do not support this comic because that is the modus operandi of passive aggressive bullies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">73. ANOTHER CHANGE OF ARTWORK. This it would seem is…an origin story? Perhaps for the time loop? I AM CONFUZZLED. I wonder if there’s anything in our world that works like his squashing of the girl…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">74. I think this is what astrophysicists think about. Not literature-track high school seniors. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">75. I just noticed that the font of this comic tried to create the roman numeral “III” with ] | [. That’s absolutely adorable and I love it. Also, apparently starting with #74, these comics are guest comics by Patrick Wisking! I love guest comics, especially here because they always provide a change in pace and artwork. I am still confuzzled sort of. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">76. DINO GOGGLES? Well, I didn’t notice when I read these before that the panels were switched about… And LOL Paradox. I love paradoxes. And this is a funny one. With lots of twirling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">77. And now I suppose this flight of fancy is over! I LOL’d at Utahjerktor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">78. And now another guest comic from Victor North! How dare T-Rex think he is Lord of the Internet! Clearly <b>I</b> am lord of the internet. So I should go redraw T-Rex in my image.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">79. I can tell this is a guest comic because the F-word is not censored! Not that the crosshatching wasn’t a tip-off either. Also, I am giggling and I cannot quite articulate why!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">80. Wha - *giggle* what the hell? Is that actually a song? And is this in fact the eighties again?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">81. Dromi is even more of a flat character than she is usually…so sad. I think this is a good way for the people of today to understand the story of Adam and Eve. Except no…actually…not really. But it’s funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">82. This still appears to be guest comics, but unlike other guest comics Magaly Obas has done them in the actual style of the strip! I think the examination of whether or not stomping on other things is good or not is something T-Rex avoids on purpose…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">83. None of T-Rex’s jokes are funny, but I figure that’s the point! Raptorutah’s hat is very fuzzy! This as you can tell is also a guest comic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">84. ….83</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OHHMYGOODAOSHFLSAFJSFGHLJASFAS. SO. CUTE. This is an adorable guest comic! I LIKE YOUR PUNS, T-REX. THEY ARE CLEVER AND MORE WONDERFUL THAN YOUR JOKES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">85. I, uh, I can’t read this. It has something to do with mates I believe?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">86. I only wish that being a webcomic artist would bring you that much fame and fortune. But that’s just for people like Tycho and Gabe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">87. THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">88. Ooooh, I like this one crosshatch guest comic. As of this comic there have been about 14 guest comics. I also do not understand this one, perhaps because I have never seen The Wedding Singer. Comics must be accessible to all, girls!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">90. Wait, there’s no Comic 89? I thought we were done with this. So now we return to regular Dinosaur Comics…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">WITH A PLOT TWIST. OH MY GOD. I laughed more than I should have at T-Rex’s impression of Utah, because THAT ACTUALLY DOES LOOK LIKE HIM. I wonder where T-Rex will ever find another dinosaur. Perhaps in another panel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">91. The cute thing is, that story actually does sound quite heartwarming. You know why? BECAUSE IT’S AN ARCHETYPE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">92. I don’t think misunderstandings are very hilarious, especially if you PLAN them…though I must say I run into the latter pretty often.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">93. The moral of this story is, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">94. I think this comic is more what 90% of the people who have not seen Jurassic Park think Jurassic Park is about, including myself. Also I should not be making up statistics. I’m four weeks into AP Stat, dammit!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">95. Did you know that horoscopes are completely made up by people who have no other way to get the money while they don’t work on their novel? It’s true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">96. …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">97. This isn’t so much a lesson in humility as it is a lesson in boastfulness. Everyone knows that you have to put yourself down in order to be humble! (That’s not true.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">98. I don’t think public displays of affection are gross…yes, they do want to make me sit somewhere else and cry or eat away my loneliness, but still…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">99. Okay, this made me laugh even harder than that 18<sup>th</sup> century one! “Dish”? I think this boy’s about as squeaky clean as they come! I also like how it’s taken for granted that if someone’s dating a girl, they will marry them. I mean, that would be a sweet relationship, but it just doesn’t happen every day…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">100. I wish all of my hopes and dreams could be achieved as easily as T-Rex does them! Though clearly T-Rex no longer has money, so I have more hopes and dreams than he does despite being broke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s 100 Dinosaur Comics! One person I showed this blog to said that the entries should be shorter. I say, BOLLOCKS. Long entries are nice. And in short enough bites they will hopefully not be tl;dr!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Though you have to admit those deer are adorable! I want to get that cross-stitch pattern now kind of. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">OH RIGHT, MERCH. Dinosaur Comics has a lovely amount of merchandise, so I’ll just highlight the best. There’s a <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-MEATBOOK&Category_Code=QW">2003-2005 compilation of the comics</a>, with a picture of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">MEAT</a> on the cover! And a <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-TREX-SQUISH&Category_Code=QW">GIANT HUGGABLE FAT PLUSHIE OF T-REX</a>. There are also many shirts. Two of them are labeled “<a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-WHALE&Category_Code=QW">A Wizard Has Turned You Into A Whale</a>” and “<a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-MEAT&Category_Code=QW">I’m Made of Meat</a>.” They are available in larger sizes than other shirts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ANYWAY. Friday I will be going back to Cyanide and Happiness and its own special education brand of humor, so stay cartooned! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’m not gonna make that a catchphrase, honest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You gotta believe me, guys…</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-34476275620701984952010-09-26T05:52:00.000-07:002010-09-30T08:24:17.128-07:00Cyanide and Happiness #1, 15-100 [SEEN IT]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z244/MaikiNeko/Reviews/reyestabber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So, why 15? Because for some reason Cyanide and Happiness does not have a strip 1, or a strip 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14, for that matter. I don’t know what happened to them or if they ever existed, but I’ll live with it. The discrepancies mean there are far fewer strips to review! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I’m not starting with Cyanide and Happiness because it’s a particular favorite of mine, or because of its notoriety (seriously if you have never met anyone who has either loved or been offended by this comic you clearly live in the real world), but only because it was the comic with the largest archive I subscribed to on Piperka. For those who don’t know, C&H is probably the most popular feature of a site called Explosm, run by four guys named Matt, Dave, Kris, and Rob, who each do stick-figure-y comics in their own distinctive style. There’s a graphic that shows all the styles next to names but I can’t find it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I wonder if I should just stop here and be done with the description. No, that would be too mean. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">To, uh, put it nicely, C&H creates its humor by making fun of shock value. It creates shock, it makes fun of your own shock, then when you’re nice and vulnerable it goes around and shocks you again. Other media may deal with material considered morally shocking as a fact of life; C&H treats it more like an exploitation film. Whether or not it’s effective – and you do get dulled to it after a while – depends on your own sensitivity. You’ll be offended by some things, twitch at others, and laugh at still more. I may not be liked for liking it, and I won’t say it’s the best thing out there, but it’s a creative experience all the same. And I am okay with explaining all this, because it’s a gag-a-day strip and there are no spoilers. With more linear stories I will be more discreet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/">http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/</a> is where we’re starting. Follow the magic “next” button!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">15. And it’s Kris! This first strip looks nothing like what Kris does nowadays (it is 2005 after all) – it resembles Dave a tad more. And right away you see the shock value. If you will direct your attention to the second word, you will see that it is “crotch.” If you are easily offended, this is your cue to run away and scream. I can’t really get this one because I refuse to wrap my mind around why someone’s crotch would be anything like applesauce. MOVING ON.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">39. WE HAVE SKIPPED NUMBERS AGAIN. When C&H isn’t shocking you, it also seems to put out a series of non-jokes that still manage to be kinda funny. They’re so nonsensical and against logic that you don’t know why you’re laughing. This is one of them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">40. When I see a comic making fun of two people who are horribly disabled, and this is not the last, I like to think of a quote I think that great master of self control, Jhonen Vasquez, said – "<i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">EVERYTHING is funny. So long as you know it's a joke nothing is offensive. YOU try to protect people from wising up and getting beyond the idiotic shock and into a place where they can see how ridiculous things are.” </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal;">I think that’s what Cyanide and Happiness tries to run on. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I like to think that if Rob saw someone making fun of a man with no arms he’d punch him in the face.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">41. Already I’ve found some strips where there’s really nothing to say about them. There’s the shock, and then you move on. If I have nothing to say I won’t comment.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">42. POLITICAL HUMOR. I would say something about how this is true but political biases are very usually wrong.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">43. Technically adipose lies under the skin. Don’t you just love all the JPEG pixelly-dos in these early comics?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">45. There’s a lot of number skipping in the earlier strips…anyway, Charles and his girlfriend! These two are about the closest things to recurring characters C&H, and by that I mean that they repeat about once every fifty strips or so. I can never tell who to be sorry for here – girlfriend is every stereotypical trapping of the “annoying girlfriend”, clearly being super demeaning to women, but then again Charles is a dooch. I guess I could say I don’t like either of them.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">46. I find it very odd that all of the men in C&H are perfectly hairless while all of the women have hair.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">47. Now this one I can smile at without feeling like an awful person! Can you tell I’m saying this to make a good first impression?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">48. Another tried-and-true joke method for C&H is to go on an unrelated tangent for some portion of the strip and then make the punchline somewhere else. For instance, this man’s unnoticed nudity.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">90. First of all, EEEEWWW. Second of all, WHAT? 48-90? The boys at C&H either can’t count or have to own up to whatever comics they deleted! </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">92. I don’t understand this comic. I don’t want to. I always just assume that it takes place in a world where this is normal to distance myself from the guilt.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">49. Okay, it’s official. Rob, Matt, Dave, and Kris can’t count! Also, I love the Purple Shirted Eye Stabber. He’s so…ridiculous. Who comes up with this stuff? Who would think of that kind of a silly gimmick? It’s so weird it’s hilarious in and of itself. Stabbing is not hilarious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">50. This is the first strip in four strips that has come after another strip in order and I’m still confused. Spelling error? SPELLING ERROR?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">51. This is a tad self-aware for a strip. And also a bit offensive to fart humor. Farts are embarrassing. This is a fact of life. The sound FFFRRRTT? It is funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">52. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to take this as a serious and tragic event or extended sarcasm. Either way it nets a chuckle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">53. You know what? I’m laughing. Because this is a very good point. Did you know that Freud actually had a wet nurse, and so did not develop the maternal bond with his actual biological mother? I can’t find a source for it, so it’s probably not true, but I like to believe it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">54. Apathetic birthday; it’s been done before. Though I have to say Blow Thefreakingcandlesoutihavestufftodo has an unfortunate name. D8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">55. This PSES strip is not as ridiculous as the last. If only because it involves kids. Call me a softy but I like kids…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">56. This…isn’t funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">57. But THIS is. It reminds me of those children who will tell their mothers they love them while they’re in a mud puddle or something in order to get out of a punishment. It also looks very different from other Rob strips; it must be super old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">58. Another sort of non-joke. And again, most of the women have had hair. Except this baby…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">95. WHAT THE HELL IT SKIPPED AGAIN. But it’s okay because I REALLY LIKE THIS ONE. The art’s getting better, the punch line is funny and unexpected…and the panel lines are STRAIGHT LINES OMG. And no babies died.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">59. Uh I don’t get it. AND THE NUMBERS ARE STILL DANCING A DANCE OF PAIN AND SORROW</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">60. Well, the dance is over for now…except now I’m just a little terrified that a high five could have magical cancer powers. Except not really.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">61. They have a one-armed man. They forgot to make a joke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">62. I think in its early days, and even still, C&H was a hit-or-miss. This is something closer to a hit because you can actually imagine someone who would be this much of a shithead. The gofer should sue his boss for spilling hot coffee on him. Clearly he should have been warned that the coffee was hot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">63. The idea of the sun exploding itself is kind of a paradox. It’s like a SUNOBOROS. You know, like the Oroboros, snake eating its own tail, you know…aheh… </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">65. NUMERICAL SKIPPAGE OCCURS. Not really jokey in a sense but the fact that this guy is OCD is kind of…cute I guess C: Also, wipe is misspelled. KRIS HAS SPELLING PROBLEMS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">66. Someone painted himself white. I find no joke, only the thought that this guy is an idiot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">67. C&H SUPERHEROES OH MY GOD I LOVE THESE GUYS. They have useless powers and make things funny just by virtue of their presence because they are SO RIDICULOUS. C&H is funny when it’s ridiculous. PREPARE TO BE THWARTED by how ridiculously sexy this comic is. These will make me smile usually always. That, and Kris’s former hand-drawn panel outlines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">101. Um…I’m confused. Up there it says that I’m starting at 15 and going until I get to 100. But now I am clearly at 101.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Do I stop, or do I go on until I reach 100? Will I ever reach 100? Is there even a 100? This review probably only has 30 or so strips in it anyway, so, what the hell, let’s go on. This is the first in a series of sadly overcopied and unfunny situations in which the punchline is always the same.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">100. Hey, what do you know! Comic 100, right where I lost it! 8D. 8D.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This is weird, because this comic makes more sense when it’s read AFTER comic 101. T’is a continuation, except seventeen hundred times more not cool. WHY ARE HIS GRANDMA’S BOOBS SO HUGE. AND YES, YES, SQUEEZE BOY, YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS DEAD. THAT’S WHY SHE’S ON DISPLAY IN A COFFIN. >.<</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And it is on this rather unusual note that I end my first look at the older Cyanide and Happiness strips. I’m sorry if this isn’t the best first impression that I can give, but what’s done is done and I had a lot of fun getting it done. And now I’m done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Well almost. I have to be nice to the guys and say that if you love the comic, you should totally check out the <a href="http://www.explosm.net/merch/">merch</a>. Apparently their T-shirts and plushies (PLUSHIES I DIDN’T KNOW THEY HAD PLUSHIES) aren’t available at the moment, but they do have an iPhone app, which seems to consist of a lovely man in a green shirt humping your iPhone, and two collection books, which are probably the cheapest webcomic collection books I have ever seen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Anyway, next time, I’ll sink my teeth into some DINOSAUR COMICS. WON’T THAT BE AWESOME YOU GUYS</span></div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559052404814294610.post-76063472408993646342010-09-25T12:34:00.000-07:002010-10-01T06:22:41.795-07:00Remarks Because Remarks Should Be MadeD’you know what’s super hard? Making an Internet persona.<br />
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Now by this I don’t mean dragging-and-dropping cute little facial features onto an MMORPG character or somesuch, fun as that always is. I mean, how to act and create a personality for myself in this template. I should probably be myself, but what is myself? Does “myself” automatically mean that I have to be an aggrandizing meanie-butt to counteract a life full of politesse, or that I have to use more swear words than I do normally? Or would refraining from that make me too boring? I suppose I’ll do what I always do and ramble until something happens. That’s always given me some sympathetic smiles in situations before.<br />
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S’pose I should introduce myself. My name over there is CarthagoDelenda, and I like that name. My real name is Mary, but CarthagoDelenda sounds super cooler. This is the part of any introduction where any accomplished adult would list their credentials – that is, why they are qualified for you to laugh at and taunt. But while many ages are the most awkward ages ever, no age is more awkward than seventeen, where you can’t do a damn thing but more likely than not end up doing a damn thing anyway right under everyone’s noses. So with that in mind, I'm an amateur author and doodler, and plan to study English or somesuch at whatever college the black hole of the application process gets me into.<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m a veteran of internet fandoms, but there’s no genre I’ve consistently loved more than webcomics. I’ve adored them since I was nine, when I discovered a site whose name I can’t remember…ugh, I know it was affiliated with AOL and was ostensibly for kids’ comics drawn by kids (though that quickly deteriorated…if anyone could remember what it was called and kindly not kill me for the idiocies young miss STARgirl inflicted upon you during my time there, please tell me). It seemed super cool to me that anyone with talent could put themselves out there to be seen and make a following. I tried and failed several times, but I love reading them and seeing a story unfold over a period of time. (And for free. 83) So, I’m going to use this space for rambles, raves, and reviews. Mostly commentary, but rambles and raves may also follow.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Just a few things to note:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. In doing this, I’m using my own discretion and also keeping in mind what I saw in a Linkara video (an individual who, by the way, is far more qualified than I am at everything, among other things wearing a hat and being male) about webcomics – they are peoples’ hobbies, things that have love poured into them, and so I’m not going to really try not to tear anyone a new asshole because that kind of hurts a wee tad. They aren’t thumbs-up thumbs-down reviews so much as they are an experience of reading something and reacting to it. I just use the word because it’s shorter. I will also take another leaf out of his book (but last one, I promise) by never, ever, ever, ever reading Sonichu.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">2. I’ve got a list of my favorites that I’ll visit, but visitors are free to suggest anything so long as it isn’t Sonichu or explicit pornography. I’ll do archives in big chunks (and I mean big, some of them are real long runners) and then maybe a daily dump of updates once I get through an archive and can start following more recent updates. I’ll add it to the list and get to it EVENTUALLY.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">3. I understand that webcomics come in many storytelling formats – sequential stories, gag-a-days, and gag-a-days that inevitably metamorphose into sequential stories. I will treat the comics as such – that is, I won’t review Cyanide and Happiness like I’d review Gunnerkrigg Court. Usually gag-a-days will be done by number, while linear stories will be done in a narrative. Depends on what I feel like doing that day.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">4. Some archives I have read before, some I have not, and some I have only read a couple hundred strips or so. In order to denote a change in experience I’ll use these indicators – </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[SEEN IT] </span>Means I have read the material sometime before writing the review.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[OOH WHATDIS] </span>Means I am reading the material for the first time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[AND THE PLOT THICKENS] </span>Means I am crossing over from read to unread material.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[STANDALONES]</span> Usually to me a webcomic is an archive of strips with the same common theme, but if I find a group of especially sexy standalone comics (fan or non) I’ll clump em together.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Daily updates won’t really start until I’ve read through a few archives, but they’ll usually have names like “Updates Insert Date Here.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">5. I’ll be linking what I want read along with the commentary, but I won’t be hotlinking any images because that’s stealing pageviews (and advertising profits!) from webcomic managers. If I want to crop out part of an image for decoration, so be it, but that's as far as I'm going.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">6. As much as I’d like to group my reviews by number, there are some webcomics that just don’t roll like that – their strips are not numbered. Usually these strips are dated, though, so I’ll do six-month chunks – that is, from January 1 to June 30 (which happens to be my birthday) and then from July 1 to December 31.<br />
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7. I will try to keep a Monday-Wednesday-Friday update schedule, and also keep a good backlog of updates so that I won't get caught in a bind come some night out of nowhere. If I can't keep that...I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">8. Finally, if you are a webcomic author/artist that I’ve reviewed and you want the review the hell off the Internet, tell me and I will remove it. I do want to be polite to people and even though reviews are not the place for that I want to try. D8</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Anyway, I now wish myself luck and hope I was not being too pretentious. Love you all, and thanks for visitng! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
- Carthago<br />
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Edit: Realized [YAWN] might make people think the review is boring. I need to hone my sense of humor, clearly. </div>CarthagoDelendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14495838823734187166noreply@blogger.com1