Here we go!
Hi, I’m Tim “Shoebox” Crist. You may have heard of my comedy synth-punk project “Worm Quartet.” You may be aware of my involvement with The FuMP. You may have seen my embarrassing appearance on VH-1’s “Totally Obsessed” as the Pac-Man guy back in 2004, which I should probably stop mentioning. More likely, you’ve never heard of me and you’re just wondering how I’m going to ruin this strip now that Rob’s sold out and embraced ideas like plot and recurring characters with “Erfworld.”
Well, for starters, PartiallyClips will now be a family-friendly story about a well-to-do family called the Higglesworths who adopt a wise-cracking sentient sock puppet named “Scarfo.” Oh, that wacky Scarfo! What merriment and tomfoolery will ensue!
Actually, I’ve been a fan of PartiallyClips for years, and a friend of Rob’s for almost as long. “Suffering For My Clip Art” has a place of honor in my bathroom, where it has brought hours of joy to incontinent house guests over the years. Rob and I have shared the stage together many times and collaborated on a few different musical endeavors, and somewhere along the line we determined we have a lot of respect for each other’s comedy minds. So when he determined he needed to step away from PartiallyClips, he asked me if I thought I could take over. And after giving it a shot with a few test strips, I think I can.
I should take a moment here to thank the wonderful webmistress Sara Trice, who has worked her ass off redesigning this page. Her portfolio and such are over at saratrice.com if you need someone to make you some Internets.
So, welcome to my awkward first season. I hope you guys will stick around as I…no, Scarfo, no! That’s a priceless heirloo…*CRASH!* SCAAAAAAARFOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
-=ShoEboX=-
Nooooooooo!! Change is BAD! On top of that you can’t draw at all! Rob’s art was clean and pure, your’s is just shapeless, faceless blobs that might be people.
I hate you, ShoEboX!!
Wait a tick… Setting cows on fire is illegal now?
It’s just creeping authoritarianism again, y’ask me… I mean, who among us *hasn’t* set a cow on fire, from time to time? Me ‘n my peeps, we used to hang out in the pasture, light up a heifer, pass it around… And who’s that really hurt?
I mean, apart from the heifer… My point is: this is just the Al Capone thing all over again. Can’t get ‘im for the bank job, so they bust him for torching a Holstein? What ever happened to due process, people?
It’s chilling. And it seems to me, it makes for a poorer world…
I mean, me, I’ve grown up a bit since those days. Moved on. Not as spry as I used to be, and setting cows on fire, sure, that’s a young man’s game…
But I feel for the young ‘uns. They will never know the innocent joys we once had.
Welcome
Dear God in Heaven, we’re all doomed. In a good way. I think.
Laughed out loud at the strip, by the way.
Welcome! Looking forward to seeing your work, while continuing on the same concept, also carving your own niche out of it. Good luck >;)
Oi, oi. ShoEboX. There might be a small issue with this new PClips format here.
And I’m not just complaining about the lack of forums. We need CAPCHAs here! (or else this place will be spammed… AGAIN)
(Still, “intolerant” — good one!)
-=PakoPako=-
PakoPako, did you really think I’d put this site up without some serious spam protection?
Silly person.
Sara, Supreme Admin and Empress of Mars
Congratulations!
Off and running with the same sick humor we have come to expect from this comic.
Ah, this is good.
I am soooo sorry. I am soooo sorry but this is funnier than what I am accustomed to here. Am I a bad person? Could I see a picture of the flaming cow? Please? I don’t like cows! Not one bit!
Nice first effort, ShoEboX, and I look forward to many more. Well not more first efforts, but more efforts which are not firsts … or something.
Very very funny, good start for the new strip, hope this isn’t a one off. At least you’ll (hopefully) be able to update more often than rob did. Still sad to see rob go though, been reading this comic for years.
This website is the little ray of sunshine in my sad, sad, life ^_^
Thanks for the kind words of welcome, people! I know I’ve got some awfully big shoes to fill here, but I wear a size 14, so what I may lack in footwear finesse, I should be able to make up for in stomping capability. Plus, I’m named after a thing that shoes fill! If anyone figures how out that figures into this analogy, let me know!
-=ShoEboX=-
great first clip. Welcome!
Heh. Thank you Empress Sara.
ShoEboX – Rob has awfully big shoes to fill, but on PartiallyClips.com, shoes fill you!
-=PakoPako=-
This is me testing an avatar. Ignore.
Man, I miss the links page on here Rob. Put it up on erf world, or back here one. It was like the best place to launch 15 different webcomics to read every morning. Oh, and Hi new guy I don’t know. Ask Rob about his entire butt.
Mullet Mike! Long time no see, Get to a con sometime. Go to MarsCon Williamsburg this weekend! I’ll see about restoring the links page.
ShoEboX? SEX hobo? In all cases, great to see that you will be continuing and transforming Rob’s work into your own!
Sooo happy not to lose Partially Clips; even happier that you’re proving as funny as Rob at his best! Welcome, Shoebox, and keep ‘em coming!
Clicked here to reread rob’s farewell art, and was awesomated by new clips- love the humor-keeps me going on rough days. love the sarcasm of the comics and comments too- just what i need to remind me life ain’t all pleasantries and pastry!
Just wandered back through the archives to catch up, and this one STILL makes me howl! Good job, Shoebox, and thank you!