The top of panel 2 was originally the punchline, but I decided you good people deserved more, so I went beyond. I’m aware that rectal insertion humor is by no means new ground, but I like to think I’ve taken the concept in a different direction with this strip, if only by replacing the classic hamster with the more festive parakeet.
Anyway, on a completely different note, based on the art and commentary from Friday’s strip (as well as a surprise submission from a reader this morning which solidified the idea in as a necessity in my eyes) I am pleased to announce the first ever PartiallyClips Church Bake Sale Contest! Think you’ve got what it takes to sell baked goods using only a creepy picture of a frog? Click that there link or the one on the big bar on top of the page for details! I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with.
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It wasn’t that frog comte de chevalier was it, I hear he’s got a set of triple D’s you could plug a toilet with.
Okay, Timothy, all remaining doubt is now officially dispelled: You’ve got it.
This strip is as much quintessential PartiallyClips as anything Rob wrote. My hat would be off to you, sir, if I were the sort who wears hats.
Equally funny is the concept of “festive” relative to the image of getting a parakeet up there, as opposed to the passe hamster, which might merely be described as troublesome.
Bathroom humor aside, I have to agree, this is PartiallyClips!
Greatly appreciate the votes of confidence, Raven/MG! Seriously means a lot to me.
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Anyone else find it slightly problematic that Mr. Drummer Dude didn’t cross out “feces”?
“Feces” was crossed out in the original draft, but I thought if I could make the joke without directly mentioning fecal mater, perhaps fewer people would find the strip “icky.” The strip’s already got rectal penetration up the ying-yang (oo! Recursion!) so I figured I’d soften the blow.
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And I can’t help but wonder whether he meant “Ambassador” as in a foreign dignitary, or as in the cigars.
And I think the answer to my musings is: both.
I originally thought that was a young, flat-chested female, changed my assumption to guy once it came to the title of the autobiography to avoid pedophilic implications, then back to girl when the person used “pretty” to describe why they were hired. Now I notice that Shoebox didn’t concretely identify the sex of the character in the dialogue, commentary, or comments. I wonder if the ambiguity was intentional.