Let’s put this in perspective: I’m tired. I’ve had a long day. My wife is sick, and went to bed early. My son refused to go to sleep until I finally went and laid down with him for a while around 10:00. Then something melted in the dishwasher, filling the house with a disgusting smell, and I had to deal with that, wiping melting bits of Tupperware off of the heating element with an oven mitt. It was 11 by the time I started working on this strip. I have to get up early tomorrow to drop my car off because the air conditioner is leaking nasty liquids onto the carpeting. And this strip represents what my brain currently finds amusing. Hopefully it works.
MRS. SHOEBOX’S ASSESSMENT OF TODAY’S STRIP: Deferred. I wasn’t gonna wake my sick wife up and show her this.
-=ShoEboX=-
Fran Drescher looks more like Naomi Judd wearing a weird poofy cape thing. Carrol O’Connor…. maybe a little…. Same with Wheaton… but not really.
Meatloaf: Spot f-ing on!
Those truly were the days.
First, your strips are funny. I like them. Keep up the good work.
Second — stop complaining about life so much in the comments. It seems that every strip you post, you seek acceptance from your wife and those around you that you’re making others happy. You shouldn’t need that acceptance — creating funny strips should be enough.
Third, your strips get better when they require less thought process to decipher.
Anonymous, the dude likes for his wife to critique his work. I’m the same way with my claymation dildo bongs that I make.
She’s probably his “voice of reason”, as in, the one who he can always rely on to give him an honest opinion of his work.
As far as the life comments go, I like them. It’s nice to get to know the artists you enjoy, if only a little bit.
Yowza. I don’t think my commentary is “complaining about life” for the most part – but this one particular one, upon caffeinated morning review, DOES sound pretty mopey. Sorry ’bout that.
And Mr. Haven (crafter of fine Claymation dildo bongs, apparently) has it right – running my strips by my wife isn’t an “acceptance” thing – she’s my first line of defense against suck. She has an awesome sense of humor and has no problem telling me when something needs work. She’s repeatedly been right, and I write better strips because of her.
Muley – Yeah, Fran Drescher was a bit of a stretch, but imagine “Those Were The Days” actually being sung with this particular lineup and I think you’ll see why I stuck with this choice.
Thanks as always for the words, guys ‘n’ gals!
-=’Box=-
Hey ShoEboX – don’t mind the ‘haters’. You’re stuff is usually pretty funny, or at least amusing. And your wife is an AWESOME person with a good sense of funny. Running it by her is a good thing, a very good thing. And your friends, old and new, are interested in the shit that happens to you, when new songs come out, sometimes you can have a little extra insight into where the hell did he get that idea?!? hehehe
Keep up the good work, and hope K gets better soon!
Great.. now I am compelled to create such a SuperGroup with these charactes in the MMORPG City of Heroes. The SuperGroup name? “The Syndicated” is all I can come up with at the moment.
See what’s funny is I didn’t see ’supergroup’ so much as ‘carolers’ and I thought it was hilarious that they were serenading crowds with this song.. but then.. it’s very catchy :O
You should arrange disasters more often – I though it worked fine once I realized who was who.
But for random clip art, they do sorta look like past versions of the people named.
I didn’t think supergroup so much as supper group.
I’ve only heard of Meatloaf and Wil Wheaton, the strip made me water (coffee?) the keyboard nonetheless.
Hope your wife gets better, she sounds like a really fun person. I like strips made by real people.
Me, I have to test all my stuff on the cat.
I have four cats: ~, ^, ¨, and ¶. None of them give the slightest crap about PartiallyClips, though ¶ will happily attack the mouse pointer. Or Q*Bert. Or anything else that moves on the screen.
-=’Box=-
1) Are those the actual lyrics to a filk? Is it supposed to match the “All In The Family” tune? I can’t seem to make it fit.
2) I see Meatloaf but can’t make the others match. A little help?
This is not intended as a criticism, I love this comic.
Dude – the “nasty liquid” is condensed water. It’s supposed to drain out from a little hole on the underside of the “evaporator coils” – which will look to you like a black box under the hood and right up against the passenger side firewall (i.e., on the other side of the glove-compartment, probably).
Reach under there, find the hole, and poke your way though the accumulated filth there. The water will drain out onto the driveway like it’s supposed to.
Just trying to save you $50.
Failte –
‘Preciate it…I’ll definitely give it a shot myself next time. Now that I’ve successfully installed a stereo in my wife’s car, I’m on a “I can totally do this crap” kick with regard to vehicles.
Incidentally, I first read this as a response to the post above it and was very confused.
Speaking of which…Anonymous: From left to right – Meat Loaf, Wil Wheaton, Carroll O’Connor, Fran Drescher. Your suspension of disbelief may vary. Try squinting?
-=’Box=-
Meat Loaf, for sure. But I see the others as Noah Hathaway (who played Boxey on the original Galactica series), Mickey Rooney, and Patty Duke.