I tried several times to make anything but this out of this piece of art. But the elegant dance of sparseness and profanity presented here was my first idea, it stuck, and goddammit I like it.
MRS. SHOEBOX’S ASSESSMENT OF TODAY’S STRIP: I have no idea why this is hysterical, but this is fucking hysterical. And it totally wouldn’t work as one panel. It’s gotta be three. Cute, cute, “fuck you.” Unless maybe you did it in the second panel.
In other news, I just spent a good portion of the evening installing something insanely stupid in my reasonably glorious home-built PC tower:
Yes, that’s a 5.25″ floppy drive. I also installed the glorious FC5025 controller from Device Side Data which allows you to use an old PC floppy drive to read Atari, Apple, Commodore, and all kinds of other disks, and damned if it don’t work wonderfully. It even reads hard sector disks. I finally have a way to archive all the crappy old Atari 800 games I wrote as a kid, going back to early stuff I did with my Dad. Still haven’t yet come across Dad’s masterpiece, “Pacworm” (a “Snake” clone with a plot involving ridding northern NY of mosquitoes) nor my own “K-9 Commando,” “Escape from Gauley Bridge High School,” or “Spitting Olympics.” But I’ll get there.
In other news, I’ve got two shows as Worm Quartet coming up – one in Ithaca, NY on the 27th, and one in Minneapolis in March as part of MarsCon. The latter has a fundraiser CD for the music track (including a few live tracks from my GoH performance last year) which you can order at MarsConDementia.com
That’s entirely too much commentary for a two-word strip.
See you on Friday – I’m cracking open another dusty box of floppies.
-=ShoEboX=-
You know, this woulda been the perfect strip to end the comic at. Just load that up on there and stop updating without telling anyone you’ve stopped.
Should’ve saved it, man. That woulda been so cash.
A minimalist masterpiece.
Also, awesome übergeek disk drive is awesome.
Stupid. Lazy. This isn’t even slightly funny.
Well, you all heard Backatcha. It’s been declared unfunny. Time to pack up and go home.
I haven’t laughed this hard at a webcomic in months. Kudos.
Dark and intriguing. Yet dripping with real world parallelism. In the first panel, the puppy is overcome by the existential angs we all struggle with in lifet. In the middle panel, he conquers the demons of subjectivity. The last panel he expresses triumphant victory of the artist over the evils of convention. You’re really starting to find your voice as a cartoonist. It’s exciting.
Carlos – Thanks for the brilliant analysis, you got a genuine honest-to-god LOL out of me for that.
I knew this was gonna be one of those strips that some people would really love and some would really hate. And of course the papers probably won’t want to print this one. So there’ll be a new strip on Friday which will have far more words, and which will be free of both puppies and profanity.
-=’Box=-
FC5025, huh? Can’t say I’ve heard of that one before. They desperately need a catchier name, like Catweasel or Kryoflux (both of which do sort of the same thing).
See, now I wish I’d bought a Catweasel just for the name. Dammit.
-=’Box=-
It was a little funny, not laugh-out-loud funny.
How many sharks are you going to make this comic jump before you give it to somebody who can be half as good as the original artist?
Hey, fartbuckets – If you don’t enjoy reading the strip so much so that you have to attack the content and the writer then why are you still reading two years later? Just wondering.
It’s lazy.. but it’s funny…
…but it’s lazy..
There’s something incredibly entertaining about the line “Hey, fartbuckets” being an entirely correct way to call someone out by name, in the above context…
The final Internet conclusion to this, will be when somebody starts a website exclusively devoted to bitching about web comics. Then somebody will post about how lame their critiques have become, and why somebody else should do the bitching instead.
the commentary on the comments are as amusing as the comics. they add so much more to my life, and take away so much time, cuz i just gotta read them.
congrats on the floppy drive working- i’d love to get my hands on one. i do have a old cobjob just to convert 3 1/2″ers. altho i’ve played a few atari games on the new system- really funny watching centipede at triple time!
love the puppy. (is that an order or comment?)
I didn’t laugh the first time I read this one but it gets funnier every time I come back.
“If you don’t enjoy reading the strip so much so that you have to attack the content and the writer then why are you still reading two years later?”
Because once every three months or so, your husband manages to actually be funny, and I get this gleam in my eye like maybe the comic will start to be consistently good again.
Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug.
Funny, but I wish panel 2 had, “Wadda you lookin at?”, followed by the FU.
The funniest cartoon about cuteness I ever read was http://partiallyclips.com/2002/09/29/koalas/.
malwasechteKase, Your right, It does get funnieer each time you read it!
I laughed myself to tears when I first saw this. Still laugh every time I think back to it.