Mummies aren’t romantic. You’d be all in the sheets, gettin’ it on, having a grand ol’ time and WHAM! Everything turns to dust and you don’t even get to cuddle afterwards.
C’mon, people, isn’t there a better mythical creature we could eroticize?
Sometimes PA’s no-beat no-punchline approach works and sometimes it doesn’t – R-Pattz mummy is just kind of there, while they made K-Stew look super stupid. Actually I think it would be really funny if panel three wasn’t there at all.
I was not aware that vampires required hickeys in order to survive. Or that there are people in the world who get off on women’s thyroids. This website and its commentators teach me so much.
Hey, BB, with respect: Don’t confuse Chuck Pedofuckstick with talent or creativity or ability.
Jane needed a Vodka Power-Up just to kiss a guy, and that was with a reasonable pick-up line. So for “Show me your tits” she engages in suicidal self mutilation?
No matter how much you hate continuity, you’re necessarily stuck with some, unless you want to limit yourself to the storytelling of a three-year-old.
Neither Jane nor Sara would mutilate themselves to show up (rest cut in temporary fit of editorial spite, apologies - B)
@10: Ugh. Are we supposed to be wowed by your tenacity and selective literalism? OF COURSE VAMPIRES DON’T ACTUALLY GIVE “HICKEYS.” EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. Even the guy who thought Jane was actually cutting her neck open. BUT THANKS FOR REMINDING US! A GOLD STAR FOR YOU AND FIRST PICK FROM THE TOY CHEST!
Googly Christ is there something in the fucking water this week? Stop fighting! Fighting is for cartoon characters. God, especially about vampires. But also everything else. Me and my howling fantods ain’t gotta hear this right now.
BBolt, you really got to get yourself a forum or something to contain these amounts of care.
Also vampires are homosexuals (see: Dracula), which is probably why right-wing nuts are suddenly all about gender equality when it comes to female bloodsuckers.
With your latest comic, Mr. Bolt, you have managed to capture my own inner struggle between having discussions of substance and talking like a normal person.
>>There are like six people who comment here. It’s way too small for a forum.
Perhaps, but with a forum, we could have a separate thread for each comic. Under this current “system”, comments for various recent comics tend to run together. And (unless I’ve missed something, which is very much possible) I see no way to view blog posts or comments dating back to specific older comics.
1. I assume it’s not contraindicated to be imagining John Cleese? 2. Love the choice of “Tarquin.” 3. I’m going to try to foster “Spelling Roman” as a less Godwiny alternative.
This probably proves the point I made @19. This place is like a pile of transistor radios, all on different stations. (or a pile of MP3 players on different podcasts, if you want a more timely analogy.)
I love the red-headed artist lady’s bow tie. It’s an amusing fashion accessory, although it’ll never be as fabulous as Jane’s Ken Lay getup or any one of Sara’shats.
BBolt, you gotta behold this. None other than Penny Arcade is jacking your style: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/
— Jackson Oct 12, 06:32 AM #
Mummies aren’t romantic. You’d be all in the sheets, gettin’ it on, having a grand ol’ time and WHAM! Everything turns to dust and you don’t even get to cuddle afterwards.
C’mon, people, isn’t there a better mythical creature we could eroticize?
— A.I. Oct 12, 01:13 PM #
Well, the awful novelization of “Creature From The Black Lagoon” I read in high school had some bile-raising additional gillman-on-girl action…
But no. Vampires are human, and “deep,” and must give hickeys to live. They’re natural dirty-fanfic material.
“Fantods” is a real word? I am got edumacated today! (Also: strips are excellent. Think I might have ruptured something at final panel of “Growth.”)
— Happenstance Oct 13, 06:37 AM #
Sometimes PA’s no-beat no-punchline approach works and sometimes it doesn’t – R-Pattz mummy is just kind of there, while they made K-Stew look super stupid. Actually I think it would be really funny if panel three wasn’t there at all.
— brandon Oct 13, 03:15 PM #
Before I sound like a little bitch, I just read through the previous five PA strips and was amused.
— brandon Oct 13, 03:19 PM #
I was not aware that vampires required hickeys in order to survive. Or that there are people in the world who get off on women’s thyroids. This website and its commentators teach me so much.
— A.I. Oct 13, 06:53 PM #
Hey, BB, with respect: Don’t confuse Chuck Pedofuckstick with talent or creativity or ability.
Jane needed a Vodka Power-Up just to kiss a guy, and that was with a reasonable pick-up line. So for “Show me your tits” she engages in suicidal self mutilation?
No matter how much you hate continuity, you’re necessarily stuck with some, unless you want to limit yourself to the storytelling of a three-year-old.
Neither Jane nor Sara would mutilate themselves to show up (rest cut in temporary fit of editorial spite, apologies - B)
— John Oct 13, 10:42 PM #
She is not doing exactly what you think she's doing there, which appears to be actually cutting her neck open with a butter knife.
Why is she calling her friend Roxy who is doing zombie makeup?
— brandon Oct 13, 11:28 PM #
“I was not aware that vampires required hickeys in order to survive.”
Clearly, in this case the “I” in “A.I.” does not stand for what one normally expects.
— Moon Zero Two Oct 14, 01:56 AM #
@ Moon Zero Two:
I spend most of my time browsing the Internet. The “I” in “A.I.” has been corrupted for a long, long time.
Regardless, I always thought vampires bit people in order to feed on their blood, not because they kiss people’s necks a little too hard.
— A.I. Oct 14, 12:38 PM #
This comic DOES in fact ROCK as usual, but it did take me two or three readings to figure out what was going on.
No biggie. It sometimes takes me about nine or ten readings to get “Dresden Codak”, but this is probably because I suck.
— andy.s Oct 14, 05:19 PM #
@10: Ugh. Are we supposed to be wowed by your tenacity and selective literalism? OF COURSE VAMPIRES DON’T ACTUALLY GIVE “HICKEYS.” EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. Even the guy who thought Jane was actually cutting her neck open. BUT THANKS FOR REMINDING US! A GOLD STAR FOR YOU AND FIRST PICK FROM THE TOY CHEST!
— Happenstance Oct 15, 04:24 AM #
Googly Christ is there something in the fucking water this week? Stop fighting! Fighting is for cartoon characters. God, especially about vampires. But also everything else. Me and my howling fantods ain’t gotta hear this right now.
— brandon Oct 15, 05:21 AM #
BBolt, you really got to get yourself a forum or something to contain these amounts of care.
Also vampires are homosexuals (see: Dracula), which is probably why right-wing nuts are suddenly all about gender equality when it comes to female bloodsuckers.
— Chrysanthus Oct 15, 05:59 AM #
(Which is why their bites are hickey-esque, oops).
— Chrysanthus Oct 15, 06:11 AM #
Alright, vampire arguing is over. Let’s discuss something else.
Like, is that phone Jane’s using from this comic?
— A.I. Oct 15, 08:04 AM #
There are like six people who comment here. It’s way too small for a forum.
Ever since I did Pissy, Red, Mechanical I have tried to make sure Jane is using that grouchy red cell phone, yes.
— brandon Oct 15, 02:43 PM #
With your latest comic, Mr. Bolt, you have managed to capture my own inner struggle between having discussions of substance and talking like a normal person.
— Jackson Oct 17, 07:45 AM #
>>There are like six people who comment here. It’s way too small for a forum.
Perhaps, but with a forum, we could have a separate thread for each comic. Under this current “system”, comments for various recent comics tend to run together. And (unless I’ve missed something, which is very much possible) I see no way to view blog posts or comments dating back to specific older comics.
— Hokie Oct 22, 01:20 PM #
sooo. I don’t get the crying woman. why is she showing a photo of her family to Sara? is her family her ‘achievement’? either way why is she so upset?
— damad Oct 30, 04:18 PM #
@20: If I recall correctly, that’s the Office Drama Mama. We’ve seen her before, right? Or am I thinking of “Shirl” from “Sealab 2021?”
Sparks: “Hello, Shirl!”
Shirl: “MY CAT HAS CANCER!”
Debbie: “Shirl, I swear to God…”
But yeah, at first glimpse, I thought, “Did Sara do something to her family?” In the dark we are left, to find our own way.
@19: I concur.
— Happenstance Oct 30, 04:43 PM #
I figured Sara had simply taken her job.
— Jackson Oct 31, 03:41 AM #
On “the corrections”:
1. I assume it’s not contraindicated to be imagining John Cleese?
2. Love the choice of “Tarquin.”
3. I’m going to try to foster “Spelling Roman” as a less Godwiny alternative.
— Minivet Oct 31, 09:06 PM #
I was not specifically aiming to draw John Cleese there but no! Not contraindicated at all!
— brandon Oct 31, 09:29 PM #
@ 16+17: I kinda figure the phone is now cooperating with Jane, not because she taught it a lesson, but because it now sees Jane as a potential ally—She’s more a threat to humanity than the phone could ever dream of being by itself.
Also: I sense some deja vu with regards to Sara’s reaction at the end of today’s comic.
This probably proves the point I made @19. This place is like a pile of transistor radios, all on different stations. (or a pile of MP3 players on different podcasts, if you want a more timely analogy.)
— hokie Nov 1, 01:55 AM #
I love the red-headed artist lady’s bow tie. It’s an amusing fashion accessory, although it’ll never be as fabulous as Jane’s Ken Lay getup or any one of Sara’s hats.
— A.I. Nov 2, 02:37 AM #
We totally need more RAOUL.
— j. grant Nov 3, 08:18 PM #
Well, not so much John Cleese as a person, more this scene in particular.
— Minivet Nov 7, 12:03 PM #
“Why Hello There:” Don’t know what pleases me more: Jane’s after-effect sexy “grrr” face, or all the angry floobadoob arms.
The arms. I’ma go with the arms. We should all totally have tentacles.
— Happenstance Nov 16, 01:22 AM #