A line is crossed
Unless there's something else I'm not able to remember at the moment, the fourth panel of this strip is the first time I've re purposed a joke from my old stand-Up act for use in a comic.
I've just always liked that joke.
On an unrelated note, did anyone notice anything unusual about this strip?
I've just always liked that joke.
On an unrelated note, did anyone notice anything unusual about this strip?
posted by Scott Meyer at Wednesday, November 21, 2007
31 Comments:
The twister mat spread into the 3rd panel?
going on the basis that it was a click link to another one - was it that the 1st 3 panels where identicle with different words?
oh and i only came over to peek after Mr Adams point you out... and i subbed to a RSS feed :)
http://www.basicinstructions.net/news/2007/10/geekery-of-wors-kind.html
You mean more unusual than the dude wearing the Twister mat like a poncho? I would pay somebody money to walk outside like that. Well, here are a couple of things I'm guessing about:
1) Marital Trouble Guy's eyebrows are a little extra bushy this time around.
2) There are a lot more props being used.
3) Perhaps you put "House Rules" in quotes as a secret shout-out to a primo TV show.
You drew a horrible rendition of the Risk board?
Hooray for house rules!
I would walk around a crowded, public place with a twister mat on as a poncho. Kyleo, I will take you up on your proposal. Expect to see a video on my blog of this some time before Christmas.
Anyway, I'm guessing the weird thing is the twister mat over the panel boundary.
The first three panels being identical may or may not be unusual. The legs in the last panel spilling over onto the frame may or may not be unusual. One thing that I do not remember seeing before is a character's hand overlaying the... word bubble (or whatever that is really called).
Are you going to tell us the correct answer? Please?
Please Please Please Please stop reusing art! Both the shirt and the games comic reuse way too much art.
The disconnect between the body language and the text always bugs me.
The panel with twister was great though!
Oh - and more blogging please - where are all those old Disney stories....
Yes, I will tell what's odd about the strip. Soon. Ish.
No, nobody's got it right yet.
For the record, the link in the "something weird about this strip" sentence aims at the strip about the "something on your shirt" trick, which is the strip with something weird.
And I defy you to draw a Risk board that small, in perspective and have it look like anything.
When did your colleague get a girlfriend? I thought he was sweet on you the whole time!!!
The bottom of the panels featured a table. Because your new mentor is Jim Davis?
Please update your stylesheet so your links are not black text with no underline. Maybe it's intentional and you want to weed out those of use that don't move the mouse over every word we read (like a sing-along), but it's really hard to tell what are links and what aren't.
I'd suggest that's why nearly all commenters have been talking about the current strip rather than the one linked to with the "this strip" text.
the character outlines look different.
In the fourth panel both of the people's legs go out of the boundaries.
damn you custom CSS
You invoked a more traditional "Pythonesque" style of surreal word play of blended with traditional concepts of Schadenfreude, subtlely satirising the US failiure to embrace legalised gambling.
Is it the "mini-me" with the boxing gloves?
It's an Axis & Allies board - and that twister dude is funniest thing I've seen in a while... Sweet.
So it's not the characters breaking out of the frame in the 4th panel? Because that's really the only thing I can see other than the repeated art.
Loved "house rules" today. That's totally families and friends are when they play the same games over and over.
I was actually just telling someone how my sibs and I played Candy Land when we were in high school. You deal out all the cards, then everyone plays at once, flipping their cards and moving their pieces as quickly as possible. Except when you get a character card, you had to run up and down the stairs before you moved your piece. Then, once you'd gone through your deck, you'd wait for everyone else to finish and pass your cards to the right. Repeat until someone reaches the Candy Castle.
Ah... good times.
For the first time, I laughed uncontrollably out loud reading one of your comics - the first panel of your most recent comic.
I do that sort of thing all the time.
The boss' jacket is done up in the fourth panel and closed in the first three. Is that what's odd?
Oops, I meant undone in the first three.
duh... a line is crossed by four legs in the fourth panel...
Maybe is that the second panel is not that identical?
Thanks for the laughs, great work!!
His ear is a smiley face.
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You're funny with words. Don't kill the fun.
By any chance is it the presence of a new character?
You're "happy to see him" in the fourth panel. And that's not mustard.
What the hell is legos, a pasta sauce. Itis lego you dimwit.
Oh, and by the way, very funny!
This comic makes me sad that I've never seen your standup.
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