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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: February 03, 2003 Reader Comments...
stupid Posted by: on February 3, 2003 11:03 PM
I feel like we're living in a dorm with the guy down the hall donning a new hideous haircut and everyone smiling and saying it's cool. Then they close their doors and laugh their asses off. Please, make it stop. This is cruel. Posted by: on February 4, 2003 12:27 AM
You all misunderstand. Gather a few stooges together to say, "It's great!" and watch the innocent sheep together to say, "Yes, it is great!" in a fit of geek peer pressure. Or so they thought. Posted by: Bah on February 4, 2003 12:36 AM
I'm not sure what I am finding more entertaining, the strip, or the comments. John, I think you need a HTML wrapper for each strip that links to the comments for the strip. Alterntatively, you could include the strip in the weblog posting. Posted by: Mac - Dont Attack Iraq on February 4, 2003 02:58 AM
This one isn't working as well for me.
Have you thought about possibly learning to use tools better? Your "illustrations" are nothing more than pictures and text cobbled together. Even the most amateur of comic strips has an illustrator behind it that can actually draw. For example, you've got the label "10 tons" on the weight in the complete wrong perspective. Next, you've got the weight larger in the second frame while keeping the size of everything else the same. In the last frame, you can still see the weight's lower left corner through the layer of bananas. Even if this were superbly illustrated--and it's absolutely not--it's got conceptual nightmare written all over it. Why is a 10-ton weight falling at all? And why is there a pile of super-sized bananas right beneath it? And what's with the monkeys in the first frame? It's not clear what they're even supposed to be until the third frame. Why are the super-sized bananas thinking "Ouch"? What is the point of this comic? Are you saying that people come up with company names for insipid reasons? Or are you making a larger point about the malevolent universe in which super-sized bananas exist serving only to get crushed? Either way, your point is so banal that it illuminates the lack of ideas you possess: from the universe of possible topics yet to be plumbed, you chose to tackle the naming of businesses. Get out while you still have some credibility. Also, remove those posts and pretend you know nothing about any cached images that people might accost you with. Posted by: bbrown on February 4, 2003 09:53 AM
The poor illustration in not an issue. The earliest Simpsons cartoons were funny even though they were crudely drawn. Sexy Mastodons simply has a funny deficit. I assume the 10-ton weight is a reference to Monty Python, but the comic got it wrong because it should be a 16-ton weight. Perhaps this is a spoof of 'Attack of the Clones.' The chimps are obviously cloned. The bananas look similar. Maybe the chimps wanted soft bananas so they dropped a 10-ton weight on the bananas. Your guess is as good as mine. I especially enjoy the change in perspective. You know, how the weight moves between the foreground and background as the comic progresses. Posted by: Mr. Gumby on February 4, 2003 10:23 AM
The phrase "too clever by half" comes to mind...and I love the "I find them funny, so your sense of humor must be under-developed" mindset of other posters here. Really speaks to a user-centered mentality, that. Posted by: on February 4, 2003 12:28 PM
Adam, who's Derek R.? Is he one of the monkeys in the strip? Or is he the banana? Posted by: The Sexy Mastadon on February 4, 2003 01:44 PM
I give it a 35 - it has a good beat and you can dance to it. This installation crashed though - must be running on Windoze. :) Posted by: Lyle - War Monger on February 5, 2003 12:14 AM
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