I would be asking myself that if I hadn’t been spending the last 16 hours truing to find the red dragooning in dragon island blue. (Never get this game people it will take your life away truing to get you to find something that has a 0.01% odds of appearing.)
Alternatively: The hot tub water eventually drains into the sewers. Ergo, they are attempting to lure out the sewer-lurker by creating a bait from a delectable mix of their wine- and torte-infused sweat and tasty, tasty man/woman/mutant-gerbil-flesh. QED, they have been working hard all night! As a double bonus, the wine and torte are a tax deductible business expense.
So, do comic-strip-Shaenon and comic-strip-Jeff live in the same area or are they just so rich and successful that they can fly between California and Wisconsin as need be? Or should I just not worry this much about the logistics of the fictional versions of the writers?
I think of it as a visualized representation of an email conversation, or possibly just an actual representation of a Skype conversation but with Jeff transported to a place where his blocking is funnier.
I was thinking his reply post-panel 4 should just be a meek “Yes, dear” until I remembered this would be Jeff, not Andrew, but “Yes, Mistress” might still be the safest option 🙂
I’m a comic artist …
I do a lot of artist stuff!
Drawing guys, ev’ry day in ev’ry way now,
I just can’t get enough …
Drawing shirtless men!
Lotsa shirtless men!
Gotta google all these images for research!
And study them again! (It’s all for art’s sake!)
[CHORUS:]
Shirts are bad!
Silence, fool! I say that shirts are bad!
Drawing pecs, what fun I have had!
I’m saying … shirts are bad!
Mister Wells is inquiring,
“Why is this scene essential to the plot?”
I just find it inspiring
To draw the guys all damp and hot …
Because, reasons, see?
There are reasons, see?
I can draw them as I want them, buster!
Indulge my fantasy! (It’s all for art’s sake!) [repeat CHORUS]
Yesterday I was trying to figure out how Ginny’s legs were attached. Today she clearly has two right ones. There is definitely something strange in that hot tub water.
I think the rightmost right leg is actually Tip’s, at an awkward angle. You can see Ginny’s left knee above the water, just at the edge of the first panel.
Either that, or there is some sort of mutagen in the hot tub water….
If you have a chance to be in a hot tub with a bottle of wine, the real question is why you wouldn’t be there?
To the tune of “Dancing Queen” by ABBA:
They have wined, they have dined, now they’ll be risking their lives
They will go, spelunking, cause they’re the backup team.
Now it’s nighttime and Sweetheart says,
For Tip and Lee to hit separate beds,
They’ll be going in the sewers, beat the bad zombie,
With some psychology.
Sweetheart really is a good dog,
She just can’t stand those giant frogs,
She finds Tip and Virginia, hanging in a hot tub,
With a bottle of wine,
Yes, they’ll do just fine.
They are the backup team, that’s the plan, isn’t it just keen?
Backup team, Lee can science and Tip can preen,
They have wined, they have dined, now they’ll be risking their lives
They will go, spelunking, cause they’re the backup team.
You have Tip, and you have a hot tub. The odds of the one going into the other rise exponentially the longer they are in proximity. The other two were simply in the wrong place at the right time and got sucked in.
@Shaenon: You sound just like my gay brother! No wonder I want to be friends with you! You’re both sickies–in other words, my kind of perv–ahem, people.
(Yes, Tip, I know my Freudian slip is showing… And I don’t have the legs for miniskirts like you do.)
No use fighting it, Jeff. The Story demands it!
I would be asking myself that if I hadn’t been spending the last 16 hours truing to find the red dragooning in dragon island blue. (Never get this game people it will take your life away truing to get you to find something that has a 0.01% odds of appearing.)
The generally accepted term is “sewerlunking”.
“MUSE!”
(Specifically:
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-855
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-869
)
Beat me to it.
Because *REASONS!*
Alternatively: The hot tub water eventually drains into the sewers. Ergo, they are attempting to lure out the sewer-lurker by creating a bait from a delectable mix of their wine- and torte-infused sweat and tasty, tasty man/woman/mutant-gerbil-flesh. QED, they have been working hard all night! As a double bonus, the wine and torte are a tax deductible business expense.
The things artists must endure…
So, do comic-strip-Shaenon and comic-strip-Jeff live in the same area or are they just so rich and successful that they can fly between California and Wisconsin as need be? Or should I just not worry this much about the logistics of the fictional versions of the writers?
At first I assumed it was Andrew, but Andrew doesn’t wear glasses and Jeff does, so…I dunno.
I think of it as a visualized representation of an email conversation, or possibly just an actual representation of a Skype conversation but with Jeff transported to a place where his blocking is funnier.
That’s how I look at it, too.
I was thinking his reply post-panel 4 should just be a meek “Yes, dear” until I remembered this would be Jeff, not Andrew, but “Yes, Mistress” might still be the safest option 🙂
With her retort, it certainly would seem like the safe response, now doesn’t it? lol
(TUNE: “Hurts So Good”, John Mellencamp)
I’m a comic artist …
I do a lot of artist stuff!
Drawing guys, ev’ry day in ev’ry way now,
I just can’t get enough …
Drawing shirtless men!
Lotsa shirtless men!
Gotta google all these images for research!
And study them again!
(It’s all for art’s sake!)
[CHORUS:]
Shirts are bad!
Silence, fool! I say that shirts are bad!
Drawing pecs, what fun I have had!
I’m saying … shirts are bad!
Mister Wells is inquiring,
“Why is this scene essential to the plot?”
I just find it inspiring
To draw the guys all damp and hot …
Because, reasons, see?
There are reasons, see?
I can draw them as I want them, buster!
Indulge my fantasy!
(It’s all for art’s sake!)
[repeat CHORUS]
In particular, see:
http:@@skin-horse.com@comic@todays-comic-855
http:@@skin-horse.com@comic@todays-comic-869
Change each “@” to “/”. Comic Press is suppressing links now.
Yesterday I was trying to figure out how Ginny’s legs were attached. Today she clearly has two right ones. There is definitely something strange in that hot tub water.
I think the rightmost right leg is actually Tip’s, at an awkward angle. You can see Ginny’s left knee above the water, just at the edge of the first panel.
Either that, or there is some sort of mutagen in the hot tub water….
If you have a chance to be in a hot tub with a bottle of wine, the real question is why you wouldn’t be there?
To the tune of “Dancing Queen” by ABBA:
They have wined, they have dined, now they’ll be risking their lives
They will go, spelunking, cause they’re the backup team.
Now it’s nighttime and Sweetheart says,
For Tip and Lee to hit separate beds,
They’ll be going in the sewers, beat the bad zombie,
With some psychology.
Sweetheart really is a good dog,
She just can’t stand those giant frogs,
She finds Tip and Virginia, hanging in a hot tub,
With a bottle of wine,
Yes, they’ll do just fine.
They are the backup team, that’s the plan, isn’t it just keen?
Backup team, Lee can science and Tip can preen,
They have wined, they have dined, now they’ll be risking their lives
They will go, spelunking, cause they’re the backup team.
You have Tip, and you have a hot tub. The odds of the one going into the other rise exponentially the longer they are in proximity. The other two were simply in the wrong place at the right time and got sucked in.
@Shaenon: You sound just like my gay brother! No wonder I want to be friends with you! You’re both sickies–in other words, my kind of perv–ahem, people.
(Yes, Tip, I know my Freudian slip is showing… And I don’t have the legs for miniskirts like you do.)
Ah yes, I totally want to see sexy pictures of men that not only not exist but one is gay and the other is pretty much a public bike.