Comic for Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Posted: 6:30 am, Wednesday, October 21

I am beat like a friggin' rug.

OK, so let's just file this strip under "This did not work." All of these squirrel strips, to this one, have been inspired by a friend of mine who has a squirrel who beats on her window, and eats while reading the paper, and has threesomes. The other strips worked OK. This one does not, and it's entirely on me. I balked when it came to drawing squirrel sex. This strip doesn't work because of the radical disconnect with the photos of squirrel sex taking place, instead of it being Five Bucks-drawn. I still like Ron's dialogue, but the visuals aren't there, and this needed to me to go for broke on the visuals. I just don't want to draw squirrels humping! So I'm sorry, this is all on me.

Pajiba's got a list of Best-of Horror Movies that seems to hedge the bet in almost every case. Did they actually name a zombie flick? Because it doesn't seem like they did. What should I be for Halloween this year? I need to not be Wolverine for like the fourth Halloween in a row.

To make up for a wishy-washy list, Pajiba does nicely excerpt an interview with Bronson Pinchot (Balky) from the AV Club, where he talks about Tom Cruise's homophobia back in the 80s. I thought this was going to be phrased in the context of Pinchot's homosexuality, but apparently he's not gay. Learn something new every day.

No link to this, but it relates nicely to why today's comic didn't work - why in God's name are they putting Marge Simpson in Playboy? That's so creepy.

Alright, off to go submit my kids' grades and try to finish Young Goodman Brown (ain't gonna happen - who knew a 7-page story would take 3 days in class to do?).

bullfrog

Ted's Head -- Wednesday, October 21 2009, 09:32 am

Don't defend your art.

I liked the comic because of those pictures. Something Monty Python-esque about it. Actually, if you did away with the dialougue and the guys and just posted the picture of the three squirrels humping, I would have thought that was funny too. But what do I know.

I'll go the other way from Ted's Head. It would have been funnier if we didn't see the squirrels at all, just Ron and Pete describing it to us.

Damn. I'm not really interested in Rock Band or Guitar Hero games, but I thought I'd link to this deal - Rock Band and all the instruments for $79.

http://kotaku.com/5386800/maybe-the-best-rock-band-deal-yet

I also want LeBron to dunk on Bush.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-random22-2009oct22,0,203340.story