Comic posted Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004

Posted: 8:59 am, Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Aside from my will to live, probably the thing that has suffered most during the baseball playoffs is my productivity making comics. Since a lot of the non-Pete ones are based on stuff that actually occurs in my life and funny exchanges 2.0 and I have while watching television or something, and since all the television has been the brutally awful ALCS, I haven't been out living lately. It's like this being a Red Sox fan. At least, it's like this being a completely insane Red Sox fan. But MNP sent me a blog of a Cards fan friend of hers, and that girl seems likewise consumed by baseball, so I take solace in knowing that if she were doing a webcomic, she'd also probably not be drawing as much as she should be. What the hell am I talking about? Who knows?

I did today's strip a long time ago - friggin' August, maybe? Figured I should run it before it becomes even more dated. In NYC, at least, the Von Dutch thing seems to have gone from hipster to hip-hop to fashionista to putzy middle-aged men who think it makes them look cool. In all stages of its evolution, though, it has driven me insane. I don't get buying clothes that simply advertise the designer's name. It confounds me. Also, I would've liked to have reworked the dialogue in this one, but saved over the original file because I'm unorganized. Oh well.

Of course, as soon as I post this strip, I look through the fall Notre Dame catalog, and see this fucking monstrosity.

God, that's almost as embarrassing as the fact we're not held liable for institutional discrimination against homosexuals. Well, OK, it's nowhere nearly as embarrassing as that, but it's pretty fucking bad.

Have you ever thought that maybe our best hope in defeating Bush in two weeks lies with Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and an overweight He-Man? Neither have I, but these guys have. They made an awesome flash game where Hulk Hogan recruits famous liberals in the effort of defeating Bush. My favorite was using Howard Stern and his porn-star attack to take out the mutant John Ashcroft. Also, using Jesus Christ in the final attack on Bush (unfortunately, Jesus died and I had to nail the coffin shut with Private Jessica Lynch - letting Bush kill Jesus does not do good things for my karma, I'm willing to bet). The t-shirt line is gothically beautiful, and pretty fucked up, to boot.

I assume most people who want to see this already have, but if you've got about fifteen minutes to spare, here is Jon Stewart visiting Crossfire on CNN and calling Tucker Carlson a dick. Awesome stuff. Outside of Andy Kaufman screaming about being on the Tonight Show to wrestle a woman, I can't imagine a talk-show guest segment going more horribly wrong.

One week from today, the Dawn of the Dead DVD comes out. 2.0 has been waiting for that since, like, June, I think.

Is Jim Davis alive? I thought I read he died or something, but I guess I was wrong.

Is everyone familiar with Get Your War On? I didn't think I'd ever have to make this link, but when my buddy Jeff visited last month, he had evidently never heard of it. Highly recommended.

This is much better than that creepy painting of Bush posing with the Jedi ghosts of Lincoln and Washington I posted a few weeks back.

I'm glad this zombie-fighting class is going on down south, or 2.0 would leave me for it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read the Boston Globe, because my brain melted somewhere around the five and a half hour mark of last night's game.

bullfrog