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Sean? I thought his name was Smeagol. Maybe that's the other one. Been gone awhile due to computer problems *waves to everyone* but it was really nice to catch up on this improv with a nice big chunk to read. This one has been really good. So many different directions it could have been taken in at ...

...it came with a nice bonus inside, especially if you're a fan of Silver Age Marvel Comics, like myself. This trading card... http://home.earthlink.net/~ripweb/_images/mole-dead_sm.jpg Prepare to die, Dr. Richards! Coolness. I get the impression that the webcomics community still harbors some kind...

I can't say I wasn't kind of expecting this. What's the deal? Does everyone in Boston have Dementia Gollumensis? I swear, if someone in this strip says "my precious" I'm gonna die *cough* "literally."

Rip Tanion wrote:Either that, or she's undercover with the CIA; and she about to kidnap him, and place a mind-control chip in his brain.

Aw, c'mon, everyone knows MK Ultra is defunct! They said so!

Funniest comic strip about a cat owned by an overweight, drugged-out hippie: Fat Freddy's Cat Checked it out, must be funnier with those special cigarettes..... :wink: Blasphemy! Fat Freddy's Cat is hysterical. Although between FFC and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers I've always preferred the Fre...

Erik Larsen (the guy that does Savage Dragon) has a threaded style message board and seems happy with it. A lot of the long time posters there wouldn't give it up for the world. That said I kind of like the 'flat' boards too. As to stronger moderation - - I don't think it's necessary. So everything ...

This time round, I suspect a lot of people are voting against "Nipples on Parade." "Mimi's Last Coffee" just happened to be the other front runner, and is benefitting from the unpopularity of the runner-up. It's my second choice, though, so that's fine (though I do favor Infinite Jones). Again, I p...

I'm curious to know what Mr. Tanion's reaction would be if someone else had made this exact comment regarding Mr. Charlton Heston. Just scroll up. I already covered that. Or, maybe, I'll just save you the time. I mean, I love Charlton Heston, but if someone called him a drooling old retard, I would...

Dr. Empirical wrote:People lash out at what they fear. That's why so many people support Bush's fictional "war on terror." We've made ourselves the scariest country in the world. Prepare for backlash.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. - - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Tim Mallos wrote:Yeah, those are more good examples of lampooning sloganism.

But I was asking, in a silly way, can anyone offer a good slogan for the way things "really should be" - in their opinions.

"Be excellent to each other!"

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Rather than respond to any one point in particular as far as the recent spiritual angle of this thread goes I'll let this quote speak for me... The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. - - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 -1890) Rather than ...

Back to the subject at hand, is the improv over? The allegory has caught up to where we are in reality; with all the other buckets cowering in fear of US. Does it end here, or do the other buckets put aside their differences and address the common threat? The idea that the rest of the world is cowe...

Rather than respond to any one point in particular as far as the recent spiritual angle of this thread goes I'll let this quote speak for me...

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. - - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 -1890)

Gees, don't you know a gag when you see it? Or are you stupid, too? (hey, it ain't a flame if it's aimed at someone who doesn't exist!) There is a lot of truth revealed in humor, especially insight into the person telling the 'joke'. For the most part I personally think you're pretty damn funny, Ri...

However, that said, when I see scapegoating of any kind [...] used as a means to explain the ills man inflicts upon himself - - well, it makes me alternately grit my teeth or just roll my eyes. [...] Whereas I see it as individuals must safeguard their right to express themselves as they please. It...

If anything, the tales of the Easterlings and the men of the South were never told. It's certainly is very tempting to actually tell the tale of Middle-Earth from an Easterling's perspective. Maybe someone who's was Tolkien's counterpart in Indic and Asian languages could have a go. As I recall the...

And what difference does it make anyway? Your personal opinion, one way or the other, is not going to change the events taking place in the world. Who has that kind of energy to rant and rave about issues over which not one of us has any influence? Nobody's learning anything. You're just making the...

Personally, I find the sorts of questions Connor Moran posed both interesting and valid. I don't think he was advocating some kind of "thought police"-style censorship, in fact he explicitly disavowed such things. There's no reason to jump all over him. My comments were not meant as an attack upon ...

I'm a little too hung over to turn this into the tit for tat debate you seem to want this to be, but I'll respond as best I'm able... If you'd actually read my post instead of putting together some caricature of a PC argument, you'd realize that we actually agree on this. What I meant by "be careful...

Hah! The Skull and Crossbones bucket has attacked using advanced rock weaponry afforded by being funded by both the Heart and Star buckets at different times back when their bucket was the proxy battlefield between Heart and Star before the big two became friends. Glastnost (sp?) dontchaknow.

There's really no way I can say this without being dismissive but - - what a load of crap. Wether or not fiction is written with an agenda (and more often than not what is seen as an "agenda" in modern eyes is usually just the prevailing belief of the period not some conspiracy) the only people that...

I must have turned two pages at once or something, but damned if this topic doesn't seemed to have jumped not just the shark but the whole friggin' aquarium.

Anyway, the comic itself was funny as hell.

i have heard about ethnocentricism in the books as well. i do agree when you say (paraphrasing) that in mythology it is hard to avoid, especially when dealing with representation through colors (white traditonally being "good", and black, or dark, traditionally being "bad"), and especially when tho...

Looks like I'm a little to the north of Gandhi on the political compass. My results on the other one were... Axis Position 1 left/right -3.4260 (-0.2062) 2 pragmatism -0.4823 (-0.0290) A bit to the left and pragmatic as hell apparently. My question on this one is where in the hell do they get result...