The idea of Flavor Flav, wearing a sundial, shouting "We're gonna let you know roughly what time of day it is unless its cloudy" kept me giggling for about ten minutes. Doesn't really work as a comic but I don't care.
Began learning basic Spanish today. 'A hora' is a bit of a weird one, as it has a definite break in between the first and second words, meaning it takes even longer to say. I thought about how stupid that was for a total of six seconds before I remembered the plethora of words we have. 'Immediately' is one, 'momentarily' is another, and why do we say 'A.S.A.P.'? It takes almost as long to say the acronym as it does the actual words. Pronouncing it 'Ai-sap' isn't allowed.
Almost killed myself over this one. No ideas were forthcoming so went to Wikipedia random article again. There's about three (well, two and a bit) punchlines in the comic, neither of them very punchy. Didier Drogba and Michael Essien are both outstanding footballers and both from Africa. Essien is Ghanian and Drogba is Ivorian, which is the only information you need for the final punchline.
Ate toast ten minutes ago and realised brown bread is awesome. Alternating between cheap white bread (the sort that you can stretch to twice its length without it breaking) and expensive wholemeal bread (with all the nuts and shit in it) is a great way to ensure everlasting happiness on the breakfast front. Doing the same thing with women gives you a similar feeling. Reminds me of a Bill Hicks line.
"To do this shit you need one very good woman. Or, a bunch of average ones"
I'm actually quite proud of this 'Wikipedia Random Article Comic' series as I'm currently 4/4 on the 'clicks on random article button' to 'comics' ratio. I'm also fairly pleased with the above comic, apart from the fact that the majority of the english speaking world calls it 'PMS'.
5/5 now. This one came to me within about five minutes. Kind of works.
As you can tell by the amount of Random Article comics that I'm making now, original ideas appear to be a little thin on the ground. Then again, the whole idea was to find humour in places I might not have seen if I wasn't doing this little exercise, so I suppose, technically, I'm still somewhere close to success. Ish.
these are excellent. i liked the socrates one, and the wiki ones are going well. this is the first time i've stumbled into the forum in .. over a year. this note is to say that, see, your "notes" help, adds something, but you can leave your notes as comments to your comics, and they'll be seen more widely. i was doing the comic a day thing back a few years ago but got out of the habit. easier fo rme because mine dont usually try to be funny.
Cheers very much for the feed-back Arbi, but I'm going to keep the notes here just because its quicker for me.
This comic was a little bit difficult. I initially tried to make a funny out of how he managed to get picked for Yugoslavia aged just 22, but never made a subsequent appearance even after Yugoslavia dissolved and the likes of Croatia broke away, taking a lot of Yugoslavia's best players with them.
Thats a bit hard to make into a snappy, three-panel comic though, so I went with the 'he started the Balkans wars because he was a shit footballer' angle.
Wahay! Hack joke. Better than my original idea which was to insinuate that Thanassis named the club after his favourite hobby: hitting skinny people in Nike clothing.
A lot of these are damn good Lima. Especially just dredging something up from wiki and spinning it into comedic gold of varying (yet mostly higher end) carat purities.
You make me feel inspired, ashamed, intriuged and vaguely aroused all at the same time.
Cheers for the compliments AA. You could possibly also help me with this comic too. If you, or anyone else, can think of owt else that would be exclusively related to the middles of nowhere in Tennessee and Texas that works better than 'NASCAR fans' then let me know. I did try 'Klansmen', followed by the more general 'Rednecks'.
There's probably a hell of a lot of jokes you do about the fact that there's two towns with identical names in Texas and Tennessee that don't appear in the rest of the English speaking world, but this was the first that came into my head.
This one deviates slightly from the Random Article Comic formula, in that there's some clicks through a few internal links there too. Is there a word for when you surf internal links in Wikipedia? There should be.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I turn 25 on the 21st of May (another year too old to be doing this shit...) and so there'll be no comics for the 20th and 21st. To make up for this, I've done five for the 19th. Five. Just fucking count them.
Thats a roughly accurate (in that its inaccurate but contains shadows of truth) description of Biyomon.
Torrey DeVitto is not a porn star, nor is she related to Danny DeVitto. If both of those were true the world would explode.
You haven''t seen the punchline to the third one before. If you have then, well, according to some Germans you're a moron.
There's lots of Poles in Britain. They can mainly be found drinking, digging up roads and holding up telephone wires.
The insinuation in the final comic is that, while one guy is out stealing the other guy's Tequila, the other guy is stealing his shot glasses to use for his Tequila. You don't need to have 'got' that (its not written well enough for that bit to be obvious anyway) to get the joke. Its about Mexicans stealing. Thats always funny.
The Heineken Cup (Rugby Union tournament in Europe) final is being held down the road from my restaurant at Murrayfield stadium this weekend. Its between Leinster and Leicester, which are two completely unrelated places in two different countries. Leinster is in Ireland, and so we've had a few Irish people kicking about. Of course, this comic didn't actually happen, but I thought of it as I racked my brain for a comic idea.
The context of the comic is the troubles in Northern Ireland. Drumcree is a place with a large Catholic population yet is also on a main route taken by the Orange Order (proud group of racist triumphalist plods Protestants) on their marches, and thus the root of many conflicts in the country.
