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Aylear
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Circumvention by Aylear
3-25-09
So, how's the quest for understanding humans?
Perpetually fascinating. For instance, do you know what anal beads are?
So, how's your ability to recognize when someone is desperately changing the topic?
Still underdeveloped. Why?

 

Now that I have your attention, hello and welcome. I'm Aylear, author of Comics so profound you have to Google half their content, Inc., and this is my hopeful debut.

In this thread I will be jotting down comics and series of mine worth a glance, or simply for my own use. I have a fairly specific favoured style and humour, and so my comics are often based in intellectuality, science, math, philosophy, physics, language, literature, and - occasionally - Shakespeare and anal beads. A lot of comics also contain a multitude of references to anything and everything, and it's fun to see who notices. I have an atypical and, I've been told, unique style all my own here on clipart-based Stripcreator, which is pretty damn cool and as fun a compliment as I could have asked for. Thus, if you don't like my comics, well -- sorry to disappoint, and I'm not surprised.

On the off chance you're into unusual humour, hopefully you'll find something you like. I appreciate any comments you can send my way, and please vote if you can be buggered. I'll stick around until my inspirational well runs dry.

And just because a debut isn't complete without a little alienation:

 

Paradise by Aylear
3-26-09
Rapture.
Believers will suddenly, without warning, disappear from Earth in the twinkling of an eye, and go to reside in the house of the Lord for all time.
That'd be the most awesome thing ever.
Dibs on the Popemobile.

 

Ta.

3-27-09 12:53am (new)
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Aylear
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Dramatis personæ:

Main players
Ayl, mathematician, physicist, linguist, theoretician, and the second coming of Dan. No one knows who or what Dan was, nor why it requires a second coming
Coleoptera Bailey, (Bail); theoretician, artisan, and cohort of Ayl
Apod, the Anthropomorphic Personification Of Death and Creator of Pregnant Pauses
Dean, his less successful half brother
Dead People, Dead People

Others
Fayle, librarian, scholar, genius, and completely unaware of any of it
Maximillian, Fayle's normal half and Keeper of the Tome

______________________________________________________________

 Ayl and Bail.

 

Objectional by Aylear
3-18-09
Ah! 'Tis my good friend, sir Bailey. How's it going, there, Bail?
Not too good, Ayl, my friend; not too good. The two wonderful young lasses I became acquainted with over the course of yesterday's ball...
...were arrested at my apartment today for smuggling comic books.
Alas, it turns out that ol' Bailey was courting criminals all along.

My first comic is awful for a whole different reason.

 

Intermission by Aylear
3-18-09
And now for something completely different.
Hllblblblp! Iiibliib cblan'tmn blreambhtle! Wblyy wobln't anmlyonebl hllllblp mbleeb?!
Thank you, Steve Irwin. Anglerfish are indeed majestic creatures. In other news: The increasing number of videogames for younger children.

 

Augury by Aylear
3-19-09
Salutations, Ayl. What news?
Our friend, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death, is piloting his first commercial flight and has invited us along for the trip. He has been practicing in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator.
I'm going to go reinvent the parachute now.
Righto.

 

Predilection by Aylear
3-19-09
So, my cohort. Though I hesitate to invade upon your privacy, I feel obligated to inquire. You seem a bit despondent. What ails you?
Ah, only the ailment of loneliness. My recent loss still burns - not a flame, but an ember unwilling to expire.
Ahh, yes. As you are prone to do, you still dwell on the ones that got away.
"The ones that were forcibly taken into custody by policemen", more accurately - but yes. Oh, we shared something in our brief time together, Ayl; we truly did.
You finally found a red-haired six foot three tall African-Asian woman with a five foot four quiet friend from Wyoming?
And how.

 

Cipher by Aylear
3-19-09
What does it look like I am doing? I will deal with my temporary sorrow playing my old copy of Street Fighter II.
Such counterproductive banality. Despair cannot be processed unnaturally - not even with ethanol. Only drowned. You waste your life and your time down here; time you will never get back.
What was the cheat code again?
Down, R, Up, L, Y, B.

3-27-09 1:05am (new)
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Aylear
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Death And All His Friends.

 

Quietus by Aylear
3-19-09
That seat is taken.

 

Mori by Aylear
3-19-09
Hello, Ayl. I have been... expecting you.
Top of the morning to you, too, Apod. But it's 'waiting for', not expecting.
Ah. I am still unaccustomed. Then, I have been... waiting for you for a long, long time, Ayl.
You really can't help that, can you?
I do not believe I know what you mean, transient.

 

Deadpan by Aylear
3-19-09
Well, I apologise for keeping you waiting.
I am used to it.
Was that humour?
I am not sure. I could not tell over the sound of your aging.

 

Discretion by Aylear
3-19-09
Well, Apod, when is your big flight?
Not deliberately.
I wasn't asking if you are going to crash the plane.
You didn't have to. You have aged five years since I asked you to come.

 

Misinterpretation by Aylear
3-19-09
Your humour has improved.
Thank you. Humour seems to ease the transition. I am not a proficient judge of human emotions, but I believe the familiar composition of the jokes provide some comfort. Like so: Knock knock.
Who's there?
Lucifer.

3-27-09 1:09am (new)
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Aylear
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 Fayle and Maximillian.

 

Recantation by Aylear
3-20-09
Buenos días, Max!
'Sup, Fay! Haven't seen you in weeks, what's been keeping you?
Sorting out a really big mess. It's a long story; I don't want to bug you with it.
I've got time.
Well, I'm in love with this person who's in love with this other person, who likes this girl who happens to be my best friend. And we all have PMS.
Whoah, I meant, look at the time.

 

Cultivation by Aylear
3-21-09
Pnakotic Manuscripts... Works of the Mentat... Junior Woodchucks Guidebook... A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem... Al Azif... Book of Mazarbul... Ellipses and How to Avoid Their Overuse...
Score! The Big Bang Theory: A Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits, The Triple-Breasted Whore of     Eroticon Six!    
So, what did        you find?       
The demise of respect and tolerance for fellow human beings.

 

Reprisal by Aylear
3-21-09
I wonder if the Big Rip hypothesis is correct. Imagine: The ultimate fate of our universe is to continue expanding until even atoms rip apart. The concept is staggering.
As if the human mind could ever put it into perspective well enough to realize that all our personal feuds are meaningless.
I don't care about the future of the human race, I just want to be alive to see it!
If we are, I hope it affects your bra first! Bow-chicka--
--aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hi Fayle. Where's Max?
Dangling from a light bulb by his testicles.

 

Propriety by Aylear
3-21-09
Thanks for helping me back down.
Debating with myself isn't nearly as much fun as debating with someone who is endlessly wrong about everything.
Is that the warm compassion of another human being I feel, or the third degree burns on my jewels?
So what was that you were saying about how all our personal desires and feuds are meaningless?
Yeah, it's fascinating; look, I'm resigned to going to hell, but I'd like to get there wearing pants.

3-27-09 1:12am (new)
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Aylear
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 Ayl and Bail.

 

Esoteric by Aylear
3-21-09
Morals and values.
I tend to not like it when you have these insights.
Just musing. You must admit, the only reason we even have those words is so that the majority can impose them upon the minority. Our society, our rules.
The majority getting what they want is the basis of society, and most of what we want we do because of genetic programming. Reproduction, habitation, self-preservation...
I stopped believing in evolution when I realized the most prosperous humans are the brainless ones.
I can never decide if you're a genius or a dumbass.

 

Derision by Aylear
3-23-09
I've decided to design a functional reactionless drive. I'll need your help to build it.
Aah, my old enemy Conservation of Momentum; we meet again.
The trick is to bypass the law of conservation of momentum while letting no energy escape the device by designing non-Euclidean geometric shapes to contain and accelerate the energy.
Is this where you start explaining your science in layman's terms so the everyman can understand it?
No, I have no plans to reveal it to NASA.
Pity. I was looking forward to the demonstration with the orange, the aluminium box and the airosol spray can.

 

Paradox by Aylear
3-23-09
The alternative is, of course, to construct an Alcubierre drive.
Though I share your boundless enthusiasm for theoretical propositions, I feel I must inquire about your sudden interest in advancing space flight propulsion.
A Nobel Prize coin in a velvet box would make a nice paperweight.
Well, unfortunately for us an Alcubierre drive would be impossible to construct without an Alcubierre drive. Joseph Heller, I believe, called this a Catch-22. Your noble goal may have to wait.
I don't mind breaking the laws of physics.
Neither do the breasts of women in videogames, and they're not winning any Nobel Prizes.                    Unfortunately.

 

Humourist by Aylear
3-24-09
I was going to prove the existence of God.
But every time I went online to do research on Genesis, the Bible web sites would all collectively and invariably crash my browser.
In the end, I had to resort to translating a Norwegian Bible into English using Babel Fish.
So, all in all, I've at least conclusively proven that if there is a God, he has a fantastic sense of humour.
I could have proven that just by pointing at you.

3-27-09 1:16am (new)
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Aylear
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 Leftovers.

 

Lunacy by Aylear
3-18-09
Unveiling: The First Quadrennial Lunar Olympics

 

Where Are They Now
Rook to C7, checkmate.
Shit. Best (3.5 x (10^42))+1 out of (7 x (10^42))?
  by Aylear, 3-24-09 

 

Peculiar
Meanwhile, genius supervillain Professor Defenestration moves into his new orbital space station. Minutes later, he accidentally moves back out.
  by Aylear, 3-24-09 

 

Scholyrical by Aylear
3-26-09
And as I sit 'neath light of night No sun; no moon; no star in sight yet you excite, for in that light of night your smile I still can see;
and with that smile - my fears undone - I thank old Thomas Edison, who credit stole - from Dave and Swan - for famous bulb that shines with glee.
That selfish cunt.

3-27-09 1:20am (new)
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Aylear
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 Fayle and Maximillion

 

Acumen by Aylear
3-22-09
So, I've decided to prove P equals NP.
I've been wondering when you'd get around to doing that. Why?
I want to be able to extrapolate events by looking at the end result before it happens.
That's not P = NP, that's time travel.
So, I've decided to build a time machine.
Good idea. Your ability to tell the difference will come in handy in the days to come.

 

Recondite by Aylear
3-25-09
               Astrophysics joke!
Where does infancy and alcohol mix?
I dunno.
In a stellar nursery.

 

Physical by Aylear
3-26-09
I was planning this threesome with this beautiful girl.
Then I realized she meant two guys.
In the end, we just couldn't make it work.
Unsolvable three-body problem, huh?

OBSCURE PHYSICS JOKE ALERT

3-27-09 1:23am (new)
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Aylear
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 Death And All His Friends.

 

Parting is such sweet sorrow by Aylear
3-25-09
By and by, I come:— To cease thy strife, and leave carefully planted landmines 'neath thy feet.
Wha--
There has got to be a better way to break the news.
I'm open to suggestions.

 

Nescience by Aylear
3-25-09
I didn't know you like Shakespeare.
Oh, yes. When I came for him on his birthday, he even beseeched God to bemute my mephitic presence.
You do not know what that means, do you?
Not if I can help it.

 

Circumvention by Aylear
3-25-09
So, how's the quest for understanding humans?
Perpetually fascinating. For instance, do you know what anal beads are?
So, how's your ability to recognize when someone is desperately changing the topic?
Still underdeveloped. Why?

3-27-09 1:25am (new)
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Aylear
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 Ayl and Bail.

 

Paradise by Aylear
3-26-09
Rapture.
Believers will suddenly, without warning, disappear from Earth in the twinkling of an eye, and go to reside in the house of the Lord for all time.
That'd be the most awesome thing ever.
Dibs on the Popemobile.

 

Darwinian by Aylear
3-26-09
What is your big problem with young black people metamorphosing English to match their idiosyncrasies, anyway?
I find it disheartening that the same race that has been persecuted for their differences and are now pursuing equality is the same race whose youth are making themselves linguistically disparate.
Counterproductive it might be, but I'm sure they would argue that individuality is more important than conformity. Language is a tool for expression.
Language is a tool for communication. There's nothing useful or clever in embodying unintelligibility.
Language is evolving.
Then I'm on the wrong side of natural selection.

3-27-09 1:27am (new)
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AngryAmerican
Here at least 3 times a year

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I haven't read them all yet, but I enjoy the ones featuring death.

I smell a tiny hint of Pratchett wafting from them...

---
Kill Whitey.

3-27-09 5:07pm (new)
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Hari_Nezumi
Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch

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tl;dr ur comix suk u shud maek jokez abot boobz r sumthn

---
More lust than you can shake a stick at.

3-28-09 3:46pm (new)
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Aylear
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 Ayl and Bail.

 

Mate by Aylear
3-30-09
I wonder if future generations will miss playing chess.
Miss playing?
Well, even today, our imperfect chess programs are stronger than humans. One day we'll solve it. It follows that our electronic implants will help us solve such intricate problems on the fly.
Allowing for perfect games. Nice. It's a theory with interesting implications. Like, what kind of impossibly complex games will be invented to replace chess and challenge future humans?
4D Chess.
Bishop to 1955, Mate?

 

Artistic by Aylear
3-31-09
...loaded. Now, put the gun in your jacket and bring it with you to Sunday church. The moment the priest says Jesus' name, take out the gun, point it at the priest, yell second coming, and--
...so now I'm no longer allowed to do artistic live children's TV shows.
Philistines.

 

Apocryphal by Aylear
3-31-09
So, I hear you're going to be at Worldcon.
Aye. Apparently, my cross-genre science fiction ghost story, "Interstellar Medium", was nominated for a Hugo Award.
Oh, they made a category for Absurd Horseshit?
My novel, albeit fiction, is based on mathematically sound theories of the interstellar void proposed by respectable astrophysicists.
"Then," the old man rasped, "Alzsc'Dwhrisch, Foucault pendulum in hand, will emerge. He will rend his cyclopean beak and, in the vacuum, sing the hymn that disproves the third law of thermodynamics."
Okay, granted, some of them were high at the time.

 

Sycophants by Aylear
3-31-09
Your attention, please. Hello. I thank you all for coming to Worldcon; I truly appreciate my fans coming all this way. I don't want to spoil the mood, but my briefcase is missing, presumed stolen.
Now, my briefcase was securely locked, but the contents are worth millions. Please, keep a lookout for anyone with a locked black briefcase. If you find it, I'll be in my room at the Nelligan.
You know, I don't recall you ever owning a briefcase.
Want one? I'm about to come into a few dozen.

3-31-09 4:06am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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That last batch was especially high quality.

In general, my favorites have been the Fayle and Max comics, even when I didn't understand them.

Going for highbrow humor is an artistic choice that, while it may cost you some readers, I would never try to dissuade you from.  But keep in mind that humor works best when it's accessible.  The greater the cognitive load that your comic places on your audience, the less likely it is they'll be laughing at the end.  I don't mean that you should avoid jokes about stellar nurseries because they might send readers to the encyclopedia.  I mean that you should think about delivering your jokes efficiently.  For example, consider these edits to "Humourist":

Substantially the same joke, but easier to read.  IMHO, anyway.

Keep up the good work. 

---
The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

3-31-09 9:01am (new)
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Aylear
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Thanks for the comments, ed.

Yes, I've been removing excess from my latest batch and it worked out quite well; the last comic, for example, went through two incarnations, each more simplified.

In the case of Ayl and Bail, however - at least for their more philosophical discussions - I've usually been willing to risk ambiguity in favour of staying in character. Ayl and Bail amuse themselves with their superfluent vocabulary choices, which was part of the point; it's equally a writing exercise for me as much as an outlet for humour and ideas.

But, I fully understand where you're coming from. Though I won't sacrifice Ayl's linguistic musings, I'll keep working on abolishing excess. A simplified strip is a better strip. I know this; I was always aware of this. Ignoring this reality was a conscious choice -- obviously not the best choice for acquiring readers, but in the end I had a lot of fun.

Hopefully I'll get better at certain things. Hell, I've only done 40 comics. It's a learning experience all the way.

3-31-09 9:46am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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Yeah, I realize that the elaborate speech is part of the joke in some cases.  (I also realize that I frequently don't follow my own advice.)

Something else I was wondering is why Bailey so often faces away from Ayl when they're talking.  Are they standing in line for something?  Does he have sensory organs on his backside? Or can he simply not bear to face him after what happened between them on that cold, moonless night in Houston two winters ago? 

---
The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

3-31-09 10:57am (new)
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Scyess
Official Traveling Menstrual

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Often*, I have to make a comic and let it sit for a few months before I can re-word it so that the dialog really flows with no extraneous speech.  Humor is speed, after all; the faster your reader can process the joke, the less likely he is to get bored, or see it coming, or otherwise miss the "zing."

That being said, I love the comics.  But, of course, you knew that.

 

* As often as I make a comic, anyway. Which these days is about never.

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"Old" is the old new.

3-31-09 11:22am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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Scyess

Ironically, this is exactly what I was trying to say, expressed more efficiently. 

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

3-31-09 11:36am (new)
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Aylear
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evil_d

Ironically, this is exactly what I was trying to say, expressed more efficiently. 


Hahahah, exactly. I wasn't immune to the irony of us conversing at length about being too wordy and having Scyess The Great drop in and condense it for us.

 

evil_d

Watch the background "move" (background picture shifts with each frame) and the perspective of the characters; they're walking side by side. If that's not immediately obvious (I thought it was), then I should probably stop. I'll miss the fence, though.

No word on the cold and moonless night in Houston.

 

Scyess

I do miss you making comics frequently. I could always drop by my bookmarks and find something new in /Scyess/ :)

Thanks for the love, I really appreciate it.

3-31-09 7:12pm (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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Aylear

I guess I'm just so used to Stripcreator comics that have no sense of perspective at all.  I didn't notice the changing backgrounds, but a more observant reader might. 

---
The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

4-01-09 10:52am (new)
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ArtemisStrong
masturbating to Japanese shit porn

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4-01-09 12:29pm (new)
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Aylear
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 Fayle and Maximillian.

 

Endeavour by Aylear
4-05-09
What'cha doing?
Since nobody's made a great space exploration game yet, I decided to code one.
It'll have procedural generation, several gigs of textures, and an engrossing plot. Unfortunately, progress is slow as my coding abilities are limited.
As in you can only make simple programs?
As in I'd listen to the Microsoft paperclip if he offered his help on the subject.

 

Concessions by Aylear
4-05-09
Wikipedic research?
I want my space game to be scientifically accurate.
So when you go to visit HD 188753, the orbits are correct, and you use theoretically sound technology to get there.
And the reason the protagonist is a super-mutant?
So he can drink methanol clouds and be a badass.

 

Satirical by Aylear
4-05-09
You're what?
Well, you're making a deep space exploration game, so I'm making a deep sea exploration game.
blub blub sunlight can't penetrate below the mesopelagic zone blub blub
blub blub death by hydrostatic pressure blub blub
Welp, that took all night. I'm going to bed.
There must be hobbies more rewarding than mocking me.

 

Recidivism by Aylear
4-05-09
Where did all the visionaries go?
Huh?
In From The Earth To The Moon, Jules Verne wrote about astronauts who launched from Florida, circled the moon, and made splashdown in the ocean where they were recovered. He wrote it in 1865.
They were also shot out of a big cannon at escape velocity speeds.
Good science fiction is scientifically accurate except for where it deliberately violates the laws of physics.
George Lucas certainly violated them, all right.

 

Violated by Aylear
4-05-09
How's the space game coming along?
After thirteen hours I finally got it to run without errors.
Well, at least you finally fixed the--
The program errorlessly raped my operating system.
Well, at least you still have your--
Now I have carpal tunnel syndrome.

 

Meh. Not a big fan of the latest batch. Tomorrow is another day.

4-05-09 6:33pm (new)
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Aylear
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 Third clarinet.

 

Where's Waldo?
Oh, there he is.
  by Aylear, 4-07-09 

 

Salvation by Aylear
4-07-09
 33 CE
    OPPOSITE          OVER         HYPOTENUSE!   
 2009 AD
Today we commemorate Jesus Christ, who died for our sines.

 

Grief by Aylear
4-09-09
Would you like some lasagna, Garfield?
Yes, Jon. Meow.
Sigh. Taking up taxidermy since Garfield died didn't really help my depression.

 

Double Take
What The Fuck by Random Comic Layout                
  by Aylear, 4-09-09 

 

Witcher by Aylear
4-09-09
I'm not scared of you! My friend Thorvald and I will beat the ugly out of you!
Oh yeah, dipshit?
He can turn into a vacant chair at will.

4-12-09 9:07pm (new)
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Hari_Nezumi
Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch

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Stop churnning out funny comics.

 

 

Seriously.

 

 

Stop it.

 

 

No wait don't stop. 

---
More lust than you can shake a stick at.

4-13-09 6:08am (new)
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mandingo
weak stream

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these are fantastic. i have a bit of a man crush on you now after going through them. it'll pass faster if you keep your drapes open for about a week

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what if nigger meant kite

4-13-09 8:47am (new)
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Aylear
Still Alive

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Well, I've already told you I think you're the most consistently funny man on stripcreator, so there isn't really any need to reiterate it but I do anyway.

I'll leave an inch of space between my drapes for you. I gotta preserve some mystery.

4-13-09 12:33pm (new)
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