Some people apparently mistake the use of a comic device for a particular viewpoint on the part of the artist...
...despite the fact that there isn't enough room in these dialogue bubbles to make clear one's views...
Like when a person points out the inconsistent logic of a Supreme Court decision and then gets tarred as a partisan liberal for saying it while using conservative caricatures...
Or gets pegged as a democratic apologist for questioning the assertion that a state supreme court is always tainted if it is comprised only of members picked by one party...
This artist, for one, agrees that both parties are rife with corruption and rote political skulduggery...Even an independent thinker can smell Scalia's stink, though...
Oh, so he wants to call me out, eh? I'll fix his wagon! My foot'll be so far up his ass he'll be spitting out shoelaces! I'll mess that fool up if he shows his face 'round here, let me tell ya!
Use any "Gabe" from "kofightclub" or "pennyarcade." You must use Gabe at least once in the cartoon.
Title your comic "Comic Contest #3." You can add an alternate title after that, such as "Comic Contest #3 - wirthling is god!"
You can also include "clango" or "redrobot" from "dieselsweeties," but you don't have to use either of them.
You may not use any props. Use any background you want.
I will pick a "winner" at 7pm EST on Thursday 2/15...
Oh, and one of your characters has to mention a vegetable, such as "broccoli," and someone has to say (or words to the effect), "I got 2 words for you:"...You pick the 2 words...
You won't believe who did it -- I was at Burger King getting lunch, and I realized that the guy working behind the counter was none other than Vanilla Ice!
THE Vanilla Ice? Rob Van Winkle? Working at Burger King? Ha ha. And he punched you?! Why?
He wasn't amused when I came back to complain that my Pepsi didn't have enough "ice ice baby"...
Hey! All of these email messages shouldn't have come to me! I better "reply to all" to tell these morons to stop hitting "reply to all"!
Why is this jerk telling me to quit hitting "reply to all"? He's just perpetuating this mess by doing that! I better "reply to all" and tell everybody to stop replying to the replies to the replies...
If I weren't so mad to the point of considering multiple homicide, I might find the irony amusing...
President Bush announces his advocacy of "faith-based" government programs...
We need to start enhancelating the abilitibly of charitabubble organimazations to help the poor, so we can get the gubmint outta the welfare businemps...
Meanwhile, at the Christian Coalition headquarters...
Help the poor? If I had known he wanted to help the god-damned poor, I wouldn't have let him sodomize me during the campaign!
That's fascinating, Mr. Robertson, but are you going to pay me now or do I have to call Tyrone?
Stupid people are so stupid! Ha ha! Right, Kevin? ... You're so right, Jay! Ha ha! -- *click* Call Cleo now for your free tarot reading! -- *click*
This product is great! Where can I order some -- *click* And now back to Death Wish 12 -- *click* my hemmorhoids -- *click* let Jesus -- *click* Popeet! -- *click*
Shazam! -- *click* no money down! -- *click* my videotapes will show -- *click* classic 70s hits -- *click* great abs -- *click*
Hello, kids! I'm Dr. Pedantic and I'm here to talk about kidneys and bladders! Yay! Are ya ready? Well, ARE YA?!
Ummmm, OK...
Kidneys act as blood filters and regulate electrolyte levels. They DO NOT in fact have any effect on urine retention capacity. That would be a function of the bladder.
That's, um, fascinating...
So adding a 3rd kidney would not allow one to pee much longer than the average person... Uh, where'd ya go, little girl? ... *sigh* ... Nobody likes Dr. Pedantic...
Romance blooms between Mary and Robert Downey, Jr. ...
Robert, I thought you had cleaned yourself up. I thought you were done with drugs.
I am ashamed of myself, but I think I can recover this time with your help, Mary.
Just what I need -- another co-dependent relationship. I just got done with Bob and his Viagra addiction. I swear, if I have to hear, "Bob Dole's horny again!" one more time...
But I can change! Really, I can! Hang on a sec while I smoke this magic bean...
Poof!
Um, is this really a change for the better?
It is, I swear it. You'll see. Just put on this Red Robot costume and I'll show you...
I just found out that I killed my father and married my mother. When my wife/mother found out, she hanged herself. I was so distraught that I cut off my own skin flute...
Damn. That sucks.
Tell me about it. I took a handful of Prozac and I'm still bummed big-time...
My deepest condolences about your parents...
To hell with my parents! I gotta find my tallywhacker before a hungry dog or bird finds it! Help me look, damn it!
Right! We here at Lowpass would like to apologize for the very poor quality of the Comic Contest XX rules. We also would like to apologize for the poor quality of this particular comic strip.
I would like to apologize for the other clown's apology. Clearly, he cannot know the quality of this comic strip until it has been completed. Please disregard his apology, the poor loony bastard.
I would like to apologize for the preceding panel. Obviously, there was a rather appalling lack of humor in it. And now for your entertainment, I will fart Beethoven's 9th symphony...
STOP! Stop this comic strip! This is getting entirely too silly!
I just loaded the artificial intelligence software into the prototype models. Behold!
...still, I cannot conceive of an auteur with a more robust command of mise-en-scène than Pasolini. The post-modern lexicon owes a debt to his genius.
Yes, yes, yes! His skill at realizing the cultural subtext of the mid-century european zeitgiest through visual metaphor was truly prodigious...
I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't want to own one of these things.
Really? Is the gray too drab? I could make them red...
...but if conscious expression is bound by the limitations of language, the extrication of internal meaning by words is like attempting in vain to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste from the tube...
...or perhaps it is more apropos to liken our verbal instantiations as mere confetti left over from the parade of our essential thoughts, or maybe the conceptual monad is only true within itself...
...but others aver that the interstice between an objectified mental concept and its simplest morphemic instance may be rather infinitessimal, and this verisimilitude between --
Look, college boy - I didn't come to Starbucks for pretentious blather. Just make me a damn Caramel Macchiatto, for cryin' out loud!
Oh yeah. I've heard of you. You're Bam, the Axe-Wielding New Year Squirrel Who Is Obsessed With Porn And Only Speaks In Anagrams Of The Phrase "Gabba Gabba Hey Smitten," aren't you?
I wasn't sure why everyone hated wirthling until he submitted this comic. This sucks harder than Prince Edward at a Pet Shop Boys concert!