Looks like the other threads have timed out once more, and I do actually have something to add, so consider this the new "tell us about your comic" thread.

Anyway. Spells and Whistles [spellsandwhistles.net] is back in business.

Tauhid Bondia (the artist behind syndicated comic Suzie View) has quit his job to focus full-time on comicking. Don't worry, there's no big donation drive or anything, he just made the decision to build up S&W into a business. The strip's funny and the art is absolutely beautiful, so if you've got the time it's worth a look.

Wow thsi is weird, this thread shows as an unread in the blatant section but clicking on that didn't show it, clicking on the post title didn't show it, but clicking on tynics user detail and then most recent post got me here.

Cool.

Of course I had lunch beer (tomorrow is melbourne cup which makes today kind of like a semi friday so I am allowed semi lunch beer, which means twice as many drinks but smaller glasses) and so i could have just been missing the actual links....

In Response to tor (#21721):

Still doesn't show in the list after my post. Cool I guess this is my thread to say anything I like in because no one could possibly be as smart as me to find it....

Bush is going to win!!! why? it's funnier that way hehehehe

Number of americans killed in the Iraq thing is tending towards the number of americans killed in the tower thing.

This is not so funny.

N Korea has a well trained and supplied army. Afghanistan and Iraq didn't.

This could be least funniest of all.

In Response to tor (#21722):

Akshully, no, I found it too.

I think it's because GWB can't understand the Korean accent that is the main problem. And that they have nukes. and possibly a korean form of Ninja.

Woah...! Daylight savings must've kicked out through America about the same time as all you down-south freaks kicked in... you posted 3/4 before we replied.

Cool...!

In Response to unFalln (#21724):

man, that was a really cool bug! I wish I'd found it before it fixed itself.

nuts.

In Response to tynic (#21725):

Yeah, your discussion went all elven-cloakenerisationed.

In Response to tynic (#21725):

What's really odd is that only half of these messages are marked as 'unread'... The first time I read this whole thread!

I'm just going to say that...

It's now officially the "post-ironic" age. And ironically-not-quite-breaking-the-fourth-wall is not funny or clever.

It doesn't even get an ironic "heh".

In Response to zamphir (#21739):

Yeah. He has a tendency to do self-aware humour on occasion, and I can't say I'm a fan. I've never seen it pulled off well, come to think about it. Except maybe in 1/0.

Although there is one comic in which he essentially calls Scott Kurtz a giant arse, which made me snicker.

In Response to unFalln (#21724):

I hate daylight savings time. And for most of my life I lived in a state that doesn't set their clocks back and now I live in a state that does...I would like to maim the person who decided that daylight savings was a good idea.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21782):

I would like to maim the person who decided that daylight savings was a good idea.

That would be Benjamin Franklin. I'm pretty sure that even in his current state (food for worms, according to his self-penned epitaph), he could take you two falls out of three. He has amazing electric super-powers.

In Response to gtyrrell (#21791):

Is bone conductive?

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21800):

Is bone conductive?

Under the right conditions, yes. But I would less about bone, and more about your nice, moist organs. Like Dr Acker always used to tell us back in power lab:

If you are unlucky in here, you will take 100 mA through your chest cavity, go into cardiac arrest, and die. If you are very unlucky, you will take 400 mA through your chest cavity, go into cardiac arrhythmia, and die slowly and painfully. I would suggest you avoid both of these.

I hated power lab. And I think that Benjy could easily deliver enough zap to cook your nice, moist organs, or to pop your heart into unnatural (albeit, toe-tappingly catchy) beat patterns.

In Response to gtyrrell (#21801):

Who said my organs were nice, let alone moist. My organs happen to be very grouchy and arid thank you very much.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21809):

My organs happen to be very grouchy and arid thank you very much.

You just keep telling yourself that. It'll make the job of the electrons that much easier. Zap.

In Response to gtyrrell (#21814):

But I don't want to be electrocuted, man, why'd I have to pick a fight with Ben Franklin now that he's got those new-fangled electric super-powers...I can't wait to die, I wonder what cool things my corpse will be do.

Eh, knowing my luck all I'll be able to do is rot, and maybe move my pinky finger in a threatening manner.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21854):

Make it a different finger and it might actually be threatening.

In Response to sakuruth (#21871):

It's not like I get to decided or anything.

In Response to tynic (#21757):

...doesn't everyone call Kurtz an ass, inclusing Kurtz?

He's obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?

In Response to mcgrue (#22233):

Yes, I did know, and that wasn't the point.

There's a long, sordid and involved history between Tauhid and Kurtz that gets obliquely referenced occasionally in the comic. Knowing this history, which clearly you don't, then gives another layer of meaning to some of the dialogue. My point was simply that that was the only occasion upon which I found breaking the fourth wall to be even remotely amusing.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21782):

What are you talking about? Daylight savings time rocks. It's the Standard time that sucks - if we were on Daylight Savings all the time, no more of this getting dark at 5pm bullshit.

In Response to porcupine8 (#22346):

Why should it matter if it gets dark at 5pm (and actually, I think it's 6); dark, light, who the fuck cares? I personally like the dark - as I'm in it so frequently - what I don't like is the cold. When it gets too cold to do anything, that's when I head inside.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#22354):

Stay inside with the AC on and the beer cold!

In Response to GeminiCrash (#22354):

And you might notice, if you pay attention, that it gets a few degrees colder when the sun goes down.

So are you more likely to be able to take advantage of a few extra degrees for an hour early in the morning or early in the evening?

And here (Virginia), the sun is starting to set by 5, though it's not totally dark til closer to 6. But a month from now, it'll be mostly set by 5. In Boston, by mid-December it's pitch black at 4:30. That's just obnoxious.

In Response to porcupine8 (#22563):

Boston, by mid-December it's pitch black at 4:30. That's just obnoxious.

Yeah, I was leaving work at 4:30 yesterday, and thought I was going to need a flashlight to find my car. I can't wait until the sun is fully set by the time in a few weeks.