New Trenches Comic for Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Wimble

I like this, but I might have to make myself forget about it for a while somehow so I got a bunch of them to read in a row. Three frames every whatever amount of days is not how I'd prefer to read it, I think

Belruel

His nose reminds me of a carrot stick.

I am a fan.

Bacon-BuTTy

I am having difficulty with the tiny bitesizes as well. Not a slight on the guys at all, since they're doing this ontop of everthing else, but I can't do three panels every halfweek. Six a week might be more enjoyable.

PwnanObrien

I don't think anybody cares that you build up a backlog to go through, they still get the pageviews.

Ad revenues still get paid.

JPEGs still get made.

bwanie

you can see he made good on his panel two promise in panel three. He straight up slammed his nose from a rectangle into a trapezoid

eldercore

c 2010? does that mean they started last year and just have a crap load of these?
already months and months of content?

Reigner

Sweet it's not classified as games anymore, I can now read this at work!

Ringo

trenchescomic.com has now crashed IE8 for me twice

anybody else having this problem?

Ringo

Also - I thought Kurtz was supposed to be the man who knew how to draw hands?

What is up with that finger

Turambar

I find it hilarious that they have Scott drawing noses and Mike drawing hands

Speed Racer

Mspa has long trained me to take stories in bite-size chunks, this is a-okay for me

Muggins

I hate that whole "overqualified" bull shit.

maritzac

But it's another day entirely, right? I mean the third panel, it's another set of clothes. It's a montage.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into this.

I don't have a problem with the slower pace... continuity comics just read different.

A duck!

Third panel is probably him walking into the next place.

EDIT - His head reminds me of a foot. Not that there's anything wrong with being a foot-head.

Muggins

"Me want game job you give now yes?"

Henroid

I've always wondered what "overqualified" was all about. My first thought is it's a way to turn people who clearly think for themselves and won't be drones down.

End

The only reason, so far as I know, that being "overqualified" is an issue is that there's a concern you might readily abandon your current job when something better shows up.

I imagine it really sucks if you're desperate for work and that keeps getting thrown in your face though.

The Geek

The main concern with someone being overqualified is that the employer is worried that you might leave as soon as something you're qualified for opens up.

Hunter

The Geek wrote:

The main concern with someone being overqualified is that the employer is worried that you might leave as soon as something you're qualified for opens up.

There's that, and then there's they will have to pay you real person money. Especially once you get into the job and are tasked with things way over the original job description and they see they actually needed/wanted someone with a higher qualification in the first place.

maritzac

But isn't the solution just simply leaving some stuff out of your resume? I mean, if every place you're going tells you the same thing.

Langly

Because you almost always sign a waiver saying you're not lying, and that if you are lying, you'll be instantly fired, and that you understand that.

So if in any discussion it comes out oh well actually I have a doctorate, they'll be like oh well actually you are fired.

Not to mention that if you are leaving out work experience, there will be gaps that don't make any sense, especially if it's a place that will contact previous employers to validate dates and stuff.

JustinSane07

I don't think I'm enjoying this new comic very much.

Abracadaniel

two strips in

really

Fyndir

I'm with that guy, it's been the exact same thing for both strips! That is discouraging, I can only imagine that the trend will continue forever, every single strip of this comic will be that man in an interview situation being told he's overqualified.

That is it, that is the entire comic, forever.

Ringo

Maybe Justin just doesn't like the carrot-stick-for-a-nose look.

A look that may very well haunt this comic forever.

Now whose nose is red, eh Fyndir?

kingworks

Some impatient people on here, geez.

I think this is supposed to be more than a gag-of-the-week strip. There is going to be character development and persistence. Storytelling, not joke-telling.

The Geek

kingworks wrote:

Some impatient people on here, geez.

I think this is supposed to be more than a gag-of-the-week strip. There is going to be character development and persistence. Storytelling, not joke-telling.

Seriously.

KalTorak

CONTINUITY?!

Not on my Internets!

Rhesus Positive

KalTorak wrote:

CONTINUITY?!

Not on my Internets!

That wasn't the attitude you had last week!

KalTorak

Rhesus Positive wrote:

KalTorak wrote:

CONTINUITY?!

Not on my Internets!

That wasn't the attitude you had last week!

I don't even REMEMBER last week!

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KalTorak wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote:

KalTorak wrote:

CONTINUITY?!

Not on my Internets!

That wasn't the attitude you had last week!

I don't even REMEMBER last week!

I think you retconned last week out of existence

faits

Ringo wrote:

Also - I thought Kurtz was supposed to be the man who knew how to draw hands?

What is up with that finger

hahaha nice banana hands, kurtz

Abracadaniel

the job is as an actor for fingerbangerz.com

overqualified indeed

Roger Wilco

At this point, I can't see how anyone could have an opinion on the comic one way or the other. It's like a tv show. Often it takes a few episodes before it takes off and gets really good, because they need to do all the background story and setting up the setting. I'm excited though, I think it has great potential.

Peter Ebel

Why is a miniature sausage hovering in his mouth?

Goose!

I hope this isn't a thing (Mike draws one then Kurtz). I don't like the style change up.

cj iwakura

Wow, I get a birthday comic after all. (I never actually noticed this one...)

AgentofOrange

birthday comic
it's perfect, because I too use small words sometimes

AgentofOrange

cj iwakura, you just back the fuck off and go back to where you came from