[PA Comic] Monday, July 28, 2014 - The Talk, By Bill Amend

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[PA Comic] Monday, July 28, 2014 - The Talk, By Bill Amend

The Talk, By Bill Amend

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/07/28

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Jokerman

This is amazing. It's like all of my love for Foxtrot combined with my love for Penny-arcade,

streever

Oh man, brilliant.

Lucascraft

This material is way outside of the normal bounds of Foxtrot.

I heartily approve.

Lucascraft

It's like seeing Bob Sagat's stand-up comedy act for the first time, and realizing he's nothing at all like Danny Tanner.

Warlock82

This is fantastic.

zerzhul

this is wonderful

geekoid

This comic made me very happy.
Well Done.

Mercade

Life is just pee holes and butts

Man in the Mists

Oh Internet, you great and terrible beast.

kilroydos

Thumbs way up!

fightinfilipino

this is a good monday strip.

hell, it's a fantastic strip, period.

tastydonuts

lol, wow this was a surprise.

T1GZ

FOXTROT!! The first comic series I ever followed! This "Talk" series is great! I wonder who the next guest will be!

Primesghost

Wow!! Came to check the Monday comic and found a Bill Amend guest strip! Definitely brightened my Monday.

Darkewolfe

Love Bill Amend! Woo!

Knowing that Mike and Jerry are some sort of professional friend/associates with him is just an awesome thing.

Does anyone have the scoop on how the original Foxtrot guest strip came to be?

Rehab

Easily the best guest strip of the series.

Maybe the best guest strip period?

YoungFrey

Darkewolfe wrote: »

Love Bill Amend! Woo!

Knowing that Mike and Jerry are some sort of professional friend/associates with him is just an awesome thing.

Does anyone have the scoop on how the original Foxtrot guest strip came to be?

No, but he did the introduction for their first book of collected strips. So Jerry probably just asked him while he was canvassing all the cartoonists he knew.

Puddingpie

"Just go to Google or Bing..."

Who Bings things though?

HeWhoSees

Bill Amend actually drew this?! He drew...HE drew those bleeding eyes? Has...has Foxtrot changed since my local paper stopped running it? That he'd even be willing to draw something like that...I didn't think it was so. I'm probably naive.

Gaslight

HeWhoSees wrote: »

Bill Amend actually drew this?! He drew...HE drew those bleeding eyes? Has...has Foxtrot changed since my local paper stopped running it? That he'd even be willing to draw something like that...I didn't think it was so. I'm probably naive.

I think Amend stopped doing Foxtrot except for Sunday strips several years ago. But it's a safe bet that you wouldn't see a Foxtrot strip where kids google for butts and pee holes in your funny pages, anyway. Amend can do stuff in a PA guest comic he could never do in a newspaper.

Hargaad of Omnar

Even as an adult, when I searched for all those keywords, I found a dark corner of the internet I hope to never stumble upon again.
But it felt so gooooood.

Thanatosia

It's like seeing Bob Sagat's stand-up comedy act for the first time, and realizing he's nothing at all like Danny Tanner.

I think you summed up exactly how I felt reading this. I loved foxtrott when I was younger, even collected the archive books. Now I want to see Lovecraftian versions.

November Fifth

So I did this query on Bing, cause I figured that these search engine algorithms might actually curate a birds/bees type search into something reasonably kid friendly.

And the result is....nope not at all, not in the slightest. Just raw, hardcore, taboo as *$%@ porn.

YoungFrey

November Fifth wrote: »

So I did this query on Bing, cause I figured that these search engine algorithms might actually curate a birds/bees type search into something reasonably kid friendly.

And the result is....nope not at all, not in the slightest. Just raw, hardcore, taboo as *$%@ porn.

One of the main (performance) differences between Google and Bing is that Google filters a lot of stuff even at the loosest settings.

Lucascraft

So you're saying that if I want a raw, uncensored search, I should be Binging it?

YoungFrey

Lucascraft wrote: »

So you're saying that if I want a raw, uncensored search, I should be Binging it?

Yes. You will have to disable Bing's Safe Search, but after that it works. Just Pepsi Challenge it up. It is very clear with certain topics.

Caulk Bite 6

geth knows this very well.

TychoCelchuuu

So that's what people mean when they say they're binging someone.

Gosling

This right here is why people mock the newspaper strips so much. The artists can't let their hair down and make the jokes (or drawings) they really want to make. I maintain that if Calvin and Hobbes came along in the era when you could make it a webcomic, Bill Watterson might not have wrapped it when he did, and he might not have gone into hiding.

Zoku Gojira

Before this guest thing is up, I'd love to see K-Straub pull Mr. Jinx out of retirement to give "the talk," cirbozoid style. Perhaps to that amorphous ship's doctor.

KalTorak

Gosling wrote: »

This right here is why people mock the newspaper strips so much. The artists can't let their hair down and make the jokes (or drawings) they really want to make. I maintain that if Calvin and Hobbes came along in the era when you could make it a webcomic, Bill Watterson might not have wrapped it when he did, and he might not have gone into hiding.

Watterson even eventually had enough clout to stretch artistically a little, insisting on full half-page sunday strips instead of the standardized "Throwaway joke plus longer strip made of X small panels so we can chop it up for space" format, so he could get more creative with the layouts.

Him bringing his art to a webcomic and getting to explore even more space would be like a dream come true.

Gosling

Zoku Gojira wrote: »

Before this guest thing is up, I'd love to see K-Straub pull Mr. Jinx out of retirement to give "the talk," cirbozoid style. Perhaps to that amorphous ship's doctor.

I read Mr. Jinx and suddenly imagined terrible, terrible things about Pixie and Dixie.

Diplominator

Gosling wrote: »

This right here is why people mock the newspaper strips so much. The artists can't let their hair down and make the jokes (or drawings) they really want to make. I maintain that if Calvin and Hobbes came along in the era when you could make it a webcomic, Bill Watterson might not have wrapped it when he did, and he might not have gone into hiding.

Baby Blues was somehow allowed to print the word "boobs" today, so maybe times are changing?

Then again, I'm pretty sure Family Circus still exists. At least my local paper stopped printing fucking Peanuts.

Agentflit

Diplominator wrote: »

At least my local paper stopped printing fucking Peanuts.

I'll fight you over that one, Peanuts is special

Spaffy

Wonderful comic!

Gaslight

Considering the total length of its run, the peak period of Peanuts was remarkably brief. I'd say it was past its prime by 1970, really. But the stuff from the mid to late 60's has to basically begin any conversation about the best material the medium has ever produced.

streever

Newspaper comics are 'for children' per the editorial boards of most newspapers; that's why they are so sanitized. They literally are asking themselves, "Would an 83 year old grandmother in Topeka be upset if she saw this word in the comic her 4 year old grand-child is looking at?"

YoungFrey

streever wrote: »

Newspaper comics are 'for children' per the editorial boards of most newspapers; that's why they are so sanitized. They literally are asking themselves, "Would an 83 year old grandmother in Topeka be upset if she saw this word in the comic her 4 year old grand-child is looking at?"

So really they are for old people? Realistically, only old people read newspapers at this point. They might as well be rotary dial phones.

streever

No, newspapers are for people who think that news has an intrinsic value and understand that it costs money to produce it.

Basically they are for ideologues like myself.

forty

Diplominator wrote: »

Gosling wrote: »

This right here is why people mock the newspaper strips so much. The artists can't let their hair down and make the jokes (or drawings) they really want to make. I maintain that if Calvin and Hobbes came along in the era when you could make it a webcomic, Bill Watterson might not have wrapped it when he did, and he might not have gone into hiding.

Baby Blues was somehow allowed to print the word "boobs" today, so maybe times are changing?

Then again, I'm pretty sure Family Circus still exists. At least my local paper stopped printing fucking Peanuts.

A few months ago, a Doonesbury rerun had "gook" in my paper.