WCT Nov 2-6, 2009

[Border Reiver]

Based on the results of the last poll I'm going to start this off again.

This time, more use of the spell checker - promise.

[Zombiedude]

Lovecraft demands pancakes.

[LeeC]

yes pancakes with chocolate chips!

[scarred]

Pancake or death?

[Kugai]

Definitely more Pancakes

But add Bacon.   

[scarred]

This thanksgiving, kill yourself:

[Delirium]

Pancake or death?

more like pancake OF death amirite?

ILL TAKE THREE

[TwistedRemedy]

Pancakes. We demand them.

[bicostp]

Anybody here ever made bacon pancakes?

[Zombiedude]

No

[syrupykeyboard]

Pancake or death?

That picture gave my stomach a boner. Physiologically impossible, yes.
But damn near true.
Oh, can I get coffee instead of tea with that pancake? Two creams, two sugars.

EDIT: TR, that pancake is almost too cute to eat. I'd probably look down at it on my plate, half of its head gone, syrup thick like blood. All ashen colored with the sugar.
...
*choked up* I need a moment, guys.

[TwistedRemedy]

I hear JIMMBOOOOoooo

[Is it cold in here?]

Wow. There's a slash pairing that hasn't come up before, and Jeph's the one who suggested it (on Twitter).

[scarred]

For those not among the Twitter elite:

[LeeC]

my eyes, they (goggles) do nothing!

[syrupykeyboard]

For those not among the Twitter elite:
(image)

Oh dear Lord.
That is a Purple Elephants moment if ever there was one.

[Zombiedude]

Bork is the best sound effect

[Is it cold in here?]

Dora in the background was funny. And talk about an abrupt change of perspective, how about Tai's assessment?

Edit: Would "Doctor Heteronormative" be a rad band name? I say "no".

[zagraf]

The "like KITT from Knight Rider, only British, 'cause it's steampunk" line cracked me up like you wouldn't believe.

[Binary]

Well, until I got past the first panel I was baffled as to why a stall would be selling these (NSFW) at a Nerdcon.

Dora being hit on by a furry cracked me up. Lots.

[Zombiedude]

How do you pluralize automaton?

[akronnick]

For those not among the Twitter elite:]

At least they look like they're having a good time!

And now Jimbo owes Marten pancakes.

[slingstone]

Automata

Like "data" is plural "datum."  Silly Latin.

I hope tomorrow's strip continues this conversation, so that we only get the silent-movie pantomime version of the Dora/fursuit interaction in the background.

[Exar_Kun]

Yeah I really liked that perspective shot in the third panel. Also, I laughed out loud at Dora's furry encountered.

[Zombiedude]

Would "Doctor Heteronormative" be a rad band name? I say "no".

Stage name? Yes

[Exar_Kun]

Also, here's how I would reply to Tai in the last panel:

"Does every Jimbo novel have to fit into your personal masturbation fantasies?"

[sitnspin]

I agree with Tai.

As usual.


Its not a matter of everything having to fit with her masturbatory fantasies, its the shortage of solid queer characters in popular fiction.   Its just nice to have main characters we can relate to.

[ysth]

And I'm sick of reading fiction with hardly any brown-haired people; it's always red or blonde or black.  It's just unnatural and I have trouble relating.

[pendrake]

I probably would read "Antoinette Banemoon and the Case of the Airship Automatons," being a sucker for steampunk themes.

Great furries' moment with Dora for background humor, made me laugh.

Edit Add: Also reminded me of another great furries moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_1SK0I_sM

[Near Lurker]

Its not a matter of everything having to fit with her masturbatory fantasies, its the shortage of solid queer characters in popular fiction.   Its just nice to have main characters we can relate to.

But it would distract from the vampire-werewolf-airship-steampunk-vaguely-Foglio-animesque-thing!  Ish.

"After decades of surreal bodice rippers, Jimbo finally turns his hand to the more Saphhic...and finally admits what we all knew, his beers are spiked with acid."

[Thaes]

For those not among the Twitter elite:

I... can't take my eyes off that. They both look... so happy and cute.

[the_shankmaster]

I agree with Tai.

As usual.


Its not a matter of everything having to fit with her masturbatory fantasies, its the shortage of solid queer characters in popular fiction.   Its just nice to have main characters we can relate to.

Jimbo might totally misrepresent a gay character and perpetuate negative stereotypes.  We're probably all better of if he lets homosexual authors write homosexual characters because they actually know what they're doing.

[Is it cold in here?]

Yes. Imagine how Tai would react to a Jimbo-written lesbian.

[Akima]

Clever strip. English language plurals confuse me (they're so unnecessary), but Airship Automata has a better rhythm, and added alliterative appeal. Since automaton is derived from the Greek αὐτόματος rather than Latin, shouldn't the plural be automatoi? 

Dora (is that the plural of Dorum?) should have known better than to attach a tail anywhere around furries. It must be the equivalent of a guy having a coloured handkerchief hanging out of his back pocket... 

[NeverQuiteGoth]

Hahah! There is so much funny in this comic it seems like it ought to violate the laws of physics.

Oh no! Run, furries, run! The wrath of Dora is upon you! 

[Llewellian]

 

Clever wordplay. Guess Jeph is a fan too.



Kay, Agata Hetero"dyne" (the opposite of normative) has only a talking castle and no talking airship... but hey, cannot have it all.

[Near Lurker]

Yes. Imagine how Tai would react to a Jimbo-written lesbian.

...given what we've seen of her so far, I think pretty well...

Also, how the hell is "dyne" the opposite of "normative"?  What's the opposite of "newton"?

[Border Reiver]

I missed Jimbo - not enough to ask for his return, but enought that this was welcome.

What should BR do with polls this week?

Less trying to be funny, more relevance to the comic  7 (20%)
More spellchecking  7 (20%)
Pancakes  21 (60%)
 
Total Voters: 35

Now, for your pancakes, there may be bacon on the side, maybe not.   And as to killing myself for Thanksgiving - you'll have to wait til October 2010, that's when my Thanksgiving is (being a Canuck).

[jonarus_drakus]

I went out drinking on halloween and nobody 'got' my Marten costume... 

I have (dyed) black hair, and blue eyes. Add a hoddie and a bunch of obscure band refferences (speaking of which "Calling all Cars" was playing at my venue of coice -called "The Pub"- at the time. Check them out if you get the chance, i thought they were awsome) and im as good as him (well, him before Dora, I am unfortunately single. I do have a red-haired lesbian friend tho if it helps).





PS: Forget the pancakes. I want waffles with strawberries and cream and maple syrup... mmmmmmm... >drools<

[kraemandrummer]

all this breakfast talk makes me glad it's morning here. I am making waffles

[matachin]

Way too much weirdness.  This is an ill omen for Monday.

Didn't even see Dora at first.  Her tail brought to mind an old neighbor.  Tails may be cute sometimes on hot girls, but on an overweight furry with issues they're not that cute...especially when said neighbor is a guy that wears said _hot pink_ tail all the time.  Damn it Jeph, now I'm going to have flashbacks.  Now Marten's going to have to deal with the eventuality of Dora getting a buttplug tail.

Jimbo's book reminds me more of the Anita Blake books.  They slowly devolve into stranger & stranger territory, adding powers until the sex is more plausible and normal then the rest of the (shrinking) plot.  Maybe after 3-5 more volumes they can make a overproduced movie out of it and let the porn studios rape it further.

Will Hanners encounter the furries? Will a Pintsize/Jimbo slash ever happen?  What would Faye do to the furries?

Between this, the memories, and work it's no wonder I need a drink after work.  Jeph should be the one with the Lovecraft avatar.

[LeeC]

hate to say it but isnt Jimbo just out to sell his books?  So he would want to attract a large audience, so he would throw vampires and werewolves (cough twilight) steam punk, and heteros.

[Llewellian]

Also, how the hell is "dyne" the opposite of "normative"?  What's the opposite of "newton"?

Dyne, from Dyn, wordstem of Dynamic, Changeable.

Normative, wordstem Norm, as in "Standard, Unchangeable".

[ink slinger]

Automata

Like "data" is plural "datum."  Silly Latin.

According to Wikipedia (and the Firefox spellchecker), automatons is also correct.

It must be the equivalent of a guy having a coloured handkerchief hanging out of his back pocket... 

What?

[Delirium]

Automata

Like "data" is plural "datum."  Silly Latin.

According to Wikipedia (and the Firefox spellchecker), automatons is also correct.

It must be the equivalent of a guy having a coloured handkerchief hanging out of his back pocket... 

What?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code

[Cheleg]

I went out drinking on halloween and nobody 'got' my Marten costume... 

I have (dyed) black hair, and blue eyes. Add a hoddie and a bunch of obscure band refferences (speaking of which "Calling all Cars" was playing at my venue of coice -called "The Pub"- at the time. Check them out if you get the chance, i thought they were awsome) and im as good as him (well, him before Dora, I am unfortunately single. I do have a red-haired lesbian friend tho if it helps).





PS: Forget the pancakes. I want waffles with strawberries and cream and maple syrup... mmmmmmm... >drools<

Sorry no one got your costume for halloween, rest assured I'd gladly have punched you in the arm with the mighty force of awesome chick power curtesy of Faye  /strike pose 

Loved Dora's expression in the background - s'what she gets for putting on that hot pink colored tail

[LeeC]

should have worn the teh shirt...

[Near Lurker]

Seriously, though, hearing about a random novel about a heterosexual romance, from a heterosexual author known for his heterosexual romances, and berating the author for being heteronormative?  That's a wee bit obsessive.

(Of course, I'm sure Tai was mostly joking.)

[MamiyaOtaru]

How do you pluralize automaton?

Automatons.

THIS.  IS.  ENGLISH!

It's perfectly acceptable to pluralize foreign origin words with an S.  Knowledge of Greek or Latin grammar isn't a prerequisite for English.  And it's a good thing too because we would fail; look how many people pluralize octopus as octopi (wrong wrong totally wrong: it's octopodes) or virus as virii (again wrong: virus was a mass noun with no plural form).  So: octopuses, viruses and automatons!  whoo!

*EDIT* spelling 

[pwhodges]

Right in every particular - full marks!