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Title: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 21 Nov 2009, 22:50
Let's start early this week.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: syrupykeyboard on 21 Nov 2009, 23:11
Wow. Real early. Although I guess it is technically Sunday now.
So. What will Monday's comic be? Marten & Steve & Tai & Mystery Girl?
Faye & Dora & Hannelore?
Marigold & Angus?

Le suspens est excessif!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 22 Nov 2009, 12:17
When we don't have a comic, we have Twitter. The latest:

Quote
Someday I want to be in a band with Joey and Emily from A Softer World.

QFT. (Because Jeph doesn't like it when you say "This." so I'm going with shitty netspeak instead.)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: The Duke on 22 Nov 2009, 16:04
My family and I were once playing an old edition of Trivial Pursuit, and Yuri Gagarin came up as the answer no less than three times.  Now if we don't know the answer, we just say him.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 22 Nov 2009, 16:23
My old circle of friends used Peter Lorre for the same reason.  And once, in a game with new people, it actually worked...
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 22 Nov 2009, 18:28
Maybe there was a flood.

(My family's stock answer when the actual facts are not readily apparent. see also creationism)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 22 Nov 2009, 23:49
Maybe there was a flood, and Yuri Gagarin and Peter Lorre were the last humans on earth. Then…
Then I think I'll quit while I'm behind.

And Dliessmgg, it never occurred to me the Newsbox might want to screw around with Tai. Literally.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 23 Nov 2009, 00:43
The newsbox is Pintsize and Yellingbird after a fusion dance (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FusionDance).
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: lhasafi on 23 Nov 2009, 02:07
Marten really has a knack for getting into these really uncomfortable situations.

"You're wearing deodorant, it's all good" LOL
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 23 Nov 2009, 02:11
"Do you see my panties anywhere" is an awkward thing to say in any circumstance, but for the person you just met, who is not comfortable around atrractive ladies who are not his sweetie, it must be murder.

Quick say something ridiculous...
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: evilbobthebob on 23 Nov 2009, 02:14
HOLY SHIT THIS IS WHY I'M GOING INTO PHYSICS

Ridiculous enough?  :-D
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Near Lurker on 23 Nov 2009, 02:16
Oh, Hampshire professors, how I...am very glad I do not take courses from you.

(Seriously, if the few I've come across are any indication, this girl couldn't explain what makes the bong bubbles rise.)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Scathraax on 23 Nov 2009, 02:20
NEEDS MORE ANNETTE, NOW!


Ahem.. Please? :-P
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: evilbobthebob on 23 Nov 2009, 02:25
It's not like there's much we haven't seen already :-P

OK OK I have to stop this now. STEVE WAS FUNNY TODAY, YEAH.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 23 Nov 2009, 02:44
Poll results:

Marigold's sister: 11
VibrAnthroPC: 1
clone of Hannerdad: 1
newsbox: 11
Yuri Gagarin: 5
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 23 Nov 2009, 03:13
Tai continues to radiate newfound cuteness. And if Marten doesn't care for such situations, I'm told he should be single and sexually insatiable at all times, and constantly announce both of these statuses. He might also make an effort to voice crude comments, followed by a laugh phonetically approximated by hur, hur, hur.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: JackFaerie on 23 Nov 2009, 03:13
Oh, Hampshire professors, how I...am very glad I do not take courses from you.

(Seriously, if the few I've come across are any indication, this girl couldn't explain what makes the bong bubbles rise.)

Really? Because several of my friends who graduated from Hampshire are now doing lab research at Harvard for their graduate work.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mr_Rose on 23 Nov 2009, 03:59
Hey, maybe this new Annette person is one of Raven's professors? Or does their social circle have too many closed loops as it is already?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 23 Nov 2009, 04:18
Not until they all have a Erdös-Bacon number of 2.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Nov 2009, 06:31
It may explain why she's late for her office hours so often... 

"it" reffering to either the dope or not being able to find her panties.  Or both. 

Mmmmm..... Erdös bacon..... I can hear it sizzling and popping already! 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: kent_eh on 23 Nov 2009, 06:34
So, WTF is Annette's tattoo?
Some massive winged creature?
A "tramp stamp" that is too big for her back?

Or is that some artifact of the "session" that her and Tai just finished?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mad Cat on 23 Nov 2009, 07:38
I call a pair of massive angel wings backpiece, so massive the lower tips of them wrap around her kidneys.

Speaking as a physics teacher type person, I can attest that it's extremely easy to lecture on that material while stoned. Not from personal experience, mind you, at least not the illicit form of recreational chemistry.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Llewellian on 23 Nov 2009, 08:05
I dont know how stoned physics teachers are, but i can tell from expirience: Never ever have a pair of drunken physics teachers near a 1 ton trebuchet. They radiate "silly" ideas.  :-D
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: celticgeek on 23 Nov 2009, 08:09
Try this one:

Trebuchet (http://www.warwicksiege.com/flash_game/flash_game.asp)

celticgeek the physicist
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Sorflakne on 23 Nov 2009, 08:39
It's official: Tai wins.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Nov 2009, 08:45
I dont know how stoned physics teachers are, but i can tell from expirience: Never ever have a pair of drunken physics teachers near a 1 ton trebuchet. They radiate "silly" ideas.  :-D

Wait, do I know you? 

Key words; Trebuchet, Physics, Rivenstar, Moonwulf... you're about the right age...

Naaah, I guess any trebuchet would attract drunken physicists. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Nov 2009, 08:46
Speaking as a physics teacher type person, I can attest that it's extremely easy to lecture on that material while stoned. Not from personal experience, mind you, at least not the illicit form of recreational chemistry.

I dunno from that, but it's amazing what a few beers can do for a calculus lecture! 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 23 Nov 2009, 09:31
Especially if they're poured over the lecture notes.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Binary on 23 Nov 2009, 11:41
So, WTF is Annette's tattoo?

It looked to me like it was supposed to be someone's hands grabbing Annette's waist - a tattoo version of the hands-on-boobs nightie here (http://www.bjsmusic.com/owlpuss.jpg). Now that you've mentioned wings, though, I guess the "fingertips" do look a bit pointy.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Nov 2009, 12:28
Reminds me of a church camp t-shirt my daughter came home with one year - had Jesus with his hands outspread in a very inappropriate location. 

Looked like he was supporting every young lady at camp, and if he'd just turn his head he could motorboat...  needless to say, it's brought out for a good laugh on a regular basis.  She calls it "feel me Jesus". 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LizziL on 23 Nov 2009, 13:03
Love the name Cosette, but man, that bitch is the worst part about Les Mis.
I'll be quiet now. :)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Binary on 23 Nov 2009, 13:05
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: The Duke on 23 Nov 2009, 13:11
Love the name Cosette, but man, that bitch is the worst part about Les Mis.
I'll be quiet now. :)

For me, it's Marius, because in the production I saw, Valjean was one of the best singers I've ever heard, and Marius was not good at all.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: caelae on 23 Nov 2009, 15:18
COSETTE! <3

There's really nothing wrong with Cosette; it's just the musical's deliberately sympathetic towards Eponine.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ysth on 23 Nov 2009, 19:13
Speaking of plurals, check out the Professors Emeriti (http://www.hampshire.edu/ns/7189.htm).
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: JD on 23 Nov 2009, 19:22
Reminds me of a church camp t-shirt my daughter came home with one year - had Jesus with his hands outspread in a very inappropriate location. 

Looked like he was supporting every young lady at camp, and if he'd just turn his head he could motorboat...  needless to say, it's brought out for a good laugh on a regular basis.  She calls it "feel me Jesus". 
Photo please
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Nov 2009, 19:50
I'll try, but it'll be a little while...  holiday and all. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 23 Nov 2009, 20:17
I wonder if she listens to 'Glorious Dawn' stoned.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Shadic on 23 Nov 2009, 21:03
I know everybody has had this moment several times, but..
Holy crap, Jeph's art used to be so much more.. Cartoony. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1419)

Makes me wonder what the is going to look like when we think the same of the art now.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LizziL on 24 Nov 2009, 00:56
COSETTE! <3

There's really nothing wrong with Cosette; it's just the musical's deliberately sympathetic towards Eponine.

My hate stems directly from the fact that my nickname IS Eponine. Because I'm cool. Not lame.


I just keep digging myself a deeper hole, don't I?
Also, the last panel in today's comic cracked me up, and made this stupid essay a lot better.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 24 Nov 2009, 02:20
Poll results!

a backflash how Tai ended up with Annette     - 8 (18.2%)
Pintsize in one of his usual chatrooms (oh god no!)    - 13 (29.5%)
Raven and her new friends during a physics lecture    - 16 (36.4%)
Wil likes to talk with customers at work    - 7 (15.9%)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 24 Nov 2009, 03:15
The problem is, of course, that we can all of us see Steve doing exactly that, especially if he got drunk enough. Or we would really like to, so long as we don't actually see his mantenna.

Ambush dating. Will it ever catch on (again)?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Border Reiver on 24 Nov 2009, 03:25
That implies that ambush dating had been popular once.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Llewellian on 24 Nov 2009, 05:22
I dont know how stoned physics teachers are, but i can tell from expirience: Never ever have a pair of drunken physics teachers near a 1 ton trebuchet. They radiate "silly" ideas.  :-D

Wait, do I know you? 

Key words; Trebuchet, Physics, Rivenstar, Moonwulf... you're about the right age...

Naaah, I guess any trebuchet would attract drunken physicists. 

No. i dont think we know each other. But it seems that physics teachers and trebuchets have much in common... there are high school events where you get extra points for hitting your teacher with a trebuchet...

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/LocalNews/425104-147/hitting-teacher-is-the-goal-during-campbells.html

Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Nov 2009, 05:37
Steve really isn't the type to think things through, is he?  This was probably an advantage when he worked for the DoKYA, I mean who would enter a villian's volcanic lair if they'd actually thought it through? 

And is Tai putting the bong on the windowsill?  Or is she about to dump the bongwater out the window?  bleah...
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mad Cat on 24 Nov 2009, 06:45
Just now seeing Tai wearing jeans made me go back and double check... she answered the door in her tighty whities.   :-o
Being naked in bed is one thing, but actually opening the front door to your domecile in your altogether?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: epoch on 24 Nov 2009, 07:04
Just now seeing Tai wearing jeans made me go back and double check... she answered the door in her tighty whities.   :-o
Being naked in bed is one thing, but actually opening the front door to your domecile in your altogether?
Its Tai, you should not be surprised by this.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 24 Nov 2009, 08:02
That implies that ambush dating had been popular once.
I'm recalling the 'good ugh daze' of clubs and hair-dragging.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Nov 2009, 08:05
Just now seeing Tai wearing jeans made me go back and double check... she answered the door in her tighty whities.   :-o
Being naked in bed is one thing, but actually opening the front door to your domecile in your altogether?

I was pretty sure she was wearing jammies, maybe boxers.  Looks like there's a fly.  All you see is the waistband and top inch or so, anyway.  

Besides, the standards of decency in a dorm are quite different.  
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 24 Nov 2009, 09:30
I am afraid I'm with Marten on this one.  Just too creepy.  But Steve looks pretty desperate.

on the poll question
"Remember lieutenant, the quickest way to a girl's bed is through her parents. Have sex with them and you're in." -Zapp Brannigan
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Arancaytar on 24 Nov 2009, 09:57
a pair of drunken physics teachers near a 1 ton trebuchet

A recipe for hilarity!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 24 Nov 2009, 10:41
So tell me, when a girl has your number, and doesn't call, so then you track her number down, what is the appropriate course of engagement?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 24 Nov 2009, 11:29
bump into them.  thats about all you could hope for.  anything else would be creepy.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: BigSol81 on 24 Nov 2009, 13:28
Is it just me, or does Steve look an AWFUL lot like Tory Belleci from Mythbusters?

(http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/39414/6946f63ED9a50bE1__profile.jpg)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: someone1074 on 24 Nov 2009, 13:48

I'm trying to find ways to suggest that you might have something there, but I don't see it at all. In any way, really. Unless you decide to build the comparison off of something as insignificant as a general hairstyle.

Anyway, addressing people at the door in your underwear is very common in all-women dormitories. Especially if the college has any sort of party reputation.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: epoch on 24 Nov 2009, 17:19
Is it just me, or does Steve look an AWFUL lot like Tory Belleci from Mythbusters?

(http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/39414/6946f63ED9a50bE1__profile.jpg)
OH SHI-
What has been seen....
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 24 Nov 2009, 18:07
Anyway, addressing people at the door in your underwear
Isn't that a pretty strange place to have a door?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: JD on 24 Nov 2009, 18:15
Is it just me, or does Steve look an AWFUL lot like Tory Belleci from Mythbusters?

(http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/39414/6946f63ED9a50bE1__profile.jpg)
OH SHI-
What has been seen....
can be unseen.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: caelae on 24 Nov 2009, 18:31
COSETTE! <3

There's really nothing wrong with Cosette; it's just the musical's deliberately sympathetic towards Eponine.

My hate stems directly from the fact that my nickname IS Eponine. Because I'm cool. Not lame.


I just keep digging myself a deeper hole, don't I?
Also, the last panel in today's comic cracked me up, and made this stupid essay a lot better.

Why is your nickname Eponine? Are you a poor, rejected street waif, pining for a love from another world, destined to die on a lonely barricade?

Or maybe there's a more realistic explanation XD
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: someone1074 on 24 Nov 2009, 19:24
Isn't that a pretty strange place to have a door?

I would say it makes sense...for those with penises anyway. Regardless, flaps just just seem to be easier on the manufacturer.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 24 Nov 2009, 20:21
This cannot end well.


It will turn out that Cosette is the secret daughter of the Supervillan Steve killed while working for DoKYA - Terrible revenge will ensue.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mad Cat on 24 Nov 2009, 22:30
I lived in the dorms for three years. Of course, they were always co-ed dorms, so maybe the presence of the complementary sex kept people on better behaviour...

I just know that even when I was sleeping (or otherwise) in the nude, I always had a set of jammies draped over a chair or a robe hanging on the closet door in case I needed to "breach containment".
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ysth on 25 Nov 2009, 00:53
To arms, to arms!

I suspect Steve and Cosette are going to be experiencing Twue Wuv.
(Marius, you're late, what's wrong today, you look at if you've seen a ghost...)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: snubnose on 25 Nov 2009, 01:18
Grmpf.

Yeah, thats how you get the girl of your dreams.

Hahaha.

Sorry, me pissed about reallife which is nothing like Steves reality.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 25 Nov 2009, 02:08
The WSSD? results

send pintsize to her, then "save" her     - 16 (25.8%)
find out her cellphone number, then act like she gave it to him while drunk at a party    - 14 (22.6%)
accidentally cause the end of the world as we know it, then choose her as sidekick to save the world    - 21 (33.9%)
ask a mad scientist to turn his life into a accidental harem manga (the first always wins) (wait, would that be Tortura?)    - 9 (14.5%)
infiltrate her family    - 2 (3.2%)

Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 25 Nov 2009, 03:15
Maybe Cosette had to oil-wrestle her cousin Tortura for the right to date Steve, and things got, well, slippery.

Sorry, me pissed about reallife which is nothing like Steves reality.
'Tis cos it's a webcomic. Sure, the living can be easy for a webcomic character. But you can't be shifted to the trash directory when your artist gets tires of you. I'm very pleased that can't hap—
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Border Reiver on 25 Nov 2009, 03:41
Not invested enough in this character or Steve to care - I'm waiting for turkey!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: laizeohbeets on 25 Nov 2009, 04:21
My hate stems directly from the fact that my nickname IS Eponine. Because I'm cool. Not lame.

Because your nickname (that you probably gave yourself) comes from a character in a musical... and you're not lame. Are you thirteen? Dude, seriously.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: wargrafix on 25 Nov 2009, 05:33
And I now pronounce the new shipping group Stevette. You can now burn. lol


Wait...this playing a little from Thunderball (james bond film) Those memory of those tits are now burnt to memory.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: lhasafi on 25 Nov 2009, 05:58
Hmm. Could it be that the US Gov't got a little too sloppy with VespAvenger's "extracurricular activities". Someone call Agent Turing.

On a completely unrelated note - where did Annette go?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 25 Nov 2009, 06:39
My guess would be that Annette got dressed and went to her place to prepare for the coming work day.

The 'smooch-smooch-see-you-later' scene, being neither relevant to the plot, nor especially funny, happened off-camera, so to speak.

Alternatively,  she went to the bathroom (which, since they were in Tai's Do  room) would require putting on a at least a minimal level of covering. Now that she's taken care off her first thing in the morning toilet requirements, and Tai's visitors have left, she and Tai are free to get down to some early morning bow-chicca-bow-wow.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: kent_eh on 25 Nov 2009, 06:41
What's  up with the other girl in panel 2? 
That's quite the evil eye she's giving Cosette.

I'm guessing the leg damage was committed during some grand (and very public) mis-adventure with someone else's boyfriend(s)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 25 Nov 2009, 07:56
Wait, did stink-eye-girl knock Cosette's Crutches out from under her?

That's just cold.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 25 Nov 2009, 08:17
Nah, stink eye's just the normal "bitch, you cut me off with your crutches!"

Cosette did that herself - the fall wasn't planned, just convenient, she was crutching too fast trying to catch Steve...
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: sitnspin on 25 Nov 2009, 08:22
I too would like said Telecaster. I can already get girls. Rare classic guitars are much harder to get.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 25 Nov 2009, 08:26
I suppose that works if you view people as interchangeable pieces-parts that you can pick out of a bin and one's just as good as another.

But if you take the view that every human being is a beautiful and unique snowflake that sounds pretty crass.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: wargrafix on 25 Nov 2009, 08:53
I noticed something weird in panel 3. Is that BLOOD in her right eye?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Tuitsuro on 25 Nov 2009, 09:06
I was going to Godwin the thread with a hitler snowflake reference, but all I could think of was 'Hitler Flakes cereal, 100% of your daily allowance of hatred in every bowl!'


So did Cosette ask out the She-Hulk's boyfriend, or something?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mad Cat on 25 Nov 2009, 09:50
That's gotta hurt.

I don't mean the black eye and broken leg. I mean falling and landing into a major boob grope.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 25 Nov 2009, 10:02
It was from a freak washing machine accident!  :wink: or possible she got in a row with an allosaurous....
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mr_Rose on 25 Nov 2009, 10:11
I think it may be that Cosette changed direction and crossed the other girl's path unexpectedly in her haste to fall all over Steve. Loads of people will look at you funny if you suddenly change direction for no reason and nearly bump into them. Especially if you manifest a giant exclamation mark on your forehead just beforehand.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Akima on 25 Nov 2009, 16:12
That implies that ambush dating had been popular once.

Popular? It's practically compulsory!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women

Lots to see and ponder in 1543:

1) Is the exclamation point next to Cosette's head in panel one necessary? I only noticed it on a second reading, and I think her facial expression conveys her startled recognition quite happily. Trust your art, Jeph!

2) In the second panel, what's up with the dark-haired girl on the extreme left? Is she giving Steve and Marten the hairy eyeball (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_the_hairy_eyeball), or reacting to Cosette's desperate crutch-charge? One would say the latter obviously, except that Cosette looks as if she's behind and beyond D.H.Girl. Perhaps she's making a lot of clanking and clomping noise...

3) Panels three and four demonstrate one reason why Steve was recruited by the DoKYA. Seriously quick reflexes! Whereas Marten sees her falling first, but stands there like a stunned mullet.

Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Watched Pot on 25 Nov 2009, 16:38
And I now pronounce the new shipping group Stevette.
No way! Cosette and Marigold exist within the same fictional reality. They completely gonna do it forever! Whooooo!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Akima on 25 Nov 2009, 16:41
I noticed something weird in panel 3. Is that BLOOD in her right eye?
Nothing weird about it. Hyphema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphema) is very common with a black eye.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Nightson on 25 Nov 2009, 17:45
The turkey comic is epic. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 25 Nov 2009, 18:44
OMG TURKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

TURKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




That is all.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 25 Nov 2009, 18:47
I think she got a late night visit from Dora
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 25 Nov 2009, 18:49
Never really developed a taste for boiled Turkey
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: syrupykeyboard on 25 Nov 2009, 19:02
I do not like being intimate with female turkeys either.
Caveat: This does not mean that I like being intimate with male turkeys. Please refrain from calling me tonight and gobbling all heavy and shit.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: The Duke on 25 Nov 2009, 19:46
At first I didn't see the turkey comic was up already, and I was all like WTF.

To arms, to arms!

I suspect Steve and Cosette are going to be experiencing Twue Wuv.
(Marius, you're late, what's wrong today, you look at if you've seen a ghost...)

Some whine and say, "What's going on?"
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ndperfesser on 25 Nov 2009, 20:11
And that, boys and girls, is how cream of turkey soup came to be.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Random832 on 25 Nov 2009, 20:56
I think it may be that Cosette changed direction and crossed the other girl's path unexpectedly in her haste to fall all over Steve. Loads of people will look at you funny if you suddenly change direction for no reason and nearly bump into them. Especially if you manifest a giant exclamation mark on your forehead just beforehand.

But the exclamation mark is supposed to be a warning - it's like a turn signal.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Akima on 25 Nov 2009, 21:15
I do not like being intimate with female turkeys either.
Caveat: This does not mean that I like being intimate with male turkeys. Please refrain from calling me tonight and gobbling all heavy and shit.
Steganography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography) in forum-comments? Is this turning into xkcd?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ysth on 25 Nov 2009, 21:27
Some whine and say, "What's going on?"
Yes, Steve makes a better Grantaire.

Steganography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography) in forum-comments? Is this turning into xkcd?
It's at least as common here.  Perhaps you've just not been noticing.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: JD on 25 Nov 2009, 22:14
I had my Thanksgiving in October, fatties.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 25 Nov 2009, 23:18
Usually im not excited for turkey day, but for some reason I am this year.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 25 Nov 2009, 23:44
-pening.

What? Oh. OMG! HENZ!

It's a bold new era.

That implies that ambush dating had been popular once.
Popular? It's practically compulsory!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
Ahhh, another student or the history of relationships.

3) Panels three and four demonstrate one reason why Steve was recruited by the DoKYA. Seriously quick reflexes! Whereas Marten sees her falling first, but stands there like a stunned mullet.
Actually, they recruited him for plausible deniability, i.e. if Steve got captured, "The only Steve we might (or might not) know of might (or might not) be a sloppy drunk from New England. We recommend coffee. Or would, if we actually acknowledged he exists. Which we do not."

I think she got a late night visit from Dora
Stop mind-melding with me. (Or whatever it is you Kugai do to steal thoughts. I have few enough as is.)

Edit: of relationships, of. Dammit.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Nov 2009, 00:36
I had my Thanksgiving in October, fatties.

@&%# skinny Canadians...

not that you can tell under the parkas.   :wink:
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 26 Nov 2009, 00:36
This is what happened to Cosette:

turned out her ancient phone was made of a WW1 bomb by an insane engineer (how did she survive?) (she's a DOKYA agent)    - 3 (6.3%)
she was attacked by the Thanksgiving turkeys because they found out that she always eats two of them    - 11 (22.9%)
one of Faye's sculptures    - 14 (29.2%)
VespAvenger girl is now a superhero in the name of love, so she attacked Cosette because of a lack of calling Steve    - 20 (41.7%)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: muffmasta on 26 Nov 2009, 01:32
Why is it that almost everyone wears a hoodie? Admittedly, I like hoodies myself, but this isn't an accurate portrayl of life in general, is it? Or perhaps it is just nice to draw them.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Akima on 26 Nov 2009, 02:47
I had my Thanksgiving in October, fatties.
Down Under we don't have Thanksgiving (maybe because our first settlers were probably weren't all that grateful - Read "The Fatal Shore" (http://www.gould.com.au/Fatal-Shore-Convict-Transportation-p/and138.htm) if you're interested), and we don't go in for turkey-bingeing at Christmas much either, because it's mid-summer here and usually stinking hot. Personally I prefer lobster salad...
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: snubnose on 26 Nov 2009, 03:17
Whats "Thanksgiving" ?  :?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: dragonkiri on 26 Nov 2009, 05:17
I sorta skimmed the thread so I'm not sure if this came up yet, but I wonder if all of this would have been easier if Marten had just told Steve where Cosette worked.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 26 Nov 2009, 06:28
I had my Thanksgiving in October, fatties.
Down Under we don't have Thanksgiving (maybe because our first settlers were probably weren't all that grateful - Read "The Fatal Shore" (http://www.gould.com.au/Fatal-Shore-Convict-Transportation-p/and138.htm) if you're interested), and we don't go in for turkey-bingeing at Christmas much either, because it's mid-summer here and usually stinking hot. Personally I prefer lobster salad...
I've read TFS. Gave me a new perspective on that Mick Jagger film (Ned Kelly, still don't like it, but I do understand it), and let me get more of the jokes in Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent.*

Why is it that almost everyone wears a hoodie? Admittedly, I like hoodies myself, but this isn't an accurate portrayl of life in general, is it? Or perhaps it is just nice to draw them.
I certainly don't wear them. But in the world of fashion and popular attire, I live in, well, some outback town probably only Akima actually knows about. Or, to put it in local parlance, "so far back in the woods they have to pipe in sunshine."

*Seriously, The Fatal Shore's an excellent book.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: giant_bug on 26 Nov 2009, 07:18
Whats "Thanksgiving" ?  :?

Basically a North American harvest festival.  Last chance to really pig out before the Dark Days of Winter start up.
Also commemorates one of the few times colonists and Indians were not at each other's throats.  Very multi-culti.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 26 Nov 2009, 07:52
I have heard it described as "We took your land and made it ours-day".

Funny how the first two panels of this comic could have come right out of the comic discussion forum!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 26 Nov 2009, 08:13
I sorta skimmed the thread so I'm not sure if this came up yet, but I wonder if all of this would have been easier if Marten had just told Steve where Cosette worked.

Now you see, that would have been way too easy, where's the comedy in that?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ysth on 26 Nov 2009, 08:54
Whats "Thanksgiving" ?  :?

Basically a North American harvest festival.  Last chance to really pig out before the Dark Days of Winter start up.
Also commemorates one of the few times colonists and Indians were not at each other's throats.  Very multi-culti.

That's a very deceptive summary.  Here's some background on the "First Thanksgiving": http://www.trinicenter.com/historicalviews/thanksgiving.htm (http://www.trinicenter.com/historicalviews/thanksgiving.htm).
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 26 Nov 2009, 11:35
Why is it that almost everyone wears a hoodie? Admittedly, I like hoodies myself, but this isn't an accurate portrayl of life in general, is it? Or perhaps it is just nice to draw them.
I certainly don't wear them. But in the world of fashion and popular attire, I live in, well, some outback town probably only Akima actually knows about. Or, to put it in local parlance, "so far back in the woods they have to pipe in sunshine."

I think because its a college town?  Here in college park everyone wears  hoodies.  Even some teachers.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Binary on 26 Nov 2009, 13:03
Whats "Thanksgiving" ?  :?

"You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides. You will play golf, and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said, "Do not trust the Pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller". And for all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground."

Wednesday Addams, Addams Family Values
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Nov 2009, 14:03
I forgot how good a movie that was. 

Nowadays, though thanksgiving is about family.  That's why it's one of the busiest days of the year at bars, has a huge drunk driving tally, and a significant increase in the suicide rate. 

We have 15 for dinner tonight, all from my wife's family... and I'm posting this to escape for a few. 

It's that, or slit my wrists...  and I'm tired of hospitals. 

Remember kids, it's lengthwise, palm to elbow, not side to side! 

Do NOT try this at home!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: The Duke on 26 Nov 2009, 14:23
 
...slit my wrists...  and I'm tired of hospitals.  

Remember kids, it's lengthwise, palm to elbow, not side to side!  

Do NOT try this at home at all, ever!

Ficksed.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 26 Nov 2009, 14:31
They are special Functionality Hoodies, made of a special fabric like that of the Worry Hat only it repels common sense and purposeful behavior.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LizziL on 26 Nov 2009, 17:32
COSETTE! <3

There's really nothing wrong with Cosette; it's just the musical's deliberately sympathetic towards Eponine.

My hate stems directly from the fact that my nickname IS Eponine. Because I'm cool. Not lame.


I just keep digging myself a deeper hole, don't I?
Also, the last panel in today's comic cracked me up, and made this stupid essay a lot better.

Why is your nickname Eponine? Are you a poor, rejected street waif, pining for a love from another world, destined to die on a lonely barricade?

Or maybe there's a more realistic explanation XD
I was whining about a dude I had a crush on, happened to be listening to it, my friend pointed it out, and it stuck. :x
Nah, so far as nicknames go, it isn't all that bad!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Taigan on 26 Nov 2009, 19:38
Well, Randy seems cool.  But I'll be the first to point out that Randy is an unusual name for a girl.  ("pouch full of babies")

Then again, she just said "I'M RANDY."  So that may have been a description of how she was feeling, not her name.  :-D
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: jonarus_drakus on 26 Nov 2009, 19:42
I got the whole AA meating vision:

"Hi, my name is Randy, and I'm a Bandicoot"

>everyone< "HI RANDY!"
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Shok Xone Studios on 26 Nov 2009, 19:47
Holy crap, the Yelling Bird was actually rendered speechless? What sorcery is this?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: The Duke on 26 Nov 2009, 19:57
Yeah, he doesn't quite look right with his mouth closed.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: MrMonk on 26 Nov 2009, 20:09
or with a little black eyebrow (last panel).
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: akronnick on 26 Nov 2009, 20:36
About damned time sombody got that little fucker to STFU!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: raoullefere on 26 Nov 2009, 20:48
Well, Randy seems cool.  But I'll be the first to point out that Randy is an unusual name for a girl.  ("pouch full of babies")

Then again, she just said "I'M RANDY."  So that may have been a description of how she was feeling, not her name.  :-D
Odd. I have known two girls named Randy*. And no, sadly, neither of them were.


*It's an abbreviation of Miranda.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: ysth on 26 Nov 2009, 20:49
Would everyone just please stop shipping Randy and Sweet Tits?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: vettechinohio on 26 Nov 2009, 21:13
Yelling Bird doesn't look his normal demonically pissed off self when he's not, well, yelling. I never realized he could look like a normal bird if he just shut his beak halfway.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Mad Cat on 26 Nov 2009, 21:37
I fucking hate Randy too.

Quick poll, who else fucking hates Randy?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: syrupykeyboard on 26 Nov 2009, 22:03
I fucking hate Randy too.

Quick poll, who else fucking hates Randy?
Randy must die.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 26 Nov 2009, 22:06
>_>

<_<



MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: JD on 26 Nov 2009, 22:45
I don't hate Randy at all. I've never seen yelling bird with his mouth closed though.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 26 Nov 2009, 23:27
What will we see tomorrow?
QC will end!    - 3 (8.8%)
or will it?    - 2 (5.9%)
(DUN DUN DUNNNNNH!)    - 10 (29.4%)
a guest strip by Jimbo    - 12 (35.3%)
how not to draw webcomics    - 7 (20.6%)


Seems like the fourth option kinda came true.

Also: WOOO YEAH RANDY FTW!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Nov 2009, 23:35
First vote on the poll! 

Randicoot. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 26 Nov 2009, 23:44
the fuck was that
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: scarred on 26 Nov 2009, 23:45
Get started on the Randy meme already guys, jesus


taking forever
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LeeC on 27 Nov 2009, 00:12
I like randy.  he doesnt take yelling bird's shit.  Chemistry between then would be awesome.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: snubnose on 27 Nov 2009, 02:08
So who the f*** is Randy ?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Llewellian on 27 Nov 2009, 03:03
The last Yelling Bird Panel is priceless. Love the expression.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: lhasafi on 27 Nov 2009, 04:30
Yay! Someone got Yelling Bird off his game! WAR Randy!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: pwhodges on 27 Nov 2009, 05:09
For an instant I thought it was a capybara, what with yesterday's strip being a forums reference.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Tobimaro on 27 Nov 2009, 08:59
Would everyone just please stop shipping Randy and Sweet Tits?

I was thinking more of Randy and Tai!   :-D

MOAR RANDY! :lol:
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Steve the Pocket on 27 Nov 2009, 09:11
Did anyone else read this and think of Mark Trail?  You know, how the Sunday strips are always some nature lesson.  Or maybe the Apteryx in B.C. who always introduces himself by breifly describing his species.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 27 Nov 2009, 09:50
The revolution has begun

BANDICOOTS WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 27 Nov 2009, 10:39
BANDICOOTS WILL CRASH THE WORLD!!!!

Get your references right. Srsly.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: bluexfish on 27 Nov 2009, 13:29
My first thought was actually "Gee, this could have been turned into a 'Yo Yelling Bird, Imma let you finish...' strip" :-D
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: syrupykeyboard on 27 Nov 2009, 17:00
My first thought was actually "Gee, this could have been turned into a 'Yo Yelling Bird, Imma let you finish...' strip" :-D
YES.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Kugai on 27 Nov 2009, 17:10
BANDICOOTS WILL CRASH THE WORLD!!!!

Get your references right. Srsly.

No, I was right the first time.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: jonarus_drakus on 27 Nov 2009, 20:43
Randy: "And I shall rule the down-under-verse! MWAA MWA HA HA HA!!!"
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: michi-love on 27 Nov 2009, 22:07
YO YELLIN' BIRD. I'MA LET YOU FINISH BUT. THE TURKEYS HAD THE BEST NON-COMIC STRIP. OF ALL TIME!

Oh, Jeph, how could you have possibly let this opportunity pass you up? I mean, all the award shows are doing it, even! IT'S A BIG OF A MEME AS MACY RICKROLLING THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

...oh. Wait. That's right. QC doesn't need to be lame. 8D


(And yes, I do realize someone mentioned this before me. ^^)
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Quartsize on 27 Nov 2009, 22:07
Randy Apprecation.

Randy has kids?  Probably because he was getting Randy with some Ladycoot in her Bandicooch. Aw yeah.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: TheReaper on 27 Nov 2009, 23:02
I...I love Randy.

I do.
Randy is adorable.

Yelling Bird looks sad, which makes me happy, so basically A+, would read again.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Dliessmgg on 28 Nov 2009, 02:35
Randy?
I love Randy.    - 21 (44.7%)
I hate Randy.    - 0 (0%)
I am Randy.    - 3 (6.4%)
I am randy.    - 9 (19.1%)
I fucking hate Randy.    - 2 (4.3%)
Fucking I fucking hate fucking Randy. Fuck.    - 1 (2.1%)
Huh?    - 4 (8.5%)
This answer is one too many.    - 1 (2.1%)
Correction: This answer is two too many.    - 6 (12.8%)

Don't miss the final poll of finality.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Be My Head on 28 Nov 2009, 04:44
Where's the "I don't want to be a conformist by making a decision on this poll but I still want to vote for something" option?

nvm: 3 and a half hours of sleep

Correction: This answer is two too many. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: giant_bug on 28 Nov 2009, 06:12
According to Jeph's Twitter feed, Randy is a cameo from S_G, whatever that is. 

Little help?
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 28 Nov 2009, 07:16
He also said that QC readers would break S_G, and that S_G would break QC readers. If he linked to Oglaf, but not this, then it must be pretty severe.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Nov 2009, 08:08
Space Ghetto?  With all the warnings on the index page, I didn't look. 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Binary on 28 Nov 2009, 16:35
I am made of sterner stuff and I did look.  :-D

And you appear to be correct, because on the second page in (at the time of writing) there's a hat-tip back to Jeph's QC strip. Which means I wasted over an hour yesterday on the false assumption that SG referred to another webcomic, and tried to track it down by looking at every damn webcomic listed at The Webcomic List (http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/) that could be abbreviated to SG (Strange Gods, Sacred Ground, Saint Gasoline, Sam Golden, Sea Gate, The Sealed Gate, Sensational George, Shades of Grey, Shake Girl, Shits 'n Giggles, Shoebox Gallery, Sign Garden, Snow Globe, Soapbox Gallery, Sour Grapes, Space Goth, Space Grrl, Star Girl, Star Gazed, State of Grace, Strange Genetics, Strange Gods and Sunset Grill.  ARRRGGGHHHHH!)

To anyone tempted to venture into Space Ghetto (http://spaceghetto.st/sgd/), be forewarned that it's a forum for posting weird, demented, bizarre, surreal, exceptionally NSFW images and videos - some real, some photoshopped.

Edit: Hey! I found the real Randy! (http://spaceghetto.st/sgd/?q=node/11120) (Link is safe-for-work)

Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Nov 2009, 05:57
Thanks for diving in... I'm home for the holiday weekend and only have the family computer.  With two kids and a wife, I wasn't going to go rooting around...

I have a seperate, deletable account on my work laptop for that stuff.  Thanks heavens I convinced them I needed administrator priveledges! 
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: jonarus_drakus on 29 Nov 2009, 20:48
"There is a quantum fluctuation" makes me think: "Quantum improbability drive" Horray for out of left field Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy references!
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: LTK on 30 Nov 2009, 04:53
But wasn't it the Infinite Improbability Drive? Speaking of which, I was delighted to hear from one of the Claptrap robots in Borderlands that "You ought to know I'm feeling very depressed". I completely missed that the first time!

So anyway, when I went back to #1543 I suddenly noticed how well Cosette's crutch walking and falling was drawn. Usually the perspective looks a bit funky when jeph draws people looking upwards or downwards, but the third panel - where Cosette falls forward - looks very good.
Title: Re: WCT Nov 23-27, 2009
Post by: jonarus_drakus on 30 Nov 2009, 22:23
1) I stand corrected.

2) Our little Jeph, he's coming along nicely isnt he!