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[Deadcoder]

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3016

NO! How will we go on without our profane vulgar asshole bird? Goodbye yelling bird, fuck you. Goodbye.

I will seriously miss this delightful little asshole.

[Kugai]

There's always Randy

[Eddurd]

He got a better offer from Downton Abbey.  Watch for him to show up next season, playing Lord Sniffwhistle.

[TheRedMaiden]

What about Sweet Tits? D:

[ReindeerFlotilla]

Oh, thank the fucking beard!

I do wonder what he will use for filler, now, but I can't say I'm going to miss this particular bit.

[Method of Madness]

There's always Randy

You still have Randy. YOU ALL STILL HAVE RANDY!

[cesium133]

There's always Randy

You still have Randy. YOU ALL STILL HAVE RANDY!

Once again, the baby-heavy portfolio pays off for the eternal investor!

[Method of Madness]

You didn't even refrigerate your baby.

[YourBuddyBill]

I'm gonna miss the little bird. At least he had a way of bringing things to attention.

[osaka]

I don't know, I feel that Randy appeared solely because Yelling Bird was around. But I'm ok with his departure as filler, so long as the holidays appearances still happen.

[Method of Madness]

So does "final Yelling Bird strip" mean the final strip with Yelling Bird in it or just the final one of these specific types? With YB just sitting there and yelling (and I guess sometimes being eaten?)

[osaka]

According to Jeph's twitterz, it's the last strip of the "Yelling Bird, Sitting in a tree, F-U-C-K-I-N-G... up the whole tone of this comic because of reasons" style.

[MooskiNet]

I'm thinking it's largely 'cause Yelling Bird is a misogynist prick, and Jeph no longer sees the humor.

I'll follow that with "Good for Jeph."

[ReindeerFlotilla]

I'm glad to see the end of him, frankly. Yelling Bird is the webcomic equivalent of opening a cookie tin and finding sewing supplies.

[Method of Madness]

I'm curious to see what he'll use for filler from now on. I'll take YB over nothing, honestly, but I guess the best case scenario is more Shebly.

[Socky]

This was the 1 time a yelling bird strip made me happy. Bye bye birdie!

[ReindeerFlotilla]

I'm curious to see what he'll use for filler from now on. I'll take YB over nothing, honestly, but I guess the best case scenario is more Shebly.

I'd take nothing over Yelling Bird. Really.

I'd rather see no update, or a "my bad." Yelling Bird was never entertaining to me. Just a huge let down. No update doesn't make me stabby. YB does.

[Hiazi]

i still lurk these forums more than i post on them (read: 99.9% lurking, .1% posting) but this is one of those monumental occasions to bring me out of my silence

maaaaan

i'ma miss that feathery little son of a bitch he's always been my favorite filler stuff. but as an author myself (albeit of shitty fanfiction) i can understand when something's run its course and you don't have the drive to do it anymore. it sucks, but it's a part of the creative process

RIP, yelling bird. er, that means rest in piece- NO GODDAMNIT NOT ANY OTHER KIND OF RIP YELLING BIRD STOP IT

[emilygrrl]

Goodbye Yelling Bird, and good riddance.

He was obnoxious, offensive, and not even funny. I won't miss the bastard.

[Akima]

I'd take nothing over Yelling Bird. Really.

Mmm... I'd take the test-card:

[jaquio]

This comic is a graveyard of characters, jokes and themes that Jeph abandoned because he no longer found them funny or applicable.

But, in each of those instances, he simply stopped writing for them.  (What's Raven up to these days?)

I find it telling that instead of simply letting this joke slip away into the land of forgotten toys, he made a very overt and public statement about how there will be no more YB.

[Penquin47]

It's not even particularly like there's any risk of someone's favorite character disappearing, unless there are people who read this strip specifically for the Yelling Bird filler.  Unlike, say, Raven.  Or Steve.

[de_la_Nae]

Tomorrow's strip: more Yelling Bird.

[de_la_Nae]

Alas I have been thwarted with actual content.

[Thrudd]

Well Mr J is correct that the character was stale and of limited depth. [how deep is a bedpan anyways?]
I could welcome a foul mouthed commentator if they were a bit more nuanced and creative.
Something along the lines of the main character in Grrl Power when it comes to invective while following the rule of funny or maybe an bit over the top sarcasm - I miss Hello Cthulhu and the dancing Marshmallow [but my aim and tracking is improving].

[wlewisiii]

Put me in the "good riddance and why did you take so long to do it" camp.

[hedgie]

I could welcome a foul mouthed commentator if they were a bit more nuanced and creative.

Surely, he's fowl-mouthed.

[Storel]

I actually don't mind Yelling Bird in small, occasional doses. His profanity was always new and creative -- which may have been making him harder and harder to write for. (How much new profanity can you come up with?) An entire week of YB was too much, but as the very occasional filler I kind of liked him.

(I'd rather have YB than that evil, insipid Randycoot. Ugh. Gives me the creeps.)

So long, YB, and thanks for the occasional amusement.

[ReindeerFlotilla]

Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."

[Omega Entity]

Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."

I'm surprised this hasn't been suggested sooner.

[Kugai]

[de_la_Nae]

Mista J, Jephzibah, what else was there?

[Nepiophage]

Does this mean no more Harriet (Sweet-tits)? oh no!

[thedevilissix]

The bird is dead. Long live the bird. ( )

Nah, in seriousness I agree that it's a door naturally closed. Humour's moved on and so shall we.
Intrigued to know what might pop up in its stead-I'm most open to something completely new, to be honest! (Or even just more guest strips and Thanksgiving turkeys)
I've quite liked the 'Vital statistics' single-panel posts about the robots (and I suspect attempts to do sassy versions of this for the humans might be in the offing) and would hope that any future ones are spaced out quite a lot if used as filler comics in the future. It's the kind of thing that risks fatiguing really quick if done too often, imho.

(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)

[Is it cold in here?]

This comic is a graveyard of characters, jokes and themes that Jeph abandoned because he no longer found them funny or applicable.

But, in each of those instances, he simply stopped writing for them.  (What's Raven up to these days?)

I find it telling that instead of simply letting this joke slip away into the land of forgotten toys, he made a very overt and public statement about how there will be no more YB.

Great point, and that is a good countermeasure against staleness.

[Kugai]

Mista J, Jephzibah, what else was there?

Lord jeph of Codoomia

[DrBear]

(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)

Well, that's better than Elton John's "Goodbye Norma Jean."
Goodbye Yelling Bird
Though we never knew you at all
We heard you yell obscenities
Every summer, spring and fall....

[DSL]

(And now, for some reason I'm singing "Goodbye Yelling Bird" in my head to the tune of "Goodbye Leggy Blonde" from Flight of the Conchords. Yelling yelling yelling yelling, birdy birdy birdy birdy etc.)

Well, that's better than Elton John's "Goodbye Norma Jean."
Goodbye Yelling Bird
Though we never knew you at all
We heard you yell obscenities
Every summer, spring and fall....

"Your cloaca burned out long before
your cuss words ever did."

[Method of Madness]

I saw Elton John and goodbye and was trying to make it work with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" before I realized you used a different song. ELTON JOHN SURE LIKED TO SAY GOODBYE.

[mustang6172]

Randy will never leave us.  Randy is eternal.

Also, I think we could all use a little more shame orb.

[Thrudd]

Shame Orb and Frozen Burritos - hey, I laugh about it  still - I don't eat Burritos though.

ah found it

Harriet: "This is NOT a Burrito!"
Shame Orb: "Sure it is. A Burrito is nothing but disgust, disappointment and disillusionment and eventual public humiliation wrapped in anxiety and spiced with fear."
Yelling Bird: " **** **** in the **** **** that keeps burning my Cloaca and singing my tail-feathers every-time I **** or ****."

[theMarc]

Well Mr J is correct ...

I move that all reference to Jeph Jacques by his given name cease, and henceforth he be known only as "Mista J."

I second this motion, and further move that all references to Jeph be voiced by Arleen Sorkin.

[Storel]

I saw Elton John and goodbye and was trying to make it work with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" before I realized you used a different song. ELTON JOHN SURE LIKED TO SAY GOODBYE.

That was the first one I thought of, too. "Goodbye Yelling Bird Road" just doesn't quite work.

[marsman57]

I wanted to bump my old topic about how YB was pointless, but I suppose that would be pointless to (as is this post!)

[Timemaster]

Damn, I was actually reading QC only for Yelling Bird.

I´m outa here! 

TM

[Kugai]

[FlutterRaeg]

Of course we're still going to have Randy.

Randy is eternal.

In fact, he is actually in the background of every panel of QC and has always been there.