Well, aside from Clinton trying way too hard. He’d be doing 10x better if he would just chill out. Of course, I suppose that’s the point of the whole character.
I thought he had mentioned having a bouncer job but couldn’t find a comic where he said that.
That’s my recollection also, he worked at both Secret Bakery and one of the five thousand bars the characters went to after Jeph quit drinking.
ANY date with Emily in a sundress would be a good date.
Well, that and the disfigured for life by an impulsive tattoo that you got to impress a girl thing.
I’m betting that tattoo removal is fairly easy in their universe with the AI and other tech advances.
This is a guy who goes around with a clearly robotic hand, just because he thinks it looks cool.* I doubt he’ll consider a tattoo of an electrical socket particularly disfiguring.
*Yes, he has the hand because of an incident with a firecracker. But he could have it covered with realistic looking skin to hide it, and chooses not to because he thinks robots are awesome.
On the other hand, it sounded as though he pulled “electrical socket” out of his butt when he was scrambling to make it sound as though he always thought tattoos were awesome and he always wanted one. Given more time, he might have had a dozen better ideas.
That’s true. I’m just saying, nerdy and naive as he is, Clinton’s been established as being okay with a pretty radical level of body modification.
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
Or with a pretty girl in a sundress.
Love it.
Okay, and Emily looks like she’s prepared to take a punch in the latest strip. I like her more and more.
As someone who has fished for and caught salmon in lakes, let it be known that Martin is wrong.
I realize that this might just be the art in general but that tattoo looks terribly done. Like the sort of thing you’d see on a “Bad Tattoos” blog – shaky lines, no shading or details, looks like it was drawn with the tattoo equivalent of a cheap ballpoint pen.
Isn’t Emily one of the taller characters in the strip? That dude at the bar was a fair bit larger than her and then Elliot (? the bouncer) towered over him. It’s like the Tavern of the Behemoths over there.
Indeed. In particular, someone should explain kokanee salmon to him…
Indeed. This picture is only slightly exaggerated from what I’ve seen. You can’t fish them when they’re spawning though, that’s just cheating. The dog did like eating their washed up eggs.
I’ve noted before the Jacques has problems with the relative heights of his characters. There are times when he’ll show two characters having the same height in one strip and then show them having noticeably different heights in another strip. He apparently just draws them with whatever height feels right at the time.
The reason I couldn’t find Elliot mentioning it was because Elliot never mentioned it. Will mentioned it.
So what meme is Jeph parroting in #2939 with the final “Yeah, Baby!” panel? I ask because another web comic just did the same thing. ?
Update: my anime-loving son fingered it (ha!).
It’s from a J-comic called Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures. See top illustration here. I also found a page of folks that seem to make a hobby of recreating Jojo comics’ covers here; note several examples of the hand-face pose, esp. right at the top with the matching comic cover at left.
He actually references it below the comic.
Not that it meant anything to me, but…