Lame Selfie Bee.
July 4, 2015 6:12 PM Subscribe
the nose is killing me and i don't understand why
posted by danb at 7:06 PM on July 4, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by danb at 7:06 PM on July 4, 2015 [8 favorites]
Finally, a work of fiction in which bees are accurately portrayed as female.
posted by foobaz at 7:17 PM on July 4, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by foobaz at 7:17 PM on July 4, 2015 [7 favorites]
I like it!
"Hell is empty" will be my new go-to
posted by Existential Dread at 8:00 PM on July 4, 2015 [4 favorites]
"Hell is empty" will be my new go-to
posted by Existential Dread at 8:00 PM on July 4, 2015 [4 favorites]
The exploding earth one is pretty spot-on. I would take great comfort in knowing that at least all the telephones in existence were about to go away ...
posted by DingoMutt at 11:01 PM on July 4, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by DingoMutt at 11:01 PM on July 4, 2015 [9 favorites]
Finally, a work of fiction in which bees are accurately portrayed as female.
Oh, there is nothing fictional about any of these. You know it is all true.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:35 AM on July 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
I AM A BEACON OF SIN
posted by louche mustachio at 12:36 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by louche mustachio at 12:36 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
While there are many web comics I don't laugh at, this one made me finally realize that humor itself is changing in a fundamental way and I'm too old to keep up with it and in a few more years there will be nothing new for me that is funny.
Other than that it was great.
Seriously! Why is it funny? Is it the nose thing? Also, get off my lawn.
posted by mmoncur at 2:24 AM on July 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
Other than that it was great.
Seriously! Why is it funny? Is it the nose thing? Also, get off my lawn.
posted by mmoncur at 2:24 AM on July 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
Aw, I love this! Partly for the comic but partly because I love her tags/comments underneath. This made me laugh.
posted by billiebee at 2:33 AM on July 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by billiebee at 2:33 AM on July 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
The juxtaposition of a constant smile and inner embarrassment is something that everyone can relate to at least once in their lives. Seeming a bee fail repeatedly and in rapid successsion, knowing that they are a social creature, like humans, and suddenly we find ourselves empathizing with a poorly drawn caracature of a socially inept creature failing to fit in in their culture.
posted by Nanukthedog at 3:18 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Nanukthedog at 3:18 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
item, that one got better.
Oh god that is the best worst story!
posted by billiebee at 3:46 AM on July 5, 2015
Oh god that is the best worst story!
posted by billiebee at 3:46 AM on July 5, 2015
I'd like to see her representation of the time I went to the neighbor's house without my glasses for some reason (how I found the house is a mystery, I am that lost without them) and she wanted to show me the new paint in her bedroom. I turned to the wall next to me and peered closely at it and exclaimed how great it was. "Um, we painted only one wall, and that's not it." I walked back to my house blindly and now much tinier. I am almost 50, and I think about this on about a weekly basis. I was probably 15 when it happened. This bee is me.
posted by thebrokedown at 4:57 AM on July 5, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by thebrokedown at 4:57 AM on July 5, 2015 [11 favorites]
A lot of the humor, for me, comes from the slightly stilted and subtly surprising language communicating these incredibly relatable ideas - there are no lazy idioms, no clichés, "time to do some sleep" rather than "time for bed" for example. The flat affect (no punctuation) combined with the forcefulness of what is being said, etc. It does not make me laugh out loud but it makes the experience of reading pleasurable.
when will the government stop your sinful hand
posted by erlking at 5:13 AM on July 5, 2015 [6 favorites]
when will the government stop your sinful hand
posted by erlking at 5:13 AM on July 5, 2015 [6 favorites]
The "one phone call" one is why I didn't attend my high school's senior prom.
posted by tommasz at 5:30 AM on July 5, 2015
posted by tommasz at 5:30 AM on July 5, 2015
Her comics are my favorite! Her Harry Potter ones literally make me snort and cackle out loud (citation 1)
posted by nicodine at 6:19 AM on July 5, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by nicodine at 6:19 AM on July 5, 2015 [6 favorites]
Oh lordy, that Draco Malfoy books comic just made me slap my desk with joy.
For the rest of the day I will be laughing and repeating to myself in a low voice the phrase: Draco Malfoy Does a Fuck Up at Quidditch
posted by Kattullus at 8:11 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
For the rest of the day I will be laughing and repeating to myself in a low voice the phrase: Draco Malfoy Does a Fuck Up at Quidditch
posted by Kattullus at 8:11 AM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
> humor itself is changing in a fundamental way and I'm too old to keep up with it
I don't think it's so much that humor is changing, but that there are countless pockets of humor that depend on immersing yourself in a comedic language, and this is one of them. It's like Wiley Coyote or Harpo Marx or Monty Python or anything else -- first they teach you a new language and then they do hilarious things within that language.
Hence:
> "time to do some sleep" rather than "time for bed" for example
This is one particular comedic language that's been popular recently -- this artist is explicitly influenced by the hilarious Kate Beaton, and there's obvious similarity to Mallory Ortberg and others. As a language, it distills and comedically weaponizes the bluntness of texts, tweets, and Tumblr posts. If you want to appreciate this particular pocket of humor you'll have to slog through enough of it to pick up the comedic language, but that's always been the price of admission for appreciating a new style.
I think I'm drawing this distinction (not "humor has changed" but "you are looking at an unfamiliar subgenre") because web comics are such a fertile ground for new comedic languages in general. Comics like Achewood or Dinosaur Comics or Scary Go Round each rely on their own comedic language, and become funny only once you learn to sync up with their respective authors. What has changed is that we now have great freedom for new voices to emerge and experiment and establish pockets of comedic language to enjoy.
posted by jhc at 8:27 AM on July 5, 2015 [11 favorites]
I don't think it's so much that humor is changing, but that there are countless pockets of humor that depend on immersing yourself in a comedic language, and this is one of them. It's like Wiley Coyote or Harpo Marx or Monty Python or anything else -- first they teach you a new language and then they do hilarious things within that language.
Hence:
> "time to do some sleep" rather than "time for bed" for example
This is one particular comedic language that's been popular recently -- this artist is explicitly influenced by the hilarious Kate Beaton, and there's obvious similarity to Mallory Ortberg and others. As a language, it distills and comedically weaponizes the bluntness of texts, tweets, and Tumblr posts. If you want to appreciate this particular pocket of humor you'll have to slog through enough of it to pick up the comedic language, but that's always been the price of admission for appreciating a new style.
I think I'm drawing this distinction (not "humor has changed" but "you are looking at an unfamiliar subgenre") because web comics are such a fertile ground for new comedic languages in general. Comics like Achewood or Dinosaur Comics or Scary Go Round each rely on their own comedic language, and become funny only once you learn to sync up with their respective authors. What has changed is that we now have great freedom for new voices to emerge and experiment and establish pockets of comedic language to enjoy.
posted by jhc at 8:27 AM on July 5, 2015 [11 favorites]
I think the tags are better than the comics.
posted by desjardins at 9:26 AM on July 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by desjardins at 9:26 AM on July 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
This artist is also famous in Sherlock fandom for giving us Potato!John.
Some of the "stiltedness" of her language is because English is not her first language. This makes it all the more charming to me.
posted by That's Numberwang! at 10:35 AM on July 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
Some of the "stiltedness" of her language is because English is not her first language. This makes it all the more charming to me.
posted by That's Numberwang! at 10:35 AM on July 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
between this and the homoerotic dragon bros and fucking nancy all my webcomic needs have been met forever.
posted by poffin boffin at 1:49 PM on July 5, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 1:49 PM on July 5, 2015 [4 favorites]
Fucking Nancy is a personal hero of mine.
posted by That's Numberwang! at 3:12 PM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by That's Numberwang! at 3:12 PM on July 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
After whining so much about how this comic destroyed humor as we knew it, I looked at the tumblr again and those dragons are one of the funniest things I've ever seen...
So I guess humor is a matter of taste (imagine a nose suddenly appearing on my face as I say that)
posted by mmoncur at 6:01 PM on July 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
So I guess humor is a matter of taste (imagine a nose suddenly appearing on my face as I say that)
posted by mmoncur at 6:01 PM on July 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
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