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Sparx — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:19:08 -0800

Sometimes the best of the web is just moments. Previously linked comic hitting harshly where it hurts.

By: jaded

jaded — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:36:28 -0800

fuck.

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:19:35 -0800

Oh, man.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:20:12 -0800

Awww...

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:24:25 -0800

Milholland, you son of a bitch. Damn he's good a making characters we care about.

By: amro

amro — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:24:45 -0800

Good stuff. Thanks.

By: Karmakaze

Karmakaze — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:33:54 -0800

Complete with the usual BOOBIES! flamewar...

By: mrbill

mrbill — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:49:28 -0800

Aw, DAMMIT.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:58:40 -0800

Do they ever have episodes where someone doesn't get sick/die or cover the reader in syrup?

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:03:10 -0800

Mayor: Yeah, the very first comic. Usually, the writer is almost as big a dick as you are.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:15:31 -0800

Mayor: Yeah, the very first comic. The first comic is pretty. What happened? Did the Hallmark Hall of Fame buy the rights to it?

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:16:16 -0800

That's a cheery thing for first thing in the morning. I have to say, though, the mix of caustic humour, misanthropy, and sensitivity that S*P manages is why I'm still reading it.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:18:34 -0800

The first comic is pretty Pretty funny, rather.

By: afroblanca

afroblanca — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:22:32 -0800

I don't get it. Is it supposed to be funny?

By: Bryan Behrenshausen

Bryan Behrenshausen — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:31:50 -0800

Wow. Wish I'd had this last Thursday, when I lead discussion about comics and sequential art in my Visual Rhetoric class.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:36:42 -0800

Well, Randy did kinda ditch mere one-liners for actual story and character development. Now, the rampant one-liners *serve* the plot. In this instance, however, ain't nothing funny - just shit. hapening.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:38:23 -0800

just more of the same

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:47:32 -0800

Incredible - thanks for the link, Sparx.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:43:42 -0800

I don't get it? Do I have to read more of the comic to understand?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:52:37 -0800

Yeah, you'd have to have read a bit more of the comic to understand. The author's across the river at Harvard this weekend, I think, so I could go slug him in the gut if I wasn't stuck at work today.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:01:57 -0800

Yeah, I don't get it either, though my teeth hurt after reading it. Among other things, this guy seriously needs an editor. Too, too many words...

By: Gator

Gator — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:05:46 -0800

I don't usually read this comic, but I got the gist easily enough from the links Sparkx posted: The guy has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he's struggling with breaking the news to his wife, and before he can get the words out, she up and dies on him. But yeah, seems you'd need to read the rest of the comic and get to know and care about the characters before you'd care much, but it's a sad little vignette nonetheless.

By: Doorstop

Doorstop — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:19:45 -0800

well...its a comic about life. life is funny, fucked up and all the rest. i've been readng milholland's stuff for years now and he's got a real handle on how to build you up by relatin to the characters, then hit you in a soft spot. if i ever get to writing my own webcomic i aspire to his story telling skills.

By: wsg

wsg — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:45:39 -0800

I found the boobies thread, but not the boobies comic. Where is it? I want boobies.

By: insomnia_lj

insomnia_lj — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:08:28 -0800

Well, given that I have only read the occasional episode, and they're in the midst of killing off their major characters... well, hm. Calvin and Hobbes reruns for me!

By: soiled cowboy

soiled cowboy — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:09:34 -0800

I thought comics were supposed to be funny. Like Beetle Bailey and Marmaduke.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:23:18 -0800

Well that was uplifting. Nicely done but kind of a depressing start to the day.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:34:28 -0800

I saw this last night and was practically catatonic for a few minutes. Mostly because that scene is going to happen to me, too, someday -- alzheimers and dementia runs in the male side of my family, and I'm about to move to Texas to be with my girlfriend... who has Faye's wit. :-P It hit me hard. For those of you who haven't read Something Positive, set aside a three day weekend and start from the beginning. And for those of you who say 'too many words' .. he's not trying to make punchlines the way many comic strips do, and he's NOT trying to be funny a lot of the time. He's telling a story with pictures added in. Not everything needs to be packed into one-liners and soundbytes for your two second attention span.

By: Fenriss

Fenriss — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:46:17 -0800

Milholland is the Joss Whedon of web comics. And apparently, I'm a glutton for punishment.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:04:19 -0800

I read from the first link onwards, it was pretty impressive. But SpecialK is probably right, I'll need more time to start from the beginning.

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:57:38 -0800

Why does Millholand have to play with my emotions instead of just being mean and sarcastic all the time. Damn good comic.

By: S.C.

S.C. — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:01:05 -0800

I'm going to be the asshole voice of dissent and say I can't get past the frankly amateur artwork.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:19:31 -0800

Fenriss: is that supposed to be a compliment? *ducks the barrage of rotting fruit*

By: codeofconduct

codeofconduct — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:53:39 -0800

Damn, that hit me in the gut.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:19:46 -0800

By: Sparx

Sparx — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:32:24 -0800

Riding in at the tail end of my post, I was a bit worried about posting it as a) it had been posted before as a site, and b) it may need some previous experience to fully get the impact, But it hit me hard, and I thought I'd share it, because to be hit hard by web content is somewhat unusual in my experience. That said

By: Catch

Catch — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:16:58 -0800

Thank You Sparx for linking this, I hadn't read SP before, started reading from day one last night. (God knows why but) Choo-choo Bear made me laugh 'til I cried, and I have been desperately in need of both lately.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:55:56 -0800

I've enjoyed S*P for years, and like many of its fans, I was shocked by Fayes sudden and wholly unexpected death. It is true; Randy has an amazing talent to make you like and relate to his characters and when he suddenly kills one of them off, or moves them away from the story, it hits you like a lead baloon. I'm coming in late to this thread, so I'll just repeat a few of the points others have already made. * It's not meant to be funny so there's nothing to 'get'. * Yes, there's alot of words, but who cares? I have an attention span longer than 5 seconds. * Yeah, the artwork isn't 'good' (though that in itself is a subjective term), but when the writing is as good as it usually is, it dosen't matter.

By: frykitty

frykitty — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:19:16 -0800

It's possible I have a "murr!" shirt in my closet. I blew a weekend catching up on S*P a while ago, and I think that kind of exposure may have immersed me a little too much in the characters. I was miserable when Faye died. Worse, I got the Spousal Unit hooked too, so we were both upset. Fuck you, Millholland. We love you.

By: Lush

Lush — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:28:23 -0800

Ouch. That hit me hard, too. You don't need to have followed S*P regularly to "get it" - the author managed to capture very real moments of humanity in a few frames. Everyone is going to die, and that very fact is what makes the magic, golden moments of our lives all the more treasurable.

By: sennoma

sennoma — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:35:31 -0800

Worse, I got the Spousal Unit hooked Murr. (I'm gonna send Milholland money, since I read his whole comic for free and enjoyed it enormously; and if I ever meet him I'm gonna punch him in the neck for killing Faye like that.)

By: andendau

andendau — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:06:09 -0800

Wow time flies. This is one of the few web comics I genuinely love.