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September 15, 2006 12:37 PM   Subscribe

Baby-Proof. From Rob and Elliot, a webcomic.
posted by Iridic (23 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: what? this is one comic strip about babies?



 
I thought this was kinda funny, but only kinda. Otherwise, it's just today's edition of a webcomic, of which there are billions (and this one isn't even spectacular, really). And the kicker is: this link will be obselete once the webcomic is updated, since one images "baby-proof" won't be the current strip forever. Sorry to complain, but I'm not feelin' this so much.
posted by koeselitz at 1:01 PM on September 15, 2006


arg. "imagines" and "obsolete," but you probably got that.
posted by koeselitz at 1:03 PM on September 15, 2006


koeselitz was being very kind.
posted by snofoam at 1:13 PM on September 15, 2006


Utterly craptastic.
posted by adamms222 at 1:15 PM on September 15, 2006


this is a joke, right?
posted by docpops at 1:21 PM on September 15, 2006


I also found it funny. FPP funny? No. But funny.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:23 PM on September 15, 2006


snofoam : koeselitz was being very kind.

You speak great truth.
posted by quin at 1:26 PM on September 15, 2006


Yeah. I would expect more from a FPP. Like, why just have the weekend sluggy reference in the title, why not link to a strip? And how about a little context on why you like them or why this strip is any different from the other bajillion webcomics. But keep tryin'.
posted by GuyZero at 1:34 PM on September 15, 2006


Rob and Elliot is funny. As the title mentions, the Saturday strips of Sluggy Freelance have been done by Clay Yount for a while. He also recently did a guest strip at PvP and got a whole bunch of new eyeballs. His news at the bottom says "check out some of these comics to help make up your mind."

But does it deserve an FPP? Meh. (Oh, and koeselitz, the first link is what the kids are calling a "permalink". Once there's a new strip up, the link will still go to the right one.)
posted by Plutor at 1:38 PM on September 15, 2006


Hey cartoonist guys

Learn to end a sentence with a period and I might read your comic

Goddamnit
posted by infidelpants at 1:39 PM on September 15, 2006


I don't call out often, or ever... but...

The Younts also do "Sluggy Freelance" on the weekend.

This is not helping the case of this FPP.
posted by tittergrrl at 1:42 PM on September 15, 2006


You mean pretty much all comics?
posted by Plutor at 1:58 PM on September 15, 2006


Two Kinds. A webcomic about Trace and Flora.
posted by brownpau at 1:59 PM on September 15, 2006


What's with these haters presuming And while I'm bitching, I would also like to make known my displeasure with comics lettered in ALL CAPS.

I myself would like to complain about the over-user of the <SMALL> tag in this thread. I mean really -- we're all getting older and our eyes aren't getting any better and mankind somehow managed to express itself parenthetically for millions of years without resorting to teeny-tiny type. I mean hell, until a few years ago, all we had was typewriters.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 2:02 PM on September 15, 2006 [1 favorite]


Am I just being overly-sensitive to what's really just a design standard here, or do both the characters and the Web site resemble Penny-arcade? Sorta like, "Gabe and Tycho: The College/Semi-Professional Years".
posted by TimeTravelSpeed at 2:05 PM on September 15, 2006


Why do cartoonists have to draw stuff in panels? I've never gotten that. Also, what's up with those "word balloon" things, anyway? Can't they just write their sentences out like normal people?
posted by furiousthought at 2:06 PM on September 15, 2006


Penny-Arcade cares about punctuation.
posted by Freen at 2:06 PM on September 15, 2006


I think you're being overly sensitive. The characters resemble "mis-matched pair with both superficial and fundamental differences that help establish a clear dynamic", as do Gabe and Tycho and a million other odd couples.

Also, "overly sensitive" didn't need that hyphen.
posted by cortex at 2:38 PM on September 15, 2006


PBF.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:53 PM on September 15, 2006


http://www.shmorky.com/d/20060526.html
posted by anthill at 3:31 PM on September 15, 2006


is better than everything else, true.
posted by 6am at 3:39 PM on September 15, 2006


(pbf).
posted by 6am at 3:39 PM on September 15, 2006


The characters resemble "mis-matched pair with both superficial and fundamental differences that help establish a clear dynamic", as do Gabe and Tycho and a million other odd couples.

Yeah, I see what you mean. But I'm sort of speaking beyond just the traits of the characters (blonde guy with messy hair, black-haired guy with messy hair). The artistic styles seem to resemble each other, too: thick borders, solid pastel colors, and an overall "Macromedia Flash" look.

Also, both strips use violence and other fierce imagery as a punchline in a certain way that I can't seem to describe. But if you flip through random strips from both places I think you'll see what I mean (P-A, R&E).

Then there are the Web sites. The two banners have the two characters on opposing sides with similar postures (P-A, R&E). They both use nearly the same drop-down format for archives (P-A, R&E (below strip)).

I don't think it's necessarily intentional, and I realize everything else may just be a current trend in design. I was just wondering if anyone else saw the strip and thought the same thing.
posted by TimeTravelSpeed at 3:47 PM on September 15, 2006


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