Knowing Is Half The Battle

Exciting news today! You remember Bryce, right? The guy that started this blog and did mostly daily updates for better than a year? But since May has been stuck in the horribleness that is Real Life? You remember him right? You should, unless you just started reading this blog since May.

Anyway, he's coming back on Monday! That's right, my 6 month reign of terror is nearly over. And when it ends I will be taking a break for the rest of November. You might still find me around the internet, but you won't be seeing me here until the 2nd of December. And when I do return, I shall be resuming my former job as Saturday poster and Thursday comic strip news updates. Also, I will be doing Wednesday posts. I haven't heard what Mike P is doing yet, I'm sure he'll tell you tomorrow.



My Cage 11/4/09

Those really aren't that obscure. I didn't watch either of those cartoons and I still understand the references. Why not make a reference to GI Joe while you're at it. And The Smurfs too, nobody know what that is. If they wanted something that only a small number of people would understand they should have gone with a comic book reference.



Safe Havens 11/4/09

Ah yes, a joke about the seahorse's odd reproductive cycle. As we all have heard, the male seahorse takes the eggs from the female, fertilizes them, and carries them until they hatch. Why this is done is a mystery, but it does happen. That said, it doesn't really work when you take that framework and put a species that doesn't reproduce via eggs on top of it. For this joke to work, the male would have either need to have both sets of genitalia or the embryo would need to pass out of the female and into wherever the male is keeping it. As anyone that knows about the human reproductive cycle works already understands, this would be impossible because the embryo needs to implant in the uterus soon after fertilization or it will die. Of course these aren't humans, but since we don't actually know anything about them we shall assume they are most like the species they are currently emulating, humans. All of this means that the joke is unfunny and should never be attempted again without further definition of the species the joke is about or further definition of how the embryo came to be in the male.



Bliss 11/4/09

This one's a two parter:

Part one:
Commentary -

Why not go the opposite way? If paper beats rock and rock beats scissors, why can't paper beat scissors? Or would that example not work because it's obvious why paper can't beat scissors?

Bliss: 0
xy: 1

Part two:
Recaptioned -

"Because, you little smart-ass, if rock beats paper then there would be no game and your mother and I would have gone through with the abortion. Now go mow the lawn before my rock beats your face."



The Argyle Sweater 11/4/09

They should have had a boombox playing "Somebody's watching me" by Rockwell. It would have made the scene that much better.