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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« on: February 12, 2004, 07:45:34 am »
So he's back to the phone calling again.  

Is he smoking hash?  Because this shit is just

RE-HASHED.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2004, 07:52:29 am »
My only thought:  what in the hell?
hopefully it'll go back to the former storyline tomorrow
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2004, 08:10:30 am »
Hey guys, cut Onstad some slack. He is not Shakespeare. And Ray is not Hamlet.

I mean, I took the same view,
panels 1-3. Huhn, more prank calls.
panel 4. ten inch monkey, hehe (wait a minute I don't get it)
panels 5-7. I am impressed by Ray's charisma. Ralph laps it up
panel 8. I am traumatized but I can't stop laughing. Dear god, why can't I stop laughing!?!

And now I realize that analyzing a comic panel by panel just takes all the funny out of it. Until I glance back at panel 7 and giggle about Ralph's jeans. There's always an aftershock. So I refute today's alt text...

Onstad IS Shakespeare, and you better just accept his comic brilliance. Storylines be damned!
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2004, 09:47:45 am »
Easy, peoples.

This re-hashed shit tastes good. The whole Phillipe for Pres line was battling with Nate Small for snores.

Come on. Seriously. Anybody? Anybody? No?

...and the interweb had to tell me who in the hell Drabble was, and it was still funn(i)y(er).
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2004, 10:21:16 am »
Quote from: "pubdoggy"

...and the interweb had to tell me who in the hell Drabble was, and it was still funn(i)y(er).


Yeah, I think that was the issue on why it wasn't funny for me... I don't get the paper (used to, but I dunno how long this comic existed) therefore didn't know who Drabble was.
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Re: Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2004, 11:54:45 am »
the last panel is incredible. the thought process required in thinking how the hell drabble (i don't know about this, i'm in the uk) hasn't hung up, even by panel 7, is amazing. ray may not be hamlet, but he's certainly prospero.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2004, 12:41:15 pm »
I thought it was pretty funny, then I found out what Drabble was, and now I love it.  For some reason, I found the prank-call strips to be maybe the funniest ever.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2004, 02:05:06 pm »
I'm too lazy to google, who is this guy? I just substituted Lileks in my head and that worked pretty well.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2004, 02:32:43 pm »
Quote from: "CortJstr"
I'm too lazy to google, who is this guy? I just substituted Lileks in my head and that worked pretty well.


Now THAT'S funny!
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2004, 03:37:03 pm »
I would have thought the most obvious next place to go would have been Ziggy or Family Circus.  I was surprised neither of those got calls in the last round.  

Too obvious, maybe?
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2004, 03:47:37 pm »
It's funnier if it's Lileks.

Rehashed, but what the hell, I enjoyed it. There was certainly an element of ambush value -- "hey, he's pranking people again!"

Might have gone over better had the comic strip been better-known, though.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2004, 03:51:32 pm »
Yeah, I had no idea who Drabble was. He sucks enough to merit pranking, though.
What do you think Ray thinks of that Garfield live-action movie coming out?
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2004, 04:30:32 pm »
Man oh man this is some gooood rehash.  If ever there was a comic strip that deserved to be cranked it would be Drabble.  I hope he pranks the Grizzwells next.  Or For Better or for Worse.  He could brag to the human characters about the time he boned Farley.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2004, 05:12:25 pm »
He needs to prank Marvin next. Sweet Christ that comic sucks so hard. That hack has fallen so far as to write his comic as if the characters were reading another comic, because he realizes that Marvin exhausted the storylines about, oh, after the first comic. And they're never, absolutely never, amusing - in any way. They periodically put the comics in our local paper up to votes - and Marvin just keeps chugging along. I'd rather our comic section was just one enormous Drabble than have Marvin in it anywhere. At least Drabble is a slightly funny name.

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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2004, 05:49:16 pm »
Surely a fair few bonus Champagne Comedy points must be awarded for the material contained within the official-lookin' Drabble website, which I am counting as part of today's Achewood because I never would have seen it otherwise, and because I'm nice. Benevolent, you might say. In any case, the comic's nothing remarkable, but it's the About Drabble page where it all really starts to shine. "The zany mishaps of his offbeat characters" is a phrase we just don't hear enough of; I'd take it over "a smart, sexy comedy" any day.

Also of note is the Cursors page, which, after inviting you to download and install Comet Cursor software (and, I'd imagine, join the internet's aristocracy by doing so), offers this stern warning:

When you select a Drabble cursor, you're agreeing that you're being granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Drabble character only in connection with the operation of the cursor in your own personal computer, and that you won't copy or make any other uses of the character without our prior written consent.

So violently knocking your penis to the side with enough force to send the Ralph Drabble Comet Cursor through the edge of your monitor and into our world, and then, oh, I don't know, taking it outside and parading it through the streets would be frowned upon.

CLEARLY THERE ISN'T ENOUGH ART IN OUR SCHOOLS
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