"Wait, wait! We're one of you--WE'RE ONE OF YOU! Goddammit, my 'I Hate Gold Stars Mothers' sign is ruined!"

I can only smile and giggle at that.

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So you heard about the Dr. BLT mp3s too, Bill? I was carousing the Sadly, No! blog and decided to comment on his being a psychiatrist. Or an alleged one, I should say.

I mean, if I were a psychiatrist, I wouldn't be spending my time trolling blogs. Unless it gave me some sick pleasure (if he is a real psychiatrist, then I would also have to guess that he got into the profession just to listen to people who are worse off than he is and pat himself on the back for being "so much better").

*shakes head* I re-echo Bill's comment a while back that sometimes all I can feel for Gont is pure pity. I mean, there's VERY little he's ever done that he hasn't managed to get wrong or screw up in some way. He clearly has almost no emotional maturity and next-to-no life experience to allow him to actually develop INTERESTING characters and stories.
Some things, we can explain as genuine, not-uncommon learning disorders, like his dyslexia. But so much leaves no other conclusion that he's either the poster boy for Internet Losers or just batshit insane.
Every single thing he says only exposes a little more of how narrow and juvenile and limited his field of existence is.

Then I get over it, and go point and laff s'more ;)...

Well, there's one more thing he's got no direct experience with-- martial arts. Sticking a closed-mouth syllable on the end of something like that is going to bottle up the power, rather than direct it outward. None of those weird vocalizations Bruce Lee made ended in consonants, did they?

Well, kitsune show up sometimes, and those are foxes with nine tails.

Well, I did the last resort thing and asked Gont what was the deal with 'Yi-Kon!'. His response:
It's a version of Kiiii-YAAAAAA!

Also note that, in Manga/Anime as well as places like Tsunami Channel, 'KON!' is used to denote a fox's bark. So instead of Bark! or Wolf!, it's Kon!

*blinks*... dayamn, we could have had a 'WOLF!' here!
How often do fox show up in anime or manga? not much, that I've encountered. I think he's using some Furry Fandom glossary...

Anti-circumcision propaganda:
http://uncutohh.ytmnd.com/

(Actually, it's the Ducktales theme in Finnish)

Aeon FLux Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/medium.html

It...doesn't look that good. Offers the opportunity of a rousing game of Count the Cliches. There was one part I liked though, and it has to do with grass.

"Yi-kon" means nothing in Japanese, either regular or giongo (sound effects and such), that I have been able to find. In fact, "Yi" isn't a regular Japanese syllable. Ya, yu, and yo are, but not yi and ye.

Actually, the B-cup Scarlet in the last panel is better looking than the usual udder-sporting version. However, in the first panel she looked like she'd just walked into a pencil sharpener.

Note that Scarlett has abruptly gone all B-cup.

Well, she is a product of mad science, after all. Since they're unlikely to be functional mammary glands, perhaps they act as a hydraulic fluid reservoir which empties slightly during high demand.

Or they're backward airbags.

Or his nibs couldn't figure out how to draw the panel and keep the giant tits. Which I guess means he's a slightly less consistent artist than Rob Leifeld, or at least slightly less dedicated to giant tits.

According to Google (and I only went 2 pages in), "yi-kon" has something to do with Asian jewelery stores. One Korean site translates it as "earth-fire," which sounds like a Kung Fu method in a bad movie.
Another site:
"Yikon tea is watered by melted ice and snow, and the chemical fertilizer"
Fertilizer? That follows!

While simple logic who lead one to believe that she's beating up 2 different people, I think that she clomp!ed the first guy with Open-Fist style Fertilizer Kung Fu, then whammo!ed the same guy by using the same hand...backwards 'n' shit. Somehow. Her Fertilizer Fu is strong!

She's cleverly thrown the gun into Lisa "Left-Eye" Retail Clerk's hands, so as to totally mess up any fingerprints on it. And possibly get shot by her. Given her left eye's glaucoma or whatever, that has a pretty good chance of happening.

Davey:
"What can I say? We've reached a milestone, people"

One can only wonder what THAT meant. Does he mean he hit 50 strips before something actually happened?
Maybe it was supposed to be spelled "millstone."

Note that Scarlett has abruptly gone all B-cup.

And that Davey still claims that this comes under the heading traditional drawing.

Speaking of cheese, New Scarlet
FIFTY strips on and we finally get some non-talking.
Oh my. As if weird onomatopoeia in ENGLISH was bad enough, now he's moving onto...Japanese? WTF does 'YI-KON!' mean??
To whom is La Scarlet referring in the last panel? She's gonna go postal on the poor shopgirl, who's now holding a gun? or the other mugger... who presumably is also holding a gun and hasn't shot her by now?

We DO have american cheese. it ain't competition for all the wacky local cheeses, though.

What would you do? Carry Big Brother on your hip for $20?

TOTALLY. they sell all sorts of wacky stuff outside our campus. Basilisk lizard plushies, cat shaped pottery, and books at $1. the original James Bond novels are INSANE.

Ernst, that Utah thing is absolutely scary. at least there were no casualties.

Edited by author 08-26-2005 05:29 PM
Hoo, boy. Get your sense of moral outrage ready, gang-- here's a little something to go along with Bill's mention of Cheney's America in the news:

Helicopters, assault rifles, tear gas, camouflage -wearing soldiers.... why?

[edit: Like a bunch of flowers, there's a big 'B' in 'Bill'. Sorry.]

negs:Not much good for you in pasta & cheese, and I'd ahve to DDR my poor little feet off to burn away all the extra fat calories.
I always got the half-fat variety myself. Yeah, it's still not very good for you and I didn't eat it often, but still yummers...

I always describe "Event Horizon" as the thing Clive Barker dreamed after watching "Alien".

We have the thing known to some as American cheese here, but by law it's labelled (no lies) Cheddar Flavour Processed Cheese Food Slices. This mouthful is repeated in French, of course. I have not knowingly eaten any since I tried to use it like real cheese for a meal in 1986.
Kraft Mac n Cheese
or, Kraft Dinner, as it's known this side of the border. Avoids the clumsy labelling.

Oh, I have fond memories of that stuff too. Yes, the cheese needs to be liquid (well, semisolid). The powdered stuff is just nasty tasting. I don't eat it often 'cause, well, I read nutrition labels. Not much good for you in pasta & cheese, and I'd ahve to DDR my poor little feet off to burn away all the extra fat calories. 8^p