New solder iron through the retinas.

Melody, please wipe the chocolate mess off your face. It's possible to eat a Hershey bar by making all of it go in your mouth, and not half up your nose, m'kay?

"She sees cute things! That makes her a mass murderer!"
Scar: "STUPID JAPANESE PHRASE!" Thank gourd for Davey's consistency here! Because an American amusement park company would program their droids that way, as every Yankee speaks phracking random anime otaku lines. And who loves a murder machine that violently tackles toddlers. Hey, Melody wasn't doing much with that spine anyway! It'll grow back!
Unless they're having sex. And given who it's written by, that's not excluded.

All told, the most bizarre Scar of recent memory! Glad to see the strip back to abnormal!

Edited by author 02-10-2008 09:42 AM
Does that tackle count as something happening? I'd like it to, but it doesn't seem to be advancing the plot one iota. Say what you will about the old Gontley, but the storyline did develop apace. Granted, they were stupid, derivative storylines, but beginning/middle/end was had. All we're getting now is the / bits.

edit-- stupid qwerty keyboard and its reliance on the left hand.

Good heavens, what a tropical paradise you live in, Bill. Warm enough in February for snow to melt however briefly when it lands? Wow! We have to rely on idiots spinning their tires at intersections to get life-threatening slippery patches.

Very glad to hear that you're not residing in a radiator.

Lackadaisy!
Out of sequence with the storyline, but awesome. Awesomer: She says the reason for lack of updates is due to pre-publication work.

I KNOW! Lackadaisy book is coming, HAPPY DANCE!!

:)

The only book I've seen her mention is going to be published in Italy, IIRC. Have any of you seen mention of an English-language book?

No... but we can hope ^^

I'm going to hella get the italian book anyway.. Need to practice the little of the language I know, and it'll be worth it for printed Lackadaisy

The Lackadaisy comic is indeed from an Italian publisher, although I assume not written in Italian. Bad news: Lackadaisy isn't listed yet, but their other stuff runs around 1200 to 1600 Euros, or about US$18 to $23, for a graphic novel. I imagine the S&H charge is also pretty harsh.

Well, I was plodding around the bookstore last week, and considered a couple of Hellboy compilations briefly, but the $23 tag put me off-- so it's in the ballpark. The worry is that it will only be available in Italian, Catalan and Flemish, because if Asterix can get translated into English with puns in place, Lackadaisy can be transformed into something us monoglot dummies can't manage.

Edited by author 02-21-2008 11:50 PM
For fans of Thorn's art style, here's a nifty futurama pic from '56:
House of Tomorrow!
Even the cat is happy to live in the future world!

edit:
Didn't catch this on first viewing--What's with Grandpa wearing the gayest leotards ever, while wearing black stretch socks with shorts, just like every old fart to this day, and Daughter flashing cooze at her blushing girlfriend on the videophone? And the guy on the "moving staircase"--exactly what the hell IS he doing?! Buffing the personal helicopter glass?

In the future, all men wear Bermuda shorts, apparently.

yes Ernst and Bill, even you cold-climaters, so hop to it, let's see those knees!
Mom looks about 8 feet tall.
Still, the picture accurately predicted the iMac. We just don't keep them in the kitchen.

Look out the window on the left - the house in the background is a dead ringer for Disney's 1957 Future Home

Still, there are plenty of mid-century Cali bungalows still around. Some digging around thrift stores and one trip to Best Buy and you could STILL have a living room like the one in the picture.

Oh, heck, by the time we've got the personal helicopter (pronounced, I recall, "heely-copter"), global climate change will render bermuda shorts mandatory in Canada, while the glaciers advance upon Hanoi and Hyderabad. Still... Big Ass TV, check. Ubiquitous Microwave, check. Huge Fruit, check (notice they don't mention it's without flavour). We're getting there.

Yay, new Davey stupidity!
His next project: redoing Scar. I'm sure that it will become brilliant the fourth time!

The last paragraphs are the best:

As for Acorn and Sarah Knothole? I think it would be safe to keep them in remembrance of BAM’s not so humble origins and not catch heat by Archie. The reason is the placement of the names:

In Archie Sonic, Knothole was the name of the Village, while in BAM it’s a family name. Acorn is the family name of the Royal Family in Archie Sonic, while it’s relegated into the surname of King Acorn Knothole. This jumbling should be more than enough to keep the lawyers at bay.

I only hope I can do better lawsuit proofing with the other inspiration behind the BAM remake. Let’s just say that if I ever meet Stan Lee, I’m kicking him in the nuts. Hard. I don’t care if he never even touch the creation of Captain America #25 and my prescriptions keep the anger off, I’m still castrating that SOB.

No, I have no idea either. I guess that Archie and Marvel are suing him. Funny how he only now just mentioned it.

"Whoa!! STAN LEE!!" Funny how times change. Marvel must be like Sailor Moon to him now.

That perplexed the hell out of me, too.
What on earth did Stan Lee do to him?

Gattino, care to ask him? Especially as everyone KNOWS Stan Lee used to be his IDOL!

Please, Stan Lee may be old, but he's spry as hell and could STILL kick Davey's ass.
He wouldn't even need to. The guy is still a crowd favourite at comic cons to this day and Davey would be flayed alive with freshly-packaged action figures by teaming masses of comic disciples if he even LOOKED at Stan the wrong way.

Truth be told, an ugly, protracted fight between Stan Lee and Gonty, preferably with some kind of disfiguring weapon, would only serve the comic-loving public. They both have a grain of creativity which is being mashed down by a bizarrely hypertrophied ego (which in Stan's case is at least the result of decades of people saying how wonderful some of his past notions are), and haven't really produced anything worth more than an eye-roll in years. At least, that's this casual observer's take on things-- I've never been closer than the other side of a CRT to either one of them.