Comments on: Get A Life: August 20-25, 2001

By: Aaron Shades (prof_tinker)

Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:47 +0000

I think this punchline would have come off a little better is helen was more pleased than serious in the last panel. She looks so oddly. . . dissapointed. If she knows better than why . . ?

Hey, did Victorian Dave go mad? I wonder. . . he'd have to have, really.

By: Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing)

Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:46 +0000

Perhaps there is a way to combine both ideas.

By: Metal Fatigue (metalfatigue)

Metal Fatigue (metalfatigue) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:45 +0000

Which idea, Jeffrey? The one about “Second Life,” or the one about Penny Arcade and xkcd spawning some sort of horrible predatory mutant webcomic meme? Because, you know, one of those is actually kinda lame.

By: Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing)

Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:44 +0000

Ed, I’m going to officially and formally ask you right now if I can steal that idea for my own nefarious purposes. It might come in handy some day.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:43 +0000

Of course, now you could work in a lot of jokes about "Second Life". Hmmmm, that would be an interesting plot ... some life-form is spontanteously created with in "Second Life", and it creates a real-world avatar, and spends all his/her waking time controlling the real-world character ... making *this* life his/her "Second Life".

On second thought (or is it first thought?), that sounds more like the bastard child of Penny Arcade and xkcd.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:42 +0000

"I feel like I haven't really done the current storyline justice. Thiswhole thing with the ghosts has a lot of potential, but I couldn't think ofenough gags and it feels rushed. I'll get back to this plot thread sooneror later, but, you know, Burning Man's next week..."
--Shaenon K. Garrity, 25 Aug. 2001.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:41 +0000

Saturday’s Comic: If I had a second chance, I’d do more than just make jokes about people squandering their second chances.

By: Owl Who says South (owlsayssouth)

Owl Who says South (owlsayssouth) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:40 +0000

"now old Mr. Johnson had troubles of his own, he had a yellow cat that wouldn't leave his home. a special plan with deception as it's key, one little cat, how hard could it be, how hard could it be?"

*cackle* love that song / video. always have, always will.

as to Mell (victorian) stateing that she killed dave previously, lets remember we are talking of, well, a mell, and a dave. just cause he died didnt meant he Stayed dead that time. then again, it might explain why Mr Davenport decided to haunt someplace besides where helen and mell were.

By: Aaron Shades (prof_tinker)

Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:39 +0000

My theory is that Dave, in whatever incarnation, but especialy so as a henchman, has near-infinte capacity to get fairly used to just about anything Mell choses to throw at him.

Witness later on in the strip, at the beginning of the D-Con arc one of my favorite bits.

Helen: Talk of I'll drop you into an oil Drum full of shaved gerbils and jell-o!

Dave: I'm already IN an oil drum full of shaved gerbils and Jell-O.

Helen: AHA!

Dave I don't think this is part of the torture. Mell just does this from time to time.

Mell: Only when I can spare an oil drum.

Helen: Right. Time to think of something worse than your daily routine.

*giggles maniacly*

By: Dave Van Domelen (dvandom)

Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:10:38 +0000

Mell can make ectoplasm, as already established. She just chooses to generally make it in the form of large-bore weaponry.