Comments on: Demons: February 23-28, 2004

By: Daffyd Wagstaff (lord_killerfish)

Daffyd Wagstaff (lord_killerfish) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:34 +0000

Lessons for surviving life as a mortal #2:

Human is a bad choice for a mortal form. It has no natural weapons, poor survival insticts and no venom sacs.

Also be aware that you will be sacrificing almost all of the power you have into the incarnation spell matrix, and will no longer be able to regenerate limbs or heads.

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:33 +0000

Reminds me of that James Blish duology, where Armageddon gets set off early, the demons come out of Hell to take over... and then they're all "WTF? We don't have anything to do to them, that's worse than what they were doing to each other!"

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:32 +0000

Also, in case there were one or two people on the planet not aware of this ... it was exactly ten years ago today (July 31, 2000) that the first "Narbonic" strip was posted online! In honor of this auspicious day ...

(TUNE: "Almost Like Being In Love", Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe)

What a decade it's been!
Shaenon G., For The Win!
She's the ... crazy cartoonist we love!

It's today, less ten years,
When Narbonic appears
By that ... crazy cartoonist we love!

Now, we know, Shaenon's beau just might say
That he's fonder of Valentine's Day ...

But her fans, best to worst,
Love July thirty-first!
Yes, it's been an adventure-y
Tenth of a century!
Your cartoons, we want more thereof!
No time for hating,
We're celebrating
That crazy cartoonist we love!

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:31 +0000

(TUNE: "Bittersweet Symphony", The Verve)

I'm such an idiot ... stuck in human form!
I can't burn his flesh, I can't even make it warm!
This just isn't right!
I can't fight, I can't smite!
Now I'm stuck in this weak
And pathetic physique!
By all unholy hells, I won-
Der, what have I gone and done?
Why'd I do it? Bloody screw it ...!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:30 +0000

Saturday:

That poor fellow's eyes. He never thought leaving the pits of Hell would be so distressing.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:29 +0000

*snicker*

By: Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker)

Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:28 +0000

@John: Thanks, that’s good news. And good work! 🙂

There’s another (fully updated) Skin Horse compilation here:

http://hyniof.livejournal.com/78200.html

By: John Campbell (jcampbel)

John Campbell (jcampbel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:27 +0000

Oh, and, Sam: I'm in the midst of relocating the servers those copies of the filename stories are on. My old ISP went away Friday morning, and the activation date for my new connection isn't until Monday (and I wouldn't put money on FairPoint actually hitting that date). In the meantime, I've still got the files, but I don't have any means of making them publically accessible. They'll be back whenever this here blinkenlight stops blinking.

Maybe I'll quit slacking and get the Skin Horse one caught up while I'm waiting...

By: John Campbell (jcampbel)

John Campbell (jcampbel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:26 +0000

I bet Dave, as a younger brother, has been waiting his entire life to be on this end of that situation.

By: Justin Grubbs (jjgrubbs)

Justin Grubbs (jjgrubbs) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:12:25 +0000

I feel bad for Caliban every time I read this strip. Or at least, I feel bad for him until I remember that he gets to have Mell, and then there is no sympathy, only envy.