Going to the extra effort of running the vacuum cleaner over the floors might have been a good idea, I suppose…
Posts authored by Karel Kerezman
Gotten Very Silly
Realizing that I’d painted myself into a corner, I wondered: How do I either extend this or get out of it entirely?
Once again, the bookshelf saved me… somewhat. I couldn’t find a way to make funny the buildup to Sachiko’s version of the punchline, though. So I stewed, and pondered, and wandered off for a while, and read half of a book about the planet Earth, and then it hit me.
Do what the Pythons did!
Of course! And if this series of comics has got entirely too silly, well… the rest sort of wrote itself. By which I mean I oh-so-cleverly adapted The Colonel’s bits out of the classic “Full Frontal Nudity” episode from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
One should pay proper homage to the classics, I figure.
(Speaking of which: I tried, I really tried, to work another bit of that episode into this comic… but I just couldn’t see Sachiko complaining, “But it’s my only line!”)
This Is Book Club
Okay, it’s like this:
I was torn, when I decided to play with this particular meme, between what became Thursday’s comic and the seed of what I used for today’s. Last week I chose the more accessible rendition because sometimes you need to play to your audience.
I then decided to go with this rendition as well… because sometimes you need to do what you find entertaining. Since the “Venus Prime” books have been staring at me from the new bookshelf for a while now, I was inevitably going to end up doing this anyway… so here you are. I think it worked out rather well, especially since I got to turn Neil’s confusion into a running joke.
(Sorry, Neil.)
Here’s the thing, though: I successfully strung three comics together, two of them using the same meme. Can I manage to transition from this to yet another riff…?