Thursday
Dec042008
How to Have A Horrifying Conversation
As you may have surmised, I've been pretty busy with this "new web page" thing. I ended up having to re post all of my comics, which was time consuming, but well worth it. Rather than run a repeat, I am posting this comic, which I actually made over a year ago, but never posted because it disturbed me terribly at the time. Everything Mullet-Boss says in the first 2.5 panels is a direct quote from a conversation I'd had with a co-worker that day.
December 4, 2008
Reader Comments (49)
I can see why you thought this one is disturbing, but I think it is one of your best ones. Every panel is great.
Aw c'mon, I think you've really captured the essence of how sadism can be rationalized by a person as though they were a horse wearing blinders and repackaged as something productive, as if that hornet stinging the horse's behind is a spark of creativity sent from above...and at least that strip explains why mullet-boss is wearing bandoliers, hip boots and a thong at the halloween party (by the way, i do a great impersonation of you doing the scary voice...least my wife says so).
IMHO and FWIW you gave the perfect responses. Denial, changing the subject or minimising would have felt rejecting.
I understand how that can be horrifying. It reminds me of the time where my friend described how he was going to kill his wife in such vivid detail that I had was properly terrified and scared for my life.
(He never did actually do that, thank goodness.)
That's just disturbing....
Excellent comic, but probably better that you didn't publish it immediately - your co-worker might have felt that was insensitive.
wow that really IS pretty disturbing actually!
but funny either way :D
THIS seemed disturbing to you? And the one about hide ponchos seemed okay?
The more disturbing, the funnier it gets. I love the dead-pan questions your character asks.
"Accurately?"
It's funny how every generation back seems to get successively worse in punishment. My father talks about how easy he was on me, and I'm sure grandpa thought he was going easy on dad. How far back do we have to go until we reach the rack-and-pinion and iron maidens of household punishment?
I loved the comic, and i also loved the "hot to make a repeating background" thingy :-)
I like that feeling you get when you find yourself accidentally revealing too much information - just before it's too late... and you have to decide if you should abruptly stop talking or go "all in"
I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !
I enjoyed this piece for the grand candor that Scott speaks about, indeed, some of the most colorful conversations come from the work-place. Then again, colorful conversations can be engaged in any realm of this tormented life.
So am I the only one that thinks being disciplined as a child made me a better man today?
I like the new web site design, and I love that the blog posts are right there under the comic so I don't have to click across to find them. Nice work!
I just want to know what's on your mug. I'm squinting my ass off over here and can't quite make it out.
Quite interesting to know that sometimes conversation can be diverted from a simple tone into a horrific ending. I guess, it depends on the 2 parties participating in the conversation.
Been there, did that, done that. Co-workers will freak you out with the things they tell you.
Well done. You could rerun it on Flog Like a Pirate Day :-)
yah ha hah :)
Good one! But this conversation actually happened, didn't it?
PS: you've been Dugg!
I could not stop laughing. I felt bad afterwards. I guess what is so funny is the rationalization for the abuse, not the abuse itself. I once read a book by Pat Buchanan, and he recalls his instances of childhood abuse (as the victim) so fondly it's disturbing. Memories!
On a side note, everyone should watch the "Dr. Phil" show.
How to Have A Horrifying Conversation (COMIC)...
[...]Awkward...[...]...
then tell him he should buy a go-kart
I got bare-butt spankings with the belt and the odd back hand at times growing up. Nothing I couldn't recover from quickly, mentally and physically. I would consider a beating to entail having my teeth chipped out and knocked unconscious.