Tuesday
Sep012009
How to Boast of Your Prowess
Author's Note: Almost immediately after posting this strip I received several complaints about panel three. Specifically, that it depicted an act of rape. Hopefully it goes without saying that this was never my intent. I envisioned the woman's attitude in that panel to be one of amused exasperation, not anger or fear. I have left the comic on the site because most people who read it saw the comic the way I meant it, but out of respect for the opinions and feelings of those who didn't I have added this discalimer.
September 1, 2009
Reader Comments (67)
What's sad is I know a guy like that (the boaster i mean), I wonder if it would be wrong if I posted his name.
good lord. stomaching this comic was something of an ordeal!
Hahaha! Good job, as always, but this one I'm sure most men have dealt with one way or another
Hahahhaha this is too funny
By ordeal he means like candy
Except for the idea of mullet sex. Yuck, sir. Yuck.
Mullet sex? Does the carpet match the [user banned from posting forever now]
With the third panel, you can read the conversation either the way it's intended, or with the speakers reversed, and it's still funny :)
i never boast of my prowess at anything...you might say it's one of my strong points...not boasting, ever, about anything, that is. never.
Dude, that was hilarious. Uncomfortable, cuz ya didn't know where it was going, but hilarious.
Seems like Basic Instructions has been getting steadily raunchier. Do not want. :-(
Yeah, I dunno, moving all the way into rape joke territory seems a bit past the line. I mean, cyanide and happiness seem to have that covered more than it needs to eb already.
"Rape jokes???"
It's a "being-crap-in-the-sack" joke, for fuck's sake.
Although I have to admit I thought this strip lacked some of Scott's usual subtlety - and I say that as a real book-and-T-shirt-owning fan.
Fantastically disturbing. (Or disturbingly fantastic)
The sexual incompetence, is slightly reminiscent of Flight of the Conchords "Business Time" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0oDnoc3-c
But I am quite sleepy.
Well I laughed, we've all met people like that...
And I never, ever boast. I'm brilliant at not boasting to be honest.
Nick
Ha ha! Good one. You win the humble ribbon. If we see you wearing it, you lose it.
Dangerous territory. Hard to believe someone could be that clueless... well, not really. Anyway, I think these kind of jokes are best told "live".
Thanks, Victoria, for spinning the (if I may say so) rather obvious joke round into something funny. The curtness of "If we see you wearing it, you lose it" actually made LOL out loud.
I think that was the most delightfully awkward strip I've read since the Iron Chef suckling piglet one. Except this one was uncomfortable all the way through, and the piglet one saved it all up for the last panel.
Keep stepping outside the box, Scott!
Hey, don't let a little thing like decorum stop you...
Personally, I've known too many guys like this.
The position of Mullet's hands in Panel #1 when he gets to the "I'm gonna have sex with her" part... yikes. Another instant classic.
"Business Time" is hysterical! "Business hours are over, baby"
Well... actually, if by "get off, get off!" we're intended to believe that she was shrieking for him to stop, and he did not, in fact, stop, but instead forced her to continue with the sex, then yes, that does constitute rape.
I'm not saying it's not very funny in a dark kind of way, but it does have kind of a bad... aftertaste?
One of the amusing things to me was that the people you do NOT want to hear about this from, tend to be the people most likely to give you too much information.
In my mind, I was putting my fingers in my ears and singing LA LA LA LA LA.
that's bullshit, if she was consenting, then there is no fucking time limit to when to get off. Rape my ass.
"forced her to continue with the sex...constitutes rape" --- blow me.
Funny funny funny. Reminds me of my girfriend when she always says "get off"and I say, " I'm trying, it takes a few minutes" (like I can do that on command). Sometimes it's like a race to see who gets there first. It's like "Ahhhhhhhhhh- I'm done- I win. Goodnight dear."
I guess I'm just a one-pump chump.