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September 29, 2011
Reader Comments (43)
I think that you have done this before.
NOT first!!! HA!!!
and speaking on behalf of the grammar sticklers, I can't WAIT to see what "Hershey Squirts" we get! I mean, um, I'm looking forward to having a comic-load of Hershey Squirts. Oh, wait, no, that doesn't work, either.
Just keep 'em coming, Hershey Squirts and all! (yikes)
oh, btw, it's not Fozzie the Bear. It's just Fozzie Bear. (I had to do it - you MADE me!)
AGH! You TOTALLY should have used the Strunk and White idea. That is surprisingly a really good book, and predictably well written.
Judging by their grammatical advice, Strunk & White woud be even worse detectives than Inspector Bradstreet.
I feel honored to be mentioned in your comic, and flattered that you didn't call us pedants. Because, y'know.
Yeah, S&W are pretty good... except for their propensity to make up rules that don't really exist. Check out Language Log's Pullum for several nice diatribes on the subject.
1. Strunk & White solving crimes with grammar? YES, PLEASE!
2. Bear-brother versus bear-brother. I could see it. But the rivalry would have to come down to wardrobe ... red shirts versus hideous bow-ties ...
3. Rorschach as in the Swiss psychologist or Rorschach as in the comic-book psycho? Inquiring minds want to know ... either of their journals would probably be disturbing in Scott Meyer form ...
Waffles give you Hershey squirts? "If Rorschach was an idiot." Priceless!
Hershey Squirts sounds like something the flu once did to me.
BDGAA!! The final panel is so meta. You nailed every punchline, I think this is a new level of awesomemeness Scott.
I will remember third panel for a long, long time.
I'm for Hershey Squirts!
But, some self proclaimed grammar-nazi's, should check their own post before claiming themselves a grammar-nazi.
How about White is murdered, and Strunk has to find out whodunnit, only it turns out Strunk has split personalities and HE done it! That's an award winning web comic idea is what that is! You're welcome.
I was just kind of drifting along until I hit the fourth panel. THAT'S where the big laugh was waiting for me.
SEVENTH! HA!
Adam: you meant "grammar nazis", not "grammar nazi's". The apostrophe puts the word in its possessive form, rather than plural.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist!
In fact, I bet if you applied the kind of heat, pressure and time required to make a diamond *to* a waffle, you would make the waffle into a diamond. A very small diamond, possibly with some residual deliciousness*, but a diamond nonetheless.
*I'm not sure which of the Four C's covers deliciousness. It can't come up all that often, but it seems unfair that a delicious diamond wouldn't be worth at least a little more...
We have to feel signifcant, Scott. You provide the opportunity for people that care about what you do to help out by pointing out potentially needed corrections. You do the hard stuff by creating the comic in the first place. The other come along and smooth out the rough edges.
You should do a strip about strips that are not self-referential. And then have a character ask "Is this strip self-referential?"
how about Winnie the Poo and Fozzie fighting over a jug of Hershey Squirts?
The term "Hershey Squirts" makes me smile. I haven't heard that since I was a kid. I think I will most definitely resurrect it in my family next time one of us gets the Hershey Squirts. My boys will love it...my wife will probably kill me.
I had to google Rorschach's Journal. That made it even funnier the second time I read the comic!
you have an idea file? wow, i thought you just wrote down what happened each week, and summed it up in a nice 12-panel program
(i particularly enjoyed the 5th panel today)
--roger
@Rebekah
Regarding the bears, I think, based on the geekiness Scott has portrayed in the past, Pooh, due to fashion choice, couldn't possibly survive past the first commercial break... er, panel.
@ Rebekah - Wow! I didn't think there would be any other crossovers between "Basic Instruction" fans and "Watchmen" fans. Cool!
On second thought, it makes sense - someone who likes the best web comic ever would obviously enjoy the best 12-issue graphic novel series ever!
@ Scott - lol on the first post! Good way to cut them off at the knees!
Hershey Squirts. Pennsylvania Midget Football team? If a player gets hit so hard that he poops himself, does he "go all Inception" and have a squirt within a squirt? WE MUST GO DEEPER!