@timbo: No. No, we are not.
@James: No. No, he is not.
I have absolutely no problems with becoming a regular character, by the way.

Note from Scott: NOTED!

This is officially my favorite Basic Instruction ever.

Rosie is the coolest one in the whole family!!! Why didn't her Dad (my brother) not have red hair?

Note from Scott: Because the comic is in black and white.

And there was a reason to draw a new picture of new persons ... or was Rosie used in the past?

Well Done! Not only made the whole cartoon about naming the winner but actually made it funny to.

Amazing!

I would like to put it out there that there is nothing inherently wrong with being a teenage girl (or boy, or anything else)! It's a part of life, and blah blah basically I just think that our age is the one thing that we can't actually change any faster than time itself lets us so comments like one posted earlier sort of dance across that fine line of good-natured fun into mean-natured.

I didn't get that message at all from your comic though, for which I wanted to give much kudos and appreciation! It's been a long time since I was a teenage girl, but I would probably shriek just as loud if that were me. :P

BAHahaha.
Did her father really say that? I hope her father really said that!

This is one of your best yet, and you've already done some great ones.

oddly enough I just noticed something.

I read the top part of the comic in a female voice and all the dialog in a male one. Just noticed because I gave Rosie the same voice.

Pity she can't be a regular. She's my favorite character already.

Panel 4 is golden. The ambiguities in that panel rocks.
How great is it that both Rick and Scott say "thank you", indicating they're each seeing the positive interpretations.
Then we are allowed to laugh behind their backs at the negative interpretations :)

@benc There are no positive interpretations. What you're looking at is a negative interpretation, but for somebody else. Reality is like that.

I, for one, welcome our new non-stale non-bald characteress, but I warn her that when Mr. Meyer is still producing this comic in, well, probably eighteen months from now anyway, she will look exactly the same as in today's edition. Whereas in real life she will look like the original version of Rick.

http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2006/11/19/how-to-threaten-vengeance.html

...oh, so hair loss jokes aren't good. O......kay.

I also speculate that like Trekkies, she is better acquainted with the canon material than are the regular performers. In this case, I have no hesitation in blaming the parents: there's no excuse for this.

As a bald man, I appreciate that bald jokes are used tactfully, and in this case with extreme hilarity.

Panel three is awesome. :)

What is the superlative after "excellent"? "Exceptional"? It applies to this strip.

I didn't get panel 3 until I read the explanation. Here in the UK hospitals are free, and there is a cop show called The Bill, so I thought it was a reference to cops...

I love the synchronized double-smackdown in panel four - reminds me of the nun in Blues Brothers, simultaneously punishing the eponymous Messrs. Blues until the ruler breaks...
Congrats Rosie & Her Dad, both for winning and getting such good lines!