Comments on: Hangdog and Shamefaced

By: Niemi

Niemi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:45:03 +0000

Good thing Lemmo still has shoes. Everyone else in that line has to go with bare feet.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:45:44 +0000

I suppose so, but those housings are as big as the boys’ feet. That’s about an inch and a half thick to two inches thick..

Not a lot of room to put a generator.

By: Bozobub

Bozobub — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:07:49 +0000

‘Sides, nearly anything could be in those housings…

By: Bozobub

Bozobub — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:06:52 +0000

Put’em on a bit of an incline and you don’t need motors ^^,

By: macksting

macksting — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:17:47 +0000

I assumed the prisoners are generating power for something.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:54:55 +0000

Also, there seems to be nothing powering the treadmills. Are the prisoners pushing it themselves?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:53:34 +0000

Hmm, looking at the way the lighting is portrayed through the “windows”, I’m thinking they could either be windows or maybe even lamps of some sort. The way the glare goes downwards suggests that either (A) Lemmo kinda took an easy short-cut on the lighting, or (B) the glare is going downwards because they’re lamps.

The lamp theory can be easily applied to the smaller ones that are at the right-most area of the room (Although the lamps make you think they’re far away, look where the ground ends. It’s a rather smallish room.), but closer up, or at the left side, they seem to be windows.

This really doesn’t matter, I geuss, but it’s just an observation.

By: them1me1you

them1me1you — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:08:44 +0000

it’s a medieval style castle with medieval style torture . . . but with treadmills.

By: Midoriko

Midoriko — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:33:34 +0000

And now that you have said that, macksting, I can do nothing but wonder what the meaning of the window shapes could possibly be.

What kind of cookie IS the cookie with the whip, anyway?

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:13:07 +0000

This is a bit gruesome.

By: macksting

macksting — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:42:47 +0000

Those are some strange little windows.

By: macksting

macksting — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:42:08 +0000

“Like carrying a doll instead of a real baby.”
Around my school, we used flour bags for this.

By: Bozobub

Bozobub — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:02:08 +0000

Well, hot damn. Your comic stands out, fellas, in a sea of (on the average) quite good competitors; keep it up! Following links from Penny Arcade, I stumbled on Blank It anf read your entire archive… Shovel Beams and Cookie Kings ftw. =D

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:15:09 +0000

Actually, they are each chained to their own treadmill, not each other. And I’m thinking the bags are just dummy cookies. Like carrying a doll instead of a real baby.

By: TheBananaFish

TheBananaFish — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:33:55 +0000

It appears to me that all of them are chained to their treadmill. Except the cookie being carried, he looks like he’s chained to his carrier.

And the fact that they’re on treadmills says something of cookie law: apparently carrying a cookie isn’t enough, you must carry the cookie while moving. Interesting. Or maybe having a cookie in your arms while standing still only counts as “holding” a cookie and to adhere to the language of cookie law you must be moving for it to be called “carrying.”

If you eat part of a fellow cookie, do you still carry it as punishment? Or do they try to keep you away from cookies. So far I have no reason to believe that there is a “capitol cookie punishment.”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:02:38 +0000

Analyzation time!

Lemmo says that he wishes that they COULD HAVE helped Cookie King with his thing. First, he doesn’t say what the thing was, so that implies that they don’t totally know what it is themselves, and second, his saying “could have” makes it seem like it was a cookie-only project.

I wonder what that could be? Probably something that you have to be small or round to do. Or incredibly thin.
Then again, why would the Cookie King ask them to do something he knows they can’t do, and sentence thmem for it? Apparantly this king is somewhat evil.
Or maniacal.
Or stupid.

Also, the farthest four treadmills have a wooden bar dangling over it, but the one closest to the viewing perspective is bar-free. Hmm…

Also, The first cookie is chained to his treadmill, the second cookie to the first cookie, the third to the second, the third’s little buddy to the third, Lemmo to the third’s little buddy AND to the first’s leg, and Aric to Lemmo’s treadmill. So, if the first guy fails and falls, pretty much everyone falls down as well.
Cookie Law’s sentences are harsh!

By: Timeline

Timeline — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:55:08 +0000

The cookie with the whip looks like he’s enjoying himself a liitle too much..

By: Lipkin

Lipkin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:46:12 +0000

I wanna be pirate Aric.

By: Lantash

Lantash — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:27:45 +0000

so, rather than inconvenience an innocent cookie, they are made to carry a ‘fake’ cookie. But what crime is that middle cookie guilty of that has to ‘hold’ a bag and be carried himself!
Some minor infraction of cookie law no doubt.

@Jill – ‘mist’ people, perhaps half named. would be quite ghoulish too.

By: Midoriko

Midoriko — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:59:13 +0000

BAHAHAHAHA that was unexpected! I love this comic.

And I call the Fergus costume!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:16:50 +0000

Well, this was something of anti-climax. I really wanted to know what that thing they couldn’t help the cookie king with was…. :(

By: macksting

macksting — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:24 +0000

Flour! Hadn’t occurred to me.
I notice that whereas there’s a cookie carrying a cookie carrying a psuedo-cookie, Aric and Lemmo appear to be carrying multiple psuedo-cookies each.
Or, if it’s flour, are they proto-cookies?

By: me.vicky

me.vicky — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:37:06 +0000

@shuryou: I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of the dreaded COOKIE LAW.
2. Which one is Hangdog, and which is Shamefaced? I Think Lemmo is more of a Hangdog, but I’m not sure Aric would go for Shamefaced…hehe, just being facetious.
3. Are they carrying, um, dead bags of flour or sugar or something? Or am I seeing x_x for no reason?
4. On the whole, this is my new favorite strip just because of its absurdity. Cookies chained to treadmills…that’s psychological, dude. Do cookies have weight issues? Just a thought.

By: Shuryou

Shuryou — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:28:06 +0000

Why do they let themselves get captured like this? Can’t they just… Eat the cookies? Cleaving giant flies with shovel beams is fine, but eating cookies is a crime? I wonder what cookiefolk legs and arms taste like…

By: inusushi

inusushi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:18:18 +0000

Hur hur, chocolate striped gimp cookie.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:47:27 +0000

Man i wish I were lithe so I could go as the Socks Fox.
I could go as Misty……. Misty who has eaten half the population of cookies @_@; rawr.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:54:33 +0000

OK we have to all start thinking of our Blank It related Halloween Costume. I’m thinking “Cookie,” but I think that’s only because of recent events. I don’t want to neglect earlier awesome ideas, like “Shovel Beam”

By: macksting

macksting — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:46:25 +0000

Why yes, I do believe it is.

By: Fedorov92

Fedorov92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:38:18 +0000

Is the fourth cookie from the left carrying a cookie who’s carrying a cookie?

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:25:43 +0000

Cookies in chains. Now that’s something you don’t see every day.

I fear Rule 34.

By: Bizar Guy

Bizar Guy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:19:52 +0000

Hoho, well that was unexpected!

By: Kholdstare

Kholdstare — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:03:58 +0000

I wish they could have helped the king with that thing, too. I’m curious as to what it was. D: