Comments on: Extreme Ostriching

By: noisyparker

noisyparker — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:42:59 +0000

@BlueSox Your bunk-sibling never accused you (facetiously, of course!) of being the monster under her bed? :3

By: TheBananaFish

TheBananaFish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:53:17 +0000

There is no, place I know, to compare to pure imagi- HOLY CRAP giant mechanical bugs!

He looks like Willy Wonka.

By: BlueSox

BlueSox — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:20:46 +0000

Haha! Aric found uncle Waldo’s hat! (From the aristo cats)!!! Lol, I always new the cover thing… But I was jealous that my sister never had to worry about it… she had the top bunk… only monsters for me…

By: DefierOfPhysics

DefierOfPhysics — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:39:32 +0000

You have a second kid on the way? Congratulations!

By: lemmo

lemmo — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:52:07 +0000

@boring7 We talked about this in the forums, I should probably mention something out here. We feel there’s a quality breaking point between 2 and 3 comics a week we just can’t commit to right now. I have a second kid on the way, and my wife and I work opposing shifts… a switch to 3 a week would result in potentially missed updates or a compromise in quality. Aric and I would like to move along the story faster, but we’d much rather run our tight ship of solid updates. I hope everyone can understand and forgive us for our predicament.

By: boring7

boring7 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:08:52 +0000

I’ve listened to the radio program, watched the miniseries and movie, and read the novels. I felt the movie was in some ways the most amusing and in others the most disappointing, they did the best Vogon I’d ever seen, but they also used a love story/happy ending for a series that held a consistent theme of an uncaring universe sprinkled with sarcasm, anticlimaxes, and silliness.

In any even, moving back to the comic, does anyone know how many more regular readers are needed to get a 3-a-week update schedule?

By: Physicsman

Physicsman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:25:51 +0000

@macksting: Thx 4 the warning. 

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:33:52 +0000

oh noes :( They’re going to ignore the foxes, they’ll get bored of the two-legged ones and go romp around in Misty’s village instead!

By: macksting

macksting — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:09:26 +0000

It’s my understanding that no two adaptations of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, be it radio program, novel, video game or movie, have precisely the same storyline. Common elements from one to the next, certainly. So, if this conversation gets you into the series, Physicsman, I really must warn you at least that discussions of the whole Adams body of work alone can get a little strange in my experience.

I wonder if Aric is bound for hoboness.

By: Physicsman

Physicsman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:13:29 +0000

@Midoriko: I never new that (I’m only 16 so it’s understandable that I would know of ‘em if there from that long ago) thx 4 telling me now I know.

By: boring7

boring7 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:12:22 +0000

Perhaps the universe is expanding/reshaping and the shovel beam is no longer within sight of the broken map.

I don’t think Aric’s eybrows are sticking out, I believe it is his nanoweave toupee being spiky and appearing to merge with his eyebrows due to perspective.

By: DefierOfPhysics

DefierOfPhysics — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:49:51 +0000

I didn’t notice the eyebrows until you pointed it out. They are beginning to grow…

Also, Aric both decided to rock the ripped-top hat *and* looks rather hobo-esque! Hazzah! The way he is hunched over in panel 3 doesn’t help…

Oh, how I wished Lemmo’s logic actually worked the way he claims it to. *sigh* Although “Then you weren’t ignoring them enough” is still a great comeback. I may need to use that at some point, although I am not sure how I will work that into typical conversation.

By: Fedorov92

Fedorov92 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:22:11 +0000

One: Aric’s eyebrows are now becoming as epic as Lemmo’s bangs.

Two: I was correct in my guess that Aric would continue to wear the ‘can o’ whoop-ass’ hat (pardon me for naming it, perhaps prematurely, but hey, that’s what we DO here) even with its top off.

Three: Lemmo’s logic is infallible.

By: Midoriko

Midoriko — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:07:07 +0000

@Physicsman: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a trilogy of five books (at least… Someone correct me) by Douglas Adams. The movie is… a bit of a sore spot. Is all I will say.

On topic, shouldn’t we be seeing the shovel beam?

By: Physicsman

Physicsman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:44:41 +0000

@Daniel: they made game about that in the 80′s?!?!? Wasn’t that movie made in like 2005 or something?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:11:24 +0000

Boring7 made me think…; Remember the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the to the Galaxy game that was released back in the 80′s?

God that game was hard.

On topic: Best. Logic. Ever.

By: boring7

boring7 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:45:52 +0000

We seem to be thinking of the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal, from Douglas Adams amusing writings.

@ Miesa, indeed, he has no shoes (or socks) a topper that’s burst, all he needs is some shabbification on his remaining clothes and a bottle of Midnight Hobo Liquor.

By: Miesa

Miesa — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:15:29 +0000

hobo chic!

By: noisyparker

noisyparker — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:23 +0000

They are surprisingly quiet… not even running chatter in reduced-size font. Then again, they were pretty quiet when combined, too. That should make them easier to ignore!

By: Da Mighty Camel

Da Mighty Camel — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:52:31 +0000

This logic is infallible!

By: Midoriko

Midoriko — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:32:29 +0000

Terry Pratchett logic: If the monsters go away when you put your head under the covers, then what happens if the monster’s head is under the blanket? It forces their very existence to be called into question and they are left standing there in an unending existential crisis. Best revenge ever.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:56:15 +0000

Hmmm, note the positions of the characters in relation to one another between panels 3 & 4. I think they’re about to find something.

Also, remind me to pull the covers up when a burglar breaks into my house. Up, over & around his head and neck so I can strangle them, that is.

By: TheBananaFish

TheBananaFish — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:15:20 +0000

So that’s what cover’s are for! And here I was trying to sty warm and insulated. Man… I coulda saved a lot of time with that monster in my closet as a kid if I had just pulled my covers over my head. As opposed to staring into its dead lights of course.

By: Physicsman

Physicsman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:11:31 +0000

Haha Lemmo gets it… If u ignore it it goes away… That’s what I’ve been telling ppl about the economy for the past 1 1/2 years. (the economy is directly dependent on the overall status of the country which on the end is dependent on the ppl. In short if everyone were to act as if the Economic crisis didn’t exist it will go away)

By: JamesLite

JamesLite — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:39:33 +0000

Aric reminds me somewhat of Fagin now.

I won’t be surprised if he’s rounded up a ragtag bunch of unsettler orphans before the month is past.

By: Midoriko

Midoriko — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:08:10 +0000

Yes! He’s still wearing the hat!

Also, I’m going to try the ignoring people thing. On my homework.