#149 - Running With Tigers
Monday, July 17th, 2006I will return on Friday, July 28th. I need a little time to recover from San Diego and get caught up on some freelance work.
So, here’s Monday’s. Now I’m all (sort of) caught up.
I’m heading out to San Diego first thing on Thursday morning. Friday I’ll be at the Radio Comix table (table #5430) at San Diego Comic Con from 2-4pm. I will likely be there other times as well, since I’m planning to be at the convention all day Friday and Saturday, but will be playing that more by ear. Stop by the table and visit. If I’m not there, I’ll try to leave some sort of indication of when I’ll be around. I’ll be bringing my laptop with me, so I can update from the con on Friday.
Here’s where you can find me at the con:
Once again, thanks to Josh for hooking me up with the space and to Liz for putting me in touch with Josh.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:07 am
I feel like having sex with a tiger!
July 18th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Fred, this is a longshot, but do you know a website called 4chan?
July 18th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I just googled 4chan. Never been to it before, but I seem to remember someone telling me about it before - although I can’t remember WHAT about it they were telling me.
Why do you ask?
July 18th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
No big deal, just that some of the links you’ve posted (dolphin sex, that bareback forum) and your humor style made me wonder if you were a regular to 4chan’s /b/. Thanks for answering, man. Great comic.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
The Dolphin Sex article I’ve had the link to for at least a year or two now (original from Metafilter, I think). The bareback thing (that’s the AIDS forum, right?) was a link that someone sent me the day before I posted it.
I’ll check out 4chan after I get back from SDCC.
July 20th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
dolphin sex..AIDS..uhh..sick retards..
July 21st, 2006 at 9:51 am
Man, 4chan is NOT the originator of most of those things, half of them come from SomethingAwful originally, or have just spread from person to person and eventually been swept up by 4chan. Generally 4chan is just a place where those popular things sweep through, not where they start.
4chan is mainly just a hentai site trying to pretend it’s something more.
July 22nd, 2006 at 3:41 am
Your mom didn’t originate sex but that’s where I got it from.
Anyway: He didn’t say it all did, it’s just 4chan doesn’t cost money to post in, yeah? You’re just a goon who wishes he had something better to do with his life than put down rival boards; calm down.
July 22nd, 2006 at 6:17 am
No, no, actually I think the goons are retards for paying for a forum. 4Chan is just a horrible, horrible place. Haven’t been there once without seeing at least one pedo-porn thread, lovely community, at least I’m pretty sure even SA doesn’t suck to those depths.
July 22nd, 2006 at 6:58 am
I’m glad i didn’t visit the 4chan forum..
July 22nd, 2006 at 5:28 pm
this 4chan sounds like some pretty rank stuff.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
As a pedo-porn afficionato, I take personal offense to the bashings of 4Chan. That is a place that we pedo-porn perverts can use as a safe place on this conservative anti-porn hell hole you call the internet.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Yeah, I spent the last three hours trying to find some porn - there’s almost nothing on the net. I have to resort to my sisters girly magazines.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
I personally prefer Teen People or Teen Beat when it comes to girly mags.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
I actually read an article from Cosmo a while back and it taught me to masturbate with my foot if im bored and surrounded by people. However, I lack a vagina so it was kind of a waste of time to even attempt it.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
I think that Ronny and Ray are the same guy who has way too much time on his (?) hands and has a wierd sense of humor.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Personally, from looking at the post times from the above people, I think that Ronny, Ray, and Vyacheslav are all the same person just trying to amuse himself by typing as much as possible before the infection in his thumb gets worse and renders use of the spacebar by dominant thumb impossible. Wow, that was oddly specific.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Personally, I doubt that someone would misrepresent themselves on the internet, it just doesn’t happen.
In other news, pigs have been alighting on the hoods of cars, crushing Geos around the country. If only we had thought to put roofs on their pens, Porkageddon would never had occurred!
July 24th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I’m gonna have to go a step farther and suggest that everything posted from 10:39 to 10:50 is from the same person. Though it’s very obvious that, at the very least, Ray and Ronny are the same person. I don’t think two people would make the exact same mistake of including the “Says:” when copying and pasting their names - or that both would choose to copy and paste their name, for that matter. I also notice that “Vyacheslav” writes similarly to Ray/Ronny, and the same goes for “Not Antonio.”
July 25th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I can assure you all with my word as a man (?) that I am not the same person as Ronny, Vyacheslav, or that Not Antonio character.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Yeah, I totally think that Ronny, Ray, Vyacheslav, and Not Antonio are seperate people.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Are you kidding me? Listen, “Rick from Trenton”, I know who you are. I met you on that interactive game “THERE” and you were hitting on my girlfriend. I’ve got a bone to pick with you, mister.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Gosh darn you, Not Antonio. How did you find me? I thought that the stripper-gram with slight beastiality connotations I sent you would have detered you from ever finding me on the interweb!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Ok, guys, this is pretty ridiculous. Just admit it, we’re all the same person. I mean -
July 25th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Shut up, Vyacheslav! Just let Not Antonio and Rick from Trenton work this out.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Don’t you tell me to shut up, you spineless cretin! I swear on my mother-in-laws head, if I ever find you in person, I’ll tear your spine out your left nostril!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Hey, guys, cool it. And I mean, if he’s spineless, how are you going to tear said spine from his left nostril?
July 25th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I was speaking figuratively then literally, you pedophile ( rambling in Russian that I don’t want to type out phonetically ).
July 25th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
ALL OF YOU SHUT THE [explative deleted] UP! This fight is between me and Rick. That bastard tried to steal my woman and it’s payback time.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Let’s take this outside, “Not Antonio”, if that’s even your real name.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Are you daft, good man? Of course that’s not his real name!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
All of you have just lost your speaking privaleges. Rick and I have a fight to…uh…fight.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
There was a short pause and the room (or message board) went quiet. Rick met Not Antonio’s piercing stare and held the gaze, waiting for one of them to make the first move for the door. Ronny edged over to the large metal door that led in to the back alley. He pushed open the door and a blast of cold October air ushered in dry leaves, caked with the blood of fights long past.
Not Antonio made the first move, dropping his almost finished cigarette onto the ground and crushing it with his boot heel as he made for the door. The others only watched as Rick from Trenton followed a little ways behind. The two warriors exited into the battle grounds, hallowed by drunken honor battles dating back years.
Ronny let the door close shut, first quickly, then as the pnuematic hinge caught it, slowly. They listened for the sounds of a fight, too nervous to follow the footsteps into the alleyway. For five long minutes the group stood there waiting to hear a sound. Vyacheslav spoke first.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Maybe the door is soundproof?
July 25th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I doubt it.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Ronny once again moved to open the door. It seemed almost as if in slow motion his hand pressing down on the bar hinge. The soft click of the door moving out of its resting place. And then the sound.
Everything had sped up again. The door flung open to reveal the filth of the alley. And Rick from Trenton standing over the lifeless body of Not Antonio, blood dripping from his sword.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Where’d he get the sword?
July 25th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
No…..no. You killed my brother!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
He’s your brother? But you’re Russian and he’s not Spanish.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Vyacheslav quickly reached under his coat and pulled out a .335
July 25th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
HOLY SHIT HE’S GOT A GUN!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
BANG!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
I feel . . . cold . . .
July 25th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
BANG! BANG!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
My eyes!!!! And my brain…. oh, right ( death )
July 25th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Vyacheslav stepped over the bodies of his falled enemies and moved towards the open door to the alley.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Don’t start, Vyacheslav, I have a sword, and you’re out of bullets.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
That’s what you think.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Goddamnit, I was sitting on that line for months!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Vyacheslav raised his weapon and squeezed the trigger. The round exploded out of the barrel and rocketed towards Rick. Luckily for Rick, he saw this move coming and raised his sword just in time to deflect the bullet back at Vyacheslav.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
BANG! fwoosh Ping! whiiizz {sploit}
July 25th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
You….you shot me.
July 25th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
There was a dull thud as Vyacheslavs hand gave way and his weapon hit the cold ground. Slowly blood soaked into Vyacheslavs shirt. Even if he could get to a hospital, the wound was straight through and had severed his spine.
Vyacheslav sank to his knees. He opened his mouth to say something, but it never came. As his face smashed into the concrete, sealing the life from his body, Rick dropped his sword and began walking out of the alley and towards the sunrise.
END
July 25th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
See what happens when you don’t update, Fred?
July 26th, 2006 at 3:33 am
What. The. Fuck.
I would pay good money to ensure that I never have to see this again.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:55 am
Wow. That was by far the most interesting thing ever. Sure beats waiting for an update. Goes to show everyone on the net is bloody nuts.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Yes, yes, yes.
I will be back Friday. Things in the Grisolm household are super hectic and I’m completely spent from San Diego.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:42 am
Young men die for your pleasure fred…. they gave up their lifes!
February 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Actually.. no one said that 4chan caused all of those SICK humors to humanity. It was just said that 4chan supports and ALLOWS those sick illnesses to grow further as it is much more collected. Easy to elaborate. however, it is far too clear that those who look at 4chan truly have no lives. the poor pedos. i pity them. Well, i have to get back to my life, thankfully, i have one. I’d love to further discuss this.. but I REALLY dont have the time.
Ciao
March 5th, 2007 at 12:56 am
4chan doesn’t do pedo stuff u virgin newb come to the dark side or diee!!!
October 15th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
[…] Not that it would involve animals, but… well… I’m just sayin’… […]
November 12th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
4channer here, it is a nice place of pedophilia and memetic origin. Suprised no one found this yet. We’re not a forum, either, imageboards FTW. elder, you are a fag.