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Casey, you can only “vote” for the Pope if you are a Cardinal. The Cardinals meet in the conclave and do not leave until a decision is reached. SO technically the Pope is voted on but not by the common person.
:] Nice page today, I can’t wait to see what comes next.
I think Guys answer would be something along the lines of “Because guiding kids is a job I can enjoy” he seems like the sort of fellow who would be a Doctor or a Pope, but the job is THE job.
You work all day delivering babies and doing operations, cutting out appendixes and whatnot, but that stuff is serious work.
You can’t be yourself and have fun while you’re giving someone a labotomy.
Well you could, but I’m sure that’d qualify him for Psycho of The Year award.
Guy isn’t like that.
Most people would kill for a job they enjoy doing, that’s why most comic book artists do it for the enjoyment more than the money.
We love our “job”.
Pope Guy?! More like poor Guy I know Janny’s in labor and frustrated not only at the predicament she’s in possibly having a baby in deepest Africa (At least as deep as being Far from a more Urban area) She has to keep a level head at the situation her sister has gotten herself into. I mean she knows the secret of the marriage and now Guy is being too good be true. I just hope she doesn’t blurt out what she knows in the throes of pain.
Could be that delivering babies steered him away from med school. And I doubt that the College of Cardinals would vote in as Pope someone who’s not even a priest. He might not even be Catholic…
As for why he’s a guidance counselor, my guess is that he tried it, and found he liked helping kids plan their futures.
Judging by those last three panels, perhaps it’s a good thing we won’t see the father of Janey’s baby. There is clearly some backstory there; it might interfere with the story Bobby is telling.
Though I am loath to admit it, Opra is more likely than the government. She has a rivaling degree of influence and resources (this worries me to no small end), but she also has motive; something I could not perceive in regard towards the Pentagon.
Imagine it: The Perfect Man marries an icon like Stasia, and every woman on the planet finds out about it. This “confirms†to them that Perfect Men do, in fact, exist, and when they fail to find one themselves after an initial burst of renewed ambition toward such an end, who do they turn to for guidance? And like that, Opra’s influence, SUCH AS IT IS, doubles overnight.
I must say, this is one of my best, and certainly one of my most terrifying conspiracy theories to date. I shall pat myself on the back as I rock back and forth slowly in the corner.
I like this comic for several reasons. One, it’s funny. I’m sorry, perhaps there’s something wrong with me, but there’s just something inherently funny about Janny in labor angrily conversing with Guy. I’d say yelling at, but it looks a little too civil for that. Which is good, you can tell she’s irritated and in pain (I certainly would be if I was having contractions four weeks early no where near a hospital in Africa) and it adds some tension to the page. Tension is good!
Well, that was one reason. Another is that we get to see Janny without her little jacket and I REALLY like her shirt. Sleeveless looks good on her. Also, Denny just pulled seats out of a truck; how awesome is that? The answer is very. I also liked how we got a little info on the father of Janny’s baby. Hopefully more will be forthcoming once she no longer has a person attempting to exit her abdomen.
The only thing that was a little off putting was the sudden transition from the truck to the hut. I was a little confused at first, but after reading the page over a couple of times, I got what was going on. I can also understand why the transition worked the way it did, because I’m guessing not much important happened during the walk and situation in the hut and because it also saves a little panel and page space.
So, yay! I like this page a lot. I’ll be looking forward to the next one in the hopes that we’ll see a montage of Parker running to Umoja. Or something to that effect, anyway. Or is it affect?
Haha, trust a peeved, hot, going into labor woman to cut to the heart of the issue and voice the opinions of all of us on this side of the fourth wall.
Also, janny doesn’t know who the father is? I really can’t see her as a random roll in the hay kinda gal, so maybe artificial insemination?
I’m pretty sure Janny just mentioned the pope because he was the most perfect man she could think of. If Guy’s so perfect, why isn’t he the pope? You know.
This is a great comic. I’d pay vast amounts of money to see the movie, too, no doubt about it.
I for one love Denny’s expressions through out the series, only toped by, of course, Guy’s jaw drops. (See previous pages)
I love the Guy/Parker dynamics.
~Stacia: Did she just risk her life for my sister? (shocked expression)
~Guy: Look, we got less than half a mile from the village, we gotta go back. (Not even acknowledging Parker’s possible self-sacrifice, like it’s just natural, what is right, & there are bigger, more important things in life.)
I love how they play off each other, even when they’re not even in the same scene.
So, who here thinks Janny will get a clue, find the person who she can truely count on, fall madly in love with, and then will be totally faithful to her? That being, of course, Parker.
Wow, thank God for Janny’s reaction. This perfect man stuff had me worried for a sec. I was almost shamed into picking up my socks without being nagged lol…
but seriously i guess my worry over a plot was unfounded whew!
Guy just seems like the perfect man because we haven’t had enough time to learn his flaws, but really, he’s so gosh darn endearing. I alwaso think he comes off as perfect because he’s content in his life, those people always seem to draw the crazies (sorry Parker and Stasia). But as far as doctor/pope/etc. I think it would be a wee bit mentally scarring to have to ease a small human out of your sister’s body…… That and you have to be one in a million to be mentally/emotionally strong whough to be the pope.
Oh Noes!! I just re-read this comic and on the first page you say ’should run about 80 pages” and this is page 79. Does that mean this is almost over? say it isnt so!!!!
And Janny’s behavior is the best advertisement for safe sex ever. Pregnant women are scary.
This comic perfectly proves Tseng’s law of fan raving. Namely: If fans begin ranting and raving about something being poorly written, unrealistic, etc., give the author some time. They might be setting something up, and if you whine about it you’ll spoil the enjoyment.
Case in point: Beast Machines Season 1. And all the Transformer fans said, “Technorganic? What the frell? And Optimus isn’t acting at all Optimusy, and what the frell?” And Tseng said, “Just chill, trust the writers, see how it turns out.” And then it got canceled in the US, but for those of us who were fans enough to get Season 2 from Canada, all our waiting was justified and the plot became made of awesome.
Likewise here. “Isn’t it unlikely that Guy can do all these things, but isn’t, like, a demigod or something? How contrived is that?” Just wait, oh raving fanperson, and see if Bobby and Eisu haven’t already anticipated this, and in fact worked it into the story. Which seems to be where Janny’s headed with this.
Of course, this cannot be stated without Tseng’s addendum to Tseng’s law of fan raving. If you give the author time, and it turns out that they’re really just hacks with no intention of resolving things, then you can beat them. But I trust Bobby and Eisu enough to know that won’t happen
Aww, but I can’t blame her. We just may now have learned that she’s a single mother, and right when she’s about to have her baby that she had the courage to keep after all this time, she starts worrying… and then also sees how lucky her sister is to have SOMEHOW randomly found the metaphorically PERFECT guy, yet she hasn’t.
It makes perfect sense… and yet, I do feel sad for her. This whole time she’s been the level-headed one, while Stasia is a tad wild…. Being the mature one and being the strong one is hard, when it feels like there’s no one to be strong for you.
…. Uh,.. whoops. Sorry for the lengthy analysis. >__>
Hi! I think this is my first…or maybe second time commenting… :p
But anyways, this comic is great! It becomes funnier and funnier and more random all the time Love it!
Just of curiosity, is the occurrence of the word “blah” has anything to do with a movie called “The Demented Cartoon Movie”?
And BTW – nice comic – like the humor .
I have been waiting for someone to call shenanigans on Guy. I’m not surprised Janny is the one to do it. I am waiting for the perfectly reasonable, and humorous, response though.
Poor Janny – being that far along, going into labor, in that HEAT; plus, as several people have stated, having Guy’s perfectness rubbed into her face when there is an obvious burr under her saddle as relates to her baby’s father. (I REFUSE to say “baby daddy” – that’s SOOO … well, it’s a term that just bothers me and it legitimizes illegitimacy, and I just don’t like it)
Great job for Denny ripping out the seat cushions – and if Janny were to take a peek, she’d notice that Denny isn’t that bad of a guy either – he seems pretty good about noticing what needs doing and doing it, taking care of both her and Stasia, etc. Maybe he can’t deliver babies and speak Swahili, but I’ll bet he could have carried her from the truck to that hut without breaking a sweat and he would have done it, too, I’ll bet. It reminds me of a Ray Stevens song – it’s called something like “Can He love you like I do” or something like that; basically it’s this really low-brow red-neck sort supposedly singing to a woman about how he knows his competition in the lurrrve department is some hoity-toity edumacated college boy that has “a doctorate in physics and a masters in phys ed” – but, the singer asks, “can he play the spoons? Can he wiggle his ears and chug-a-lug beers and make a frog in your arm?” I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but it amuses me to think about it. And I shouldn’t be trying to post anything anyway when I’m not fully awake, so you shouldn’t really pay attention to anything I Just said.
hahah one of you guys up in the comments said that janny and parker should realize their undying love for eachother: THAT would be so great XD
specially if guy and stasia turned out to not be married.
i bet you parker saves the day and comes flyin in while hanging off the rope ladder of a helicopter holding a valiant pose. why? because she is awsome. =P
i gotta see guys answer to all of this, though. this ought to be gooooood
Go Janny! Go Janny! Go Janny! Man, I love this comic. Yeah, she’s stressed out, but she’ll be alright once the baby’s been delivered. It was probably an accidental pregnancy, with a now-deadbeat dad, so she’d rather not talk about him, the scumbag. Guy’s near-perfectness is a little hard to take, even for a fan. What is it with him, anyway?
I’m thinking of Guy’s response. He could be honest about the Doctor thing. Well, I had to do deliver my sister’s babies so there was a big deal that I should go be a Doctor. Well, I thought it was ew, icky so although I can, I don’t really like to do that.
On the Pope thing, the easiest response is that he’s not Catholic so couldn’t be Pope any way. He could just say that he didn’t know what he wanted to do and just muddled his way into the whole school counselor bit and its turned out well.
Guy seems to be the straight guy/tag a long for Parker’s adventures. That seems to explain him right there.
This page was great. I lol’d.
So from here we’ll probably get a quick humble reply on how he’s not perfect and find a little background out about Guy that doesn’t take two biographies to fill out.
Or….
Oprah will come down from the sky and announce “Lo and Behold, this is my gift to you!”
But I’m thinking not. :p
Not that this is of any significance to the comic or its storyline, but I thought it might still be of some interest:
According at least to paramedic standards in Austria, a woman whose water has broken should not stand up and never, ever go anywhere on her own two feet, as this increases the risk of umbilical cord prolapse. Nonetheless many obstetricians allow the women to walk around as soon as we arrive at the hospital, so it might after all not be that dangerous
for that, as well as a treasure trove of entertainemt conventions.
WARNING: That site, if you go through it, will permanently alter how you see things in literature, TV, and movies of all kinds – not to mention consume hours if you’re into that sort of thing
Guy and everyone went from the US to Africa, but you need to bring a passport and to get shots and stuff before you can do that sort of travel, even if you have a private jet.
Maybe you could change the setting to someplace closer like mexicoo.
Janny is clearly mad that her nut of a sister, who does random things like marry a guy from an audience of rabid fans, claim she will solve cancer in five years, etc, married Mr. Wonderful, while she, the levelheaded, older, wiser sister is carrying the son of some cad. This is of course accentuated by the labor pains without anesthesia (and no hope of any sometime soon), out in the bush of Africa, in an unsanitary hut. I’d be a little mad myself, if I was to be in such a situation.
I assume “don’t know don’t care†is the stress of the moment, and she really does know who the father is, she’s just rather pissed at him at the moment, esp. as he is responsible for the AWFUL LABOR PAINS I’M EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW, AAAAAARRRGH
Alas, Guy can’t run for president (of the U.S.A., at least) until the 2020 election. Seems there’s a minimum age requirement of 35 years in the Constitution…
I just wanted to say that I just read through the entire archive today in one sitting and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this webcomic. I love the art, the characters, the story- everything is funny, sweet and charming. This is a new favorite of mine. Thank you for this awesome story!
~B
Oh and one other thing about walking around when your water’s broken- I’ve had two kids and they broke my water in the hospital with both deliveries after which I walked the halls for six hours trying to stimulate labor. So yeah, you can walk, and the doctors want you to if contractions aren’t close enough together.
“Case in point: Beast Machines Season 1. And all the Transformer fans said, “Technorganic? What the frell? And Optimus isn’t acting at all Optimusy, and what the frell?†And Tseng said, “Just chill, trust the writers, see how it turns out.†And then it got canceled in the US, but for those of us who were fans enough to get Season 2 from Canada, all our waiting was justified and the plot became made of awesome.”
One: We still got season two here. It ran on MY Fox.
Two: What amazing plot? It was still spitting in the face of everything that came in continuity before it. As a stand alone elseworld, it was well crafted, but everything from Rat Trap to Optimus to the travesty of Rhinox was just out of place.
Three: Most of the fan base is split on this, so its hardly a good example. Yay, opinions!
Four: I like making pointless lists.
Five: A better example would be the transformers movie. While not everyone liked it, the majoraty of the fan base liked it, as far as I’ve seen. More than BM, anyway.
Eh, Pamela, ever hear the phrase, “Father What-a-waste”? My wife (strangely enough, also named Pamela and who is Catholic), uses that term to describe a very good looking guy going for the priesthood or who is a priest.
Multiple people now have said that Janny doesn’t know who the father is, which is very annoying to me, since she only said that she doesn’t know WHERE he is right now, not WHO he is.
Man, I freaking love this comic. And yeah, Guy does seem to be too perfect, but thats what makes him so likable as a character. After hanging out with Parker as long as he has, anyone would learn to stay sane in weird situations and to be prepared for anything. I love Parker, but she’s definatly a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
And I’ve always found that the people who seem to be perfect are usually the weirdest one’s in the long run, simply because anything that seems to be too good to be true almost always is.
But I’ve been known to be wrong before……………Anyway, please keep up the incredibley good job you’ve been doing with this!
shelby said : Oh Noes!! I just re-read this comic and on the first page you say ’should run about 80 pages†and this is page 79. Does that mean this is almost over? say it isnt so!!!!
I say: um…. is it time to petition for a longer story? my name will be on the top of the list for sure! I do want to see how this works out, but I really do not want it to end!!!!! All I can say is that there had better be a sequel!!!!! And fast!
bobby: no stress or anything… but please make it longer!!! oh and don’t worry about people saying that she doesn’t know the father… There may be a few misunderstandings, but anyone who reads through this well will completely get what you’re really implying with the relationship being sucky in some way.
I don’t think it could end right now, one way or another… in my personal experience, length estimates made at the beginnings of projects tend to be pretty off. *shrug*
1. Under Janny’s questioning, Guy will reveal himself to be the last son of an alien race, given superpowers of baby-delivering perfection by some vague terrestrial astronomical quality. However, he will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.
2. Stasia’s father finally arrives in Africa and heads to his OWN charitable foundation. From this point on in the comic, the characters will lead a plucky band of charitable rebel landskimmers, striking from a hidden base, against the evil galactic goodwill empire. The final reveal will have Stasia’s father saying, “Parker . . . I . . . am . . . your . . . Father!” Which will make the whole wearing-Stasia’s-pants scene really weird.
3. In a tit-for-tat scenario, Harmony Nickel from Sore Thumbs will cameo in the comic. Since this comic takes place after current events in Sore Thumbs, however, it will be future Harmony – a cyborg whose lover, Cecania, was badly injured in the holocaust of the ‘08 Clinton presidency, and who can only be saved if Harmony can convince super-Guy to return with her to the past. But if the past is changed, will Guy ever meet Stasia?
4. There is no #4.
5. It turns out that Parker really IS a vampire, cursed by a gypsy to have a soul and be eternally tormented. However, in a moment of weakness, she and Janny do it, thus giving her a moment of true bliss and turning her into the demon Parkerius. After a slaughter of innocents, Denny, who is secretly a practicing witch, will concoct a spell to give Parker her soul back. Parker will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.
Poor Janny must be so frustrated, what with all the pain of the contractions and all her hormones going crazy….
I feel sorry for Guy being the object shes taking her frustration out on as well…
So the father of that unborn child was that bad, huh?
hmmm, maybe he was nice or something when Janny was with him, I mean I don’t think Janny would go with someone who she knew would leave her, especially when shes pregnant…but I guess I’ll have to keep reading.
does anyone else other than me feel like going back and checking if jannies eyes were always blue???]
I went back and looked. They are.
I love Janny. She’s so awesome. X3 I can totally see how she didn’t ever want to see the father again, especially if she’s wanting someone like Guy and the father is absolutely nothing like Guy.
1) Guy sheepishly taking out a big pope hat. “Well uh… I don’t like to brag. Plus then I couldn’t date if I let people know… uh…”
2) The water splashes on Guy and he begins to short circuit. Oprah flies in in a helicopter very angry and yells at Janny. “Thanks for ruining the prototype…. jerk!”
3) Guy takes off his mask to reveal he’s the man who Janny had a one-night-stand before she ran out on him and he’s been doing all this to make her see what she’s missed out on having. The shock is so great that Janny pops the baby out, gets cleaned up, and Janny, Stasia and Guy have a threesome. Parker comes back too late to take part in it and kills Guy out of anger, impaling him with her pointy hair, but still looking fabulous in Stasia’s pants.
4) Guy suddenly turns his hand into a blade and stabs Janny through the head, proving that he is actually a Terminator from the future and Janny’s unborn child is John Connor (Janny changed her name years ago after discovering she had a long-lost pop star sister), and this was all a ploy to get close enough to her in an isolated area……. I told you Guy was a time traveller…. didn’t I? DIDNT I?!?!
~Guy: Hi, Pope Guy Cooper, robot Doctor at you service. How can I help you? Oh, you need that lanced, don’t worry, I’ll use my eye lasers to fix that right up. I’m also a time traveler.
Stormhawk Says: “So, who here thinks Janny will get a clue, find the person who she can truely count on, fall madly in love with, and then will be totally faithful to her? That being, of course, Parker.”
Oh man, that’s another good one! Plus it gets the whole possibility of a lesbian sex scene, especially if Jessica Biel is playing Janny. Rowr.
Tseng: God dangit you stole my bit! Before I even wrote it. Sorta. I didn’t actually read the comments when I wrote mine. Get out of my mind!
“1. Under Janny’s questioning, Guy will reveal himself to be the last son of an alien race, given superpowers of baby-delivering perfection by some vague terrestrial astronomical quality. However, he will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.”
The man knows his movies – precedence from Superman 2. Kudos, Tseng.
“2. Stasia’s father finally arrives in Africa and heads to his OWN charitable foundation. From this point on in the comic, the characters will lead a plucky band of charitable rebel landskimmers, striking from a hidden base, against the evil galactic goodwill empire. The final reveal will have Stasia’s father saying, “Parker . . . I . . . am . . . your . . . Father!†Which will make the whole wearing-Stasia’s-pants scene really weird.”
If you are suggesting there will be furry 3 foot bearlike creatures who help them fight, I will find you and I will hurt you.
“3. In a tit-for-tat scenario, Harmony Nickel from Sore Thumbs will cameo in the comic. Since this comic takes place after current events in Sore Thumbs, however, it will be future Harmony – a cyborg whose lover, Cecania, was badly injured in the holocaust of the ‘08 Clinton presidency, and who can only be saved if Harmony can convince super-Guy to return with her to the past. But if the past is changed, will Guy ever meet Stasia?”
You’ve been watching too much Aqua Teen Hunger Force with that robot turkey from the year 10,000.
“4. There is no #4.”
Yes, just like the Leisure Suit Larry game series. Also, there is no spoon and the cake is a lie.
“5. It turns out that Parker really IS a vampire, cursed by a gypsy to have a soul and be eternally tormented. However, in a moment of weakness, she and Janny do it, thus giving her a moment of true bliss and turning her into the demon Parkerius. After a slaughter of innocents, Denny, who is secretly a practicing witch, will concoct a spell to give Parker her soul back.”
I will give you props for partially ripping off Joss Whedon. If you have to rip someone off, that’s the one to pick. And male witches are called warlocks, foo!
I thought the whole witch wizard warlock thing was that each could be representative of male or female since they are not actually defined as such unless you’re looking into the whole what the genre of fantasy writing classifies each of these. There are many instances in literature where the female male distinction is made, but there are just as many where the distinction between the three types are based on abilities and beliefs rather than sex.
I think it’s too much of a debate to really be sure either way. I blame the lemmings… just because they’re going to kill themselves anyway.
I wonder what Guy’s childhood was like, since it sounds like he’s had a prettyy eventful one… and I don’t think most kids think about if they should be a doctor or the pope… I’d vote for him as pope, if popes were elected by regular people… Guy for POPE!
I am enjoying this comics more and more and am eagerly awaiting the full graphic novel. the only confusing thing that isn’t a problem is the transitioning between panels. I believe tele-porting is the term someone used.
it can be a little confusing at first but as long as it moves the story I don’t have a problem with. a lot of things happen off panel. Like the fact no one has gone to the bathroom (except Parker at the concert) it happened on Star Trek all the time. I also love how the creators interact with the fans whether it’s in irritation to an annoying poster. or to answer the nagging questions about the story or back story. I would love to see more back story or even a side story about any of them or just a panel with Daddy in Alaska in a blizzard irritated.
umm may be a little late in asking, but Page 62: Witnessing Violence, Janny has a cellphone that she was calling, i will assume her dad(?), did janny forget that it was in her purse? or were they far enough out that there was no reception?
I just started reading this comic and I’ve become quite engrossed with it. The only question I have is : Since we are nearing the 80th page does that mean that the story will soon come to an end? If so will there be a sequel or another volume to continue or will that be it? I hope the story continues because this is becoming a fun story to follow
“I will give you props for partially ripping off Joss Whedon. If you have to rip someone off, that’s the one to pick. And male witches are called warlocks, foo!”
Not according to my male witch friends. Of course, it being a comic strip, there’s a whole lot of precedence for ignoring that and making witches whatever the heck you want them to be.
I would so be on board for a Pope Guy spinoff. Would it be like “The Bishop” from Monty Python?
shinigami: “Page 62: Witnessing Violence, Janny has a cellphone that she was calling, i will assume her dad(?), did janny forget that it was in her purse? or were they far enough out that there was no reception?”
Rare unfunny response from me – I think it’s probably because there’ no reception – that’s why they’d need a satellite phone instead.
ensign_happiness: “anyone else think guy is going to wind up with janny?”
I’m actually betting money that Guy is going to wind up with Denny.
Nate: “Pope Guy. Goes two ways.”
Too bad for Parker that Stasia doesn’t.
Tseng:”Not according to my male witch friends. Of course, it being a comic strip, there’s a whole lot of precedence for ignoring that and making witches whatever the heck you want them to be.”
Nah, your male witch friends are just sissy weenies. I have television on my side – Bewitched, Charmed and Buffy all say male witches are Warlocks. I win an internet debate… I rock.
Norman 728: “a lot of things happen off panel. Like the fact no one has gone to the bathroom (except Parker at the concert) it happened on Star Trek all the time.”
Actually Guy doesn’t have to because Oprah Guy-bots don’t have to go to the urinate. That way they never leave the toilet seat up… just another reason they’re the perfect man.
“I would love to see more back story or even a side story about any of them or just a panel with Daddy in Alaska in a blizzard irritated.”
Daddy is actually not in Alaska – he’s in or almost in Africa, I think. Or do you mean my daddy. He’s a deadbeat so I don’t know where he is – thanks for bringing up painful memories for me. sniff.
Guy’s middle name is Maguiver. He cant be the pope because he would be crucified for having a vampire lesbian best friend. He cant be a doctor, because if bloodbags start missing from the hospital, he would be suspected for being an acomplice.
He isnts a robot, just a guy that picked up bits and pieces of things along the way. A jack of all trades that enjoys being a mentor and not a possible candidate for mass cloaning. The rest of us guys will be out of a job… and purpose for living.
how will they dispose of all our bodies?
Megamickel: “Dear Lord, is this going to be a dream sequence? If this entire thing never happened, I’m going to be like “WTF†and hang myself”
Please tell me you did not take my comment about Bobby Ewing seriously.
Because I made that up.
The dream is actually that of Bob Newhart.
Lex Says:
Lex: “Guy’s middle name is Maguiver.”
Actually, it’s Mary. Thanks for making me spill it – now he’s going to kick my butt.
“He cant be the pope because he would be crucified for having a vampire lesbian best friend.”
Um…. the pope -is- a vampire. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘this is my flesh, this is my blood’? Transmogrification, man! Trans-freaking-mogrification!
“He cant be a doctor, because if bloodbags start missing from the hospital, he would be suspected for being an acomplice.”
First intelligent thing I’ve heard said. Though you are of course forgetting that Parker prefers her blood fresh, not that chilled hospital junk.
“He isnts a robot, just a guy that picked up bits and pieces of things along the way. A jack of all trades that enjoys being a mentor and not a possible candidate for mass cloning”.
You’re insane, as are your insane wild theories.
“The rest of us guys will be out of a job… and purpose for living. How will they dispose of all our bodies?”
Possible answers:
1) Parker gets free snacks for life.
2) Our bodies would be used for Stasia’s cancer research – stop being so selfish! Be a humanitarian or else!
3) Trans-freaking-mogrification!
is it just my impression or janny is a bit envious of his sister new perfect housband? Janny doesn’t seem so proud of the father of his not-yet-born child. “Don’t know, don’t care, don’t want to talk about it”… she seems quite mad ad him. keep fine
I figured it out! I know what Guy cant do!
He cant cook, hold his liquor, repair anything, start a fire, swim, nor handle a knife in any way.
1: He’s a bachelor and probably knows at least a few simple things, but I wouldn’t ask for a fancy meal. Well, maybe from Guy. Probably can make a pretty mean sammie.
2: He’s in education, I think being able to drink is mandatory, I’m joking now, my wife’s a teacher.
3: Parker’s his best friend & he’s a counselor, repair(mental & machines) is probably his specialty.
4: Again Parker, but most likely how to put them out.
5: Swimming? Maybe.
6: Handle a knife? Probably does, with being in education & Parker(those violent youth, in my day kids where 30 by the time they where 9) as his best bud. I joke.
Yeah sure robot male built by oprah then I suppose next Parker is also a robot and then it will turn out that they wanna take over the world and then ana will wake up and realize it was a dream but look next to her and see Parker laying there and then she will scream. I wrote that because boredom is a cruel mistriss but yay first commentbin 2009!!!!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
“Guy on a rope”
I saw the opening… *snrk*
May 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
She is just having contractions and is very frustrated by everything thats happening so i sympathies but man I feel sorry for Guy right now.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Pope Guy for the win!
May 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
And she said to him, “You are a hero. Whatever task you put your hand to, the same will prosper sevenfold.”
And so he looked upon the world, and found the task which most needed doing.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I’d vote for him. You do vote for popes, right?
May 20th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Gotta say this but in this situation…
…penny for the Guy?
May 20th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Casey, you can only “vote” for the Pope if you are a Cardinal. The Cardinals meet in the conclave and do not leave until a decision is reached. SO technically the Pope is voted on but not by the common person.
:] Nice page today, I can’t wait to see what comes next.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Janny has a mental link with the people in the comments!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I think Guys answer would be something along the lines of “Because guiding kids is a job I can enjoy” he seems like the sort of fellow who would be a Doctor or a Pope, but the job is THE job.
You work all day delivering babies and doing operations, cutting out appendixes and whatnot, but that stuff is serious work.
You can’t be yourself and have fun while you’re giving someone a labotomy.
Well you could, but I’m sure that’d qualify him for Psycho of The Year award.
Guy isn’t like that.
Most people would kill for a job they enjoy doing, that’s why most comic book artists do it for the enjoyment more than the money.
We love our “job”.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Pope would not be good. We do want them to get (or be) married, yes? =)
Love Denny’s (possibly last) line. Well delivered and thought out. *grin*
And everything else just great, as usual. =-)
May 20th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Pope Guy?! More like poor Guy I know Janny’s in labor and frustrated not only at the predicament she’s in possibly having a baby in deepest Africa (At least as deep as being Far from a more Urban area) She has to keep a level head at the situation her sister has gotten herself into. I mean she knows the secret of the marriage and now Guy is being too good be true. I just hope she doesn’t blurt out what she knows in the throes of pain.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Melody, I’m pretty sure Casey was joking.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Could be that delivering babies steered him away from med school. And I doubt that the College of Cardinals would vote in as Pope someone who’s not even a priest. He might not even be Catholic…
As for why he’s a guidance counselor, my guess is that he tried it, and found he liked helping kids plan their futures.
Judging by those last three panels, perhaps it’s a good thing we won’t see the father of Janey’s baby. There is clearly some backstory there; it might interfere with the story Bobby is telling.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Guy for president!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I love Denny’s face on the “who’s the father” bit.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Poor guy, he’s to perfect to be true
May 20th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
This is so to get back all the Forum complaints.
Answer Guy Pregnant women and nations around the world wish to know.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Well. SOMEONE had to say it! Nothing like a woman in labour to ask the tough questions.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
loooooooooooooovin these, keep em coming guys
May 20th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
At a guess: The father insisted on an abortion. You know, the “You got pregnant? How could be so stupid?” type of guy.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
i smell a confetion coming on
May 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Like I said, robot.
Though I am loath to admit it, Opra is more likely than the government. She has a rivaling degree of influence and resources (this worries me to no small end), but she also has motive; something I could not perceive in regard towards the Pentagon.
Imagine it: The Perfect Man marries an icon like Stasia, and every woman on the planet finds out about it. This “confirms†to them that Perfect Men do, in fact, exist, and when they fail to find one themselves after an initial burst of renewed ambition toward such an end, who do they turn to for guidance? And like that, Opra’s influence, SUCH AS IT IS, doubles overnight.
I must say, this is one of my best, and certainly one of my most terrifying conspiracy theories to date. I shall pat myself on the back as I rock back and forth slowly in the corner.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Hey, Tolley. Don’t worry, I’ve heard even wackier conspiracy theories. ^^
I like this comic for several reasons. One, it’s funny. I’m sorry, perhaps there’s something wrong with me, but there’s just something inherently funny about Janny in labor angrily conversing with Guy. I’d say yelling at, but it looks a little too civil for that. Which is good, you can tell she’s irritated and in pain (I certainly would be if I was having contractions four weeks early no where near a hospital in Africa) and it adds some tension to the page. Tension is good!
Well, that was one reason. Another is that we get to see Janny without her little jacket and I REALLY like her shirt. Sleeveless looks good on her. Also, Denny just pulled seats out of a truck; how awesome is that? The answer is very. I also liked how we got a little info on the father of Janny’s baby. Hopefully more will be forthcoming once she no longer has a person attempting to exit her abdomen.
The only thing that was a little off putting was the sudden transition from the truck to the hut. I was a little confused at first, but after reading the page over a couple of times, I got what was going on. I can also understand why the transition worked the way it did, because I’m guessing not much important happened during the walk and situation in the hut and because it also saves a little panel and page space.
So, yay! I like this page a lot. I’ll be looking forward to the next one in the hopes that we’ll see a montage of Parker running to Umoja. Or something to that effect, anyway. Or is it affect?
May 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Why would the pope be any good at delivering kids? Particularly illegitamate ones?
Guy for Pope!
May 20th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Haha, trust a peeved, hot, going into labor woman to cut to the heart of the issue and voice the opinions of all of us on this side of the fourth wall.
Also, janny doesn’t know who the father is? I really can’t see her as a random roll in the hay kinda gal, so maybe artificial insemination?
May 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
is it just me, or Janny look like a confused zombie in the last panel?
btw, first ever post! huge fan.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Oh Janny knows the dad he is just obviously a dead beat and not worth mentioning more.
Seriously love this comic.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I’m pretty sure Janny just mentioned the pope because he was the most perfect man she could think of. If Guy’s so perfect, why isn’t he the pope? You know.
This is a great comic. I’d pay vast amounts of money to see the movie, too, no doubt about it.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I for one love Denny’s expressions through out the series, only toped by, of course, Guy’s jaw drops. (See previous pages)
I love the Guy/Parker dynamics.
~Stacia: Did she just risk her life for my sister? (shocked expression)
~Guy: Look, we got less than half a mile from the village, we gotta go back. (Not even acknowledging Parker’s possible self-sacrifice, like it’s just natural, what is right, & there are bigger, more important things in life.)
I love how they play off each other, even when they’re not even in the same scene.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
loooove it.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
So, who here thinks Janny will get a clue, find the person who she can truely count on, fall madly in love with, and then will be totally faithful to her? That being, of course, Parker.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Denny is so awesome in the 4th/middle panel.. all hunched over.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I swear I’ve seen Janny’s dialogue before…
I just don’t know where.
Excellent work, Eisu and Bobby.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Wow, thank God for Janny’s reaction. This perfect man stuff had me worried for a sec. I was almost shamed into picking up my socks without being nagged lol…
but seriously i guess my worry over a plot was unfounded whew!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
awesome, just awesome!! i want to see more Denny`s action, maybe some background…
May 20th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Guy just seems like the perfect man because we haven’t had enough time to learn his flaws, but really, he’s so gosh darn endearing. I alwaso think he comes off as perfect because he’s content in his life, those people always seem to draw the crazies (sorry Parker and Stasia). But as far as doctor/pope/etc. I think it would be a wee bit mentally scarring to have to ease a small human out of your sister’s body…… That and you have to be one in a million to be mentally/emotionally strong whough to be the pope.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Oh Noes!! I just re-read this comic and on the first page you say ’should run about 80 pages” and this is page 79. Does that mean this is almost over? say it isnt so!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I’m sensing some pregant hormones kicking in here….. XD
Love your comic! i’ve been following it for awhile now. Your witty humor and smooth transition between scenes is a delight to read.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
And Janny’s behavior is the best advertisement for safe sex ever. Pregnant women are scary.
This comic perfectly proves Tseng’s law of fan raving. Namely: If fans begin ranting and raving about something being poorly written, unrealistic, etc., give the author some time. They might be setting something up, and if you whine about it you’ll spoil the enjoyment.
Case in point: Beast Machines Season 1. And all the Transformer fans said, “Technorganic? What the frell? And Optimus isn’t acting at all Optimusy, and what the frell?” And Tseng said, “Just chill, trust the writers, see how it turns out.” And then it got canceled in the US, but for those of us who were fans enough to get Season 2 from Canada, all our waiting was justified and the plot became made of awesome.
Likewise here. “Isn’t it unlikely that Guy can do all these things, but isn’t, like, a demigod or something? How contrived is that?” Just wait, oh raving fanperson, and see if Bobby and Eisu haven’t already anticipated this, and in fact worked it into the story. Which seems to be where Janny’s headed with this.
Of course, this cannot be stated without Tseng’s addendum to Tseng’s law of fan raving. If you give the author time, and it turns out that they’re really just hacks with no intention of resolving things, then you can beat them. But I trust Bobby and Eisu enough to know that won’t happen
May 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
*singsong* ~Someone’s having moood swiiings~!
Aww, but I can’t blame her. We just may now have learned that she’s a single mother, and right when she’s about to have her baby that she had the courage to keep after all this time, she starts worrying… and then also sees how lucky her sister is to have SOMEHOW randomly found the metaphorically PERFECT guy, yet she hasn’t.
It makes perfect sense… and yet, I do feel sad for her. This whole time she’s been the level-headed one, while Stasia is a tad wild…. Being the mature one and being the strong one is hard, when it feels like there’s no one to be strong for you.
…. Uh,.. whoops. Sorry for the lengthy analysis. >__>
May 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I hope Stacey’s sister is right and that Guy really is a robot.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi! I think this is my first…or maybe second time commenting… :p
Love it!
But anyways, this comic is great! It becomes funnier and funnier and more random all the time
May 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
“Pope would not be good. We do want them to get (or be) married, yes? =)”
I’m rooting for a twist ending where they don’t get married
May 21st, 2008 at 12:38 am
Ah, perfect. Good to know I’m not the only one thinking he was becoming a Mary Sue.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:08 am
I lol’d.
Carry on with the brilliant work.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:05 am
Priceless. Just priceless.
Finally someone address the issue of guy being perfect in every single freaking way possible. XD
May 21st, 2008 at 2:15 am
Just of curiosity, is the occurrence of the word “blah” has anything to do with a movie called “The Demented Cartoon Movie”?
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And BTW – nice comic – like the humor
May 21st, 2008 at 2:18 am
Never heard of it.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:48 am
Awesome… just awesome.
Nothing like a hormonal woman spluttering out water whilst cutting “Mr Perfect” in half
May 21st, 2008 at 5:19 am
Tolley: “Like I said, robot.” *thumbs up*
I also like the rest of her description of Guy.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:42 am
finally! somebody _is_ asking the right questions!
i sincerely hope, she does not aplogize afterwards …
May 21st, 2008 at 6:18 am
Ahhh the things u say while in labor, been there done that. xD
May 21st, 2008 at 6:31 am
AHA! thats the twist! Guy is a robot sent from the future to Eliminate john conner by delivering babies! ingenius!
May 21st, 2008 at 6:53 am
I have been waiting for someone to call shenanigans on Guy. I’m not surprised Janny is the one to do it. I am waiting for the perfectly reasonable, and humorous, response though.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:00 am
I once was abducted by aliens, while in a drunken stupor after taking over the world. how is that for reasonable ?
May 21st, 2008 at 7:02 am
LOL
Alas, this entire comic -to me- is a cornacopia of LOVE!!
Keep up the great work!!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:10 am
Yeah, Guy for president… I’d rather vote for him than any of the other candidates we’ve got running in America this year…
May 21st, 2008 at 7:25 am
Ahh, I am so relieved someone brought this up :> Thank you, Janny!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
[chanting]
Go Janny, go Janny, go Janny…!
Give him heck! Get those answers we’ve been dying to hear!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Poor Janny – being that far along, going into labor, in that HEAT; plus, as several people have stated, having Guy’s perfectness rubbed into her face when there is an obvious burr under her saddle as relates to her baby’s father. (I REFUSE to say “baby daddy” – that’s SOOO … well, it’s a term that just bothers me and it legitimizes illegitimacy, and I just don’t like it)
Great job for Denny ripping out the seat cushions – and if Janny were to take a peek, she’d notice that Denny isn’t that bad of a guy either – he seems pretty good about noticing what needs doing and doing it, taking care of both her and Stasia, etc. Maybe he can’t deliver babies and speak Swahili, but I’ll bet he could have carried her from the truck to that hut without breaking a sweat and he would have done it, too, I’ll bet. It reminds me of a Ray Stevens song – it’s called something like “Can He love you like I do” or something like that; basically it’s this really low-brow red-neck sort supposedly singing to a woman about how he knows his competition in the lurrrve department is some hoity-toity edumacated college boy that has “a doctorate in physics and a masters in phys ed” – but, the singer asks, “can he play the spoons? Can he wiggle his ears and chug-a-lug beers and make a frog in your arm?” I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but it amuses me to think about it. And I shouldn’t be trying to post anything anyway when I’m not fully awake, so you shouldn’t really pay attention to anything I Just said.
Carry on.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:07 am
I loled when Janny asked Guy why he isn’t the pope. Good stuff.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:16 am
hahah one of you guys up in the comments said that janny and parker should realize their undying love for eachother: THAT would be so great XD
specially if guy and stasia turned out to not be married.
i bet you parker saves the day and comes flyin in while hanging off the rope ladder of a helicopter holding a valiant pose. why? because she is awsome. =P
i gotta see guys answer to all of this, though. this ought to be gooooood
May 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Go Janny! Go Janny! Go Janny! Man, I love this comic. Yeah, she’s stressed out, but she’ll be alright once the baby’s been delivered. It was probably an accidental pregnancy, with a now-deadbeat dad, so she’d rather not talk about him, the scumbag. Guy’s near-perfectness is a little hard to take, even for a fan. What is it with him, anyway?
May 21st, 2008 at 9:56 am
I love Janny.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
My vote is for them not actually being legally married, but deciding to get married in the end.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:07 am
Nice dialogue!
May 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
I’m thinking of Guy’s response. He could be honest about the Doctor thing. Well, I had to do deliver my sister’s babies so there was a big deal that I should go be a Doctor. Well, I thought it was ew, icky so although I can, I don’t really like to do that.
On the Pope thing, the easiest response is that he’s not Catholic so couldn’t be Pope any way. He could just say that he didn’t know what he wanted to do and just muddled his way into the whole school counselor bit and its turned out well.
Guy seems to be the straight guy/tag a long for Parker’s adventures. That seems to explain him right there.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
darn no bean bag baby…
and Guy isn’t pope because he wouldn’t be able to be publicly friends with Parker anymore…she is a “vampire” lesbian…point made
also no girls…power yes but no girls
May 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Wow, she seems so pissed that he’s such a great guy… what sort of backwards world is this?!
May 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Heh. Pope.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
This page was great. I lol’d.
So from here we’ll probably get a quick humble reply on how he’s not perfect and find a little background out about Guy that doesn’t take two biographies to fill out.
Or….
Oprah will come down from the sky and announce “Lo and Behold, this is my gift to you!”
But I’m thinking not. :p
May 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Guy for Doctor Pope! He’s a pope and a doctor.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
He’s too cute to be a pope. A doctor, on the other hand, is totally doable. ^^
LOL ‘robot made by Oprah’ Somehow, I wouldn’t be surprised.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Not that this is of any significance to the comic or its storyline, but I thought it might still be of some interest:
According at least to paramedic standards in Austria, a woman whose water has broken should not stand up and never, ever go anywhere on her own two feet, as this increases the risk of umbilical cord prolapse. Nonetheless many obstetricians allow the women to walk around as soon as we arrive at the hospital, so it might after all not be that dangerous
On topic: Thanks for the wonderful story so far!
May 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
@Tseng:
What you called “Tseng’s Law” is actually codified as a “trope” – see
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanWank
for that, as well as a treasure trove of entertainemt conventions.
WARNING: That site, if you go through it, will permanently alter how you see things in literature, TV, and movies of all kinds – not to mention consume hours if you’re into that sort of thing
May 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I love it!
May 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“built by oprah” awesomeness
May 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Not hust a pope doctor, he is DOCTOR POPE!
May 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
OH, I just had a big worry.
Guy and everyone went from the US to Africa, but you need to bring a passport and to get shots and stuff before you can do that sort of travel, even if you have a private jet.
Maybe you could change the setting to someplace closer like mexicoo.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Janny is clearly mad that her nut of a sister, who does random things like marry a guy from an audience of rabid fans, claim she will solve cancer in five years, etc, married Mr. Wonderful, while she, the levelheaded, older, wiser sister is carrying the son of some cad. This is of course accentuated by the labor pains without anesthesia (and no hope of any sometime soon), out in the bush of Africa, in an unsanitary hut. I’d be a little mad myself, if I was to be in such a situation.
I assume “don’t know don’t care†is the stress of the moment, and she really does know who the father is, she’s just rather pissed at him at the moment, esp. as he is responsible for the AWFUL LABOR PAINS I’M EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW, AAAAAARRRGH
May 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Am in love with Janny.
If I grew a peen could I be the husband?
- I keed-
…
D: or am I.
I love that women.
: ) She seems like an awesome mother to be
May 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Alas, Guy can’t run for president (of the U.S.A., at least) until the 2020 election. Seems there’s a minimum age requirement of 35 years in the Constitution…
May 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I just wanted to say that I just read through the entire archive today in one sitting and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this webcomic. I love the art, the characters, the story- everything is funny, sweet and charming. This is a new favorite of mine. Thank you for this awesome story!
~B
May 21st, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Oh and one other thing about walking around when your water’s broken- I’ve had two kids and they broke my water in the hospital with both deliveries after which I walked the halls for six hours trying to stimulate labor. So yeah, you can walk, and the doctors want you to if contractions aren’t close enough together.
At least here in the US. ^_^
May 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
if she keeps this up the baby will come out real quick
May 21st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
“Case in point: Beast Machines Season 1. And all the Transformer fans said, “Technorganic? What the frell? And Optimus isn’t acting at all Optimusy, and what the frell?†And Tseng said, “Just chill, trust the writers, see how it turns out.†And then it got canceled in the US, but for those of us who were fans enough to get Season 2 from Canada, all our waiting was justified and the plot became made of awesome.”
One: We still got season two here. It ran on MY Fox.
Two: What amazing plot? It was still spitting in the face of everything that came in continuity before it. As a stand alone elseworld, it was well crafted, but everything from Rat Trap to Optimus to the travesty of Rhinox was just out of place.
Three: Most of the fan base is split on this, so its hardly a good example. Yay, opinions!
Four: I like making pointless lists.
Five: A better example would be the transformers movie. While not everyone liked it, the majoraty of the fan base liked it, as far as I’ve seen. More than BM, anyway.
Six: On topic, I love this comic.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Eh, Pamela, ever hear the phrase, “Father What-a-waste”? My wife (strangely enough, also named Pamela and who is Catholic), uses that term to describe a very good looking guy going for the priesthood or who is a priest.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Multiple people now have said that Janny doesn’t know who the father is, which is very annoying to me, since she only said that she doesn’t know WHERE he is right now, not WHO he is.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
as soon as Guy shoots laser beams from his eyes, he’s officially perfect
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 am
Man, I freaking love this comic. And yeah, Guy does seem to be too perfect, but thats what makes him so likable as a character. After hanging out with Parker as long as he has, anyone would learn to stay sane in weird situations and to be prepared for anything. I love Parker, but she’s definatly a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
And I’ve always found that the people who seem to be perfect are usually the weirdest one’s in the long run, simply because anything that seems to be too good to be true almost always is.
But I’ve been known to be wrong before……………Anyway, please keep up the incredibley good job you’ve been doing with this!
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
does anyone else other than me feel like going back and checking if jannies eyes were always blue???
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 am
the thought of guy dressed like the pope makes me laugh.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 am
shelby said : Oh Noes!! I just re-read this comic and on the first page you say ’should run about 80 pages†and this is page 79. Does that mean this is almost over? say it isnt so!!!!
I say: um…. is it time to petition for a longer story? my name will be on the top of the list for sure! I do want to see how this works out, but I really do not want it to end!!!!! All I can say is that there had better be a sequel!!!!! And fast!
bobby: no stress or anything… but please make it longer!!! oh and don’t worry about people saying that she doesn’t know the father… There may be a few misunderstandings, but anyone who reads through this well will completely get what you’re really implying with the relationship being sucky in some way.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 am
If I’m not mistaken, I believe Bobby and Eisu said it would run for 86 pages.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
Pardon, he said 94 pages on the comments for page 76.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am
I don’t think it could end right now, one way or another… in my personal experience, length estimates made at the beginnings of projects tend to be pretty off. *shrug*
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
Tseng will now predict the next comic!
1. Under Janny’s questioning, Guy will reveal himself to be the last son of an alien race, given superpowers of baby-delivering perfection by some vague terrestrial astronomical quality. However, he will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.
2. Stasia’s father finally arrives in Africa and heads to his OWN charitable foundation. From this point on in the comic, the characters will lead a plucky band of charitable rebel landskimmers, striking from a hidden base, against the evil galactic goodwill empire. The final reveal will have Stasia’s father saying, “Parker . . . I . . . am . . . your . . . Father!” Which will make the whole wearing-Stasia’s-pants scene really weird.
3. In a tit-for-tat scenario, Harmony Nickel from Sore Thumbs will cameo in the comic. Since this comic takes place after current events in Sore Thumbs, however, it will be future Harmony – a cyborg whose lover, Cecania, was badly injured in the holocaust of the ‘08 Clinton presidency, and who can only be saved if Harmony can convince super-Guy to return with her to the past. But if the past is changed, will Guy ever meet Stasia?
4. There is no #4.
5. It turns out that Parker really IS a vampire, cursed by a gypsy to have a soul and be eternally tormented. However, in a moment of weakness, she and Janny do it, thus giving her a moment of true bliss and turning her into the demon Parkerius. After a slaughter of innocents, Denny, who is secretly a practicing witch, will concoct a spell to give Parker her soul back. Parker will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.
Remember, you heard it from Tseng first!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Yay for the new comic.
And curses to Janny. She discovered the plan. We male robots built by Oprah’s lackeys will one day be the servants of the future.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Poor Janny must be so frustrated, what with all the pain of the contractions and all her hormones going crazy….
I feel sorry for Guy being the object shes taking her frustration out on as well…
So the father of that unborn child was that bad, huh?
hmmm, maybe he was nice or something when Janny was with him, I mean I don’t think Janny would go with someone who she knew would leave her, especially when shes pregnant…but I guess I’ll have to keep reading.
Anyway, keep up the great work!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
[kurizu4444:
does anyone else other than me feel like going back and checking if jannies eyes were always blue???]
I went back and looked. They are.
I love Janny. She’s so awesome. X3 I can totally see how she didn’t ever want to see the father again, especially if she’s wanting someone like Guy and the father is absolutely nothing like Guy.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Possible beginning for the next comic:
1) Guy sheepishly taking out a big pope hat. “Well uh… I don’t like to brag. Plus then I couldn’t date if I let people know… uh…”
2) The water splashes on Guy and he begins to short circuit. Oprah flies in in a helicopter very angry and yells at Janny. “Thanks for ruining the prototype…. jerk!”
3) Guy takes off his mask to reveal he’s the man who Janny had a one-night-stand before she ran out on him and he’s been doing all this to make her see what she’s missed out on having. The shock is so great that Janny pops the baby out, gets cleaned up, and Janny, Stasia and Guy have a threesome. Parker comes back too late to take part in it and kills Guy out of anger, impaling him with her pointy hair, but still looking fabulous in Stasia’s pants.
4) Guy suddenly turns his hand into a blade and stabs Janny through the head, proving that he is actually a Terminator from the future and Janny’s unborn child is John Connor (Janny changed her name years ago after discovering she had a long-lost pop star sister), and this was all a ploy to get close enough to her in an isolated area……. I told you Guy was a time traveller…. didn’t I? DIDNT I?!?!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
~Guy: Hi, Pope Guy Cooper, robot Doctor at you service. How can I help you? Oh, you need that lanced, don’t worry, I’ll use my eye lasers to fix that right up. I’m also a time traveler.
Hahaha.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Stormhawk Says: “So, who here thinks Janny will get a clue, find the person who she can truely count on, fall madly in love with, and then will be totally faithful to her? That being, of course, Parker.”
Oh man, that’s another good one! Plus it gets the whole possibility of a lesbian sex scene, especially if Jessica Biel is playing Janny. Rowr.
Tseng: God dangit you stole my bit! Before I even wrote it. Sorta. I didn’t actually read the comments when I wrote mine. Get out of my mind!
“1. Under Janny’s questioning, Guy will reveal himself to be the last son of an alien race, given superpowers of baby-delivering perfection by some vague terrestrial astronomical quality. However, he will then kiss everyone present and give them amnesia.”
The man knows his movies – precedence from Superman 2. Kudos, Tseng.
“2. Stasia’s father finally arrives in Africa and heads to his OWN charitable foundation. From this point on in the comic, the characters will lead a plucky band of charitable rebel landskimmers, striking from a hidden base, against the evil galactic goodwill empire. The final reveal will have Stasia’s father saying, “Parker . . . I . . . am . . . your . . . Father!†Which will make the whole wearing-Stasia’s-pants scene really weird.”
If you are suggesting there will be furry 3 foot bearlike creatures who help them fight, I will find you and I will hurt you.
“3. In a tit-for-tat scenario, Harmony Nickel from Sore Thumbs will cameo in the comic. Since this comic takes place after current events in Sore Thumbs, however, it will be future Harmony – a cyborg whose lover, Cecania, was badly injured in the holocaust of the ‘08 Clinton presidency, and who can only be saved if Harmony can convince super-Guy to return with her to the past. But if the past is changed, will Guy ever meet Stasia?”
You’ve been watching too much Aqua Teen Hunger Force with that robot turkey from the year 10,000.
“4. There is no #4.”
Yes, just like the Leisure Suit Larry game series. Also, there is no spoon and the cake is a lie.
“5. It turns out that Parker really IS a vampire, cursed by a gypsy to have a soul and be eternally tormented. However, in a moment of weakness, she and Janny do it, thus giving her a moment of true bliss and turning her into the demon Parkerius. After a slaughter of innocents, Denny, who is secretly a practicing witch, will concoct a spell to give Parker her soul back.”
I will give you props for partially ripping off Joss Whedon. If you have to rip someone off, that’s the one to pick. And male witches are called warlocks, foo!
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
I thought the whole witch wizard warlock thing was that each could be representative of male or female since they are not actually defined as such unless you’re looking into the whole what the genre of fantasy writing classifies each of these. There are many instances in literature where the female male distinction is made, but there are just as many where the distinction between the three types are based on abilities and beliefs rather than sex.
I think it’s too much of a debate to really be sure either way. I blame the lemmings… just because they’re going to kill themselves anyway.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
I wonder what Guy’s childhood was like, since it sounds like he’s had a prettyy eventful one… and I don’t think most kids think about if they should be a doctor or the pope… I’d vote for him as pope, if popes were elected by regular people… Guy for POPE!
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
oh, and I do know they don’t actually kill themselves… just for the record.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
we get to the end of the story and janny marries Guy and Anna marry;s parker
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I am enjoying this comics more and more and am eagerly awaiting the full graphic novel. the only confusing thing that isn’t a problem is the transitioning between panels. I believe tele-porting is the term someone used.
it can be a little confusing at first but as long as it moves the story I don’t have a problem with. a lot of things happen off panel. Like the fact no one has gone to the bathroom (except Parker at the concert) it happened on Star Trek all the time. I also love how the creators interact with the fans whether it’s in irritation to an annoying poster. or to answer the nagging questions about the story or back story. I would love to see more back story or even a side story about any of them or just a panel with Daddy in Alaska in a blizzard irritated.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
umm may be a little late in asking, but Page 62: Witnessing Violence, Janny has a cellphone that she was calling, i will assume her dad(?), did janny forget that it was in her purse? or were they far enough out that there was no reception?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I just started reading this comic and I’ve become quite engrossed with it. The only question I have is : Since we are nearing the 80th page does that mean that the story will soon come to an end? If so will there be a sequel or another volume to continue or will that be it? I hope the story continues because this is becoming a fun story to follow
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
anyone else think guy is going to wind up with janny?
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
Is it possible to extrapolate Guy’s and Stasia’s marital status from Janny’s reaction? Tune in next week…
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 am
“or the pope or something”.
classic.
That might be a better comic though.
Pope Guy. Works two ways.
All in favor of Guy: Pope Guy spin-off?
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 am
“I will give you props for partially ripping off Joss Whedon. If you have to rip someone off, that’s the one to pick. And male witches are called warlocks, foo!”
Not according to my male witch friends. Of course, it being a comic strip, there’s a whole lot of precedence for ignoring that and making witches whatever the heck you want them to be.
I would so be on board for a Pope Guy spinoff. Would it be like “The Bishop” from Monty Python?
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
shinigami: “Page 62: Witnessing Violence, Janny has a cellphone that she was calling, i will assume her dad(?), did janny forget that it was in her purse? or were they far enough out that there was no reception?”
Rare unfunny response from me – I think it’s probably because there’ no reception – that’s why they’d need a satellite phone instead.
ensign_happiness: “anyone else think guy is going to wind up with janny?”
I’m actually betting money that Guy is going to wind up with Denny.
Nate: “Pope Guy. Goes two ways.”
Too bad for Parker that Stasia doesn’t.
Tseng:”Not according to my male witch friends. Of course, it being a comic strip, there’s a whole lot of precedence for ignoring that and making witches whatever the heck you want them to be.”
Nah, your male witch friends are just sissy weenies. I have television on my side – Bewitched, Charmed and Buffy all say male witches are Warlocks. I win an internet debate… I rock.
Norman 728: “a lot of things happen off panel. Like the fact no one has gone to the bathroom (except Parker at the concert) it happened on Star Trek all the time.”
Actually Guy doesn’t have to because Oprah Guy-bots don’t have to go to the urinate. That way they never leave the toilet seat up… just another reason they’re the perfect man.
“I would love to see more back story or even a side story about any of them or just a panel with Daddy in Alaska in a blizzard irritated.”
Daddy is actually not in Alaska – he’s in or almost in Africa, I think. Or do you mean my daddy. He’s a deadbeat so I don’t know where he is – thanks for bringing up painful memories for me. sniff.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:58 am
Guy’s middle name is Maguiver. He cant be the pope because he would be crucified for having a vampire lesbian best friend. He cant be a doctor, because if bloodbags start missing from the hospital, he would be suspected for being an acomplice.
He isnts a robot, just a guy that picked up bits and pieces of things along the way. A jack of all trades that enjoys being a mentor and not a possible candidate for mass cloaning. The rest of us guys will be out of a job… and purpose for living.
how will they dispose of all our bodies?
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Dear Lord, is this going to be a dream sequence? If this entire thing never happened, I’m going to be like “WTF” and hang myself.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Megamickel: “Dear Lord, is this going to be a dream sequence? If this entire thing never happened, I’m going to be like “WTF†and hang myself”
Please tell me you did not take my comment about Bobby Ewing seriously.
Because I made that up.
The dream is actually that of Bob Newhart.
Lex Says:
Lex: “Guy’s middle name is Maguiver.”
Actually, it’s Mary. Thanks for making me spill it – now he’s going to kick my butt.
“He cant be the pope because he would be crucified for having a vampire lesbian best friend.”
Um…. the pope -is- a vampire. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘this is my flesh, this is my blood’? Transmogrification, man! Trans-freaking-mogrification!
“He cant be a doctor, because if bloodbags start missing from the hospital, he would be suspected for being an acomplice.”
First intelligent thing I’ve heard said. Though you are of course forgetting that Parker prefers her blood fresh, not that chilled hospital junk.
“He isnts a robot, just a guy that picked up bits and pieces of things along the way. A jack of all trades that enjoys being a mentor and not a possible candidate for mass cloning”.
You’re insane, as are your insane wild theories.
“The rest of us guys will be out of a job… and purpose for living. How will they dispose of all our bodies?”
Possible answers:
1) Parker gets free snacks for life.
2) Our bodies would be used for Stasia’s cancer research – stop being so selfish! Be a humanitarian or else!
3) Trans-freaking-mogrification!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
@Lex: Wood chippers and chiwawas (those little rat dogs must be good for something after all…)
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I figured it out! I know what Guy cant do!
He cant cook, hold his liquor, repair anything, start a fire, swim, nor handle a knife in any way.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:00 am
is it just my impression or janny is a bit envious of his sister new perfect housband? Janny doesn’t seem so proud of the father of his not-yet-born child. “Don’t know, don’t care, don’t want to talk about it”… she seems quite mad ad him. keep fine
May 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am
# Lex Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I figured it out! I know what Guy cant do!
He cant cook, hold his liquor, repair anything, start a fire, swim, nor handle a knife in any way.
1: He’s a bachelor and probably knows at least a few simple things, but I wouldn’t ask for a fancy meal. Well, maybe from Guy. Probably can make a pretty mean sammie.
2: He’s in education, I think being able to drink is mandatory, I’m joking now, my wife’s a teacher.
3: Parker’s his best friend & he’s a counselor, repair(mental & machines) is probably his specialty.
4: Again Parker, but most likely how to put them out.
5: Swimming? Maybe.
6: Handle a knife? Probably does, with being in education & Parker(those violent youth, in my day kids where 30 by the time they where 9) as his best bud. I joke.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:39 am
“why aren’t you a doctor or like the pope or something?!”~Janny
*shrugs* Maybe he’s Protestant.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
Always a great comic, and this page is very impressive!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I’d vote Guy for Pope
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Yeah sure robot male built by oprah then I suppose next Parker is also a robot and then it will turn out that they wanna take over the world and then ana will wake up and realize it was a dream but look next to her and see Parker laying there and then she will scream. I wrote that because boredom is a cruel mistriss but yay first commentbin 2009!!!!!!!