Zamboni Rodeo posted:

Provided of course that he doesnt have someone to take over his strips when hes gone, a la Bil and Jeff Keane.

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-TOon

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foob

Selachian posted:

Retail

Darthemed posted:

Ripley's

duz posted:

Oh, so that's how quadrupeds wear pants.

Mikl posted:

So.

Because of this thread, I went back and read the storyline where Bruno the wolf comes out as trans-diet. It's... Not good.

Johnny Aztec posted:

I try not to think about it because if you give it more than 5 seconds thought, you are thinking more than Holbrook ever did.

Cerebral Bore posted:

All corporate lingo is made-up bullshit though, so is there really that much of a difference?

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens

Mr. Maltose posted:

I hope Mark Trail never comes back to his own strip and we follow these dumbass villains forever.

Mikl posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

I'm supposed to come up with several questions for a rep by a meeting Friday about how to "integrate their product into our workflow" and while I understand what all that means I have no idea what questions I can ask about it, or at least what I can come up with in advance of an actual conversation. So far I have only come up with one: "Can you tell us some ways we can integrate your product into our workflow?"

At least I have a week to do it. I'll come up with some bullshit.

TofuDiva posted:

Just ask the rep to discuss the product's scalability to your various business scenarios, and whether there are customizable aspects to suit your range of uses and applications, and then ask for a full description of the tech support that will be available to your company's personnel on a rapid response basis and the measures they use to gauge their own technical response performance. Also ask to see the relevant parts of the vendor's org chart. That should keep the rep busy for a good long while.

Kennel posted:

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART

Hostile V posted:

Holbrook: Bears eat veggies and meat. Bears are omnivores. Therefor bears can be both herbivores or carnivores! Meanwhile this DCAB individual wants to become a herbivore so he wears a sheep skin and wants horns and eats hay in the closet.
Me: So bears are nonbinary/agender/queer/genderfluid.
Holbrook: No they're omnivores.

rannum posted:

I mostly glance over luann but I hate that their dating site site is called "Date-pic" so much

Johnny Aztec posted:

I think it would have been clever if they called it "Cinder"

Endless Mike posted:

Teens don't like REO Speedwagon?

Angular Cyrus posted:

Mopsy 9/2/41

Mikl posted:

So.

Because of this thread, I went back and read the storyline where Bruno the wolf comes out as trans-diet. It's... Not good.

And I thought: why suffer alone?


Kevin and Kell Bruno the herbivore wolf
Part the first: the origin, and coming out
_{(With many horrible asides)}

We are introduced to this story via a gag about identity theft, i.e.: a snake shredding the skin they shed. Which leads to them discussing why Bruno still wears a sheepskin. (He was originally wearing his sheep girlfriend, Corrie, as a sheepskin, to hide her, because he didn't want her to get killed and eaten. Then Corrie started living on her own, but Bruno kept wearing a sheepskin - a fake sheepskin, actually, it was a rug with some of Corrie's wool sewn into it.)



And this is when we discover Bruno's secret:



He literally hides in a closet to eat. Holbrook isn't subtle. But how did Bruno start eating grass in the first place?



(The thing they're referencing is when Corrie, who was masquerading as a wolf named Dale, helped her friend Fiona - a fennec fox - disguise herself as a sheep because Fiona thought her boyfriend Rudy liked sheep and wanted to find out. Then Corrie and Fiona got attacked in the street by a cougar and when Corrie saw Fiona in danger "instinct took over" and she killed and ate the cougar, but got injured in the process, got taken to a hospital and everyone found out the wolf Dale was actually the sheep Corrie. But everyone was fine with it.)



Bruno is still on the school hunting team, by the way. Where they kill and eat sentient beings for sport. You know, the usual stuff. _{I'm actually surprised Holbrook didn't get a Most Dangerous Game type storyline out of this.}

Moving on! Bruno agonises for a bit whether / how to come out. I'm skipping some strips here, but I wanted to post this one:



Trans people losing access to healthcare and social security is a real concern even now, and was much more so in 2003. And Holbrook spun it into a joke.



This is actually a bit touching: a girlfriend helping her trans significant other feel more confident in their skin. But then Bruno gets found out.



Again: they're literally finding him hiding in the closet. Subtle! Bruno takes the chance to come out properly to his closest friends. It doesn't go over well with Rudy.





(This, by the way, is all we ever see in the comic of Bruno's parents.)
Bruno chases Rudy and they have a brief talk, which doesn't go over well (again).




This, again, is somewhat galling. Holbrook seemingly can't go even for a little bit without making it into a joke. He's a wolf! And he eats plants! How wild is that? Sure, some of this could be ascribed to the strip-a-day medium, but not everything has to be a gag.

Bruno gets more-or-less kicked out of school because his classmates are uncomfortable with him. (And also he quits the hunting team, but let's set this aside for a while. We'll come back to this, oh yes.) But fortunately, Kevin is here to help!



Also: Rudy retreats into toxic masculinity meat-eating.



While studying Kevin asks Bruno what his parents think about all this, and Bruno replies they didn't even notice. Aw. Then Bruno goes foraging for his herbovore homework, and runs into Rudy moping in a playground.



They have a verbal fight which quickly escalates into a physical fight, because of Bruno accusing Rudy of being close-minded, about this and also about interracial relationships (Bruno and Corrie had to hide their relationship for years because they knew it would upset Rudy, and also it took Rudy years to accept Kevin as his stepdad. Rudy is kind of a bigot and a jerk, wow.) The fight ends when they knock each other out over a significant flashback.



Fiona and Corrie show up, and cart them away to the hospital. Bruno had all his teeth knocked out by Rudy (yikes), and takes this chance to have them all replaced by herbivore teeth; since he no longer has fangs, his classmates are no longer scared of him, and he's readmitted to school. It's all fine! (If only it were so simple in real life...)

Rudy meets with Bruno again and they apologise to each other. And good news! The whole hunting team want Bruno to come back to the team!





The end? Ha ha ha ha ha no. This'll do for now, but we have such sights to show you