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Parody comics by yours truly. My New Years Resolution is to make more I swear. Slylock Fox   Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Dustin  Norm Feuti's Nelson 
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Gil ran from January 2012 to December 2013. It's a modern strip about kids these days and their video games and LARPing and cheap Chinese toys. Gil's parents are divorced so he lives with his mom and visits his deadbeat dad on alternate weekends. Retail follows a bunch of grade schoolers and their playground popularity contests. Much like real life, Retail has a knack for bringing out the worst in everyone who reads or is otherwise exposed to it.  Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog depicts the dystopian alternate universe of 10-year-old Skip Smalls who was abandoned by his parents in an isolated exurb to be raised by robots. Despite that super sweet premise, life is remarkably uneventful.  Dustin was created by distilling the essence of baby boomer smugness and the banality of the American upper-middle class. The namesake character, Dustin, is a 23-year-old college graduate working a string of low-paying temp jobs so naturally he is a total failure in life who everyone shits on constantly. It actually used to be considerably worse but we try to forget about it.  Bill Holbrook makes three comic strips a day: On the Fastrack, Safe Havens, and the webcomic Kevin and Kell. On the whole they're pretty light-hearted with progressive overtones and also batshit insane. On the Fastrack follows geeky goth girl Dethany Dendrobia and the staff of the computer security corporation Fastrack Inc. It's a mashup of modern nerd culture trends and technology written by someone with a superficial understanding of both.  Safe Havens stars 26-year-old PhD prodigy extraordinaire Samantha Argus and her friends who all have sweet jobs or super powers. Also her mom is the governor. All in all life is pretty boss. 
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Jan 1, 2014 07:04
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Slylock Fox is a puzzle and activity strip starring super sleuth Slylock Fox and deadweight sidekick Max Mouse and their tireless crusade for justice against raccoons, scientific advancement and honest entrepreneurship. Also arbitrating in minor civil disputes between the same handful of parties for the nth time.  Moose and Molly is a straight 1960s gag comic capturing the good old days of American cultural homogeneity when people still talked to their neighbors and raided their fridges and stuff. 
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Jan 1, 2014 11:13
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Mister Beeg posted:I guess it's because, well, I would do the same thing to some of the characters if I knew them. If I knew Josh (and I knew similar people like him), I would absolutely love to do what Cooper does to him. In short, kind of a revenge fantasy. Maybe that says something about what kind of person I am.
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Jan 1, 2014 22:06
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Gil Gil debuted exactly two years ago today and since I didn't start posting it until August 2012 I figured we'll take a look at the first eight months. And Gil, just be glad your mom hasn't discovered the unholy offspring of Scrabble and video games that is Words with Friends. Retail  Wow it's nice to see the stockroom supervisor grow up and set a great example in customer service for the subordinates. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Oh no Bleeker you're not watching Skip this very second he could be sticking a fork in an outlet or something! Dustin  Actually I think everyone knows that Christmas is one chaotic blur of activity. On the Fastrack  That's pretty much standard procedure for a lot of creative work done on company payroll during company time. Safe Havens  Samantha finds photographic voyeurism sexy I guess.
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Jan 2, 2014 10:41
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Gil Only mom-approved books Gil. Retail   at Cooper acting like some kind of retail Casanova. The only way I see to salvage this mentoring relationship they have going on is if Donnie starts following Cooper's advice and everything going horribly wrong.Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  "When I said something that would get Karl to enjoy winter I didn't expect you to actually give him something that would get him to enjoy winter." Dustin  Saw the punchline coming from panel one. You need to do better, Steve Kelley. On the Fastrack  Uh, why? There is such a thing as caring too much about your job. Safe Havens  I have to imagine that a good percentage of people who see Holbrook's comics on any given day have no idea what the hell's going on.
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Jan 3, 2014 21:42
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Gil So they actually have all that stuff in the house but Gil's mom won't let him eat any of it as a snack? Why would you get your kid's hopes up like that? Retail  What's with the keyboard? Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Half the fun in extreme sports is the bruises and scars and torn appendages as your friends cheer you on. Dustin  Since when did Dustin get a new car? On the Fastrack  Brevity is the soul of wit. Safe Havens  Perfect! Now it's just like my college dormitory! Tiggum posted:OK, quite aside from the fact that the whole plan (setting up a Facebook page for a company, getting lots of customers to Like it and then selling it) is incredibly dumb, and the fact that Dethany actually cares about this for some reason, if I understand this correctly then the company that they sold their page to is still going to run it as the official FastRack page? They didn't just buy it to get a page with a bunch of followers to use for their own marketing? And how would using Breech's Facebook page avoid the problem in any way? If the new owner would object to you starting a new FastRack page, wouldn't they object just as much to you turning an existing page into a new FastRack page?
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Jan 5, 2014 03:18
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Slylock Fox  Sorry Smitty but those coins are eminent domain now. Should've known better than to bury your private stash on public property when you were seven. Slylock will be taking them off your hands for you.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:23
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Gil I hope you don't use that one in school because that's a surefire way to get yourself sent to the school counselor. Retail  The same reason anyone prefers liquid cash? Also wow someone's a paranoid cynic. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Bleeker, maybe you should just, you know, run away to go live with Lila. Skip probably wouldn't even notice you're gone. Dustin  "Just kidding, he didn't actually say that. But that was a super sweet contrived burn at Obama, huh?" On the Fastrack  Bud probably uses unique passwords for every account and they all have numbers and symbols and alt caps in them. Heaven's Love Thrift Shop  Totally not Blondie.
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Jan 6, 2014 01:09
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Gil I did one on Jaqueline Cochran once because I thought a woman racing and war pilot was pretty cool. Retail  Hate to break it to you Mina but... Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Refurb is actually planning to use it as part of an elaborate turkey costume. Dustin  No political hamfistedness in my Dustin comics. On the Fastrack  I gotta agree with Fi. Dethany is seriously too invested in this. Safe Havens  Good luck. Those things are a pain in the rear end to take apart.
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Jan 6, 2014 07:54
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Gorilla Salad posted:Mind you, if you could verify their value with the store, I'd offer the guy, say, 60 cents on the dollar.
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Jan 6, 2014 08:42
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Slylock Fox  Slylock and Max just broke into Weirdly's holo-chamber and went for a joyride. The only thing wrong is their hypocritical disregard for property law. Moose and Molly  drat look at the size of that sandwich. There's something going on here because this is really going beyond basic hospitality.
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Jan 7, 2014 06:03
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Gil Handheld video game player. Really. And honestly you probably could find an old GBA or DS and a pile of games at a yard sale for really cheap and it'd keep you entertained for hundreds of hours. Retail  Marla should forget all her lame old friends and be BFFs with Mina. They get along so well  . Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  I mean, who knows when the last time you changed your oil was? Dustin  I should hope lawyers use proper spelling and punctuation. On the Fastrack  That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I think you max out at 5000 or so friends anyway. Safe Havens  If you can time travel wouldn't you be able to foresee everything that could possibly go wrong?
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Jan 7, 2014 06:39
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm really sure that Dustin has made this exact joke before, only it was to his sister.
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Jan 7, 2014 08:11
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Tiggum posted:I can't help thinking that this comic would be a hell of a lot better if Lila owned Bleeker and Karl wasn't in it.
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Jan 7, 2014 20:24
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Gil The Hulk, and Dora, but only if she has her monkey with her. Retail  Wait so she went from being a manager of one store to assistant manager of another? Wow Mina is a more incompetent villain than I thought. So much for her power climb. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Yesterday's strip was Refurb borrowing Karl's duster so yeah he just had a spontaneous existential crisis. Dustin  Just ignore him? On the Fastrack  Uh, she did? I've been posting this strip for over a year and don't remember that. Also, Dethany has a lot of dumb ideas but evil's not really her thing. Safe Havens  Since she's a time-traveler, you know all the cash is ill-gotten but who cares? We're rich! Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jan 8, 2014 |
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Jan 8, 2014 06:33
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Some Guy TT posted:I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be a serious attack on Ted Rall or just a light-hearted jest. But then again actual Ted Rall cartoons have the same problem.
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Jan 9, 2014 01:37
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Gil By being sheltered and not having exposure to the world outside of popular media basically. Retail  I'm curious too. I'm gonna need some illustrative examples here because my take on her is she's a smooth talker but otherwise kind of incompetent at actually achieving her goals. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Probably an electronics processing and assembly plant in Taiwan. Dustin  Maybe you should ask if you can pay with two cows and a chicken. On the Fastrack  I gotta agree. What the hell. Safe Havens  No, named after Leonardo DiCaprio. What young woman immediately thinks of TMNT?
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Jan 9, 2014 07:09
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Slylock Fox (Oct 8 1993)  Because Slylock Fox himself is #1 video game player in the world and plays a mean game of Pong. Moose and Molly  The Miller home is surprisingly well maintained. I kinda expected it to be more like the outside of their house with trash strewn everywhere and things falling apart.
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Jan 10, 2014 02:25
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Gil Who doesn't love a trip to the local convenience store? Retail  I want to know the juicy details on how she pulled that off. Sabotage a store inspection? Tip off corporate HR with some dirt? Inside job heist of a bunch of valuable merchandise? Murder? And why hasn't she been able to replicate that success at Delman's, especially since their manager is such a sitting duck? Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  That was pretty mean, but IIRC he was just a pile of loose parts in a box back then. Dustin  Eh, the laptop I'm using is a 2005 Fujitsu running XP. On the Fastrack  Just a reminder, Holbrook actually did make a Facebook page for Fistula back in August that has 76 likes. Safe Havens  Oh just fight to the death already. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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Jan 10, 2014 06:52
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Gil Don't you know the joys of a sedentary lifestyle? Retail  My my. It's nice to see someone take initiative. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  But Bleeker, you had an existential crisis once too that you got over by having Grammy K tell you to stop moping and get over it. Although Slinkys are good too. Dustin  Why should he be? The happy holidays have passed into unhappy January and now he's just realized that those big juicy burgers on tv are all a lie??? On the Fastrack  "Anything to get you to stop internet detectiving me behind my back." Safe Havens  Useful skill for any budding psychopath.
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Jan 11, 2014 06:29
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Borden posted:Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.
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Jan 11, 2014 21:44
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Gil I did that in a classroom once when the teacher wouldn't excuse me go to the bathroom fast enough. My classmates had to clean it up while the teacher sent me to the nurse. Retail  This joke wouldn't make any sense not in the context of a comic strip. How would Marla not immediately notice a huge pile of items right in front of her? Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Before he got Bleeker to babysit him Skip got concussions on a weekly basis. Dustin  That's gonna be you in a few years old man. On the Fastrack  Can you actually add skills to other people's LinkedIn pages? Because if so... Heaven's Love Thrift Shop  Making your employees shovel snow in a blizzard seems like worker abuse or something. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jan 12, 2014 |
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Jan 12, 2014 06:39
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Yes Holbrook does a weekly summary for Safe Havens too on the Safe Havens FB page. It's somewhat useful for going back and checking what happened a few months ago without digging through and rereading the comic archive. Or explaining what the hell is going on which can be a problem in Holbrook strips.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:24
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Macaluso posted:Wait what? Your teacher made your classmates clean up your barf? Did your classmates hate you after that?? No because the guy who did it was my friend and I used to let him copy my homework. Yeah.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:26
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Slylock Fox  Because Slylock-Land is like a Redwall-esque horror universe where you can pretty much profile various species based on innate traits. The raggedly clothing also gives him away as part of the criminal underclass. Moose and Molly  Gotta love how everyone hugs each other in this strip.
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Jan 12, 2014 09:02
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Gil "Wait, you mean there are other kids at our school besides Morgan?" Retail  "It was really just to test the levels to which your batshit vindictiveness could reach, and the answer was pretty drat high." Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  New character to steal away Skip's affections from Bleeker? Dustin  Alrighty then. On the Fastrack  Vigilante money-making huh? Safe Havens  I still don't understand why she had human-Palmtop sleep on the floor.
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Jan 13, 2014 06:32
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I'm still waiting for Cooper to get fired for backtalking customers and Marla to get fired for sharing HR decisions with the competition. Oh wait.
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Jan 13, 2014 07:26
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Gil Does this explain everyone in Retail? Retail  Wow sweet I always wanted a volatile manager who flew off the handle at the slightest provocation. And we already knew you wouldn't have given him a raise since you pretty much flat out denied it without any consideration. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  I'm guessing this is going to lead to some real dog/robo dog shenanigans although we already had that theme come up a few times. Dustin  Buckle up, kids, we're in for a week of this. Although I admit I like that dog. On the Fastrack  Why does Breech keep getting assigned to this when she's an accounting executive? Safe Havens  What does she have that I don't???
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Jan 14, 2014 06:31
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If Rosa wants someone who's bold and spontaneous she should find someone who is and ditch Gunther instead of trying to change him. Honestly I'm not really sure what she ever saw in him in the first place.
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Jan 14, 2014 07:56
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Skip's parents have never been shown AFAIK although I haven't read it from the beginning. I have no idea why Orac-L or especially Grammy K have been written out since they should both still be around.
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Jan 14, 2014 23:35
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm still not convinced the dog isn't going to disappear at the end of the week. bonestructure posted:They were shown a few times, but only from the waist down. The last time we saw them (or rather, their legs and butts) they were heading out the door with suitcases saying "Oh, Grammy K is going to come stay with you for a while!" Exit parents, pursued by a bear. We also had Refurb as one of the new characters, but he's actually pretty good. This dog makes the fourth new character introduced to the strip in the last year or two. I guess they're just throwing everything at the metaphorical wall to see what sticks. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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Jan 15, 2014 00:21
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Slylock Fox  One of the criminals was probably a bird and just flew off. Or a chameleon and is actually in plain sight but camouflaged. I mean this is anthropomorphic animal land.  .Moose and Molly  Moose is capitalizing on an opportunity for trespassing, theft and child neglect.
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Jan 15, 2014 02:11
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Volume posted:Pay attention folks: Josh is living the dream. He's quitting and telling his boss to shove it up her rear end. e: Sweet new avatar! Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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Jan 15, 2014 04:39
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Gil Spoilers - Grade school grades don't matter as long as you pass. Retail  It was totally worth it.Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Oh no poor Bleeker. If it's any consolation, I'd totally let you hang out at my place. Could always use more gadgets. Dustin  What's with moms and Scrabble? On the Fastrack  Whoo! Girls night out! Safe Havens  You should have an inch-thick layer by the end of the week.
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Jan 15, 2014 06:23
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Command Ant posted:If you were Josh in this situation, and your rear end in a top hat boss blew up like this while firing you, would you even try to keep yourself from smiling?
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Jan 15, 2014 06:51
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Some Guy TT posted:I remember this same comment being made when Jameson fired that guy in Spider-Man a few weeks ago. Think that over for a moment, Marla. You are now easily comparable to J. Jonah Jameson in terms of your management ability.
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Jan 15, 2014 10:28
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Nipponophile posted:The characters hated Josh because he was a sychophantic kiss-rear end who drank the corporate kool-aid from the moment he appeared.
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Jan 15, 2014 22:46
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Gil Yes, but it'll cost you some chores... Retail  Marla is just such a team player she just volunteered a boatload of free unpaid labor hours to the benefit of well, The Powers That Be. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Aw, everyone didn't forget about Bleeker after all. And maybe they can be friends and Bleeker will lighten up a bit. Dustin  Reverse psychology doesn't work on the oblivious. On the Fastrack  You're living in a Holbrook-verse so you can bet it's current events related. You don't even need to ask. Safe Havens  "After all, I do have a menagerie of other animal sidekicks to experiment on. Now where are those dodos..." Some Guy TT posted:Has Marla ever even wear a skirt outside this one incident to prove how terrible Josh is? I can't remember seeing anyone at the store without a standard uniform. Although since they're almost always drawn from the waist up it's hard to tell. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 16, 2014 |
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Nice to see you develop a healthy interest in girls' skirts, dude.
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