Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 16, 2012
Transcript:
Andre: I've thought up a great new super-hero! He's called !!!! Yeah! He's just a big, loud sound effect! You know, like Kabloom or Fshpink! He shows up to fight crime and it's like, WOW! SO COOL! KAPWING! And the super villain he fights is called the Muffler, and he can break into anybody's word balloon and erase stuff to shut them up! Cool, huh? Petey: I guess, but I don't know which one I'd root for.
margueritem over 12 years ago
I like ’em both!
Havelock_Vetinari over 12 years ago
CURSE YOU MARGUE! I did beat you at Pearls though.Anyways, let the Muffler win until the end, and you have to write no dialogue or plot. Just have th hero say one line at the end.
ajn90280 Premium Member over 12 years ago
Does anyone have a guess as to how, “!!!!” is pronounced? Actually, never mind – I’m thinking that the pronunciation isn’t important just as long as it’s done really, really loudly.
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
Self-aware cartoon boys referencing cartoon characters! Petey and Andre are way too metaphysical for me at this late hour, but I think I like !!!!.
GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago
Andre’s going to a great superhero cartoonist some day.
pouncingtiger over 12 years ago
Andre is Stan Lee’s protege.
cdward over 12 years ago
I think you’re just used to the guest artists. To me, this looks more like the old Petey we know and like (love would be too, you know, feely.)
mlevinsongocomics over 12 years ago
FSHPINK!??!!?!!!! No one has anything to say about possibly the best written sound effect of the year?! FSHPINK!
CaptainKiddeo over 12 years ago
Yes, Don Martin was the sound effect king, but Mr. Thompson needs no help in this area. His sound effects are great!
DonVanni over 12 years ago
!!!!…..How do you pronounce that? Accent grave over the “!”?
epiphoney over 12 years ago
KAPWING is a ripoff of/ homage to Calvin and Hobbes’ Stupendous Man.
Christopher Shea over 12 years ago
Does !!!! have anything to do with Captain ****?
finale over 12 years ago
Tilde-Tilde-Tilde
womzilla over 12 years ago
Andre has been reading old Morrison/Case Doom Patrols? That comes as no surprise! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Dada#Agent_.22.21.22
dramac333 over 12 years ago
SueB: Richard now just does the writing and rough breakdowns of the art. The finished art is by Stacy Curtis. So the characters look a little different, but the heart os the strip is better than ever!
Petemejia77 over 12 years ago
…Or Kevin Smith’s Onomatopoeia??
Gilda Blackmore over 12 years ago
The Muffler is the cartoonist’s nightmare! FSHPINK to him, I say!
davejl over 12 years ago
There has to be a cameo by the band !!! (pronounced /tʃk.tʃk.tʃk/) ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!!!
hazel power about 6 years ago
I think fshpink is the noise a pinball machine starts. You know, when you pull the thing and it goes fsh and it hits the ball and goes pink
hubert.prentiss Premium Member 13 days ago
Richard Thompson’s onomatopoeia was the BEST.