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Eric: I've always wondered -- do babes really go for cherry-red cars? I mean, you hear that, but....
(From Narbonic. Click on the thumbnail for full sized revolution discouragement!)
I honestly don't have a set schedule for snarking Narbonic. I really don't. In fact, it's one of those things that I think I'm not going to snark for a while, because yeesh, haven't I done enough recently?
And then I actually read the next Narbonic strip, and then I need to snark it. Ah well, at least it's a webcomics snark. That will make you happy. Won't it? Won't it?
There's little profound to say here, mind. In fact, this snark exists to point out three essential points:
- The hamsters are adorable.
- Artie is incapable of being in a situation where he isn't the straight man, despite being a shapeshifting gerbil
- This is hysterically funny.
That is all.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at September 6, 2005 9:45 AM
Comments
Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at September 6, 2005 11:14 AM
I dunno... I thought this was worth a giggle, but not much else. If a Beverly Cleary joke had gotten worked in there somehow, then I would have considered breaking out the phrase, "hysterically funny."
Comment from: Wistful Dreamer posted at September 6, 2005 12:04 PM
I take it that she wrote The Mouse and the Motorcycle?
Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at September 6, 2005 12:39 PM
Yeah, and there were three books about Ralph. There was "The Mouse and The Motorcycle," "Ralph Goes to Camp" (I believe), and "Ralph S. Mouse." He actually got his own car in the last one, although I don't recall the color. I do believe the motorcycle was actually cherry red, though.
Comment from: larksilver posted at September 6, 2005 12:48 PM
Hey, you made the connection, just from Cherry Red, right? So the joke exists.. just in the aethers. Lookit! Ms. Garrity is even smarter than she knows!
hehehehe
Never enough Narbonic. Half the time I read the stuff and say to myself "ooooooh I can't wait to see what Eric thinks of these events!" And then, no snark, and I whine. So hooray for Narbonicsnarky!
Comment from: Shaenon posted at September 6, 2005 2:02 PM
Yeah, I'm surprised this one merited a Snark. I thought I had at least another week before anything remotely Snarkworthy came up on Narbonic.
Comment from: kirabug posted at September 6, 2005 2:24 PM
But Shaenon! The gerbils! They're adorable! How could they not be snarked?!?
Oh, as a horribly bad novice artist, I have to ask, are rodents easier to draw than people, or harder?
Comment from: J.(Channing)Wells posted at September 6, 2005 4:37 PM
I dunno, if it were me, I would have snarked the Thread Spool Man bit, but I have to admit this is probably because I'm so fond of the character of Dana (the last of the unstable mutant gerbils, now deceased -- THOUGH WE NEVER SAW THE BODY!!!), and seeing these little cast-off bits of her madness popping up here and there makes me all nostalgic for her.
Comment from: Shaenon posted at September 6, 2005 9:27 PM
To be honest, drawing the hamsters is kind of a pain. They have a limited range of gestures and expressions, and I keep screwing up their chubby little cherubic faces.
Still, I'm glad everyone finds them cute and charming. This is one of the things that makes me happiest right now, along with the widespread belief that Artie and Zeta would make a nice couple.
Comment from: Paul A. posted at September 8, 2005 8:29 PM
4. "convertibles" is more correctly spelled with an i.
(Sorry. Force of habit...)
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