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Eric: A random moment of conversation, about the whole thing from today.

"You know what I think the cover should be? Zig-Zag. Showing her tits! Now that's the history of webcomics!"

It is worth noting alcohol was involved.

I'm not going to tell you who actually said it, either.

Posted by Eric Burns-White at March 3, 2006 1:19 AM

Comments

Comment from: chalcara [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 1:29 AM

Well yeah, it WOULD worth it, ney?

Comment from: BassetKing [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 1:40 AM

It works on so many levels.

It's... Genius.

"When you stare into the Furry Tits, the Furry Tits stare back into you."

Also, it's worth noting...

There are boards that Wordfilter "Furry" to "Drama"...

Yes. On all Levels, Yes.

Comment from: TheNintenGenius [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 2:19 AM

Hmm, furry tits definitely says almost everything most people really need to know about webcomics. If you draw her anime/manga-styled, wearing something Linux-branded and holding a joystick, you quite literally WOULD have everything you'd ever need to know, that being that us webcomic fans and authors are a bunch of sad, geeky, deviant perverts. God I love the internet!

(This comment may come back to haunt me later, being non-furry though still an admitted geek pervert, but it's that special time of night when I just don't care. Whee!)

Comment from: Moony [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 2:29 AM

Oh GOD...I bet that will now be the next poster-sized Eric Schwartz print seen at every single con for the next year...

Thank God I can't afford to go to any!

Comment from: Darth Paradox [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 3:08 AM

Sadly, that would probably make me more likely to buy it. Or at least flip through it at the bookstore before shaking my head in disbelief and walking away.

I think it's too goddamn early to write a history of webcomics in anything as permanent as a printed book. Recording things, yes. But "history"? We don't have the perspective yet.

Comment from: Shaenon [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 3:09 AM


Someday, we'll all provide raw materials for the worst "Kavalier and Clay" EVER.

Comment from: Ray Radlein [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 3:15 AM

I smell a pullet surprise!

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 8:03 AM

Launch all Zig Zag! For great...um, something.

Comment from: Canuck-Errant [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 8:25 AM

Great boobage.

Comment from: William_G [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 8:58 AM

Tits work for me. Maybe I'll get some of them Mardi Gras beads in anticipation.

Bring 'em out! Booyah!

Comment from: trpeal [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 9:56 AM

I'm not sure which surprises me more, Eric. That you two (either each singularly or collectively) know who Zig Zag is, or that you're willing to admit that you know who she is.

Of course, me posting this means that I know all too well who she is, and am (all that) ahsamed to admit it.

Comment from: Eric Burns [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 10:07 AM

You might love Sabrina Online, and you might not love Sabrina Online, but it's been a part of the Webcomics landscape for way too many years for me not to acknowledge it.

Comment from: 32_footsteps [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 10:18 AM

It would kind of sum up the history of comics in general. Adults that act like children trying to proclaim how adult they are.

That's really why I can't do a comic myself. The idea of even claiming to be an adult scares the underpants off of me.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 10:36 AM

It's knowing about Zig Zag's life outside of (and prior to) Sabrina Online that marks one, trpeal. Or knowing that she's one of many guest characters brought in from other anthropornmorphics. :)

Comment from: trpeal [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 10:48 AM

You might love Sabrina Online, and you might not love Sabrina Online, but it's been a part of the Webcomics landscape for way too many years for me not to acknowledge it.
Fair enough. I love it less these days than I did when I first started reading webcomics (and Sabrina Online was the first one I found), but it has been around an awfully long time.
It's knowing about Zig Zag's life outside of (and prior to) Sabrina Online that marks one, trpeal.
Okay, Dave, you've got me there. That is the dividing line.

Comment from: larksilver [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 11:35 AM

All this childish behavior goin' on around Teh Intarweb these last couple of days must be rubbing off on me. My first thought when I saw this:

That's really why I can't do a comic myself. The idea of even claiming to be an adult scares the underpants off of me.

Was this:

Moooooom, 32_footsteps is posting nude again! eww eww ewwwwwww!!!!

Comment from: William_G [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 11:39 AM

Um... You mean that isn't how everyone posts?

Comment from: miyaa [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 11:50 AM

I have no idea who is Zig-Zag. Or Sabrina Online. Are you sure you weren't viewing the slipshine archives while drinking, Eric?

Comment from: Kris@WLP [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 11:51 AM

*sigh* I can't even win when it comes to notable webcomic tits. (And you'd think I'd have that sewn up.)

Oh, and William_G: Pants! PANTS! Sing the PRAISES of pants!

Comment from: Kris@WLP [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 12:00 PM

Zig Zag is a female skunk-tiger hybrid who is built like a masonry lavatory (habitation-external version). She is a porn movie producer, director and star- the title character's bi-voracious boss in Sabrina Online. (hyperbole)She's made cameo appearances in virtually every furry comic, web or print, known to Man (/hyperbole). The character was created by Malcolm Earle, better known to furries as Max Blackrabbit.

http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Zig_Zag


Comment from: miyaa [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 12:03 PM

Maybe there should be a web quiz where one tries to match female webcomic characters with their breasts. (0 right should include the line, "You don't even know who Monica Villarreal is? You poser.")

Comment from: Tangent [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 12:15 PM

That reminds me of this review site, Eric. *grin* Most amusing. Amazing some of the weird stuff we can come up with when drunk out of our gourds, no?

Comment from: RoboYuji [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 1:34 PM

Actually, Sabrina Online was the first webcomic I ever read on a regular basis, quite some time before I had ever even heard the term "webcomic".

Comment from: William_G [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 1:55 PM

Oh, and William_G: Pants! PANTS!

NEVER!!

Comment from: 32_footsteps [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 2:07 PM

No fair! I'm only doing it 'cuz Larksilver keeps stealing my undies, the big meanie.

Comment from: Pseudowolf [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 2:52 PM

Oh, and William_G: Pants! PANTS! Sing the PRAISES of pants!

BAH! Real men wear kilts!

Comment from: miyaa [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 5:30 PM

Reminds me of a "Quiz Bowl" story. My high school quiz bowl team was at a competition in Kansas City, and we were playing against Liberty in the semifinals. Their captain wore a kilt and he kept slouching himself underneath the table. Either he didn't want to be there or he wanted to show he was the bad-ass of the quiz bowl tourney.

He wasn't wearing anything beneath that kilt. He let his royal jewels out for everyone to see, if they wanted to stoop down low enough. I'm sure my coach saw it, but he didn't think anything of it. The guy was basically Liberty's chief brainiac, and he single handed helped Liberty out to a big 80 point lead. The second half, we came back. Savannah (my team) kept answering questions and Liberty kept getting questions wrong, particularly their kilt leader.

We got down to the final question, the score was tied at 280. Liberty's coach, well she was getting more irritated with him with every missed question. The final question was, "What is the speed of sound in a vacuum?" The kilted kid answers first and said, "80,483 miles per hour."

"Incorrect. Savannah?" the lady moderator said.

There was a pause. I then rang in with a small realization. My fellow players looked at me with a little bit of fright, as I answered, "Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum."

"Correct." We won by one question. The Liberty coach was so mad at him, she'd deliberately (I think) bump him into the table trying to hurt his private parts. She kept berating him all the way out of the room and probably all the way back to Liberty. We were laughing and hi-fiving each other. There was no way we could have won the final, but humiliating that jerk was better than winning first.

Ah, good times.

Comment from: larksilver [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 6:12 PM

No way, dude. I didn't steal 'em yer undies this time. Last time, there were skidmarks, and I vowed never never never again! It must have been Paul G's doing.

Comment from: Wednesday White [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 6:16 PM

Suddenly, reading this thread, getting moderately tipsy again sounds like a really good idea.

Comment from: 32_footsteps [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 6:27 PM

Were not! You're just saying that because mom loves me best!

Comment from: miyaa [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 3, 2006 11:11 PM

32! Larksilver! Paul G! Pseudowolf! Don't make me stop the internet and come back there and smack you with Jack Chick tracts! I'll turn this Internet around, I swear I will!

If the Internet was a car, it would be like that Johnny Cash song about it having every make, model and year on it.

Comment from: larksilver [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 4, 2006 12:18 AM

Nooooooo mommy miyaa! Not the Chick tracts! They burns, they burns they does!

hehehe isn't it funny how I got Paul yelled at too, and he hasn't even commented in this thread? Sorry, Paul!

Comment from: Frisco [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 4, 2006 8:45 AM

Well really I think, Zig Zag on the cover would only realy work if over the title is huge word bubble with:
"Tits Out for the Jedi, you Naboo foxes!"

Comment from: 32_footsteps [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 4, 2006 5:14 PM

But Miyaa, you promised to take us to see Something Positive this weekend! An' you said we could get ice cream afterwards!

"hehehe isn't it funny how I got Paul yelled at too, and he hasn't even commented in this thread? Sorry, Paul!"

Hey, my sister managed that all the freaking time growing up. She was a small meanie, because I was the older one.

Comment from: gwalla [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 4, 2006 6:08 PM

TheNintenGenius: you mean the Gød of Internet?

Comment from: STrRedwolf [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 5, 2006 12:02 AM

If Max drew Zig like that, T would sell out every copy he had printed almost immedately.

Geesh... I now have the urge to draw ZZ now. But then, it's only fitting. I did commission Max durring Otakon 2005...

Comment from: Eric the .5b [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 5, 2006 4:24 AM

The kilted kid answers first and said, "80,483 miles per hour."

I have to giggle at the precision of such an ass-pull.

Comment from: SpotWeld [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 5, 2006 9:57 AM

gwalla: I think it's worth notng that an artist found that
OverCompensating Strip interesting and extrapolated a little
to create another version of the God of Internet.

Artist is Chris Goodwin, linked to from his site at http://www.eselkunst.com/.

Comment from: miyaa [TypeKey Profile Page] posted at March 6, 2006 2:21 AM

Oh, quiz bowlers make all sort of "precision" ass-pulls (I'll have to use that phrase more often). It's why some competitions makes us have to finish the answer in less than 15 seconds.

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