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Comment from: Teh Quilly posted at July 5, 2007 2:43 PM

o.o!?!

I may never look at Comic Sans the same way again. I shall forever be looking over my shoulder when I use it, lest I also be hunted down and made to taste the curb.

Comment from: Bertson posted at July 5, 2007 3:04 PM

What are the rest of your Top 4 (or other number) Achewood strips?

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at July 5, 2007 3:09 PM

Immediately off the top of my head? "HE TORE HIS FUCKING FACE OFF!", "I know Todd," and the most recent "OHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIT."

But there are probably others that I would put up there too. This strip plays in that league, though.

Comment from: HitScan posted at July 5, 2007 3:12 PM

I can absolutely understand the sentiment on display here. I'm a big fan of bancomicsans.com. Documents here at work used to be rife with that foul plague, and to this day if anyone receives an email from the head of the city's chamber of commerce(!) it's always in Comic Sans. Entirely.

But the scenario in the strip wouldn't exactly work, because even it's real inventor doesn't like to see it used all that much. Comic Sans must be the most loved and most hated font ever, and that's just sad.

Comment from: Benor posted at July 5, 2007 3:34 PM

The best part isn't the last panel, in my opinion. It's the line "What do you think you're running from? The disease is inside you!"

Comment from: Maverick posted at July 5, 2007 3:42 PM

My favourite Achewood has always been the motorbike over Everest one. Let's see...

Ah, here it is: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07132004 The Mountain and the Motorcycle

Not sure why, it just cracks me up everytime.

Comment from: Scarybug posted at July 5, 2007 4:25 PM

I love that one too, Maverik.

I *use* comic sans in my comic, and I still loved today's strip for all the same reasons you mentioned. Also, I've been thinking a lot about people trying to run away from the problems that are really inside themselves.

Also, the inventor of Comic Sans is has a webpage:
[connare dot com]

Comment from: kirabug posted at July 5, 2007 6:34 PM

My favorite Achewood is the tee shirts -- I bought the "I'm the guy who sucks / plus I got depression" tee as soon as I saw it'd come out.

And I'm guilty of using the Mac-ish version of Comic Sans (Chalkboard) for the dialogue on my comic. It's easily read at a number of sizes and it's doesn't piss me off the way Arial does. Not sure I could actually bring myself to use Comic Sans though.

Comment from: Zeekar posted at July 5, 2007 7:06 PM

I totally don't get the hostility toward Comic Sans. I didn't know that there was any until I read this comic today, so my reaction to it was essentially "Huh?" I mean, what exactly is so wrong with Comic Sans? It's a comic book lettering font. Says so right there in the name. DC and Marvel aren't going to start printing their books in Comic Sans anytime soon, but it does a pretty good job of looking like comic book lettering.

I dunno, maybe I'm just shielded from this alleged plague of people who use it for everything. If people want to invest energy in banning some typeface, which - whatever, I guess, how do you even do that? - I'd rather see it directed at a truly ugly and ubiquitous font, like Times New Roman.

Comment from: Godspiel posted at July 5, 2007 8:40 PM

I don't know why, but when I saw this earlier, I interpreted it such that T, Ray, RB, and Lyle weren't even at the same house, and that Téodor's call was reaching out to the others across space, and perhaps even time, as though the whole of existence was an active participant their act.

I don't hold any ill-will towards the font or its creator, only the people who use it inappropriately. I appreciate occasionally seeing something other than Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, or Courier. From what I can tell, Comic Sans is mostly abused by the same people who use blinking text all over their Geocities pages and Powerpoint for inter-office memos: people who are stupid. Really fucking stupid. Banning the methods of stupid doesn't cure stupid.

Comment from: Thomas Blight posted at July 5, 2007 11:58 PM

Sylfaen and Myriad are where it's at. Every prepubescent kid and his mother uses Comic Sans, that's why it has such stigma. Also every loser who makes a really bad comic, sprite or drawn, uses Comic Sans. I have no idea why.

Comment from: Laser Jesus posted at July 6, 2007 3:38 AM

I don't know why, but when I saw this earlier, I interpreted it such that T, Ray, RB, and Lyle weren't even at the same house, and that Téodor's call was reaching out to the others across space, and perhaps even time, as though the whole of existence was an active participant their act.

I had the exact same thought. Honestly, it's just funnier that way.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at July 6, 2007 9:36 AM

I use Comic Sans in my webcomic. When I started it, I made the production decision to confine myself to software I can find standard on any Windows machine, so that I can produce my daily updates from anywhere I may be. I looked at all the fonts on my Windows machine at the time - none of which had been added by me - and chose Comic Sans as the most appropriate for a cartoon. Though I'd been on the sidelines of webcomic culture for some time it wasn't till later that I encountered the stigma, which I eventually dismissed as a holdover from the eary, early days of webcomics when it was the overused only option (particularly since I hoped to appeal to a wider audience than webcomics culture). Three-plus years later it's still my webcomic's font, and disappointed prospective readers (who speak up) object more to my use of MSPaint than they ever do to the Comic Sans.

Also, Rich Burlew uses it. So nyah.

Comment from: HitScan posted at July 6, 2007 10:14 AM

Paul: most people don't mind it in Comics, but if you've ever received a complete letter written in it, you might wish that the individual responsible had the font removed from their system, as they're obviously incapable of handling it's mighty power.

Comic Sans is like Cayenne Pepper. You don't need much, and it doesn't go with just anything.

Comment from: Maverick posted at July 6, 2007 12:06 PM

Comic Sans is the font people with no sense of humour use to show how "wacky" they are.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at July 6, 2007 12:17 PM

The actual complaints surrounding Comic Sans are generally typographic. It's not well kerned at all, it has very little in the way of ligatures or other kerning pairs, and the stroke weights aren't well balanced for extended viewing. It was originally designed to facilitate packaging child friendly products, but it's ended up being used vastly more extensively because it was included in Windows from just about the beginning.

Comment from: RMG posted at July 6, 2007 2:19 PM

This is wonderful.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at July 6, 2007 2:31 PM

My main use of Comic Sans is in putting labels on images in GraphicConverter, because I prefer to avoid anti-aliasing on fonts for that, and Comic Sans is "open" enough to be readable even in "black pixel or nothing" style.

Of course, not anti-aliasing is itself a sin against typography....

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at July 6, 2007 4:19 PM

...Yeah, I'm just not seeing it. I mean, I even read and enjoy the various anti-Comic Sans sites, and this just isn't doing it for me.

To be honest, I use Comic Sans on occasion myself. If I've been given a task at work that is so utterly moronic that it defies description, I will argue, beg, and plead my way out of it. But if it comes down to my bosses not budging at all, I do the entire thing in Comic Sans. Because if you're going to give me a godawful task, I'm going to do it in a godawful font.

Comment from: JackSlack posted at July 7, 2007 5:00 AM

Y'know, I'm surprised nobody brought up this one from the Magic Underpants storyline as a favorite. Every time I read this one, I crack up hard. http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05232006

Comment from: Merus posted at July 7, 2007 12:00 PM

So, basically Comic Sans is a display font that's being used as a 'proper' font? That makes sense.

Comment from: gwalla posted at July 10, 2007 2:19 AM

The line in panel 6 is absolute gold.

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