ADDAMS FAMILY LAST HURRAH!!!
I promise this one’s worth it. Ooh, and remember, this voting incentive was chosen by special fans who donate $5 or more a month! If you want to join their controlling ranks, HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!
VOTE TO GIVE US ‘A HAND’!!! (Heh. That was awful.)
As for this comic…
It begins. I’m not sure what really is beginning, but some sort of mental/spiritual journey starts here. I think. Either that, or this stupid webcomic is going to get even stupider.
Actually, upon reflection, option B is more likely the case.
So, when Steven Vincent Benet wrote “Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer” he was thinking of Mr. T?????
@DLKmusic
PITY THE FOOL !
Totally.
Okay, now I have to look that up. Is it a Devil Went Down To Georgia sort of thing? Which reminds me . . the Devil is Mayor of Hamilton. Can he please get them a CFL team?
They HAVE a CFL team: the Tiger-Cats. It’s not much of a CFL team, but there you are. What they always dream of is an NHL team, but it’s never, ever going to happen.
NO ONE expects Boy George!
True that, Wyvern. But I guess the real question is, “Do we really want to hurt him?”
[DLKmusic]: Maybe we’ll just settle for making him cry…?
Or the Spanish Inquisition. Or Spanish Boy George. Is there a Spanish Boy George? I bet there is.
El Chico Jorge!
@Wyvern
Wat ?
I do not speak French.
They say God takes the form of whatever that is most helpful at the moment. Or maybe not.
They say that about the devil too.
That explains a lot
Well, he may be Mr T, but he’s no Kentucky Gentleman.
Hey, when I rip off other people, I only rip off the best.
Why does Mr.T want to talk to Colin?
That question is right up there with “What does God need with a starship?”
Or “Who put the bop in the bop-sha-bop-sha-bop?”
Well, I certainly wasn’t expecting that.
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH… Is the joke old yet?
Well, it’s been around longer than I have…
But it’s still good, so feel free.
“It begins. I’m not sure what really is beginning, but some sort of mental/spiritual journey starts here. I think. Either that, or this stupid webcomic is going to get even stupider.
Actually, upon reflection, option B is more likely the case.”
Given the nature of how random this web comic is (and let’s face it, I’m not exactly expecting realism in a web comic with a fairy main character), I really fail to see how this is a stupid thing to do.
Then again, I might be a TINY bit biased given how it’s my favorite web comic. So yeah. There’s that.
Well, I thank you for the vote of confidence.
Well, now. It looks like Colin needs to be set straight. Or is that, scared straight? 😉
Less scare, more care.
The voting incentive … creeped me out. ^^;
I do not mean that it’s badly-drawn in any way, and the concept of the joke is fine. There is just a level of nasty that surpasses all efforts to turn it into cheesecake. For me, anyway.
Well, fair enough. Though I know a certain cat who regularly comments on this webcomic who appreciated it.
@Rock
Thing T. Thing, often referred to as just Thing,[1] is a fictional character in The Addams Family series. Thing was originally conceived as a whole creature (always seen in the background watching the family) that was too horrible to see in person. The only part of it that was tolerable was its human hand (this can be seen in the 1964 television series). The Addamses called it “Thing” because it was something that could not be identified. Thing was changed to a disembodied hand for the 1991 and 1993 Addams Family movies.
WIKI
Thus EG’s Incentive fits the original, intended embodiment of “THING” perfectly.
“Thing” as a disembodied hand is an aberrant invention of Hollywood, one that CHARLES ADDAMS would be disappointed to see.
THING being helpful.
Huh. I did not know that. ^_^ Good stuff! – and yes, very appropriate for a monster in human skin like this one.
[SalemCat]:
“Thing” was 1st created (but never named) by Charles Addams as a “1-off joke”, in which an antique record-player is seen playing music in the Addams household. The easily-overlooked aspect of the scene was that the record was being changed-out for a new one…
…despite being clearly too old a model for such a new-fangled feature as any sort of record-swapping tech…
…by a pair of (apparently human) hands that emerged from holes in the chassis of the record-player!
A possible source of inspiration for “Thing’s” character was a short-story of horror, in which an elderly man’s hand is demonically possessed, & tries to take-on a life of it’s own after the old man’s demise.
This inspired the (1946)-film, “The Beast With 5 Fingers”, starring Robert Alda & Peter Lorre.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_with_Five_Fingers]
This was re-made (1981) as “The Hand”, Starring Michael Caine.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hand_(1981_film)]
In this regard, the 1991-&-1993 films hew closer to the (supposed) source than to the Addams version.
During the run of the TV-show, the role of “Thing” was deliberately left unclear, to the frustration of the TV-audience. In the closing credits, it was referred-to simply as “ITSELF”. In actual practice, Ted Cassidy (“Lurch”) provided his hand whenever possible, except when “Lurch” had to share a scene with “Thing”.
D’OH!!!?!
I hadn’t realized that your links had already covered most of this, sorry!
@DMC_Run
You assume that, as a “responsible” creature myself, that I actually READ the Links I provide.
HOW DARE YOU !
I have not been denied residence in Heaviside (8 times already) for no reason at all !
But I did read your posts, and they are thoughtful and enlightening.
Personally, the fact that the Voting Incentive provided just another opportunity to display the most considerable “assets” of the both beautiful woman in all the realms is enuff for me.
Colin could learn other languages while he’s recovering.
I suppose it’s better that Colin didn’t make God in his own image.
Secretly, Colin imagines himself as Mr. T?
I initially meant that as a joke, but really….Mr. T is everything Colin might want to be but is not: powerful, bold, essentially a cartoon of hyper-manliness.
Pre-Op Colin is …. less powerful. Swimming in a sea of femininity, he might well at time question his adequacy. And now he is literally having part of his physical manhood removed.
Colin is a fine man. He has screw-ups, but don’t we all? However, he needs a long talk with a spirit guide and T (Lawrence Tureaud), a man underestimated for his qualities other than his strength, might be a good choice.
Exactly.
On a certain level, perhaps.
Thank goodness.
Mr. T is 5′-10″ tall. Is Colin really only 5′ tall or is Mr. T floating?
Well, this isn’t ACTUALLY Mr. T. This is Colin’s concept of Mr. T, and Mr. T is very tall in Colin’s mind.
I wanted the surgery! Not a psychedelic-anesthetic daydream! WE ALL LIVE IN A ****ING SUBMARINE!
Sorry. I knew you wouldn’t like it.
Maybe the next comic should actually show the surgery on him, or you could make THAT comic, and e-mail it to me.
Best I can do: http://www.california-impact.org/documents/orchiectomy.pdf
Mr.T seems to have lost some muscle definition since “The A-Team” folded. Colin’s version of him, anyway. Oh, silly me, Colin wouldn’t know “muscle definition” if it barked in his face.
This Mr. T is still beefy! I tried. I really did try.
a lot more muscle definition than I have, so….
Besides, EG, the face in unmistakable. Personally, I think you did a great job with Mr. T!!! even down to the dialog inflections. I can actually hear Mr. T. Saying “You was expecting BOY GEORGE, maybe?”
Thanks. I’ve watched a lot of A-Team, so it’s easy for me to channel his unique voice. But yeah, Mr. T honestly was a big guy, but he wasn’t ever a ‘muscle definition’ kind of guy, as much. Maybe in the Rocky movies, but in the A-Team, he wasn’t like the other ‘roided-up 80’s action stars. He looked like a strong guy, but a legitimately strong guy, with a thicker, solid build.
I pity the fool who doesn’t remember Mr. T or what he tried to teach kids over the years! 🙂
You and me both.
What? To be afraid to fly on airplanes?
Mr. T. was huge on the “Stay in School” and “Don’t do drugs” campaigns. He went above and beyond what most celebrities do for a cause he truly believed in.
The man even donated 1/3 of of what he earned from the Rocky Movies and the A-Team to inter-city projects aimed at helping kids stay in school.
When I speak the man’s name I do it with Respect.
Edit: Rocky MOVIE (singular) He was only in Rocky III
Who can forget “Be Somebody … or Be Somebody’s Fool”? Or his rap about his loving mother?
Honestly, though, I could write an essay on Mr. T. I possibly have more respect for him than most other public figures. And my reason is this: he had the chutzpah to turn himself into a symbol that spoke to kids. By doing so, he made it so that most adults didn’t take him seriously, but he didn’t care. He understood that kids needed a hero, a virtuous strong guy to look up to, and he embodied that without even letting the odd wink slip through. As a child of the 80’s, I’m grateful to him for that.
Well said. I only saw him in Rocky III and A-team
I came across a copy of this in a used record store one time – I had to bring it home. Hopefully the link works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T%27s_Commandments
I would frame that and put it on my wall. With rap direction by Ice-T! Mr. T had some serious props.
@Justin
THAT is so COOL !
So, apparently Mr. T has only SEVEN COMMANDMENTS ?
I’ll ask TRACEEE this weekend what THREE she’d like to do without.
( IF Sigmund lets me in the door. He NAILED the Cat-Door shut last month. “Sigmund” – Grrrrrrrr. )
Mr T is the most dignified and wholesome character “Hollywood” ever invented.
Wait – Scratch that. Mr T was invented by no one.
He is simply and wonderfully just himself !
And that is enough.
I saw an interview with Stephen J. Connell once about the casting call with the A-team, and after seeing Mr. T and talking to him for a bit, he just said, “That’s perfect. He’s perfect. He is the complete package. Change nothing.” And they didn’t.
There are far worse people to have as spirit guides. In fact, I should probably have put that in terms of trying to think of people who could be *better* spirit guides.
That’s how I feel too.
The Holy Spirit comes to mind 😛
That’s not a valid option for me, I think. You know my work! You think the Holy Spirit wants anything to do with me? I think not.
You mean because you cartoon about fairies and monstrous jackal-girls you are beyond redemption? JRR Tolkien wrote about elves, trolls, orcs, and demons, and he was a good Catholic, subtle enough to convert CS Lewis. if he is not in heaven, I’m sure I for one don’t know who is.
I was thinking more about the prominent role of Satan in my work, but…
Hey, look at St. Paul. He had a lot to say about Satan and he did a lot worse things than draw him
Well, if you ask me (and organized religion doesn’t), I wouldn’t be letting Paul into heaven, what with a bunch of his views. But that’s me.
You poor things !!
When my time comes, I’m ascending straight into the HEAVISIDE LAYER.
And one of these times they WON’T take one look at my record, grab me by my tail, swing me about, and toss me back like a rotted mackerel.
( Hmnnn – chewing my tail off (like I did – in error – recently) – may actually benefit me next time. 😛 )
Heh, a lot of my Christian women friends are down on St. Paul for some of his views. They are distasteful to me, too, but he was a man of his time.
Actually, Susan, you should look at what he said in a slightly different light. In a time where women weren’t allowed in the Synagogue to worship with the men, Paul comments about them being in the back of the room was shockingly progressive.
A major point of Eschatology that most people miss is that much of what is written has to be read in context with the time it was written in. This is one of the reasons History is such an important subject.
(getting off of my soapbox now)
I still don’t like Paul. It’s more the tone of everything that came out of the man. Christ was the kind of guy you definitely wanted to start a religion around. But Paul was like an accountant or a rules-obsessed middle manager who, in the long run, had arguably a larger role in establishing the structure and form of emergent Christianity than Christ did. I don’t like the guy.
But really, I guess the agnostic in the room doesn’t really get an opinion.
@DLKmusic
An Ancient Concept, followed by nearly every Religion, is that AFTER DEATH there is JUDGEMENT.
Egyptians, Scandinavians, Christians, and many more adhere to this.
Did you leave the Earth a BETTER Place, or WORSE ?
Some, such as Stalin, might have a great deal to answer for.
Others, such as St Paul, were not perfect men, but his good certainly outweighed the bad.
I’ve been a good cat (LOL), perhaps at the conclusion of my Ninth Live, Heaviside will be my home.
Or Not.
EGYPTIAN RECKONING DAY
Good points, DLK. Salem, you are hopeless
@Susan
Susan has granted me the Powers of Humpty Dumpty.
Therefore, hopeless = awesome & kewl.
HEAVISIDE – I’m on my way !!!
(slowly – hopefully)
The Trinity does not exist – many who believe in Jesus to the very depths of their being, will tell you, sincerely, the Trinity is an odious myth.
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
This is the true story of Michael Servetus, medieval scholar, convicted heretic, burned alive at the stake by CALVIN ! A supposedly tolerant Protestant.
It’s NOT a religious book. It’s not going to attempt to convert.
It IS about ancient BOOKS, ancient LIBRARIES.
It’s fascinating, and I’m going to read it again – soon.
If I’ve not convinced you this is a good read, consider THIS:
His book, The Chrisitianismi Restituto, was destroyed relentlessly. So much so, only THREE COPIES REMAIN.
The rest were set in a pile, chained to his legs, and set afire as he was burned alive at the stake.
This just in: Half the population of Canada lives south of the line of the Washington-Oregon border. http://metrocosm.com/canada-population-map/
Not that I blame them 😛
Not news to me. I live at about the same latitude as Northern California. So … yeah.
Fortunately, (or unfortunately, depending on your whether preference), Southern Canada doesn’t deal with the hellish heat, droughts and potential hurricanes that the Southern part of it’s Southern neighbor. You get all the seasons that those of us living on the southern border of the Great Lakes get. 🙂
Hellish heat, yes. Droughts … sometimes. Hurricanes, definitely not. But I live close to Canada’s version of Tornado Alley, so yeah, really not much fun. Weather in my part of Southern Ontario is pretty much identical to the weather in NYC: sweltering hot and super sticky humid in the summer, cold and nasty in the winter. The weather is relatively pleasant for precious few months of the year.
That’s what I meant; like where I live, you get the gamut of seasons. 🙂
@Susan
Latitude of Rome, Italy 42
Latitude of Rome, NY 43
Curiously, the climate is just a tad different 😛
Here’s the really amusing part of that; they’re only 70 miles north/south of each other.
@Hitokiri Akins
Just goes to prove that Latitudes that have equivalent Sunshine are not required, by law, to have equivalent climates.
@Salem: can you say “Gulf Stream?” It’s why Britain is habitable. Climate is a difficult science.
@Susan
Grrrrrrrrrr
“GULF STREAM”
That thing is totally on “MY LIST”.
So very appropriate, Colin is a fool and in desperate need of pity.
See? It all makes perfect sense.
I just realized. Colin is going to talk with Mr. T about losing a T.
ROFL. That was an awesome comment. You win the “best comment of all time” award! 😀
Mr. T as Colin’s spirit guide? Hilarity is guaranteed to ensue 🙂
Not sure I can deliver on the hilarity. More likely I can deliver on the mild amusement.