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Some of you already know The Perry Bible Fellowhsip, one of the funniest comic strips published today. I usually enjoy the comic, but this particular strip left me baffled:

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/75194/perrybible.jpg

Can someone please explain what's the joke here?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, sorry, here's the strip:

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/75194/perrybible.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The dog attacked (but probably not too severely) a kid whose mask resembled the dog's chewing toy, so the dog is now muzzled.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I feel stupid now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

that strip is great! he is so doggy.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that third kid Momus?

― C J (C J), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay, Tuomas, I didn't get it initially either.

― Ian Riese-Moraine forever! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This strip is so sad! I find it genuinely upsetting.

(but then, I think that about a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship stuff.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I often feel guilty for laughing at them -- like the one with the kid who wishes his grandfather would live one more day and Gramps wakes up in the grave. Actually, I think that cartoon came out the same week my grandfather died.

― Ian Riese-Moraine forever! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

some of these are very, very funny.

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/75671/perrybible.jpg

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=5129

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant
http://www.citypaper.com/sb/47796/perrybible-1.jpg

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF025BCDinosaurMeteors.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

And this old classic:

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF058BCSpacePrank.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love these.

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/70930/perrybible.jpg
http://www.citypaper.com/sb/67441/perrybible.jpg
http://www.citypaper.com/sb/51130/perrybible-1.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine forever! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The coloring on that first strip is great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/47802/perrybible-1.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont get this one:

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF034BCBearPolice.jpg

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that third kid Momus?

-- C J (CJ_The_Unrul...) (webmail), June 5th, 2005 9:41 AM. (C J) (later) (link)
I AM MOMUSFOR HALLOWEEN

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity2411.gif

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF006BCBallerinaSlippers.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the one that makes me saddest is the one where the guy goes "i'd sell my soul for a puppy."

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/51138/perrybible-7.jpg

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

pbf has got to be the best comic strip since life in hell. have you all seen Nicholas Gurewitch page: http://www.cheston.com/pbf/
he's got some nice little films on there.

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I effing LOVE this guys comics. They are so whimsical, funny, weird and sometimes sad. Also, the guy who creates them (aforementioned Nicholas Gurewitch) is really really cute.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Also hahahaha JerkCity! I heart you Jon.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF007ADHappyBrothers.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite:

ihttp://cheston.com/pbf/PBF026ADTheyAreBack.html

(they're all fantastic really)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DOh.

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF026ADTheAreBack.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

jeez
http://www.citypaper.com/sb/52283/perrybible-1.jpg

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/52283/perrybible-1.jpg

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha this rules.

I sent the artist an email. Basically, "wow you worked for my friend, at this place I also worked, and your strip rules" and he wrote back, "yeah cool"

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 6 June 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get the bear police strip either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

me either

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I always wanted to drop him an email too but I'd only come off as some dribbling fangirl, so I havent :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

people don't like having dribbling fangirls?

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 6 June 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for not getting the bear one. Some wise fellow help?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I always assumed that the cop behaves just like the stereotypical American cop, eating donuts and coffee, but when it comes to apprehending criminals he doesn't have anything more subtle than hacking kids to death with his claws as a policing tool. It's the casual attitude of him in the final panel, in contrast to his brutality in the previous one, that's supposed to be the joke, I thinnk, because he doesn't know anything different than killing things. What with being a bear and everything.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The closest I can get to the bear one:

1) he brutally mauls two kids (notice the blood squirt)
2) yet he enjoys the company of a little bird and a cup of tea

Study in contrasts?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought it was a take-off on the 'friendly public serve animal mascot' like Smokey the Bear or McGruff the Crime Dog.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't understand this one:

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF077BCDealwiththeDevil.jpg

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude sees a dead bird and sweetly wishes it was alive, but when the devil pops up to grant him one wish, he of course wishes for a 20 ft cock instead.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I completely adore this comic strip.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I really like these. The first one in the thread, especially.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, the bear again.
It's the casual attitude of him in the final panel, in contrast to his brutality in the previous one, that's supposed to be the joke, I thinnk, because he doesn't know anything different than killing things.
This sounds just about right, but what the hell is the bird doing there?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, some of these are fucking brutal.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The bird is a juxtaposition of inappropriate Disney cuteness, setting off the sheer mentalism of anthropomorphism.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I find this one...

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF006BCBallerinaSlippers.jpg

...totally upsetting.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too! I cant decide wether the girl was hurt by the gift of dancing shoes, or she didnt mind, and the boy didnt understand, but is being dragged away as punishment, which is just horrible! The guy is a whimsy-machine genuis.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no you guys, the cop's chasing after the bird the whole time! he swipes at IT, that he mauls one of the kids is incidental..

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So why did he snatch the other kid's hoodie?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Then why isn't he still chasing it in panel 4? Time for a donut break 'cause he's a cop?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The bird is rather clearly his PARTNER.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i like the partner theory. it still doesn't explain why the bear is looking at the bird the whole time though.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Trayce, you can dribble for me if you want! (JPEGS, GIFS, PNGS, MOVS, ETC)

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Ants Dance" makes me a bit ill.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The bear isn't looking at the bird!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the bear is looking at the bird because he is making a wisecrack to the bird

― dj, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

who is his partner in horrific anarchic copness fighting the anarchic cop fight against kids who spray anarchist signs (maybe cos theyre not the real deal!)

― dj, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this one:

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF030BCGopherTrouble.jpg

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"gopher trouble"

ha ha

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this one:

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/74402/perrybible.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/75959/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/74772/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i also like this one, even though it isn't really ha-ha funny:

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/65877/perrybible.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Best strip of this century. Edward Gorey finally has a conceptual heir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/72347/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/69997/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/68367/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/64875/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

this one is def. gorey-esque:

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/62469/perrybible.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/61398/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/56199/perrybible.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/51136/perrybible-5.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/47795/perrybible-1.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i also like this one, even though it isn't really ha-ha funny

Tad, that farmer one is terribly sad!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ack, I meant to make that a longer post but my desk phone rang.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Tad, that farmer one is terribly sad!

i agree -- that's why i chose it.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF058ADDollChange.jpg

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The hell you say.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA! Wild.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/images/pearls2005071744002.gif

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i read the bear thing as a combo of aldo, sean and jordan's interpretatins.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF027BCAngelsCaught.jpg
http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF013ADAdmiralSchlork.jpg

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i didnt really get the "happy brothers"...is there anything to get, as it were?

this comic is everything i want from comic strips. the drawing is at times so beautiful, like on this one:

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF054BCButterflies.jpg

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

At the very least, it turns the idea of how you should react to your father's death upside-down. There is the possibility that they have murdered the father as well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I always assumed they killed the father.

These are all pretty great.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally wanna have this guys children, he is WONDERFUL, I've probably said that about 3 times already on this thread haven't I?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What I particularly love about his style is how varied it is - he hasnt got "a style", he seems expertly able to adjust the kind of artwork he does to suit the theme of each strip. Some of the strips are in an almost classic DC style artwork, some are wimsical and childlike, some very detailled and well-coloured.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought nothing could beat the spoof Spiderman comics, but some of these are GENIOUS!
That valentine one is now my favourite

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

and I cannot spell genius ever

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Flash fact: the blowjob gopher is the icon of one of the Live Journal techsupport people. I knew I'd seen it before.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

truly the mark of genius.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never heard of this before today, but these are horrible and very, very funny. Thanks for the original post Tuomas!

― Bill A (Bill A), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This is also the first time I have ever seen this, and it has totally made my post-long-weekend day worthwhile! (Not to get all "happy fantasy world" about shit)

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/77901/comics_PBF_26.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG. Every time I think I can't love this guy more, he does another comic strip.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the last one DB linked is pure genius.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

XXX Pogs

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god, this stuff is joyous. the grandpa/grave one made me laugh so hard i thought i'd drop my laptop. utter, utter genius.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this man.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm enjoying this one at the moment:

http://www.bleakexist.co.uk/pics/PBF039BCSpaceLove.jpg

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm enjoying all of them.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Two new PBF strips, oh my.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that one Nine Inch Nails song about PBF, the one where he goes "WEE-A-BOO! TEH HAGN! THA FEEJOO! WEE-A-BOO! DANG ONG! YA NEEZ!"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 July 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

haha OMG

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"R0cky The Dog"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF011BCNotTodayLittleOne.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF021BCDisgustingTed.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah that not today one is very twisted ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/96961/perrybible.jpg

I don't get last week's strip, someone please explain!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

seconded

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Wacky/insane old guy who thinks he is a train engineer and has outfitted his van accordingly, featuring his dear little dolls as passengers having tea, decides to merrily end it all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I figured as much, but I don't really see the joke. Is it that the first panel makes us think he's a real train driver, and then the second and third one reveal the truth? If so, it's a pretty weak gag.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/97171/perrybible.jpg

The latest strip implies Gurewitch's well of humour is beginning to run dry.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

The new one (Woolves) is great.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Isn't referring to a plunge through the guardrail to certain death as a "shortcut" the joke?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/94914/perrybible.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

TRAINS CAN'T TAKE SHORTCUTS

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

The slyest thing in the train comic is, upon reflection, the way the panels are framed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Hahah that black and white one is brilliant. Its kind of weird how Ned described him as Goreyesque - maybe he gets that a bit and was being cheeky about it?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone get this one?

ihttp://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/archive.html

(how do you locate the citypaper.com archives? Ive had to use the PBF temp server link which might not work)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

oops wrong link:

ihttp://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF095ADPrankDragon.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

His jokes really aren't nearly as good as they used to be, but his draughtsmanship remains absolutely impeccable. I hope he finds his funny muse again soon.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Trayce - the cheeky villagers put the sleeping dragon's hand in water, and the valley floods with dragon piss.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

OH! Now it totally makes sense. I thought they were shoving the whole dragon in a pot! *dur*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I think it may also be a reference to the Yellow River.

― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Some of the earlier ones are wonderfully bizarre, such as this:

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF047BCDeerLazerEye.html

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, I essentially meant what Ned and Tuomas had said above, and that the contrast between the child-like imagery and the dark subject matter is what constitutes the joke, but pbf does that so often it's kind of assumed, so this one seemed jokeless to Tuomas initially. I re-scanned it myself to see if I was missing something, but I think he just cranked this one out to meet a deadline, or something.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I kind of adore the monkey-banana one.

― Dan (MORE META) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/101379/perrybible.jpg

Man, I'd like to get that second pic as a poster on my wall.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

The latest one is pretty great too!

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF194-Bip.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

The joke itself might not be that good, but the way "Bip" looks...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK, something else entirely, but I don't get the final panel, I think. Or maybe there isn't supposed to be something funny at the end?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/FLCJesusFreak/churchbot.gif

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Average church-goer blissfully unaware of what Religion is doing to the world?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

oh Sinfest

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah seems pretty patronizing to me

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

made me laugh

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

The last panel is what befuddles me. How does it relate to Churchbot?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

you might be stupid :/

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I know that.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Is it what li'l smiley man is reading in his holy book?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF196-Cover_Blown.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

The church changed after smiley visited it (first and third panel), so it can't be in the book, can it?

It also made me laugh (righteous! "hey! stop that! gross!"), but the main haha is still missing. Or just not there.

(xpost)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Actually, could someone explain this comic to me?

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10220000/10221915.jpg

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

GAH MINE EYES! DAN RUINED MY LIFE!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

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The churchbot comic looks a little like PBF actually, except you know, not funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Bip The Orangutang upthread made me laugh for 10 minutes straight.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Glen Baxter to thread!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

'cover blown' isnt that funny but the art is good.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 October 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF200-Les_Douleurs_de_la_Mort.jpg

I don't get this one either... It's titled "Les Douleurs de la Mort", what's "douleurs"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

the pains of death

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, but I still don't get it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Death took the woman's pram with the intention of killing the baby by pushing it down the hill, but the baby survived (and is happy maybe?) so Death suffers a terrible sense of ennui/worthlessness.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

that is awesome.

baby pwns death.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

someone, please explain this comic to me. I WANT TO LAUGH SO BAD, but i cannot see the way. help guide me there. help me... TO LAUGH.

― ath (ath), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really understand that one either. Lovely art though

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I don't think that it's a particularly good one. Like the toy train one above, the joke is a bit too obvious for PBF. I guess it's the execution that's supposed to make it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think the baby is clapping after the fun ride downhill, so Death's plans are not just thwarted but actively subverted. Makes it about 5% funnier.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for pointing that out, I like it now!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also "Les Douleurs De La Mort" as a sitcom about Death fucking up all the time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i used to not find the comic strip very funny, maybe somewhere between 3-5% funny, which is to say not very funny at all, but then someone explained to me the reasons why the comic strip was in fact funny, and it was then that my perceived humor levels regarding this particular comic strip rose to approximately 40-45%, which is actually quite funny! i came close to laughing soon after this revelation, but alas, did not.

― ath (ath), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's also kind of an Edward Gorey parody strip, ya?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I love PBF but this week's strip ("Post Apocalyptic") continues the great art/not-quite-hilarious direction.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF59011BC-Not_Today_Little_One.jpg

???

― Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― the table is the table, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF220-Passed_On.jpg
Titter mag lol

― mizzell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't get this one...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF223-Box_of_Hate.jpg

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

this one I don't know if I didn't "get" so much as there was barely even a twist or joke to understand about it:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF231-Baby.jpg#214

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

lolol at "Psychoanalyst"

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I want an explanation for the bunny/cloud one!!

― Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

that one's good but i kinda feel like it's too similiar to "No Survivors" (xpost)

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

THE BUNNY WANTS TO PERFORM CUNNILINGUS AND CUNNINGLY ENCRYPTS HIS DESIRE INTO MUSINGS ABOUT CLOUDS

WHAT IS THERE TO UNDERSTAND

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand not understanding that one!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Will, I think the gag is that the dad doesn't appreciate the idea of a "Things I Hate" box, and ironically gives the kid a bare-bottomed what-for.

xxpost why would a bunny want to, and why would the girl turn the offer down??

― Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that's the best explanation. I still feel like it's missing something.

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

why would a bunny want to, and why would the girl turn the offer down??

1) because he cares about her pleasure
2) because it's an inopportune time of the month

― kenan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

ok srsly you've never heard couple banter before?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

or she already got mad laid and is incapable of multiple O's, so she can't handle people touching her for at least the next 35 mins

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere otm, it is basically gross couple banter, only with a bunny which makes it funny (if it were just a dude it wouldn't be a PBF comic)

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

or she already got mad laid and is incapable of multiple O's, so she can't handle people touching her for at least the next 35 mins

O I get it now lololol

hi dere otm, it is basically gross couple banter, only with a bunny which makes it funny (if it were just a dude it wouldn't be a PBF comic)

Wait what.

― Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i think the point is to take an easily legible cartoon kidsy relationship, a girl and her talking bunny, and imply this whole adult-realness backstory where the bunny really just wanted to get in her pants all along, and used that afternoon watching clouds to make his move. and she shoots him down, but gives him a hug. sad!

xp oh i hadn't considered that they were already doin it

― gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

that is so gross

― gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

OH GUYS! BECAUSE BUNNIES LOVE DOING IT RIGHT? SO CLEARLY HE IS MORE HORNY THAN THE HUMAN-LIBIDO'D HUMAN

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

gff is right, everyone eles is thinking too hard.
xpost

― mizzell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

let us now all enjoy what has become a thoroughly over-explained joke:

ha.

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

clearly that comic works on too many levels, whereas the one i posted works on too few (read: none)

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

seriously leee I wish you'd never asked because now I basically think that comic is fucking terrible and stupid since you made like a milliong difft ppl explain it to you

it was totally a pretty good comic not three minutes ago, for me

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

it still is good. come back to it in 15 mins.

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Will, your comic is total straight-ahead irony/schadenfreude.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

there isn't a pbf i don't like

― gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

WAIT I THINK WE SHOULD ALL DRAW DIAGRAMS UNTIL WE FIND THE FUNNY

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

seriously leee I wish you'd never asked because now I basically think that comic is fucking terrible and stupid since you made like a milliong difft ppl explain it to you

I don't get this can someone pls explain?

― Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

ban leee

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

let us now all enjoy what has become a thoroughly over-explained joke:

ha.

It's like the tenth one this week, and it's only Tuesday.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

ILX - Reach for the stars!

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jkp.com/media/2006/9781843104810/62-400.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

The thing with the spanking comic is the inverted punchline schtick; it's not the content but the structure, kind of like this softer world piece:

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/kitchen.jpg

The humor of the PBF strip, if you think there is any, lies in the gap between the third and fourth panels. You have to imagine the slow burn of the adult as he gradually gets the audacity and impudence of the child's gesture, and then he loses it altogether. The irony of the kid getting spanked for not liking spankings is secondary and tacked-on.

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

okay crazypants

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone ever bring up Softer World in the worst comic thread? That comic consistently makes me sneer. To the point where if people in real life are like "Do you read A Softer World?" I have to keep myself from repeating it back to them in a high-pitched retard voice.

― Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ do this more

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost i do not know from this softer world

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know from A Softer World either, I just endorse parroting things back at people in nasty singsong voices.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked at some of them. mad suck.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

hey, here's a question, when exactly did the rest of finland show up on this thread?

― ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

PERHAPS I SHOULD ASK TEH INTERNET TO EXPLAIN TO ME THE FUNNY IN THEM.

xpost: hahahaha

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

^@^ = ^_^

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

here's an example of the softer world or whatever:

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/the_graduate.jpg

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR "EXPLANATION". I GET IT, IT SUCKS.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

the crapness of that strip, if you believe it to be crap, lies between the first and third panels

― ^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

emo comix

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think the crapness is encapsulated by the grammatical nightmare that is "I heard my wife pretending to cry on the phone," so ^@^ otm.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

pbf is great

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

this is true

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hey now, I'm just sayin' the retroactive or deferred zing setup in which the zinger kinda distances himself a little from the actual delivery of the zing is a not uncommon comedic device, with the payoff usually being the delayed reaction of the zingee as he puts it all together. I thought that was the other layer that Will said was missing, so I said so, and supplied what I thought was a corraborating example.

The fact that I maybe write like a douche when I attempt exposition or that softer world sucks has nothing to do with this.

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

<high pitched retard voice>I don't understand not understanding that one!</high pitched retard voice>

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

bbcode doesn't actually work anymore ;_;

― John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, that was uncalled for and not funny either.

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

What's up with TPBF, there hasn't been a new strip on the official site for like a month or more?

― Tuomas, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

it's in semi-retirement:

The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2.

― StanM, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, I was wondering about that. A shame.

― Nhex, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Well it's been going downhill for a while. A rest will do him good.

― chap, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

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