Ah, finally. The Wall of Text returns. Plus that monster as well. Nice to be back, nice to be back.
pleonastically yours,
WR
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Ah, finally. The Wall of Text returns. Plus that monster as well. Nice to be back, nice to be back.
pleonastically yours,
WR
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October 19, 2009 at 2:54 am
Welcome back, Winston.
Once more the Sphynx waxes philosophical about the human condition. I wonder what she’d have to say about your graphic essay, “The Line”?
October 19, 2009 at 3:10 am
Thank you for wrapping up your depressing assessment of the human condition in such an amusing way; I don’t think I could swallow it otherwise. The Sphynx’s expression at the end was hilarious.
How does the Sphynx ride the bus, anyway? Like a skateboard?
October 19, 2009 at 3:24 am
Glad to see you survived. But I have to ask is the similarity between The Sphynx and Paget Brewster (Huff, Criminal Minds) just my own tv addled mind?
October 19, 2009 at 3:45 am
It’s about damn time. I was waiting all day! It’s been the 18th for 23 hours you know.
Just kidding, glad to see you back. I hope you had a good vacation!
I love that last panel. I want to make sweet, sweet chocolate-covered lesbian love with it.
October 19, 2009 at 5:23 am
The Sphinx rocks too hard. Ah, silly human monkeys…
October 19, 2009 at 5:46 am
Actually most wars are a lot of standing in line too.
Sphinxie!!!! Squeeeeeeeeeee!
October 19, 2009 at 7:04 am
Is it wrong of me to wish for Sphynx to find happiness?
(Not so much the annoying bluehaired git.)
October 19, 2009 at 8:42 am
Ahh, it’s been too long. Of course, the wait is always well worth the end product.
As per usual, the Sphynx delivers some interesting social commentary, all wrapped up into one amusing bundle. Nicely played.
Oh, and am I the only one so far who almost choked on their coffee at the second-last panel? Bloody hilarious, yet slightly disturbing at the same time. Ahh, the mark of a tru genius =P
October 19, 2009 at 9:40 am
I’m thinking the Sphynx just needs to get laid.
October 19, 2009 at 9:42 am
yeah, you’re right about going over and over our mistakes.
October 19, 2009 at 9:44 am
Great comic as usual. I love your strips.
October 19, 2009 at 10:24 am
I love you Alice B Sheldon. 🙂
October 19, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Cinema Six vs. Cinema Sex. Brilliant.
October 19, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Heh, it’s interesting to hear what the history of humanity look like from the perspective of one who has seen a lot of it and is higher in the food chain.
I wonder what it would look like to someone who has lived as long but is below humanity in the food chain… Probably even worse.
Bluey has some good points though. Perhaps we are too comfortable to rise above our pre-judging and prejudices. A rather sad thought that, considering how many died to get to this point. It’s like we’re squandering a hard-earned legacy.
Luckily things aren’t all darkness and gloom. There are a lot of people who do good and progressive stuff, they just don’t get a lot of attention. 🙂
October 19, 2009 at 2:40 pm
“Featuring a Sphynx”
Does this mean there are more than one?
October 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“Lucy in your mom with strap-ons”
Just hilarious.
October 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Hey great to see the Sphynx again. Somehow my opinions always overlap with hers.
Also for some weird reason I find her paws adorable.
October 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Nic Cage in the Hobbit is probably the worst case scenario I can imagine. Unless of course you got Segal to play Gollum, then…sorry, paused for a quick vomit there.
Nice gratuitious use of the word “cunt” there.
October 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm
phew, glad you made it mate!
i love the sphynx! can i make a shirt of her? i’ll put the link to virus comix at the back… also, its almost halloween
her paws are adorable!
October 19, 2009 at 8:28 pm
It’s good to have you back, although I don’t think of humanity as a bird flying into glass, more of a pendulum flying back and forth repetedly. Hopefully one day, the pendulum will just keep moving forward.
Also, why do Canadian writers always seem to be so depressed. You haven’t been in a war since the 1940’s, your money and reserves are stronger than ever, you can impeach your president even when he has a 47% approval rating, you have free health care, and wont get a life sentence for your third bust with marijuana. The only problem I can think with being a Canadian is the constant stream of shitty bands and artists that seem to come out of it.
What’s up with it anyway, you’ve produced Daniel Powter, Avril Livigne, Sum 41, and Nickelback in this decade alone. For a country that’s produced The Band, Arcade Fire, Rush, and Neil Young, I can’t understand how that happened.
October 19, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Great comic! Just like a feast after a long fast.
@George: I always get offended when people don’t include K-os as a great Canadian artist. I just can’t seem to understand their aversion …
October 19, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I love the forth frame
October 19, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I can’t stand people like that blue-haired guy. I’m all for freedom of expression, but when people wear t-shirts that are deliberately intended to shock and/or offend (as in his case), then act surprised when people react… grr!
October 19, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I was just contemplating the Marie Celeste. I guess that’s settled.
October 20, 2009 at 12:42 am
Well George I live in Sweden myself, we haven’t had a good war in ages and still we have lots of depressed people.
As a depressed person myself I experience it as the futility of everything. What is the point with even living in peace at the moment and building a better future if we most likely is just gonna fuck things up later?
Who knows, maybe we will reach enlightenment some day? But hopefully that will be before we destroy our planet.
October 20, 2009 at 12:59 am
The comic isn’t displaying. I’ve tried with firefox and IE to view it, but to no avail. Could you please repost it?
October 20, 2009 at 2:39 am
Your worldview is so terminally bleak. The fact that we can express ourselves as individuals without being hanged is a pretty significant achievement to make in the 400 years since the Salem witch trials. It may be only a small fraction of us lowly humans who peek our dirty little heads out of that sucking well of conformity that threatens to silence our souls, but it’s a thousand times what it used to be, and it’s LEGAL now.
October 20, 2009 at 4:27 am
nondisbeliever- In what way exactly CAN a T-shirt shock and/or offend?
October 20, 2009 at 8:34 am
Welcome back Winston & Sphynx, hope the flu passed before your hols: gotta love the egocentricity of Greenjacket there, thinking the world’s murmuring about him when they’re just murmuring about the fact he’s not murmuring about more than his love of the Dead Kennedys Good job sir!
October 20, 2009 at 11:01 am
What’s that sound? Winston has just knocked one out of the park. This pretty much sums up everything I think about people. We need another couple of million years to turn into a decent species but we’re just too impatient to have the perks without the work.
October 20, 2009 at 3:12 pm
“We need another couple of million years to turn into a decent species but we’re just too impatient to have the perks without the work.”
Another “couple of million years” won’t change anything, besides, free will is just logically impossible.
October 20, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Another prime piece. Love the commentary, the environment, the humor, et al.
Like Abdul,
Love you Alice B. Shelton.
And I love that shirt for George Carlin. Great!
October 20, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I have not given up yet, but I cannot figure out the question with 1508 B.C. as an answer.
Anyone got a guess?
Ahmose, Hatshepsut, and Amunhotep I ruled during that period.
October 20, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Charlie – her year of birth.
October 20, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Haha, “These are the Daves I Blow”
Good god, never thought a porno parody of Kids in the Hall would make me laugh so much inside. I love other Canadians.
October 20, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Hooray for the KITH shout-out–even in pr0n form!
October 20, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I’m really glad you’re back, my good fellow.
Though I have to agree with John Harvard.
I have enough depressing thoughts in my head most days of the week… I like it when you make the funny.
I couldn’t find the funny 😦
And will you quit jerking around and give the Sphynx a love interest?
Honestly…
*returns to not drawing anything of artistic merit whatsoever*
October 20, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Ive been looking high and low for a religious themed comic about a world without religion, and there’s a guy daydreaming happy things, you wouldn’t happen to know anything about it would you? If you find it please email it. It talks about Rapture christians and there’s a rainbow …
October 21, 2009 at 12:18 am
Michael Ezra: I think the Sphynx has a lot to learn about people…
Buldwren: Yeah, she probably caves in the roof too.
Dusty668: Good point about wars. From what i’ve heard, what most people don’t understand is that the life of a soldier in a theater of war is primarily comprised of sitting around waiting (historically at least. I got this from a WWII documentary). The principal fight is against boredom.
Chris: There’s that ratty old one in Egypt too. Needs a nose job.
Melvazord: Worst-case scenario is right.
George: Yeah, maybe it’s the consistently horrifying music that’s got us so depressed. It’s more than that of course, but any answer i could give right now would be long and inaccurate. Let’s not give depression a bad name though. I like the concept of “depressive realism” myself (here’s an interesting article, a… Damn Interesting article:
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-total-perspective-vortex)
nondisbeliever: The shirt was only deliberately intended to pay tribute to george carlin.
John Harvard: Yeah, but I don’t live 400 years ago, I live NOW, and–[BAM! At this point Mr Rowntree was gorily punched in half by Perspective Man]
October 21, 2009 at 5:22 am
Bria,
hmmm… the only thing that comes close is Mr. Natural by R. Crumb.
Ohwatagoosiam
October 21, 2009 at 7:50 am
“Lucy in your mum with strap-ons”?
“Lucy in your mum with dildos” surely?
Enough of my nit-picking- It’s good to see you back. Keep on giving me reasons to turn on the PC when I get to work.
October 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Oh no, I missed her 3516th birthday! I hope she won’t eat me!
October 22, 2009 at 12:58 am
HAHAAahahjahjahajs loved the face of the Sphynx on the last pannel.
October 22, 2009 at 6:42 am
Wow
How selfcentered do you have to be to assume every murmur is about you and that they also are negative.
If you try to be DIFFERENT why are you reacting when people react too.
DIFFERENT!
Do you really think people aren’t going to notice some dude with blue hair and a shirt with curses on it, a very original feat indeed, and not be like “huh there’s some guy with blue hair and a fuck-shirt”
Why do you even try to be different if you don’t want to be noticed and/or judged, I am confuss
you want to express something with your hair/clothes and then you get annoyed when people notice ohgod we are going back in our evolution.
Why didn’t you have a cripple there to make the point istead of an pretty sphinx?
Some person with his or hers face melted or a really fat chick, why don’t you have fat chicks in this comic, that’s a thing I’ve been wondering about too.
Why don’t you have fat chicks in your comic, all the chicks I’ve seen is really attractive and fit yet you put fat guys in there, why is that?
Hope to hear from you soon.
October 22, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Maybe because he wanted to contrast the blue haired guy obviously TRYING to get noticed, while the Syphinx has no way to not be taken notice of.
Also, maybe fat women are hard to draw?
October 22, 2009 at 10:46 pm
your drawings and stories are awesome, love your writing and insights… aove all, I find your sphynx a wonderful and oblivious humans character…
October 22, 2009 at 11:53 pm
The Sphinx should introduce Pink to Blue. They would be a perfect match for each-other. Being diametrically opposed to each other on the issue of “standing out” they could thrash out their ideas on each-other and refine their opinions. Plus each is in the same age range and HOT! Come on WR don’t leave pink and blue marooned out there.
October 23, 2009 at 2:34 am
Anon: If you’re referring to Mongo, he’s not fat he’s big-boned.
Line Noise: Bonus points for use of the word “marooned.” I love that word, i keep meaning to use it more often.
October 23, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I love the Sphynx.
October 24, 2009 at 3:27 am
Anon,
I think you’re assuming Blue Haired Guy is supposed to be the sympathetic protagonist. I don’t get that from this one.
Also, using someone else would rob the strip of most of the punchline. The Sphynx is a giant monster that eats people. You can’t really substitute a normal person (for or otherwise) and do the same joke.
Any rate, good comic.
October 24, 2009 at 8:19 am
Winston! Having a creature like the Sphynx exist in our world is somewhat incongruous. Surely there would at some stage be an intervention via some semi-secret paramilitary agency, perhaps to capture and weaponise the poor darling. May we see a story one day with this premise?
October 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Now I can’t stop wondering what question “because you’re hairless and there’s too many of you” is the answer to…
October 24, 2009 at 4:54 pm
That ones easy Thomas. “Why do you eat us”
October 24, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I’d hazard a guess that Sphinxie weighs in at about a ton. That takes care of the male-female weight disparity.
(Really, I’m just rounding. She doesn’t look an ounce over 1800.)
October 25, 2009 at 10:22 am
So I just made the acquaintance of Subnormality today, and I’m in officially in awe. This is some hi-test comicking. The “Lou Reed revealed to be elaborate practical joke” gag is so funny I can’t stop laffing. Also, I may be in love with the Sphinx. So, does Pink-Haired Girl have a name, and will she ever be pink again? Just askin’.
October 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
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October 25, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I totally agree with Hocus Pocus!
October 26, 2009 at 1:24 am
I’m in love with the Sphynx. I’m a cynical bastard, and misery loves company!
Personally I love your comics that expose the depressing sides of life. I suppose it’s fitting you have a homage to the Seven Words here, because you’re very similar to George Carlin in attitude.
Keep up the great work, W.R. Maybe someday you’ll get a TV show based around your main characters =D
October 26, 2009 at 11:09 am
I enjoy the conjunction of the Colonial Marines patch with the cinema billboard n:o 3. Sadly though, this strip does suffer from the lack of pleasant characters – I’m too much of a wimp to like a character that kills people, so I’ve never been member of the Sphinx fanclub. <:(
October 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’ve never loved the Sphynx more than in the last panel.
October 26, 2009 at 6:41 pm
man, i can’t remember what i was going to say. not going to let that stop me though.
October 26, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Why don’t we ever see the sphinx REALLY eat people??? Can you draw disemboweled people correctly? She’s an awesome character who’s got lots of moxy, but I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing a little left-over blood on her cheeks from the last meal she had…Don’t “Disney” tha sphinx, dude!
November 12, 2009 at 3:04 am
Yes! Finally, someone else remembers Blink 182’s “Shit Piss Fuck” song, the only song of theirs I ever liked. Rock on, W.R.!
November 16, 2009 at 9:23 am
That last panel needs to be on a T-shirt. 🙂
February 7, 2010 at 5:22 am
I’d do her(it) anytime :3
February 8, 2010 at 11:30 pm
@Josh: I totally know it’s gross, but I totally agree. =D
June 11, 2010 at 5:27 am
“These are the Daves I blow”… I’m American and I got that. Yay!
June 24, 2010 at 7:57 am
simon, i think, even though you probably had a thought process to disprove this, that his entire idea of having the sphinx in our world is to see how something like that would behave when the culture evolves beyond it. sort of like if jesus were on the earth, 2000 years later… and ate people
August 3, 2010 at 10:26 am
I must keep my shiny little cog to myself.
December 20, 2010 at 8:38 am
I’m starting to cream my pants every time I see a punk reference. I fuckin love this webcomic.
April 22, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Is that a The Last Airbender reference I see in the top left panel? Thank God for you. Thank God.
September 12, 2011 at 2:41 pm
ah hah! another reference to an awesome band! god i miss DK.
November 13, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Panel 1: “The Hobbit” starring Nicholas Cage.
Oh God please no!
December 19, 2011 at 8:27 am
You should’ve had “Nicholas Cage in “Bee Rider 2- Oh god, not the bees”.