Alright, walls of text return finally, sorry for the wait. Me am tired now, running out of words an grammer. Bed now. Sleep.
hurrrr,
WR
PS: Just a reminder (to add to my constant wheedling) that posters are now for sale. And just a word of thanks to those who’ve bought one or have even just taken a look (you too, mom).
July 20, 2010 at 6:07 am
I like the signs in the third panel…I was singing that song to myself as soon as I saw the title of the comic.
July 20, 2010 at 6:28 am
Just bought your Weird print man. Good luck with the fury in your pants.
July 20, 2010 at 6:46 am
That was great.
July 20, 2010 at 6:49 am
WTB Beware of Sphynx sign.
Also, one of sign guy’s speech bubbles in the fifth panel isn’t yellow.
July 20, 2010 at 7:00 am
Is that Ron Jeremy in a wig?
July 20, 2010 at 7:06 am
This was just too brilliant!
July 20, 2010 at 7:12 am
S Club 7? I love those guys! I just want to know what’s on the other side of the sign…
July 20, 2010 at 8:15 am
We’re going to need to see more of mad masturbation man in the future ;P
July 20, 2010 at 9:59 am
Yep, Wanker o’ Beanflick seems like he has a lot to tell. Great stories Winston, lovely spread of chuckles.
And special praise to the ‘employee only’ sign at the back thar.
July 20, 2010 at 10:48 am
I think the sign will definitely get the mushroom vendor more customers, though not ones he’s prepared to sell to.
July 20, 2010 at 10:54 am
No fungus controls my pants! Great comic!
July 20, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Eh, didn’t work for me. As my grandaddy used to say, that joke was a long, long walk for a short drink of water. If you’d come up with a way for the bizarre denoument to be set up by steps that made sense instead of each step being so heavily contrived this could have been gold.
July 20, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The big reveal of the final sign brought me great big chuckles. Thanks, man.
July 20, 2010 at 4:01 pm
DenouEments aside, my Granddaddy always used to say “You can lead a gift horse to water, but mix your metaphors and you’ve never met a proper horse.”
He literally died though. Laughing. Literately.
July 20, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I thought the signs in panel three were a nice touch.
July 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I’ve been to “The Government.” The seating does indeed suck.
July 20, 2010 at 6:41 pm
the fury! the fury!
July 20, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Funny and a whole gang of new characters! Awesome! Laughed at the beans poet.
July 20, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Amazing and creative as always. Also, i concur with some of the other posters, we will need to see more from the anarchistic bean man.
July 20, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I live near the “Dick Putz Memorial Baseball Field” so no sign has the ability to surprise me anymore.
That was damn funny, though.
July 20, 2010 at 10:41 pm
What’s the French sign in panel 1? “To Rent Rent/ Oh baby, I have to go”??
July 21, 2010 at 12:28 am
Love it.
I don’t get why The Guvernment and the Koolhaus have two names. Also digging the Five Man Electrical Band signage.
July 21, 2010 at 12:46 am
@Nico –
When your business is just a brand slapped on a building, it can pay to have a lesser known secondary brand (the second name) for people ‘in the know’ to know about and be, well, you know.
I’ve been cooking a lot of dishes with beans lately. You know, just sayin’.
(dont let me go crazy dont let me go crazy dont let me go crazy)
July 21, 2010 at 3:28 am
thank zeus you’re not above this.
July 21, 2010 at 3:29 am
oh… and: it’s ok not to attempt depth all the time! really! occasional frivolity does not betray anything that doesn’t deserve to be betrayed.
July 21, 2010 at 4:01 am
Big fan of the “Louie, Louie” joke.
July 21, 2010 at 4:38 am
I chuckled, and then I bought the Weird poster.
So I’d count that as two ways you’ve made my day better. Thanks man.
July 21, 2010 at 5:56 am
I hurt myself laughing.
July 21, 2010 at 6:40 am
Hey W.R., can you post those pictures you made for Cracked After Hours? The picture of the Cracked crew was awesome… as well as the Black hoverboard scientist & Biff.
July 21, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Cleo: Yeah, no problem. Find the Cracked artwork right here: http://www.viruscomix.com/afterhours.html
July 21, 2010 at 2:07 pm
stanley: I know, i’ve always just ended up leaning on the back wall by the fire exit or something.
Bill the Cat: It’s just a joke reference to the song “Louie, Louie” using “A Louer” and then the french lyrics to the song.
And here’s the song “Signs” for anyone wondering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Q7cP3ij5g
dave: Cheers, i appreciate the sentiment. My creative process needs a big sign that says exactly that i reckon.
July 21, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Kinda funny/pleasant, but as Gary says too labored a setup to really click. (for me.)
July 21, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Simply awesome! I havn’t laughed that good all day! I love how the crazy guy was wearing an “S Club 7″ t-shirt. Truely mad, that one is. One of my favorites so far…
July 21, 2010 at 11:09 pm
July 22, 2010 at 12:02 am
I just saw your name on a Cracked Video about back to the future.
You’re someone’s brain.
Awesome.
July 22, 2010 at 9:06 am
Opportunity missed, sign people:
CONTROL
THE GOVERNMENT
AND THE FURY IN MY PANTS
MUSHROOMS
July 22, 2010 at 3:40 pm
ON STRIKE!
Just kidding, who’d care ? Seed-Adam ?
Beside of that, we do have some loose ends here, some of which could end up in a brain implosion..
Still Xploring the map.. window still open..
Dick or Duck?
THAT’s the question!
July 22
July 22, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I saw the sign.
It opened up my eyes!
July 22, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Benvenuto, I don’t think the opportunity was missed: if you repeat the words forever, eventually they run into your version.
If anything,I think Winston’s version saw your version coming, fungi that he is…
July 24, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Thank you for continuing the comic, there is no other media that achieves what games and movies fail to do, at least I haven’d found any as successfull as Subnormality.
July 25, 2010 at 3:50 am
“Give the bourgeois enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves.”
Your comics are fucking genius.
July 26, 2010 at 2:19 pm
This hasn’t been mentioned, probably because it’s so obvious I’m wasting everyone’s time by mentioning it here, but is Solomon’s Signs a reference to King Solomon?
July 26, 2010 at 5:55 pm
is Solomon’s Signs a reference to King Solomon?
I would say definitely yes, based on panel 11.
July 27, 2010 at 2:37 am
S club 7!!!!
July 27, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Yay, thanks for the Fatboy Slim reference
It was a great little sign
July 31, 2010 at 9:42 am
A friend linked me to your comic, so I wrote a post on it.
July 31, 2010 at 10:56 am
bbot, I know you’re new here, but the too-many-words thing has been done and done again in these very comments, making the same exact points your tl;dr post made. The comic’s slogan is comix with too many words; so if it helps, think of them as stories with pictures instead of pictures with stories, but seriously, get over it.
August 1, 2010 at 12:21 am
bbot, you’re missing the point…
It’s not that Subnormality should tell better jokes with fewer words. It’s that the words are part of the fun of reading. Some comics have punchlines. Subnormality has a flatline of goodness. There’s no ups and downs of silence and jokes. There’s a continuous stream of pleasure and fun.
You claim it’s a comic that sucks? It’s probably you who are expecting to find the usual conventions of an online comic and finding none. The usual hooks you’re used to to read a comic are missing. So you feel you can’t penetrate the thickness.
Well, try harder. Or don’t. But don’t say “it sucks”. Say “I am not the audience for this”.
Subnormality is part drawings, part writing. The text is not just there to tell a joke. It is the joke itself.
August 1, 2010 at 12:38 am
Totally with Richter. Though ‘flatline of goodness’ is crying out for a ‘plateau’ of wordsomeness.
In other news: My WEIRD poster arrived today, and I am torn between loving the flat hi-def shineglory of the print and celebrating the cute tubeness of the parcel.
But ‘plateau’ for sure. I think, but not ‘I am not the audience for this’ – I’ve bought a Weird poster for a friend I know will orbit on his own axis in hilarity as recipient. For the friends you wanna drag to the monitor and say “SEE? SEEE!!” – send’em.
August 1, 2010 at 12:56 am
And Bbot, to approach your sesquepidelian-leaning outlinking bubble:
“certain mediums” would require an audience who believed the person they were reading to be in touch with an afterlife; which may be reported in *certain media* perhaps.
“some ideas are just plain complicated, and have to be explained at length.”
No. Some ideas are good, and richly complex, overly deserving a banquet of repeats.
And I did read the rest, and well done for off-siting your twitchy nonsense, but “Winston obviously wants to be a political cartoonist”… really?
REAAAALLY
HGAHAHHA..
Ahem.
August 1, 2010 at 12:59 am
BTW, the sesquipedalian typo’s especially for your next blog.
Apologies all if I’ve lowered the tone.
August 1, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Haha, great comic and thanks for putting posters up. I wanna buy the poker one but I’ll have to settle for putting it on my to do list. I think one of my friends looks and quite acts like the sphinx, esp. after down on 16th st. so I def. love the sphinx. Keep up the sweet work.
August 3, 2010 at 5:55 am
Is that a sign saying “No fighting in the war room” in the second panel? I hope so. Nice nod to Dr. Strangelove!
August 3, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I wish the Bean Man was running the Guvernment.
October 17, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I finally did it! I’ve finally read all you Subnormality comics up to date and even your Abnormality comics! And LOL, what a way to finish. That sign was hilarious.
October 14, 2011 at 10:07 am
Ah! It all becomes clear! I thought all along that the reason I thought 2/3 of your strips were uninteresting or overblown tripe (but the remaining third I thoroughly enjoyed) was generally attributable to differences in personal politics, and I struggled to simplify the difference in terms that might better aid my understanding… but now I can render it down to one fundamental disparity in the nature of our exclusive constitutions; you think markers smell foul, while I love ‘em!
The universe is divided by the like or dislike of solvent scents! I have achieved ultimate enlightenment thanks to this remarkable revelation – I cannot thank you enough.