Yeah, I got your huge blocks of text right here motherfucker. I even used smaller lettering than usual to accommodate all that TEXT!! TEXT, MOTHERFUCKER!!! Ahem. Excuse me. The ol’ insanity, it does surface now and again. This is why is keep myself sealed in an iron cube underground, like that guy who killed superman. Except then superman came back to life because people don’t really ever die. Another lesson for the kids, thanks to superhero comics. Another tangential blog posting that has nothing to do with this week’s strip. My head’s in the clouds / but at least i’m trying.
Be excellent to each other,
Rowntree
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MY FELLOW CANADIANS:
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Votin’ for the Commies,
Rowntree
October 13, 2008 at 4:56 am
*sigh* Unfortunately I live in America and I can’t quite comment on your Canadian political stance, but, I can comment on the comic, and to be quite blunt, it was once again amazing!
The ending was actually quite surprising and so was the beginning, I could swear you were going to do some sort of anti-male dominated society bit with the who stereotyped role reversal where the girl always bends to the guy’s fetish/girls do not have fetishes, but then you completely blew me away with the whole detailed account of dude#4’s crazy fantasy.
Though, I do have one critique, I’m not sure if this is intentional or not, but you seem to be using a recurring design for your comics, you start out with some sort of odd setting, then go into something completely off the wall, then go for a surprise ending. I know that observation is quite vague and I’m not really saying it is negative because if you will refer to my first paragraph, I do think that the comic was brilliant, but I also worry what might happen if the comic falls into a sort of generalized rut. I know I might sound like some doomsday cultist standing on a street corner shouting about idiotic things, but many of my favorite comics seemed to fall into a sort of plot rut such as this and became very dull.
Again just my two cents, take em or leave em, either way I still think you’re a brilliant writer.
October 13, 2008 at 5:13 am
LOL ok ok the fish bowl and the controller from guitar hero…lol classic
October 13, 2008 at 5:23 am
Thank you for not making it a fantasy about furry mammals or random magical gender transformations, like about 20,000 other webcomics out there.
October 13, 2008 at 6:30 am
That is the greatest kinky-sex costume set I’ve ever seen. Complete with fish bowl, cardboard, and yes, a space man fucking a freaking space shuttle. Why wouldn’t more women dress up as inanimate objects and put nose cones over their heads?
October 13, 2008 at 6:49 am
i’m shocked by such astronomic perversion. :O
October 13, 2008 at 9:50 am
WHY
WHY WOULD ANYBODY THINK OF A FETISH LIKE THAT
Seriously, outer space Billy Corgan?
October 13, 2008 at 12:41 pm
You are quite mad sir.
and thanks for all those thousands and thousands of comments over on my blog. Really! THANK YOU! THEY MADE ME CRY AND LAUGH AND CHANGE MY RELIGION TO SARCASMOLOGY.
sorry.
It’s just I put a lot of love into those dancing ants.
anyway,
It’s not one of my favourites, but for once the huge block of text really works. Don’t ask me why. Just tie that ribbon round the old oak tree.
October 13, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Wow. Somehow you managed to come up with a fetish that has (as far as I know) yet to be seen. You made it seem wacky, somewhat (somehow) plausible and at the same time, in offensive. A lesser writer would have shot for something ungodly scatological or simply mixed a bunch of wacky/offensive fetishes together.
Kudos.
Politics: Funny, we in the US get so caught up in our own political gobbledegook that we forget that other countries even have governments let alone the same basic problems as we do.
October 13, 2008 at 4:55 pm
funny stuff
October 13, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Well, looks like I’m going as Outer Space Billy Corgan for Halloween. Well done, well done.
October 13, 2008 at 5:57 pm
EPIC sex fantasy.
October 13, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Fretsejaz: Definitely appreciate your comments about falling into ruts. I try to be aware of patterns I might be repeating, and what you mention is definitely something to keep in mind. Thanks for the kudos, anyway!
Tom: “for once the huge block of text really works”?! Ouch…!
arkonbey: Actually, I’d like to forget about our government too…
QD: I dunno, how can you top the Def Leppard drummer costume?
October 13, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I wonder how many hits this comic is going to get with “sex fantasy” as the title?
Do Internet perverts like reading huge blocks of text?
October 14, 2008 at 1:19 am
Really, the wings and vertical stabilizer make the entire thing work. It’s attention to detail like that which separates you from the common, garden-variety LUNATIC. Wow.
October 14, 2008 at 6:52 am
Space Billy Corrigan? I laughed but I think I am going to have nightmares tonight … oh well.
October 14, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I didn’t mean it in a bad way, though re-reading it I realise it sounds mean.
what I MEANT to say was, that whilst juge blocks of text are usually just huge blocks of text, this one was more than just that.
For me the guy’s whole drawn out art-house-movie style sex fantasy was more funny than the actual space shuttle scene (which is great nonetheless)
that’s all.
are we still fwiends? :-D
October 14, 2008 at 5:40 pm
“And yeah, I’ve definitely thought of making a Subnormality book. It’s on my “to do” list for the future, along with “eat dinner” and “do the dishes” and “steal the space shuttle” and “see if the space shuttle fits in the drive-thru at Burger King.”
Would you like an apple pie with that?
October 14, 2008 at 9:46 pm
LMAO @ Sex Fantasy That was great.
October 15, 2008 at 12:03 am
Tom: It’s okay, I was just yankin’ yer chain. Glad you thought the monologue was the highlight, as I do not always intend for the “punchline” of the strip to be the focus.
Mack: Yeah, gimme a veggie burger with cheese and mayo and a couple of appple pies. And go back in time and get me some of those sweet jalapeno poppers too. Fuck, i loved those things…
Trex: Cheers. Glad to add some LMAO to the world.
October 15, 2008 at 2:22 am
Oh my god its like you read my mind
October 15, 2008 at 1:32 pm
@ Kurt
Yes.
October 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm
THANK you for contributing to Rule 34!
October 15, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Yay.
you could still comment on my blog, though, you crazy fool.
just cos it doesn’t say Banana and Glass anymore, doesn’t mean the yogurt isn’t fresh.
is any of this getting through to you?
BWAAAAKAAAAAw
October 15, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Robert B said: ‘THANK you for contributing to Rule 34!’
together xkcd and subnormality will rule the world!
October 16, 2008 at 12:14 am
wow. that comic was just fuckin’ brilliant, beginning, middle and end.
just wanted to say that.
October 16, 2008 at 2:45 pm
oh. Cheers for not spelling ” fuckin’ ” as ” fucken “.
If you’re gonna swear, swear correctly.
October 16, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Wo “fucken” doch ganz korrektes Denglisch ist… :(
np: New Order – In A Lonely Place (Movement Extras)
December 20, 2008 at 9:49 am
Well, thanks. Now I have a face to put on Bloodninja.
I really could have lived without it.
June 10, 2009 at 12:27 am
Ha, ha, Conservatives won!
I like your stuff but, man, I dislike your politics. Maybe you don’t mind Jack tse-Tung making your decisions for you, but I resent government, with their omnipresent fucked-uppedness trying to run/ruin my life
November 18, 2009 at 3:04 am
YES. Times infinity.
September 19, 2010 at 2:05 pm
At least his fantasy is romantic but as a man i must say i still emjoy her fantasy alot to!
November 15, 2010 at 8:24 pm
O_O This is actually really hot! I LIKE her fantasy! IT’s so deliciously yet harmlessly strange! I feel like that guy… I’d love to do that every time… but I’m kind of disappointed that she didn’t look thrilled and inspired by his fantasy, even though it wouldn’t be possible to REALLY pull off. They’d have to use cheap props ^_^
I love that you included the singularity in this though!
November 20, 2010 at 2:14 am
We wanted new artist ?
January 18, 2011 at 11:06 pm
By the law of quantum fetish mechanics, rowntree has released this upon the world. God help us all