December 4, 2008
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Aw beans! page 26? Of this?
Hopefully it is acceptable to rip off old gags if their use is irrelevant. Hopefully I will accept that I have done such a thing.
I am still not sure how the bed thing should work, and I’ll be up all night fixing it if I try to figure it out, and when it only has problems for the purposes of an old gag about folding beds which is not relevant it simply seems of minimal concern.
It also seems to be destiny that my comic appear to switch artist mid-page on a regular basis.
A deep-fried pizza sez:
Elpse resembles Pokey, Gumby’s vaguely creepy equine henchman (later reincarnated as a Super Mario Bros. foe), in the second of the newer panels. The expression in the first panel also seems to remind me of something, but I’m not entirely sure what.
Also, Nemitz’s dreamings seem to contain a far greater number of confettos than reality sees fit to provide. I am inclined to interpret this as a very revealing statement about Nemitz’s inner character.
Beanbiebklar sez:
I knew that second panel elp expression looked odd, and that is why I did not change it. I’m always looking for mistakes that are more interesting than things I do on purpose. Exploiting better ones than that will be my only chance for success. Me learning how to exploit them will also only happen as the result of a mistake.
Though the appearance of confetti was also unintended, I cannot now dispute its presence. I suspect nemitz has no inner character. Nemitz is just stupid selfish nemitz through and through. It is such a conceited scoundrel that it sees itself in its own thoughts. It makes itself happy by thinking about itself being happy.
A cheap, snide beet-shah sez:
I dare say the ability to become happy simply by thinking about one’s self in an elated mood is a most enviable skill indeed. It is this, I think, that best allows the reader to understand the essential essence of Nemitzness.
It further seems to me inaccurate to describe Nemitz’s actions as “selfish”; this term implies a certain degree of callousness and cynicism which the normally merry Nemitz simply doesn’t appear to posess. However, Nemitz strikes me as a hedonist–in the philosophical sense, of course, not in the sense of regularly attending elaborate Roman debauch-fests, the likes of which I suspect Nemitz would be unlikely to have access to. Instead, Nemitz seems capable of deriving a extraordinary amount of enjoyment from the simple thing in life, especially those sensory pleasures obtained via means of taste. Indeed, so great is Nemitz’s capacity in this regard that biv/zuh seems capable of deriving enjoyment even from the sampling of things which most of us would not even think to consider edible. All this would seem to be a most beneficial facult for our hero–when one leads as unfortunate a life as Nemitz does, such minor pleasures are indeed the best one can typically hope for. It is a great boon, then, that Nemitz has such an uncommon ability to make use of these opportunities, thus retaining the characteristically positive Nemitzian demeanor even in a world rife with disappointment and despair.
Beanbiebklar sez:
That’s certainly a lot to take from something which only has a new page once a month, at best.
I would not call nemite’s actions selfish, I can just tell that nemitz is selfish. At least… Nemitz definitely deserves a beating. If not for that reason than surely another. Nemitz must have done something.
Mxy sez:
It’s a good thing that the control is attached to the bed by a wire, and not just because it prevents it from escaping too far. When they got one of those beds for my grandfather, it came with a remote control that he enjoyed clicking repeatedly despite the fact that it never seemed to work. Meanwhile, the poor lady living in the floor below thought her mechanical bed was possesed.
Beanbiebklar sez:
It is fun to press buttons. The lady living in the floor should consider upgrading to a robot bed, for robots cannot be possessed by evil spirits. They become rogue by their own free robot will.
Mxy sez:
But then the bed could run away to search for utopic robotland with the lady still on top! Actually, riding a robot bed through the open country sounds preferrable to watching reality TV 20 hours a day. Oh what great adventures they could have.
Beanbiebklar sez:
I will allow it as long as the adventures are scripted in advance by non-union writers and edited to seem spontaneous.