Go to the first comic, the previous comic, the next comic, or the newest comic. You can also click or tap on the comic to move ahead.
2007-01-15: Conversation (meteor)
Oh ho ho
The punchline in the news post is that I'm totally on Rabid's side here. At least, if I ever come across people having this conversation I'm totally whipping out my cell phone and pretending to have this conversation.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved.
Text transcript
Rabid: Ha ha you would NOT believe this CRAZY conversation I am overhearing RIGHT NOW!! Rabid: This couple is, like, having this passionate self-congratulatory time declaiming the public-interface aspect of cell-phone usage as ANTISOCIAL! Yeah, exactly! Like they just thought of it!! Rabid: Totally IGNORING the TRANSFORMATIVE aspects of novel communication technology!! Rabid: Hang on, I'll send you a picture of them with my PHONE-CAMERA!! <<KL-BEEP>> [[Rabish looks at the picture. One of the monsters is flipping off Rabid.]] [[She is in a movie theatre...]] Rabish: Ha ha oh man the looks on their faces! "HUH WHAT -- ARE WE TRULY AS CAVEMEN AGAPE AT THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF A NEW ELECTRIC GOD!?" Ha ha wow, DIGITAL RUBES!! Rabid: By the way, how's the movie? HA! I better go CANCEL MY DOWNLOAD!! Bystander: OH NO A METEOR ALL LIFE WILL BE EXTINGUISHED!!