Explain this comic to me.

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This is also the first time I have ever seen this, and it has totally made my post-long-weekend day worthwhile! (Not to get all "happy fantasy world" about shit)

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/77901/comics_PBF_26.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG. Every time I think I can't love this guy more, he does another comic strip.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Also the last one DB linked is pure genius.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

XXX Pogs

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

oh my god, this stuff is joyous. the grandpa/grave one made me laugh so hard i thought i'd drop my laptop. utter, utter genius.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I love this man.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm enjoying this one at the moment:

http://www.bleakexist.co.uk/pics/PBF039BCSpaceLove.jpg

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm enjoying all of them.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Two new PBF strips, oh my.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I like that one Nine Inch Nails song about PBF, the one where he goes "WEE-A-BOO! TEH HAGN! THA FEEJOO! WEE-A-BOO! DANG ONG! YA NEEZ!"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 July 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

haha OMG

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"R0cky The Dog"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF011BCNotTodayLittleOne.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF021BCDisgustingTed.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahah that not today one is very twisted ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/96961/perrybible.jpg

I don't get last week's strip, someone please explain!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

seconded

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wacky/insane old guy who thinks he is a train engineer and has outfitted his van accordingly, featuring his dear little dolls as passengers having tea, decides to merrily end it all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I figured as much, but I don't really see the joke. Is it that the first panel makes us think he's a real train driver, and then the second and third one reveal the truth? If so, it's a pretty weak gag.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/97171/perrybible.jpg

The latest strip implies Gurewitch's well of humour is beginning to run dry.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The new one (Woolves) is great.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't referring to a plunge through the guardrail to certain death as a "shortcut" the joke?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/94914/perrybible.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

TRAINS CAN'T TAKE SHORTCUTS

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The slyest thing in the train comic is, upon reflection, the way the panels are framed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah that black and white one is brilliant. Its kind of weird how Ned described him as Goreyesque - maybe he gets that a bit and was being cheeky about it?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone get this one?

ihttp://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/archive.html

(how do you locate the citypaper.com archives? Ive had to use the PBF temp server link which might not work)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oops wrong link:

ihttp://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF095ADPrankDragon.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

His jokes really aren't nearly as good as they used to be, but his draughtsmanship remains absolutely impeccable. I hope he finds his funny muse again soon.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Trayce - the cheeky villagers put the sleeping dragon's hand in water, and the valley floods with dragon piss.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

OH! Now it totally makes sense. I thought they were shoving the whole dragon in a pot! *dur*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it may also be a reference to the Yellow River.

― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Some of the earlier ones are wonderfully bizarre, such as this:

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF047BCDeerLazerEye.html

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I essentially meant what Ned and Tuomas had said above, and that the contrast between the child-like imagery and the dark subject matter is what constitutes the joke, but pbf does that so often it's kind of assumed, so this one seemed jokeless to Tuomas initially. I re-scanned it myself to see if I was missing something, but I think he just cranked this one out to meet a deadline, or something.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of adore the monkey-banana one.

― Dan (MORE META) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/101379/perrybible.jpg

Man, I'd like to get that second pic as a poster on my wall.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The latest one is pretty great too!

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF194-Bip.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The joke itself might not be that good, but the way "Bip" looks...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

OK, something else entirely, but I don't get the final panel, I think. Or maybe there isn't supposed to be something funny at the end?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/FLCJesusFreak/churchbot.gif

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Average church-goer blissfully unaware of what Religion is doing to the world?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

oh Sinfest

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah seems pretty patronizing to me

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

made me laugh

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The last panel is what befuddles me. How does it relate to Churchbot?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

you might be stupid :/

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it what li'l smiley man is reading in his holy book?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF196-Cover_Blown.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The church changed after smiley visited it (first and third panel), so it can't be in the book, can it?

It also made me laugh (righteous! "hey! stop that! gross!"), but the main haha is still missing. Or just not there.

(xpost)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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