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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?

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(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

Actually, could someone explain this comic to me?

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10220000/10221915.jpg

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

GAH MINE EYES! DAN RUINED MY LIFE!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

rimshot.jpg

The churchbot comic looks a little like PBF actually, except you know, not funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Bip The Orangutang upthread made me laugh for 10 minutes straight.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Glen Baxter to thread!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

'cover blown' isnt that funny but the art is good.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 October 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF200-Les_Douleurs_de_la_Mort.jpg

I don't get this one either... It's titled "Les Douleurs de la Mort", what's "douleurs"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

the pains of death

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, but I still don't get it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Death took the woman's pram with the intention of killing the baby by pushing it down the hill, but the baby survived (and is happy maybe?) so Death suffers a terrible sense of ennui/worthlessness.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

that is awesome.

baby pwns death.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

someone, please explain this comic to me. I WANT TO LAUGH SO BAD, but i cannot see the way. help guide me there. help me... TO LAUGH.

― ath (ath), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really understand that one either. Lovely art though

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I don't think that it's a particularly good one. Like the toy train one above, the joke is a bit too obvious for PBF. I guess it's the execution that's supposed to make it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the baby is clapping after the fun ride downhill, so Death's plans are not just thwarted but actively subverted. Makes it about 5% funnier.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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