A new comic and a ton of news! akimbo got an awesome shout-out from the Webcomic Beacon , specifically long-time supporter Tanya Higgins who I thought had given us up a long time ago and am super-pleased is still checking in occasionally. Eric D. Snider posted a link on his blog and also wrote an insightful article detailing his personal struggle with depression. In Bob & Bob movie news, kick-ass director Andrew Alonso has informed me that Bob & Bob will be showing at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival September 25. So if you’re in the area, please, check it out. I’m going to try to make down but I’m not certain yet. Or if you’re going to be in Philadelphia, October 27th-29th you can check it out at the Terror Film Festival where it and several people involved have received the following nominations: Claw Award Nominations:
Best Actor – Chris Burns
Best Actress – Megan DeSantis
Best Screenplay
Best Director
Best Dramatic Short
which is pretty awesome. I’m going to try to update more often but it may mean switching to black and white for awhile, which I hate.
Your work is good and makes me think, sometimes it makes me feel better about my life.
whoa, a magnificent comic and an eagerly expected news flash, thanks! and I spotted a new donate button, too! all good news. cheers
Fuck, man, this is just awesome…
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Good news and a new comic. In the words of Mr. Rowntree “Fuck, man, this is just awesome”.
“Living is just the absence of the thought of death”
I really like this one, well done. Also, personally, I don’t mind waiting a really long time if it means the next one is going to be as wonderful as this one, seriously.
I’m with Winston.
Wow, this is a great one. I love how you did the layout of the panels. I’m so glad to hear about Bob & Bob, too. Congrats, and keep em coming!
glad to see that the site is back online
Came here because Winston Rowntree mentioned it in his also awesome comix – and I’m amazed, spent two days reading through the complete archive! Awesome work!
Just wanted to say Winston of Subnormality referred his readers over here, and I’m glad he did!
Shit. This comic… It’s just awesome. You’re incredible. Thought provoking, stimulating, beautiful. I’m so glad I read this.
Sometimes it can be informative to empathize with robots: An ideal autonomous robot should not be content to sit and wait, it should always be looking for new ways to help its creators. So a robot with nothing to do is not a happy robot so to speak, because it is not doing what it was built for. It may be easier for a robot, which is built with obvious goals in mind, but the point remains the same: boredom is the feeling you get when you know you are not doing what you were built for.
Unfortunately for us, what we were built for doesn’t appear to be much more than hunting, gathering, and reproducing. So it falls to us to give meaning to these things or create new, more meaningful things to do. But whatever we do, be it work, or athleticism, or entertainment, or sex, or contemplation of philosophy we cannot expect to enjoy it if we feel bored as we do it. To escape the sense of boredom we must invest great energy into our acts.
Chole may see this as simply an activity to distract ourselves. But that means that there must be something she wants us to pay attention to instead, and whatever that thing is, I say we go at it full force.
The stuff in this comic sounds very similar to Pascal. He wrote of this very conundrum of boredom, and how we fill our lives with things and activities that distract us from the inevitable truth of mortality.
I really like the way you write women. You know, like they’re people. Just in general terms, youve got some deep shit going on here, and i love it.