By: posthumous
[2003-04-20]
Zirealism
yer Sunday comix
What the hell? Now, I'm not one that tries to nit and pick every single Zirealism but... I think that a hearty WHAT THE FUCK? is in order for this one. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Rabbits and Gerbils and bad comics oh my!
Well, it's Easter, and there's a rabbit saying "Christ", that'd be the logical starting point.
The great deal of whitespace at the top of the comic must be indicative of something... given the religious theme, perhaps it represents Our Savior (tm), watching invisibly.
The other rabbits (I'm assuming the two in back are badly-drawn rabbits, not guinea pigs) are arranged roughly in a circle, as to suggest a stoning; in context, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" immediately comes to mind.
So, it's... uh... a holiday message of love and forgiveness! Sure, that works. Yeah.
maybe he's saying we shouldn't have sex on Easter?
Maybe they're in a pen at Pel-Freez.
Ignore those four rabbits. This is now one of my favourite Zirealisms. I like the attentive yet clueless one in the back.
It's a cross between Watership Down, The Lottery, King Kong, and Petey. They've chosen the one rabbit to be sacrificed.
I don't know, I kind of think they are guinea pigs. Their ears are significantly different.
Okay, if two of the onlookers are guinea pigs and two are rabbits, then perhaps the angry rabbit on the left is the child of the two on the right, and has just announced that he or she is in love with the guinea-pig child of the two guinea pigs. One rabbit parent stands back, secretly supportive of young interspecies love but unwilling to defy the other.
He's still trying to figure out why the chicken crossed the road. Maybe there should be a sign, "You have to be THIS tall to read Zirealism
Christ you know it ain't easy...
You have finally learned how to use the bold tag. Learning the joy of Zirealism will only be a matter of time.
The angry, insulting rabbit is Heironymous Biscuit, and the one standing back with the confused expression is Antwan.
Sorry, I didn't mean to seem too caustic; but I have reason to believe that Antwan is feigning ignorance!
Maybe just a little for comedic value... And maybe I've exagerrated a little in the past... but I am SERIOUSLY lost in this Zirealism.
A hot medium supplies more answers, more information, and a cool medium elicits more projection and participation. This comic, for example, might either be taken at face value, or lend itself to varied situational interpretations. Being as it's Easter Sunday, let us assume for a moment that it is a temporally referential comic. Eastre was a Pagan Germanic Fertility Festival, and that's where the rabbit association originates, and the gawdam rabbits didn't know that! Don't feel flummoxed by ambiguity. Indeed, according to the f-scale and many other tests of authoritarianism and personality rigidity, the more fascistic an individual is, the less tolerant of ambiguity; but I guess that it's OK to just say, "I don't get it!" But neither is it a Federal Crime (yet)to be playful about interpretations.
estrus-The periodic state of sexual excitement in the female of most mammals, excluding humans, that immediately precedes ovulation and during which the female is most receptive to mating; heat. See? They made up all of this Easter Bunny and Ducks and Eggs junk just because they are uncomfortable about saying, "Hey! Happy bitch in heat!"
The two rabbits in front are staring each other down. The standing rabbit and the front guinea pig are watching. The rear guinea pig has just shown up, and is speaking, commenting on both the pointlessness of violence and the pointlessness of voyeurism of violence.
The rabbit with the longest ears knows the most. The talking rabbit is demonstrating this by talking, whereas the other rabbits are dumb bunnies and must communicate with American Sign Language, Body Language, and by beating out that rhythm on a drum.
That would account for the one apparently thumping its leg.
And I think that the one behind it is getting ready to mount!
Hold on, out of every person and group of people you've been at all mean towards, you apologize to Antwan? I'm kicking you out of the club.
Rereading the comments, I am certain that I was apologizing to Noser for appearing to be angry and insulting when I had only intended to be sort of wry. And actually, I did sort of pull my punches when not pressing it when I got Antwan to admit that he's not feigning ignorance.
Apologies. I'll re-admit you into the club. Especially if you bring some of that rye.
Now someone will kick you out for apologizing to me! Stop the insanity!
OK, you may start the insanity again now.
That Buscuit has gone back in time. Thus making the insanity start again before he had even put a stop to the insanity in the first place. This could be a major event causing great rifts in space time. Or it could be a sign of the apocolypse. Or buscuit might need to reset his computer's clock.
Do they explain what this comic means in the club? Really, can't posthumous just say "It's funny because the bunnies want to have sex" or something? Sheesh, I'm going to bed.
The Cajuns got an expression for "Let's party!" which is something like fi deaux, meaning to put the kids to bed, then laissez les bons temps rouler!
I kind of want to tell you it works, but I don't think you deserve to know. Unless you count time by the Hebrew clock, in which case, um... go wander in a desert.
what works? I need anticedents damnit. Sigh...and no one ever will ever look at this page since Thingsihate has updated. So I hang my head quietly and hope that one day I'll be able to join a club.
Yes, it's too bad that there isn't some sort of traffic activity counter to let us know which pages are being frequented. Not being one to shy from setting precedent, iconoclast that I am, I wouldn't be much help with the antecedent issue.