By: posthumous [2003-05-11]

Zirealism

yer Sunday comix


time out for fun
Can't believe it. [2003-05-08 18:11:00] Antwan
Don't think that by cramming a lot of updates onto the front page at once that I won't notice this zirealism that ISN'T EVEN WORKING.
See? [2003-05-11 02:10:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
That's why you don't want to have a car with a sunroof. Or leave packets of condiments in the glove box either because it just make you more appetizing to the roadside critters.
[2003-05-11 02:48:00]
Thats why you don't want to go around a safari park when your car has a sunroof, they'll rip it right off and then pluck you and your passengers from the car like hors du avoirs, or something.
maybe... [2003-05-11 02:57:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
tapas or mezes!
questions? [2003-05-11 04:28:00] laconic
I'm wondering if that's a monkey or an elder god. Also is it just me or is the car vaugely antrhropmorphic? In which case perhapes the car is asking if we're there yet and has been ploting all along to get rid of it's human masters.
Ack! [2003-05-11 05:05:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Are you suggesting collusion between the cars and the elder monkey gods?
Ha! Ha! [2003-05-11 07:03:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Jim and his SO are still in bed having brunch.
INCREDIBLE!!!!! [2003-05-11 09:57:00] Antwan
I GET IT!!!!!!!!!! I got the joke!!
More than that. [2003-05-11 11:40:00] laconic
much more than that Buscuit, I am suggesting a conspiracy that goes to the very top. FBI CIA ... NSPCA. Everyone is in on it. They all knew this was going to happen and they've been sitting on the information for years. Why? Follow the money Buscuit. What do cars get us? Travel. And how do they get us that travel? Oil. That's right it's all just another scheme to keep big brother oil on top. Also let's think about the only interest group in washington more powerfull than the petrolium industry, the Sci-fi channel. Without the lovecraftian mythos and the elder gods therin Sci-fi channel could not reasonably fill up their schedule. So washington allowed this to happen so they could get more money from the captains of industry they are in cahoots with. Far-fetched? I think not.
On second thought... [2003-05-11 12:27:00] Antwan
Just because I got the joke, doesn't mean it was good. Another flop Posthumous!
Bunny Bopping? [2003-05-11 13:01:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Not as funny as bunny bopping?
Of course not. [2003-05-11 13:17:00] Antwan
Notice the leg firmly attached to the monkey things crotch... Is posthumous trying to imply some perverted act?
I dunno... [2003-05-11 13:43:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
...but about the humor part, you're sort of like the little kid in the back seat asking, "Are we there yet?" You just haven't noticed the monster feeding so far. Don't let it sneak up and bite you in the arse. I dunno Antwan, you're a tough room to work; but if I was working the Boom-Boom Room at the Flamingo, I think that I'd schmeck you up side the head a couple of times with a Tiki statue and ask, "Is this thing on?"
Hmmm [2003-05-11 20:48:00] Andrewsarchus
I like the look of surprise on the elder-monkey-god-oil tycoon-scifi channel CEO's face.

What did that EMDOTSCCEO find in that car?

Kids are so borish and annoying. I'm having a vasectomy.

It almost looks like his teeth are reaching out, saying to the world, "World! We are TEETH!"

The car has doorhandles, but no doors.
CON'T! [2003-05-11 20:57:00] Andrewsarchus
. . . no doors[,] implying that we are all slaves to our biological urge to procreate, symbolized by "are we there yet?" Which also could mean that we are being rushed into parenthood quicker and quicker due to higher nutrition and harmonal injection in our food, as well as the general media glorication of the whore/man-whore.

Or maybe posthumous likes giant monkeys eating people our of their cars like sardines being eat by some sort of gaint canary.
very good HB [2003-05-11 21:20:00] posthumous
Antwan will be featured in all Zirealisms henceforth.




or not.
Make sure to include my cool hair. [2003-05-12 04:50:00] Antwan
Why are you guys analyzing all these comics? They don't have some hidden meaning. Posthumous draws them all up while he's strung out on cold medicine. Look at that monkey. He's got a giant hole in the side of his head. Sheesh.
dang [2003-05-12 04:50:00] Antwan
I really, really hate html.
Gestalt&Closure [2003-05-12 06:50:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Gestalt sort of explains why there need not be whole things all of the time to suggest whole things. According to design theorists, the Gestalt closure effect provides us with unity and variety in art. There are also several perceptual psychology tests utilizing the fact that Gestalt closure speed varies between individuals, and within individuals under various conditions.
Uh-oh! [2003-05-12 07:00:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
It says, "The study of gestalt originated in Germany in the 1920s. It is a form of psychology that is interested in higher order cognitive processes relative to behaviorism." See? That's going to cause problems right there at the outset.
Uh-oh, again! [2003-05-12 07:13:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
It says, "A clever artist leaves some things for the viewers to supply when they look at an image." Another potential problem area, no doubt. I mean, what if the disadvantaged amongst us have no circle parts, nor arc segments?
Symbolism [2003-05-12 07:14:00] newwave
I think the ape-monster represents society, and the children represent children being eaten by an ape-monster.
contiguity [2003-05-12 07:56:00] posthumous
not to mention the fact that it is insane to think a contiguous line is somehow more realistic or complete, as if every person (or god-ape) around you has a contiguous black line around them.
That's true! [2003-05-12 07:59:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
I, myself, have wavey lines, dots, and bubbles!
damn [2003-05-12 09:24:00] posthumous
I should be putting you in my cartoons!
I work cheap! [2003-05-12 09:41:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Also available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.
But will it work? [2003-05-12 14:39:00] Antwan
Can even Biscuit save these shitty shitty comics?
Sure! [2003-05-12 15:49:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
I'll have everyone wear 3-D glasses.
konig [2003-05-12 16:00:00] casey
Do you wear 3-d glasses all day, or just while reading comics?
All day! [2003-05-12 16:08:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
The red&green kind of make everything look like a dago luau.
I'll leave it in your hands then. [2003-05-12 17:45:00] Antwan
Yes, but you forget that all of Posthumous's comics are black and white thus defeating the purpose of 3-d glasses.
That's true... [2003-05-12 21:26:00] Snotkitty
And another problem with the 3-D idea: If I saw that monkey-creature jumping off the screen at me, I'd probably poop myself. I'm sure posthumous doesn't want to be responsible for a nationwide spontaneous bowel evacuation catastrophe.
Other Matters [2003-05-12 22:16:00] Mr Zhivago
my god,
this drop of sweet sweet insanity;
refreshing in a desert of banality

Some greek dude once said
"You are what you do repeatedly"
or words to that effect. It's not really a non-sequitur.

Has anyone tried the new invention that allows humans to live forever?


Look, I'll clear it all up, 3-D glasses or no [2003-05-12 22:54:00] Jonas
This Zirealism is just a giant ape eating people out of a car, with somebody in the car unawares and tragicomically wondering when they will reach their destination. It is also appears to be an allusion to de Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Children", although I would argue for Hieronymous' own "Garden of Earthly Delights", which also includes bowel evacuation.
Immortality Rings [2003-05-13 12:45:00] Annna
A total success; I am not currently dead. Aces!
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