By: posthumous [2003-05-25]

Zirealism

yer Sunday comix

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? [2003-05-25 07:52:00] Antwan
...Posthumous finally snapped.
I PISSED MYSELF [2003-05-25 08:08:00] Zim
What the hell...I don't get it... Damnit I want ROSIE bring on another ROSIE COMIC...ROSIE KICKS ASS!
Well... [2003-05-25 08:50:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
...when in doubt, punt!
[2003-05-25 09:40:00] minna
*blink blink*
Jonas! I think that Minna is blinking for you! [2003-05-25 10:16:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Ya know, if it were an Aussie football that said "Drakal" that would be funny because they're both out for blood then, eh?
Operation Antwan Freedom [2003-05-25 11:33:00] posthumous
I am trying to free you from the need to get it.
This really makes no sense... [2003-05-25 15:08:00] Antwan
Why is this funny? I mean, I could sorta get the bunny one because of all the bunny procreation and I ALMOST got the giant monkey one because of the annoying kids, but this one actually makes no sense. If I were to forward this to a mental institution, the men with white coats would be outside your house ready to pick you up in their padded van in seconds.
Existential [2003-05-25 15:53:00] Dedas
A football player suddenly realising the absurdity of running to one end of a field and then back again with a ball in his hands (thus the "oh.."). But that isn't funny, or is it?
Well... no. [2003-05-25 16:23:00] Antwan
That's how the game is played isn't it? That's like playing Super Mario 3 for several hours and then realizing that you're a magic plumber who can shoot fireballs and dress up like a frog AND a raccoon, then dropping your controller, getting a blank stare, and saying "oh". Sure, you're just running a funnel shaped ball up and down a riduculously long field, but trying to point that out to an average football fan (hell, an average PERSON) is insane. I think that the less work posthumous puts into his Zirealisms, the more time he has to calm his fetish for pissing on stuffed animals.
So, Antwan... [2003-05-25 16:57:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
...you think that the inscription dowsn't figure in?
Inscription? [2003-05-25 17:25:00] Antwan
What does it say anyway?
Not sure [2003-05-25 17:48:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
I'm not positive what it says, but I think it is the key piece. It looks like "Drakal" to me, but I can't be sure.
hmm [2003-05-25 20:31:00] minna
i don't know... it might just be an illusion from the angle of the football and that stupid lacing they paint on there now (it used to be real string)

or drakal (looks like drakihl to me) could have some deep elaborate meaning

or maybe the guy can see the upside down illusion of "drakal" and that's why he's saying "oh"

or maybe i'm putting to much thought into this
OOH! i thought of somthing else! [2003-05-25 20:40:00] minna
maybe he's saying "oh" because he just realised that

1. his feet are the same size as his eyes

2. his leg, while not attached to his hip, is still carried around with him via his ass

3. according to physics for him to be standing like that he is either flying or a ballet dancer

4. i should not try to think this late at night. it's 10:30 where i am
Only lacing! [2003-05-25 20:43:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
That had not occurred to me being as I halucinate a lot. It's like seeing a face on Mars, or the Rabbit in the Moon.
more than just oh.. [2003-05-25 21:53:00] jana
whether that ball is for football or rugby, if i had just caught it, i think i'd be adding a few four letter words rather than just "oh.."

then again, it's not often that i'm attacked by large numbers of strong sweaty men. maybe i should take up the game....
The Final Super Mario Bros. Remix [2003-05-26 03:47:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
On mp3.com, there's a tune "The Final Super Mario Bros. Remix," it's fun to play super loud!
way too much time [2003-05-26 05:26:00] Mr Zhivago
Tonight Im slumped low, learning
Equity, my mind is churning
And the monitors dully burning
various facts into my brain.

What a pain, and dreadful drain;
Motivations slain; I cant refrain:

So I boot Netscape, heart is yearning
for distraction: my minds turning
to a comic of taste discerning:
From which no one can abstain.

Hello, whats this? A fat ballerina with a football? Hmmm.

Brow furrowed, I think and guess
As if twere a riddle of chess
But I truly must confess
From the riddle no egress.

No egress, I must confess,
Does my mind completely lack finesse?

No. The DAMN THING JUST DOESNEE MAKE SENSE.

This dubious pleasure, I wish I had spurned
My urgent studies I even adjourned!
O Zirealism; what have we learned?
Posthumous: please explain.
A ha! [2003-05-26 08:30:00] Antwan
See? It's not just me.
See? [2003-05-26 08:47:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
But at least if you read the stiching as saying Drakal you can make a story out of it. You can make a story out of it anyway, do something with it instead of just letting it lay there.
Maybe... [2003-05-26 08:50:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
he's just starting the US National Anthem...Oh, say can you see? Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from a bulb.
From the way he's dressed [2003-05-26 09:36:00] laconic
I'd say he's playing rugby (ie no helmet etc...) and from the possition of the body he seems to somehow be flying or trapesing as noted earlier so my two theories.

1. In a road-runner-esque moment his atempt to catch the ball backfires as the ball is going so fast it actually propells him up in the air. In a moment of confusion and black comedy he calmly says "oh"

2. During an earlier hard-hit in the rugby game he somehow lost his memory, then...due to an elaborate set of events far too complex to mention here he becomes convinced that he's a balerina. As he dances about the field he is more and more confused by the fans booing him until the ball falls into his hands prompting him to say "oh."

Honestly that's the best I can do. I'm sorry to say it but on this one and this one only I'm with Antwan, I just have no idea what the hell is going on in this cartoon. Unlike Antwan, for some odd reason I still kinda dig it.
don't worry misguided souls [2003-05-26 09:39:00] Antwan
Soon my comic will be here and you can stop furrowing your brows in a comical fashion while you exclaim "Why I never!".

All seriousness aside though, I really wish posthumous would tell us what he was smoking when he made this.
I seriously don't think many of the jokes are funny [2003-05-26 09:50:00] Amber
I really don't see how these are funny a few of them are but nothing to write home about. You people seem cool though. Just wanna say hey
Who the hell is minna? [2003-05-26 09:56:00] Jonas
My internet connection has been down for a few days now, and I'm quite unable to check thingsihate. I can't even check it here, at work. I am posting this comment through sheer force of will. I am the One, who can reshape the thingsihate board as I see fit, and get it on with Carrie-Anne Moss. But more impressive than all of that, even my strained-fart flying take-off, is my ability to get Zirealism. And let me tell you. That man has no crotch.
I'm not here to tell you how this is going to end [2003-05-26 11:45:00] Jonas
I'm here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to post this comment and show these people what you don't want them to get. The Zirealisms we read from here I leave to you.

Morphumous already explained it. Free your mind with every purchase.
it's japanese [2003-05-26 12:20:00] minna
it means Everyone, leading to a lot of stupid puns, but i like it.

it started when one of my friends gestured to another and said "come over here, i dont want everyone to see" and i was the only other person in the room.
[2003-05-26 12:24:00] Jonas
That's a Zirealism right there.
Yeah right [2003-05-26 16:35:00] Antwan
Posthumous would find SOME way to suck all the humor out of that joke too.
oh [2003-05-26 19:01:00] casey
I get it.
You do? [2003-05-26 19:23:00] Antwan
Could you perhaps explain it to the people who don't posses the ability to read Posthumous's empty, black, void of a mind? Oh man, just THINKING about the stuff roaming around in Posthumous's head makes me wanna piss myself in fright.
The Thing-in-Itself [2003-05-26 20:35:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
So, you would argue for intrinsic meaning?
weheehehe [2003-05-26 21:35:00] Zim
Come on its not that funny, It's a guy about to kick a football and it says "oh"..what the hell! Oh, did he "oh" shit his pants or "oh" piss himself or "oh" I think my girlfriend has a penis. I don't get it..I would be happy if someone, anyone, somone alot more stupider than me, explained it...and "Oh" I'm leaving.
Good Comic! [2003-05-26 21:58:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
I think it's a good comic! See how it snags at their consciousness like a hangnail on the hand of a deranged pervert groping the pantyhose of a beautiful woman only to discover that they are hitting on a well-hung cross-dresser. It needs more ducks.
[2003-05-27 02:01:00]
Why do people think zirealism has to be funny? Why does it have to make sense? Why does a comic have to have a joke? A punchline?

Can it not just be a graphical method of making you think, rather than just screaming out, "IT HURTS GODAMN IT HURTS DON'T MAKE MY BRAIN HURT LIKE THAT I JUST WANT TO NOT THINK EVER AGAIN" why don't you go to the cinema and when you can come out you can say, I don't understand was the pie in american pie some kind of metaphor for the american dream and the kid fucking it a symbol of the decline of civilisation and the rise of the Bushian Empire?

At least mortica actually came up with the goods, all Antwan can do is rant about how he doesn't get it, and how he's so much better and his comic will revolutionise etc. Lets not forget Antwan is BUNNY MAN, and that makes him far worse than posthumous, and anything he creates will eb tainted so.

To strange guy, who didn't post his name [2003-05-27 06:59:00] Zim
SHUT THE HELL UP! No one cares about your life problems, and yes a comic must have a punchline, if it doesn't then it is Ass whipe paper. Antwan rules you, remember that.
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