Thank You!!

[Arjune]

I just want to say thank you to Ghastly for a great comic. You totall rock dude. I have spread the word to a bunch of people and they all agree that you are funny as hell.

[Ghastly]

Thanks.

[AkaneJones]

We've got an obsesser, Ghastly's comic is good but not that good...

Huh on a side note I was wondering a few things...

Look at Glemp, Nort, Peep, & F'ga then watch the Chameleon episode of Red Dwarf, any connection?

Why does Chibi Sue have mitten hands, all the chibi I've ever seen either have ball hands alla Bomberman, tentacle arms, or normal fingers?

Why is Hammer in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow?

Kunoichi Muchi-san is Sailor Moon and you know it.

Cosplay Girl is dressed as ... Ha you though I was going to say, does she have a real name, mind you H.G. and Bunny Boy don't have one so..

[Ghastly]

Look at Glemp, Nort, Peep, & F'ga then watch the Chameleon episode of Red Dwarf, any connection?

Haven't seen it, but now I want to. I do like Red Dwarf though. Nothing terribly special about my tentacle monster character designs I think. Pretty generic tentacle monster form.

Why does Chibi Sue have mitten hands, all the chibi I've ever seen either have ball hands alla Bomberman, tentacle arms, or normal fingers?

Wanted to giver her something still deformed, but a bit more functional than just a ball.

Why is Hammer in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow?

Haven't played any of the Castlevania games since the NES version. Usually I get asked if Hammer was inspired by Jet Black on Cowboy BeBop.

Kunoichi Muchi-san is Sailor Moon and you know it.

Yes, very SM inspired which I think would be normal since she's just a figment of Peep's imagination.

Cosplay Girl is dressed as ... Ha you though I was going to say, does she have a real name, mind you H.G. and Bunny Boy don't have one so..

I've had tonnes of people try to guess who Cosplay Girl is dressed as and nobody has hit it yet. I plant to reveal it eventually in the strip... maybe. Or maybe I'll just let people keep searching through their obscure anime series until they make the correct guess.

As for Cosplay Girl, H.G. and Bunny Boy...

They saddly reflect a very poor habbit of mine. I'm terrible at remembering names and putting them to faces so I tend to just remember people by little nick-names I make for them based on characteristics that end in girl, boy, or guy.

So there are a number of people I know in life as "Untuned Guitar Girl" this girl I know who can't for the life of her turn a guitar. "Lesbigoth Girl", pretentious lesbian-goth chic girl I know who plays guitar and writes pretentious lesbian-goth music. "Scared Girl", this is Lesbigoth Girl's girlfriend. She doesn't play guitar but she writes pretentious goth music (like there's any other kind of goth music) and sings with Lesbigoth Girl. She has a constant look on her face that borders between terror and deer-caught-in-headlights. "Acapella Diva Girl". this girl I know who sings acapella in clubs because between the fact that she can't hold a pitch and is such a huge diva she can't manage to put together a band of musicians who will play with her for more than 3 shows. I have very little interest in solo acapella music and even less in poorly sung solo acapella music. And there's also "Artsy-Mom Girl", an older woman who is trying to run with the young pretentious artsy crowd but doesn't quite understand why they don't like her country and western influenced art-music.

Then there's "Nobeat Guy", drummer I know who can't hold a beat worth a damn but compensates for this by simply drumming louder. "Schizo-boy", schizophrenic musician I know who border on the dangerous when he's off his meds. Used to be the boyfriend of Scared Girl until he went off his meds and made her even more scared than she already was and drove her into the arms of Lesbigoth Girl. Then there's "Slimer guy", a real sleazy hanger-on in the Hamilton music scene. Always looking for naive young girls with dreams of becoming the next big music star. Hang out at a couple of the famous local studios from time to time and drops names all the time. Tells the girls he's "shopping their demo" to a bunch of big names, until he gets bored of fucking them then cuts them loose. His nickname has now been just shortened to "Slimer" and it's a nickname he's pretty much known by to everyone in the Hamilton music scene... especially the ladies. "Afrohemian boy", he's a skinny guy with "white man's 'fro" who plays guitar and has a very bohemian outlook on life. Likes to put the word "fuck" in all his songs. "Tull Boy" is a pretty cool guy I know whose music always reminds me of Jethro Tull. I eventually learned his real name but to me he'll always be "Tull Boy". "Weener Boy" is a keyboardist I know who seems to be perpetually in search of getting laid and isn't too concerned about what exactly it is he sticks his dick into. Once had a one night stand with a female known as "Cold-sore girl".

So the tradition has carried on into my comic, thus giving me "Bunny Boy", "Cosplay Girl", and "Hentai Guy".

Before I settled on a name for Freddy she was known to me as "Otaku Girl-boy" and Hammer was known to me as "Big Guy".

[Rapscallion]

They saddly reflect a very poor habbit of mine. I'm terrible at remembering names and putting them to faces so I tend to just remember people by little nick-names I make for them based on characteristics that end in girl, boy, or guy.

I suffer the same problem with names and do something very similar, giving people new names in my head. Trouble is I

[Ghastly]

When I was in college there was this one girl in our class we all called "neuter" because she seemed completely sexless. My friend Valerie accidently called her "Neuter" once out loud. It was actually pretty funny.

[Goddessmisca]

I went from 2nd grad to 12th always saying hi to this one girl in the halls, and workign with her on group projects and hanging (sometimes) at lunch, and to this day don't know her name!

It's happy how often someone realyl doesn't need to use actual names!

[Ghastly]

I'm like that with a lot of the parents at my kids' school. Talk with them almost every day but only know them as "Gregory's Mom" or "Britany's Dad".

[Hydrajak]

I own a dog.

In my old nieghborhood everyone used to take thier dogs down to this park and let them play.... sometimes there would be 30 dogs there at once.


I can name 50 dogs, but for the life of me only know 2 or 3 people's names.


This is an all too common feature at the park... we refer to people as "Grish's owner" and "Fido's mom"

[Jackalope]

Ghastly, I think every group of musicians has similar characters in them. I mostly move among the circles of traditional irish and english music (no, not "folkies" that's something different) and I've met similar people. Though the best name coined from the musicians I know was "Didgeridude," for the modern-primitve dude who tries to play his didgeridoo everywhere (we've been calling it the didgeridon't).

Jody and I ended up writing a song called "Swipe the Tune" that hit every stereotypical "oh no, it's them" characters you met. The guy who can't sing to save his life, the one who "sings so deadly earnest with his out of tune guitar," the "seltic" maiden and her harp, the drummer who can't keep time...

There was one bodhran player who burned herself into my memory by leaning forward after a set of tunes and asking, "Was that a jig or a reel? I can never tell the difference!" Uh, jig is 6/8 and reel is 4/4 for starters... Similarly, one night a friend who's a hotshot fiddler from Cape Breton looks at this one drummer, then says in my ear, "Sounds just like a sneaker in a dryer."

The student asked the Master, "Master, is a drummer a musician?" The Master pondered, then replied, "Is a barnacle a ship?"

--Lee
(Spent 5 years as a drummer with a highland bagpipes band, I can make drummer jokes)

[Ghastly]

I wrote a song once to play at my local folk club called "Sing Your God Damned Song".

It's about those folkies who get up at the club and then proceed to tune their guitar for half an hour while telling you what they think are amusing antecdotes and then give their songs an introduction that just doesn't stop. It was written as a conglomeration of a number of folkies I know but one in particular from New Brunswick whose introductions were funny in that way that watching dumb people get mauled by bears is funny. He'd write all these depressing songs about great big tragedies that befell people he knew but they were so over the top in their melodrama that you had to bite your cheek to keep from laughing out loud.

As an accordionist I have little patience for people who can't be bothered to tune their guitars before they hit the stage. Especially then it's a busy folk club night and there's lots of people waiting to get on. What's even worse is they'll spend a half hour trying to tune it and it will still be out of tune.

And don't even get me started on the 12 string players. I swear to god there should be a test required before you're allowed to legally purchase a 12 string. If you can't tune it, you can't buy it.

[Jackalope]

Hah.

At one music camp, people were wearing buttons that said, "TUNE IT OR DIE." One too many would-be musicians who can't tune their instruments. When I still ran the local Monday night ceili, I made the lead fiddler a shirt that said that in 6in tall red letters. She put the thing on while on stage and the whole crowd went nuts. The persons that the sentiment were aimed at were not amused, but they did learn to tune after that.

We've also had folks with electronic tuners who can't get the idea that if you have an accordion in the band, you have to tune to the accordion. Which are often tuned about 5 cents sharp of "concert" pitch. Don't like it? Don't play here.

[Happypeepeehead]

My girlfriend's got a Tune or Die shirt, too. She also was a marching band leader for a couple years, so I don't know what instruments would have needed tuning, but still I'm proud she has at least one shirt with a skull on it.

[ElDiabloFantastico]

Back in my old punk days, we actually knew this girl named "Drunk Girl"

Yeah.

There was Canada Boy, who has the same birthday as me, and was always saying how Canada was so much better than the US. Which would've been alright, in a punk scene where everyone hates the government. But his points were always retarded, like, "In Canada, everyone is nice, and smiles when they walk down the road" or "In Canada, everything is clean, and no one litters like here" or "Candians don't drive dunk"

Then there was Whatever Guy. Who was always so stoned, all he could say was "whatever" Anyway, the only reason why he was worthy of a name at all, was the fact that he had so much pot, and always gave it to anyone who passed by. "Hey man! Thanks for smoking me out!" "Whatever"

There was also, "Don't Look At Me Like You're Going to Rape Me" Girl. Just don't ask. Seriously.


-Lex "Trent Boy"
(It's 'cause I looked like Trent Reznor in High School. Yay.)

[Happypeepeehead]

There was Canada Boy, who has the same birthday as me, and was always saying how Canada was so much better than the US. Which would've been alright, in a punk scene where everyone hates the government. But his points were always retarded, like, "In Canada, everyone is nice, and smiles when they walk down the road" or "In Canada, everything is clean, and no one litters like here"

That's sounds like any other rural / nearly suburban town in the lower 48 states.

or "Candians don't drive dunk"

Too easy...

Anyway!
I've known a fella who was arrested for riding his bicycle drunk (wel, he actually hit a parked van as well at the time). He was a resident in Halifax at the time, I believe.