Thanks to the best readers in the webcomic world, I was able to rewrite my original comic of Chet getting shot by a nail gun and turned it into this. I couldn’t find any good sources of nail guns in the 70s and reader not_a_monkey sent me some great links and a photo that I used to model the tool Chet is holding. Thank you! roxysteve gets a nod too as I’m stealing his ideas by the ton here soon.
It is an interactive world we live in and I really love that I can count on you readers to chime in and make the comic better. Take a bow and shiny new dimes are on their way as we speak…
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The title was made popular by Manfred Man’s Earth Band in 1976. I am using it for a really subtle reason as something is seeing daylight for the first time in a while and is a hint at tomorrow’s comic. You know it already, don’t you…
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I love that song, but I could never figure out the lyrics… I always thought they were singing ‘wrecked up like a douche, roller in the night’, which made no sense, but hey, it was the seventies. Things didn’t have to make sense.
I think the question for the week or so is: Will the studio be built before: 1. Bud ruins the house again with his “More Power”-tool antics? 2. Bud injures the rest of the gang with those same tool antics? 3. We run out of power tool gags?
RE: vince – As Tim Allen’s “Home Improvement” show demonstrated, there is no end to power tool gags. These are the true weapons of mass destruction: the weekend warriors and their power tools. Death by Nail Gun is now a national statistic, so enough “Here’s Your Sign” type folks are using these things and killing either themselves or more than likely, their co-workers.
As I tell my sons about driving, I trust myself, it’s the other idiots behind the wheels that I don’t trust.
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Popularized by Manfred Mann, but written and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen in one of his weirder moments. (For what it’s worth, I prefer the remake…)
So… is “Shock Me” coming up, or have you already used that one?
Other potential ’70s rock songs for this de-construction theme: “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue” (The Ramones), “Rip it Out” (Ace Frehley), “Hammerdown” (Ted Nugent), “You’re My Home” (Billy Joel), “Blackout” (The Scorpions), “Careful With that Axe, Eugene” (Pink Floyd), and “Something’s Gone Wrong Again” (The Buzzcocks).
Here’s another one, I wouldn’t have thought that taking inventory last year would be actually useful sometimes – even if it is only to amuse people 🙂
http://www.mannm.org/tools/mafell_us60_zimmereimaschine_1.jpg
yes that’s a handle at the far end of the chainsaw blade. Yes you’d have to try very hard to handle this baby alone. And you’d violate several security rules and, most probably, yourself in one go if you’d do so. So don’t. Seriously.
Great gods, man! That chainsaw looks like some sort of mad Beelzebubbian steampunk devilcock! AIIIIEEEE!!!
wow.. I bet you never thought you’d be looking for a 70’s nail gun for reference. That’s what you get for doin’ a retro comic! LOL
Well, dgriff13, it’s nothing like doing a comic about two aliens disguised as dogs!!
Yeah, I have even bought a 1977 Sears catalog off eBay so that I can get color schemes and some of the “wild” outfits we wore back then. Holy crap, we wore some awful stuff.
Just saw a Frederic’s of Hollywood catalog from 1977 and think I’ll sneak that one in someday!
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RE: not_a_monkey – Holy crap! That chain saw would have made the movie a bit more interesting now wouldn’t it? It looks like it has a smoke stack on it! Steam power maybe? LOL!
Now those were REAL men that used those tools.
ah, no, that’s not a smoke stack, it’s the power plug 🙂 They decided to make it out of the body directly instead of wiring some cable; thus leaving the user with the responsibility to choose an appropriate cable to connect to power … a bit of a problem nowadays, since I can’t find that one anymore, and those flattish 4pin 380V AC connectors were banned some decades ago in favor of roundish 5pin connectors (extra earthing). But blast it, I will eventually find one at some flea market or another.
Then we’ll talk about movie rights … and lots of work-out, I could barely lift that thing onto the shelf ^^
I was gonna go off on you about claiming “the best readers in the webcomic world” for yourself, when obviously my readers are far superior. But then I realized that I read your webcomic, and you read mine… so maybe you’re right.
RE: Kevin – As long as it is not JUST you and I reading our comics… but yes, we DO have the best readers in the world!
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And that, students, is how brown trousers are made…