Gotta go with your strengths… though Lorraine got around fairly well as a Brunette. The Brunette Lorraine will be returning shortly. A few purchases on Wednesday as the gang goes shopping with their new found wealth.
I’m g0ing to be at the Dallas Webcomic this weekend. I’m working ahead best as I can, but I’m also getting the show organized too, so we’ll see how the updates go for next Monday. After driving 28 hours in 3 days, I’m going to be tired and sore.
“Atomic” by Blondie (from their 1979 release “Eat to the Beat”) is a song essentially about a girl wanting a guy “tonight” and then they end the lyrics simply with “atomic”. Now, I’m no Shakespeare, but that goes right by me… so I’m sure one of you can explain it to your ol’ uncle Byron. I told you I was going to start stepping into other forms of rock bands from the 70s, and Blondie certain fits the bill. I guess you could call them punk rock in their earlier albums, but they certainly could create some pop songs as well as the disco themed “Call Me” from “American Gigolo”. I also chose Blondie as Lorraine will be blonde for a little bit longer and she’s filling up her “dance card” really fast it seems.
NOTE: I need to know if adding these song links is slowing down the viewing of the comic page for you. It would appear to me that the song should not load until you click play, but I’ve received a couple complaints and want to hear from the rest of you. I enjoy the links, but I’m on a (crappy) AT&T DSL line and not slowing my viewing down. So if it’s messing up the loading of the page, I’d like to know.
PS: Yes, the last frame is the pose in the header. In the past I’ve pulled poses for the Header from already posted comics… THIS one is from the FUTURE and you’ll be seeing those poses show up in comics very soon. A bit of a tease so to speak!
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No problem with the music link at all. Loads fine for me. I have Uverse. I would assume that if you are on a slow connection that music widget will be the least of your problems. The comic and header would be a much bigger drag on your connection – but hey, it’s a web comic and pretty much based on nice big graphics! It is what it is. We have people complain from time to time on Kevin’s web comic too. But, it’s about a 99% chance they are luddites that prefer old and odd operating systems and browsers that only display the graphics they want to see.
Couple of interpretations of “atomic” spring to mind. They’re going have their own personal fusion and it’ll be as hot as the sun’s core. The Earth will move like an atomic bomb’s just gone off. Debbie Harry’s got a geek fetish (she did date Chris Stein for years, after all) so her character decided to pick up a physicist… with good hair… okay, maybe not that one.
I love Blondie — they were so incredibly versatile, starting off as a punk band but moving into New Wave and exploring Caribbean styles and rap… plus Debbie Harry’s got a fantastic voice and incredible presence. In some ways she’s a female version of Roger Daltrey.
No problems on this end; I have a cable modem connection over here, which means if I’m not bombing out then the page is at least behaving within normal parameters…
Dial up…bless you for your patience.
No problems with loading here.
Dial up? whats that? 😉
Great comic as usual dude!
Blonde seriously doesnt fit her.
“See you next Tuesday!” Am I the only one who can’t NOT see that now?
Thinking back I realized that I’ve never dated a SINGLE blonde in my entire life (29 years) I’ve just never, EVER had a good impression of a blonde. 2 red heads, 6 brunettes and 1 black haired woman(who’s now my fiance) guess that’s one reason I like Lorraine you just don’t see black hair and blue eyes. It’s one of the reasons I asked mine to marry me 🙂 I’m glad you’ll bring her back. I still get that look on my face of ‘did someone just fart in here’ every time I see Lorraine as a blonde.
well, it seems to be loading better for me now, was having problems that seem to coincide with the music widget, but I guess maybe it was just water in the old stranded copper wire that my dialup runs on … living out almost off the grid does have some drawbacks, but being away from the city and people WAY outweighs them … keep up the good work!!!
Blonde or brunette makes no difference to me, it’s still a funny strip!
Well, not fer nuthin but if you were truly bothered and wanted to keep the “luddite” audience as well as the G3/iPhone fad-queens in your readership you could get someone to cut you a style sheet or two that would allow the site to be seen without all the cruft on kit that found the job onerous.
I personally don’t care about the sound widget, didn’t even realise what it was until you said last week during the 1977 Monkees revival, but I could sure live without all those bloody sidebar animated graphics that many sites have ([cough]WillowsGrove[/cough]) that do nothing for the comic but slow down its load time (over a cable modem before you kibbutzers get uppity). Please do not add them to the 1977 experience. Nothing causes me to consider dropping a comic from my bookmarks than persistent slow loads while some stupid dating service or MUD promotion loads, then plays (usually jerkily). Your current layout of simple links is minimalistically beautiful and elegant.
Your site loads fine for me, probably because you have zero animation and minimise off-site asset loading (a shame to pay for the bandwidth to load your comic to your audience in real time, then balls it up with assets delivered by a snail with gout from websites run on the cheap).
Once again the usual comic brilliance in the strip. I found the fact that they have a special bonking suite histerical. Typical stoner logic – the fifth room is in use so no nookie tonight. Just a good night’s rest in your own bed. Wait, what?
Did you see that episode of House where the stoner came in complaining that it hurt when he pressed his arm or his legs? House watched him demonstrate, poking each place and saying in a stoned voice “ow”. Then he said “how about when I do this?” and grabbed the finger the kid was using to poke his limbs with, eliciting a yowl of pain. Yep, the stoner had a broken finger and couldn’t figure it out for himself. I thought when I saw it that it was very “1977”.
Speaking of The Monkees, the day we were discussing them I turned on the radio on my drive home, and accidentally selected a retro channel I almost never listen to, only to discover the opening bars of “Daydream Believer”. Of course, I stayed tuned to that station all the way home and joined in the chorus.
have to mention that the addition of embedding the song into your post is brilliant. geez, duh, why didn’t we think of such things before? It’s a true soundtrack for your comic now!
Hahaha! Girls just wanna have fun, alright. 🙂
Love the comic and today’s soundtrack to go with it. Gotta love the blondes – and Blondie (even the comic character aint too shabby…)
Re today’s strip: the fun continues, and much amusement is being had in our household.
Re the ‘music’: can’t say what I really feel for fear of starting a flamewar here, so I’ll just say that I’m very, very, very, very, VERY glad that I don’t use sound on my ‘puter except when watching downloads… ‘Yours truly, Plan 9’s producer’s advocate’ 😛
excellent strip as usual byron. the music loads just fine. i love that new feature.cant wait to see how this pans out.
umm dont know if this is important but when i scrolled down to comment all the text on the screen disappeared when i scrolled back up it came back. ill check if its me and let you know
Well if blonds have more fun why is conservative columnist Ann Colter in a foul mood she writes mean spirited books and columns. I have a theory she really a drag queen rejected by a Lebanese shipping magnet and all she needs is a little love. I’ll even stop with the dumb blond jokes from a snide brunett.