X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,7f19a4e14d9ce3b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-30 11:15:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.242.128.42!not-for-mail From: "Joaquim Almgren Gandara" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Nerd Boy, episodes 18-21 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:12:18 +0200 Lines: 168 Message-ID: <9mlvsc$2sq4g$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.242.128.42 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 999195340 3041424 213.242.128.42 (16 [102694]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7215 We have to stop these run-away wheel chairs! I should be able to decrease my speed by steering into that soft grass by the road. ` \ \ \ OO \ \ ~oo \ -||- \ \ \ ->>- (_)bb) \ \ (_)\\) \ \ \ `. \ \ OO \ \ ~. `. -||- \ \ \ ->>- (_)bb) \ \ (_)\\) \ \ \ Damn this city and its fire hydrants! HELP! AAAAAAHH!!! \ \ , \ \ ~oo \ \ \ ->>- \ \ (_)\\) \ \ \ jg --- As usual, theory does not equal practice. This is the first time I've attempted a real profile of Mandy, btw. --- Somebody stop this wheel chair! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!! AAAAAA.. \ \ , \ \ \ ~oo \ \ \ ->>- \ \ (_)\\) \ \ \ ..AAAA.. `. `. , `. `. ~oo `. `. `. ->>- `. `. (_)\\) `. `. `. ..aaaa.. , _ ~oo - ->>- ______ (_)\\) __ ..aaah... Stupid anticlimaxes. , ~.. ->>- (_)\\) jg --- I kinda like anticlimaxes. --- Huh? Tycho, Not Kansas, Gabe, where are we? that's for sure. Featuring Tycho & ` ,,,_ __. , Gabe of `.. .. Penny Arcade (<( )=) fame! ________ bb ___ dd ________________________ AUGH! My T-shirt! When did I get I believe I can That's not Pac Man! a crew cut? explain that, ` ,,,_ __. , , gentlemen. `,, \'' OO -(<(- )=). .||. ________ bb ___ dd __________________ dd __ Never mind that. You must retrieve Poor Pac Man... Who're you? the Sacred FluffBunny before ` ,,,_ .__ , , John Romero awakens and `,, .. OO wreaks havoc upon the .(<(. (=( .||. land! Make haste! ________ bb ____ bb _________________ dd __ That was quite a fall. Are you ,-. ,-. ok, Nerd Boy? ' : ` /Mental note: Wheel chairs, fire hydrants\ ` : \ and on-line comic addictions don't mix./ ~.. _ : o .>>. ||_ .-. qq . __ || ______ (_)\\)[ ] ____________________________.\\.____jg --- Thought I'd include this just to round off the story arc. Penny Arcade is another on-line comic -- uh, I mean, a -real- on-line comic. It's over at www.penny-arcade.com. Tycho and Gabe are both the main characters and the makers of that comic, and if you aren't familiar with them, you'll probably just go "Huh? Pac Man? John Romero?" Thing is, they're gamer freaks. Most of their stuff is only "funny-haha" for gamers, although most of it is also very "funny-weird" for just about everybody who isn't a schizophrenic. I e-mailed the guy who does the writing (Tycho Brahe, but that's not his real name, DUH!) and asked if I could use Tycho and Gabe in my comic. He wrote, and I quote: "You're welcome to use them. They look very nice, asciified!" I was all aglow for a week or so. (Hey, I'm a poet and I didn't know it! Actually, I did. :P) I thought it was fun to adapt Gabe's (if Tycho writes, then what does Gabe do, I wonder?) funky style into NB-style ASCII. The downside of this strip is that there's no real joke. For some reason, I thought that the "punchline" in this strip was funny when I made it. Now I just look at it and think "Yeah, ok, but where's the joke?" Actually, the funniest part is "Make haste!", IMO. :) --- I'm bored, let's go Like what? do something. , ` ~.. OO .>>. .||. |\ dd I know! Let's go ride Are you crazy?! I nearly wheel chairs down that broke my neck! I had to stay steep slope again! at the hospital for 3 weeks! That was fun! , ` ~.. OO .>>. .||. |) dd ~.. OO .>>. .||. || dd Ok, let's go. , ~.. OO .>>. .||. |\ bb jg --- One last strip for the road, since it's wheel chair related. It's a standard gag, but there's also some character development here, I think. Here we see that Mandy is more of an airhead than a cruel bitch, which is kind of both what I like and dislike about her. She never really bitches, she just -is-, and that's enough. It's like that old joke where there's a long list called "How to get her horny", and the list called "How to get him horny" is just "Show up". -- http://www.ite.mh.se/~joaal98/ascii ___ __ _ _ _ ________ _ / \\\ "Make haste!" \ \| `.| `.| `\ \ \ \ `.' \ [-[-]-\\ , Heh heh. I'm \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ _, \ /_ /|/ so funny. /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (jg) {v} |= \__/`._|\_\_\_,_\__|\_\_\ \_\ #// (\