[11/19/2007]
The first of these two 4koma was inspired by a trip I took to IHOP one day to have breakfast for dinner. It was fun. I will be repeating the stunt on Wednesday. I like the waiter guy, but, like the police chief in Sandstorm, he has that difficult-to-replicate-correctly non-inkable hair. Why do I torture myself so~~
The second one started out as a two-line exchange I thought of on my own. (The exact lines are not represented in the comic.) The final form and dialogue were inspired by a conversation I had with Derek while trying to figure out the lines for another 4koma, which has not yet been drawn.
A separate and completely unrelated, but amusing, conversation follows below. Some background: There is currently an anime airing in Japan called Clannad. It’s based off of a visual novel of the same name, produced by a company called Key, which has also produced several other visual novels. Most of them follow similar plots, which have been summarized as “Guy moves into new town, meets an improbably large number of girls who all have issues”. That said, the ending animation for the Clannad anime features animated dango, a type of Japanese “dumpling”. (animation). These have been described as “moeblobs” (moé), and represented with the emoticon ( ” ) . Alright, with that out of the way, you can now read and make sense of the following IM conversation. (kenocolin is me and c0mmander w0lf is Derek.)
kenocolin: uh oh: [ EDIT: long link removed. ]
c0mmander w0lf: AH HA HA HA
c0mmander w0lf: OH DUDE
c0mmander w0lf: they had
c0mmander w0lf: like clannad canned bread
c0mmander w0lf: or something
c0mmander w0lf: like that
kenocolin: oh dear
c0mmander w0lf: yeah
c0mmander w0lf: OH
c0mmander w0lf: they had
kenocolin: they might make a fortune if they start selling dango
c0mmander w0lf: Kanon jam
kenocolin: ( ‘ )
kenocolin: er
c0mmander w0lf: lol
kenocolin: that one was one-eyed
c0mmander w0lf: ( ” )
kenocolin: ( ” )
kenocolin: (- -)
c0mmander w0lf: lol
kenocolin: (‘ )
kenocolin: looking left
c0mmander w0lf: ( )
c0mmander w0lf: back side
kenocolin: ( ” );
kenocolin: lol
c0mmander w0lf: _____
c0mmander w0lf: roadkill
c0mmander w0lf: ok
kenocolin: (‘ x)
kenocolin: kenshin
c0mmander w0lf: lol
c0mmander w0lf: ( ” ” )
c0mmander w0lf: siamese twins
kenocolin: lololol
kenocolin: / ” \
kenocolin: armor-plated
c0mmander w0lf: lol
kenocolin: // ” \\
kenocolin: further plated
c0mmander w0lf: ”
c0mmander w0lf: white dango
c0mmander w0lf: in a
c0mmander w0lf: snow storm
kenocolin: good one
kenocolin: oh man
kenocolin: this could so be a post
c0mmander w0lf: this could be so retarded
kenocolin: [ " ]
c0mmander w0lf: (which it is)
kenocolin: cubist dango
c0mmander w0lf: lol
kenocolin: (= )
kenocolin: american-style
c0mmander w0lf: I dun get it
kenocolin: like
kenocolin: an “american” smiley
kenocolin: is horizontal
c0mmander w0lf: oh
kenocolin: a “japanese/asian” smiley
c0mmander w0lf: ehhh
kenocolin: is vertical
c0mmander w0lf: I don’t know if you can
kenocolin: okay, fine
c0mmander w0lf: generalize
c0mmander w0lf: like that
c0mmander w0lf: but
kenocolin: horizontal dango
c0mmander w0lf: I get it
c0mmander w0lf: lol
kenocolin: _____(= )___( ” )___( =)___
kenocolin: rolling dango
c0mmander w0lf: ah ha
c0mmander w0lf: ( .. )
c0mmander w0lf: top view
kenocolin: >=={}===( ” )
kenocolin: missile dango
c0mmander w0lf: might as well have
kenocolin: ah, good top view
c0mmander w0lf: >-( xx )->
c0mmander w0lf: speared
kenocolin: oof
kenocolin: ( ‘ ° )
kenocolin: monocle
c0mmander w0lf: ) ” )
c0mmander w0lf: with a bite
c0mmander w0lf: taken out
kenocolin: more like
kenocolin: erm
c0mmander w0lf: oh oh oh
c0mmander w0lf:
c0mmander w0lf: lack thereof
kenocolin: ) O O )
kenocolin: er
kenocolin: hmm
c0mmander w0lf: ( ” )
c0mmander w0lf: obese
kenocolin: lololol
kenocolin: er
kenocolin: no
c0mmander w0lf: and
c0mmander w0lf: (“)
kenocolin: be politicially correct
c0mmander w0lf: anorexic
kenocolin: ”horizontally challenged”
c0mmander w0lf: LOL
c0mmander w0lf: ok copypasta this into your rant
c0mmander w0lf: when you write it
kenocolin: sure, let me save
c0mmander w0lf: ok
c0mmander w0lf: my own
c0mmander w0lf: shower
c0mmander w0lf: tiem
kenocolin: ^( ” )^
kenocolin: dango with Haruhi ribbon
