Much thanks to Sally & the Ocean Brave for cutting out the little big-eyed people, who come from a painting by Eve. Sally also came up with the exact drunken make-out pose.
When I got home from Sally’s last night, I realized I was a Boy too short, but had an extra Girl. I almost made the last panel two Girls, a la Vic Chesnutt’s “Soft Picasso,” but I wanted the repetitive motif to continue on. Ain’t nobody breaking out of this cycle!
Then when I left for work this morning I saw, face down in the rain, the white shadow-back of the lost Boy, swimming in mud.
cunnilingus on catoptric. lord help us.
two girls at the end would’ve been kinda funny.
This is awesome and perfect. The cuddly, inseparable lovers in the booth at the restaurant are my favorite…although the drunken make-out pose came out really, really well.
inseparable lovers is the best
god damn those people creep me out. its like the children from village of the damned…’cept big eyed!!
Was this inspired by the yeah yeah yeahs?
Oh yeah! Well, the title was, most certainly. Good eyes, Speedy!
i. love. it.
Two girls are always funny.
Remember when someone on here tried to say that Madonna and Britney Spears kissing wasn’t that interesting?
P-shaw.
you know, didn’t Christina A. and Madonna kiss on stage just a few seconds from the time when Britany and Modonna kissed? did i dream that up? who doesn’t anyone mention that?
As gclark pointed out that day, Christina A. looked like a honey-baked ham with a weave and that image was therefore erased from the memory of America.
I think theirs was just a peck, anyway.
More big-eyed creepiness, please!
How in the hell is Modern Romance a Yeah Yeah Yeahs reference other than it’s named after a song or something? I mean, it’s not like they coined the phrase or anything. Sheesh.
Um, and isn’t that title just a ripoff of Albert Brooks? You guys and your YYYs. Philistines!
Still misses you…and thinks this is adorable…but only because of your bizarrely sad P.S.- floating cut out of boy..you might qualify for Dr. Phil now.
Ha! Big Gray, you’re so jaded! I’m surprised you didn’t even bring up the obvious Bowie paralell, to “Modern Love,” which is what I was gonna call it, but “romance” is obviously not the word for what’s going on in this cartoon.
Speedy Marie just asked if it was a YYY’s reference—and he was right! I was listening to that song, and it just suited the strip perfectly. And I highly, highly doubt that Al Brooks has a copyright on the phrase “modern romance,” or that the YYY’s were thinking they were “ripping him off”!
Don’t you have Canals of Venice practice right now?
I leave for Ohio and look what happens… SICK!
That sounds like a “fair and balanced” argument if you ask me.