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Early September Sketches Early September 2012 sketches / (holding my pencil correctly!)
Here's An Oldie For Ya [[Athena thinks to herself while riding a bus in the Pioneer Valley.]] / Here I am, I'm back here, how funny. / Goodness how I enjoy these buses. / As usual, I'm looking forward to the academic part. / I just hope I'm not too lonely this time.
Uncommon Grounds and New Territory Uncommon Grounds / some memories of my first job in Minneapolis
A Few Words About Autobio Comics [[A girl drawing comics at a desk looks on while a bunch of superheros read aloud from a book of autobio comix and laugh at it.]] / Superhero Dudes: HA HA HA
Unreasonable Wants ATHENA'S UNREASONABLE WANTS: / 1. [[a new laptop]] / 2. [[a bigger flash drive]] / 3. [[a 2012 monthly planner]] / 4. [[new running shoes]] / 5. [[a new iPod and/or headphones]] / 6. [[a hair trim]]
 
Smack Madness 2 Are Northfield's young heroin users just bad apples? Hardly. Many are "alpha" kids--top students and popular athletes who are spreading the habit to neighbors and friends.* / Just Another Example of: Northfield's Smack Madness** / * Katherine Kersten, a fair and balanced Star Tribune news source! / **...
Smack Madness 3 Did You Know: Kids have roamed through the dorms at Carleton and St Olaf colleges grabbing laptops and cell phones to sell. They have even invaded hospitals in Rochester, soliciting patients for OxyCotin.* / Just Another Example of: Northfield's Smack Madness** / * Katherine Kersten, a fair and balanced...
The Other Girls 1 The OTHER Girls / Guinevere / Morgan Le Fay: psh.
The Other Girls 2 The OTHER Girls / Virgin/Mary, Jesus' Mom / Whore/Mary Magdelene: Jesus Christ.
The Other Girls 3 The OTHER Girls / Snow White / The Evil Stepmother: Gimme a break.
 
The Other Girls 4 The OTHER Girls / Sandy / Rizzo: What a flake.
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 1) Rich Moments. (Why "Sex and the City: The Movie" sucked balls. Part 1.) / Jennifer Hudson (aka Louise, aka Carrie's black servant) looks longingly at one of Carrie's 100+ pairs of shoes and says: / Louise: For a pair of these, I could move! / So why doesn't Carrie just give her the shoes? / To make...
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 2) Man Moments. (Why "Sex and the City: The Movie" sucked balls. Part 2.) / Louise clarifies exactly why all these women have come to New York. For career? Travel? Culture? Nah. / Louise: I moved to New York to fall in love! / But then she just gets hitched to some dude in St Louis anyway. As long...
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 3) The movie lacks the fun club scenes of the show. But there's still a LOT of drinking. Drinking - club atmosphere = really depressing. / The music! It's bipolar. A perfect example of the movie's uncertainty as to whom it was catering toward. The ads played up the "Now we're old!" angle but the music...
Bully! Number 1 BULLY! / Or: why my childhood was hilarious! / [[Younger Athena is writing in her journal.]] / Today some kids on the bus teased me (the same ones who called me a dog). They teased me and tried to read you (journal) and then told this dumb girl named Eva to sit with me and when she did she was really...
 
Bully! Number 2 Everyone had a grade school bully. Mine's name was MEGAN. / Remember Gelly Roll pens? Once I brought a brand new gold one to school. Megan asked to see it, then handed me back her used-up gold one. / I didn't say anything but went home all sad. My mom wheedled the story out of me, then called my...
Bully! Number 3 So I have dark brown hair. Everywhere. In 3rd grade as we cut out pictures for an art project, this jerk kid turned to me and said: / Jerk: Woah! Your arm hair is SO DARK! You have GORILLA ARMS! / Jerk: Check out her gross GORILLA ARMS! / Another good hair moment is this one from 6th grade math...
Bully! Number 4 My high school boyfriend could not keep secrets. He loved hearing gossip, but inevitably passed it along to those who weren't supposed to hear it. / Athena: gasp! / On a field trip bus senior year, he sat behind some jock types from our grade. / Sam {{thinking}}: kettlebells. / One of them, John Murray,...
Bully! Number 5 Senior year of high school, my boyfriend, (actually, he was an "Ex" by then) went on a class trip to Peru. / While there, he sat and listened while two classmates rated our entire grade, on a scale of 1-10, on level of attractiveness. / Girl: 5? / Boy: No, 4. 4. / Naturally, though sworn to secrecy,...
Bully! Number 6 My sophomore history class was pretty awful. All the burnouts somehow ended up in the same hour. / Kid's Notebook: FU Neubel. / For one assignment, we had to be videotaped as we presented group projects. / Afterwards we watched the footage together. (WTF was the point of that?) / I was my group's narrator,...
 
Smite Pt 1 SMITE / By Athena Currier / If I hadn't worked late in the media basement... / Athena: and then you hit ctrl-v... / Athena [[thinking]]: wow, somebody actually thinks i know shit about FinalCut! Sweet! / ...I wouldn't have been hungry... / If I hadn't been hungry, I wouldn't have remember the organic...
Smite Pt 2 [[Athena tromps through the snow.]] / Athena: Hi. / Athena's Roommate: Hi. Could you bring them back afterward? / [[Athena tromps through the snow in the opposite direction.]] / [[Athena unlocks her door.]] / [[Athena tromps through the snow once more.]] / [[Athena throws the keys at her roommate.]] / Athena's...
William & Sam: Pt 1 William: It was so hot-- / Sam Twito: With 2 ts or 1? / William: Um, actually, h-a-w-t. / Sam: Not h-a-u-g-h-t? / William: No.
William & Sam: Pt 2 William: Remember when you gave that A.P. History presentation with all the pictures of naked men? / Sam: MONKS. They were naked MONKS. / William: They had weights hanging from their scrotums! / Sam: There were only 2 pictures like that! / ...
Minnipeg Part 1 Phoebe: I need more things to do in the car. / Athena: I'M bringing a book, notebook, and iPod. Did YOU charge your iPod? / Phoebe: NO. / Ross Currier: I'm bringing my harmonica! / Phoebe: If you play that in the car, I will stop, buy a gun, and kill you. I'm not even kidding. / [[Dad stares at...
 
Minnipeg Part 2 [[Minneapolis skyline.]] / Athena: I think these buildings make a nice skyline. / Phoebe: Yeah. Where are we? / Athena: Ha! Phoebe! MINNEAPOLIS. / Phoebe: Oh. Really? / Ross Currier: We've been on the road for 45 minutes! / Phoebe: It feels a lot longer.
Minnipeg Part 3 Phoebe: Y'know, I never minded that we brought homemade lunches to school. School lunches are gross. / Athena: Except the school pizza. That was SUCH. GOOD. PIZZA. / Phoebe: Ew! That pizza was disgusting! / Athena: I could eat it EVERY DAY. / Ross Currier: I liked it too. / Athena: That, and the...
Minnipeg Part 4 Athena: Oh LOOK, they have CHEESE DIP! / Phoebe: Great... / Athena: I want it. / Phoebe: No you don't. / Athena: Yes. I really do. Look how many kinds! Mom, can I get cheese dip? / Sarah Currier: You actually want that? All right... Phoebe, what do you want? / Phoebe: Uh...something chocolate... / Phoebe:...
Minnipeg Part 5 Phoebe: What did she name the baby? / Sarah Currier: I don't remember. It was a normal name, but an okay one. / [[Athena looks out the window, smiling absently.]] / Athena: When I was a kid, I used to like the name LAURA. / Phoebe and Athena: HAHAHAHA / Sarah Currier: What's wrong with Laura? / Athena:...
Minnipeg Part 6 [[Athena and Phoebe walk around the side of a Pump N' Munch gas station.]] / Phoebe: No, I don't want to go into the bathroom together. / Athena: FINE. / [[Athena waits outside the bathroom, pissed off.]] / Phoebe: Okay, your turn. / Athena: Okay, you can hold the key. / Phoebe: Yep. / [[Phoebe waits...
 

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