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| Carrying the Torch | I have decided that it's time to put away the torch that I once carried for you.
/ Well, at least until this whole arson thing blows over. / {{Also, hey, do you need a place to stay now?}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-15 |
| Stupid | I was with Stupid, but then Stupid wanted time to think, and now Stupid's tired of lame-ass slogans and casual abuse, and now I'm not with anyone, now I sniff the sheets for the lingering scent of Stupid, and pray for the final sleep to come and reap my weary frame. / {{Stupid could wear a shirt that... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-16 |
| Freedom of Speech | Freedom of Speech makes assholes of us all. / [[Comment fight on YouTube]] / {{Feel free to link the culpable to this image.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-17 |
| Break Up | I know that you think this is the coward's way, but it's not.
/ I could hide behind an email or a phone call,
/ but wouldn't you rather be the first
/ to get the Rube Goldberg break up? / [[Complex Rube Goldberg device which releases a balloon saying "I AM LEAVING YOU."]] / {{Hmmm... you aren't enjoying... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-18 |
| Natural | I hear people saying that what we're doing to the planet isn't "natural",
/ And yet we're one stage in millions of years of natural process,
/ So it's a little proud to think of us as anything more sinister than cellphone-weilding monkeys with delusions of apocalyptic importance.
/ The world will not... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-21 |
| Fairy Tale Ending | Somewhere in the halls of fiction,
/ Two unwanted children
/ incinerate an old lady. / Somewhere a woken beauty
/ marries the king who
/ raped her while she slept. / Somewhere the queen is
/ dancing in hot iron shoes
/ until she drops down dead. / Somewhere someone is wishing
/ for a "fairy tale ending,"
/ but... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-23 |
| Day | [[two sunset-silhouetted stick figures on a hillside underneath a tree, vaguely reminiscent of Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot]] / Stickman on Left: What day is it? / Stickman on Right: It's Today.
/ Isn't that Enough? / {{Thursday. It's Thursday.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-24 |
| Agnosticism | [[gravestones in a graveyard; patches of snow]] / Some days it seems like agnosticism just means not knowing who to blame. / {{Have a happy weekend everyone!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-25 |
| Little Worlds - Part I | [[man in black trenchcoat at night]] / Chapter One: The night does funny things inside a man. / {{This is page one of a sneak preview of my new group comic project, Little Worlds. The comic will be free online, but all merch/ad proceeds will be going to Free the Children, a charity for international... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-28 |
| Little Worlds - Part II | < http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-29 |
| Little Worlds - Part III | Got to be careful, you spend too much time swinging from that jungle gym inside your skull and you'll slip right off the bars
/ [[ blurred jungle gym bars ]]
/ < http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-09-30 |
| Little Worlds - Part IV | I hate thinking in my sleep. / I mean, we all have voices up there. But mine are jabbering, self-important pricks.
/ They sound too much like the world. / Me, I'm just a charming insomniac who clutches a golf club while he feigns sleep. / I'm the picture of health. / Or at least the sketch of it. / But... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-01 |
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| Philosophy 1000 | [[university or college classroom]] / Ok, students of Philosophy 1000, you can all thank Bradley for showing us the difference between the terms "free thinker" and "pretentious douchebag." / {{Professors need to do this.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-05 |
| Sexuality (NSFW) | The following comic deals frankly, compassionately, and (somewhat) visually with human sexuality. It's not safe for work unless you have an awesome job.
/ Mom, Dad, please don't read this. Please. / I am told to be embarrassed by my sexuality.
/ I am told that my genitals are an organ of disgrace.
/ But... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-06 |
| Days Like This | [[In the foreground, a group of people stand in a cluster under a picnic shelter, and a few other people are seated at picnic tables. Farther away is a playground area, and behind that a red shed inside a white picket fence enclosure.]] / IT'S DAYS LIKE THIS, SITTING NEAR THE PARK AND LISTENING TO... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-07 |
| Swans | [[green hills with angry looking bird]]
/ I want to love you and live
/ as swans do.
/ I want to walk through the
/ park and terrorize children.
/ I want to steal break
/ from lonely
/ people.
/ I want to poop
/ on lawns and attack
/ grandmothers.
/ And all the while, I want
/ people to watch up and say,
/ "They... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-08 |
| Vegetarians | [[a cracked eggshell and spilled egg on a white background]] / When people ask me if dedicated vegetarians should eat eggs, I always say, "Yes." / I mean, how else do you cut off the meat-eaters' food supply? / {{Well, besides devouring meat-eaters.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-09 |
| Corn Maze | [[man in cornfield]] / "What kind of man poops in a family corn maze?"
/ This line of questioning is fruitless, Your Honour.
/ What I would be wondering is, "What kind of family makes a corn maze so big that a man had to poop in it?" / {{A cornundrum, indeed!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-14 |
| Romance | [[Drawing of a necklace with a heart-shaped jewel]] / I'm starting to worry that I'm living in a world that cares more about romance than it does about love. / {{RPC's one year anniversary is coming up in two-and-some weeks. Should I buy it something?}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-15 |
| Skeletons | [[a twenty-sided die on a D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook.]] / The skeletons in my closet take half damage from piercing weapons. / {{Gamer for life (and beyond)!}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-18 |
| Good News | Well, there's good news and bad news.
/ The good news is that a small woodland creature is lodged in your intestines.
/ The bad news is that I lied about the "good news."
/ And about the "small." / [[intestines]] / {{What we have learned from this is that I am not a good doctor and that you are not a... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-19 |
| Necromancy | [[A pale yellow hand, spotted with some unknowable funk. The wrist is half-coated in blood, and there's a large dot of it on the back of the hand. The fingertips come to claw points and are uniformly covered in blood as well.]] / Necromancy: putting the "fun" back in "funeral." / {{The dark arts... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-20 |
| The End | The prophets have it wrong. / The end is past and we didn't even fucking blink. / {{This, like much of the comic, isn't something I believe so much as something I believe is worth thinking about.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-21 |
| Font | [[On an index card]] / FONT HAS RUINED CRIME
/ FOR THOSE RANDOM ARTISTS
/ WHO WERE ONLY IN IT
/ FOR THE CUT AND PASTE. / {{I feel sorry for the surviving old-school criminals, with their limp dollar-sign bags and their dusty craft kits.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-22 |
| Pirate's Heart | [[background: mast and sail]] / Yes, the sea is wide and a pirate's heart is fearless, but this morning I will stay in bed because I am cold and wet, and your mouth is a bay full of things I know. / {{I feel arrrdently for you.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-23 |
| Heraclitus | [[a hand sticks out of dung, throwing devil-horns]] / The story goes that the pre-Socratic philosopher named Heraclitus came down with a fever later in his life, and thought that the only way to cure himself was to climb into cow-dung and evaporate the damp fever from his soul. They say that's how... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-27 |
| Where I Come From... | So where you come from it's okay to abuse people for their sexuality, and where i come from everybody celebrates
/ Punch A Bigot Day! / [[Rainbow fist with rainbow action lines radiating from it]] / {{The day after is "Feel Bad For Doing That, But Mostly Feel Like He/She Had It Coming" Day.}} http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-28 |
| It's Not You, It's... | I know it's sad that we're breaking up, but I want you to know...
/ It's not you,
/ It's everybody who's better looking than you. / [[Man sits on a couch with his head in his hands]] / {{It's not you, it's me not caring about you.
/ Happy 250 comics everybody! (Don't forget to check in on Saturday to... http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-10-29 |
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