Jetpacks and Time Machines is a semi-sci fi comic featuring a partially robot boy, a nerd, a violent monkey, a retired supervillain, and more.
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@Kevin: That’s why we need to get back to the old nintendo controllers… Those suckers had a much higher rage threshold than today’s Xbox 360 wireless ones that’s for sure…
@ Tyler: Thanks… That popcorn was a pain in the ass to draw properly.
@Me!: Some time in the future perhaps the dialog will contain only images, and it will be more detailed than any other art in the strip.
Everytime I see Adam or Fred get angry, I am waiting for them to drop the F-Bomb. Being good friends with Jim, and talking to him on the phone…he is the Shakespeare of the F-Word. It’s really a pleasure to hear him use it.
Jim: The Wii remote with condom cannot be broken. I have seen many fly across the room, and all they have managed to do is scrape a little paint off the front door, and the ceiling (don’t ask about the ceiling). Microsoft and Sony could learn a thing or two. I can’t count the number of X-box controllers I have lost due to some excessive expressions of anger.
“…he is the Shakespeare of the F-Word”. I love that . I work in a factory, so some of the people I interact with could be described the same way. That’s why I tend to hide in my office.
Great strip. I like the dramatic close-ups, and I think that you really nailed the popcorn. That’s one of those things where it’s easy to depict from far away but very hard to depict in full, close-up detail.
Kevin, maybe humans can’t break the Wii controllers, but Adam is a cyborg, so who knows what he’s capable of? He certainly looks like he has the ferocity to destroy it in that fourth panel, and he’s screaming “GUAUUGH!” Who can argue with “GUAUUGH!”?
I think my favorite part of the strip is Jim’s representation of curse words in the second panel, though. Tanks…bomb…nuclear explosion. Very clever. It reminds me of “Asterix and the Goths”…growing up I was not a big “Asterix” fan, but my friend was and one of the ones he had me read was “Asterix and the Goths,” which featured a sequence where one of the Gauls is being held prisoner by the Gothic leader. When allowed to speak, the Gaul’s swear words are creatively represented by a bunch of angry-looking symbols. When the chief asks for a translation, he receives those same symbols, but Germanified (if that’s a word). A classic moment. The point is, going with creative swear symbols is a lot more fun than the traditional ones.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Been there … done that. It’s kind of like dating that “woman” you met on the street corner…..you’ll regret it in the near future.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:33 am
ok jim all jokeing aside…this is a fantasticly drawn strip!!!
wow!!!
its all i can really say.
wow!!!!!
January 11th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Can’t say I’m laughing out loud, but the dramatic close-ups are awesome. I like the cussing symbols, but could you add a little detail to them?
January 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
@Kevin: That’s why we need to get back to the old nintendo controllers… Those suckers had a much higher rage threshold than today’s Xbox 360 wireless ones that’s for sure…
@ Tyler: Thanks… That popcorn was a pain in the ass to draw properly.
@Me!: Some time in the future perhaps the dialog will contain only images, and it will be more detailed than any other art in the strip.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Thank God It’s Friday. “Guauugh!!”
January 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Everytime I see Adam or Fred get angry, I am waiting for them to drop the F-Bomb. Being good friends with Jim, and talking to him on the phone…he is the Shakespeare of the F-Word. It’s really a pleasure to hear him use it.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Jim: The Wii remote with condom cannot be broken. I have seen many fly across the room, and all they have managed to do is scrape a little paint off the front door, and the ceiling (don’t ask about the ceiling). Microsoft and Sony could learn a thing or two. I can’t count the number of X-box controllers I have lost due to some excessive expressions of anger.
“…he is the Shakespeare of the F-Word”. I love that . I work in a factory, so some of the people I interact with could be described the same way. That’s why I tend to hide in my office.
P.S. Panel 2 is amazing!!! I want a T-shirt made!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Great strip. I like the dramatic close-ups, and I think that you really nailed the popcorn. That’s one of those things where it’s easy to depict from far away but very hard to depict in full, close-up detail.
Kevin, maybe humans can’t break the Wii controllers, but Adam is a cyborg, so who knows what he’s capable of? He certainly looks like he has the ferocity to destroy it in that fourth panel, and he’s screaming “GUAUUGH!” Who can argue with “GUAUUGH!”?
I think my favorite part of the strip is Jim’s representation of curse words in the second panel, though. Tanks…bomb…nuclear explosion. Very clever. It reminds me of “Asterix and the Goths”…growing up I was not a big “Asterix” fan, but my friend was and one of the ones he had me read was “Asterix and the Goths,” which featured a sequence where one of the Gauls is being held prisoner by the Gothic leader. When allowed to speak, the Gaul’s swear words are creatively represented by a bunch of angry-looking symbols. When the chief asks for a translation, he receives those same symbols, but Germanified (if that’s a word). A classic moment. The point is, going with creative swear symbols is a lot more fun than the traditional ones.
Again, great strip.