Hey, so, you want to get a little glimpse into what keeps cartoonists up at night? Click Here for a semi-alternate punchline. I had doubts about the clarity of the punchline (or punch-panel, if you will) at first. Is it too subtle? Is it just subtle enough? Is it clear and obvious? These are the kinds of questions you ask yourself repeatedly as a cartoonist who just finished a new strip, and then answer, but then wake up at night thinking you made the wrong choice. I decided the posted version is just subtle enough. If you know what an outhouse is, you’d know that this would be a poor design for an obvious reason, but it should take just a sweet minute to register. In the alternate strip that I considered, I think it’s redundant; just restating the implied joke. Would you agree? Oh, and don’t get me started on the internal debate of what the yell should be. Should it be ‘aaugh’? ‘gaah’? On and on.
On a non-related note, I would be highly disappointed if I met the man who invented ice cream sandwiches and he turned out to be a jerk.
In other news, some guest art of mine was posted on Joenis Norac’s site, “Unconscious Ink,” where every Tuesday and Thursday Joenis dishes up a new weird, funny, disturbing, and/or completely random piece of artwork- a concept that is right up my alley as I love things that are any mixture of those adjectives. Take some time to browse his archives, won’t you? Here’s the link to my guest piece.
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I can smell the devastating effects already!
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I’m sure they have some Glade air fresheners or something in there. It would just be common sense…
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I spit coffee all over the place. That last panel was so funny. The alternate was also funny but the lower balloon would have been lost in the laughing just from the panel itself. You are one funny guy. I love your comic.
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Thank you sir, though please don’t sue me for any coffee burns that may have resulted. Good to know you agree on the unneccessary balloon in the last panel. I was hoping this worked without it.
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Top Bunk!!! I called it.
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We’ll have to paper-rock-scissors for it.
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This comment made me chortle.
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I got dibs on top!
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That was in my Chris Farley voice BTW
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Looks like it’s you, me, and Bearman in a showdown.
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oh & ryan, thats what she said! bam!
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You two are too slow. Bet you never got the front seat growing up either.
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Yeah… I think i’d wait for the top one too….
Nice job on the strip..
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Oh I’d wait, too. Hopefully somebody wouldn’t be taking their sweet time while I really, really had to go, though. I’ll lay off the soda if I’m ever in those woods.
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That’s one very bad design there. Lol!
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Yeah they didn’t think that one all the way through at all.
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Ewwww…..
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Yep, pretty much that.
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I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard all week as I did when I got to your last panel. That was excellent!
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Awesome, thanks for the compliments good sir
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I think yelling “shiiiiiit” would have been appropriate!
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You are correct, ma’am, but this is a PG comic so my vocabulary is limited!
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oooooh, that’s awesome! awesomely horrible, but awesome nonetheless.
I once drew a mock-up of a “bunk cubicles” for my dad, who’s basically a Dilbert. he passed it around his office, it was a hit. Never got implemented, not surprisingly.
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Oh I’d love the top cubicle so I could look down on the cube-maze from on high.
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You made my dad laugh out loud with the pillows and rattlesnakes bit. This is hilarious! THANK YOU!5214 (numbers added by butt of my cat)
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Hey that’s great! I’m glad your cat cares enough to comment as well.
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They keep all the best magazines on the lower level, so it’s kind of a tradeoff.
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In a plastic protective covering of some sort, no doubt.
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Well, at least if you’re on the bottom you won’t run out of toilet paper… if you choose to reuse it…
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I was afraid of the kinds of visuals this one would produce in the comments section…
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I think the yell provided a good picture — otherwise I’d be imaging a different construction inside…
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That was part of my internal debate on this one. Lost sleep is no fun!
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Given the appearance of these 3 goons, I could see how they would think a high density outhouse might work for them! To bad they lack the sense to add a little direct plumbing from each potty level straight into the ground! ….yeah, it -could- work if done right! *grin*
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They don’t look like the type to be receptive to criticism, so it’s probably best to let them figure it out.
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I think I’d try to avoid anyone who habitually used the lower out-house. That speaks of a taste in things that I dare not go within a barge-pole’s reach of.
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Well there’s a chance it could be a normal person who is just very, very, extremely lazy and doesn’t feel like dealing with the ladder. But that would take some kind of superhuman laziness.
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Hey, I’m from the jefBOT comic that you did a guest strip for! I have just read alllll of your comics and it’s hilarious! I love whenever the aliens appear (Oh, wait. It’s called a muffin. haha)
You, sir, now have the distinct honor of being placed in the “Webcomic” folder of my favorites. Congratulations!
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What an honor! And here I am without a speech prepared.
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Haha! I could make a fortune selling umbrellas from a booth next door.
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Ah, now that’s the entrepreneurial spirit I can appreciate.
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You have to understand the whole concept of the 3 stacker privy. The top one is for the politicians and the middle one for government beaurecrats and the bottom one for the voters because we are already used to it.
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Now that’s deep. If the three-story outhouse is widely interpreted as political symbolism, I’ll surely claim that it was intentional.
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I hate to be Buzz Killington but there are two-story outhouses in reality… http://www.amazon.com/Two-Story-Outhouse-Norman-D-Weis/dp/0870043269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260806004&sr=1-1
And that’s why I never google jokes that I think of, because there are too many similar things to other things out there. Stupid internet!
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The simpsons did it too
Simpsons did it? BLAST
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One of the best “punch-pannels” that I have read in a long time!
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I almost hate to admit, my first thought when I saw the last panel was “What’s the problem? That could easily be designed to work properly.” Then my mind proceeded to work through possible designs. Sometimes my brain really should just relax and take a joke.
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I have to say, I love you.
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Here is the long-standing Internet meme outhouse “Management & Employees”:
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5532/2000outhousemanagement.jpg