The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2.

*remembers The Man With No Penis, smirks, buries head in hands*

*realises how dorky the above sentence is, smirks, buries head in hands*

The best ones apart from that are No Survivors, Barb And Rudy, Today I Am Going To Fly, It's My Birthday, Freaking Vortex and Eden. Holy crap they're good.

Out of the recent ones, Guntron Alliance Force is kinda brilliant.

YES! He does it again! I can't wait for the book!

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF220-Passed_On.jpg

I WAS GONNA say something along the lines of 'I thought he'd totally jumped the shark but this week's is a wonderful return to top form', so yeah!

notice that there was a long gap before this one. maybe he was collecting himself.

never laughed at this shit.

have you no heart, sir?

i was about to say the very same thing

you are like the people who hate arrested development (the tv show)

and just as i open another can of worms, it's bedtime

That one's ok, but no match for the magnificence of his really early ones.

you are like the people who hate arrested development (the tv show)

except WRONG.

i still think PBF is funny. having read all of them (and looking forward to a book) he's always seemed kind of hit-or-miss to my sense of humor.

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF085AD-Lumberjack.jpg

lumberjack looks like someone i knew from school!

this one is one of my favorites -- even though it isn't funny if you think about it ;__;

[image]http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF027AD-Billy_the_Bunny.jpg[/live]

!!!

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF027AD-Billy_the_Bunny.jpg

^^^ A++

Did anyone else preorder the book?

I did. Yes, the cover artwork is awful, although I'm sure if you eat a dozen pixie sticks it may make more sense. But, it's only 10 dollars, it's 96 pages, and if each page looks like this:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/images/Book-Open.jpg

that means around 180 little strips.

Aforementioned cover:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/images/Book-Cover.jpg

Can't find the shortcut express anymore online! Damned archive editing.

That's odd, it's not on his main site anymore

http://web.archive.org/web/20060903080823/http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF101AD-The_Shortcut_Express.jpg

Erm, http://web.archive.org/web/20060903080823/http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF101AD-The_Shortcut_Express.jpg if that didn't show up

^^^^^that is the saddest thing

(has he guested on achewood yet?)

perhaps it's in the book? i hadn't checked his site in a while - achewood stole my heart - but when i gets paid i shall be tracking that down.

An old one, but I'd never spotted it...

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=0PBF43027BC-Angels_Caught.jpg#44

How is that final eye so funny?!?

Because it implies God isn't really angry at them rather than being a perv who wants to keep watching them.

That strip is wrong btw, it's basic theological knwoledge that angels are sexless ands therefore don't have any genitals.

bollocks

Because it implies God isn't really angry at them rather than being a perv who wants to keep watching them.

no shit!

Hey, I was just answering your question.

The question MIGHT have been rhetorical.

Tuomas Explains It All

I always figured angel genitalia was so gloriously perfect that no human being could ever begin to understand.

PROCEED

is the book a 'best of'?

It must be, because although the book supposedly contains some new strips, I think the majority are ones that are already in the archive.

I'm ok with that though. It's still one of the few comics that actually make me laugh out loud every once in a while.

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF234-Finneas.jpg

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg#207

I love that his dish says "FIN"

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg

oh fuck off

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg

^^^that concept was served way better by the 'happy fantasy land' suicide note cartoon

^^^^^shut up and laugh

lol

^^^^HIDERE OTM

Tell me this one isn't better...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF38032BC-Suicide_Train.jpg

He's been on fairly good form of late, looking at the more recent ones.

NEWSFLASH: They are both funny.

Yeah, but the happy fantasy land strip is better.

god save me from overanalytical humorkillers

"Better" = overanalysis, obviously.

WHO CARES WHICH ONE IS "BETTER"? THAT WAS NOT WHY I POSTED IT; I POSTED IT BECAUSE I READ IT AND THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.

FFS IT'S NOT A HUMOR COMPETITION

PS: http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF57013BC-Better_Luck_Next_Time.jpg

oh, good, let's apply that music-crit ranking impulse to comics. we can remove the fun from the joke and then use the joke-husks as cultural capital.

fuck you, l. jagger.

haha @ the 'i lose' one

Wld joke-husks be a good investment in these worrisome financial times - the future equivalent of the Cambodian skull-trading market era?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF238-Capital_Punishment.jpg

creepy! funny!

that guy so knew there was no F

i think this is my favourite in a long, long time.

that's the point, it's a cruel, inevitable ritual, which makes it a far better strip than if it were random chance.

^^^^^ no

Thanks professor!

i Just got proffed

louis, please refrain from explicating 'funny' anymore, thanks

hahahahahaha we've done this, right here on this thread

^^^^^ no

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:51 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You can read it either way, but I'd imagine all the townsfolk know how KA-GAROO is completed. That they go for 'F' and 'L' I take to be a surefire sign that they're slowly, deliberately sending this man to his death.

how about the letters STFU? would they pick those??

and did i ever say i was explicating 'funny', rather than 'how a comic strip concept works'?

lol Slumpman jumping on the LJ-bashing bandwagon, collect 90 popularity points NOW, you're part of the ILX KREW!

don't Krew me sunshine, you were being a chump.

There's no F in weigh.

the humor in this exchange lies not in the actual posts, but between them

Did anyone else get the book besides me? It's a fine addition to any bathroom.

PS: As my follow-on post explicates, my "no" was not to say you are wrong, LJ; it was to say "stop sucking humor out of this strip by diagramming it".

i think i might get it as an xmas gift (for someone else)

hahah that's one of my new favourites now

I got the book as a birthday present (for someone else). Surprisingly hard to find. Asking "do you have the Perry Bible Fellowship" at four different bookshops like I was some kind of lonely God-botherer.

"What kind of book is it?"
"It's a comic book (I am not a religious nutjob)"
^ second part not actually spoken out loud

omg i didn't know there was a book. tick one xmas gift for, erm, somebody

It's only 10 bucks or so, too. It's available on his site.

i ordered 2 !

yay for great stocking fillers

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2008/01/05/records-broken-by-the-perry-bible-fellowship/

"25-year-old cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch watched as the pre-order sales climbed past $300,000 for The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories."

"Close to 27,000 copies were sold even before the collection of comic strips had its official release in November."

I'm a huge fan of "smart people humor", and PBF has never let me down. It was torture having to wait the long months until I received this book for a Christmas present - I was instructed not to buy it from the gift giver.

Two thumbs up, Mr. Gurewitch. Two thumbs up. Hurry up with a sequel already!

For people who don't read I Love Comics: (semi-)R.I.P.

Perry Bible Fellowship COLLECTION!!!!

I think he's trying to tell us something

NICHOLAS, WE NEED THE FUNNY!

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF247-Catch_Phrase.jpg

Surely, this is how Dave Coulier will go down as well.

http://www.brooksinternational.com/images/2dave_coulier.jpg
"Is it made out of...wooooood?"

http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Full_House_Joey_Cut_It_Out-T.jpg

okay, I thought it was simply because you, too, have no penis
-- RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 August 2006

so there's a new hardcover coming out? for some reason thought about this the other day. I love it when you return to a comic that you haven't read in a while and you forgot all the jokes but then you reread them and it's like coming home.

I'm pretty sure the book is already available.

oh my days

http://trailsoftarnation.com/

some classic lj on this thread

That clip's pretty mental. Assuming PBF guy's behind it.

He's co-credited with "Shootin'" in the credits.

yeah it's his new thing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Agwa8413/PBFBlueHair.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Agwa8413/PBFTheGreenMenace.jpg

| AMAZING |

Bahahaha that clip was AWESOME :D Yay for Mr Gurewich. I love him so.

So he's finally doing something new?? Good to hear; I know it's been said a zillion times already but PBF is just ridiculous in its brilliance sometimes. It's hilarious and sometimes crushingly depressing. I always wondered what he was like in real life. I read some interviews with him from way back and he seems to be a good guy but he kind of battles with his own issues in real life which sometimes manifests itself in the strip. The "No Survivors" one apparently was written after a bad breakup. Ouch.

These are great.

My all-time most LOLd PBF:
http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF219-Transfer_Patient.gif

love it because its the kind of humor you'd only find in this strip. love the satisfied smirk on the doctor's face on the first panel

I have just introduced my girlfriend to PBF for the first time. Her looks are priceless.

Awesome :-)

What really startled me is when she said her dad would love it. THAT took me off guard!

PBF needs an Adult Swim show of its very own.

^^^ OTM

Although it would probably end up being like China, IL

that's just what i was thinking, but i actually really dig China, IL. hit or miss, but funny at least a few times an ep

Sure but they don't need two of them

https://www.youtube.com/user/TrailsOfTarnation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Q499oBh5WrI#t=231s

How NG gets his ideas for PBF, from a presentation he made a few years ago.

http://pbfcomics.com/255/

2 new ones in 2 months

oh my god i nearly spit out my coffee laughing at that one

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z-5fprZti7s/TMEEC_FlQII/AAAAAAAAHMo/aqX8Z-jvbE0/s1600/Coffee_frog.jpg

that one too

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PBF258-Honk1.png

http://www.updrafters.com/PBF/

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2c815f1b50c5cb7d11c3977c388f342/tumblr_mqou4sQ5UU1r3ibjso1_500.gif

miss these

http://i.imgur.com/UDuJndu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/b3XslL9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qFM8I18.jpg

omg that last one

DJP if you haven't read all of PBF yet you should

I was posting these more to smh at College Humor stealing all these comics wholesale

One of the worst things about Web 2.0 is that the guys running College Humor are probably richer than half the combined net worth of ILX

Can you imagine being the College Humor intern whose job it was to save the pictures and put a College Humor logo on each one in Photoshop

Perhaps he got paid in a 30 pack of keystone light

haha dude look upthread, I'm all over this (though haven't been keeping up lately and probably have forgotten half of them)

the unicorn power one is a long-time fave

ts: collegehumor vs ebaumsworld

he guys running College Humor are probably richer than half the combined net worth of ILX

Haha, yes, I'm sure the college humor guys are easily worth at least $310,000.

Quality zing

The thing with the unicorn one is the CH logo obscures the shirt's text

Thanks, 乒乓.

http://i.imgur.com/EbNjI1z.jpg

Excellent work. Here's a Schlitz

New PBF

http://www.pbfcomics.com/261/

http://www.pbfcomics.com/260/

he was selling posters of that second one yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MxKbpCpf3I

gold.

haha, just watched the "puppet porno" one, so good.

smh at the college humor logo obscuring the punchline

thx mordy

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/24/liver-surgeon-branded_n_4497249.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF219-Transfer_Patient.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrahOHlTWY

idk what it is about me that I adore everything he's done in comic form, but find the animated/live action stuff an instant turnoff, even though I can see it's the same sense of humour? I'm sure i'm alone in this..

You are not alone in this, it feels a lot more heavy handed for one thing.

Think this would be a lot funnier if it was 5-10 seconds long, like an animated Vine or something

"Puppet Porno" was pretty funny but the cartoons are excruciating

Yeah, these definitely feel like a step down, wish he'd return to cartooning, since he was so good at it. You could almost imagine the "Mr. Faeber" as a mid-quality PBF cartoon, but the length of the cartoon does it no favours, the joke should be over once the kid is eaten.

Bummer

Thanks for the new screen name Tuomas, hope you don't mind.

Extermination: Earth is pretty great though.

http://nicholasgurewitch.tumblr.com/post/85707454025/pbf-262-dreamcatcher

http://i.imgur.com/1m6oKLf.gif

Man, why can't he just keep doing comics instead of meh movies?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2116548608/notes-on-a-case-of-melancholia-or-a-little-death/

"Dr. Edgar O. Wye," eh? Well at least he's doing the Gorey tribute to the full.

Little death? I'm guessing the other meaning won't be mentioned?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF264-Father_Christmas.png

Unless I'm missing something, this one's kinda weak.

yeah. that one took me like 5 minutes to get and it wasn't worth it.

yr refund is in the mail sir

the execution is very good, better than the concept

I'm still not sure I get it. Santa is an elf in disguise?

Santa is secretly impregnating all the elf mamas I guess? Not very good, anyway.

would be funnier if it was one of the reindeer calves with santa's face amirite!!!!!

feel like it shdve been rudolph just spitballin

man that's terrible

That one elf's dad is santa hence the red face. Yeah its a bit rubbish.

I didn't realize the elves in the first panel were supposed to be child and not adult labourers.

too much time on ilx

lol

loooool

Why is the elf giving the reindeer a wink?
Is the second panel trying to convey the reindeer turning around?
Why is there a reindeer in this at all?

The wink resembles Santa - further evidence.
Yes, in a moment of realization.
Santa needs someone to do the "keep this on the down low" to.

I love Mr Gurewich but its amazing how many of his strips need explaining/cause confusion/make no sense.

I dunno, this is pretty untypical for him. Normally he nails the gag perfectly.

I blame the reindeer.

It's as if he just wanted to paint a pretty picture of a reindeer

what's in the picture framed by candy canes? is it a clue?

It's a stale joke, but makes perfect sense. The pregnant elves in the last panel are an unnecessary "nudge, nudge, geddit?," imo.

this one, a few back, is an all-timer imo

http://www.pbfcomics.com/261/

My favourite: http://www.pbfcomics.com/162

Now that I look back, he can get confusing at times, like the Edward Gorey and R. Crumb tributes.

I think there's more to this joke, like maybe Santa replaced a regular elf with his child and the elf is in the bag, hence the conspiratorial wink.

Or that Santa is running a Fritzl operation up there in the secluded North Pole.

I think there's more to it too, first thought was it's like in the cartoons where say huey due and luey stand on each other's shoulders and wear a big coat to look like a bigger duck. Hence the redness around the elf's jawline from where he wears a false beard. But I've got nothing from there.

I still think it's just Santa porking Elf moms

wow wow wow at 261

Yeah. I know it's nothing but the chalkboard in that panel is so fucking amazingly done.

I'm looking at this from the reindeer's perspective:

1st panel: Reindeer sees a 'familiar' face amidst the three children, the child winks at him
2nd panel: Thinking baout things. He ponders if what he thinks is true, that Santa is the father of that elf
3rd panel: Santa gives the same sort of wink, but..

Argh fuck, I've got nothing. Reindeer in 3rd panel is all O_O. No idea on the rest. Yes, Santa maybe knocked up those women, but eh.. so?

I think maybe part of the funny is that the reindeer doesn't give a fuck/his blank expression?

In Finnish folklore at least, Santa has a wife. Presumably the lady elves have husbands too; the other elf kids don't look like Santa, so they must've been sired by male elves. The joke is to contrast the image of Santa as a kid-friendly do-gooder with the idea that he is secretly (hence the wink) an adulterer. This contrast is emphasized by making the one who discovers the truth be one of Santa's reindeer, i.e. someone who's generally (and in this comic strip too) depicted as an innocent animal.

Really, guys, this isn't rocket science!

Point is, I refuse to believe it isn't rocket science.

But anyway, speaking of the latest PBF strips, I thought this one was really good, and most reminiscent of the strip's "classic" era:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF262-Dreamcatcher.png

Such a simple idea, yet it's funny, poignant, and perfectly executed.

i like how it can take a few secs/mins until some of the jokes sink in properly. that one took me a short while to understand what it was about.

is the joke here just that the whistle is low-class and unsophisticated, or is there another layer that i'm missing?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/263/

lol yeah, that was my take, though i'm not sure what the # sign on whistle's lapel signifies.

sharp...

Santa is a viking at impregnating elves; also a Viking; the case continues

the most obvious signifier with the whistle vs clarinet(?) is class or status for sure, i.e. a cheaper maybe more low brow less refined version of the same kind of thing. however the comic is titled Harmony so race would maybe fit the pun better, but the whistle doesn't seem as strong a choice for that.

maybe it's a dog whistle

Dad is despairing that she's marrying beneath her

...............LOL

Goldwhistle?

clarinet(?)

bassoon.

Well the whistle has only the one note, really, compared to the elegant range of the basson.

that's a bassoon, not a clarinet, which is one of the instruments that is often the butt of orchestra jokes (basically it's like the tuba/viola of woodwinds)

basically it's a multilayer class/racial social standing joke

this one, a few back, is an all-timer imo

http://www.pbfcomics.com/261/

I'd forgotten how great some of these are: http://www.pbfcomics.com/222/

lol that's a good one

that's a joke I can see a lot of artists coming up with but not being able to pull off. that look of anguish on the final panel is so good

omg http://www.pbfcomics.com/252/

hahahahahahahaha http://www.pbfcomics.com/185/

this really is the best contemporary comic strip

http://www.pbfcomics.com/214/

Someone's gonna have to explain this one to poor innocent me. I suspect the yellow and black pamphlet has something to do with it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CliffsNotes

love that one btw

that's one of my (50 or so) favorites

Ha, I was scratching my head over that one just today. Didn't even notice the pamphlet!

I guess he was boning up on her.

this really is the best contemporary comic strip

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, December 19, 2014 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely the best comedy need threads devoted to explaining the jokes to people

Eager to hear Whiney's top 10 favorite Jeff Foxworthy jokes

If youuuuuuuuuuuu don't understand a comic strip about Santa fucking his elves.... You might be an ilxor

hark, a vagrant is the best contemporary comic strip

lol Whiney

I am afraid to admit how irrationally angry I got when the bassoon strip was misidentified as a clarinet; I blame it on only getting 3 hours of sleep

"In Finnish folklore at least, Santa has a wife."

I was going to ask why Santa having a wife would be a particularly Finnish thing, but it just struck me that American Santa folklore is pretty much Coca Cola ads and a murdering Tim Allen.

I think Tuomas was just speaking from his own culture and not presuming to be an authority on American traditions.

Genuinely not sure how people could fail to get that strip, though. I'm putting it down to them *wanting* there to be more b/c the joke's a bit rubbish.

like a lot of PBF strips, the best thing about it isn't the joke but the way a certain element is drawn. element being a reindeer itc.

Much like the priest-kings of Nemi, Tim Allen's Santa will be murdered in turn.

Yeah, I mentioned the Finnish thing only because I wasn't sure whether American Santa is supposed to be married. In most of the movie depictions I can remember he seems to be kind of a loner.

first blush was "oh, santa's fucking the elf moms" but the first panel threw me. looks like two elves are asleep and one is winking. admittedly took me way too long too notice middle elf has a santa face.

xpsts

yeah, so much of what makes PBF funny is just facial expressions.

In an age where so many comic strips are really badly drawn this definitely sets it apart.

xxxp

I wonder if the Santa spawn is meant to murder his workmates and replace them with his as yet unborn siblings while Santa's away. That would explain the wink.

Only Dasher escaped to tell thee...

I'm not sure that the elf is supposed to be winking. Who would he be winking at, and why? I think the artist got caught in a problem where he had to give Santa a conspiratorial expression, and he had to make the elf resemble Santa.

Genuinely not sure how people could fail to get that strip, though. I'm putting it down to them *wanting* there to be more b/c the joke's a bit rubbish.

― emil.y, vrijdag 19 december 2014 19:28 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Raises hand. Thought there would be more to it given the depth and eye for detail earlier. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Isn't "Santa winking" a sort of iconic thing, or maybe even part of the coca cola santa.

ie pbf used the winking to denote "this is Santa's child"

tuomas, which loner santa movies are you referring to?

Santa Driver

Isn't "Santa winking" a sort of iconic thing, or maybe even part of the coca cola santa.

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, December 19, 2014 11:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/wncf6f6aoof8vv.jpg

lol santa fuckin

http://www.bevreview.com/wp-content/image_cokesanta1996_friend1.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5P3czjCUAAuIV9.jpg

from Rick Veitch's adaptation of 1941?

bingo

called that by the lettering; my nerd zen is pretty strong

Have you read it? its amazing

ive had this one on my fridge for a few years http://i.imgur.com/aR2O0Dj.jpg

but i can't seem to find it online, apart from this inferior variant: http://www.pbfcomics.com/145/

this was the first PBF i ever saw, around '02: http://www.pbfcomics.com/22/

my neighbor showed me a site where he and his friends would post battle rap songs every week, and refreshing the page would show a different PBF comic at the bottom (there were only like five though, and uncredited so i had no idea what it was called).

xp
Actually I like the Nunez one better.

Xxp yeah, i own 1941... somewhere...

the thing that makes the santa strip unclear is the elf childs face doesnt resemble santas enough imho

the preggo elf moms are an admission of this and although theyre intended to highlight the joke they further obscure it through confusing the composition of the final panel

been trying not to get involved in this pedantic discussion for the last couple days and failed lol

You all are serious about this Santa thing, aren't you?

Thought this was some sort of meta-overanalyzing humor going on here.

"the thing that makes the santa strip unclear is the elf childs face doesnt resemble santas enough imho"

Yeah, he's winking with the other eye!

Re the facial expressions, this is one of my favourites and the faces in the final panel say so much despite their only features being little black dots for eyes

http://www.pbfcomics.com/210/"> http://www.pbfcomics.com/210/

me irl

Oh my god, this one: http://www.pbfcomics.com/211

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF265-Matched.png

the worried expression on Scorpy's face in the first panel of the one emil.y posted is haunting

Hiding the yarmulke as a truck wheel is clever.

I thought she got mad at him looking at her boobs at first. The symmetric cross is also strange.

The setup doesn't quite work. He should have found a second way to hide the yarmulke in the third panel.

C'mon guys, this one works perfectly.

yeah last panel is the best picture of a bummed werewolf lobster I've seen in a bit

actually jews arent allowed to be shellfish so i didnt understand it

Hiding the yarmulke as a truck wheel is clever

yeah I'm kind of in awe of this

Thought at first the joke was it's so bad dating a Christian that even Mr. Ugly Lobster face will turn down an otherwise perfect girl. Agree he should have made the yarmulke hidden in the second panel (and maybe more obvious in the third, for idiots like me).

I know $25 isn't that much, but I'm still on the fence bout the kickstarer

Agree with Vinnie, didn't even notice it in the third panel until I read this thread

Final panel, rather.

actually jews arent allowed to be shellfish so i didnt understand it

― lag∞n, Monday, December 22, 2014 3:28 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all joking aside, this is kind of why I didn't get this first few times around.

i have really terrible flu at the moment and my iq seems to have dropped to single figures tbh

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF266-Caught.png

lol

Nicholas Gurewitch @PerryFellow · 6h 6 hours ago
PBF#266: "Caught": http://www.pbfcomics.com/266/ (one of 6 PBF comics coming out this week)

!!

Love this one.

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF267-Loring%27s_First_Princ.png

heh heh heh

I don't get either of those newest ones and I will be listing various aspects of them which are ambiguous and difficult to decipher from 8pm UK time

http://i.imgur.com/T8FEt5w.jpg

I don't get the title: "Loring's First Princ"

could be -iple or -ipal? i dunno.

per his tumblr it's -iple

sure ok

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF268-Cuniculus_Vulgaris.png

btw s/o to me for apparently starting a PBF thread a decade ago (jesus):
Perry Bible Fellowship

last two have pbf and the comic number in them.

The news reader is a fox. Why is there YAH WEH in the stocks though? Antisemitism?

Oh, and one of the cops is a pig. It's not even subtle anymore.

Yes. Cartoon pig cop is the punch line.

news fox has a kind of a roast beef mouth about him

idk why but this aesthetic feels hella past it

I'd like to think the superfluous third panel in that last one is for the posters itt

i was thinking it was panel 2 that was superfluous

Toad in cowboy boots wins for me

xp well yeah it would work with either one of them removed I was just amused by the idea of taking out the one with the punchline actually written in bold text & imagining subsequent 50 posts of "idgi why are they arresting the rabbit???" itt

The rabbit is sleeping with mrs Claus

u know it is in amerika cuz they censor the body instead of the face #TrixAreForPigs

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF269-Cats.png

best of the new ones - dying

no, this is the best of the new ones

http://www.pbfcomics.com/270/

lol

someone should tell the guy that boobs don't work the way it's depicted in the 3rd panel of the lobster lycanthrope.

new one today: http://www.pbfcomics.com/271/

really enjoying the artwork in this one

Now this is definitely the best of the new ones.

Haha wow

yeah i thought that too. each one has been better than the last.

favorite detail: nut kick by jesus

I like Ganesha's rodent sidekick.

dying at "Jubilee"

any excuse to depict a jesus/ganesh cage match i guess

Totally missed those Marvel commissions on his site (linked small on the right side), pretty good

those are from Strange Tales v.2

jesus sidebutt

lil bit internet atheist tbh, great illustration tho

Been done idea saved by execution, yeah

Been done ... by family circus?

lil bit internet atheist tbh, great illustration tho

this is the great thing about pbf, it's all just funny absurdist stuff, I don't think the dude's RL beliefs come through in the strip at all

The basic joke is kinda obvious, yeah, but the move from cute premise to brutal delivery is still characteristically PBF.

I think the obvious joke would have been for the kid to get "spell nebudchanezar" with Jesus winking from the clouds like "never say I never did you a solid, Timmy"

http://politicalpbf.tumblr.com/

v good

haw

http://40.media.tumblr.com/7872e9889f4c9eaababb5fc87de52d89/tumblr_ns4rmmGFcF1rg0ofno1_1280.jpg

Delightfully Morbsian cartoon repurposing

awesome

that is a good one

http://nicholasgurewitch.tumblr.com/post/128704275162/pbf-272-bully

http://i.imgur.com/5CNv61Y.png

haha oh man

lol

http://33.media.tumblr.com/80259d13a785932e46c4177a8e371e37/tumblr_nufrzrqwLf1r3ibjso2_r1_400.gif

yessssss

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF273-Quiz_Kid.png

i hereby submit that it is implausible that he would not be aware of the connection between the drawing and the test.

but you are okay with a reproductive system quiz in which one of the correct answers is a picture of a cock and balls shooting jizz?

Lol

I think that fits well enough with PBF world logic.

I suspect the back row kid was merely being smart. I've never come across a school pop quiz where the answer should be provided with a picture, so most likely he intended the front row kid to write the answer in words based on what sees in the pic. But if the back row kid had actually written the correct answer to question 5 in words, and the teacher had noticed him passing the note and confiscated it, the front row kid would've been accused of cheating, and the back row kid would've be considered his accomplice. However, if the teacher confiscates the penis illustration, all she could blame them for is circulating a dirty picture, which surely is a lesser misdemeanor in the school books than cheating. The front row kid can only blame himself for not realizing the back row kid's clever stratagem.

*applause*

Would read a Tuomas Explains PBF blog

gallery installation with pbf strips accompanied by tuomexplainer panels would be next level. would pay $5 for the headset.

seems perfectly plausible to me that a biology quiz could require you to draw such anatomical features, maybe not the jizzing but it's a nice touch, extra credit imo

maybe it's just a bit of fun

just a bit of gush, so let's be cool

just my bits in gash, nbd

*spittake* come again, balls?

looool wins

(I now say WHAT KIND OF MOTHER...?! for no reason)

lol

http://chquotes.synthasite.com/resources/ch_127.gif

Needs cock and balls

Not PBF, but very

http://i.imgur.com/piHFakj.jpg

posted this on a no sleep thread, some pbf aesthetics (though less cynical)

http://i.imgur.com/4tFBLly.jpg

meanwhile in actual PBF, this is quite depressing

http://pbfcomics.com/274/

hehe

That one of Albas is Joan Cornella, he's an awesomely surreal spanish cartoonist/artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tggxUp5Nbw

posted this on a no sleep thread, some pbf aesthetics (though less cynical)

ban niels

sry http://i.imgur.com/hmPrUb6.png

irl giggle

ha that video was kinda creepy

I'm a backer of his Gorey-esque Kickstarter, and it won't surprise PBF fans to know it's pretty late.

On the other hand, I now have his home address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhx7-R3FdOY&nohtml5=False

thank you for video link

http://nicholasgurewitch.tumblr.com/post/144446931527/new-pbf275-the-offenders

http://65.media.tumblr.com/76194ef9b72d17d77e5d7d8ba10f0ac0/tumblr_o74sljVyBR1r3ibjso1_540.png
http://66.media.tumblr.com/916b186a09fbd854c7b960366dfb635b/tumblr_o74sljVyBR1r3ibjso5_r1_540.png
http://66.media.tumblr.com/6cdcf6405895aa2b538be2663cfcff87/tumblr_o74sljVyBR1r3ibjso4_r1_540.png
http://67.media.tumblr.com/b83dcfebd5a1a294c1917b0fd2b4ae73/tumblr_o74sljVyBR1r3ibjso3_540.png

that is wonderful

new http://pbfcomics.com/276/

I stared at that for ages wondering why I didnt get it and now I feel stupid, lol.

lol same

Yep me too. I don't think that's a terribly funny PBF, but I do like that sometimes I get some additional joy out of "solving" the joke

I think that one's a bit crap.

Agreed, though most of the recent ones haven't been that good anymore. I think the last truly inspired strip was "Dreamcatcher". Thankfully his visual chops still kinda make up for the quality drop in gags.

lol I think that one's a bit crap on purpose

there are a handful of lazy ones where the joke is very dumb. good for recalibration of humor

https://65.media.tumblr.com/1215366213a34d358be152b881b01abc/tumblr_oc06x3aYIf1r3ibjso1_1280.png

The turtles' grumpy faces!

hah that's one of my favorites

I disagree that the strip's gotten worse, it just seems like for the most part he's moved onto different things

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtdhlTZXYAE4NDS.png

wow that's kinda weak

new one, pretty topical

http://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PBF278-Splitting_Up.png

Couple new ones?

http://pbfcomics.com/comics/metamorph-assist/

http://pbfcomics.com/comics/technorgy/

this one too?

http://pbfcomics.com/comics/spelling/

No that's an oldie iirc

No, I remember that last one from years ago. xp

oooh I never saw the 2010-2017 ones, have the book which "only" features the older ones

this one is hilarious:
http://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jubilee/

did people list their faves itt? this is in my top3, so dark and heartbreakingly funny:
http://pbfcomics.com/comics/scorpy-the-forest-friend/

None of those 3 after the revive are new

http://nicholasgurewitch.tumblr.com/post/170045469310/lost-pbf-comic-trunkle

enjoyed this

ha

loool

Heheh thats cute.

can we also use this thread to post PBF-like gags

https://i.imgur.com/RqjAyPe.jpg

http://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PBF284-Shocked.png

omg

nice touch changing the moms expressing by flipping the ground pin hole

Turn that ground upside down

Would have been nice to see a dejected Rory in the last panel too.

No one cares about the feelings of the fork's family

Rory with the too-short tie and tennis shoes is just the perfect touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM-zMhBujRo

oh this is a spicy one

http://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PBF286-Amends.png

oof

you might kill 20 cows if you eat a quarter pounder every day for your entire life.

maybe he wore a lot of leather okay

maybe he hunted cows

I'm sure he ate meat that came from many individual cows.

slaughterhouse worker obv

each cow on the road to heaven is surrounded by hundreds of apologizing people who ate a part of it

I like that there's an elephant in there

also, the cows look angry but the pigs look happy

maybe these animals are mere avatars of his various personal dreams and desires that he killed off over the course of a life of charity

theres a lotta mud in heaven xp

you might kill 20 cows if you eat a quarter pounder every day for your entire life.

― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:46 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

alternatively you eat meat from many different cows in one burger

maybe the black cloud in the distance is quadrillions of bacteria.

you might kill 20 cows if you eat a quarter pounder every day for your entire life.
do you find this unlikely? in the US seems a person would eat about 8 cows on average during a lifetime https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters

300 million cattle slaughtered annually worldwide http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/fas/livestock-poultry-ma//2010s/2017/livestock-poultry-ma-10-12-2017.pdf

Yeah I'm sure a great many people not just in the US will each have to make amends to a few cows and pigs and hundreds of chickens.

I've never taken the life of a cow.

Justification for eating whale meat IMO: much more favorable ratio of biomass-to-consciousness-you'll-eventually-have-to-apologize-to.

itt we are "well, actually-ing" a PBF comic

it is a measure of his quality that this is the first time it has been deemed necessary.

it was...not necessary

Hundreds of chickens? My dead chickens count has gotta be in four figures by now and I only just turned 40.

I make a chili recipe every month or two that has bison, cow and pig in it

There’s at least one alligator in the picture for me as well.

I am having too much fun thinking about this.

Ingredients:

2 cups tomato sauce
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 bison
chili powder to taste

Turkeys!

what happens if Joe is like "ok, I feel guilty about the enemy solider I shot, but F U animals, I'd kill you all again if I had the chance"

it's not pretty.

beef is a sometimes food

Irl lols @ bison chili recipie

TY, that will be my legacy to ILX under my old DM.

Looking forward to the animated 24-minute version of this strip, ala the Super Mario one.

it is a measure of his quality that this is the first time it has been deemed necessary.

https://perrible.bigcartel.com/product/you-ll-be-ok-limited-edition-signed-print

hmm...

is that a real PBF thing? looks like a comic you would see on reddit.

it looks like an xkcd strip. all that's missing is a hilarious alt text box saying something like, "who needs hugs and encouraging words when you can rest in the assurance that your tired, despondent body will always accelerate at 9.81 m/s² before it strikes the boardroom floor?"

the omission makes it

Scanned as authentic PBF to me this morning but I agree w/ circa it does seem fishy, I mean is that his store?

Because, I will gladly & immediately buy as much shit from him as I can afford because his genius has been genuinely life-affirming and inspiring over so many years for me.

pretty sure that was never an actual PBF strip.

it's on his main website, so it's an official strip, but it's a new one. not sure if the store is his. yeah that strip is very xkcd, but his shtick is doing different styles, so I'll allow him one comic like this

ak ok yeah i see it is the latest one. i figured it was something much older because of the minimal style.

the style is different than usual but it reads like a PBF joke to me

it's legit; i posted it bc he tweeted about it

Limited edition offset "You'll Be OK" print now shipping: https://t.co/QvQ0w35Lng pic.twitter.com/WNpSOhV1TT

— Nicholas Gurewitch (@PerryFellow) July 2, 2018

It's pretty weak. But hey, it's kinda silly enough where it'll probably start showing up in dentist offices and cubicles all over the nation

the style is different than usual but it reads like a PBF joke to me

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, July 3, 2018 1:46 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feels like one his genre exercises, the xkcd comparison is otm

it feels like an xkcd script without randall munroe's habit of throat-clearing or explaining the joke after the punchline

yes

One of the new comics in the latest #Playboy pic.twitter.com/izMFkiikM5

— Nicholas Gurewitch (@PerryFellow) July 18, 2018

not his most clever, I guess

working to get that famous playboy humor just right lol

also, the son is apparently already familiar with what it looks like when trees have human sex, so it's not so much like the twist is dad saying "actually they're fucking!" as it is the dad correcting him on the kind of fucking they're doing

the trees could just be replaced with two real people doing it in the woods, and it would be the same joke

holy shit, a talking tree!

I don't see any breasts on the tree. Is that the joke?

I think I could probably do without his sex-themed cartoons.

yea I didn't really parse what the joke was exactly but it did make me laugh so it's not a failure

he shd draw a sexy tree with tits

does his work regularly appear in playboy? if so, i'd imagine he's at least happy to get a decent paycheck.

it's too bad, in a world that wasn't dumb his first 100 panels or so could just be syndicated in black in white in the cartoon section of hundreds of newspapers and they'd be by far the funniest thing in there every single day. but you're not allowed to have a syndicated cartoon unless you're completely bland and humorless or struck some sort of deal with satan back in the early 1980s.

i mean the joke is pretty obvious and typical PBF, misunderstanding & inability to communicate

Should've been 'come on my buds', but otherwise I laughed.

the tree saying "unnngggh" is the funniest part

yes

1. a tree wouldn't do that
2. a tree wouldn't say that
3. holy shit a talking tree

it's too bad, in a world that wasn't dumb his first 100 panels or so could just be syndicated in black in white in the cartoon section of hundreds of newspapers and they'd be by far the funniest thing in there every single day. but you're not allowed to have a syndicated cartoon unless you're completely bland and humorless or struck some sort of deal with satan back in the early 1980s.

Olivia Jaimes

yea but even then she was just taking over a century-old comic strip

PBF is awesome but obviously a lot of that is due to the fact that the author doesn't have to crank 'em out every day, every week, or every month

This is great:

http://pbfcomics.com/comics/dick/

haha terrible!

Moby (is a) Dick

:/

PBF just keeps getting more trenchant. Or more horny.

oh god the new one is hilarious (and very nsfw)

Quite the epic tale

is that the first one that is co-written?

My favorite in a long long time

Not PBF, but in a similar vein.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45259186_1942234049194415_672367599656370176_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=f24ea3fd4fed67df1ec0b75175993b56&oe=5C81058E

i'm so accustomed to the horniness of latter-day PBF that i assumed the giraffe cloud would be fucking something

Wasn’t the dick cloud literally the first one?

new one is top tier

It’s true, he’s returning to his horny roots

didn't know he'd done so many recently, some of them are pretty weak. gentleworms & treatment (the toilet plunger head one) are both headscratchers. can someone could spell out the punchline to either of those? perhaps i'm being naive...

Her psychiatrist has fixed her problems, but her husband is inevitably going to reverse all the progress they made (she is a toilet clogged with tampons, her husband is a box of tampons) - gentleworms is just a fairly silly take on the separation of soul and body, don't think there is that much to say about it.

ok maybe that is a bunch of tampons, i thought it looked like a pile of sheets or something. it's not exactly rofl material.