The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2.

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

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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.