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.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 19 December 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
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)_/¯
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 19 December 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Isn't "Santa winking" a sort of iconic thing, or maybe even part of the coca cola santa.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
ie pbf used the winking to denote "this is Santa's child"
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
tuomas, which loner santa movies are you referring to?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 19 December 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Santa Driver
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, December 19, 2014 11:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/wncf6f6aoof8vv.jpg
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
lol santa fuckin
― example (crüt), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bevreview.com/wp-content/image_cokesanta1996_friend1.jpg
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5P3czjCUAAuIV9.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
from Rick Veitch's adaptation of 1941?
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
bingo
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
called that by the lettering; my nerd zen is pretty strong
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Have you read it? its amazing
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
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/
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
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).
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
xpActually I like the Nunez one better.
― nickn, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Xxp yeah, i own 1941... somewhere...
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
the thing that makes the santa strip unclear is the elf childs face doesnt resemble santas enough imho
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
"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!
― nickn, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
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/
― ewar woowar (or something), Saturday, 20 December 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
me irl
― emil.y, Saturday, 20 December 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
Oh my god, this one: http://www.pbfcomics.com/211
― jmm, Saturday, 20 December 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF265-Matched.png
― Mordy, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
the worried expression on Scorpy's face in the first panel of the one emil.y posted is haunting
― soref, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
The setup doesn't quite work. He should have found a second way to hide the yarmulke in the third panel.
― jmm, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
C'mon guys, this one works perfectly.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah last panel is the best picture of a bummed werewolf lobster I've seen in a bit
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
actually jews arent allowed to be shellfish so i didnt understand it
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 December 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Hiding the yarmulke as a truck wheel is clever
yeah I'm kind of in awe of this
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 22 December 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
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).
― Vinnie, Monday, 22 December 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
I know $25 isn't that much, but I'm still on the fence bout the kickstarer
― Nhex, Monday, 22 December 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
Agree with Vinnie, didn't even notice it in the third panel until I read this thread
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link
Final panel, rather.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:27 (nine years ago) link
― 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.
― Funky as hell even on the lap. (stevie), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:46 (nine years ago) link
i have really terrible flu at the moment and my iq seems to have dropped to single figures tbh
― Funky as hell even on the lap. (stevie), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:49 (nine years ago) link
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF266-Caught.png
― Mordy, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Nicholas Gurewitch @PerryFellow · 6h 6 hours agoPBF#266: "Caught": http://www.pbfcomics.com/266/ (one of 6 PBF comics coming out this week)
!!
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Love this one.
― jmm, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF267-Loring%27s_First_Princ.png
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
heh heh heh
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link