Though I’m quite fond of Bob, my heart will always belong to one particular talking skull. Sorry.
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I miss Murray.
Oh gawd I’ve never thought of the Bob/Murray connection before that is awesome!
The Dresden files and Monkey Island are two of the best things.
Man, did I pick the wrong fortnight to (re)play all the old Monkey Island games… It’s been nothing but wall to wall accidental spoilers.
This. Is. GREAT. Before even reading the title, I knew in panel one, that it was the Dresden Files and that “Bob” was actually everyone’s favorite demonic skull. Such a great comic for my favorite series.
YAAAAY!!!!!!
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I mean Yes! Thank you whoever commissioned this, I was sad when he stopped accepting commissions because I had finally, THAT DAY gotten the spare cash to commission Dresden Files
I’m thrilled that you didn’t draw Dresden with hat. Almost every book cover has him hat-clad, and not only does he obviously not wear on in the books themselves (even if he did, it’d just get knocked off and lost with alarmingly regularity), but he’ll even occasionally contemplate the acquisition of a hat in later books. I can’t help but wonder if the author has him do so as a sort of response to the various covers.
Sci-Fi and Fantasy covers have a long, hilarious history of being woefully incorrect, as noted here.
There’s a dragon on the cover of the book.
There’s a dragon on the cover of the book.
He is long and green and scaly, but he’s nowhere in the tale.
He is a dragon on the cover of the book.
I love that Filk song wish I could claim to be that inventive but I can’t, even sadder but I can’t give credit to the author either since I don’t know
Guybrush! I love Guybrush Threepwood! D*** you, Mr. Troutman, now I have to table all the things I had planned for today in favor of pulling out Monkey Island. Playing it as an adult may be fun . . . Now where’s that rum btotle?
If you did that, then you will surely find as I did that it swiftly becomes rather aggravating, and after a couple nights stuck on the same problem which no amount of lateral thinking seems to solve, that you turn first to a friend who seems rather too knowledgeable about the game, then when he’s out of ideas, to the internet.
Where you find, via something like the universal hint system (an excellent website, as it only reveals things one tiny chunk at a time rather than giving you a huge spoileriffic walkthrough), that the answer was BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS. So you finish the puzzle, save the game, and turn the computer off in disgust.
(Helps that I was replaying them on an old 486SX thru my HDTV, so it was both possible and non-damaging to make a big flamboyant gesture of tripping the power switch with some force
Worth it for the jokes and set-pieces, mind. And the music (when the iMuse system doesn’t crash in a way that actually gets stuck in your savegame so you have to backtrack by a couple hours to fix it and avoid being driven crazy by hearing the same unchanging 45-second loop for the rest of the game). And it does give your brain a good workout.
It’s a good thing they actually made it a comedy. Apparently in the beginning it was going to be played straight, Kings/Police/Space Quest style. It would have been an absolute bomb if so (“Pirate Quest”?), no-one would have stuck it out to the end.
^ Naturally, I’ve found that I now need to dig out a CD drive equipped Pentium of some description on which to install Windows 95, proper video/sound drivers and DirectX so that I can play MI3. After getting hold of a copy of MI3 that is. Too bad they couldn’t have tossed the graphics through an auto converter, stripped the speech and added a MIDI driver to the DOS version of SCUMM to provide an old-PC compatible version. Same way they put a slightly bizarre but fully functional hi-rez dithered EGA version (640×200 screen but still the same graphics rez – allowing something like 50~100 colours on a typical fuzzular EGA monitor, instead of 16) alongside the enhanced VGA copies of MI1 and 2.
Hopefully the old Acer NL370 laptop at the back of the cupboard will do the trick, I’ve just to to find a PS2 splitter with which to plug in a mouse AND a keyboard at the same time…
Haha, love it. And Murray does kind of remind me of Evil Bob. Or rather, Evil Bon is like Murray? I knew Bob first.
As soo as I get some spare cash, I’m going to make you read “In Fury Born” by David Weber. And yes, that’s the longer version. Because its awesome.
Can’t wait to see what you’ll do with Tisiphone and Megaira.
But first I need to scrape together some spare cash.
Curse you, Autocorrect! It’s Evil BOB not Evil Bon! How many times must I fix this!
And stop capitalizing yourself!
I appreciate the thought, but I’m not taking any more commissions at the moment.
I do think if you do this again, you definitely should raise the price. $10 is just too low. $20 at least, maybe $25, and I could see the argument for a bit more.
Oh okay, I didn’t realize. If you decide to start doing commisions again later, though, don’t be surprised to find it on your list!
That awesome moment when you get the references…
I knew I was in for a treat when I read the title.
I don’t remember quite where I read it, but apparently Bob is literally a “talking head” as an inside joke between Butcher and a writing professor.
Of course, he (?) could also be a reference to Roger Bacon.
Excellent! I was just talking about LeChuck earlier tonight.