"A Cry For Help" by Gerald DeJesus
August 31st, 2010 by GabeThis is it, the definitive end to Big Pants Mouse. I saved Jerry's masterpiece as the final final final Big Pants. Why? Because it's all there. Like us all, Jerry has always had a soft spot in his heart for this little mouse, but unlike the rest of us, Jerry's heart is quite different.
Jerry is an amazing artist. You have seen his work and you didn't even know it!
My friend Tony introduced Jerry to me at a Carl's Jr. in '99. Tony wanted me to put in a good word for Jerry at Spumco. He was amazing, and we hired him for his flash expertise, but unbeknownst to me, I already "knew" Jerry.
See, some of us guys at Spumco had this contest called the "Ace Card". We would find the nastiest filthiest videos online and share them as our "ace card". Tony always seemed to have a HUGE amount of videos and would usually always win. But those times changed when Jerry started at Spumco. Jerry was Tony's secret supplier of depravity. If I would have known this, I would have told our boss that we needed to hire Jerry on his filth finding abilities alone!
Since then, I think I've worked with Jerry on every flash project I've done, including the Big Pants Mouse pilot at Disney. He is an amazing art director, bg designer, painter, animator, and all around great guy. Thanks for the final word Jerry, you put the final nail in Big Pant's coffin.
Thank you all for all the support over the years. Here's to the end of Big Pants and the start of Life In The Analog Age next week!
*ahem* I love Strawberry's expressions. But... I hate her taste in food. Mayo sandwich? That sounds nasty.
...I wonder if she's ticklish.
Love Strawberry's eyes in panels two and three. Hee!
I was caught unprepared by a hurricane and got stuck in my Air Force barracks in Guam with nothing but Triscuits and a jar of mayo. It's amazing how good something tastes when you're ####in' starving.
I really like her in the last panel of this comic because she has the beleaguered expression, hair and coffee of a Generation X kid.
OOOH THEY'RE GIRLS.
It's the typical cliche comic, wacky guy (in this case wacky racoon girl) and the straight man (alien girl)
It doesn't even build upon that formula very well, she's fucking retarded, randomness does not = funny, just because you say muffins doesn't make you comedy get.
Wow. Not only a very classy comment, but you've done a serious analysis and gotten us all completely pegged, haven't you?
And of course, you know comedy...that is, you think there's only one sort of effective comedy (the sort you already like) and naturally, everything else sucks.
...You're an idiot. Tuesdays sound a little more your speed. Go hang out there.
That made me laugh. Oh god. Thank you for that.
And yes, I came here more than once today. :P
This type of humor is something I found funny when I was 11. If anyone laughs because Strawberry wants to make a mayonnaise sandwich then they're stupid, it's not even delved into why that should be funny, it's just a placeholder word, hell, she could make a salamipoop sanwich, or a sandwich where the only ingredient is water. It's just a bunch of random words.
Hell, the PROTAGONIST'S NAME is FROG-RACCOON-STRAWBERRY.
Jesus...
I mean the art is decent, but whoever writes this shit needs to take a break and observe some true comedy.
And fortunately it happens to be THE KIND I LIKE.
All other "comedy" is DEVIANT and FALSE.
Heretics who like what I don't like are FOOLS and PERVERTS.
Soon there will come a CLEANSING.
And the ONE TRUE FORM OF COMEDY is POOP EATING.
Oh, wow. Your credibility bottomed out and then somehow just kept going down.
Kyle, why it is the trolls who keep lecturing you at interminable length on "what's really funny" are always such complete and utter drooling morons? You'd almost swear it's the same complete and utter drooling moron doing it again and again under different names.
But that would mean he's so sad and lonely and miserable, with absolutely nothing else do to, that he'd be better off drinking everything he could find under the bathroom sink.
I don't see how credibility is lost when referencing Don Hertzfeldt and saying his animation is so lazy it = good. I mean, the animation is obviously really good and he spends a good amount of time on it, but the drawings are just little doodles, that in comparison to some truly amazingly animated shorts is "lazy", but that doesn't make it bad.
Hence, so lazy it's good.
and TV's Kyle, he never said you were as successful as those things, he was simply using them as comparisons (one bad one good) to tell you how bad you are.
I can't stress how bad this comic is in terms of writing, it's a bunch of fucking madlibs, that's all, that's all it is, it takes no skill to write this shit.
háhh, beszarok!
"I don't see how credibility is lost when referencing Don Hertzfeldt and saying his animation is so lazy it = good. I mean, the animation is obviously really good and he spends a good amount of time on it, but the drawings are just little doodles, that in comparison to some truly amazingly animated shorts is "lazy", but that doesn't make it bad. Hence, so lazy it's good."
STUPIDEST.
BACKTRACKING.
RATIONALIZATION.
EVER.
You get a gold star on your forehead and first pick from the toy box!!
(Also, you didn't call his animation lazy; you called his writing lazy. ...Which is about as moronic as a person can get without being institutionalized. Bathroom sink, dude. The bottles are calling you!)
I mean, they must really know comedy to put down other comic artists so regularly. They've clearly stated that they can produce something more popular than hit series Animaniacs and the near-memetic Hertzfeldt. Why are they denying the world their talent, when they could produce the greatest animated works known to this generation?
Arguing with you is about as useless, if not more, as arguing with a coffee table.
Good day.
So yeah, I agree this and last week's comics weren't as great as normal, but I also do remember the two before that being brilliant (in my humblest of opinions). And I don't know a single comic which has never had at least several consequent updates that were sub-par.
Moar lurve! Moar cowbell!
Sheesh
All I'm saying is give this comic a chance. If you don't like this, then go read "Sorry, Guys" or "Rumpus McSnivel" for all I care. If you don't like the material in this comic, there's no reason why you need to continue reading it. Some people are trying to enjoy the comic here.