Hehe, Take That! internet comment losers. You've been projected onto a psychotic adolescent possum.

The fourth panel could qualify as furry porn for some reason there's commonly this hot looking picture you make that I'm opposed to but it oozes sexy. Keep them oozing and it gets better.

You're finally aware of it.

I don't even know anymore...

a very special strip made just for the haters who let this series' randomness obstruct their enjoyment of it. BOOYA

love Strawberry Steve's expression in the last panel, btw!!!

I like this one! It's random but its funny and I don't think there is anything wrong with that! Awesome job Kyle!

...how long do you think it'll take for Strawberry to forget that she changed her name to Steve?

Maybe the frog's name is Steve. Yeah.

That, you wouldn't want to forget, if you knew a frog but wanted to identify it somehow without pointing at it or speaking in vague generalities.

Oh my God, she's got two belly buttons and she's a buzzkilling scold to boot. I LOVE YOU BAD POSTURE PURPLE ALIEN GIRL!! PLEASE LAY YOUR EGGS IN MY CHEST!! (Nnnnnot so thrilled about the new eye-whites. They make her appear to be looking in the wrong direction.)

Also: Yay to the reappearance of Criminal Element!

I love it. This whole series is a lesson in using posture and squash/stretch a'la Preston Blair to convey emotion -- even if (especially if!) the main character is a raving psychotic. At least she's friendly, most of the time.... !!!

"My uncle goridnak has a laser foot, you shouldn't joke about that" is there as marissa fan club? If this comic ever tanks for whatever reason, there should totally be a spin-off about her.

ummmmm.....and the joke is where?! why is this strip not funny, id love to know

Lame comic, took a lot of panels to even get up to a joke of some sort and then the joke wasn't even remotely funny. The randomness isn't even funny, trying to say teaching the haters a lesson is silly, you are simply giving them more reasons to dislike your comic.

Random can be funny if you do it right, there was some really funny episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force I enjoyed, others made me dislike the series immensely. But at least I got a funny episode once and awhile.

This, this whole series just hasn't been very good at all. I'd rather have Rumpus replace this. I'd rather have a really badly done Power Puff Girls comic then this.

What an odd thing to say... After starting a sentence with "I'd rather have a really badly done" you could have followed it with pretty much anything. Why Powerpuff Girls specifically?

Dude, that's random.

You have become that which you most despise!

This comic is not a setup-punchline affair. For easy reference, this comic is also not:
- a political cartoon
- a topical joke comic
- a throwaway gag comic (Garfield, Big Pants Mouse)
- an absurdist comic (The Far Side, Sorry Guys)
- a superhero parody (The Tick, Skadi)
- an observational humor comic (Dilbert, Rumpus McSnivel)
- an adventure comic (Tintin, Earthward-Ho!)
(Of course, every comic I listed can partially fit into any of the other categories, and there are categories I omitted)

This comic is a sitcom, albeit about situations that don't relate to anyone I can think of.

The joke here is that Strawberry is alienating her friends with her poorly thought-out plans. A similar joke would be a stereotypical husband buying basketball tickets for his stereotypical wife for their highly-anticipated anniversary. The interaction that follows is supposed to be funny. Here, very little interaction follows. Almost everything Strawberry says is inconsequential and unrelated to anything her friends care about, so the joke doesn't work.

This post does not advocate sitcoms. Sitcoms are where jokes go to die.

I love her starry eyed look when she starts yapping about her nephew. I fear the idea of an extended family of Strawberrys, though.

Why do FRG strips always end with the characters on a white background? It's so... low impact.

FRG? Frog Raccoon Granola?

Yeah, Kyle. All FRGWTF strips should end with a car crash!

Is there any particular reason for plain white background in the last panel? It kinda makes me wanna stop scrolling down out of sheer boredom.

FRG? ... I guess I was somehow thinking Frog Raccoon Girl instead of Strawberry.

Whoops.

You haters all need to learn to appreciate more than formula. Isaac, your post disgusts me. Look at the pictures, the poses, the expressions, the ridiculous dialogue. Those are your "jokes". The whole thing screams creativity and fun. You sound like one of those "writers" John K keeps knocking on his blog.

And if you really need to categorize the humor, it's something like surrealism. Go watch the 1967 Casino Royale or Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. If you can't appreciate those, well you just don't have a sense of humor.

Everyone listen to Isaac. Apparently Skadi is a superhero parody. Surely he must know what he's talking about.

Isaac was one of the only ones here giving negative feedback that was constructive. Please, people, no more of the hating!

I dunno, John, I think the criticism of Isaac's criticism also had it's merits, though I don't find Isaac's post "disgusting" by any means. I'm enjoying the discussion, but let's all keep it cool and casual.

I like the art a lot but I don't find 'lol so randum' humor to be funny.

I thought all the comics on this site were autobiographical stories of the creators. YOU MEAN THEY'RE NOT?!

The majority of strips on this site worship at the altar of John K. Not bad in and of itself-- funny drawings and interesting poses can add to the humor and entertainment value, but it wont usually make a funny or entertaining piece on it's own. See John K.s later work (R&S Adult Party Cartoon, Ripping Friends, etc.)

How d'you get laser foot? I mean, biologically, how's that happen?

My figurin' is that we got it from sharp-eyed carnivorous birds whose only step up the evolutionary scale was to kill their prey from the skies by zapping them with their eyeballs.

So if you're ever wandering the Grand Canyon and notice a hawk or eagle (or maybe even a buzzard) that looks like Cyclops from the X-Men, better have a mirror handy, or you're toast.

Great, now I'm afraid to cross the Mississippi. Thanks a lot, imagination. You've forced me East forever.

This comic is making fun of itself. "She's so random I can't even stand it" It's a response to everyone who doesn't like the random humor.

Not doin' it for me. Sorry.

What do you suppose the evolutionary middle place there was between laser eyes and laser foot? Did it work its way gradually down? Laser nipples, maybe? The birds theory is interesting because it'd explain why it didn't move to the more obvious laser fingers.

To be honest, I was always a huge fan of John K, I loved his cartoon and his works. I watched most of his mainstream stuff. I really wish Ripping Friends was still around. I read his blog every few weeks..

That being said, I don't really see anything like John K. in this comic. Not even remotely close.

Although, after reading the artist's blog, I came to at least understand him (her?) a little bit better. I can see now why I really dislike this stuff.

Looks like he has been trying to get Moobeard and even FRS into an animated series. And it looks like it is mostly aimed at younger children, and it isn't even the kind of humor I grew up with or would enjoy. I would have never watched this growing up, nor would I ever watch it now... And I watch Spongebob and Flapjack.

I think maybe if he went into a different direction with his stories, characters and ideas, it could do a whole lot better. Yeah, if something is aimed at children, you need to make sure it is age appropriate, at the same time, there isn't any reason why you can't have a few adult jokes sprinkled through the show.

I think the thing I dislike the most about THIS comic is, it is random, yes, but there is almost usually no sort of punch line or joke, it's just random for the sake of random.

I've watched all sorts of stuff through the years, Billy and Mandy, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, the list goes on. Some of these cartoons are well known for their random humor, but they still have some sort of story or something to go by. With this comic, its just random stuff on top of random stuff and it just isn't making me even grin.

Why not try a continuing story with your comic? You can still give us random and humor, but give us something more to chew on then just random bat shit crazy stuff. Even Big Pants mouse has more to offer us then your comic does.

Jeremy, where do you stand on the laser nipples issue? Have we missed the evolutionary mark? Might it have been a laser bellybutton?

this comic was silly

Let me clearly state the the expressions and poses and dynamism in the art are fantastic. Having said that, though: HIRE. A. WRITER.

Agh, I don't know why I read the comments. It puts a damper on my dumm comics experience. Yet I can't stop doing it, its like not being able to take your eyes away from a horrific car crash. MUST STOP!

"That being said, I don't really see anything like John K. in this comic. Not even remotely close."

Seriously? Is this a serious post? Or have you spent so long among John K influenced artwork that you forgot that there is any other kind?

And your complaint isn't that the jokes are nonsensical and stupid, but that the jokes don't have some half-assed overarching story to go alongside?

Not a single panel of any of these comics has been even remotely funny. Random doesn't automatically mean funny. Randomness requires familiarity. If the reader has no idea what is even going on to begin with, then whatever randomness is there is going to be even more confusing and unfamiliar as the rest of it. Confusing is in no way funny at all.

I will say the art is decent, probably better than a lot of comics out there. Art, however, does not a comic make. I'd be completely happy with stick figures as long as the dialog is either funny or entertaining in some way.

There's 2 types of comics. 1 is the type of comics that follow a specific storyline and plot throughout the entire comic. Each strip can contain it's own thing but it always references and follows a continued story from beginning to end. The second comic is the type of comic where each strip, or group of strips, are their own story. However, both types have the same thing in common, there is a beginning, a middle and an end. This particular comic seems to throw you into the middle and gives you nothing to go by and then ends leaving you confused, and the randomness makes it even worse.

Some of the other strips do contain the basic "Beginning, middle and end" formula but the dialog isn't entertaining by far. Who ever does the art is very talented, but who ever does the writing seriously needs a new day job, or to not quit the one they have.

Perhaps maybe moving away from the randomness in the dialog would make this a much better strip to read. Maybe having rudimentary dialog with a nice quick witty punchline to end it would be a better course for the characters. I mean the characters within the comic are already so random it's hard to even fathom, especially when you have no explanation of the characters themselves to even go by before you actually start reading the comic.

Also, whoever compared this to John K needs to go back and watch and read some more of his stuff, cause this is in absolutely no way comparable to anything done by John K. Yes, the art in some parts of the comic could be similar to some of the John K style but he had both good art and good dialog. It would be like cutting the Mona Lisa in half and saying it's still the same painting.

First of all Anon, I brought up the John K. comment because someone tried to compare it to this comic, and you can't, not by a million years.

Secondly Anon, my complaint is that it is both nonsensical, stupid and also does not explain itself at all. We are presented characters we are simply supposed to accept without any question. Bullshit.

Shit even most children these days would be smart enough to be unable to enjoy this stuff.

I love this comic, as I see it has a lot of potential. The artwork is beautiful (although the backgrounds often need work) and I loved the animatic on the blog. Random was funny in the animatic, it just doesn't translate as well in comic form.

Yes, it is flawed. The characters are interesting and have good designs, but I don't really care much about them. What would make me care about them is a bit of cohesion, some sort of story arc, or even some motives behind their behavior.

Maybe I'm just missing Earthward Ho!, and this comic's initial randomness reminds me of the same it used to have -- will this pick up with a story? I don't know, but I hope so. The character design is terrific, and I know I could somehow identify with a transspecies raccoon in a frog suit, I just need some story to make me want to.

Thanks, Luna! We're kinda gradually finding the characters as we go. We're just getting to strips written since the strip started going up (Pippi's snarky comment was added to an already completed script), so look for us to kinda gradually "find" this strip. We've got a longform story coming, but that's not to say that I want that to be the future of the strip.

Dear God. The nerdy haters actually devote more space to "IT NOT MY CUP TEA SO IT SUX" than the strip itself requires. And wow:

"Shit even most children these days would be smart enough to be unable to enjoy this stuff."

What a gift from God, huh? The based-on-nothing blanket insult to anyone who might dare disagree, combined with the look-mommy profanity, really demands the reader take Jeremy-Aged-Six seriously, doesn't it?

...is strawberry female or male?

I do declare, the lack of punchline in this comic makes my blood boil. I simply cannot fathom how anyone would enjoy this work.

Now, to make it clear to myself how much I dislike it, I'm going to read every single update meticulously, and critique every one! The world must know of how much I disapprove of this comic! THEY MUST

Surely this is the most logical course of action! Only a fool would stop subjecting himself to something he dislikes and spend the time it would take to do it doing something he genuinely enjoys. That would be incredibly silly.

Strawberry's a girl.

I just spent quite some time reading through 4 weeks of comments and I must say I find them most interesting. Some people love this, others are baffled by the fact that people could possibly enjoy this. Perhaps some people should realise they are not forced to read this comic.

I am always happy when I realise a saturday has passed, because even when the pun or story isn't great, dummcomics always have AWESOME character expressions and poses. That alone can be more than enough to absolutely love a comic.

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On the subject of evolution and laser limbs.

Laser eyes are by far the most common lasery body parts found in organisms around the world. This is a logical evolutionary step because photo-sensitive pigments and cells are already widely present. Ocular laser capacities are thus seen as a general and wide-spread evolutionary development. (Reference: Laser Eyes in the Common Falcon http://www.oglaf.com/badfalcon.html)

Reallocation of photo-sensitive cells are most common in Amphibians adapted to surroundings devoid of light. Especially feet, which are used to move past rocks in the dark, cold water, become very sensitive to sources of light. Further adaptations such as we've witnessed in eyes can therefore easily take place in these photo-sensitive limbs.

Most laser feet merely have laser vision, but destructive laser beams originating from feet have indeed been found in several amphibean species. These beams are generally used to heat water and destroy rocks. It is a supported theory that most caves on earth were in fact created by blind cave salamanders with laser feet.

Keep the discussion alive!

Wouter Lockefeer
Biologist