stoutfellow

After reading the latest Questionable Content strip (Renee and Elliot are moving boxes from her old place to her new one, and start a series of quips riffing off Elliot's troglodytic build) I left a comment about their quick wits and my own "l'esprit de l'escalier" tendencies.

I suppose most people are in the same boat. Any approach to wit that I make is usually the result of an extended period of mental composition. Again, nothing unusual there.

But there was one occasion when I managed some decent impromptu repartee. I was playing a game of Traveller; our party had taken a hostage in the midst of a rather muddled rescue attempt. The hostage made a snarky comment, I riposted, he blocked, and I delivered a *killer* line to close it out. Squashed him completely.

The thing is, *the character I was playing* was supposed to be witty, and somehow I got into the role deeply enough to assume his characteristics. I guess. Haven't been able to do it since in my own person.

In the webcomic "Goblins", the goblins are fighting the evil paladin Kore. They hatched a plot involving each of them wearing, in succession, an enchanted helmet. The last goblin in turn was the aptly named Big Ears.

The helmet didn't fit him, because his ears are too big.

It would be funny, if it weren't for the fact that Kore is now prepared to kill them all.

Today's Dungeons and Doggos strip is pretty funny. Watch the game master's screen.

(This is a comic about a group of dogs playing Dungeons and Dragons. It's... cute.)

I have another webcomic recommendation to make.

Power Ballad, by Molly Brooks, is a romantic comedy (involving a couple of lesbians, if that matters to you). It's also a superhero comic - or, at least, it features a costumed vigilante. It's sweet, and funny, and complete - 26 rather long pages. I've added Ms. Brooks to my Twitter Funny bookmark folder; if she ever writes another comic, I want to be there when it starts.

(Hat tip to James Nicoll, whose review of the comic led me to read it.)

David Malki's comic "Wondermark" is kind of hit or miss for me, but I rather like the last panel, in particular, of the latest strip.

I've been reading the rather off-beat webcomic How to Be a Werewolf for some time now. I enjoy it; it currently features a) an established werewolf pack, bound by werewolf tradition and law; b) a young and unattached female werewolf, who doesn't like it and is avoiding entanglement with the pack; and c) a group of rogue werewolves, ill-trained and ignorant of tradition, who want to recruit b) and will run into serious trouble when they meet up with a).

At any rate, the most recent strip struck me as rather funny. One of the members of a), together with one of b)'s human relatives, is in a fight with c). What I laughed at is the last panel; look at the guy in the lower right. He's the human - and he's doing exactly the right thing.

The latest EGS strip really tickled me.

Here's the deal. Elliot Dunkel has gained the ability to transform himself into a (female) superhero. Her outfit has no pockets, and so she has no access to anything he had in his pockets when he transformed. Those objects do reappear when she resumes male form, but it's always bugged him, not knowing what happens to them in between.

In this strip, she found out what happens to his cell phone.

In the latest strip (4/4/16), some unexpected consequences are revealed.

I'm sure there's more to come.

One of these days, people will realize that it's not a good idea to kidnap Agatha Heterodyne, don't you think?

Some otherwise unattached people get dogs or cats. Susan collects animate fairy dolls. (She actually has four of them, but the fourth is male. He ain't sleeping with her.)

It's the turn of the eighth and last of the central characters, Elliot Dunkel's twin sister Ellen.

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