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Archive for the ‘TASOAE’ Category
TASOAE: 009
Friday, February 26th, 2010TASOAE: 008
Friday, February 19th, 2010The dorm rooms at Rose had awesome old-school steam radiators that would hiss and spit at times. I grew up in the Phoenix area, so I had never encountered a radiator in real life, and I found it charming that they looked exactly like the ones in the movies. There was a fateful day when they turned them on, and they were always careful to notify everyone about it. I doubt they ever got hot enough to start fires, but I bet they could burn you or melt a thumb drive if you were especially unlucky.
Judging by the mention of a final project, this ran near the end of the fall quarter, in early November.
TASOAE: 007
Friday, February 12th, 2010TASOAE: 006
Friday, February 5th, 2010And so, in my sixth comic, I made an extended Dead Alewives reference. I am not proud of it. It did, however, allow me to have Cthulhu playing himself in an RPG, which is, of course, the only character he would ever play. I seem to remember some D&D or Call of Cthulhu sourcebook explaining that Cthulhu ate 1d6 cultists per round, but I can’t seem to find the reference on the internet.
All of these jokes, of course, were completely unfunny to 90% of the population, even at a geeky school like Rose.
TASOAE: 005
Friday, January 29th, 2010TASOAE: 004
Friday, January 22nd, 2010TASOAE: 003
Friday, January 15th, 2010TASOAE: 002
Friday, January 8th, 2010All of the continuity errors in this strip, and many in subsequent ones, were intentional. Except the missing tray in the second panel. That one’s my bad.
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The Absolute Sum of All Evil: 001
Friday, January 1st, 2010I’ve always meant to put this online, and now I finally will. The Absolute Sum of All Evil is a weekly comic I did for my college newspaper, the Rose Thorn. It features Cthulhu, the Lovecraftian elder god, and his escapades at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a Computer Science major. I’ll be publishing these weekly in the order they were originally drawn.
A warning here: there are a lot of Rose in-jokes in these comics. I’ll try and explain them as they come up, but I have no guarantees that these strips will be funny to a general audience.
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