Akimbo Comics – Comics Everyone Can Hate

Discussion (7) ¬

1. 
   Pavel

   January 13, 2010 at 11:11 pm | #

   Holy shit. Wisdom.
2. 
   Cathany

   January 14, 2010 at 12:45 pm | #

   Love this comic. Love, love, love. You’re bloody brilliant, and I mean that.
3. 
   Winston Rowntree

   January 15, 2010 at 7:37 pm | #

   Ha, this is you at your best, sir. Very well done indeed. That ending is just perfect…
4. 
   Offendi

   January 16, 2010 at 6:13 pm | #

   I should probably pitch in my appreciation for Akimbo too, yes?

   When I started reading from the beginning I didn’t know you’d had a site change, you see, so I was treated to a wordless succession of amazingly bleak stories, filled with shit and cum and blood arranged at least as artfully as your godly excrement artist. And because there were hardly any comments in those early strips, I was filled with the awe of someone obviously brilliant at his job, but surrounded by so much self-doubt and underappreciation that he was driven to something like the webcomic-bottle-thrown-into-the-dark page. (I suppose that’s what happens when you experience art without seeing analysis or critique or author’s notes — the story overwhelms you fully and directly.)

   I’m not sure if you’re quite as dramatically tortured as I’d imagined, but… uh… Thank you for the excellent misconception? I thoroughly enjoyed my archive binge. And I apologize for my confusing attempt at a compliment.
5. 
   Augh

   January 16, 2010 at 7:10 pm | #

   Archive binge completed! RSS subscribed. Love your work.
   You even helped me learn for my exams: read some slides, read a page of ES&D, read some slides, read a page of Vivian Blank, read some slides… Great way to keep up my motivation. Thanks!
6. 
   b.patrick

   January 18, 2010 at 2:42 am | #

   Pavel: Thanks!
   Cathany: Thank you so much! It’s nice to know I haven’t alienated every woman out there. Yet.
   Winston: Thanks, man! Just tryin’ to keep up.
   Offendi: Thanks for the very clear compliment! I don’t know how tortured the average person is or where I measure up but I feel like if I was really good at what I did I’d come across a lot more tortured, which makes me kind of sick to say but I guess that’s how it works.
   Augh: Thanks! Always happy to help, especially with exams which are pretty obviously evil.
7. 
   Chuck F.

   April 4, 2011 at 3:06 am | #

   Unfortunately, most people who continue drinking excessively turn into full alcoholics. Once you cross the line you can’t go back.

   Take a cucumber. Drop it into a vat of vinegar with dill and spices, then wait. What do you get? You get a pickle.

   Now take that pickle and make it a cucumber again.

   Same with alcoholism.

   (This doesn’t change the fact that I loved the comic.)