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Pointless Man fears compromise.


Conceived and drawn on a bus, my only two panel comic ever.
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  1. Anonymous4/02/2012 8:37 PM

    I'd like it if you uploaded more Pointless Man comics...they're funny...

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  2. Anonymous4/02/2012 8:58 PM

    err..I guess I should elaborate on that a little bit...

    I like how in the first panel of this comic the boy looks all innocent and there seems to be a friendly smile playing on his face as he asks what he thinks is a completely appropriate and unremarkable question to an ordinary, probably helpful, man (I'd guess he has asked similar questions before with good results)...

    Then in the second panel he's frowning (that looks distinctly like the frowny face on a band pin that I have...) as Pointless Man aggressively wheels around and berates him, because he thinks Pointless Man is being totally unreasonable and his hostility seems to coming from nowhere.

    Now I feel like I killed a joke...

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  3. Perlous Langour4/05/2012 3:43 PM

    Not at all. I appreciate the thought you give even two panel gags like the above. Two out of the three other people who've commented on it were deeply unimpressed. One of those called it 'obtuse', or at least more obtuse than my other comics.

    I have several PM scripts worked out, and even a few pages of dummies. However, much of my free time is not free, and I am often more intent on relaxing than in tempting my hands to go numb trying to draw. Silly, I know. I really want to finish these bits up, and move on to thinking up new material. Soon, I keep saying.

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  4. Anonymous4/07/2012 3:14 PM

    Yeah no rush..your irreverent doodlings entertain me as well...and in the mean time I'll just keep gradually working my way through the backlog of posts here...

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