Ah the couch.
A time honored husband tradition. If you haven’t spent time there–well, then you’re single.
If you’ve tried to make your wife sleep there–that would mean you’re probably divorced.
Clearly, Molly and Jack have been married a while too–as she knew to go for his glasses. There’s nothing I hate more than getting smacked in the glasses.
Not that my wife throws things at my head regularly. In fact, the only thing I can ever recall her throwing at me is a pie.
Just like in the movies.
I think she threw a dutch apple pie at me rather than the traditional cream pie. She’s sort of a trailblazer in that regard. Having “Pie” on your Wife CV as the only thing you’ve ever thrown at your husband must mark her as a person of special distinction among other wives. She won’t verify this with me though.
One thing I can independently verify, is that I’m glad pies are difficult to aim. That and I’m glad she throws like a girl.
Cheers,
Jack
Stupid Brawny Man, Jack never would have done that to poor Molly.
First of all, he wouldn’t have been outside. There are bugs outside.
Secondly, four-wheelers are idiotic. Unless they’re strapped with C4 a la Battlefield 3. So he certainly wouldn’t have drug her onto one.
Believe it or not, Panel 6 actually happened to a friend of mine, though I don’t think her Brawny Man was quite so strapping as the one Jim has given us.
She was on a date and flung off of an ATV–she lay whimpering in the dirt until her date was able to turn around. When he did come back he delivered the priceless line from Panel 6, “Get up, ya pussy! You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends!”
It was their last date.
Pro-tip fellas, ask if your date is okay–before calling her a pussy. Or better yet, if you have the urge to call a woman pussy get a vasectomy. Your lineage needs to end.
Cheers,
Jack
Jim and I have been at Unicorn Soup for approaching a year now–this comic marks our first proper multi-comic story arc. Thanks to my wife for the story concept. Her quote was, “If you can capture how frustrating gamers and non-gamers can be to one another in a relationship you’ll win a fucking Oscar–or whatever it is that they award for comics.”
It’s called an “Eisner” baby.
My wife has incredible faith in us. Mostly because she likes Jim’s art.
I hope you enjoyed Part I of “The Grass is Greener.”
On the gaming front, I’m still poking around SWTOR with my brother. Though I find that I’m strangely anti-social in the game. In part, I think it’s due to the excellence of the writing and “campaign.” I just finished the main story arc with my Jedi Consular and am now a bit more free to roam the galaxy…perhaps I’ll make a friend this week.
TV last week was amazing because of “The Walking Dead.” Last week’s episode marked a high watermark for me as the actors seem to have settled into the roles and are fleshing them out a bit. Rick in particular, already a deep character, has become more engaging. As for his foil, Shane–Jon Bernthal, has done a brilliant job of humanizing the entirely unlikable character. I can’t wait for Sundays.
Cheers,
Jack
I’m sure you’ve got two questions. One an obvious question, and then a follow up.
The obvious question, “Did this happen?”
To answer that I’ll refer you to Panel 6.
The follow up is no doubt, “Okay so it, ‘Didn’t happen,‘ but does it work?”
Yes.
Err–that’s what the internet tells me at least.
Why a wife would ever leave her husband alone with an infant is beyond me. Life is full of lessons.
Cheers,
Jack
Krogan love fried chicken–it’s not a well known part of the Mass Effect canon, but it’s there I assure you.
The nerd outcry over co-op in Mass Effect struck me as bizarre. Granted it provided us fodder for a comic, but really if you don’t like co-op then don’t play it.
Nerd sensitivity in general is odd especially, when developers are giving nerds something extra that is completely optional. People are weird.
In other news, I’m still spending too much time playing SWTOR (give in Javis)–last night I had a fascinating experience a real honest to goodness role playing experience in an MMO. My brother and I were cruising Tatooine when we came across a couple of Sith fighting an elite mob.
The Sith saw us, we exchanged in character barbs then both sides lit up our lightsabers and went at it–when the dust settled the Sith were dead, but by the Force I respected the shit out of the gamers. They came back for more a while later we had another round of repartee and this time they won the fight, which was sort of immaterial as the experience was an amazing one. My Bro and I duking it out on Tatooine with Sith–and both sides staying in character.
Childhood fantasies come to life.
Cheers,
Jack
Behold your future my childless nerds.
It’s different, a happy different, but certainly different. The time I do get to game seems sweeter now, less frequent certainly, but sweeter.
As to the comic, one of my favorite parts about collaborating with Jim are the background jokes and Easter Eggs he includes.
Panel 4′s “Flying Brick” killed me… and apparently some helpless Nooblette. I do love the ironic/slogan t-shirts he includes as well, something I rarely, if ever, include in the scripts.
I also like to imagine that Jim is making little conceits throughout the comic to anyone patient enough to look.
Take the blocks in the final panel for instance, though I’ve not confirmed it with Jim, I think he’s making a Hamlet reference “2″ and “B” on the blocks. Hamlet’s soliloquy is a meditation on how one continues life in the face of trial and strife. The 1 Up Mushroom is clearly a continuation on the theme as it literally represents life in the gaming Universe. Thus, Jim has deftly combined the classic representation of new life (infancy) with the gaming representation of new life (Green Spotty Mushrooms).
Why the combination? I think Pezzetti is arguing, and this is a classic Pezzetti move, that one needs to stop reading and play more games. Whether it be rocketship or Mario–play will chase away all that nasty introspection.
Well done my good man. Perhaps someday I’ll learn that brevity is in fact the soul of wit, and you can stop trying to cram all my dialogue into our panels.
Cheers,
Jack
I’ve gone and done it. I has a Twitter: @jimpezzetti
God help us all.
As Jack had mentioned before, he and I joined the Twxxd brothers for an episode of their regular podcast. That podcast is now available online. It’s fun and informative. You’ll marvel at the compelling origin story of Unicorn Soup! Your mind will boggle when you learn where the name came from! You’ll learn how to make alcoholic beverages that may or may not cause blindness! You’ll shudder to learn the diabolical process that we use to make the comic! And Jack will share a life lesson that will make your life richer and guarantee* you’ll get laid more often!
Go listen, and let us know what you think!
*not a guarantee.
Unicorn Soup began in late July. Over the last six months, Jim and I have been lucky enough to have some really thoughtful and supportive readers–some of you have even been nice enough to comment on our work. Sincerely, thank you.
We’ve also had our share of bizarre spam. Below is a collection of some of our favorite pieces (note all typos were included in the spam):
- “Superior thinnkig demonstrated above. Thanks!” (I’m always guilty of superior thinnkig)
- “If my pbroelm was a Death Star, this article is a photon torpedo.” (Nerd spam)
- “I’ve been surfing on-line more than 3 hours as of late, but I never found any interesting article like yours. It?s beautiful price sufficient for me. In my view, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet can be a lot more helpful than ever before.” (I love the word salad spam, the sound my brain makes as I try to put it together is troubling though.)
- “Ever find anything out regarding irvine orthodontist “ (I’d go with Dr. Paine)
- “advertising” (Honest and to the point.)
- Thought I might add this “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” – Albert Einstein (OMG PHILOSOPHY SPAM)
- I will immediately clutch your rss as I can not to find your email subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service. Do you have any? Please let me recognize in order that I may subscribe. Thanks. (Whoa! I just met you keep your hands off my rss)
Whenever I feel a little low, I know I can browse our spam folder for a pick me up.
In other news, our Podcast with the gents over at TWXXD will post sometime next week. I’d also like to direct all my Magic the Gathering pals over to our friend Javis at Legacy-Control. Especially those of you who’ve played the card game of Magic–this is your strip.
Time for some double fisted addictive gaming–SWTOR and Words with Friends here I come. Is that the gaming equivalent of a speedball?
Cheers,
Jack
Hey kids!
Have time to kill? Long commutes got you down? Cheer up, two of our favorite comic creators have put out another in their long line of time hilarious and wide ranging podcasts.
They can get a little blue from time to time so if you’ve got sensitive ears or a co-worker limit your listening accordingly.
Cheers,
Jack
