Of Girls and Pirates

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2007/09/19 - 6:35pm

Girls are neat-o
They're like men, only with boobies & irrational mood swings.
Girls like other girls because the can go shopping together
Boys don't like other boys because they're all poopyheads.
poopyhead
Except if they're pirates, in which case they're awesome.
awesome pirate
I would go shopping with a pirate even though he's a boy<!--pagebreak-->
First of all, he wouldn't call it 'shopping' -- he'd call it 'plundering'
We'd go to the mall in his bitchin' galleon
we wouldn't use the door
we'd buy t-shirts with ironic slogans on them
Then we'd totally plunder a slurpie
Sigh... I wish I knew a pirate...
Girl Pirate
Arr -- The End.

Notes

Good things usually come from comment threads on Dan's blog. Usually these discussions include Elephant Porn and other high arts, but in a recent open thread the basic script of this came up as a comment (or three) by me. Almost instantly I thought it would make a good comic, and decided to attempt it the minute Spyder pointed out that today (the 19th) would be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. How could I resist?

Truth be told, this was actually going to be my rough sketch for the comic, and was done in my little notebook. I had intended to do it on a bigger sheet of paper, but by the time 4am rolled around I abandoned that idea. It was coloured, as usual, in the GIMP.

MY backside is aching from sitting in this chair all day wrestling with the graphics tablet, and I'm sure that over the next few days several aches and pains will show up, but all of those have been nullified in advance by the huge grin on my face. I hope you enjoy reading this comic as much as I did making it; it's probably the first finished one I've done since, well, 1993, I think (it was called Super Monkey, of course).

Far too long to have stayed away from a medium I love so much. It won't be another 14 year wait for the next one.

V

Comments

LOL! aaarrrrr ... is correct

Submitted by amit on Sat, 2007/09/22 - 6:30pm.

LOL!

aaarrrrr ...

is correct

arrrr

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 1:14pm.

I've always preferred 'arrrr' myself, but 'aaarrrrr' is alright too... even though it makes one sound like a prissy shastriya sangeet reject girly-man trying to perfect his alaaps...grumblegrumble ...youngergeneration ...nomorals--Do you want our pirates to be this way? DO YOU?! Do you have no respect for our millennia-old civilization's mardaangi*?

What will we say when the Ramrajya comes around, that our downtrodden, backward Buccaneer-castes have not been flying the tricolour with the right amount of hirsute chauvanism because of our kambhakat aaaarrrs? All this Western influence is corrupting our young minds. Call Centres are making our Youths roll their 'R' sounds -- rowdy rascals! -- why when I was yo--

...eh? Oh, sorry about that, hehe. Where was I?

Oh yeah, ARRRR!

V

*TOP SECRET Hint: there is none.

Sigh

Submitted by Aishwarya on Sun, 2007/09/23 - 10:10pm.

Back when I was a girl pirate, I looked nothing like that. :(

You didn't have a scruffy

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 12:38pm.

You didn't have a scruffy beard and a dead sexy mustache? :P

No, the beard came years

Submitted by Aishwarya on Tue, 2007/10/02 - 6:04pm.

No, the beard came years later.

This pirate looks a lot like

Submitted by Candice on Mon, 2007/09/24 - 5:24pm.

This pirate looks a lot like Samir.. hmmm.. Why am I not in the comic! You are a poopy head- see I'm a man!! I would go shopping with Samir..

Every pirate looks like

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 12:41pm.

Every pirate looks like Samir. And you aren't in there because there was no mention of shoes. Or Royalty. If I'm ever doing a comic about either you're sure to be in there.

Ergo, does Samir look like

Submitted by Samir on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 2:48pm.

Ergo, does Samir look like every pirate?

Also, does this mean any comic about The Pirate King would have to naturally include Candice and Samir?

Oh! ... and did NASA actually land on the Moon, and what did pirates have to do with it? (Arm-strong sounds like a very pirate name to me) Were Girl Pirates involved? Did they wear bikini-strap space suits?? So many mysteries that might never be solved!

And Candice, I'm touched. I would go shopping with you too, as long as Pirate Boots are on the shopping list. You know my number.

You're my favorite. You also

Submitted by Spyder on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 8:21pm.

You're my favorite.

You also put me to shame with your on the fly comic making, and scanning of items (look how much stuff you have scanned!)

I must scan things! I MUST SCAN THINGS! I tried scanning things the other night, had them all ready to show off and then the Mac-hole crashed and lost all the files I had scanned before saving them.

I hate you Mac-hole.

(but I love pirates)

Mac-hole vs the New Hotness

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2007/09/26 - 12:45pm.

If you think the Mac-hole is bad, you should try Windows Vista! Seriously, it's got the obtuse non-geek 'usability friendly' approach of a Mac but with Windows 'DOES NOT COMPUTE' mentality.

It shuts downs and spins up my CD drive every ten seconds. If earlier Windows just wouldn't respond to any program behaving strangely, now if anything hangs for a microsecond or so it eagerly asks me if I want to close it (when usually waiting a few seconds will fix it)... and then when I try to shut the program down Windows itself stops responding and I have to pop the battery in order to reset the thing. It asks me if I 'really want to do this' for every. single. thing.

I don't know how to get it to do... argh... ANYTHING!

Rant over. I'm moving to Linux.

Oh, and I din't have to scan much. These were just two pages in a notebook. I just cut up the panels later for easier viewing. I should put up the rough ones later.

One admires you muchly for

Submitted by Aditya Bidikar on Thu, 2007/10/04 - 9:32pm.

One admires you muchly for this. Fun-nee.

And, um ... Aaarrrr!

(Sorry for being so late in

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2007/10/23 - 1:00pm.

(Sorry for being so late in replying to this...)

Thank you, it's a wonderful feeling to be admired. I hope you like the other one (and the ones that come out next week).

Aaarrrrr!!!

Vishal is too much fat

Submitted by jamesxsz on Thu, 2007/10/25 - 3:56am.

Vishalxszxs my brother of the verdant spherexszs
HOW FOR ARE joo!
i is to be having too much of the kickass in the canada, for to because i is to be swimming in the hot womenxsx!!
but more than that, the used bookstores here actually have JOHN NORMAN! i got the sixth GOR book, its kickass!!!

anyways just thought id drop a line brother!
cheers!
james

James of Green Balls!

Submitted by Vishal on Thu, 2007/10/25 - 1:10pm.

Am too much jealous of swimmingness with hotwomensz. BTW, Have they stopped calling you 'bhaiyya'?

I figured you'd be busy settling in and having fun so I decided not to bombard you with emails asking if everyone really does end every sentence with 'eh?'

Glad to hear that civilization is still alive and well somewhere. As you can see I finally cracked and started making comics (and already my minions and I are plotting to take over the world, like, next week!).

Great to hear from you; will drop you a line soon.

V

PS Finally played Half-Life 2. I am now officially a man. Again.