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SCATS goes all Old Testament on the Bear and Arm
posted Sep 2, 2010
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As you might already know, I'm pretty new to the webcomic scene.
I've very loosely followed the likes of Penny Arcade and XKCD over the last few years and read
one graphic novel. So what the heck gives me the right to team up
with an unequivical talent like Stowe? I enjoy the heck
out of writing. Aside from anything school-related before I've been
jotting down my various musings on my blog since 1998 and
enjoy the hell out of it. I don't know if I really have a style but
my process is pretty much write it and leave it. Little to no
editing and I rarely go back to read my own stuff. It always feels
more honest when it flows from my fingers with as little
interruption or "process" as possible.
After a quick turnaround CLAW Open Swim project collaboration Stowe and I decided to join forces and start SCATS. It's a different kind of challenge for me to cram something meaningful (and hopefully funny!) into four panels once a week but I'm loving it! We've even started to reveal a story arc in Fozzie and the Hand that came about organically from Stowe just amusing himself by drawing them into the background. It'll be fun to see that arc through and figure out where we go from here. Since we've been building up a bar-centric universe that's surprisingly unlimited I absolutely can't wait!
As we move forward with SCATS we'll come across all sorts of ideas I'm sure and I always look forward to brainstorming with him. We always hope you stick with us and tell your friends but, most of all, we always love feedback so please feel free to chime in anytime. Ask us what we were thinking or how something came together or point out a continuity issue or whatever! We'd love to hear from you here or via Twitter @SCATScomic. We may soon being webcasting our collaborations and possibly screencast Stowe's illustrating of SCATS.
K^F
After a quick turnaround CLAW Open Swim project collaboration Stowe and I decided to join forces and start SCATS. It's a different kind of challenge for me to cram something meaningful (and hopefully funny!) into four panels once a week but I'm loving it! We've even started to reveal a story arc in Fozzie and the Hand that came about organically from Stowe just amusing himself by drawing them into the background. It'll be fun to see that arc through and figure out where we go from here. Since we've been building up a bar-centric universe that's surprisingly unlimited I absolutely can't wait!
As we move forward with SCATS we'll come across all sorts of ideas I'm sure and I always look forward to brainstorming with him. We always hope you stick with us and tell your friends but, most of all, we always love feedback so please feel free to chime in anytime. Ask us what we were thinking or how something came together or point out a continuity issue or whatever! We'd love to hear from you here or via Twitter @SCATScomic. We may soon being webcasting our collaborations and possibly screencast Stowe's illustrating of SCATS.
K^F
Comments [30]
 by The Jinxmedic on 9/2/2010 @ 9:42am | I think I like this device of bringing the story back to these two every now and then- it gives a strong Jobian/morality play feel to the rest of the strip. Now, it all makes sense! |
 by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 9:54am | As soon as my medical marijuana prescription gets approved I'll be contacting Mr. RR Anderson to collaborate on an all new cartoon format that will send the whole internet readership on a journey to the center of the mind. |
by The Jinxmedic on 9/2/2010 @ 10:29am | Tubular, dude! |
 by NineInchNachos on 9/2/2010 @ 10:40am | I don't think you could get anymore perplexing than scats. |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 11:13am | One cartoon concept that I'm developing has a working title called "The Big Explosion."
At one random moment in time there happened a big explosion in a junkyard. As a result of time, matter, and chance at one great moment a 300-pound canary appeared. |
 by Thorax O'Tool on 9/2/2010 @ 1:07pm | Smiting the Arm & Fozzie or all the people? |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 1:50pm | Now I want to point out that the 300-pound canary is not an uncaused and eternal being. The big explosion in the junkyard implies that the 300-pound canary actually had a beginning. |
by The Jinxmedic on 9/2/2010 @ 2:13pm | Was it the Law of Gravity that provided the causation?
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/... |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 2:39pm | Here's the point of conflict in the toon:
The 300-pound canary is an amoral being that wants to define right and wrong in an amoral junkyard. |
by Thorax O'Tool on 9/2/2010 @ 2:52pm | So then, is the 300 lb canary somehow tied to the mysterious dark energy or dark matter that so perplexes astrophysicists? |
by The Jinxmedic on 9/2/2010 @ 3:12pm | If the 300 pound canary is actually a Big Bird marionette, would it then be subject to string theory? |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 4:09pm | At this point I'm making no claims of intelligent design.
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by NineInchNachos on 9/2/2010 @ 4:43pm | Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe
Stephen Hawking The Universe can create itself from nothing, says Prof Hawking www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493 *whew* |
by The Jinxmedic on 9/2/2010 @ 4:53pm | Because of Gravity. Sure. (More like "gravitas", I say.) |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/2/2010 @ 5:40pm | If Stephen Hawking claims that the Universe is an effect---not uncaused or eternal---then what caused the effect if not an infinite all-powerful being?
Concrete physical reality never explains its own existence. It owes its existence to something else as the cause of its being---something non-physical. Now, the 300-pound canary is composed of pre-existent raw material from the junkyard and so I may design it as an extranatural being. I may design the 300-pound canary because I make the claim that I am a non-physical soul with a physical body. Stephen Hawking makes no claim to having a soul. He is a rock, day and night. Rocks don't think by day, and at night, nothing is that which rocks dream about. How could consciousness come from unconsciousness? When I send my 300-pound canary into Stephen Hawking's cave then we will find out if he's really alive. |
by NineInchNachos on 9/3/2010 @ 8:18am |  Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one |
by The Jinxmedic on 9/3/2010 @ 8:33am | I hate fake cyrillic. It drives me crrrraazzzzzyyyy. |
by NineInchNachos on 9/3/2010 @ 8:35am | ha ha |
 by california on 9/3/2010 @ 9:01pm | Rocks indeed. I once saw a movie about Stephen Hawking. In one scene all the Hawkings were seated at the dining room table, maybe 4-5 of them in all, each reading his/her own separate hardcover book, oblivious to the others. Hope I'm never that smart.
Speaking of canaries, one of my all time favorite jokes is: What's bigger than a 500 pound canary? Answer: A 500 pound french fry. Hahhaha. I'm usually the only one laughing. |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/3/2010 @ 10:21pm | A 500-pound canary? That's ricockulous.
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by Thorax O'Tool on 9/4/2010 @ 11:56am | The eternal question: Can God make a Canary so big that He can't lift It?
Or perhaps, rephrasing it for our more urbane and technologically advanced 21st century: Can an extranatural being create a universe that it cannot exist in? |
by NineInchNachos on 9/4/2010 @ 8:55pm | we have a simpler term for 'extranatural beings' they are called 'imaginary pals' |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/5/2010 @ 6:57am | Oh sure, it's okay to idolize extranatural imaginary pals like Superman. Wear a spandex body suit and cape and the world calls you progressive.
Go on now. Live in your alternate universe. Pass laws that make it illegal to discriminate against followers of extranatural beings. But the question remains: Can an extranatural being create a universe that it cannot exist in? The answer is yes. The evidence is documented in Superman comics. He lives his life darting from crisis to crisis. What kind of existence is that? You call that living? |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/5/2010 @ 7:10am | "The eternal question: Can God make a Canary so big that He can't lift It?"
A supernatural being---a self-existant, eternal, all-powerful God---could never make a Canary so big that He can't lift it. However, He could make a Canary so big that Superman can't lift it. |
by Thorax O'Tool on 9/5/2010 @ 7:55pm | Many quantum theories (such as M-Theory) not only postulate the existence of multiverses but actually require them. As we know, Anthropic Principle cannot be escaped since it's impossible for us to observe the Universe (or multiverse) from a perspective other than our own. Furthermore, we know also that what humans see in the world is about 10% what's actually there and 90% in our heads. So, one may be able to pose an argument that due to quantum stuff we don't even have our heads wrapped around yet and the Anthropic Principle, that the creation of an imaginary world in one's mind would then spawn this world to exist in some form of other dimension. This is purely theoretical, there isn't a way to test this. That being said, the 300 lb canary could indeed not be an extranatural being, but a construct of an other dimensional reality. Could it be that perhaps in the World that the 300 lb canary is from that Mofo from the Hood fills the same niche? Who exists in who's mind? Do we exist simultaneously abet on different universal d-branes? Did the 300 lb canary and Mofo simultaneously dream up each other's universes? Did the universes exist independently, but by some fluke of the quantum universe, they dream up a connection to each other? Is that what dreams and the imagination are? A bridge across the multiverse? Or perhaps we should think to consider that the 300lb canary is the same manifestation of Mofo, as experienced in a parallel universe? |
by Mofo from the Hood on 9/5/2010 @ 8:58pm | Look, anyone with access to a personal computer could verify that two intangible entities---Mofo from the Hood & My 300-Pound Canary---exist. Try to disprove these two intangibles. But more importantly with regard to the musings of the intangible Thorax O'Tool, he/it along with each of the other two noted entities--- unlike the number 7 or a kite (the intangible geometric form)---are effects that have a cause.
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by Mofo from the Hood on 9/5/2010 @ 9:19pm | Suppose Stephen Hawking makes a convincing sounding argument that the Universe began with an explosion from a tiny kernel of compressed energy (disregarding the question of "Why?" it began)---"The Big Explosion"
And over time lush and diverse life forms evolved on Earth through chance combinations of pre-existent matter. Given all that, how does Stephen Hawking account for Mofo from the Hood writing a commentary in response to Thorax 'O Tool's written commentary in the context of an electronic medium portraying a metaphorical illustration of God and the Devil conversing in a postmodern language of meaninglessness? |
 by marumaruyopparai on 9/13/2010 @ 2:07pm | Just a little something on the notion of universes springing from nothing.
Physicists have noted that the positive energy contained in particles and the negative energy represented by gravitational attraction appear to balance out precisely. "Empirically, we can actually have evidence that the universe came from nothing. One of the key things is that the total energy of the universe is zero, which is only possible if the universe came from nothing. It could have been otherwise. It could have been not zero," Krauss said. The concept of a zero-energy universe and getting something from nothing may sound crazy, but this article from Mercury magazine and this video of one of Krauss' lectures, both titled "A Universe From Nothing," show that the ideas has been percolating among scientists for years. Such ideas are central to "The Grand Design," as well as to the book that Krauss is currently in the midst of writing. From MSN article: Is the grand design within our grasp? |
by marumaruyopparai on 9/13/2010 @ 2:14pm | @Mofo
Spontaneous somethingness. |
by marumaruyopparai on 9/13/2010 @ 2:20pm | I will however concede the irony.
What other than some self-realized metaphysical being has the power and the notion to tear the fabric of nothingness apart into somethingness? Fascinating. Also, I'm slightly embarassed at how long it took me to decode the bear/arms punchline. I'm blaming the back slash. I really love this comic. |
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