Jason Williams helped me out HUGE today with a GREAT guest strip that takes place “elsewhere” in the Tavern that Bill, Frank & Kohr are in… HUGE thanks to Jason as always! New LoB coming Monday – in the meantime, enjoy another perspective from some of the seedy vermin that inhabit this tavern that is not unlike the Mos Eisley Cantina!
Wow…Jason you captured my reaction to bad puns perfectly!
I love this!
Can’t say I blame the tree’s reaction to the pun, either. Black slap the dwarf some more! WHACK!
Hmmm…”seedy” vermin? Another tree pun? Shame on you!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one, “An Ent walks into a bar…”
And the bartender sez “Hey! This is a family establishment! You can pick your girlfriend up and go get a room when her shift is up!”
That Ent nice, dwarf.
Somewhere, a mama bird is freaking out. “That overgrown walking stick made off with my babies AGAIN! He promised he woodn’t without telling me, but I should’ve known better than to trust anything whose nose grows inches every year.”
And the Dwarf hits somebody who in turn swings around hitting someone else, and before you know it, the bar breaks out into a total drunken brawl!
LOB’s Program Practices department HAS criticized this episode for use of the word “dwarf” in a negative context, suggesting instead the terms “half-pint”, “runt” or “shrimp” could be used.
i hate those political correct do gooders.
you just ignore that LOB’s Program Practices department, jayson. you crack me up
this said email was in reply to a memo from LOB’s Program Practices department
LOB’s Program Practices department condemn this episode for use of the word “dwarf” in a negative context, suggesting instead the terms “half-pint”, “runt” or “shrimp” be used.
where that memo disappeared to, i dont know.
Someone might want to inform the LOBPPD that this episode didn’t actually use the word “dwarf” anywhere in the episode! I think they got a little trigger-happy there.
that is the definition of a == bureaucrat
an official who works by fixed routine
WITHOUT exercising intelligent judgment.
Politically Correct Do Gooder is an Oxymoron, just like Civil Servant or Stationary Engineer … well the last one may be correct if it is also a member of the first group.
The tree is drinking from a wooden cup! That would be like us drinking from a skull! EWW! GROSS!
Nah .. that’s a goth Ent. He’s just doing it for the shock value. Might even be a mug of sap. Probably has satanic carvings and barbed wire grown into his bark in ,,,weird places, too.
The Scythians (proto-Russians) had the charming habit of making drinking vessels of the skulls of noteworthy enemies.
This critter would be a pretty small Ent. How tall was Treebeard? 14 feet? (I haven’t read the trilogy in years). Small tree-sized at any rate. Maybe that’s why he’s affecting to drink from a wooden vessel?
Sorry: I was really sloppy with my editing. I had meant to put in a sentence about the Ent being unhappy about being terrifically short before saying “Maybe that’s why he’s affecting to drink from a wooden vessel?” As it is, it sounds gross… Sorry again…
And I just happened to think, Is the tree drinking Wood alcohol?
poor baby eggs – but if i was a tree in the modern day, i’d get trashed too. people ain’t worth protectin’…
Hahaha! I’ll be honest that after reading this I kept thinking about Biff from Back to the Future. You know, “So, why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here?” Derp derp derp.
Anyway, great job David and Don! =)
And maybe if I had read in the comment that this was JASON’s work before typing and submitting my previous comment, I wouldn’t have made a fool of myself. Sorry! Great work Jason!! ^___^;
Thanks To David for letting me play on his playground again, and to all of you who out up with me!!
You would figure the ent would be more upset that he was sitting a a bar made of dead tree, in a building made out of dead tree, drinking ale made of dead plants from a mug made of dead tree.
groan grown
So is this now a meme or a running gag now?
“New LoB coming Monday”
Also September 15th is NOT a Monday and neither was August 17th ….. *grumble grumble*
As for the Ent’s lack of stature, maybe it is a Dwarf Crab Apple?
Here’s a new job Bill the Barbarian can do—
College Professor at Trinity College in Dublin.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/17/hacker-makes-conan-barbarian-college-professor/?test=faces
I normally don’t pass on news links, but this one was just too silly to not to.
Everybody sing “Alma Mater!” as you hack and slash…
Just caught up with this… DK himself put me right on this being a “new” strip here, as opposed to on GoComics, but to repeat my thoughts on this strip:
What sort of beer would a tree drink? In Tolkien’s LOTR, the Ents had a potent brew where a few pints put six inches of growth-spurt on two visiting Hobbits, making them the tallest of their tribe… its efects on a Dwarf, were he to quaff from the wrong stein, might be equally interesting… and if an Ent were to have a growth-spurt while inside the tavern, Sarah the bar-wench might have to take her axe and do some pruning…
Besides, this is an Ent, an animate sentient tree, drinking in a tavern, essentially a wooden hut based on huge supporting timbers and planks. Is this not akin to a human drinking in a pub made out of bones and skulls? This must be one mean mother of an Ent…
“Barkeep, that wall over there used to be my grand-father. And I personally knew those reeds you’ve thatched the roof with… prepare to die, tree-killing scum…”
And to Tenessee Charlie: who said
“this said email was in reply to a memo from LOB’s Program Practices department
LOB’s Program Practices department condemn this episode for use of the word “dwarf” in a negative context, suggesting instead the terms “half-pint”, “runt” or “shrimp” be used.
where that memo disappeared to, i dont know.”
It fell through a warp in L-space and ended up – or originally came from – the Campaign For Equal Heights on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, a praiseworthy organisation agitiating for Dwarf civil rights in the city of Ankh-Morpork. One of the reasons I love LoB so much is that without being derivative and still remaining wholly original, the strip could fall fully-formed into Pratchett’s world view and belong there – David Reddick has got exactly the same sort of sense of humour. And to those who have not discovered Pratchett yet – you have a treat to come. His treatment of the barbarian hero motif is best approached in “The Colour of Magic”, “The Light Fantastic” , “the Last Hero” and “Interesting Times”.
agreed pratchett is good. and may i suggest XANTH books by piers anthony == full of puns and rascally humor