Playing Dice With The Universe

2005-05-14T03:49:00.000-07:00

http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1-Apr-05&Category_Code=a2005&Product_Count=0

I’m woefully behind on keeping Sullivan’s Soul updated. Most of my input goes toward “Big Al’s Comic Blog” or “Our Life In The Funny Pages,” which is fine with me. On occasion I’ll try to jot a few personal notes regarding the funnies, in particular “Zippy the Pinhead.”

Here he is with Zerbina, driving in a car on a date, so it seems. She likes this role (being the butch in the passenger seat?), and this worries Zippy. She’s messing with the space-time continuum, since they are not normally a “coif” couple. But she’s joking about accepting her role! Hahahahaha.

What the fuck does this mean? Honestly, what the FUCK DOES THIS MEAN?

I don’t follow this shitty comic enough to see what lead up to this date. Zippy even shaved his lumpy head and got out of his gay clown suit to go out with Zerbina, so this is big. But I can’t figure it out. And why is she running away from the car…into the woods?

Griffith puts together these random stupid thoughts that again make me feel dumb. I can do the same thing!

My Zippy comic:

Zippy is reading a piece of paper, and thinks “The blank white piece of paper is full of texture at some scale, reflecting light and full of information.”

Then you see him walking in a park. “The firm earth beneath unsteady feet and an explosive scattering of sky encompasses both the macro-tumult, flinging about space, and the micro-turmoil, dense with plowing earthworms and shifting continental plates.”

The last panel has a Bob’s Big Boy statue saying: “Don’t try to ground yourself, Zippy…you are neutral! Plant your feet somewhere else.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I hate Bill Griffith.
Sullivan’s Soul

2005-03-09T01:17:00.000-08:00

Okay, I'm new to blogging and I hope I don't mess this up. Big Al has graciously allowed me to keep up the good fight against comics that are not funny, so I’ll do my best.

One comic in particular that drives me nuts on a daily basis is “Zippy the Pinhead.” Bill Griffith should be boiled in used vegetable oil—slowly. Yesterday’s strip isn’t the best example of his sophisticated humor. Most of the time it involves Zippy talking to some giant statue or mascot for a big company. The conversations are never witty or funny, and I’m left trying to figure out the point.

When I first starting reading them, I felt intellectually inferior, thinking I should probably stick with reading Garfield. Am I the only one not getting it? Griffith has a pretty elaborate web site, chock full of gifts for all ages (including a Zippy the Pinhead shirt for babies). Zippy even has a theme song: http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/themsong.htm

Anyway, yesterday’s comic is about Zippy (apparently Bill Griffith’s inner-child/alter-ego), and his girlfriend (or wife?) Zerbina.

http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=7-Mar-05&Category_Code=m2005&Product_Count=6

Zippy is afraid he’s going bald and wants Zerbina to count the number of hairs on his head. He counted 8, but she sees only 7. He’s nervous and worried about it, but in the last square he says: “Who would win a mud-wresting match—Emeril Lagasse or Mario Batali?” Zerbina responds with “Don’t make me weaponize my bow again!”

What the f---??? Where did that come from? I knew Emeril (http://www.emerils.com/), but had never heard of Mario (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/mario_batali/article/0,1974,FOOD_9906_1696090,00.html). Is that the point? Is he going for shock value? What kind of weapon do you have in a bow? When has she done it before?

The comic is just not funny. I hate Zippy, especially the way he looks. Does Bill consider his inner-child to be a barely functioning retard? Did Zippy escape from an insane asylum? Was Bill Griffith a mental patient at some point? How does he go to the bathroom in that robe? Does he have to pull it up and squat? Why does Zippy always have a stubble, and for God’s sake why does he have stubble on the back of his neck?

Get rid of Zippy the Pinhead…we don’t need it.

John

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Playing Dice With The Universe