Heart of the City Comic Strip, January 07, 2013 on GoComics.com

Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

A dragon named for NoX radicals, O3, and soot…

Alexikakos said, 5 months ago

Does anybody else remember “Bored of the Rings” by the Harvard Lampoon?
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The “bored” part is what’s important here.

Pharmakeus Ubik said, 5 months ago

@Alexikakos

Yes. I’ve read it many times: for our scene above:
The quest was successful, and the dragon, a prewar basilisk who smelled like a bus, was taken from behind while he was clipping coupons.

emjaycee said, 5 months ago

@Alexikakos

I dunno: I’m pretty captivated by this arc, but then again, “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” are two of my favorite books. I was raised on long literature and symphonies and this late in my life, I still have an attention span. Half-hour (22 minute) sit-coms leave me cold.

And “Bored of the Rings” is pretty dated, particularly the references to Richard Nixon.

massha said, 5 months ago

I am a lifelong fan of Tolkien too and I am enjoying these series.

Doctor Toon said, 5 months ago

Count me in on the Tolkien fans loving this story arc

Mark, don’t let a few Trolls discourage you about the current storyline, just write them into the next one and make sure something nasty happens to them

nboady said, 5 months ago

The “ball hog” reference in Bored of the Rings was hilarious, though. Some nice parodies of the poetry in the book also (“Oh, Heaven help the Working-Elf!”);

BigBadVidia said, 5 months ago

Is this even going anywhere?

Miba said, 5 months ago

ugh, another week of this? I read the book already, I don’t need to read it again using outside characters. I haven’t seen the movie but I did see the old cartoon, I don’t need to see it rein acted here. I’m sure pretty much everyone has either read the book or seen one of the movies. There’s no reason to tell us a story we already know. My main fandom is Star Wars and if he spent a month acting out a Star Wars movie I’d feel the exact same way as I do now.