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Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: Year of the Gryffindork
Published 2001
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JuanPaul Comments: Year of the Gryffindork
Published 2001
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October 11th, 2022 at 3:47 pm
I want to know why he’s wearing a tie with pajama bottoms and a graphic t-shirt. That’s like someting out of vintage Dark Bros. porn.
October 11th, 2022 at 4:56 pm
So, a big, yellow bird; a giant frog munching on several dudes; a dork in pyjamas, tie, and purple socks; and a ninja wannabe who almost got a stick up his arse. It’s a masterpiece, it is.
(I’d’ve submitted ‘Dork Lord of Dorkholm’, but it seemed derivative of the JuanPaul comment. Anyway, I have a nasty cold, and that’s the best I can do.)
October 11th, 2022 at 5:14 pm
@NomadUK: “Sesame Yeet”?
October 11th, 2022 at 5:55 pm
OK: the top of the tower is…spinning really fast? Presumably the guy on top is all “HELP JANE STOP THIS CRAZY THING!” The other guy in black isn’t able to help since he’s hanging by the pipe through his trousers, although he’s still able to ineffectually wave a knife around. Meanwhile, the griffin has arrived with the inebriated, still half in his pajamas third member of the group, and its expression is all “Dudes. I mean, really??”
October 11th, 2022 at 6:25 pm
What does the griffin do for the rest of its year? It probably takes an hour or two tops for it to carry Andy Pandy wherever he’s going…
October 11th, 2022 at 7:23 pm
I’ve seen this guy before.
October 11th, 2022 at 7:26 pm
Editor: “I need you to draw two people and griffin”.
Artist: “I’m not good at drawing people’s faces, or their feet or…well, people in general”.
Editor: “Can you draw brown hairy spinning blurry blobs”?
Artist: “That’s my specialty”!
October 11th, 2022 at 7:57 pm
Some kids don’t get a break…
Mum forces the boy to wear a tie with his pyjamas, then he’s snatched by a giant griffin, who THEN flies him straight into a rooftop Ninja food processor.
His last thought, “I’m going to die wearing purple socks.”
October 11th, 2022 at 10:12 pm
The bloke in the onesie thinks that if the Griffin realises he’s held in mid-air by a grey helium balloon there will be talons-and-squeaky-voices hilarity as he plunges to his doom. So he’s put a toupee on the balloon.
And it seems to be working.
October 11th, 2022 at 10:58 pm
OK the griffin is holding up the white boy — but what is that that’s holding up the… I’m gonna guess… hashhashin? Flagpole on the hairy minaret?
Sure hope the griffin (or curried bird) can yeet upwards like a helicopter, or else Pajama Boy’s not long for this world.
October 11th, 2022 at 11:55 pm
@GSS ex-noob: Gryphons are aerodynamically impossible to start with, so they might as well yeet in any direction the author pleases.
October 12th, 2022 at 12:33 am
@Tat
That makes absolutely no sense and is obviously the most plausible explanation for whatever the hell is going on here.
October 12th, 2022 at 3:14 am
Weirdest-looking griffin I’ve ever seen. I wasn’t aware they have bird front legs and panther/mountain lion back legs. Though the back legs make sense, I guess.
October 13th, 2022 at 12:07 am
@Hammy: Nope, it’s a standard griffin. Back part is traditionally a lion, but we can’t tell what sort of big cat s/he is for certain without the tail tip.
October 13th, 2022 at 1:56 am
@GSS-xn:
Okay. I thought it was the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, not bird in the front, lion in the rear. Wikipedia does mention that some gryphons did have talons on the front legs; Brittanica just says eagle head and somtimes wings with a lion body.
Learn something old every day…. 😉 I just thought Griffin was a seller of mobile phone accessories.
October 13th, 2022 at 2:05 am
More importantly, once pj dork has rescued the idiots fooling around on the tower, where are they going to find freshly killed small game at this hour to pay the Uber Grif?
Not usually into magiky-fantasy, but pj dork has me intrigued… sure, I’d read this on the bus.
@Francis – found the line “It remains unclear how the gull got itself covered in curry in the first place” amusing because we ALL know how it happened – the new guy at the local curry place forgot to close the bin lid in the alley and the gull very much enjoyed the curry special leftovers… nom nom nom.
October 14th, 2022 at 12:37 am
@Emster: That’s the Lyft Gryf, that is!
Yeah, sure “it remains unclear” how a bird renowned for eating anything that doesn’t move fast enough got covered in sauce.
British seagulls are louder and meaner than American ones, I learned (by observation; I don’t have food out in the presence of either).
October 20th, 2022 at 5:21 pm
Surely there had to be a better scene in the book to illustrate the action than whatever they chose here? The more I look at it the odder it gets. For example, the gryphon’s wings seem to be all one unit laying on the back of the creature’s neck, not actually growing out of its body in two places.
October 20th, 2022 at 9:32 pm
@Tracy (nice to see you again): It’s this year’s newly designed griffin? Like a plane with all the stuff underneath the wings?
Not sure it can flap much under your scenario: maybe it’s jet-powered?
October 21st, 2022 at 3:08 am
@Tracy(#18):
What strikes me now is that the right wing doesn’t seem to match the left. Even if a significant portion of the right wing root is obscured by the gryphon’s body (and it really isn’t *that* wide from this angle), the taper from widest section to the right wing root is going to be significantly more extreme than that on the left.
October 22nd, 2022 at 12:32 am
@Hammy: The more I look at it, the more the wings look unevenly attached to boot.
Meaning the griffin can only fly in circles?
October 22nd, 2022 at 2:36 am
@GSSxn(prev):
I’m not sure it matters if it can fly straight or only in circles – it looks like it’s going to knock the dome off that tower with that oversized right wing anyway. At least the guy the gryphon’s carrying won’t have to try to rescue the ninja hanging from the flagpole by his belt once the ninja falls to his death after impact.
October 22nd, 2022 at 11:32 pm
@Hammy: The ninja’s position looks fairly precarious even without a large flying beast coming at him. How long before his trousers rip? And how did he get out there anyway?
I’m picturing both the griffin and the tower both spinning, in opposite directions, and birdie and ninja are both circling in a deadly variant of catching the brass ring.
Maybe PJ boy isn’t unconscious, maybe he’s just got his head down, not looking, and barfing from all the spinning.