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Ray is a Goth Bootsy Collins Wednesday, June 30, 2004 • read strip Viewing 51 comments:

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Your avatar should basically be applied to the cover of all Thompson Twins albums.

i'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing

Mr. Yuck is appropriate for many musical stylings, not just the Thompson Twins.

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Seriously, calm down.

I didn't know having Tourette's of the fingers was even possible.

you are the biggest pussy, ever.

I think your reaction was a bit harsh, but I have to admit I giggled out loud at "exploding fiery ass cancer you cock scab."

Ray really is kind of like a goth Bootsy Collins.

Also, Gay KISS.

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It implies the existence of a straight KISS.

Oh, snap!

Are you implying that the ladies from kiss don't like men?

Aheheh. I see what you did there.


I think.

This is Ray in a nutshell. If he can't beat you, he'll join you. And then he'll spend way too much money trying to join you and ruin the whole thing for you.

Ray without money would not be funny, because Ray is fundamentally a creature of impulses and desires, and without a huge sack of cash to fund those impulses and desires, he wouldn't be Ray.

Like having a huge "R" on his bedroom door, and leaving used dishes on the floor outside of it, like it was a hotel or something.

He would just be a meth addict.

He would be Showbiz.

He is always in search of the next better way to live life.

I disagree. Ray without money was still pretty funny.

I was thinking more along these lines

At the risk of both ruining this strip for others and looking like a dang old fool, what does a homo say three times?

I'm not falling for that one again!

OHHHHHHH. Ha ha! Thank you for your assistance, good sir.

Panels 2 and 3, and then "hella start munchin' on some skeleton bones" makes me give this one a five, yes I did it.

Oh my god. This gets a 5 just for the name of the strip.

"That we can use to listen to"

Note that he generally wouldn't classify Thompson Twins tapes as something to be listened to. Neither do I.

Seems like a beautifully precise employment of the term - "use" as in "improvise", as in "my family uses frisbees as plates".

The goth Bootsy Collins alt text had me nearly in tears. I've never laughed that hard at a webcomic......


... ever.

I like how whenever Ray senses Little Nephew is getting turned on to destructive, dangerous, or just plain asinine habits, he goes all reverse psychology to make him feel all ashamed of his new interest.

every strip in this arc gets a 5.

What other kind of bones would you expect to find, Ray

marzipan bones?

Why are these things in his closet? It makes me worry that they will show up in my closet!

i am delighted by the use of punctuation

in ray's thought bubbles

the thompson twins mention does it for me

goth Little Nephew speaks only in italics.

Aw, man. No matter how hard I try, I can't stop hearing Ray's voice as Kyle's mom in panel 3.

We should start a support group.

I initially read the last line as "that we can used to listen to," which I think is an improvement

I like how Ray is wearing a very small witch hat, and an ankh necklace.

And skull glasses.

Ray kinda looks more like a Goth Elton John.

there is a small water droplet perhaps from a sneeze on my monitor in exactly the place to make it look like a single tear is coming from little nephew's left eye in panel two

god dammit ray do NOT wear a cape!

As a goth kid, the adverb "sadly" must precede at least 65% of all spoken sentences in which it would be appropriate to do so.

"use to listen to"

Oh god this sounds like the way Japanese grammar is conjugated in my first year book...

i concur whole-heartedly.

Goth Bootsy Collins would punnish.

Ray is a good cat.

I wonder if goth-ray is still wearing that thong...black cape black thong = one hell of a goth dude