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Ray's Halloween Costume Tuesday, November 1, 2005 • read strip Viewing 65 comments:

God I love this arc as well.

Was the Ray-Suit ever explained?

It's just a badass halloween costume. Ray probably passed out before taking it off.

It reminds me a lot of the credits to the A-Team, where Hannibal was in a Godzilla costume, and he opened up the face to smoke a cigar.

Anyone?

I like that, if you think about it, Ray is completely laying down here.

So I'm guessing nothing's in the cocktail glass?

Actually, I suppose it would make sense if it was just a prop. Another component of the Ray costume.

i'm going to guess that given the presence of the bendy straw the glass probably held not less than one bottle of gin and more than a mere splash of vermouth.

or no gin, since Ray drinks Diamond Juice.

also you can see in the first few panels that there is a hole in which you can put said bendy straw

No he's just sleeping standing up in the suit.

I like that he holds the phone up to his costumed ear, not his real ear.

He dressed up as himself. That is cold hard.

alt text: Ray double-sized himself for Halloween, except for his liver.

Ray logic dictates that if he is bigger he can drink more, even if he is not really bigger and his liver is the same size, hence giant martini glass.

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credit the alt-text when you straight out verbatim it.

I enjoy the use of verbatim as a verb.

It is a good verbing.

And verbing is a good gerunding!

or else

Aw shit, that alt-text was straight out verbatimed to pieces!

Seriously the best halloween costume ever.

The double-size drink makes it.

With a straw, to fit through the Ray-suit's mouth-hole.

I have had mornings like this.

Panel #9 KILLS me. You can tell how fucking annoyed he is to have some asshole calling him the morning after haloween talking about the news.

we all should answer the phone like that when we are woken up. just to let the other person know where we stand.

"Let's re-talk tomorrow." A good way of saving syllables when it hurts to talk.

Also the line preceding that one. That is the best description of a hangover ever.

"I can feel bits of my brain falling away like a wet cake"
"I feel like a pig shat in my head"
"I've got a bastard behind the eyes"
"My head feels like there's a frenchman living in it"

there are many ways to describe a hangover, the more colourful the better; I do not think I could ever cold pick a favourite

You forgot 'I feel like I've been beaten up underwater.'

Ray is not asking questions he is cold saying things

That's my favorite part. Ray is in too much double-martini pain to even put the little lilt at the end of "Did you know that" to make it a proper question.

I looooove the Ray suit idea

It is Ray's least useful hull.

I clicked on that about seven times, thinking it was a link. I got very frustrated, and then noticed my mistake. Here, have a chubby as recompense for repeatedly highlighting your words.

Clicked on what? Clicked on what?

I...don't...know...

Foetus Punch has (had?) a crush on being high.

I'd say "I...don't...know..." twice, but I'm just not feeling all that discombobulated.

I for one would like to see the return of hulls.

the ray suit sort of reminds me of arthur from pat's support group

It's also smiling like a donut, much like Trebeck's wife, so that's also appropriate for Aaaaaarthur.

hmm...i have to wonder why ray had to open the face panel to answer the phone, but was able to hear through the head anyway.

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I would buy a Ray suit.

I wish i looked distinctive enough to make a giant mascot style version of my head to wear as part of a costume, but I'm too generic looking.

Today's Blogs

Pat: Hallowe'en!

Pat turns down the dick factor for Hallowe'en.

Not by much.

I don't think I ever went trick-or-treating, but if I had, I can only imagine how pleased I'd have been to receive a sanctimonious lecture about falcons and a packet of delicious ketchup .

I would not have been very pleased.

I've known when things are hilarious for most of life. Even as a child, this sort of disruption of expected outcomes would have delighted me no-endedly. What a strange cat man, Pat man.

True story time! In high school, my siblings and I were so infamous that one Halloween, another group of kids dressed up like [i]us[/] for their costumes.

*headsmacks*


Dammit, self. We've been over this. DON'T DRINK AND POST.


How far you've fallen from kids dressing up like you for Halloween.

For a few seconds, I was wondering what Arthur was doing with Ray's glasses, but I was soon shown what tomfoolery was afoot.

"that fake ad"

Some entrepreneuring individual simply must make that ad. Or if it exists, said individual must find and then post a link to it.

I regret nothing.
[IMGS OFF]

Much love and thanks to Patrick Alexander for allowing me the use of his characters . He's the fuckin' bomb, yo. Please go read his comics immediately.

I'm thinking the drink is normal Ray-sized. That is some stone cold serious 'hair of the dog that bit me' right there. That is enough bull terrier to kill a normal man.

Double sized Ray
&
double sized drinks

&
double sized hang
&
Double sized over

squeee

I read this strip stoned once, and the idea of Ray's suit holding a cell phone while he talked inside of it completely blew my fucking mind.

Well, you'd better go catch it.

panels one through five are beautiful. the complete lack of information