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Getting Through to Simon Cowell Monday, April 2, 2007 • read strip Viewing 41 comments:

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this is why i suck.

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mostly the fucking up of BBCode really, really, exceedingly badly, though

God I am just a fucking terrible human being.

aww don't be so hard on yourself there buddy, everyone makes mistakes!

there are many reasons

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i like how ray looks away from his computer, in a pose out of antiquity as he contemplates. i should look so sly as i do the same.

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Is this how Ray got all his connections? I hope the police chief, Mayor C, and Dr. Andretti were all cold-called with the threat of a racist past.

no...he just is all sorts of dumb lucky.

I want to hear more about the mysterious Grenchmen and their sausage-legged racism.

YES! I've been looking for the perfect name for my Nazi Punk band and now I've found it!

Ray looks like he doesn't care. But really, he does, because he knows a six hundo is class money.

Insane that this is the first mention.

Agreed. This strip means business. Another uncanny use of continuity from Onstad

If Simon had agreed to it, then wouldn't that be a violation of the rules of the Underground and such?

The Operator put him through! Man, I get no kind of service like that from AT&T.

Well that's because you're not a Platinum Reserve member.

Cowell has a point when he says "Look", and that point is "Fuck off."

once again, six hundo pops up

Take picture of Simon, change the hair to blonde, boom, it's now a picture of Gordon Ramsay.

Look how Ray is at the computer in the last panel, he was totally makeing new photoshop threats to new celebrities!

It deeply amuses me that Simon le Cowell needs to define that he wasn't in a racist highschool band named the Grenchmen.
He leaves completely open the possibility of being in a racist highschool band named something else, or a racist college band named the Grenchmen (or anything else for that matter).

The punchline came in panel 4 for me. "Funny how Photoshop disagrees." is pure gold.

Ray knows it's "Le Cowell" and will just not be told.

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I hope the 3.9 this one currently has is a high 3.9. i.e. if I click that 5, it better jump up to 4.3 or so.

Tell me how "funny how Photoshop disagrees" doesn't get a 4.3.

Interesting that Ray immediately goes the extortion route rather than reasonably laying out his idea and seeing if Simon might be interesting in such a project.

UPON CONTEMPLATION = three hours trying to make the first image of Simon Le Cowell to come up on Google look 17 and racist using the airbrush tool.

[IMGS OFF]

Ahh, the lens flare is the perfect touch; it is exactly the kind of effect that Ray would use were he to Photoshop.

Okay, yeah, I see it. Thanks. That's Perfect. That is exactly the picture that I needed.

Terrifying, if this image ran on the front cover of any British tabloid (speech bubbles included) its effect on the British working class would probably actually be enough to destroy Cowell's career. Or, worse, make him more popular.

Ray went about this in completely the wrong fashion. Had he approached it differently, Simon might have done this shit for free.

It's true. I think the poor testing of his DVD case idea knocked Ray of his game briefly and he rolled the dice on this pitch.

In the seventh panel, Ray realizes that Photoshop is harder to use than he thought.

No, the seventh panel is more like after he's been sitting in front of his computer for about six hours trying to paste a box of Simon's face on top of a portrait of Hitler.