Hehe. I hear this is common...

It's that DANGEROUS pause between panels Seven and Nine that make me laugh.

It's not really so much as a pause as a cheat to not have to draw that panel. :)

Dramatic music interlude time is inbetween the last two panels
Right Flinters? ^_^

You just wanted to embarrass your old self. While we're at it; I do not exist and this is not a comment.

Oh shit you're still doing this? I used to check in every other day, YEARS back. Wow, I'll have to check in on this.

Yeah, I'm still drawing ROOMIES. It's been going reliably three days a week for years. There are three bound book collections available from Jarlidium Press (www.jarlidium.com).

I find this funny particularly because it is true.

Hahaha xD
So so true x3

to be honest most people who don't get a reply just stop posting comments we feel like were either rejected or you just dont have time to check in on them. ^.^ However yeah I did read your comic once but i lost track of the addy in the crash about a year back.

XD awesome ^^

I don't get why everyone is leaving.. hell my art uber sucks yeah I get a few comments but yeah and my life is such a mess it makes my room look sparkling clean by comparison (with only a path to my comp bed and drawing desk it's pretty messy)

true the worst I did was delete all my library twice but there were alternate reasons for that as well as angsty ones (mainly so all my new stuff is on here and the old is on another site.) I still dun get their deal but meh I'm not losing any sleep cause I luvs FA I luvs ze fandom and....

I loves you for this pic! *hugs*

=3

I have seen some of this....Okay, too much of this.


I so your comic strip!!

I can connect, but I have never vouched to leave the fandom.

Yeah, I keep up with the strip. ;)

Oh, Frith on the Hills! If I had a nickel for every time someone pulled the "I'm leaving the fandom forever goodbye" bit. :)

It always puts me in mind of this classic lyric performed by Groucho Marx in the movie Animal Crackers:

"Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going.
I'm glad I came but just the same I must be going."

"(Miss Teasdale): For my sake you must stay, for if you go away,
you'll spoil this party I am throwing."

"I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer through,
but I am telling you, I must be going."

Funny strip, Flinthoof. But if you don't mind a little constructive criticism: Instead of a blank panel on the third line, how about a long shot of the character sitting at his keyboard, perhaps a hand on his chin, perhaps in silouette -- no dialog. The blank space conveys the idea of time, but it's a little aesthetically jarring.

Well you can leave in a huff... and if that's too soon you can leave in a minute and a huff. *waggles eyebrows*

Duck Soup! Another Groucho afficionado! You are obviously a person of high intellect and good taste. So what the heck are you doing here? :)

Or, as the master himself might say, "I oughta join a club and beat you over the head with it."

I loves me some Marx Bros. got nearly all their movies....

My favorite character is still Harpo "the man who demonstrates every wrong way to play a harp."

*honk*

"Make that 3 hard boiled eggs."

As long as we are on a tangent about Groucho - while sticking to the original subject matter - here's part of the lyrics to a song that was actually dropped from the MGM comedy "A Day at the Races"...

Chorus: "We welcome Doctor Hackenbush, the famous medico..."
Soloist: "God bless you, Doctor Hackenbush..."
Groucho: "If that's the case, I'll go!..."
Chorus: "Oh, no, you mustn't go..."
Groucho: "Who said I mustn't go?! The only reason that I came is so that I can go..."

I have an actual recording of that dropped song, performed by the one and only Groucho on a radio show of the 1940s.

Here are some more lyrics to that dropped song...

Groucho: "When your nerves start to rock, have some faith in your doc. He is there for your life to defend... With the possible exception of your m-o-o-o-other, a doctor's a man's best friend..."
Chorus: "Yes, a doctor's a man's best friend..."
Groucho: "Right or wrong, wrong or right, night or day, day or night... He will stay by your side till the end... With the possible exception of your mother and your father, and your sister and your brother, and your nephews and your nieces, and your uncles and your cousins - who number by the dozens... A DOCTOR'S A MAN'S BEST FRIEND!!!"

Ah, they don't write songs like THAT anymore... And for good reason!

I've heard that song.. it's on one of this set of 5 dvds called "The Marx Brothers Collection" got a whole lot of old stuff like that on there... unfortunately they also seem to have had an error in programming and they get stuck on the title screen unless you push play the moment it pops up.

The collection I have (with that song) is presumably titled "3 hours, 59 minutes, and 45 seconds with The Marx Borthers"... a set of four 33 and 1/3 vinyl records! So, it's very unlikely that I'll get any errors in programming... unless the needle gets stuck in the same spot on that LP album!

Heh, cool.

I'm still trying to find a copy of "Harpo Speaks!"

I wanted to convey the sense of leaving completely. No art, no presence.

I grok -- definitely. But at first glance it looks like there's a hole in the page.

In the weekly comic strip, it's just one strip so it doesn't have the same effect. This is a collection of three strips, not just one story.

Hoo-ray for Captain Spaulding The A-fri-can explorer!
(Did someone call me "Schnorer?")
Hoo-ray, Hoo-ray, Hoo-ray!!

(couldn't resist!)

And here's another Marx fan!

"If any form of pleasure is exibited
Report to me and it will be prohibited
I'll put my foot down, so shall it be
This is the land of the free"

-Groucho Marx, "The Laws of the Administration"
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/grouc.....on-lyrics.html

My all-time favorite Groucho line (which wasn't from a movie, BTW) was when he commented to a fellow actor by uttering (verbatim), "I have nothing but respect for you... and very little of it."

I like Roomies... nekkid giant mutant ferret girls...

Also the buhhhnehs...

Laughing and NODDING.

LMAO. this is par for the course. and i think its safe to say. we have all been there at least once, and some of us that visit this at least 2 times a week. lol

Total WIN!

-falls over laughing hysterically- Wow, ive seen this kind of thing sooooo much, loooveee it

Wondered when these would pop up here XD

there was a guy who was yelling and screaming those exact words at RCFM last week >.0 Oh, it was bad. He even slammed his binder on the floor in the middle of the dealers den.

<snicker>

if no one likes you how come your commission list fills up inside a half hour of you opening it?
I missed the first cut, and I may even miss the second if I am not right there when you open it....

Heh. Also, you are in need of an update to the News section on the home page!!! :3 It's Ye Olde!!!

The fandom to a T.

This reminds me of me when I first got onto the internet.

Scary...

nice comcic my friend

I always read your comic strip ^-^

Need a T-shirt for the last panel of the second strip if there isn't already.

new comic for me to read! huzzah, i never knew about this yet ive been watching fo r so long! :o

eyes wide shut methinx

excellent commentary. I really like the "Quick To the Internet" panel.

I hope you won't do the left bottom corner one. I can't imagine that of you.
Whiteroo had shown me the quick to the internet, and I found some similar dilemma. Yeah, you're telling me ;P

*gives the pony a box of mint cookies.*

Good to know, Flinters! :D Maybe we should have known and maybe you have it in your profile, etc, but thanks that you posted it here, some of us knew about it and now we're going to read it too ^^

It'd be good that FA had a 'comic strip' feature so you comic artists could post strips in an organized way here too, so we wouldn't need to deal with 2 thousand bookmarks and different sites to see all the art we love.

Ah well, in short, thanks for the info! ^^

haha! I love this! thanks for bringing this to light! I remember seeing a couple of the characters way back when but could never find the name/website for the comic!

flinters, I kinda lost track of the comic, but the archive only goes up to 2004...can we get the archive kept up to date? I'd really like to read up on it...

heck, I'll even comment, and add feedback for ya.

but I"m not gonna use the back button through like... four years of comics to get back to where I started, ya know?

Absolutely perfect :) I've made a habit of responding to post like that with "OK, see you next week!" Which would make me feel rather guilty if they genuinely do go and top themselves, but it hasn't happened yet.

i know i miss flinthoof hey !! ',..,'

Nice, I have to say, I knew your art first as a comic strip.. just found you here today.. linking over from Rabbi Toms.

The comments on the bottom of the Comic frontpage been updated in years.. it seems. I guess I should check out the forums more, they might say something about it. Might be cool to have a small comment list on there, kinda like Tiff Ross does.

*adds comic to his bookmarks* I noticed that the archive doesn't list anything after 2004 even though you have done strips since then. Are you going to update that? I wanna see 'em all! *wags tail*

XD XD XD XD

Hehe, I love this almost as much as I love how some people say that im betraying the spirit of the furry fandom by critiscizing art thieves and making fun of people who blow drama all out of proportion. Cause apparently critiscizing another furry for anything is unfurry like or some shit like that I guess. :p

noooo dont fall to the bad dark side! fall to the cooler one with metalheads and goths, not the emo one! NOOOOO!

Hate those people.

Them: "I'm leaving forever!"
Me: "See ya next week."

LOL! *then stuffs a mint in your muzzle*

I love your comic I have sent you fan E-mail in the past and I fav you here and watch you FA site

I bow before you for I never found the will nor the courage to draw regularly three times a week o.o

Neither have I- I do three strips all at one time on Sundays. :)

Wow, even more impressive to me :p i'm so lazy I draw only on 32th of each month :p

I totally want to grab the 'Quick ... to the Internet' panel as an icon! :)

I haven't read Roomies for a while.
I'll have to look'em up now for sure.

except for the angry type this seems strangely familiar ^^;