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Unicorn Power | Mar 14th 2006
I know I’ve been kind of fixated on comics lately, but this strip from the Perry Bible Fellowship had me chuckling for days whenever I thought about it. Heh heh heh. Guess it’s still working.
I kind of want to get a Unicorn Power T-shirt. I e-mailed the guy who does the comic, Nicholas Gurewich, and he said plans are in the works for just such a shirt as well as Pro-Skub and Anti-Skub shirts based on this comic. I’m totally Pro-Skub, by the way.
Wearing a pink “Unicorn Power!” t-shirt, I think I would get several types of reaction. I would make a cool USA Today pie chart, but I’m too lazy:
1% – “Wow, you read Perry Bible Fellowship,lol, I like that comic therefore I like you too!”
2 % – “You sure are brave to wear a shirt like that, sir. You are inspiring me to acts of Gay Pride!”
5 % – If I wore this shirt into a den of hipsters, they would immediately set down their laptops. Earbuds would come out in reverence and all would gaze through plastic-rimmed glasses in awe. “You are the one foretold of in prophecy,” the lead hipster would say. “For you are wearing the most ironic t-shirt ever of all time. Sit in this throne as we worship you as our new god.”
7 % – Would give me a weird look and pretend to ignore me.
84% – “Nice shirt, gay-wad!” (punch in the stomach)
1% (six-year-old girls) – “Yay, Unicorns!”
It would be kind of inconvenient since I’d have to explain to 84 % of people I met that it’s not gay if you’re being ironic, hopefully before they punched me. Or I could just wear it in Rehoboth and not care if people thought I was a flaming pinko.
I like the Perry Bible Fellowship because I think it is one of the only good comics out there right now. The comics page of newspapers was a dumping ground of cliches before, and after Calvin and Hobbes. PBF, on the other hand, is pure genius. First of all, there’s the artwork. Vague, puffy, happy looking people and awesome detail on the unicorns. The whole effect evokes the weird world of kids’ books and cartoons of the ’80s. The writing is always absurdist, like in this one, where he ascribes serious power to t-shirts. And I love the way he reveals just a bit of information in each panel with the last one tieing it all together. It’s very cinematic.
Update: I got a Unicorn Power shirt!!!!
11 Comments »
Life’s short, man. I say if you want a Unicorn Power shirt, you should go out and get one. Of course, I don’t want you to get punched in the stomach either, so follow your own advice and only wear it in Rehoboth.
Comment by Katja — March 15, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
*Pro* Skub? Where did I go wrong?
Comment by Dad — March 15, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
Perry Bible Fellowship is halarious. So off the wall. The one that got me giggling the most was probably this one http://www.cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
Anyway I want to say that I’m anti-Skub just so we can fight, but I use Skub and love it, so…I guess I’m signed up for the pro Skub side too.
Comment by Rob — March 16, 2006 @ 7:29 pm
Ok that link I put in there just takes you to the main page, and I can’t insert imgs in your blog, so just go to that page and go to Volcano Snails.
Comment by Rob — March 16, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
That is an awesome comic strip. Sloths. Ha!
Comment by Katja — March 16, 2006 @ 8:20 pm
I saw a t-shirt at Old Navy the other day that wasn’t quite as cool as “Unicorn Power”, but it did have unicorns on it. Unfortunately I don’t think it comes in men’s sizes.
Comment by Katja — March 21, 2006 @ 2:52 am
I think I’d better not wear any pink unicorn shirts for the moment. The other day an old man said to me: “I ain’t hittin on you or nothin’ but you’ve got reall pretty eyes. For a guy. Like, they’re real light blue.”
1.) My eyes aren’t blue
2.) WTF
3.) This is not the first guy to tell me I have pretty eyes.
4.) Eww
Comment by Sonobovich — March 22, 2006 @ 12:49 am
You get the most random come-ons.
Comment by Katja — March 22, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
just wear wut u like…. if ur okay with ur makulinity then wear it. i would.
Comment by bass — June 30, 2006 @ 8:32 pm
I think “bass” should be punched in the stomach (stumak).
Comment by Pro Skub as shit — August 3, 2006 @ 8:21 pm
Nice blog, gay-wad! (ha!)
Comment by Liquid Magazine — February 23, 2007 @ 4:07 am