You want more comics about guns, you say? I SHALL DELIVER.
God, there is something wrong with me. I showed this comic to Mel and our roommate, and was slapped upside the head. No regrets.
Here’s more bad jokes.
The comic really does go back to being about guns on Monday, I swear.
EDIT: Well, that was completely and totally fucked.
Back when the site was getting hammered with traffic at the beginning of the month, I tried a couple of caching plugins for WordPress. One of those was WP Super Cache. Didn’t like it, left it deactivated.
Today, I tried to delete it from the site. And boom, the site bricked. I didn’t notice. Ha. Hoboy. Not only did deleting it brick the site, the entire time it was down, it DUMPED MY DB USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO A TEXT PAGE THAT EVERYONE SAW WHILE THE SITE WAS DOWN.
AWESOME. I was able to fix it all, and change the creds, but that was a huge security hole for about an hour.
DO NOT use WP Super Cache. This plugin is revolting.
Is it bad that i actually laughed at this awful pun?
No offence.
Punderful!
awacka wacka. Now that. is exactly the sort of god aful PUNishment i was hoping for. Ayup.
Brilliant *bows*
Screw that! The Alex plot line is the best FTF has done so far!! More dammit!!
Those jokes wre SO bad, I’ve had to fumigate my computer! No more! PLEASE!
Comic GENIUS. I woke up the baby laughing at that.
Just wanted to say I enjoy the comic, the characters are great wherever the story leads them. Keep it up! Just, not stuff like today’s comic. Maybe more of Omar being a perv? The dick stuff was funny.
I’m glad this comic is free. I’d hate having to shell out for this kind of humor. This is the sort of crap they’d never allow in a magazine. Or if they did, nobody would ever buy it. They’d sit there rifling through the magazines in the store, pick this one up and toss it aside in disgust.
Subtle. Well done. 🙂
I see what you did there…
APPLSAUSE
It takes a lot of brass to sling that kind of talk ’round here.
Yes, it’s a barrel of laughs.
I’m done with all of you.
Don’t go off half-cocked.
Sear-iously, dude.
I shotgunned my drink, reading that.
Was your glass cruiser ready?
I’m hoping it wasn’t your last round.
Take another slug.
What is wrong with a story line of hot crazy women and guns?
Archery is good, too.
“Move aside, and let the mango through…”
I’m not 100% sure, but I think when I first saw this strip mentioned, it described itself as “A comic about love & guns”, or something like that… not “a comic about the love of guns”, though surely that figures into it. As creators, the only duty or obligation you truly have is to yourselves, to make the art you wish. (Your audience, of course, has no duty or obligation to read or support anything they don’t like. So it goes.)
All that said, a comic strip about interesting, multidimensional characters and their assorted trials and tribulations and comedic moments does a whole hell of a lot to refute dominant internet stereotypes about guns and gun owners.
Agreed. Firearms make up a good part of our lives, but they are not the single dominant factor. If anything, FTF has helped dispell the notion that gun nuts are a bunch of rednecked morons, and that anybody can be a responsible firearms owner including bisexual bartenders and fetish girls 😀 More story, I say!
Dude, you aren’t senior enough to get pitchforks and torches. The best you’ll get is delinquent teenagers with flashlights.
Please note I am stealing that line. I will try not to claim ownership of it.
Freaking hilarious, I think I blew snot on my kybard… yep, I did…
But you’re so trying!
People are complaining that the sexy gets in the way of the gun plots? Oy! I like the mix.. keep it rolling!
I think they are occurring too independently of one another, robbing both of texture
People will always complain about something. Screw ’em. The Mick/Alex storyline is perfectly good, keep at it…
I’ve seen nothing to complain about. Keep up the good work.
Wait…people actually complain about your Story Arc’s?
And they continue to breathe?
Pfft… Haters are a status symbol these days. Literal living proof that you are doing it right. Keep up the good work, and fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.
That whole thing’s actually pretty damned funny. 😀
Don’t worry, I have at least 4 or 5 more strips like this to do. Maybe next spring.
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Do I need to pick up that can, sir?
(Ummm. Do I lose geek points if I don’t get that reference?)
P.R
http://youtu.be/QNd8iNx1gGk
you have a Mossberg? Why not an 870? and I hope that AR -15 is at least a Colt or better….other than that, great comic, more Otto!
oh sh*t, Otto? I meant Omar….you should have named him Otto…then you could make dick jokes like “he’s got a semi-Otto but I dont think it’s loaded” Please dont ban me….I helped pay for your birthday tattoo
I laughed far harder at this than I should have… I must be tired or something. Love the comic, regardless of which topic you’re on at the time. Carry on, Dear Sir.
Hell keep both elements! Working in “Love Gun” by Kiss would be a totally appropriate pun for this comic.
The title of the comic can be interpreted a number of ways. Besides the obvious ‘Failure to Fire’ in gun speak there is also ‘failure to fire’ in the relationship sense, so the Alex thread is well in line with the title of the strip. Hey, boobs and guns, it works for me.
Also boobs (idiots) with guns is viable.
Glad to hear there’s more of these on the way. Especially if a certain shotgun is of a certain gender and compliments on certain, *ahem* attributes are made. (really trying hard not to leak a punchline).
I don’t really want the comic to be exclusively about the gun store I just wish it went back and forth between settings and subjects. Like [something happens in relationship] [talks to Omar about it] {Omar makes fun of him} {talks to friend in bar} {then blows off steam at the range after receiving 0 helpful advice} [brings up something in a conversation with Alex that isn’t about Alex ala politics or what’s happening in the store] maybe he you know gets his personality back something like that. I dont know it just seems like where swiching from one 1 dementional plot line to the next 1 dementional plot line with ZERO cross over and very few refences that dont occur in the vacume of the comic itself. except for those Side bar comics with satanic polticans more of those I am a hypocrit I know
I am saying this with all due respect, because you posted without any insult or passive aggressive bullshit, and it was an honest critique. Please keep that in mind when reading this response, as the internet lacks inflection and you might misconstrue my tone here:
The problem I have is that the internet turns every reader into a homegrown critic with a mouthpiece. Everyone wants to think their opinion matters, and that when they make this kind of comment, it should be taken very seriously.
And that’s bullshit.
I am in no way deriding you, or insinuating that you are just another schmuck with nothing constructive to offer in your critique. We get those in here from time to time, and your post up above was refreshingly well crafted. However…
I’m driving.
If you have an internet connection, this comic is free to read. I did comics before the internet, when I had to answer to magazine editors and various rules and corporate policies of what was acceptable art. When the internet came along, it was awesome. The wild west. No rules. And lord, did I revel in that vacuum in the first few serials I did.
Along the way, I’ve also learned story crafting, and I’ve sold a few novels. This comic is a LOT more story driven than any other comic I’ve done (First person to mention Manuel the Wonder Snail gets kicked in the fork). What you describe in your post is, well… formulaic. I don’t do formulas. I don’t pander to my audience. This isn’t a prime-time sitcom. First and foremost, no matter what, I make strips that entertain ME. If I didn’t think this comic was funny, or entertaining, I wouldn’t continue. If I didn’t have an overall plot with a beginning, middle, and end, and the only purpose of this site was to get ad revenue from people who like guns, I’d hang it up and give y’all a big THE END. I’d kill it in a heartbeat. That kind of shit just isn’t me, you dig?
Your suggestion is very good, but… I’m driving.
In my novels, I’m a firm believer in making sure every detail, even in the beginning of the story, matters. I have done a few frivolous strips, and I do like doing my little one-offs to just poke at the political issues in Gun Control, but overall, you have to trust me when I say: Every strip in the storyline matters. Every one. You just haven’t seen where I’m taking those details yet. And I understand. You’re along for the ride, and you don’t agree with how I’m guiding it, 100%. You think I’m being too jarring at times, too slow, too fast, too odd. And some of your critique is absolutely correct. This is my first real STORY webcommic, and I’m learning to smooth out the bumps as I go. I like to think I’m getting better at it. Maybe I am, maybe I’m not.
But you are along for the ride.
And I’m driving.
So maybe you can have a little faith that I know exactly where I’m going, and just enjoy the ride. 😉
agreed thanks for th response
“And lord, did I revel in that vacuum in the first few serials I did.”
And lo, I did laugh and laugh and laugh at how much of an understatement that sentence is.
Of course, I’m still reading cause 12 or so years after i stumbled onto a particular goon via LOPOW its STILL an understatement.
Keep on reveling in the pageless page.
At risk of my fork getting kicked. Manuel. Genius. Twisted, evil, completly fucking psychotic genius. Long build up to a retarded punchline, but I like it like that
Wow, I went to that website and it was a blast from the past. I had forgotten just how many webcomics I was reading at the height of my webcomic reading….
If you really want to feel old… Space Moose.
also the story dosent really transition it just switches
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmashCut
You may want to wander around this article and then lose the rest of your week to the other stuff on the site. I may not have quite the right trope but it was the closest I could find, since I’m only allowed to go on there ten minutes at a time ^_~
I used to be the moderator for wordpress.com support forums as well as the tech support forum for wordpress muitiuser. Was both for a couple of years after the positions were dumped on me without being asked first. Came as a complete surprise.
I’m actually amazed anyone still uses wordpress. I won’t go into details (Last time I did, I got death threats from the fan boys as well as some rather in poor taste communications from the devs.) but I know I won’t let my hosting clients anywhere near it any longer.
And, no, I never got wp-cache to work right either.
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
LAI SNEW DER ONTH