(a brief reflection upon my own abnormality)
As I was drawing today’s comic, I found myself worrying if perhaps it was a bit too much. You know, jumping on a motorcycle over a horde of zombies? Had I finally gone over the edge and made the comic so that it is no longer absurd and so become simply ridiculous?
I sat there, looking at the third panel (which was so much fun to draw) and remembered the TV series Happy Days, and how they not only “jumped the shark” but also how they started the term altogether (follow the links in case you need further explanations regarding what these terms mean). Had COMMISSIONED “jumped the shark” as we “jumped the zombies”?
But then I laughed, and decided that those thoughts on their own would make a good second half for today’s comic. And it’s funny to me, because it’s obvious that for such serious thoughts to have actually helped out I should have thought them long ago. Jumping a Harley over a horde of zombies is far from being the most absurd moment in COMMISSIONED’s history.
I battled against a Cthulhu-Ninja-Zombie and even killed Santa Claus – several times. A tentacle monster lives in my refrigerator. My eraser has tried to kill me and then ran away, my male cat resents me for neutering him and silently awaits the opportunity to get even, all the time while my female cats tries to get me to have sex with her. I frequently draw myself and my friends naked, and every time something of my property breaks or malfunctions I draw a comic about how a brainless deity has declared a sort of vendetta against me (not only that, but his main angel hates him).
It says it very clearly right there at the top of the site: “The Ministry of Abnormality”, and so it is. This is not the place to go to if you’re looking for something normal. And that’s not even the half of it. In all seriousness, if the absurdity of my actions were to make this comic unreadable it would’ve happened long ago. It’s just that I have never jumped over something. Until today.
So I laughed alone and finished today’s comic, but even as I write this I realize that maybe if I had an “about” section, or a “cast” section, people could read about all this and understand a bit better that when reading this here webcomic, logic is futile (as I said in my past rant). In the past, I’ve announced making these sections several times and never actually gotten to it, but this is the first time I’ve actually felt like they’re needed.
So who knows? Maybe I’ll actually make them. Or not. It’ll be a surprise.
Good hunting;
O
So many spelling mistakes…
Jumping over a shark does indeed mean that a show has taken a turn for the worse because jumping over a shark is stupid.
Jumping over zombies however is totally different because it is awesome, therefor I hereby declare that as of today the phrase “jumping the zombie” means that a show (or comic for that matter) has taken a turn for the awesome.
Please update your dictionaries accordingly.
How constructive xrobbedgex..
Thank you O for teaching me this wonderful expression – it seems to me that my favourite show, Californication, has just jumped the shark for the second time.
PS
I found one ninja so far
a turn for the awesome indeed! O, you are a pioneer.. jumping sharks has been done before.. jumping buses and buildings too.. youre the first i know to jump the zombies.. even more too.. it was a ninja jumping the zombies.. pure win sauce
O…. I declare this to be awesome!
LET ALL KNOW THAT THE ENTIRE NATION OF NORWAY SUPPORTS YOUR ZOMBIEJUMPING!
(well everyone BUT the nation. I dun’ think them want me to hand out these kinda things…)
Ok,
Well, yoiu’ve just “Jumped the Zombie”. Damn. If you’d done THAT 6 months to a year ago, they might have used it in “Zombieland”.
Ah well, I guess we’ll just have to waituntil George Remaro, Quinton Tarintino or Robert Rodriguis decide to make another Zombie movie…Of course I knda LIKE the movie title, “Jump the Zombie!”
Only thing that would have made it even better is if it had been Zombie Pirates they’d been jumping over! (Ninja on the bike and all…)
Dont worry about “jumping the Zombies” this comic was fucked up as it isxD
“A great mish-mosh of chaos, nerdiness and Abnormalityness”
oh, and one ninja^^
Killroy is right: Jumped the zombie I will now say everytime a show that has gone a bit dull, does something so AWESOME, it is saved untill the end of the series.
Didn’t Alice “Jump the Zombie” in a motorcycle in RE:2? (Well, techincally a zombie-like Mutant)… And what does people think of the movie series?….well… yeah.
I’m with Killroy. Jumping the Zombie now officially means ‘taking a turn for the awesome’. Although the only problem with applying to Commissioned Comic is that it was already awesome, so taking a turn for the awesome doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I guess that fits in with the whole comic anyway
@ Anukan
What Alice jumped in RE2 is known (to those who are familiar with the game series ) as a “licker” are thereby not actually a zombie, it is a genetic mutation.
i personally think that it is awesome to jump over zombies (and one ninja hidden between zombies) and i dont agree with the others that it isn’t cool.
Asking if a butter-knife wielding ninja jumping over zombies being too much?
Pffft!
If anything, that motorcycle should have fire out of the exhaust and an explosion in the background or something to make it more epic. That and O making something better than a “I’m gonna die!” face.
Make it so!
I think taht any one who reads this comic regulary do not need that ministry of abnormality. This comic has never been even close to ‘normality’ guite the opposite it goes around normal to get in other side of abnormality.
I have been, and forever will be, suscribed to your works.
badass comic dude.
O’s neck has no color in panel 5!