Heh Heh! Damn cute, crazy and Funny!
Must have been a hell of a “Spring Break.” Even had time to color your comics.
…curse you Wertz, you have the talent and motivation.
Keep up the Rad work, lil lady.
I love your little airplane. I like the yellow/gray color scheme, I like how the wing is tilted up into an angle of attack instead of just flat, I like the pointy, tanto-shaped tail fin. It’s so unique that it makes me wonder if you’re flying on a conventional airline, or whether you have a specially modified private kill jet that you use on asshole commenter assassination missions.
Baha! At least you get comments. I’d want more on my site but they’re too often some fundy christian telling me to cram it and then crying for free speech. (that’s my favorite, “We have freedom of speech so shut up!”)
Come to think of it… I’d be happy if just for ONCE someone said they’d bone me. -err that didn’t come out quite right. n/m
Hey, Julia- Remember that episode of Family Guy where Stewie (sp?) watches the new version of BEWITCHED and then travels to give his response? Awesome. Neat. Very original.
If it makes you feel batter things will probably always continue on in the “Same Shit Different Day” vein until you die, and also, I wouldn’t bone you with a 10 foot boneatron 9000.
And I mean it.
But I do enjoy the comics, on the odd time you can be arsed enough to do one.
Previous to the badass vid of you actually shooting off your weapon, I bet most people would be like, ‘oh, that’s very funny! She gets pissed off then shoots the anonymous internet posters.’
but now!!
(of course, i’m joking and don’t want anyone to get into trouble here)
I love the word boner, but for some reason I have trouble with the verb version of it. When someone says they want to bone someone I picture either some redneck serial killer with one milky white eye holding a bleached femur at the knee and prodding at some trussed-up girl’s vagina with the round hip joint, or else I picture someone who is a normal human male, excepting that they indeed have a thin bone running the length of their penis like most mammals.
Telling someone you want to bone them on the internet is about as sexy of either of those, so I guess it fits.
Matt is right. Saying “Bone you” means you havent actually had sex, so you still think its funny to say things you know people wont take serious when you say them.
–Are you going to be at the Stumptown Comics Fest this year?
unfortunately, no. I’m not as many conventions this year because they’re just too damn expensive. Next year though, I hope.
–YAY Julia’s using watercolor! (it is watercolor isn’t it??)
if by water color you mean dull, poorly chosen color buckets in photoshop, then yes. However the “gone fishin’” panel was watercolor so I hope you’re refering to that.
–This is why I’m always slightly afraid of you when I meet you in real life.
bah! that means we’ve never met in real life because I’m actually pretty quiet and calm and don’t tend to go around shooting people with literal or figuratve bullets.
–i comment alot when i’m drunk. was any of those me?
probably, but it’s not like I hate dumb comments enough to wish they weren’t there, they sometimes provide material so I’m not complaining
–I think emoticon boner is more forgivable.
haha emoticon boner. The reason I hate the “I’d bone you thing” is it’s so insulting when someone says that in response to a comic about my (lack of) a dating life, as if I’m supposed to be like “oh! some random asshole on the internet says he’d bone me, I feel much better now!phew!” when in reality I just think that’s a really fucking rude thing to say. And now that Matt’s given it a whole new unsavory mental image, I’m even more disgusted with the phrase.
What can I say? My mind either generates airy images of natural beauty resembling early american frontier paintings, or it comes up with the sorts of images Johnny Ryan might draw if he were a serial killer.
Oh, and you can fly with guns if they’re unloaded, in locked cases, and in checked luggage. My last flight had some military folk with lots of guns and a German Shepherd. I think the dog was being used to sniff out bad internet comments.
“–I think emoticon boner is more forgivable.
haha emoticon boner. The reason I hate the “I’d bone you thing” is it’s so insulting when someone says that in response to a comic about my (lack of) a dating life, as if I’m supposed to be like “oh! some random asshole on the internet says he’d bone me, I feel much better now!phew!” when in reality I just think that’s a really fucking rude thing to say. And now that Matt’s given it a whole new unsavory mental image, I’m even more disgusted with the phrase.”
So, you’re calling some people who take the time to read your comic assholes? Or, are you saying that you couldn’t possibly ever have anything in common with guys who read your comic? I know I certainly don’t read it to get laid.
Yeah, I can understand the reactionary response to comments like that, but I think most of them should be taken with a grain of salt (like a salt-shot shell for a shotgun?).
Anyway, I think the responses to your comics about your lack of a love life and what not are some kind of weird round-about way to make you not feel so alone. A lot of them are probably in the spirit of mentioning that they would gladly get to know you better and if geography weren’t an issue, you’d probably have a few suitors calling you up.
Maybe some of it is just surprise? I mean honestly, from what we know about you through your blog and comic, there are plenty of gentlemen out there who would love to take you out on a not-a-date-because-hipsters-dont-date date. You’re attractive, drink like a fish, witty, well-read, etc.
Nice to have you back Julia!.. In color too!…
It would be an interesting experiment to turn off the comments for a few weeks while you keep posting strips, turn them back on again unexpectedly and see the love/hate/silliness piled up, explode. You could make a couple of strips out of it too.
I got your book for Christmas! It was the best gift I got by far. And now you’re updating again. Happy times.
I’ve never understood why random guys think girls would be happy to hear how they’d “bone” you or whatever other unpleasant euphemism they have for sex.
Also… sprinkles? What the fuck? I hope that if anyone seriously writes that they at least don’t say that shit out loud. For Christ’s sake.
because god forbid anyone should try to cheer you up or find you attractive.
…next time one of the crackheads in my neighborhood tells me i need more of their dick in my life, i’ll be sure to stop and thank them for letting me know they find me attractive.
random internet assholes who think that telling a girl they’d bone her on her comment forum is at all an appropriate response to someone reflecting on their single life in a COMIC are just like said crackheads who think a girl will just hike up her skirt on the street corner and let them do their thing because she agrees, she really does need their boner between her legs, emoticon or otherwise.
Sometimes a person would rather be left alone in their general unhappiness than have someone get all sparkly and trite and “Just cheer up!” in their face. Here’s a clue: If all it took to be happy were to “just cheer up,” we’d all be f&*^ing happy!
It certainly merits fantasizing about taking a 12-bore to Mr/Ms Cheery, if not actually doing so.
I don’t think a random, badly expressed “I’d bone you” does much for lack of partner/low self-image, either. Gee, thanks, creepy person! Here’s another clue: Anyone can get laid if they have the stomach for it. It merely requires getting drunk in a place with other drunk people who are similarly unattached and of the preferred gender and orientation, and a bit of shamelessness. And not caring too much about the details of whom one is laying. Some people can do this, some cannot.
Having said all this, I would gladly have a drink with Julia in any of several establishments in several countries which I think would be to her taste. (The establishments, if not the countries.) And I think she and my wife would get on, as my wife is 4′11″, can curse like a sailor, was a lonely and unpopular kid who read all the time, writes, and spends at least 5 hours a day on the internet.
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January 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Wait, did you not see the second dude’s emoticon? He was using “bone” as a verb whimsically.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Dare I comment?
January 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Heh Heh! Damn cute, crazy and Funny!
Must have been a hell of a “Spring Break.” Even had time to color your comics.
…curse you Wertz, you have the talent and motivation.
Keep up the Rad work, lil lady.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am
For what it’s worth, I know some guys that own a pawn shop where you could get guns cheap…
January 5th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I love your little airplane. I like the yellow/gray color scheme, I like how the wing is tilted up into an angle of attack instead of just flat, I like the pointy, tanto-shaped tail fin. It’s so unique that it makes me wonder if you’re flying on a conventional airline, or whether you have a specially modified private kill jet that you use on asshole commenter assassination missions.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:15 am
nice gun totin’ luggage
January 5th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I can’t believe you passed security with a tiny suitcase carrying a loaded shotgun! You’ve got some luck.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
So do you think that was an emoticon smiley face or an emoticon boner in that second to last panel? I think emoticon boner is more forgivable.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I have missed this thrice a week thing.
Welcome back.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I like how you have to assemble the gun from its pieces in that tiny case, while kneeling in front of him.
Sprinkles!
January 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Baha! At least you get comments. I’d want more on my site but they’re too often some fundy christian telling me to cram it and then crying for free speech. (that’s my favorite, “We have freedom of speech so shut up!”)
Come to think of it… I’d be happy if just for ONCE someone said they’d bone me. -err that didn’t come out quite right. n/m
January 5th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Don’t worry, I’d bone you.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
they let you on the plane with that gun? aye carumba!
January 5th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Awesome… I would do it too if I could.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Damn those well-wishing comments.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Pop! Hahahaha…
January 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Oh, so that was you. Good thing my roommate answered the door.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Panel 6 is exactly why I found that Flickr video of you firing the shotgun totally terrifying!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Ugh! I had the same kind of day today. Except my response to my boss’ idiocy was petulance . . . sigh.
p.s. Welcome back Fart Party - I missed you!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
hahahaha i feel ya
January 5th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
For what it’s worth, a ham sandwich is delicious.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hey, Julia- Remember that episode of Family Guy where Stewie (sp?) watches the new version of BEWITCHED and then travels to give his response? Awesome. Neat. Very original.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Glad to see you back at it. Are you going to be at the Stumptown Comics Fest this year?
You still draw the best kill scenes!
Prost!
January 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I thought that was supposed to be oliver at first.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
You suck Wertz!
January 5th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
back in the day you could fly with guns. THANKS A BUNCH THE GOVERNMENT
January 5th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
YAY Julia’s using watercolor! (it is watercolor isn’t it??) looks good.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Woot! That Julia Wertz original pen and ink I bought is going to be worth WAY more now that she’s a famous shotgun murderess. Score!
January 5th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
This is why I’m always slightly afraid of you when I meet you in real life.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
OOOOHOOOOH ME NEXT!
Things will get much better after I bone you . . .
That deserves something better than a shotgun blast! I’m so lucky!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
If it makes you feel batter things will probably always continue on in the “Same Shit Different Day” vein until you die, and also, I wouldn’t bone you with a 10 foot boneatron 9000.
And I mean it.
But I do enjoy the comics, on the odd time you can be arsed enough to do one.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:14 am
i comment alot when i’m drunk.
was any of those me?
shit.
i hope not.
put thier screen names or something so we know who to make fun of.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:15 am
*sigh* There go my dreams of ever getting with you without being shot for dreaming such a thing. Why must fate be so cruel?
January 6th, 2009 at 12:45 am
I neither wish you well nor ill, then. I am happy to see you back, though.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Previous to the badass vid of you actually shooting off your weapon, I bet most people would be like, ‘oh, that’s very funny! She gets pissed off then shoots the anonymous internet posters.’
but now!!
(of course, i’m joking and don’t want anyone to get into trouble here)
January 6th, 2009 at 12:49 am
I love the word boner, but for some reason I have trouble with the verb version of it. When someone says they want to bone someone I picture either some redneck serial killer with one milky white eye holding a bleached femur at the knee and prodding at some trussed-up girl’s vagina with the round hip joint, or else I picture someone who is a normal human male, excepting that they indeed have a thin bone running the length of their penis like most mammals.
Telling someone you want to bone them on the internet is about as sexy of either of those, so I guess it fits.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Matt is right. Saying “Bone you” means you havent actually had sex, so you still think its funny to say things you know people wont take serious when you say them.
Low self-esteem lil pricks….
January 6th, 2009 at 10:19 am
A few questions answered:
–Are you going to be at the Stumptown Comics Fest this year?
unfortunately, no. I’m not as many conventions this year because they’re just too damn expensive. Next year though, I hope.
–YAY Julia’s using watercolor! (it is watercolor isn’t it??)
if by water color you mean dull, poorly chosen color buckets in photoshop, then yes. However the “gone fishin’” panel was watercolor so I hope you’re refering to that.
–This is why I’m always slightly afraid of you when I meet you in real life.
bah! that means we’ve never met in real life because I’m actually pretty quiet and calm and don’t tend to go around shooting people with literal or figuratve bullets.
–i comment alot when i’m drunk. was any of those me?
probably, but it’s not like I hate dumb comments enough to wish they weren’t there, they sometimes provide material so I’m not complaining
–I think emoticon boner is more forgivable.
haha emoticon boner. The reason I hate the “I’d bone you thing” is it’s so insulting when someone says that in response to a comic about my (lack of) a dating life, as if I’m supposed to be like “oh! some random asshole on the internet says he’d bone me, I feel much better now!phew!” when in reality I just think that’s a really fucking rude thing to say. And now that Matt’s given it a whole new unsavory mental image, I’m even more disgusted with the phrase.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am
What can I say? My mind either generates airy images of natural beauty resembling early american frontier paintings, or it comes up with the sorts of images Johnny Ryan might draw if he were a serial killer.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Things will get much better if you’re into water sports. Sprinkles!
January 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Oh, and you can fly with guns if they’re unloaded, in locked cases, and in checked luggage. My last flight had some military folk with lots of guns and a German Shepherd. I think the dog was being used to sniff out bad internet comments.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“–I think emoticon boner is more forgivable.
haha emoticon boner. The reason I hate the “I’d bone you thing” is it’s so insulting when someone says that in response to a comic about my (lack of) a dating life, as if I’m supposed to be like “oh! some random asshole on the internet says he’d bone me, I feel much better now!phew!” when in reality I just think that’s a really fucking rude thing to say. And now that Matt’s given it a whole new unsavory mental image, I’m even more disgusted with the phrase.”
So, you’re calling some people who take the time to read your comic assholes? Or, are you saying that you couldn’t possibly ever have anything in common with guys who read your comic? I know I certainly don’t read it to get laid.
Yeah, I can understand the reactionary response to comments like that, but I think most of them should be taken with a grain of salt (like a salt-shot shell for a shotgun?).
Anyway, I think the responses to your comics about your lack of a love life and what not are some kind of weird round-about way to make you not feel so alone. A lot of them are probably in the spirit of mentioning that they would gladly get to know you better and if geography weren’t an issue, you’d probably have a few suitors calling you up.
Maybe some of it is just surprise? I mean honestly, from what we know about you through your blog and comic, there are plenty of gentlemen out there who would love to take you out on a not-a-date-because-hipsters-dont-date date. You’re attractive, drink like a fish, witty, well-read, etc.
Just my .02
Commence the flammage.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
So, you’re calling some people who take the time to read your comic assholes?
I think it was pretty clear that I was calling people who leave rude, derogatory comments assholes.
And I take my entire life with a grain of salt, the blog should be taken the same way as well. followed by a shot of whiskey.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Let’s all hope that Tony T drives his Prius into a schoolbus full of Autistic children.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Oh the irony of these comments…
January 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Nice to have you back Julia!.. In color too!…
It would be an interesting experiment to turn off the comments for a few weeks while you keep posting strips, turn them back on again unexpectedly and see the love/hate/silliness piled up, explode. You could make a couple of strips out of it too.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
because god forbid anyone should try to cheer you up or find you attractive.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Yaaaay! You’re back, and I have money to buy things!!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I got your book for Christmas! It was the best gift I got by far. And now you’re updating again. Happy times.
I’ve never understood why random guys think girls would be happy to hear how they’d “bone” you or whatever other unpleasant euphemism they have for sex.
Also… sprinkles? What the fuck? I hope that if anyone seriously writes that they at least don’t say that shit out loud. For Christ’s sake.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I LOVE that little airplane so much!
January 6th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
is the second comment an =) or 8==> ?
January 6th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I like how this “ends” but leaves the reader to consider what will happen next, and what will probably happen after that, and so on.
I look forward to its continuation.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Sprinkles, motherfucker!
January 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
This comic is amazing.
I have turned four people onto it since I found it yesterday.
Oh, and I have already gone through all the archives.
Lovin’ this Fart Party.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
>.<
Man, the chain of people you would have to blow to get on and off a plane with a shotgun in your luggage boggles the mind.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:14 am
if i could, i would like, for sure boink you, cause i am totally sprung. Boing!
January 7th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
glad to see your back
January 7th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
because god forbid anyone should try to cheer you up or find you attractive.
…next time one of the crackheads in my neighborhood tells me i need more of their dick in my life, i’ll be sure to stop and thank them for letting me know they find me attractive.
random internet assholes who think that telling a girl they’d bone her on her comment forum is at all an appropriate response to someone reflecting on their single life in a COMIC are just like said crackheads who think a girl will just hike up her skirt on the street corner and let them do their thing because she agrees, she really does need their boner between her legs, emoticon or otherwise.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I think that the guy who gets shotgunned in panel six kind of looks like Oliver without glasses. Probably just coincidence though.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:12 am
for what its worth, i’d sprinkle you =)!
boners!
January 8th, 2009 at 6:22 am
while alex is glad to see your back (panel 4?), i am glad to see you’re back!
January 10th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Sprinkles!
SPRINKLES IS NOW THE NAME OF THIS WEBSITE
January 19th, 2009 at 6:01 am
You should get a violin case.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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January 27th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
rippng off Jay and Silent Bob strike back eh? hot.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Bring it the fuck on.
March 30th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I bet you can carry all the guns you like on a private plane.
July 24th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Sometimes a person would rather be left alone in their general unhappiness than have someone get all sparkly and trite and “Just cheer up!” in their face. Here’s a clue: If all it took to be happy were to “just cheer up,” we’d all be f&*^ing happy!
It certainly merits fantasizing about taking a 12-bore to Mr/Ms Cheery, if not actually doing so.
I don’t think a random, badly expressed “I’d bone you” does much for lack of partner/low self-image, either. Gee, thanks, creepy person! Here’s another clue: Anyone can get laid if they have the stomach for it. It merely requires getting drunk in a place with other drunk people who are similarly unattached and of the preferred gender and orientation, and a bit of shamelessness. And not caring too much about the details of whom one is laying. Some people can do this, some cannot.
Having said all this, I would gladly have a drink with Julia in any of several establishments in several countries which I think would be to her taste. (The establishments, if not the countries.) And I think she and my wife would get on, as my wife is 4′11″, can curse like a sailor, was a lonely and unpopular kid who read all the time, writes, and spends at least 5 hours a day on the internet.