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November 14, 2007 9:43 PM

I DUNNO. ASK METAFILTER. A shoutout (in the company of some rather big web-names) from big-time webcomicker (and dead tree comicker), MetaFilter's Own clango.
posted by wendell to MetaFilter-Related at 9:43 PM (51 comments total)

I love, love, love Diesel Sweeties. And I think R Stevens is awesome, and the day I found out he was a fellow MeFite (thereby making stalking him a whole lot easier) was a real cool day.

Though I took issue with a recent strip in which he dissed Family Guy. Cause I think Family Guy is also awesome.

Still, yeah, this is a great comic and a nice nod to the community. How can you not love the guy?

PS: If you're reading this clango, how is your print run going?
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:53 PM on November 14, 2007

"What's an Orkut?" is not an appropriate question for AskMetafilter. Flagged.
posted by mullacc at 10:06 PM on November 14, 2007 [7 favorites]

Sucks to your ass-mar, mullacc.
posted by ikkyu2 at 10:13 PM on November 14, 2007

I was about to post this, oh well. It still made me happy.
posted by KingoftheWhales at 10:17 PM on November 14, 2007

It's hard to sufficiently convey what a goddam dude clango is.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:26 PM on November 14, 2007

Wouldn't it be cool if at the end of every evolutionary stage, primitive man had to beat some sort of level boss?

Like, before homo habilis could become homo erectus, he would have to beat this little guy who runs around and throws axes and the more you shoot him the faster he moves. And before homo erectus could become homo sapien, he'd have to, like, kill this big evil mage with like 1000 hit points.
posted by Afroblanco at 10:27 PM on November 14, 2007 [7 favorites]

I bet wendell is wishing he had saved his weekly MeTa for this thread over on the Blue (which did not wendell).

I bet this because I know I sure wish I had.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:28 PM on November 14, 2007

I love Clango and all he hath wrought. I read your comic every day, baby. I'm Maura. I swur. And here's contrpation in merch.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:29 PM on November 14, 2007

Man, Ask Mefi is probably the best anecdotal education a boybot can ask for.

Effigy, you can love Family Guy as long as you don't mind me hating it. If it were silly little shorts without the pretension of being a "real" sitcom, it might be enjoyable!

Print's doing OK- I'm no Dilbert, but it's helping pay the bills and getting professional editing from this guy has been ridiculously useful. Seven years in this biz, never been edited before. It can be helpful.

Since you guys found and posted this like 30 seconds after the comic went up, consider me lurking in this thread if anyone wants to talk comics!
posted by clango at 10:30 PM on November 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Ambrosia Voyeur, I'm saving that to my blackmail folder.
posted by clango at 10:32 PM on November 14, 2007

Effigy, you can love Family Guy as long as you don't mind me hating it. If it were silly little shorts without the pretension of being a "real" sitcom, it might be enjoyable!

Consider it a deal! But you should check out the last two epsiodes of Family Guy if you want a "real sitcom" as they were not only a great two-part story, but the cutaways were few and far between.

Glad to hear your print run is going well though. I was reading and enjoying DS long before you 'sold out' (wink wink) and as someone who sold out himself, leaving a dream of cartooning behind to persue other goals, I was rooting for you to succeed.

Now, get back to making more excellent comics, you crazy comic-monkey! And resolve this Clango/Maura/Pale-Suzie love triangle storyline once and for all, dammit!
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:49 PM on November 14, 2007

Holy crap -- I had no idea he was Metafilter's Own.
posted by spiderskull at 11:00 PM on November 14, 2007

I enjoy both Deisel Sweeties and Family Guy. So there. (I just think of the random cutaways as a neverending send-up of the lame clip shows every "real" sitcom does every couple of years. Seth MacFarlane does have one of those punchably douchey faces, though. I wonder if he's related to Glenn Beck or Richard Roeper or Carson Daly.)
posted by Reggie Digest at 12:12 AM on November 15, 2007

ugh. i before e...
posted by Reggie Digest at 12:13 AM on November 15, 2007

When can we expect a Diesel Sweeties movie?
posted by aubilenon at 12:37 AM on November 15, 2007

aubilenon: "When can we expect a Diesel Sweeties movie?"

Ooo! Ooo! I totally see (hear?) cortex as the voice of Clango.
posted by Effigy2000 at 12:41 AM on November 15, 2007

I love DS so hard. Still working up the money/courage to get my Red Robot 'CRUSH ALL HU-MANS' tattoo done. Please don't sue me!
posted by slimepuppy at 1:06 AM on November 15, 2007

Ooo! Ooo! I totally see (hear?) cortex as the voice of Clango.

Well then I'm Maura or someone gets hurt. Someone gets hurt either way, come to think of it.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:18 AM on November 15, 2007

ARR, BRAINS!
posted by Faint of Butt at 2:59 AM on November 15, 2007

Oh, I actually LOL'd at today's DS. Usually it's more of a wry smile. And then I came here to see if someone had posted it. As we're bigging up R Stevens, I might as well throw in how awesome his collection of print comics is, especially if your local paper doesn't have DS in syndication.
posted by featherboa at 3:35 AM on November 15, 2007

<3
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:23 AM on November 15, 2007

For some reason, several years ago, DS fell out of my webcomic reading rotation. Not sure what that was all about, in retrospect.
posted by absalom at 5:38 AM on November 15, 2007

I was the first mefite to welcome clango and swoon over clango. So fuck allayouse guys. [/horn tooting]

(I said sorry there in the thread because in 2002 it was still considered bad etiquette to make off-topic comments in a post. Wild.)
posted by iconomy at 6:09 AM on November 15, 2007

I was the first mefite to welcome clango and swoon over clango.

Good lord, the original Pepsi Blue thread... and nobody complained about it!
posted by languagehat at 6:54 AM on November 15, 2007

*swoon* and BWAH! I think I already say "I dunno, Ask MetaFilter" to my boyfriend on a daily basis.
posted by Metroid Baby at 6:55 AM on November 15, 2007

At first, I didn't like DS. Then I liked it. Now I like it and am mildly freaked out to see the online-life overlap.

(I wonder what the MeFi empire's webcomic footprint is, how widely it's been shouted-out to. I think Interrobang's invoked it at least a couple of times, and I know I spent 20 minutes this morning trying to match the colors of the front page for a panel detail)
posted by COBRA! at 7:07 AM on November 15, 2007

"At first, I didn't like DS. Then I liked it. Now I like it and am mildly freaked out to see the online-life overlap. "

That's part of my plan! It doesn't always make a good impression, but it's always there and you can't help but remember what it looks like.

****

"When can we expect a Diesel Sweeties movie?"

Nobody's ever made an offer and I'm not a big enough fan of movies and the movie-making process to shop it around!

I've got a friend I would trust to write it if someone had money to lend me.

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"I love DS so hard. Still working up the money/courage to get my Red Robot 'CRUSH ALL HU-MANS' tattoo done. Please don't sue me!"

I love pixel tattoos.
posted by clango at 7:14 AM on November 15, 2007

I wonder what the MeFi empire's webcomic footprint is

Well, we've got Rowland as well. I'd love to see Dorothy Gambrell hanging around here, but she seems to actually spend her time being productive. Craziness.

And I'm convinced that if Mssr. Jacques got an account, he and jonmc would kill each other in an indie/classicrock death match inside of a week.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:54 AM on November 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Nobody's ever made an offer and I'm not a big enough fan of movies and the movie-making process to shop it around!

The answer is clear: shitty, amateurish flash animation shorts.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:55 AM on November 15, 2007

It worked for PVP, after all!
posted by absalom at 8:09 AM on November 15, 2007

But DS's pixel-sprite style makes it the one webcomic that would be better with stiff, limited animation. I'd even suggest going the full Clutch Cargo/"Syncho-Vox" route (if you don't think Conan has already done it to death).

And if we're making 'dibs' on character voices, I am SO Indie Rock Pete.
posted by wendell at 8:37 AM on November 15, 2007

I rock the Daily Diesel app on my Facebook page, that's just how devoted I am. Although Daily Diesel is probably a serious breach of bandwidth etiquette, so I will stop using it if told. That's just how manageable I am.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 8:37 AM on November 15, 2007

I am so ashamed that I haven't yet received an 'I am ten ninjas' hoodie yet, despite it being on my birthday and Xmas wish lists for a few years now.

My family sucks.
posted by WinnipegDragon at 8:45 AM on November 15, 2007

...copyright law as well, probably.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 8:45 AM on November 15, 2007

I wonder what the MeFi empire's webcomic footprint is

We've also got Nedroid, too.

What's that? You don't know the sixteens different flavors of awesome that is Nedroid? What the hell is the matter with you people?
posted by 40 Watt at 10:16 AM on November 15, 2007

Are you guys deliberately omitting XQUZYPHYR?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:22 AM on November 15, 2007

I'd like to mention here that Achewood sucks.
posted by Stan Chin at 10:31 AM on November 15, 2007

But Achewood is to webcomics what quonsar is to MetaFilter!

so I guess you're right...
posted by wendell at 10:49 AM on November 15, 2007

MeFi is costing me so much money today--You HAD to mention the 10 ninja shirt, didn't you? And then the Elitism tee is just made for my teenager....ah, well, it's going to a good cause.

All hail Clango, and whatnot.

we need to have MeFi discounts for buying stuff, with all the talented folks on here! ; )
posted by misha at 11:02 AM on November 15, 2007

weirdly enough, this is the second board I've run into clango on.
posted by heeeraldo at 11:54 AM on November 15, 2007

MetaFilter is NOT a "board". Now take that back or I'll hit you with this 1/2 inch by 6 inch by 2 foot piece of wood, whatever you call it.
posted by wendell at 12:49 PM on November 15, 2007

Absolutely, wendell, it's more like a message B-O-R-E-D, amirite?
posted by absalom at 1:13 PM on November 15, 2007

Y'know what? If you're on this thread, in North America and grab a shirt this week, drop me a line with your Mefi account and I'll refund the shipping. If you're in one of those more expensive countries, I'll ask my helper to give you a free book.

***

As far as animation goes- my ideal DS cartoon would be like PIXHELL!

***

heeeraldo, where do I know you from? Ars?

***

As far as DS on Facebook goes, that's a totally non-sanctioned app. I'd love to have a real one that ran off my RSS feed if there is a nerd out there who is good at such things.
posted by clango at 1:31 PM on November 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'm sorry to say I hadn't heard of clango or Diesel Sweeties until today, BUT it's been added to my morning rounds. And the t-shirts? Awesome funny.
posted by deborah at 2:46 PM on November 15, 2007

wendell: "MetaFilter is NOT a "board". Now take that back or I'll hit you with this 1/2 inch by 6 inch by 2 foot piece of wood, whatever you call it."

Here, borrow my clue-by-four.
posted by Plutor at 4:36 PM on November 15, 2007

I hereby declare this NERDIEST. SHIRT. EVER.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:48 PM on November 15, 2007

Damn it, I missed the encore. Because if I had gotten in before it closed, I 'd be working out my clue-by-four on nimwunnan.

BTW, I already have one of the limited-edition (no longer available - sorry - you can't have one) ":D LOL RIGHTS RESERVED" shirts, but I am seriously considering going for the "HILARIOUS JOKE" (with bonus "LESS COWBELL" button) just because I do (sadly) resemble Peter Griffin. (You better have 3X)
posted by wendell at 4:52 PM on November 15, 2007

Horace, you think THAT'S nerdy? You should see the stuff I wanted to print.

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Wendell, an internet t-shirt site without 3xl is like a mental hospital without straightjackets. Anyone who doesn't try to fit as many human beings as possible is an idiot.
posted by clango at 5:09 PM on November 15, 2007

I know you have 3XL - my LOL RIGHTS RESERVED is that size... I just hadn't checked the specific item... after all you are offering it at a discount; it could've been 17% off in size as well as price...
posted by wendell at 5:15 PM on November 15, 2007

Horace-

I have that shirt, and my Young Earth colleagues at my old job didn't understand it.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:34 PM on November 15, 2007

clango: yeah, Ars - I'm mostly in A/V club, a little more in the Mac Ach since acquisition of an MBP.
posted by heeeraldo at 12:54 AM on November 16, 2007