That's insane. Wow. I'm very thrilled slash humbled slash amazed. Thank you! :D 
The Chain Part XII
That's insane. Wow. I'm very thrilled slash humbled slash amazed. Thank you! :D 
That's insane. Wow. I'm very thrilled slash humbled slash amazed. Thank you! :D
166 thoughts on “The Chain Part XII”
Well, at least they aren’t naked!
…
THAT DOESN’T MAKE THIS BETTER DANNY!
Yep. You got that right. Not going to get him off of the trespassing hook, but might keep him off of the sexual predator lists.
You need to change your name to Mr Cactuar!
AHHHHHHHHHHH
MY NOM DE GUERRE’S RAISON D’ETCH!!!!!
MON DEAU, YOU FIEND.
Not.
Maybe. Maybe. At least until I find the old icon set.
Oh $h!t beer. I can’t win. I can’t win. If only I had more disposable income.
But if I go back to the black Friday naming scheme. . . .
And the favorite name, according to the weird one.
Heh.
He didn’t see why not.
This one for now. But then, by having the character shuffle, you’ve introduced another element into keeping people’s interest in the story.
Have I, too, succumbed to the Shuffle?
WOW. SCREWED BIG TIME.
Just checking for ya bro.
Okay, that just seems soooo much more worse.
My email address seems to be a rare hash/computation/whatever that gets you a random gravatar. What that means is, much like my beloved thimble avatar, I won’t see this abomination shared with more than one or two people who rarely post.
You can vary your email?
NEVER! I’ll just suffer until the next Shuffle and hope to land something better.
I think that the best case scenario for Caleb at this point is to sell Danny up the river ASAP.
So it’s basically just reality TV? And probably more real than most of the shows we see, if what I’ve read is true.
How many people do you think might have seen this by now? What does a subscription go for? If I estimate 10 bucks a pop would that be very wrong in either direction? Because I’m thinking ~$40,000 divided by 10 is 4,000 people, most in American and Canada, but spread out of 330+ million people, its conceivable that Ellie and Quinn might not run into any of them.
Assuming, of course, Ian keeps his mouth shut.
You forget. Quinn’s crush, DJ Cornbread (Ian) saw the page. Or at least it was heavily hinted that he did. Also, their downstairs neighbor, Tired Guy also seems to have seen it.
I doubt they’ll not run into those two again.
Reality TV sans signed releases = beaucoup legal trouble…
Uh oh, why do I smell the waft of weasel now…don’t fall for Danny’s plotting, keep grinding him into the ground!
Ad on Craigslist from Fargo, ND.
Used stump grinder, once owned by flapjack loving, ungulate using middle aged man eating tv dinners out by the lake. Good revue by former car salesman
Ummm… Am I the only one that feels like them seeing Quinn “frolicking in panties” is just as bad as nude? ‘Cause I do. Yeah, this kids screwed. Caleb might as well put him out of his misery. He’ll get sued anyway, might as well even it out with revenge.
From a personal/privacy standpoint it’s just as bad (I mean, hidden cameras showing you when you don’t know it, that’s bad)
However, it could be argued that since there’s no nudity, it’s a “lesser crime” (not that I’m auguring it, just if they had to lawyer up, that and the dubious contract would be their only “real” defense)
Paging Dr. Fine
Paging Dr. Howard
Paging Dr. Fine
Paging Count Imperious
Captain Ouever white courtesy phone
Dr. Allcome to the E.R.
I think the argument there might come down to any statements of Danny’s that could be traced down due to motive. Nudity isn’t automatically sexual, nor does sexual content require nudity. It’s still illegal wiretap (site members heard the arguing a couple of comics ago, so audio is present) at the very least.
(Emerges from a blaze of sunlight) I have arrived to harken unto a page cast forth from the void of technology. Ah yes, let me see… As previously conjectured, and possibly concurred by my colleague Gravatarless, Title XLVI 877.26 states that a “Merchant” violating reasonable expectations of privacy is punishable by law (generally First misdemeanor). An example of violating “reasonable expectations of privacy” is something akin to having a camera in a changing room. Regardless of the degree of exposure (nudity or not) it is still unacceptable to have something like that there. Due to common law being awesome, this can easily be transferred over this scenario even though Danny is not much of a “merchant”. In addition, Gravartarless also pointed out a factor, that I looked over completely (Hopefully due to my innocence and not ignorance), stalking. It is not a matter of degree (nude/non-nude) nor the medium (optical, recording, surveillance, et cetera ), rather it is the act in of itself that is under scrutiny. Stalking is stalking one way or the other and violating expectations follows suit.
Icon Buddies!!!
And as Pumpagon to boot.
But we don’t get to quote Charlton Heston with your icon.
Are we going to have some Ellie’s fanservice cookies from all those voting ?
(I don’t mind if we don’t, but gotta admit it would be fun)
Mmm, fanservice cookies… Mmmm….
Fan service cookies? Where is that from?
?morf esoht teg uoy od erehw ,seikooc ecivresnaF
Are fanservice cookies in any way different from fanservice itself?
Doesn’t it leave a trace on your laptop?
Only one way to find out: Empirical Research!
Actually, I’ve found that quite a number of comic artist on the Top Web Comics Vote Thingie™ use pin-ups/fan service as a vote incentive. Of course, vote-happy as we all are that might be a bit over-the-top, huh?
If Chris can even get into round three of this webcomic tournament, he won’t need fanservice to get votes on TWC.
So many comics I read are on that top list, gotta choose one though :I
A better turnout than Questionable Content. Wow.
…my Ellie smirk. Replaced with…a perpetual drunk named Steel_Pancreas. I’m…conflicted about this.
It feels weird not to be a grumpy old man avatar any more to me. I’ll have to remind myself what this one is from with an archive binge in the next week or so and decide my mythology for how it fits.
My first avatar was Quinn covering Ellie’s mouth as she was about to say out loud in front of Ian that Quinn liked him, which fit from me enjoying saying things I shouldn’t say. I think the grumpy old man from the Tired Guy cast page picture speaks for itself where I’m concerned, though now I regret I didn’t spend more time yelling at those kids to get off my lawn in the comments.
Backwards naming tried have you?
Yeah……
You aren’t going to like that one.
I just accept what the dice roll brings. This one isn’t as easy to quickly scroll down a page and spot as either of my old two is my main down side. Also I put in an e-mail address, so that’s what I’d need to tweak to get different avatars.
I’m reminded of those old “Vote or Die” campaigns that used to run on the internet lol. Glad to see the comic doing so well!
I put that in Ashliii’s text in the right sidebar.
HAH! Love it XD
It’s pure Apples and Cinnamon Awesomesauce.
I don’t think I did it, but the comments are borked again.
JESSSSIIIIICCAAAAAAA
You did not. MaddN.E.S. happened to be unlucky in timing for site visiting and posting comment. It’s fixable by either moving the broken comment (and all replies) to last comic or setting the broken comment to be top level.
WordPress doesn’t appear to have that functionality built in, but there are plugins that will do it or direct SQL statements. There were tradeoffs and judgement calls on the plugins I noticed from a quick search. I’ll try and remember and look up SQL statements and send them to Jessica tomorrow or Wed.
Thanks, that one guy. Sorry we haven’t implemented automatic fix. Will look into it more after April 12th (MegaCon)
Say hi to Optimus Prime and Megatron as well, eh?
You are such a dork.
You too.
You probably don’t want an automatic fix. Automatic fixes occasionally fix things that don’t need fixing and that’s always fun. Just a kinder/easier manual fix is what I recommend.
I’m sorry…. I failed you all… I’ll go jump on a knife as payment for my sins…
No worries. It takes luck to be in the position and it’s a hassle to avoid the possibility.
Sometimes it’s fun. But then there are no fanservice cookies.
And now, Q3 speculations for TWC.
C’mon Caleb, if you don’t murder Danny while you’re in the US then you will be a liar. Lying is impolite, just sayin…
And in the time it took me to post my reply Chris uploaded new avatars! Let’s see what the new avvy roullette has in store for me… C’mon fat kitty!
Sweet mother of crap, no! Why have I been borked by every roullette change? Why? Porque?
You aren’t the only one brother.
TESTING ALL CAPS.
NO NO NO NO.
DANNY BAD. IN ALEX CLUB.
Just as bad. One of the voyeurs. bleah.
Although, rag on a stick might be all the rage for the hipster set.
Testing once again. Is the name back?
Have you tried the Drambuiee yet?
Hm… How do you call a group of Quinns?
I’d say a murder, but I’m open to suggestions.
MURDER SHE WROTE
BY
PUMPAGON
You think you’ve got it bad? Mine is now the SJW-guilt-free version of a liberal arts major.
You got Danny.
You make me sick! :P
Maybe this one?
That was me, BTW.
Not bad.
Testing…
Oh hell yes. All is right with the world again.
Aka my first random fat kitty avvy since his original (with orange hoodie for the hoodie rainbow.)
Ah, the good old days.
You’re just upset because you can’t have the toy.
Opposite day
BANISHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!
He wasn’t the only one.
115 new avatars upload. Old ones gone.
All of the old ones?
Seems like Ellie isn’t as empty headed as first it seemed.
Holy crap. I didn’t expect this comic to be right under XKCD.
Yeah… Wouldn’t want to be in Caleb’s shoes right now.
Oh crud. I just had a thought. They ban webcomics in the may series of the madness tournament for being behind a pay door. What if they have to apply that to the normal webcomics. How many patreon supported webcomics would be disqualified?
I doubt it’s an issue. It amounts to the same as voting insensitive images.
They should allow users to vote based on the merits of the free comic. Penalizing creators for having some aspect of their work behind a subscription is the same as banning comics for featuring bonus strips in their book collections.
WE ARE PUMPAGON!!!
For the time being, this is Mr. Blue.
Mmmm.
I though he seemed more money hungry less sexual predator.
Not that it’s significantly better, but still.
Oh, I am in love with that avvy
hmmmm, does wordpress use html? not in love with that avvy.
All this time and…
sniff.
I never knew.
We had matching profiles! But I think that’s changed….
Testing… Testing.. 1,2,3
Can i get a pic that’s not psychotic/dark? Eh?
You know what? It’s not my gender. It’s still psychotic/dark. But I like it! :) Until I try my hand again, this shall be my icon. Gracias Rusche.
Yeah, they seem to match up with your name.
That’s Username Profiling! I’d like to arrest this man for a hate crime! Put him in the cell with Danny and the Ratchulatas! Ratchillas? Ratatulas? I forgot what they are, but you get the point
They’ve long since evolved into a new form anyway.
RATCHANTULAPENTAPEDES!!!
(I blame Chris for posting am icon which just screams screaming screams with no words.
Testing 1 2, TESTING
In light of the recent image swap, I have performed a bit of technomancy and have conjured a fairly large portion of the previous icons. If anybody is interested let me know and attempt to describe you image. Alternatively, I could package them all and send you all a packet, at the discretion of the artist of course.
Beanie?
It seems like Danny could have setup an entirely different website without much trouble. I wonder if he had a specific reason for piggy-backing off Caleb’s site?
Creates conflict…
Your comment section gets more and more insanely long with each panel you post.
Not surprised right now with the new avatar upload.
It’s all fun, right? Dancing and Sh*tty beer.
But… I can’t dance…. Damn it, man!
AND IF THEY DON’T DANCE WELL THEY’RE ARE NO FRIENDS OF MINE
Good to see a lot of the comics I read (probably) make it on to the next round.
Grats on #3!
Thank you
Well, there’s a chance the cameras will be shut off soon. Though if it’s been less than a month, Danny’s going to have to pay all those subscription fees back.
You uploaded way too many Danny avatars, Rusche. Just sayin’.
He’s only in 4 of 115. So it’s more like the randomness of them is crappy. :D
I think that TLO is going to be very, very envious of that icon of yours there.
A little bit, though I kind of think the black and white one works better in the small format.
WOOOOOOT. I got another score for this particular icon.
This is getting irritating…no Round 2 yet.
Yes! Im tired of waiting.
I seem to be of the opinion that he’s doing this on purpose, he’s sick, or he’s suffering some sort of DDOS attack.
If I remember it right, they did already take their sweet time last time around. I got used to it.
He just posted something for the Harvey Awards. I’m about ready to go do research on that company. What VP holds the domain name for web registration?
“I don’t have cameras in their bedrooms.”
I assume this is only because the girls were asleep in their bedrooms when Danny was setting up, not because of any morality on his part…
Considering the rest of his statement implying hope Ellie will be changing in front of her webcam at some point, I’d say you’re quite right about that.
I guess the only reason he didn’t put any cameras in the shower and/or toilet were problems with either usable hiding places with a reasonable angle of view or with acquiring camera housings that were steam and/or splash water proof.
Posting just to see if my avatar changed
I thought that we had a Deadpool who wore glasses.
Danny… Danny…
I’m still in shock. I wanted to like you, man.
You bastard.
Huh, cool, I’m Blind Guy now.
Then how are you reading this, witch!
Now, now, hold your horses! We have not yet weighed him against a goose!
The noose waits for no goose, you obtuse caboose.
Believe it or not, I saw someone’s icon turn into a newt! It…got better though…
ITS MADDNES UTTER MADDNES.
Boopity bwoop
nnnOOOOOOOOO WHY THIS GUY
Sorry, I just had to do this.
lol. I have to wonder if Chris has these planned out in some way.
Not that I mind! But man, gotta say the girls have gotten into the luckiest situation possible. Well hopefully for now Ellie changes away from her labtop
Okay, I’ve got to ask. How is this one of the luckiest situations?
Hmm, I wonder what will happen with ‘ol Danny boy next time.
Ellie hasn’t changed in front of her laptop… yet…
Also Rusche, you should just switch around a couple avatars randomly every day. Just for fun.
As of midnight, the TWC counter will reset to zero. If we can get everyone voting like crazy, we should be able to stay in the top 100 for another month.
Currently #52 with three votes on TWC.
Small point, no apostrophe on “hers,” it’s the same as his, ours, etc.
And I’m back. Seems like a lot of progress was made while I was gone. Is it just me or did I call that someone from the parent site would try to shut Danny down?
The Gravatar Gods looked down from the heavens and said, “The blasphemer whose forum handle mocks us? Let us smite him so hard it warrants an entry in TV Tropes under Especially Zoidberg.”
… and so it was done.
Honestly this seems like it would make a good movie