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Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 08 / 2008 [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: Have you seen these Tolkien books put out by his son, Christopher? / ARTHUR: No. I date. / / [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: They're ridiculous. They're all cobbled together from his dad's cast-off notes and discarded story points. And the more of these books they produce, the more it feels like...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 08 / 2008 [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: Have you seen these Tolkien books put out by his son, Christopher? / ARTHUR: No. I date. / / [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: They're ridiculous. They're all cobbled together from his dad's cast-off notes and discarded story points. And the more of these books they produce, the more it feels like...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 09 / 2008 [[The past]] / NARRATOR: 1948: JRR Tolkien stumbles home from "The Eagle & The Child" Pub to scribble down some story notes / J.R.R. Tolkien: (HIC) Ents should now be shrubs. Sauron is an eagle who owns the moon. All Elves wear plaid from here on out. / / [[The past]] / J.R.R. Tolkien: and... and... all the hobbitsss...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 10 / 2008 [[THE POND (in pond)]] / ARTHUR: What's wrong with Christopher Tolkien publishing his dad's writing scraps? / SHELDON: Because! When an artist chooses not to share some art, it's usually cause it was stinkaroo. / / [[THE POND (in pond)]] / ARTHUR: Not true! Sometimes economic or editorial reasons kept great art...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 11 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (Sitting at table)]] / SHELDON: The S.S. Broccoli sails across Gravy Lake. ...WHEN SUDDENLY DISASTER STRIKES / / [[THE HOUSE (Sitting at table)]] / SHELDON: A mashed potato landslide sinks the S.S. Broccoli to the bottom of the lake! / No clue is left on the surface! / It is lost to history! / / [[THE...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 12 / 2008 [[Dinner table]] / Food: / ARTHUR: You've really picked over your vegetable medley. ...You only eatin' the bits you like? / SHELDON: Well, I ate the carrots. They're kinda the meat of the vegetable world. / / [[Dinner table]] / SHELDON: And I ate the peas. They're like the Switzerland of vegetables. ...Ain't...
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 13 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (at the table)]] / Plate: / SHELDON: Seriously... who was the first person to try cauliflower? Who looked at this plant and went "YES, I am all about this. This is a plant I am Down With"???? / / [[THE HOUSE (at the table)]] / Plate: / SHELDON: Look at it! It's albino-white, and looks like coral...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 14 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / NARRATOR: You have 3 pieces of broccoli to eat before you're excused from the table. Here are your options. / / [[Kitchen]] / Plate: / Milk: / NARRATOR: #1: The "Divide and Conquer" / Cut 'em into tiny pieces and move 'em to opposite ends of the dish, in hopes of looking like...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 15 / 2008 [[Dinner table]] / Food: / Table: / NARRATOR: You've tried everything you can to eat that broccoli. You've tried chewing super fast....before your mouth can taste it. / SHELDON: chew chew chew chew KAFF! / / [[Dinner table]] / Food: / Table: / NARRATOR: You've tried chewing super slow...hoping that a rare "chew"...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 16 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (at the table)]] / Laptop: / Mug: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: You have purchased "The Zone Diet" / / [[THE HOUSE (at the table)]] / Laptop: / Mug: / NARRATOR: Amazon customers who bought this book also purchased "The South Beach Diet", "The Atkins Guide Book" and "a 150-pack of Oreo pie crusts" / GRAMP: ...T...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 17 / 2008 [[THE POND (in pond)]] / ARTHUR: I THINK I'M GONNA ENTER LAW-SCHOOL. I NEED TO BE A LAWYER. / SHELDON: A LAWYER?? NO NO NO NO NO / / [[THE POND (in pond)]] / SHELDON: A LAWYER'S WHOLE LIFE IS FOCUSED ON FIGHTS. ...HOW TO AVOID FIGHTS. HOW TO START FIGHTS. HOW TO WIN FIGHTS. YOU WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR DAYS THINKING...
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 18 / 2008 [[THE POND (in pond)]] / SHELDON: What kind of lawyer do you wanna be? / ARTHUR: ... there are "KINDS"? / / [[THE POND (in pond)]] / SHELDON: Sure. There's corporate, IP, constitutional, tax, personal inju / ARTHUR: Which one makes the most cash-money? / / [[THE POND (in pond)]] / SHELDON: Don't tell me you're only...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 19 / 2008 [[pond]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Here's the basic problem: Most law students rack up more than $100,000 in student loans. / / [[pond]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Plus there are more students IN law school than there are working lawyers. / / [[pond]] / ARTHUR: So, when these debt-strapped students get out of school, OF COURSE...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 20 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (noon, water)]] / ARTHUR: I'm telling you, Dude. Lawyers are Respected / SHELDON: I don't know. Remember the ol' shakespeare quote: " The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (noon, water)]] / ARTHUR: PFFT. Shakespeare....
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 21 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (a chair in the corner)]] / Chair: / GRAMP: Lord! I never thought I'd see the U.S. financial system melt down like this. It's a shade of 1929. / ARTHUR: I don't even understand what happened. / / GRAMP: Well, mortgage lenders loaned massive amounts to homebuyers they knew couldn't pay them back. / / GRAMP:...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 22 / 2008 [[THE POND]] / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: Yale Law School??? Are you kidding? You can't apply to Yale. You don't even know what "Habeus Corpus" means. / / [[THE POND]] / ARTHUR: All I know is folks wish they habeus this corpus. / Look at it! UNGH. / ...That's a corpus people can only dream of habeusing. / / [[THE POND]] / ARTHUR:...
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 23 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (water)]] / Towel: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: I bet a lawyer's outlook gets a little skewed after years of lawyerin'. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Towel: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: You look at the squirrels in the trees, or the birds in the sky, or the puppies scampering...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 24 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (field)]] / Hats: / Guitar: / music notes: / FLACO: / OSO: / ARTHUR: Oh there once was a cowboy / Who fancied the law. / He said, "I'll be a lawyer" / To his Ma and and [sic] his Pa. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (field)]] / Hats: / Guitar: / music notes: / FLACO:...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 25 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Cowboy hat: / Guitar: / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Home, home on the raaaaange! Where the deer and the antelope play! Where seldom is heard, a- / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Cowboy hat: / Guitar: / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Flaco, it's all comin' apart at the seams,ain't...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 26 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / NARRATOR: Like all dialects, "cowboy-ses" has its own unitue rules... / Never recognize authority: Everyone is "y'all". (Except for dudes with guns. They become "mister".) / ARTHUR: Now calm down, mister. We can solve this all civilized-like. / / [[OUTSIDE...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 27 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn, Rocks)]] / rock: / Cowboy hat: / FLACO: / ARTHUR: It's weird how cowboys use so few words. / Their philosophy is almost to reduce life to a minimum of expression. To shrink it down to its barest essence. / / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn,...
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 28 / 2008 [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: I always find it interesting when history gives an artist a second chance. / ARTHUR: Like how? / / [[THE POND]] / SHELDON: Like, let's say there was a russian composer in 1850. / And ALL he wanted was to make the world's greatest music. / But no one EVER bought his pieces, and he died a...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 29 / 2008 Desk: / Laptop: / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: / Rhinoceros : / NARRATOR: CAPTION CONTEST! Win a Sheldon book, a Sheldon shirt, and this original art! SEE DETAILS IN MONDAY'S BLOG
Sheldon Comics comic strip from September / 30 / 2008 [[Outside - Rocks]] / rock: / SHELDON: I'm in trouble. Sheldonsoft is running out of money. It could go under if I don't get an infusion of cash. / ARTHUR: So go to a bank. Get a corporate loan. / / [[Outside - Rocks]] / rock: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: I tried that already. I went to six banks... and got the same...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 01 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: What am I gonna do, Arthur? I need a loan to save my company but no U.S. bank is lending. I can't even get dough from Europe, Japan or South Korea. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: If that's true...then there's only one place...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 02 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: Dubai BUILT an island?? In the shape of a palm? / ARTHUR: Yep. Then built a whole series of islands in the shape of the globe. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: What does that- / ARTHUR: ...they also built the world's tallest building, tallest hotel,...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 02 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: Dubai BUILT an island?? In the shape of a palm? / ARTHUR: Yep. Then built a whole series of islands in the shape of the globe. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: What does that- / ARTHUR: ...they also built the world's tallest building, tallest hotel,...
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 03 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: I'm mad at Dubai. / ARTHUR: ..Why? / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / SHELDON: Because! They're using their billions to do all these fun, awesome things! But, I'm the ten-year old billionaire! I should be the one doing impossible stuff.. / / [[nonspecific (white...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 04 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: Dubai?!? Why would your company need to borrow money from Dubai?!? I thought it was flush with cash. / SHELDON: It...it was! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: So, you HAVEN'T been watching your company like I asked? / SHELDON: I have! I've been watching...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 04 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: Dubai?!? Why would your company need to borrow money from Dubai?!? I thought it was flush with cash. / SHELDON: It...it was! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: So, you HAVEN'T been watching your company like I asked? / SHELDON: I have! I've been watching...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 05 / 2008 [[airport]] / luggage: / GRAMP: How did i get here? / SHELDON: what gramp? / / [[airport]] / GRAMP: How did i get here... In an airport... about to fly to Dubai? Where my grandson... Is going to ask... for a $115 BILLION loan?! / / [[airport]] / luggage: / GRAMP: And joining us is his talking duck-who's do doubt runnin'...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 06 / 2008 [[Sky]] / Airplane: / ARTHUR: Stewardess? There's been an error: You placed a $1,000 bill under my coffee cup. / / [[Airplane]] / Stewardess: Oh! My apologies! Did you not want a napkin? / ARTHUR: A na-? / / [[Airplane]] / ARTHUR: Ohmigod. Your nation is THAT wealthy, isn't it?? / I...I think I'm gonna be sick. / / [[Airplane]] / Stewardess:...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 06 / 2008 [[Sky]] / Airplane: / ARTHUR: Stewardess? There's been an error: You placed a $1,000 bill under my coffee cup. / / [[Airplane]] / Stewardess: Oh! My apologies! Did you not want a napkin? / ARTHUR: A na-? / / [[Airplane]] / ARTHUR: Ohmigod. Your nation is THAT wealthy, isn't it?? / I...I think I'm gonna be sick. / / [[Airplane]] / Stewardess:...
Sheldon Comics comic strip from October / 07 / 2008 [[Dubai airport]] / suitcase: / Hats: / Desk: / Dubai customs agent: Welcome to Dubai. Passport please. / GRAMP: Can I ask you something? / / [[Dubai airport]] / Hat: / GRAMP: I don't get you guys. The tallest building. Tallest hotel. Biggest mall. Underwater hotel. Building entire chains of islands. What's with...
 

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