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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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080908.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080908.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080909.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080910.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080911.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080912.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080913.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080914.html |
| 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"... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080915.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080916.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080917.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080918.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080919.html |
| 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.... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080920.html |
| 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:... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080921.html |
| 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:... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080922.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080923.html |
| 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:... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080924.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080925.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080926.html |
| 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,... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080927.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080928.html |
| 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 http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080929.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080930.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081001.html |
| 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,... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081002.html |
| 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,... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081002.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081003.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081004.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081004.html |
| 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'... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081005.html |
| 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:... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081006.html |
| 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:... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081006.html |
| 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... http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/081007.html |
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