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| Goodness Sakes | Jeffrey: Am I ... am I making stuff just for the sake of making it? / Tallahassee: Are we selling stuff just for the sake of selling it?
/ [[Baby counts money.]] / Lena B.: Yo! Little help over here? I wanna buy some stuff just for the sake of buying it. / Now I wanna drink some sake http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100626.html |
| Goodness Sakes | Jeffrey: Am I ... am I making stuff just for the sake of making it? / Tallahassee: Are we selling stuff just for the sake of selling it?
/ [[Baby counts money.]] / Lena B.: Yo! Little help over here? I wanna buy some stuff just for the sake of buying it. / Now I wanna drink some sake http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100626.html |
| Hot Child in the City | [[Weedmaster P and Jeffery are sweating in an alleyway. Weedmaster P holds a sign that says "THE END IS NEAR"]]
/ Weedmaster P: As each moment passes my sign become more incorrect
/ Jeffery: Ugh why is it so hot and sticky? I feel like a swamp worker. / [[Weedmaster P's sign has changed to "THE END IZ NEAR"]]
/ Weedmaster P:You smell like a homeless high school football player with a drinking problem
/ Jeffery: We have to get our minds off of how shitty this feels. Are there any mysteries to solve? / [[Weedmaster P's sign now reads "TEH END IZ NEER"]]
/ Weedmaster P: Science has solved all of the mysteries already.
/ Jeffery: What about all the mysteries that science can't solve?
/ Weedmaster P: Except those
/ Jeffery: Let's go. / {{title text: A few minutes ago I was all hot ans sweaty and sticky and walked through a spider web and about died}}
/ {{Part of the reason it's so hot and sticky is because of science}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100629.html |
| Beatin' the Heat | Tallahassee: Where are you two going? Don't you know it's too hot to do anything but complain about how hot it is?
/ Jeffrey: We're the Sweaty Detectives and we're gonna solve the mysteries of life! It's our thing.
/ Weedmaster P: NO / Tallahassee: But I thought all the mysteries of life were already solved by science!
/ Jeffrey: Not all of 'em! We're gonna start with the mystery of how to beat the heat! / Baby: What happened to beatin' the heat by buyin' a swimmin' pool? Or is that not "indie" enough for ya?
/ Jeffrey: Baby I'm about as indie as a Heineken at an airport Chili's. / {{title: Beatin' the Heat}}
/ {{caption: the sweaty detectives: the mystery of who still calls things "indie"}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100630.html |
| Guarding Angels | The Sweaty Detectives: Mailbag / Jeffrey: Sometimes people send mysteries by mail. Mailsteries! / [[A stained printed letter in all-caps green Comic Sans.]]
/ Letter: dear sweety mistery dectivtives, MY CUZIN GOT IN A CAR WRECK AND AT THE LAST SECOND HER GUARDIEN ANGELL GRABBED HER OUT OF HARM. HOW COME? [[broken image link]] BRANGELINA, PLANTSVILLE CT / [[Jeffrey and Weedmaster P outside a mobile home in trademark Sweaty Detectives garb with trademark sweatstains.
/ Weedmaster P: We're at the source to figure out the answer to this mystery
/ Jeffrey (yelling through window): Hey, YHWH! You home, YHWH? I got a question! / [[We see God the Father from behind, sitting in a golden armchair with YHWH engraved on the back.]]
/ Jeffrey: How come Guarding Angels only seem to help out at the last possible second? / [[God pushes his chair back a bit. We see a lit joint in his hand.]]
/ < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100701.html |
| An American Time Lord in Wal-Mart | Tallahassee: Are you thinking what I'm think--
/ Jeffrey: American Version of Doctor Who?!
/ [[refrigerator flies through space and time with musical notes in the background]]
/ Flyin' thru time
/ in a frigidaire
/ Runnin from his kids
/ Like a man on a dare
/ [[refrigerator lands in the middle of a semi-full walmart parking lot]]
/ TIME LORD McGEE
/ [[gesticulating]]
/ Time Lord McGee: Does anybody know what time it is?! http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100702.html |
| Fourth of July 2010 | Deathmole Jacques: They say the Tree of Liberty has to be moistened from time to time with the blood of patriots.
/ Jeffrey: They also say "git-r-dun" and "full of win." / Granulac: No, I think they mean that tree, back there... / Jeffrey: But Home Depot's closed today! Where are we supposed to get Patriot Blood?
/ Granulac: This website says you can just use "Mtn Dew." http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100705.html |
| The Conversion of Weedmaster P Part One | Jeffrey: Weedmaster P, I have to go do something but you have to stay here and guard the money. While I'm gone, no matter what happens, under no circumstances can you decide to become gay. / [[Weedmaster thinks.]] / [[Weedmaster thinks and bites his lower lip.]] / Jeffrey: I'm back!
/ Jeffrey: I brought Vermont Pete.
/ Weedmaster: I'm gay
/ Weedmaster: I love Vermont Pete / Vermont Pete: Why does this keep happening to me? / We all know this is impossible, but Weedmaster P is the master of the impossible http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100706.html |
| OVERCOMPENSATING: The Conversion of Weedmaster P Part Two | Vermont Pete: I gotta get outta here; this is too weird for me.
/ Weedmaster P: NO DON'T GO I LOVE YOU VERMONT PETE / Weedmaster P: DAMMIT NOW VERMONT PETE HATES ME
/ Jeffrey: That's life, man. Tons of people are just gonna hate you for no good reason. Just deal with it. / Weedmaster P: I DON'T GET IT THOUGH I'VE ALWAYS GOTTEN WHATEVER I WANTED
/ Jeffery: But the most you've ever had is a bag of weed and a bean burrito.
/ Weedmaster P: EXACTLY
/ Weedmaster P: UNTIL NOW http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100708.html |
| OVERCOMPENSATING: The Conversion of Weedmaster P Part Three | [[Jeff, wearing a black T-shirt that says, "Butts", slaps Weedmaster P]]
/ Jeff: Dang it, Weedmaster P!
/ Weedmaster P: I know it's just / Weedmaster P: Man you know me I just do things people tell me to do
/ Jeff: And you pretended to love Vermont Pete to weird him out and run him off 'cause you hate him!
/ Weedmaster P: Yes / Jeff: Weedmaster P, I'm gonna leave the room for five minutes. While I'm gone whatever you do, do _not_ get a job. / Narrator: Five minutes later...
/ Jeff (now wearing a red T-shirt): Well?
/ Weedmaster P: I got fired / Narrator: That night...
/ [[Weedmaster P is sitting alone at a table, drawing a picture of himself and Vermont Pete in a heart.]] / {{title text: Weedmaster P's brilliant career at Massive Dynamic was violent and brief.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100709.html |
| GPS | GPS: TAKE EXIT 17-B ON RIGHT TO R-T-E ONE FORTY ONE / Jeffrey: Hey remember like two months ago when we got around just fine without shitty little robots tellin' us what to do?
/ Tallahassee: I remember constantly being lost...crying...screaming... / GPS: TAKE NEXT EXIT TAKE IT / Jeffrey: That ain't even the right exit! Screw it, we're goin' rogue! / SIX HOURS LATER
/ Tallahassee: Why can't you just admit we're lost?
/ Jeffrey: Because I can't remember where we're going. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100712.html |
| Soothsayer P | [[Jeffrey is running]]
/ Jeffrey: Pizza Tv Pizza Tv Pizza Tv
/ Weedmaster P: Hey ass bucket you goin to sandy eggo comic con next week / Jeffrey: WHAT?! San Diego Comic-con is next week? Are you sure?
/ Weedmaster P: Nah man I'm just messin with you I don't ever know when anything happens
/ Jeffrey: No, I think you're right!
/ Weedmaster P: WHAT / Jeffrey: No you're absolutely right! How did you do that?
/ Weedmaster P: I must be a Sooth-sayer
/ Jeffrey: I'm callin Oprah.
/ Weedmaster P: Winfrey?
/ Jeffrey: ...no / {{title text: Just being able to remember something is tantamount to magic around here, folks}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100713.html |
| National Hot Dogs Month | Paperklip: It's National Hot Dogs Month, bitches!
/ Jeffrey: Fine. Line 'em up. Line up the hot dogs. Let's get to work. / Baby: No! We gotta stop eatin' hot dogs! they're bad for piggies!
/ Jeffrey: But if we don't eat those hot dogs then those piggies will have died for nothin'! / Baby: Okay fine but just these hot dogs!
/ Paperklip: What about all the hot dogs at the store?
/ Baby: Okay we'll buy and eat all those hot dogs but after that no more hot dogs.
/ Jeffrey: Gotta send a message. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100715.html |
| San Diego 2010 Part One | Jeffrey: Listen everyone, Lucid John is in command while I'm in San Diego so no uprisings. / Weedmaster P: MAN YOU DON'T WANNA GO TO NO COMIC CON -- JUST HANG OUT HERE WITH ME AND GET HIGH AND PLAY NINTENDO
/ Jeffrey: No, Weedmaster P! TopatoCo is in charge of stuff this year!
/ Weedmaster P: DON'T YOU GOT PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR YOU
/ Jeffrey: Well yeah but what if something breaks?
/ Weedmaster P: JUST SAY YOU GOT SICK / Jeffrey: But... what about... what if a...
/ Weedmaster P: ADMIT IT YOU THINK GOING TO COMIC CON IS KIND OF FUN
/ Jeffrey: Never! http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100719.html |
| San Diego 2010 Part Two | San Diego 2010 Part Two / [[Jeffrey on the phone.]]
/ Jeffrey: Hey Lucid John, did we sell any of them Overcompensating books yet? / Lucid John: um err... umm... hold on / Lucid John: It's for you
/ The Renegade: Hey Jeffrey it's The Renegade... okay, hold on... / The Renegade: No... nope. No, it doesn't look like it. / [[On Jeffrey's end, he has wordlessly put the phone down and started walking into the ocean.]]
/ The Renegade: Oh, wait. I had the wrong site pulled up. You sold a bunch! Jeffrey? Jeffrey? / {{Hovertext: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him buy your book.}}
/ {{Bottom text: You might think you can use a digital camera as a scanner but you can't}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100720.html |
| OVERCOMPENSATING: Guest Comic by Bobby | {{Title: Guest Comic by Bobby}} / Jeffrey Rowland: Boy howdy, these dang old politicians sure do chap my hide! Ahm madder than a rootin'-tootin' unruly person, dagnabbit!
/ Ornery, that is.
/ Weedmaster P: What ever / Jeffrey Rowland: Say, what're y'all doin' there Weedmaster P?
/ Weedmaster P: What the balls does it dick looking like I'm ass doing, dickass? / Weedmaster P: I'm making a bong out of this old honey container. / Bear (offstage): RARGH!
/ Jeffrey Rowland: Huh?
/ What in the Sam Hill tarnation was that?
/ Weedmaster P: Probably your loud-assed ass, assface. / Jeffrey Rowland: Not this time, Weedmaster.
/ This time, it sounded like a ... / Jeffrey Rowland: BEAR!
/ Bear: RARGH! / {{BEAR ATTACK!}} / Bear: RARGH! / Bear: RARGH!
/ Weedmaster P: HOO DOGGY THIS DURN BEAR IS RILED UP SOMETHIN' FIERCE! / Jeffrey Rowland: WEEDMASTER P, YOU'D BETTER GET RID OF THAT THERE HONEY CONTAINER 'FORE THAT CRITTER EATS US BOTH!
/ Weedmaster P: PSHH
/ NO WAY http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100723.html |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100726.html">http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100726.html | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| San Diego 2010 Part Four, Notes to Self | I think party mansion's owner might be a conservative
/ Cuz of all the Rush books?
/ WAR IS THE ANSWER YOU DIRTY HIPPIE / DUDE I BEEN READIN' YOUR COMICS SINCE I WAS FIFTH GRADE
/ WHOA / Mal and Hope, thanks for "coming to my party" heh heh
/ YOU GO / So yeah this is like, my book
/ Excellent. Would you like some...
/ LIFE EXPERIENCES / Of course I read Wigu you idiot it's like awesome
/ (Gotta make more Wigu comics) http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100728.html |
| San Diego 2010 Part Five: The Airplanes | Jeffrey: Y'know, airplanes ain't really all that loud if you think about exactly what's going on there. / Jeffrey: If I wa an airplane I'd be all WRAAAAAA NNNNGGGUU HHRRR CLANK BUGGIDA BUGGIDA / Ryan North: If you were an airplane there'd be hundreds of tiny people inside you.
/ Jeffrey: I know. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100729.html |
| TV on (the) Internet | TV: Today on the blogosphere the Twitterverse Youtubeosphere iTwitter buzz bluzz Googa feed burno versasphere
/ Jeffrey: Man why does teevee even talk about internet? It's like a celebutante teaching shop class. / Jeffrey: And why does teevee even need to talk about internet? They're givin' free advertising to the very thing that is going to destroy them / Tallahassee: I'm sorry, did you say something? I was updating my internet blog about my teevee programs! http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100730.html |
| Cold Case Files: The Baha Men | Cold Case Files: The Baha Men / < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100802.html |
| Cat in the Mirror | [[Jeffrey and Baby are behind Joanna, who is looking into a mirror]]
/ Baby: Joanna's been starin' at that mirror for almost a week now.
/ Jeffrey: Time acts differently for critters, Baby. / Jeffrey: To critters, all of life is just one single moment. Not like us humans, where time just crawls until you become an adult, then all of a sudden it transforms into a rotting bullet train that makes occasional stops at seemingly endless points of boredom and regret. And it goes 20% faster every year. / [[Camera has panned to behind Joanna's head, revealing the reflection she sees: Jeffrey and Baby's skeletons, and Joanna herself as an orange, grinning cat, in a washed-out, dead forest scene]]
/ Baby: I wonder what she sees, though?
/ Jeffrey: Who cares. Let's order pizza. / {{Title text: SURPRISINGLY what Joanna is seeing is a reality where JFK wasn't assassinated.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100804.html |
| The Worst Sense | Tallahassee: Oh, yeah, if I had to lose one of my senses, it'd definitely be hearing.
/ Jeffrey: Are you crazy?! Smell is the worst sense! / Weedmaster P: Are you talkin' about smelling things because God damn I hate smelling things.
/ Jeffrey: I'm on a list to get my olfactory nodes cut out.
/ Weedmaster P: Like five times more things smell bad than smell good.
/ Jeffrey: That's a fact. / Tallahassee: But wouldn't that affect your sense of taste?
/ Jeffrey: Do I look like a guy who needs to enjoy what he eats?
/ Weedmaster P: Augh. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100805.html |
| Boobs or Butts | Jeffrey: Weedmaster P, I been wonderin'... are you a "butts-man" or a "boobs-man"?
/ Weedmaster P: BUTTS, MAN BIG OL JUICY ROUND BUTTS SHAKIN LIKE THEY'RE DRIVIN DOWN A DIRT ROAD
/ Jeffrey: Ha ha! I tricked you! Butts are the part of the body that poops come out of! I bet you like poops, too!
/ Weedmaster P: SHUT UP YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
/ Jeffrey: Poop-liker!
/ [[Weedmaster P runs home and cries like a sissy into a pillow.]]
/ Weedmaster P: RRRR NNNNN http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100806.html |
| Vacation | Come on Jeffrey it's time to go on vacation!
/ Jeffrey: Uh wudn't we just on vacation? Remember? San Diego? / That wasn't a vacation, that was just working somewhere else
/ Jeffrey: What do I even need to take a vacation from? It ain't like I do any real work like a post office worker or a therapist. / The next day
/ Jeffrey: This is what vacation is like? How is this any different than every other day?
/ Now it's considered "socially acceptable". / {{A vacation is like a staycation except you go somewhere you don't usually live}} / {{alt text: ATTENTION WOULD-BE THIEVES: THERE WOULD BE THREE CONSTANTLY SHITTING BUTTCATS AND TWO ANGRY BLACK WOMEN IN MY HOUSE WHILE WE ARE GONE}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100809.html |
| Ocean | Tallahassee: Come on, Jeffrey! Go in the ocean!
/ Jeffrey: No way, man! Country boys don't go in no ocean. Also have you seen what lives in the ocean? / Mr. Lewis: But most people live near the ocean.
/ Jeffrey: Most people are also horrible idiots that live a safe distance away from the ocean. / Jeffrey: Also didn't you see that documentary "Cloverfield"? That thing was from the ocean. / Mr. Lewis: Actually it was from space and not real.
/ Jeffrey: Yeah you don't see me goin' into space either do you Aquaman? / {{Also I can't imagine any of those terrible things that live in the ocean are terribly pleased with us at this point}}
/ {{title text: The Ocean is where God keeps His mistakes.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100810.html |
| Ocean | Tallahassee: Come on, Jeffrey! Go in the ocean!
/ Jeffrey: No way, man! Country boys don't go in no ocean. Also have you seen what lives in the ocean? / Mr. Lewis: But most people live near the ocean.
/ Jeffrey: Most people are also horrible idiots that live a safe distance away from the ocean. / Jeffrey: Also didn't you see that documentary "Cloverfield"? That thing was from the ocean. / Mr. Lewis: Actually it was from space and not real.
/ Jeffrey: Yeah you don't see me goin' into space either do you Aquaman? / {{Also I can't imagine any of those terrible things that live in the ocean are terribly pleased with us at this point}}
/ {{title text: The Ocean is where God keeps His mistakes.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100810.html |
| Greetings | Greetings From Provincetown / {{title text: Greetings from Gay Oz}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100811.html |
| Vacation Madness | What's wrong with him?
/ He's got vacatoin madness. Either that or it's his birthday.
/ must... do... something I... don't enjoy... / So,what do we do?
/ Just leave him. Eventually something annoying or unpleasant will happen and snap him out of it. / There's NO business like SHOW business like NO business I KNOOOOW
/ Augh! Wait! WAAAIIT! http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100813.html |
| Proximity | [[Jeffrey and Weedmaster are playing with toy people and buildings near a hole in the ground.]]
/ Jeffrey Rowland: Don't you dare put your guys' worhippin' hut near the place where that crazy group of your guys killed a bunch of both of our guys!
/ Weedmaster P: What's your problem man most of my guys are super laid back / Jeffrey: Yeah well your guys are just bein' jerks by puttin' your worshippin' hut there.
/ WP: It's a free country I can put a worship hut wherever I want / YHWH: Haven't I made it abundantly clear that I don't care about any of you anymore?
/ Jeffrey: You stay out of this, old man! / Amendment 45: Bad guys worshippin' huts must be at least one mile from bad thing happening spots to maintain sacredness http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100816.html |
| Proximity | [[Jeffrey and Weedmaster are playing with toy people and buildings near a hole in the ground.]]
/ Jeffrey Rowland: Don't you dare put your guys' worhippin' hut near the place where that crazy group of your guys killed a bunch of both of our guys!
/ Weedmaster P: What's your problem man most of my guys are super laid back / Jeffrey: Yeah well your guys are just bein' jerks by puttin' your worshippin' hut there.
/ WP: It's a free country I can put a worship hut wherever I want / YHWH: Haven't I made it abundantly clear that I don't care about any of you anymore?
/ Jeffrey: You stay out of this, old man! / Amendment 45: Bad guys worshippin' huts must be at least one mile from bad thing happening spots to maintain sacredness http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100816.html |
| How is Babby Formed | Jeffery: So I get that the stork brings you the babies but where do they get them?
/ JC: Whaddya think, pa? Is the boy ready to know?
/ YHWH: Let me just have a look-see into his heart... / YHWH (blushing): Oh. Oh my. Yeah, I'd say he's pretty ready. / [[YHWH indicates a metal door labeled MANUFACTURING]]
/ YHWH: Through that door, my... son. / [[Goblins in a room full of gore]]
/ Standing Goblin: We're out of LEGS! We're out of EYES!
/ Working Goblin: Boss said keep building. We behind schedule.
/ Jeffery: Sick! / [[Tagline: AND THAT NIGHT, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 10,000 YEARS, YHWH HAD A DIFFICULT TIME GETTING TO SLEEP]] / [[Rollover text: "I meant where do they get the STORKS, I already knew where the babies came from."]] http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100817.html |
| Business as Usual | [Jeffrey is at the computer in his hacker outfit. Baby and Tallahassee are wearing tiaras]
/ Jeffrey: Hey Baby and Tallahassee, how's the tiara business?
/ Tallahassee: How do you think? We sell tiaras. All we sell are tiaras.
/ Baby: We ehn't never sold a tiara. What're you doin'? / Jeffrey: I'm tryin' to figure out a way to get this top-ten list to fit on one single webpage, but there's not enough room. I have to split it up into at least three pages. / [Weedmaster P is standing in The Vatican in a long brown robe]
/ Narrator: MEANWHILE AT THE VATICAN...
/ Weedmaster P: HEY
/ Weedmaster P: IS IT OKAY FOR CAMELS TO EAT HOT DOGS
/ Weedmaster P: NO REASON / {{title-text: Weedmaster P thought he was being nice to the camel by buying it a hot dog on its birthday, but he wasn't.}} / {{extra-text: AT FIRST I HAD THE TOP-TEN LIST WAS ON 22 SEPARATE PAGES BUT I MANAGED TO OPTIMIZE IT DOWN TO JUST THREE}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20100818.html |
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