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| Personal Responsibility | Cloverfield Monster: My boss is a dick. In fact, all of my bosses are always dicks. And my roommates are always bastards and/or bitches without exception. / Jeff: It's actually pretty unlikely for everyone to be as terrible as you're claiming, The Cloverfield Monster. You need to face the possibility that you're responsible for some of the bad things that happen in your life. / Cloverfield Monster: Hey look some of us deal with our own crippling shortcomings by fabricating our own realities. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080502.html |
| The Legend of Joey Softerworld | [Jeffrey and Joey sitting in a restaurant.]
/ Jeffrey: Joey Softerworld, I know you Canadians think all us Americans are a bunch of rude barbarians so I'm-a gonna show you a good, clean time.
/ Joey: Boy! Cook me a duck and fuck that bitch up. / [Jeffrey and Joey walking down the street. A waiter from the restaurant they just left sticks his head out to yell something.]
/ Jeffrey: I mean %70 of Americans think Brock Obama personally did 9/11 but that leaves over %60 of us that DON'T believe that!
/ Waiter: Hey! Bring back that silverware and fake candles!
/ Joey: Run. / Joey: Bring me a woman now, Jeffrey.
/ Jeffrey: Man I hate to break it to you dude but most of the gals 'round here is heterointolerant.
/ Joey: I emit a pheromone that straightens gay girls for exactly 14 hours.
/ Jeffrey: Well I'll be. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080506.html |
| The Seven Habits of Incredibly Douchey Hipsters | Jeff: Hey Typical Effeminate Hipster Douchebag, where's your ubiquitous Japanese girlfriend? / [[Hipster raises his hood over his head]] / [[Hipster stares and sneers]] / Hipster: Knittin' a Gothic Lolita costume outta fair trade soy yarn. / [[Jeff hands him an envelope]] / Letter: Knitting a gothic lolita costume out of soy yarn. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080507.html |
| Ass Nickels | Weedmaster P: GOD DANG DID YOU KNOW IT TAKES SEVEN AND A HALF CENTS TO MAKE A FIVE CENT NICKEL
/ Jeffery: Why do they keep making new nickels? Aren't there enough nickels? / Soon...
/ Weedmaster P: I AM THE NICKEL MAN YOU GIVE-A ME 19 NICKELS I GIVE-A YOU ONE DOLLAR
/ Woman: Goodness what a deal
/ Man: Christ has risen / Two weeks later...
/ Weedmaster P: HELLO UNITED STATES TREASURY I WILL SELL YOU ONE BILLION NICKELS FOR SIX BILLION DOLLARS
/ The US Treasury: You've got yourself a deal, son!
/ The US Treasury: Sucker! http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080508.html |
| Daily Affirmation | Jeffrey (Thinking): Dang, is any of this reality really real or is it just an insane computer built by a giant alien nerd? / Tallahassee: Here's the report, Jeffrey. The universe is still destined for oblivion and a gay furry man wants you to artificial inseminate him. / [[Jeffrey reads the report]] / Jeffrey (Thinking): Definitely a computer program. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080509.html |
| Goal Teefs | Weedmaster P: AW YEAH NOW THAT I'm RICH OFFA NICKELS I'm GOIN' DOWN TO THE STORE AN GETTIN' FITTED FOR SOME GOLD TEETHS
/ Jeffrey: Whoa! You don't know the truth about gold teeth?
/ Weedmaster P: YES BUT SAY IT ANYWAY / Jeffrey: Dude, didn't you ever notice that gold teeth are extremely shitty lookin'? They're just somethin' that poor folks tricked rich folks into thinkin' was cool so poor people could make fun of how shitty they look. / Weedmaster P: I WANT TO HIT YOU FOR LYING BUT THEN A HUGE PICTURE OF FLAVA FLAV SUDDENLY APPEARED IN MY MIND
/ Jeffrey: Flava Flav actually has an IQ of 180, you just can't tell 'cause of the teeth. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080512.html |
| OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality. | [[Jeffry arrives at the pearly gates trailer park knee-deep in something while Jesus sits at a table playing Uno]]
/ Jeffrey: Hey J.C.! I just wanted to say "thanks!" I did like that AM radio preacher said and prayed real hard and I'll be danged if there wasn't some golden fillings in my rotted-ass teeth when I woke up!
/ Jesus: T'weren't nothin' Jeffery. That's how I roll. / [[God turns up looking angry]] / God: I gave Jeffery Rowland those cavities to punish him for drinking too much!!
/ Jesus: Sit down Dad you're embarrassing everyone. / {{Title Text: You better believe Jesus will kick your ass at Uno}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080513.html |
| Firstname McLastname | [[Tallahassee sits at the computer, Jeffrey is standing behind her]]
/ Tallahassee: Huge McAwesomeguy? Come on people, if you're gonna make up a fake name to place an order put a *little* effort into it!
/ Jeffrey: Maybe he's being literal like maybe he is a bona fide Irishman that is big as one of them Mini Coopers. / [[Enter Weedmaster P]]
/ Weedmaster P: MY DAD HAD A FRIEND WHO WAS NAMED DICK BUTTHOLE I SWEAR IT TO CHRIST / [[Weedmaster P stands silent, arms folded, letting the information sink in while waiting for impressed adoration]] / [[Weedmaster P, suddenly eyes wide with realisation...]]
/ Weedmaster P: OR {{...}} WAIT http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080514.html |
| I Get to Believe | Baby: Guys, guys! Th' Vatican says it's okay to believe in aliens now!
/ Weedmaster P: Oh man I'm gonna believe in the shit out of some aliens now
/ Jeffrey: Suddenly so . . . cold! / Galileo's Ghost: This is bullshit! I got excommunicated for trying to tell people the sun goes around the Earth!
/ Jeffrey: Galileo's ghost!
/ Weedmaster P: Augh my mind / Copernicus' Ghost: If you're going to steal my ideas could you at least do me the favor of getting them RIGHT?
/ Galileo's Ghost: We meet again, Copernicus!
/ [Galileo's Ghost is holding a lightsaber, which switches on. Jeffrey's head pops up.]
/ Jeffrey: Yes. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080515.html |
| The Love Shaq | [[Jeffrey holds and examines an orange bottle]] / [[He sees on the bottle a picture of Shaq, and a message]]
/ Bottle: PEEL BACK FOR A CHANCE TO KICK BACK WITH SHAQ / [[Jeffrey peels back the wrapper]] / [[The wrapper informs Jeffrey he is a WINNER!!, and he drops the bottle]]
/ Jeffrey: (quietly) FUCK / [[A view of a closet]]
/ < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080516.html |
| Dirty Comics | WEEDMASTER: What are you drawin now turd juggler
/ JEFF: New "Wigu" comics! I'm gonna start puttin' out new ones this Thursday! / WEEDMASTER: Is this for Internet
/ JEFF: Yes it is for internet.
/ WEEDMASTER: Hm I don't know there's not any jokes aboue rape and it don't look like it was drawn by a four-year old with a coleco-vision glued to his pecker
/ JEFF: Hey! / JEFF: Dangit I just wanna make some nice comics for once where you don't gotta know what "dump-trucking" means to get the point of the joke.
/ WEEDMASTER: Oh man dump trucking is that still the dirtiest thing that can be done
/ JEFF: Yes. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080519.html |
| The Kids in Oklahoma | Tallahassee: Hey Jeffrey when you were a kid in Oklahoma did you have Summer Camp or did y'all just go to work out in the fields?
/ Jeffrey: We had Church Camp and 4-H Camp. / Weedmaster P: WHICH IS THE ONE WHERE YOU STICK YOUR WHOLE ARM INSIDE OF A COW / Tallahassee: HA Ha h! Good one, Weedmaster P! Hee ha ha!
/ Weedmaster P: WHAT OH UM HEH HEH HEH / Jeffrey: From your laughter I assume you guys think there was at least one camp where you didn't have to do that. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080520.html |
| It's This or Heroin | [[Jeffrey at drawing board]]
/ Topato: Jeffrey Rowland, why are you resuming production of "Wigu Tinkle" comics? Is the generous stipend you earn for managing my Topatoco empire somehow inadeqate?
/ Jeffrey: It ain't a hundred percent about money, Topato (only like twenty). / Topato: Then what is your motivation? If it was your desire to spend the remainder of your mortality stubmling and screaming drunkenly near a body of water while nubile females nervously tolerated your degenerate behavior then that could be your reality.
/ [[Jeffrey, cheeks red, has mental image-balloon of himself on a beach, bottle in hand, grinning and dancing with smiling bikini-clad ladies]] / Jeffrey: Man I just enjoy makin' comics. It is my favoritest thing!
/ Topato: Balderdash! I have full access to your mind waves!
/ Jeffrey: It is my favoritest thing that might let me live past 50.
/ Topato: I see. / {{title text: If I wasn't making comics I would just wander around licking things trying to get high.}} / {{sub text: I HATE YOU TOPATO YOU ARE A DICK}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080522.html |
| Paperklip | Jeffrey: Hey Paperklip! Tallahassee and me was just talkin' about what we used to do at summer camp and how it was really just a way to trick us into becoming farmers or something.
/ Jeffrey: What was summer camp like where you growed up at? / Paperklip: It was different. / [[THERE'S ONLY ONE PLACE WHERE THAT CAMOFLAGE IS EFFECTIVE AND YOU DON'T WANNA BE THERE IF YOU OWN ANY ELVIS RECORDS]] / {{title text: If your last name is Witherborne you may also consider avoiding this bus.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080523.html |
| Expensive Tastes | [[Jeffery, wearing a monocle and a rich man's robe, pulls out a very large diamond, AND PROCEEDS TO SMOKE IT]] http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080526.html |
| The Day After Memorial Day | [[Jeffrey is standing behind a podium addressing Baby, Tallahassee, and Weedmaster P.]]
/ Jeffrey: "Good morning, team. First I want to say thanks for not bitching about working yesterday, which was Memorial Day."
/ Tallahassee: "We didn't know it was Memorial Day!"
/ Baby: "What gives?!"
/ Weedmaster P.: "WHAT THE" / [[Jeffrey, obviously agitated.]]
/ Jeffrey: "Didn't you see the different Google logo? Besides, y'all wouldn't even know what Memorial Day was about without lookin' at a Wikipedia!" / [[Paperklip, Tallahassee, Baby, and Weedmaster P. sitting on a couch. All look somewhat guilty, except Weedmaster P.]]
/ Weedmaster P.: "I KNOW" / Weedmaster P: "IT'S ABOUT TRYING TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT SOME FUCKED UP HISTORICAL THING BY EATING TOO MUCH AND NOT GETTING MAIL"
/ Jeffrey: "That's every holiday." / {{subtext: Everybody just assumed the building was empty because of a disease outbreak yesterday}}
/ {{alt text: Also acceptable: 'To Celebrate Our Freedom'}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080527.html |
| An Open Letter to Alex Jones | [[Jeffrey and Weedmaster P are walking through an amusement park.]] / Jeffrey: You know what's wrong with America, Weedmaster P? The Government. / Weedmaster P: MAN YOU GOT THAT RIGHT / [[Alex Jones appears with a bullhorn]] / Alex Jones: Police are gonna take your blood for goin' two miles an hour over the limit / Alex Jones: POLICE STATE / Alex Jones: 9/11 / Alex Jones: I'm Alex Jones and the fascist satanist goons wanna control what you eat / Alex Jones: EUGENICS / Alex Jones: They get off on it! / Alex Jones: CASHLESS SOCIETY TRACKIN' YOUR EVERY MOVE / Alex Jones: THE NEW WORLD ORDER WANTS TO KILL OFF 80% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION / Alex Jones: Steel didn't melt / Alex Jones: THUGS / Alex Jones: MEXICANS TAKIN' OVER / Alex Jones: Psychopathic control freaks / Alex Jones: RAPE PARTIES / Alex Jones: Twenty dollar a gallon gas! / Alex Jones: FREEFALL SPEED / Alex Jones: Controlled demolition / Alex Jones: PEDOPHILE GUILDS / [[Jeffrey has his hands over his ears and Weedmaster P is on the ground]] / Weedmaster P: STOP YELLING MR. GROWLY MAN / Jeffrey: Alex Jones you ruined being insanely paranoid about the government. It used to be COOL. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080528.html |
| Army of Dorkness | Jeffrey: Tallahassee I got a confession...
/ Tallahassee: What's that, Jeffrey?
/ Jeffrey: I ain't never seen the "Evil Dead" movies. / Tallahassee: WHAT?! I mean... oh. I... I just have to go to the bathroom... / Narrator: MOMENTS LATER
/ < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080530.html |
| America's Most Degenerate Junkie | [[Jeffrey in smart lavender trousers and yellow tie, holding videocamera, and Tallahassee]]
/ Jeffrey: Excuse me Tallahassee I got to go tape my new TV show "America's Most Degenerate Bottom-Feeding Junkie."
/ Tallahassee: I didn't know degenerative...ness... was a quantifiable thing! / [[Junkie 1 with cute, innocent mouse on the table]] / [[Junkie 1 grabs cute, innocent mouse and holds it firmly about the middle]] / [[Junkie 1 with cute, innocent mouse in a pipe, about to light cute, innocent mouse up]] / [[Junkie 2 with cute, innocent mouse on the table]] / [[Junkie 2 has put cute, innocent mouse in a large glass vial]] / [[Junkie 2 is pulling tourniquet around arm taut with teeth and is about to inject cute, innocent mouse with syringe]] / Tallahassee: Oh. http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080602.html |
| Metaphorical Genitals | [[Jeffrey is lying in the fetal position in the middle of a street. Baby is sitting near him on a chair reading a book.]]
/ Jeffrey: Let me get this straight... testicles are supposed to be the symbols of strength an' courage yet they are actually weak and sensitive and if flicked with a rubber band will cause a badass dude to fall down crying. / [[Jeffrey sits up.]]
/ And vaginas are suppose to represent weakness and timidity yet they are probably the sturdiest human part on Earth. They are even self-cleaning. / Baby: An' if a dude has a tiny wiener, it means he has a humongous car!
/ Jeffrey: Reproductive genitals symbolism is exactly as stupid as it ought to be. / {{Caption: IF A MAN HAS LARGE BOOBS HE IS GOOD AT WORLD OF WARCRAFT}}
/ {{Title text: Or, the Road to Manboobs is paved with Cheeto dust.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080603.html |
| Donuts for Algernon | [[Jeffrey Rowland and Alex Jones sit on the ground in front of a courthouse]]
/ Jeffrey Rowland: I appreciate what you're doin' Alex Jones but you got to tone down the crazy a little if you want sheeple to take you more serious.
/ Alex Jones: But who's gonna stop the pedophile guilds from payin' hospitals a quarter million dollars each to kidnap babies? / [[Michelle Malkin, wearing a dress with "MM" on it, bursts into the scene]]
/ Michelle Malkin: Omigod everybody, like, Dunkin' Donuts it totally trying to secretly signal terrorists to attack by putting Rachel Ray in a commercial wearing a terror scarf!! / [[Jeffrey Rowland consolingly puts his hand on Alex Jones's shoulder]]
/ Jeffrey Rowland: Nevermind, Alex Jones you just keep on doin' yo' thang. / {{title text: Donuts for Algernon}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080604.html |
| Regretrol | [[Jeffrey is working on a laptop at a desk in the middle of a parking lot in front of what appears to be a NOAA building]]
/ Voiceover: Do you miss that hollow sense of paranoid regret you used to get after a three-day drinking binge?
/ Jeffrey: I sure do, mysterious, soothing, disembodied voice! I just don't have time to get my drink on that hard nowadays!
/ Voiceover: Now you can have it again. Now there's...Regretrol. / [[Jeffrey's floating head over a montage of various alcoholic beverages. Jeffrey looks hungover.]]
/ Voiceover: Regretrol gives you the lingering ache, the grogginess, the awful, unshakable feeling that you've done something terrible or embarrassing... without spending three hundred dollars on tequila shooters at Chili's or T.G.I. Fridays.
/ Jeffrey: What about the uncontrollable diarrhea?
/ Voiceover: That, too. / [[Typical prescription-drug ad backdrop. Looks like the wall of a bedroom. Text on background reads:
/ REGRETROL
/ Hangover Simulator
/ When you haven't got time to black out]] / {{Sub-text: Regretrol should not be taken by pregnant women or non-pregnant women. Regretrol should not be left in your car.}}
/ {{Alt-text: It's like a missing week for your mind.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080605.html |
| MoCCA 2008 | [[Jeffrey and Tallahassee standing over Weedmaster P, seated]]
/ Jeffrey: Weedmaster P, we're leaving for MoCCA now. While we're gone I need you to steal someone's disability check, cash it, buy a bunch of drugs, take all the drugs and then call a bunch of radio talk shows and scream obscene racial slurs. / Weedmaster P: MAN I DUNNO I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT GOING ON A SHORT NATURE HIKE AND ON SUNDAY PERHAPS READING PART OF A MAGAZINE / [[Jeffrey standing over Weedmaster P, seated, with angry eyebrows]]
/ Jeffrey: Are you a CANcer on society or a CAN'Tcer on society? http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080606.html |
| MoCCA 2008: Backdraft | {{Overcompensating}}
/ {{Title: MoCCA 2008: Backdraft}}
/ {{June 09, 2008}} / [[table at MoCCA; JJR sits between Mr Rosenberg and an unidentified, scraggly male. Background is cinder-block wall and a poster for Questionable Content, featuring Faye]]
/ < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080609.html |
| Metro North | INTERCOM:It's gonna be a packed train goin about ten miles an hour all the way to new haven so make room for other passengers
/ JR:Oh God / {{slow turn}} / JR: Oh God Oh God / JR:Keep walking keep walking / JR:Keep Oh God I can smell you from here / JR:You seem okay guy you won't bluetoof or speak of Jesus / BOAT COUGAR #1: Damn Karen I'm still pretty tipsy from the boat
/ BOAT COUGAR #2:Man that boat could haul some ass
/ BOAT COUGAR #2:Whose boat was it anyway / JR: Boat cougars!
/ BOAT COUGAR #2:Whoever it was didn't have enough Coronas Haw Haw Haw http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080611.html |
| Roll Into the Future | [[Jeffrey is sitting at his computer]]
/ < http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080612.html |
| President Obama | {{President Obama}}
/ Jeffrey: Thank you for coming to this job interview, gentlemen. / [[John McCain and Barack Obama smile.]] / Jeffrey: Before we begin the interview, I assume both of you at least know how to use a computer. Heh / [[McCain frowns, Obama waves.]] / Jeffrey: This interview is over. / {{Don't blame it on him being old -- that's ageist}}
/ {{McCain is so fun to draw though}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080613.html |
| Ms. Beelze If You're Nasty | [[Pearly Gates Trailer Park]] / Ha Ha hoo
/ I love it /
/ YHWH: You know the trickiest part was making them smart enough to be afraid of death but not smart enough to know why they're alive!
/ Satan: Ha haw haw! That's my favorite thing ever! / Jeffery: Assholes! / {{Title Text: It's like a Good Cop Bad Cop thing where the Bad Cop is Roscoe P. Coltrane and the Good Cop is Martin Riggs.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080616.html |
| Dying is Scary | [[Weedmaster P. is standing, arms raised, while Jeffrey is sitting in the fetal position on the floor]]
/ Weedmaster P.: HEY HORSE BUTT ARE YOU SCARED TO DIE
/ Jeffrey: No. I'm just afraid of suddenly getting hurt or terrified, like in a car crash or a bear attack, being totally out of control. Also really loud noises. / [[Weedmaster P. is now relaxing in a couch; Jeffrey is still on the floor]]
/ Jeffrey: Mostly I'm more afraid of being about to die than dying.
/ Jeffrey: What about you? / [[Weedmaster P. sitting on a couch]]
/ Weedmaster P.: NO I MEAN I'M JUST...
/ Weedmaster P.: I'M NERVOUS ABOUT MAKING AN ASS OUT OF MYSELF IN FRONT OF ALL THEM VIRGINS / {{Sub-text: Weedmaster P is lying he's really afraid of getting beaten up by Ronnie James Dio}}
/ {{Alt-text: The only things that are scary when you're dead is creepy little kids that can see you.}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080617.html |
| Prairie Dogs | {{Prairie dogs}}
/ [[Jeff is sitting on a sofa in an empty auditorium. His shirt says 'crud'. Baby, wearing glasses, is behind him to the left.]]
/ Baby: Jeffrey there's all these holes in th' back yard like I reckon we got a infestation of groundhogs or beavers or somethin'.
/ Jeffrey: Or...PRAIRIE DOGS!! / [[Outside, a lawn with holes in it, JRo is sticking his arm into a hole.]]
/ Baby: Jeffrey y' ehn't s'posed't stick yer arm down in animal holes, what if there's a snake down there or a snapper?
/ Jeffrey: No way, it's definitely a prairie dog hole. They're super awesome and friendly but I didn't know they had 'em up here in Massamachusetts. / Jeffrey: Hey I fel it wigglin around down there...Heh heh. / [[Jeff is on his back on the ground. An ET the Extraterrestrial is sticking its head out of the hole.]]
/ Jeffrey: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD / {{alt-text: Wait a second how to snakes dig holes}} http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080618.html |
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