July 26th, 2005
strip: Pearls before Swipe
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July 26th, 2005 at 3:44 am
Bwahaahahahahaha! lets see him “imply an accusation of fraud” on that one, fucker!
Long live the brick of silent justice!
July 26th, 2005 at 3:45 am
I have to say this is one of your best comics yet. Now send their corpses on the terror trolly to hide their corpses and no one will be the wiser
July 26th, 2005 at 4:54 am
WHOA! I just went and read the comic this is referring to. How the hell do they think they can get away with that? SUB-QUESTION: Is this act more or less shitty than when Non Sequiter kept writing snide little comics about webcomics not being legitimate comics because they weren’t in newspapers?
July 26th, 2005 at 5:03 am
I’m torn. On one hand, Pearls Before Swine is my favorite ‘funny’. On the other, Pig’s bloody, exploding eyes and severed nose make me giggle. What to do, what to do?
July 26th, 2005 at 7:23 am
I can’t see the original comic, damn my corporate firewall. Could someone please mail it to me schpat gmail com. Thanks a bunch.
July 26th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Apparently, PBS is quite the item in the syndicated world. But I’ve always considered it mediocre from it’s debut in my local paper. And that was before the theft.
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that this guy was either a lawyer or a wall street suit prior to writing comics, which would go a long way to explaining his willingness to steal. Also I suspect this guy is closely following the Garfield model, in that he doesn’t give a fokk about anything beyond establishing recognizable, licensable characters and a set of trademark gags he can milk till he croaks.
July 26th, 2005 at 8:12 am
from death threats to people stealing your ideas….you’re HUGE now Coffman!
July 26th, 2005 at 8:32 am
DJ, I think you overreacted on this one. I read that Pearls strip and I don’t think he copied you at all. It’s just a coincidence. Get over yourself man.
July 26th, 2005 at 8:39 am
I agree with Carton, especially as the day before that the comic featured the “ball o’ splendid isolation”. Maybe he did copy it, who knows (apart from Mr. Pastis obviously). Lets face it there’s very little truly ‘original’ material left out there.
July 26th, 2005 at 8:46 am
AWESOME!
July 26th, 2005 at 8:52 am
DJ draws the pearl comics better…
and also..thats some nice work with the Brick O’ Silence.
Though I agree you had every right to do this comic stripe, I think the towel of silence is just an old over used movie cliche.
Like if say kidnappers kidnap some kiddie, they stuff a cloth in the kiddie’s mouth to shut him up.
I don’t know..maybe mailing the comics artists would have been a better alternative then hollering out accusations.
to end this..I like smashed up rats and piggies.
Long live YirMuMah!!
July 26th, 2005 at 8:54 am
Ho yeah!
July 26th, 2005 at 9:17 am
Wow. How self deluded are you guys to think you came up with the concept of “The ______ of ______” idea?! D&D kids have been making those jokes for decades. I enjoy your comic, but that’s just impossibly lame.
July 26th, 2005 at 9:21 am
I too think that “generic item of generic ability” is a bit too generic for it to be a clear case of idea theft. But I can see why a webcomic of this nature would make a big deal out of it rather than try to solve things like some kind of ‘gentleman’ might. Have to keep the pressure up so the whistle makes the noise when you let out the steam!
July 26th, 2005 at 10:16 am
“There is no shame in justice”—Great line!!!
DJ, you must be doing something right if you’ve pissed off 3 groups of people in less than 2 weeks: Harry Potter, muslims, and PBS fans. Keep it up!
July 26th, 2005 at 10:30 am
For the record.. personally, I don’t think he stole the idea. Probably not even inspired by it. But it has been a popular gag here, and of course we didn’t invent “____of Silence!” — The timing is all odd, which made us raise our eyebrows a bit– and it sure seems like some Yirmumah readers were curious about it since they phoned it in.
Speaking of phones…. Stephan Pastis wants my phone number, according to his e-mail to me. I’ve been told by my.. uh…money manager?… not to be giving my number out to strangers on the internet. Next thing you know, he’ll want to know where I live and want to meet me at Denny’s and the nearest HoJo or something!
July 26th, 2005 at 10:32 am
Hmm, the “generic item of generic ability” argument is a good one. I agree it is an equally likely possibility.
In which case, I would like to stress two things:
1. The Brick of Silence is funnier.
2. Pearls before Swine is still mediocre and there is no shame in Good Taste.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:39 am
Wilson, the Yirmumah one is right in this thread. Must be your connection.
Of course it makes us look like complainers… That damn squeeky wheel. But watch the oil flow in.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Isn’t there some saying about this?
“Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery!”
hmm….
“Give a man an idea, he’ll think for a day, steal his ideas and you’ll make a quick buck!”
no…
AH! I remember now!
“Ripping other people off is the last refuge to which a fuckwit clings.”
July 26th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned bloodbath! Those prick bastards deserve it, what’s up with that? Stealing is bad, very bad. But they got what they deserved.
The Brick of Silence!
July 26th, 2005 at 11:22 am
This is fucking great.
July 26th, 2005 at 11:23 am
Apparently, I have angered just about every print syndicated cartoonist with this comic. Yay!— Seriously, they need to get over themselves. Since I linked the comic up on the private NCS forum place, expect to see several bitter print guys coming in bash us.
July 26th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Carton and Grovberg,
Shut up! Just deal with it, ok?
DJ,
You rock! Fuck these people, it seems like everybody’s gunning after yirmumah?
I think it’s great, keep up the awesome work.
Wow, first DJ ruined a little book called Harry Potter and everybody got pissed off? So what, Dumbledore gets murdered? Cry me a f’n river! Than some Muslims get pissed off? Oh, that just plain out sucks! NOT!!! Ha, Ha, Ha!!!!
What’s up with you people? This is a comic strip made by DJ and Bob! What is it’s genre???? hmm……oh yeah, it’s comedy!
C-O-M-E-D-Y
No one should be pissed off, this is their style [which is brilliant!]
So dont be hating, ya know what I mean?
July 26th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
D.J., Bob, you guys are great. And the brick of silence is a great gag. I’m really looking forward to when I can buy one of my own. (SQUEE!)
July 26th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
SOON… I have a batch waiting for stenciling now..
July 26th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
I don’t see what the problem is, he has a towel and you have a brick.
it would be different if they called it the towel of silence.
wait…brick o’ silence…towell of silence…
uhh…forget it.
DAMN THOSE SWINE!
July 26th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Mmm. Denny’s.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
whether or not its a generic gag, that strip was DAMN funny!
keep it up guys. this is the best comic on the net right now I swear….ok I only read a few comics, but who disagrees with me? No one? Didnt think so.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
Yeah, who cares if he really stole it or not, still makes for teh funny
July 26th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
I love it how a bunch of you guys who don’t think that the “Towel O’ Silence” was ripped off have to get all pissed off about it and try to insult D.J. by telling him things like “get over yourself.
And then I love how another bunch of you get mad at the other bunch for having a different opinion than you and start defending D.J. like he’s a little kid or something and then throw some butt-kissing in there for good measure.
I personally don’t think that PBS ripped the bit off, but I don’t really care because this strip was pretty damn funny, as just about any strip having to do with random slaughtering of cute little animals will tend to be.
And it doesn’t seem to me that D.J. really cares either, nor does he require defending. If there is one thing that I have been able to discern about D.J. is that he, apparently, enjoys being controversial and the attention that it brings him.
That being said, keith, you are a douche, at least D.J., even with all of his controversiality, had the decency to keep comments like that in a thread clearly marked as a spoiler.
July 26th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
On this website anyway
July 26th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Hey, it made the tabloids!
http://webvsweb.blogspot.com/
b
July 26th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
And, on a slightly related topic, my own personal ripoff is being distributed through the ranks of the Motherlands finest as we speak.
July 26th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
You’ll be hearing from our Lawyers, Molokhov!!!
Kidding of course. I’m sure the Russians could make a far superior product than what we can muster at Yirmumah Labs.
July 26th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
So you changed your middle name to “trouble” DJ?
I was always under the impression it was probably Jabberwhocky…Should we start calling you DT now then?
July 26th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
The thing I liked best about the WvW post was that the troll, William G is now selling phone cards. How about that.
Personally, I’d be irked by the “borrowing” of personal ideas too. However, I would lack the ability to properly draw a retort and just brood in my room for a bit. Way to be constructive.
July 26th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
Aw man Keith I haven’t read the book yet.
Alexander: Agreed.
July 26th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Those bastards!
Your comic rocks more. I mean…a towel? WTF? That’s stupid and pointless. But now, a brick…rock on baby!
If they’re going to mooch off of your idea, at least make it something respectable…like big steel toed boot of silence…not a damned towel!
July 26th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
Nothing causes paranoia better than a highly unusual coincidence, unless you count certain drugs, but i’m not.
July 26th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
Willy G.
*sigh
that guy cant seem to stay out of trouble
July 26th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
Bwahahahahahaahaha. Thanks Wilson, I needed that laugh. People using childish insults saying that other people look weak is great. Heh…hehe….hehehehehehe
July 26th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Who’s Wilson??
July 26th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
He looks really weak.
July 26th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
ROFL, DJ. Very nice.
July 26th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Yeah.. some people just ASK for it, and I oblige.
July 26th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Man, thats great, i actually loled, that doesnt happen too often.
July 26th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
I just read bob’s line and loled again, tehre is no shame in justice! THats t shirt material.
July 28th, 2005 at 1:01 am
Is this comic bashing? Is it theft? Oh the delema.
July 29th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
I would be more offended by this if these two “original” characters didn’t remind me so much of Jay and Slient Bob in the way they are drawn. BEarded heavy-set guy, skitty ball-cap wearing dude. I’m sure it’s no coincidence and I refuse to beliee otherwise.
July 29th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
I’m flattered… because not only am I a CLerks fan, I’ve done some work for Kevin’s site as well, moviepoopshoot.com — It use to bug me when people would compare “Yirmumah” to Clerks or the like– but now I find it a compliment.
We’re far from Silent Bob and Jay though– they’re much more iconic then Drew and Bob will ever be.
September 12th, 2005 at 3:04 am
After all this “towel” vs “brick” fiasco…. Pearls is still way better. Good luck next time!
September 12th, 2005 at 8:04 am
Hey, it’s John Dalton! Hi John!
How’s that membership to NAMBLA going?
November 6th, 2005 at 12:43 am
That was pathetic.