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The Fog Obscures The Falcons Pain
This is one of the darkest comics I’ve ever made and I think my thought process on making it was worth sharing.
-Comic about fog, lets make a comic about the fog game
-what if it is just 4 panels of grey mist with a funny word bubble at the end?
-What if it is just Al and Cris in the booth unable to watch the game, so they just say “Uhh, Pats win…23 to 7 or something? Nah, just made an Al & Cris booth comic last week, shouldn’t do that again”
-What if it’s a Pats fan who can’t see the game and gets hit by a stray pass?
-What if the Pats fan is a poor person who saved up weeks of his paycheck to finally see a game live, and can’t even see the game?
-It should actually be a Falcons fan, since the Pats won
-What if the Falcons fan isn’t poor, but sick, and trying to see a game before he dies?
-What if it is a child doing a make a wish, and can’t see the game?
-What if the sick child then dies, unable to see the game?
-Nah, killing the kid is too obvious, need a twist
-What if I kill the sick kid’s parent instead of the kid, and leave the kid an orphan for his presumed final moments?
-If I take this any darker I might get reported to the FBI
And there you go. The darker the idea got, the funnier I found it. That’s how you end up with a comic about a small cancerous boy becoming an orphan at the hands of a rival team at a football game he’s not even able to watch.
The Falcons are very bleh this year, what a downgrade in offense. Why did anyone think Steve Sarkisian was the right replacement for Shanahan? Actually seems like the Saints are primed to take the division now that they appear to have found themselves and everyone else in the division being inconsistent at best.
I came here to laugh, not see some kid with cancer become an orphan.
eh still kinda funny
This is something good dark humor. Dark humor is a lot like a kid with cancer. It never gets old.
This still isn’t as dark as the time you just sent in a full comic that was just pure black.
Fine Dave rag on my Falcons they deserve it. It was not as painful as watching them in Houston for the Super Bowl. I took my girl with me and I think I went through the grieving part quickly, basically because even though my team lost I still won by being at arguably a top five Super Bowl. You are spot on about our OC though I would argue that Shanahan blew it in the big game. Lastly if you are trying to draw a kid try not to draw Brian Picalo from Brian’s Song.
“Why did anyone think Steve Sarkisian was the right replacement for Shanahan?”
The vibe I got from a lot of Falcons fans was that their offense was so loaded that basically anyone could come in and run it fairly easily.
Honestly, talking to Falcons fans this offseason was a pain, since many had already convinced themselves that Super Bowl 52 would be a rematch of Super Bowl 51 and that no one in the NFC could touch them. I have to ask, what do you think of rematch talk after a Super Bowl? Not rematches years down the line, but rather two consecutive Super Bowls with the same two teams. I’ve always found that kind of talk to be stupid considering how wildly unpredictable the NFL tends to be. I mean, who actually thought that the Philadelphia Eagles would be the best team in the league through 7 weeks?
Honestly, any one of us could run that offense better than Sark.
Maybe Sark needs to start drinking again?
I actually think he may need to start again. get the creative juices flowing.
falcons fan here
certainly wanted to believe they could get back to sb52, but that was more my hatred of the pats shining through than a rational and empirically-reinforced belief that the falcons had a reasonable shot at it
six weeks into the season it was clear this was most definitely not last year’s team, so i’m just left to hope some other team crushes brady’s hopes and dreams and brain and kidneys
Not as bad as the that other fog game in Chicago, 1988 against the Eagles in the playoffs “The Fog Bowl” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Bowl_(American_football)
Or 66 Giants vs. Redskins
Too bad the goddamn McCaskeys fucked up Soldier Field.
I don’t mind dark humor but the way you present it just makes me like your comics better
Ow the edge
If this is the darkest comic you’ve put out, what does it say about me that it’s one of the ones I laughed hardest at?!
It’s really just a hilarious comic
Kid dying of cancer, and Dark Hoodie wasn’t invovled? He could have wrapped his hoodie around the dad, and jsut disappeared. Then Gronk takes the kid out drinking, so happy ending
I think he’s dead.
Twist: he’s not dead, he just has amnesia
If only you did this when Super Bowl 47 happened
the falcons may be inconsistent but my hate for the patriots burns with an eternal flame
I appreciate dark humor, but orphan dying kid was too much for me. Too cruel.
This is probably your second comic I didn’t find funny at all.
The other one was the one implying that Bill O Brian’s chin is really his anus. Too grotesque.
lol amazing
“The darker the idea got, the funnier I found it.”
Just like fog games!
Just to clarify on the quotes in the one statement, Al and Chris are going to say “Nah, just made an Al & Cris booth comic last week, shouldn’t do that again”
Cris**
Soooo…. our offense sure was ugly the other day… I consider myself as someone with above average football IQ I understand Route concepts and types of defenses, blocking schemes against defensive alignments etc… and i know that with that knowledge you should also try to implement your strengths against the other teams weaknesses ie if the other team is known for disciplined play don’t try to get cute on the goal line. and when you are calling plays from the shotgun stop having your running back line up a yard in ahead of the qb when you are passing/running outside zone and level with the qb when you are running straight up middle. also when you put a player into motion across the formation to see what coverage they are in (which is a great idea) make sure you do so on running plays every now and then that way the other team doesn’t immediately know oh’ here comes a pass play. Basically running the offense the way Sarkisian has makes it so any defensive player worth anything can tell what we are running 75% of the time. I was sitting on my couch weird camera angle and all calling the plays before the snap which with shanahan and 90% of other teams i am not smart enough to do.
TL:DR
Sarkisian is at this point entirely too predictable and has taken the scheme Shanahan left behind (he did not bring in his own scheme) and turned it into a kids playbook. Much the same way you have to dumb down a scheme for a new qb in his first few starts.
Will your next comic address the insane trade rumors about Eli? Especially with Leon Sandcastle getting involved…