Jeffrey Rowland's OVERCOMPENSATING
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29 May 2006

Horse Party


I went to a birthday party for a horse yesterday! It's hard to pick out a gift for the horse that has everything.

Pat Robertson can leg press 2,000 pounds. This means if God doesn't kick your ass for doing something that Pat Robertson doesn't like, Pat Robertson is going to do it himself.

In an effort to become slightly less reclusive, I've re-enabled comments for OC. Please be honest and reasonable if you post.

Today is Memorial Day! Please remember and give thanks to all the people who gave their lives in order to stop powerful people from being complete assholes. Thank you.

42 Comments:

Grant Hutchins said...

Back here in Oklahoma it isn't Memorial Day yet! Lies!

29/5/06 01:50  
Ben said...

Happy Memorial Day to you as well, Mr. Rowland. I'm glad you re-enabled the comment boxes. I missed talking about your comics. I'm pretty sure thing's won't go sour.

Now as for your comic, I gotta say the horse just looks adorable in panel one. And I don't usually use the word adorable a lot.

29/5/06 01:50  
Doc Holliday said...

whoops, removed it.

eh was saying I love you and your comic, and the horse in the third panel made me laugh.
I'm glad you enabled comments again because I can now reveal my love for you.

29/5/06 02:01  
JordynLolz said...

So, if I want to keep doing things Pat Robertson disapproves up, I should gain a couple thousand pounds?

29/5/06 02:20  
Tom Meade said...

The expression of the horse really is precious.

Aren't all horses officially birthdayed on the same day?

29/5/06 02:21  
Scooter said...

Happy memorial day. I watched the National Memorial Day concert on PBS.

Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise did a good job. I really liked the tribute to the National Guard. I think they are being over extended. I hope the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are over soon.

Oh, and your horse drawings are quite precious.

29/5/06 02:26  
Jason Pultz said...

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29/5/06 02:31  
Jason Pultz said...

Oh horsey! You wrecked the party for everyone!

29/5/06 02:35  
In_Motion said...

Perhaps the crushing is for the best... how would the horse actually use the DS anyways?

I agree completely that the horse is adorable, as well.

29/5/06 02:38  
jeffrey rowland said...

All horses are like Unicorns except not quite as magical.

29/5/06 02:44  
Nermy said...

MEMORIAL DAY!

That explains why there were so many Americans in Canada this weekend!

I will rally the werewolves with hockey sticks to counter-attack on Canada Day.

29/5/06 03:21  
Carl Johnson said...

'S not a Game Boy. It's just a DS! And you shuoldnt give them to horses! Unless you think they can use their hooves to hold the pen. But I don't think they can ! And also, You should play the New Super Mario Bros.!!11

/idiot fan boy.

29/5/06 03:39  
wayne said...

Sadly, it will only be a matter of time before someone does something else that will make you realize that we just can't be trusted with the power of the comments. Save yourself the trouble, Mr. Rowland. Turn them off now.
Thank you for making OC available to us and good day.

29/5/06 03:52  
Lita said...

I myself would've went with the DS Lite.. Everything a horse wants in a slimmer package!

29/5/06 04:24  
RJ Ireland said...

I don't know what made me laugh more, "crappability" or drawing "horse dongs". Nice.

By the way, what's memorial day?

29/5/06 04:56  
theGrue said...

Ahahaha, wireless crappability. That one explains itself!

29/5/06 05:09  
Ryan Waddell said...

What's even more impressive is that Pat Robertson beat the leg press record by OVER 600 POUNDS. And the man that originally set the record had to specially modify the leg press machine to be able to hold 1300+ pounds, so finding one that can hold 2000+ pounds must been pretty tough for ol' Pat.

29/5/06 05:16  
Ryan Waddell said...

Oh, I should mention that's the Florida State leg press record, not the world record (I dunno WHAT the world record is - I don't bring my Guinness Book to work with me)

29/5/06 05:27  
sarah said...

I didn't realise that 2,000 pounds was a ton. To me, a ton is something you use to guess the weight of big animals. And I think giving a horse a DS is a great gift, it is probably bored with stereotypical horse gifts.

29/5/06 06:40  
Ronald MacKinnon said...

Just wondering, did Spicer crush the DS out of hatred, or because horse hooves don't hold stylus' very well?

29/5/06 08:58  
Wombat and the Penguins said...

A splendid comic Mr. Rowland, probably the only safe for work use of the phrase 'horse party' in all the internet.

wireless crappability
Has anyone had anything wireless that has actually worked?

29/5/06 09:31  
Garlex said...

Hey, Jeffrey Rowland,
I'm a devoted brazillian reader, and I'd like to thnak you for being so awesome. Your comics are excellent, all of them.

i wish i could buy more of your stuff, including the latest WIGU book, but stuff get's too expensive to import.

Thanks a lot, again.

see you around.

29/5/06 09:42  
Garlex said...

PS: I CAN spell in english, please pardon my typos, it's too early to get words right.

29/5/06 09:43  
joey said...

The horse was totally pissed that you bought a regular DS so close to DS Lite launch. You're a shitty gift giver.

29/5/06 10:33  
y-bot said...

I think you were a bit harsh on the DS. It's not really that bad. I have gotten a lot better at sudokus and math problems and crap after playing brain age.

29/5/06 10:59  
Andrew R said...

Hilarious, as always! I really like the Whispered Apologies reference.

I love Overcompensating. I have read it for a while, but just recently did I give Wigu a go. I read the entire archives in like 3 days and I was very impressed. Hi-larious. Keep up the good work! :)

29/5/06 11:30  
Robert said...

Weird, it's my birthday. Are you calling me a horse?

29/5/06 11:39  
Dave said...

this comic is EXCELLENT! keep up the great work -

29/5/06 12:00  
Codycod said...

should have gotten it a punching bag, er, kicking bag.

29/5/06 12:06  
doomglobe said...

Thanks for bringing comments back, I can't say how many times I have read a pretty good comic you have drawn and thought to myself that I wanted to discuss it with people on the internet only to discover that the forum was still locked!

A cube-box-x-boy-ds is a pretty good thing for a horse, because they can eat it and become a cybernetic superhorse.

29/5/06 12:32  
bazooka radio said...

You can draw horsey dongs on game-boys from the future??

My gameboy just plays tetris and Faceball 2000.

Oh Technology! You are a cruel mistress!

29/5/06 14:06  
GoKenGo said...

Dear Mr. Jeffrey,

Firstly, I love your comic. Secondly I attend UMass for the majority of the year and it's weird to know you're just a stone's throw away o_O

Thirdly, do you script your comics before you draw them? See, a friend and I are starting our own web thingamajig (she's drawing and I'm writing) but I've only ever had experience scripting plays. If you do script, may I please see a sample? I'm collecting samples from different web comic writers :o just so I can see what other people are doing. If you don't write scripts >_> just keep doing as you're doing because it's awesome XD

If you're interested in letting me see a sample, you can email me at ken@helloken.net :O

Thanks a lot :D

Ken

(PS are you hiring at TopatoCo in the fall? LOLZ)

29/5/06 14:10  
Rev. Joker Cross, KSC said...

Hooray! Commenty goodness once again.

29/5/06 16:53  
jesusaurous said...

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29/5/06 18:21  
jesusaurous said...

She's mad because she wanted a pink DS with nintendongs! Or a DS lite. That's why she stomped it.

29/5/06 18:33  
chris said...

Someone's already mentioned this, but the "wireless crappability" Arrested Development comment cracked me up. Nice work.

29/5/06 19:30  
bob said...

Pat Robertson is Superman, obviously.

29/5/06 20:09  
Chris A said...

Yay! I share the same birthday as a horse!

30/5/06 00:09  
the youthful boy below said...

hahahahaha. horses can't play Nintendo DS because they don't have opposable THUMBS!!! How silly! Also Pat Robertson is probably on steroids. Who knows what he laces his hosts and wine with. Perhaps eau de Samson?

30/5/06 01:34  
Wednesday White said...

Yeah, see, you don't watch the 700 Club for the batshit politics or religion. 8 times out of 10, it's pretty weak as crazy televangelism goes. The rest gets rehashed by people who think Robertson's either representative of his faith or remarkable in his field.

You watch 700 Club for the health and fitness content. The pancakes are worth the spam, swear to god.

30/5/06 21:57  
John F said...

Just goes to show...the horse really wanted a PSP!

31/5/06 21:49  
Alfredo said...

my dad loves this one. I'm kidding my dad can't see.

16/6/06 21:32  

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