The Brads - Oil Spill
June 2nd, 2010
I’m trying something a little different with the comic. It’s kinda hard to explain why it can’t be viewed here, click through to see it in its glory.
I’m trying something a little different with the comic. It’s kinda hard to explain why it can’t be viewed here, click through to see it in its glory.
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Bradford Dielman
June 2, 2010 at 10:32 pmBeen waiting for this one. Great work, Brad!
Captain Canuck
June 2, 2010 at 11:12 pmunderwater cacti!
Tim Aste
June 2, 2010 at 11:29 pmWell done sir
Grey280
June 2, 2010 at 11:37 pmI salute you, sir.
(Nice cacti)
anon
June 2, 2010 at 11:49 pmGreat way to get people to click through from the feed!
Rachel Nabors
June 3, 2010 at 12:19 amI love the visual line leading down into the inky blackness. Nicely done!
Andrew Bleakley
June 3, 2010 at 12:45 amAh cacti, I wondered why they didn’t want to swim down and plug the leak. Thanks for clearing that up
Shmstr
June 3, 2010 at 12:48 amI hope this is the only experiment to force people to click through from the feed….. Would be a waste to have to remove another one from my list
Brad
June 3, 2010 at 12:57 ambelieve, not beleive.
great comic, though =)
trace
June 3, 2010 at 1:31 amits been long but finally its here…
I dont think I’d want to wait for this to happen, hopefully the spill gets contained soon.
great comic…
rishi
June 3, 2010 at 1:52 amHAHAHAHAHAH
Tanja
June 3, 2010 at 2:18 amUnfortunately, it’s much too sad to laugh… great comic though.
Joe
June 3, 2010 at 4:32 amHey Shmstr
Get over yourself. Nobody forced you to do anything. Brad got it spot on when showing only part of the image in the RSS feed.
Keep up the great work Mr Colbow. Its greatly appreciated.
Gray
June 3, 2010 at 4:56 amdid you just pay homage to @Mythbusters?
versak
June 3, 2010 at 6:40 amawesome!
Eric Meyer
June 3, 2010 at 10:23 amSpill, baby, spill!
Taylor Durham
June 3, 2010 at 11:02 amway to use your existing design. love the flawless transition!
mikeo
June 3, 2010 at 11:07 amwell done, and funny. i think what is called for here is a giant cork. you read right cork.
Kevin Thompson
June 3, 2010 at 11:09 amLove the comic and its integration into your interface. A feature of your new ExpressionEngine structure? Hope to see more like it.
Dan Collins
June 3, 2010 at 11:28 amLove the long scroll to the bottom and using the entire window for the comic.
Cesar Mujica
June 3, 2010 at 11:45 amYour art is awesome. But this is still to sad to laugh. I can´t believe all the damage this shit does to our home…
Really deep Brad, good job.
Eric Wiley
June 3, 2010 at 11:47 amNice one, Brad.
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CAPTAIN: If we can get our hands on enough of them, the comment under-layer will eventually get drawn upward and bottleneck at the broken valve.
BP Executive wearing orange life jacket over suit: IF?! I can’t take another “if”. :pees pants, crys, slips on wet deck, rolls around::
Joe Fiorini
June 3, 2010 at 11:49 amI just can’t stop scrolling. Nice job. Like the DDOS joke, the “robots” part went over my head though. Beautiful comic!
Gonzalo
June 3, 2010 at 1:12 pmawesome design. You should win an award for this one.
Amber Turner
June 3, 2010 at 1:20 pmVery very nice work on this one.
Chris Harrison
June 3, 2010 at 2:05 pmSimple, yet powerful. You’ve outdone yourself Brad. Nice work.
Joseph Sims
June 3, 2010 at 2:18 pmGreat job! I love how this doesn’t fit into the style of your other comics, and is actually a play on your site design… The interaction of scrolling down and seeing a change to get to the punchline was great too.
Joao Joaquim
June 3, 2010 at 3:57 pmnicely done. looks great! :D
Liz Hunt
June 4, 2010 at 3:19 pmNext, the CEO comes down and says “I just want my LIFE back!”
Maxu'
June 5, 2010 at 3:43 amAwesome job Brad
John Hun
June 7, 2010 at 5:46 amhaha, nice illustration, as always.
O.o and the cacti?
Stomme poes
June 8, 2010 at 3:37 amI want to laugh, except the whole real-life situation is so sad.
I also kinda wish this had happened to a more-sleazy oil company instead of BP.
Chris
June 8, 2010 at 11:11 amI love how the comic blends with your site’s design. Very fancy : D
and as usual, right on target.
Christopher Robert Kennedy
June 8, 2010 at 4:36 pmBrilliant example of editorial design, sir. Perhaps you’d be interested in Greg Wood’s discussion on his website at http://gregorywood.co.uk? :D
Julian Schrader
June 10, 2010 at 10:13 amGreat work, very nice!
Artem
June 11, 2010 at 11:01 pmlong time coming.. thnx for the laugh dude
Aman L. Anderson
June 17, 2010 at 3:07 pmThis is awesome! lol
Wilmington Link Girls
June 18, 2010 at 3:46 pm“BP has inserted a siphon tube into the well to suck up all the oil from the spill. And they’ve had a lot of experience in this area, by the way. This is the same tube they’ve been using to suck the money out of our wallets for the past 50 years.” –Jay Leno
Ryan
June 21, 2010 at 2:09 amIt seems like there is finally some good news with the spill. The Houston Chronicle reports, U.S. ships were being outfitted earlier this month with four pairs of skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days.” I hope this is a sign of things to come. For all those feeling pretty gloomy about this situation, I recommend a good laugh… Here’s a funny joke, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd0svVWfFbo
Marion Bergstrom
June 23, 2010 at 1:41 amThis entire oil situation is a tragedy. I wish BP would have cared more about the spill.
Mahender
June 26, 2010 at 9:23 amAwesome work brad