You Might Be a Subculture of One If… II, Page 2

PANEL 1

Rachel walks away from a man who holds vinyl records, looking dismissive. She is wearing her Rich people piss me off shirt.

NARRATOR: ...you break up with someone when you cannot pirate their music.

MAN: "I only collect vinyl because the quality is—"

RACHEL: "We have to talk."

PANEL 2

Rachel looks mortified, holding her head, while an angry woman in a striped shirt fumes with flames around her. Rachel hands twitch as if searching for keyboard keys.

NARRATOR: ...when you commit a social faux pas, your first instinct is to search for the undo keys on a non-existent keyboard.

RACHEL: "I did not mean that it makes you look fat, just fatter."

RACHEL: "Damn, I forgot. The ctrl and z keys are only on my keyboard!"

PANEL 3

Rachel sits with someone, explaining something enthusiastically while making gestures.

NARRATOR: ...you find yourself speaking HTML code in every day conversation.

RACHEL: "I think I could use a less than b r greater than, if you know what I mean!"

A small heart symbol appears near Rachel.

PANEL 4

Rachel holds up a small bird (budgie) proudly while another person looks confused with a sweat drop.

NARRATOR: ...you give your pets obscure foreign names that you have to explain in detail to people who can barely pronounce them.

RACHEL: "And this is my budgie, Tennotaro."

TEXT: It is Japanese for boy sky emperor.

TEXT: Yes, my bird is actually named that.

Vinyl Guy is totally bone-able. God damn, why didn’t I draw more guys like this?

In the third panel, you can see my HTML geekery coming to light… It was only a matter of weeks before I quit comics to pursue a career in web development!

Comments (Archived)

  1. Lauren

    I never understood your taste in comic/manga men. lol.

    I get the joke in panel 3!! I’m so proud of myself. I’ve learned so much over the past year. dances

  2. Lauren

    Today’s Nedroid pretty much sums up how I feel sometimes when I read your Twitter “jokes” and more techie comics: http://nedroid.com/2012/03/compizza/ hahaha. Like Beartato, I get them…eventually…