Now don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone 3G and feel like I’m living in the future whenever I use it, but having a camera but no video capability is pretty lame. Especially when my previous two cell phones have had video built-in. Now, I know the new 3GS iPhone has this feature but all I can say is it’s about time, and it still doesn’t help me until I decide to buy a new iPhone since it’s a hardware upgrade and not a software upgrade. This also didn’t help when this whole “UFO incident” was happening to me last year. There I was, with one of the most advanced phones on the market, and no way to video the otherworldly scene in front of me. And yes, I tried taking snapshots but the “UFOs” were too far away to show much.
Although I have a Flip Mino HD cam now, I don’t carry it with me all the time, so I swear if I see a UFO, alien, sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, yeti, chupacabra or Michael Jackson before I upgrade to an iPhone with a video cam, I’m gonna be pissed.
That first panel is pretty damn sweet, and would make a fine wallpaper for your JB fans. *Hint hint* π π I noticed that Cel doesn’t have much to say in this strip at all. Either she’s in complete shock and disbelief, or she knows more than she can say at the moment. Hmm..
Anyway, love the colors again for this one. It looks like CF keeps getting more and more red in the face as the strip goes on.. wow is he wasted. Makes ya wonder: how much of what’s going on is he going to remember when he sobers up? Inquiring minds want to know! π
Had to laugh at your comment made in your blog of “so I swear if I see a UFO, alien, sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, yeti, chupacabra or Michael Jackson before I upgrade to an iPhone with a video cam, Iβm gonna be pissed.” HAHAHA! It’s when you least expect to need a camera, that you actually really wish you had one around. But in most cases, people usually tend to wish they had a steadier hand for filming such an ocurrence. π
“…she knows more than she can say at the moment.” – interesting theory there, spanky. that’s all i’ma say ’bout that. π
and glad you dug the blog post and thanks for the awesome suggestion about the wallpaper! been wanting to put another one out there and i didn’t even think about turning that first panel into one. hmmm…
and: ha! yeah, the redness of the Cornfather’s face and shoulders is a combination of both his drunkenness and being out in the sun all day (he burns easily!). π
Dear Apple, I love your products. I do. But G*dd*mn if I don’t absolutely hate your business practices. Love, Jed. In other news, I have to agree with the above posters sentiments on panel one. Very nice indeed.
re: apple’s business practices – you and me both, Jed. you and me both. and can i count that as another vote for that first panel to be a wallpaper?
*ROFL*
Can’t… c-can’t breath!!! XD
*stops reading comic strip*
*takes deep breaths*
*reads Jeff comment instead*
“Although I have a Flip Mino HD cam now, I donβt carry it with me all the time, so I swear if I see a UFO, alien, sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, yeti, chupacabra or Michael Jackson before I upgrade to an iPhone with a video cam, Iβm gonna be pissed.”
Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
XD Can’t breath!!!
I can tell you right now that all you need to be able to see a chupacabras it’s to come here to the sweet island of Puerto Rico. The chupacabras rules here, to the point that one of our majors (we got 78 municipalities and each municipality has a mayor and a municipal legislature) – we call him “Chemo Jones” – likes to every now and then he goes hunting for the creature (the reporters all agree that Chemo Jones goes chupacabra hunting exactly when something isn’t exactly right with his municipality) >_<
And just ’cause I feel about it…. HAHAHA!!! I have no freaking Apple stuff and my cell phone comes with video cam! In YOUR face!!! Die Apple!! Just Die!!!!
*cuddles with HP laptop with 8GB of RAM and Dell Workstation with 12GB of RAM*
8D
ha! glad you got such a kick out of the comic strip and the blog post, Sonitan!!! as usual, i’m now laughing at your laughter. heheheh. π
and wow, another interesting factoid about Puerto Rico!!! i wish L.A.’s mayor would have something as outlandish as chupacabra-hunting to say at press conferences. π
right now i do all JEFbot stuff on my macbook pro but seriously considering a future purchase of a destop from apple, dell or hp. got my research cut out for me but i’ll consider your cuddling a thumbs up for dell & hp. π
Thems some colorful UFOs. Maybe “they’ve” learned that they can distract the common human with brightly colored, fast moving objec– Ooo! Laser pointer spot on the wall!
Now I’ve got Michael’s Rock With You, stuck in my head. That’s gonna be with me all day.
“I wanna rock with you… All Night! We’re gonna rock the night Away-yay!” great, now i have that song stuck in my head, Foxmouse! well, it’s better than something like “It’s a small world after all… It’s a small world aaafter all…” or “Hey mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind. Hey Mickey.” etc. oh, and is that a new avatar? i dig the little skull!
Cool UFO panel! I’ve been taking a digital art class recently to see if I can’t catch up with you and all your nifty photoshop effects!
AWEsome! can’t wait to see what you produce, Stan! π
ROFL. I might buy a macbook at some point, but I will NEVER buy an iPhone. AT&T has crappy cell service around here. I’ll stick with the iTouch. And my Verizon phone ^^
can’t argue with your opinion of AT&T, DJ. sometimes my service is good, sometimes it’s bad, but lately it’s been more of the latter in my neighborhood. lots of dropped calls. lots of irritation. if it wasn’t such an awesome device, i would’ve dropped AT&T long ago.
Upgrade, upgrade, we all love to upgrade!! I do love the video feature, but now JEFBOT know what I felt like with the first generation. Remember when AT&T used to be good, before they sucked big eggs? I’d call and complain, but either they can’t hear me or the call is dropped. Apple help us! And Santa, please bring JEFBOT a new iPhone for Christmas since he’s been so good about sharing such amazing work with all of his fans this year…
woo-hoo! i hope santa sees your comment, JP! i’d *love* to get a 3GS, but i think i’ll wait for the 4G to come along since it’ll most probably be contract renewal time by then.
According to the website for the Verizon Droid (http://droiddoes.com/), iPhones also can’t take pictures at night.
it’s true. there’s no flash on an iPhone and pics in low-light pretty much suck. maybe someday…
First off: Amazing artwork! I love the glow effect! Second: iPhone 3GS is really worth it, I use the video on my iphone and I think it’s just as good as my Flip Video camera!!! Go for it Jefbot, you’re a tech guy and you just shot a feature movie… You deserve it! OUTSTANDING Jefbot strip!!!
i totally would but since my contract’s not up for renewal yet, i think it would cost me an extra $100 to upgrade, at least, FS. with my HD flip cam, i’ll survive until the next iphone refresh from apple.
Wow! You have combined both iPopCulture and Aliens in this strip. Hysterical, bot!!! I love the colors in the sky and everyone’s expressions!!! I also love the whole upgrade motif. I bet the aliens iPhones are updated!
thanks, man! and yeah, i’d love to see if the aliens’ cell phones have a little apple logo on ’em. π
To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question.
I love Apple, I really do. But just when I get a new item, such as a macbook or imac, they come out with a brand new fancier faster one!
(Grr. They just came out with a mouse that I have to have too)
Love the artwork on the first panel. Please Please make it into a wallpaper!
π
i saw that new mouse, Deanna, and it looks suh-weeeet! i’m gonna read more reviews about it before i make a purchase, though; i have a logitech revolution that i’m pretty happy with and an apple mighty mouse i almost completely despise. π
woo! another vote for wallpaper!
Ugh, don’t even get me started. New in the latest and greatest iPhone we’ve ever made: 2 innovations and 13 features that cell phones have had for 5 years before we even released the first generation! Sickening. Then they have the nerve to block people from jailbreaking so they can get the damn features they should’ve included in the first place. Just…ugh.
seriously, Los. more and more often, it seems that apple’s becoming the Evil Empire they accuse microsoft of being.
@ Jed & Los: Couldn’t agree more! Great products; lousy business plan, customer service and tech support.
@ Jeff: Wow! Just…Wow!
1st ΒΆ: sadly, yes.
2nd ΒΆ: π
And this is why Bill Gates never learns to do any thing but steal….Ahh Apples, how I hate you!
it seems everybody steals from everybody in the tech world, ZachLight. remember, even apple “stole” its revolutionary GUI from xerox, back in the day!
Hee… Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
i’ve heard a lot of unhappy grumblings about apple lately, Drakey! i think they need to develop some new business practices and hire a new PR team, stat.
The nano chromatic ipod sucks. </3 This comic is giggle material, and you survived the bread! Congrats on that great accomplishment :]
i survived!!! thanks for the bread and the special delivery, Nat! the “dog whisperer” was quite surprised and appreciative, too! π
thus cementing and confirming my thesis that steve job is an alien bent on controlling us through the usage of iPod and iMac and other Apple related feature/ pc/ thingamjig…..lol….
if that’s the case then i’ve already been assimilated, JF3. π
I love that everyone’s so concerned with the technology/Jefbot’s phone conversation, instead of the UFOs. Great glow effect.
thanks, sis! that kind of absurdity will be played to even greater effect in Friday’s strip. π
They probably couldn’t agree on including it. Happens all the time in product development.
Some guy says, we need video. Then everyone nods, but then 6 months later there’s still no video and the video chip guy says, hey don’t look at me, the video lens guy never said nothing, and the lens guy says what the hell there’s no video card guy in the first place so what’s the point? Then someone says, let’s release and see if anyone notices video’s missing.
so true, speearr. the thing that i don’t understand is that some dude got video working with the 3G iphone, but apple squashed that functionality so you can only get it through jailbroken iphones (or the new 3GS iphones, of course). :-/
Have I ever seen the back of Jeffbot’s shit?
hopefully you’ll never see the back of jefbot’s “shit” CheddarMan, but yes, we have seen the back of his “shirt.” π
The sky, its full of…. kinda looks like they’re drawing Tetris Blocks.
HA! now that would be an awesome alternate ending to 2001, Binkythebomb!
Oh my! Thank you, Binkythebomb! You reminded me of this! I hope Jeff doesn’t mind the link, I thought i was pretty awesome π
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6094769/15836211
i’ve never seen that video before, Sonitan. it is pretty awesome. π
Yeah, Sonitan, its pretty awesome, it has even original music.
As for Jefbots technical trouble, I have a Nokia E51 and frankly, as long as it texts and calls Im going to stick with it. Im sure it has features I may find interesting, like video shooting, but Im not even looking for them as long as I dont need them. I have MP3 for music, camera for photos and video recorder for video. Sure they arent newest models but if you find good oldie, they are sturdy enough to withstand anything. Thats more important to me than a thousand different functions I dont even use.
I like how you drawn the UFO. Im getting fed up with Cornfather though. He should be a good drunkard and just faint allready. Coral could take care of him that way…
And for some reason, Im suspecting Cel to be faking not having video capability. She declared No way too fast and forcefully.
Excelent graphics as always.
although the iphone is my favorite cell phone i’ve ever owned, my first nokia from years ago runs a close second. all it did was make calls (and i think you could customize the ring tones a bit) but it was totally solid, compact, felt good in the hand and made and received calls efficiently. sometimes i mourn for the simplicity of those times, but then i fire up Civilization Revolution or Peggle on my iphone and forget all about them. π
and yes, cel was a bit quick to answer “no,” wasn’t she? and the only person (besides the drunk CF) to not pull out her phone. hmmm… nice observation, Maryz.
MAybe ‘S’ stands for “Sorry we srewed up”? ^^
could be, Cemalidor. or maybe, “sorry we didn’t add these features in to begin with.” heheh.
*grrr* ‘screwed’ was meant to get typed……
no need to *grrr*, C! i’ve been doing this internet thing for so long i totally understood.
remember to spread the distortion….jigoo……….
i’m all about distortion spreading, JF3, but, “β¦.jigooβ¦β¦β¦.” – what?
Never a camera around when you really need one, i can relate.
^ was me, oops!
you have a paranormal experience that you failed to capture, Deaconvorbis? or are you just speaking in general?
i love drunk cornfather.
yo tambien, Anonymous.
yes, i will certainly vote for a wallpaper made from panel 1.
……..bahahahhahahaha!