Nope, it’s not a dream, the Angry Scarf has become sentient and attacked jefbot! AIEEEEE!!! This story has been a long time coming, as the origins of the scarf go way back to the second JEFbot strip from 2007, when Warrior Sister Xinda gave it to jefbot as a gift. This strip is the start of a major storyline, and I have a lot of exciting stuff planned for it that will, yes, change the very fabric (heh. couldn’t resist) of the JEFbot Universe FOREVER!!! Or, at the very least, there will be some fun scarf action. Hope you come along for the ride on this EPIC YARN! (Again, couldn’t resist. Sorry.)
If you’re new to the strip, or need a refresher course on the scarf’s strange past, tab these strips out:
• The Angry Scarf
• Origin Story
• It Lives
And speaking of origins, tomorrow, August 6th, will mark the 4 Year Anniversary of JEFbot! ALSO… you might just want to check in on Monday, as I’m contemplating going to three strips a week (MWF) for the rest of this anniversary month! It’s not set in stone, so I’ll confirm or deny that later. Stay tuned!
Oh God, the puns! Agh! 😀 I knew it was the scarf again! Can’t wait to see what happens next! (And I do that all the time at parties…either I don’t go, or I find a book there to hide with)
Happy early birthday to the strip!
i’m sure those puns (and more) will be incorporated into future Scarf strips, or at the very least, a Twitter post or two, T, so brace yourself for more! …apologies in advance. heheh.
yes! The Angry Scarf is BAAAAACK!!! thanks for the early wishes to the strip!
and once again, you have achieved the Shades of Firsting. these will help you see any “Angry” objects around your house that might just be disguising themselves as “inanimate” but will likely seize you by the neck as soon as your back is turned. wear them well:
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Oh good…since I’m moving (again…grrr), I think the “Angry” objects are getting angrier. They don’t like having their dark caves disturbed, y’see.
where are you moving to!? although moving itself sucks, hopefully you’ll be heading toward new, exciting adventures! make sure and keep us updated. and keep clear of all those angry objects.
At the moment, I’m just moving back in with my parents so I can finish school without trying to work full time and take six classes (and stage-manage a show). If I tried all that together, I’d probably find a way to scramble my brains into oblivion.
But I’m packing and planning for *next* year, when I’ll pack everything important to me in my car and start driving, wherever the road may lead. I call it “going gypsy”, something I’m very excited about.
sounds like a good plan, T – believe me, if i could move in with my parents, save some money and not have to work, i might just quit my job and do JEFbot full time! (also, it took me a long time to pay off student loans, much of which was accrued living off and on campus when i was in college.)
packing for next year when you “go gypsy” is good thinking, too. hope you keep a journal when you’re on the road!
I’ve been lucky so far in my scholastic career; I haven’t had to take any loans until now. I’ve been able to pay semester-by-semester as I go, borrowing from parents or making payment plans. But I want to be *done*, so I’m taking a few thousand in loans. *gags* But at least it’ll be cheaper this way, and I’ll be on-campus most of the time, so there won’t be time for my family and I to get on each others’ nerves. 😉
Oh believe me, I plan to keep a very detailed journal on my travels. And since my FB friends get nervy if I’m out of contact for more than a couple days, I’ll be posting there too. I’d like to write a book about my adventures. Probably starting with a quote from Lord of the Rings. “Home is behind, the world ahead…”
My fingers are just knitted into anticipation with what happens next!
It’s quite crewel for you to space this out, Jefbot.
ha! you’re leaving me in stitches, Geoff! thanks for joining in on the punnery! 😀
Yes, I’m on pins and needles!
Boy o boy I have been waiting for this storyline to come back around 😀 Can’t wait to see the next strip, it’s got me all *tangled* up with excitement.
Hah, the comics birthday is the day before mine 😛 Much celebrations will be had!
i’m happy you were anticipating this storyline, Kaze! and hey, belated HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! hope you had a FANTASTIC one! 😀
How do we defeat puns? To quote the 2000 Godzilla movie, “We need, bigger guns.”
so you’re saying we need bigger PUNS, Anime fan!? i think we’re up to the task!
Quickly! Someone hand me a flamethrower or a thermonuclear device!
Or scissors!
I dunno Sarah, I don’t think mere scissors would be enough for the angry scarf ™ Maybe some radioactive scissors or scissors made of a vibranium/adamantium mesh?
heheh. who knows!? scissors might be enough to take it down, but yeah, jefbot might need shears made of a vibranium/adamantium alloy just to be safe. do you know if they have those at Target, jiro?
Don’t let us needle you, Jeff — I’m sure this will be a purl of a tail and we’ll all have a ball watching you string us along as you ply your talents.
Cast on! We’re hooked (okay, that’s crochet, fine).
You, my dear, are a pun goddess. I bow down to you!
love it, Sarah W! keep ’em coming! heheh.
Somehow it doesnt seem so much like an attack to me. More like attemp to communicate. Not everything thats scares us is evil. And if its this unpleasant to Jefbot, Just imagine how Scarfliens must take it.
you might be right, Maryz! who’s to say how an alien microbes/evil scarf hybrid would attempt to communicate?
I wonder if there will be a TIE in with Cel and the red and orange alien lights of earlier?
all the good one had been played.
so far, it seems as if the alien microbes that bonded with the Angry Scarf are different than the ones cel and bot contended with at the beach/on the rooftop, Hairba11. but you never know! maybe there is a connection…?
For the Puns I call you a dork. but I can’t really say anything cuz I just woke up early to sign up for pottermore >>
Have I really been around for like 3 of the years? wow. I wish I could remember how I came across your strip, and nemu too for that matter.
wow! amazing, DJ. time just flies by. it’s been a privilege to know you these past 3 years! thanks for hanging with me (and the JEFbot cast) all this time.
A sentient scarf, your 4 yr anniversary, and a contest (and possibly 3 strips/wk)! Woot! It doesn’t get much better than that!!!
I love this strip. I often feel that my yarn is really alive. Sometimes it tries to help me and other times it tries to foil my attempts to make beautiful (or cute) things. I can’t wait to see what happens with the living anger scarf! It actually looks like it might be caressing Jefbot as opposed to trying to harm him. I guess time will tell.
The strip has come a long way in these 4 yrs. While I wasn’t there for the origin, I can say that it has been great to see you make your way thru most of that time! Congrats! 😀
Oh yes, and I love me a good (or even a bad) pun. Playing with words is way too much fun. 🙂
awwww, big thanks, shanna! even though you weren’t here from the beginning (not many were, except family. heh.), it seems like you’ve been around for the entire ride! so happy to have gotten to know you and can’t wait ’til we meet in person (Taranchilla, too!) at a future convention!
finally……….
yep, this storyline’s been a long time coming, jf#300. hope you dig it!
Well…I do believe scarves and hats are alive…know why? They seem to multiply like crazy, I think they’re part rabbit!!! (My mom makes them for charity, they are everywhere!!!) It’s like “Suddenly….Scarf!” ugh!
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Happy Anniversary to Jefbot!! Love the strip, love the characters, love the artist, love the friends I’ve made by posting here!!! <3 <3 <3
(Hmm, I'm not so "Evil" today, am I? I need to work on that, methinks)
thanks for all the love and anniversary wishes, ESQ! been absolutely wonderful reading your feedback and knowing you for however long it’s been since you’ve been coming here. (like i mentioned to shanna and DJ – it’s hard to remember a time without you ladies of the H (i refuse to say the word. heheh.) here!)
and i’ll take you evil or non-evil. either way is awesome! 😀
Bot! I knew you’re a great artist, but I never knew you were a punslinger! Nice potter poster on the wall there. I had one like that on my wall for a while, but my house was taken over by a not so alien life form (Stachybotrys chartarum) that caused the posters to fall apart.
Great coloring in that last panel 😀 Try not to get too wrapped up!
hey, thanks! and yep – love the puns. if you go back and look at the titles for the strips, you’ll see i squeeze ’em in whenever i can! 😀
and, yep – good eye on spotting the Potter poster. i brought it back out for my wall when i was getting hyped for Deathly Hallows 2!
I love the detail in this weeks strip… I’d go on and on but I don’t want to get all choked up! Excellent job Jefbot!
heheh. wouldn’t want you to get “choked up,” FunnyShaffer!
I just back read the ENTIRE Jefbot archive-thing in the last two hours… I think I may have overdosed.
Kudos to you for making this worth doing that.
thanks for taking the time and risking a JEFbot Archive OD, LadyArtemis! just make sure you get some sleep and lots of fluids now. especially since we’re going to THREE JEFbots a week this whole month, now!
Anybody else notice that the angry scarf now has white spots on the ends? I wonder if it means that the scarf has somehow mixed with the alien life form from Origin story…
that’s probably a safe assumption, Ember West!
This can’t be good…
The rage of Xinda that undoubtedly bled into the scarf as it was made combined with a new species almost wiped out by the carelessness of poor jefbot…
The only thing that comes to mind is some sort of scarf-themed variant of either Venom or Carnage. It seems that jefbot will have to call upon not only his Powers of Scrawn, but Cornfather and the Powers of Chub as well to defeat this dastardly new enemy. And perhaps Cel’s blaster would come in handy too…
(Sorry, I’ve recently found that I’m addicted to ellipses, and I don’t know how to stop… )
mayhap your ellipses addiction is a punctuation-themed variant of Venom or Carnage, Maddgodd81!!? not sure how that would work, but it’s something to keep an eye on…
I freakin knew that scarf was that evil man killing one from way back when!
4 years eh? quite an achievement there!
thanks, steve!
My brain can’t come up with anything better to say than AWESOME! (fighting virtual terrorists for five hours straight can tire you out some times)
i’ll take the “AWESOME!” Fijiman! now get back to stopping those virtual terrorists.
I dunno…
Seems to me that this story is made up of…
*puts on Cool Shades (but not of “firsting”)*
Whole Cloth.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
i like it, reynard61! hmm… maybe we need some Caruso Shades of Punning?
I feel like one of those people in the movie theatre. “Don’t go in there! BEHIND YOU!”
Yes! the Angry Scarf Lives.
Again, your attention to detail floors me. And JB’s expression in the last panel is hysterical!
i’m sure on some, existential level, jefbot appreciates you trying to warn him, Pix!
Oh and Happy Anniversary to Jefbot and all us Boteers and all you Newbots!
many thanks, Pixie! having you here, along with the other Ladies of the H, providing feedback, welcoming new readers and helping out has made this site that much more awesome.
Happy Anniversary! Thanks and congratulations, also, to all the Boteers who have kept the strip alive with their enthusiasm and encouragement! 🙂
well said, Mombot! 😀
When I read the scream I made it sound like that one screaming Grabbing Ghost in Luigi’s Mansion
ha! yes, that sound would suit bot’s scream well, vglgvn! did you hear they’re making a sequel to Luigi’s Mansion for the 3DS? can’t wait!
Scaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf!
you just scared me with that, TCG.
This is why I look forward to your blog commentary just as much as the comic. Really, they shouldn’t exist without one another.
thanks, Stan! always happy to hear putting the time into writing the blog is worth it to some readers.
Contests and bad puns await! HUZZAH!
HUZZAH!
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Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear jefbot strip,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
Congrats, good sir.
awww… thanks for those sweet, dulcet tones, Maddgodd81!
mystery scarf strikes again! what’s with those red pupils?
that’s the BOTrage, supersonic cucumber!
So back last month some time, I drew some fanart. I haven’t finished it yet, but since it features the scarf, I guess I should do so soon.
totally, Aelyrin! would love some Angry Scarf fanart to post!
happy happy happy anniversary!!!
hooray! thanks, twisted sister!
What a terrific way to start your 5th year! This strip has a great feel to to it. There’s the usual awareness of continuity with the half-painted wall, and I see your famous Watership Down poster is making a guest appearance!
big thanks, Kim! i’m happy you noticed that half-painted wall – i’m sure readers not familiar with the strip might be wondering what that is, exactly. and, yes: Watership Down FTW! 😀
I see that partially orange painted wall in the first panel. The Venom comic in panel 3 seems like foreshadowing,
Is this some kind of strange spam?
this puzzles me too