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| date = January 14, 2006 | | date = January 14, 2006 | ||
| title = Want | | title = Want | ||
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| image = want.jpg | | image = want.jpg | ||
| titletext = Well, she's pretty hot. | | titletext = Well, she's pretty hot. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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Cueball is making an honest profession of his feelings. This is often held up as a valuable thing in cementing a relationship. In the first three panels, he makes the kind of cliched poetic, romantic statements that would typically be expected. In the last panel, however, he undercuts all of this by crassly revealing that he also really wants to have sex with his paramour's sister. | Cueball is making an honest profession of his feelings. This is often held up as a valuable thing in cementing a relationship. In the first three panels, he makes the kind of cliched poetic, romantic statements that would typically be expected. In the last panel, however, he undercuts all of this by crassly revealing that he also really wants to have sex with his paramour's sister. | ||
− | In the title text, he attempts to excuse his statement by reasoning that the sister is | + | In the title text, he attempts to excuse his statement by reasoning that the sister is very attractive. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball is standing talking in the same position in all four panels. | + | :[Cueball is standing talking in the same position in all four panels. Seems like he has hair in panel 2.] |
:Cueball: I want to be brave enough to tell you how I feel. | :Cueball: I want to be brave enough to tell you how I feel. | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | * This comic was [[: | + | *This was the 46th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. |
− | * This | + | **The previous was [[48: Found]]. |
+ | **The next was [[50: Penny Arcade]]. | ||
+ | *Original title: "Drawing - Want" | ||
+ | *There were no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic. | ||
+ | *This comic was one of the last 11 comics posted on LiveJournal. | ||
+ | **These 11 comics were [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd|posted both on LiveJournal and xkcd]] after the [[xkcd]] site opened on the 1st of January 2006. | ||
+ | **This comic was posted on the same day on both sites. | ||
+ | **They were not all posted on the same day though. | ||
+ | *During the start-up of xkcd, four of the last 11 comics were released on days that deviated from the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday scheme. | ||
+ | **This one was thus '''released on a Saturday'''. | ||
+ | **It was the middle part of a series of three where the release day was shifted to one day later. | ||
+ | **This one was posted so late, 11:41 pm, that it almost became a Sunday comic. | ||
+ | **The next "Friday" comic [[52: Secret Worlds]] was also released on a Saturday. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 46]] |
− | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd | + | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd]] |
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Romance]] | [[Category:Romance]] | ||
− | [[Category:Footer comics]] | + | [[Category:Footer comics]] |
[[Category:Your sister]] | [[Category:Your sister]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]] | [[Category:Comics with lowercase text]] |