This week's panel suggested by [deep breath]:
James Riley
Douglass Barre (age 28)
DKaldas
Elan "James Brown's illegitamite son" Trinidad
Josiah Rowe
Josiah Rowe
Pete Strover
Håkan Storsäter
Al B Moore
Mark Schlatter
Lee Seitz
Michael Avolio
Steve Bolhafner
Guy Nelson
Avery J. Cohen
Doug Waldron
Harry Lagoussis
Matt Ryan
Jason Fliegel
and
David Goldfarb!
YOW!
Well, that's definitely a record for most winning suggestions!
Special note to Carl fans everywhere: "Choose Your Own Carl" has actually spawned it's own tribute comic! This week's
strip at Cayetano Garza's Magic Inkwell Comic Strip Theatre is a wonderful "Ode to Carl." Check it out! And while you're there, check out the other Cayetano's other 49 great strips!
As always, suggestions are listed in the order they were received.
Thanks for playing and please join us again next Sunday!
--Scott
Sunday 01/31/1999
James Riley
- Car sprouts helicopter blades while Daisy says,
"Don't worry, we'll get away!" or some such line.
- Car swerves around a ground hog, and heads over cliff,
saying "...but that was!"
- Helicopter hovers above car with a rope, someone in
helicopter shouts, "Get in!" with question marks coming from
the car.
Jesse Rimler
Douglass Barre (age 28)
You know, I'd be interested in working backwards
on one of these segments sometime... you know, starting at
the gravestone and meandering backwards...
And thanks to Matt Ryan for the kudo (and reminding me why
the Groundhog Day panel was funny!) I'm occasionally
embarrassed by the amount of effort I put into this. We
ought to have some sort of "Legion of Substitute Carls"
where we pastiche some of our favorites.
Official Carl Secret of the Week: Jeff (2 time winner) is
actually my cousin.
Oh, right. Ideas for the panel. I knew there was something
else I was supposed to do...
- We see Daisy's car peeling into an airport entrance. DAISY
(from inside car): "We'll never escape it on the ground,
Carl! I've got an idea..." The sign to the airport says
"AIRPORT" then, in smaller lettering beneath that, "a new
division of Microsoft". Eerie music would play here, of
course.
(Hey, speaking of using the Internet venue to expand the
boundaries of comics, any thought as to adding sound to one
of these? I'm sure one of the Carl Crew out there has some
musical talent...)
- GOD appears between the Momster and the car, sleeves rolled
up and ready to rassle. GOD: "Quick, kids, I'll hold it
off!"
- We see DAISY's hand reaching down for a button on the
dashboard (which is filled with a variety of Mach-1 style
buttons) with a helicopter icon on it.
- CARL and DAISY, safely returned from the Microverse of
Nataal, are enjoying a couple of rum and cokes at the Jug
and Jigger in downtown Perotsville and licking their wounds
(not literally). The head of the robot is sitting on the
table between them. WAYNE and JED, behind the bar, are
leering at our heroes, distrusting anyone who's out this
late. Unbeknownst to our heroes, however, the German
dissident programmer Viktor Dendrite watches them from the
shadows. He knows that within the head of their destroyed
ally lies the technology he needs to complete his contract
for the Red Bag society. Then and there, he decides to pose
as Carl's long-lost father in the hopes of preying upon
Carl's current despondent state and using our hero to gain
the Microversian technology!
- DAISY sighs and hands CARL a futuristic raygun. DAISY (with
an action hero sneer): "Then I guess it's two more weeks of
winter, baby!"
- We see FLYING CARL standing at the side of the road, looking
confused at the car that has just driven by. He doesn't see
the Momster racing up behind him, mouth open to devour him.
FLYING CARL: "Hey, wasn't that--?"
- CARL pulls the release lever to lean his seat back. CARL:
"Hey, Daisy, look! Reclining seats!"
- CARL suddenly notices that from the waist down, DAISY is a
robot, connected to the car. DAISY: "I'm sorry you had to
see me like this, Carl."
I'd better post this before my computer decides to
editorialize by freezing up on me... more later as my mind
degenerates!
DKaldas
- Carl: Hurry Daisy! He's gaining!
split screen diagnally from top right corner to bottom left.
Daisy: Hold on.
Daisy's finger is on a switch labeled "car/helicopter"
Elan "James Brown's illegitamite son" Trinidad
- The car transforms into a helicopter.
DAISY:"GO GO GADGET COPTER!"
- The car flies off a cliff (not unlike the Dukes of Hazard)
and there's a helicopter in it's path.
FROM THE CAR:"LOOK OUT!"
- SHOT of the monster dancing (for no apparent reason).
Josiah Rowe
Well, everyone else will probably suggest these,
but...
- Close-up of dashboard. Daisy's finger is reaching towards
a button with an icon of a helicopter on it. Daisy: "Time
for helicopter mode!", or, if you're feeling
self-referential, "Only helicopter mode can end this
nightmare!"
- Outside of vehicle-- car is undergoing some sort of
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang type transformation. Monster is
reaching up towards vehichle in sky, but can't reach.
Balloon from car: "Helicopter mode! And just in time!"
- Interior of car, Daisy driving. She looks disapproving.
There is nothing behind them. Daisy: "Have you been drinking
again, Carl?"
- Interior of car, Daisy driving. She hands Carl a beer.
Daisy: "Ignore it, and it'll go away, Carl. Have a beer."
- Close-up of dashboard. Daisy's finger is reaching towards
a button with a small "flame" icon on it. Daisy: "Time for
the flamethrower!", or, "Only the flamethrower can end this
nightmare!"
- Daisy, still driving the car, turns into another monster.
Daisy/Monster: "Neither am I!!" Carl: "Eeek!"
- Daisy, still driving the car, turns into a giant
groundhog. Daisy/Groundhog: "But I am!" Carl: "Eeek!"
- Interior of car, Daisy driving. Carl's mother (now
normal), is running behind the car. Daisy: "Of course not!
That's your mother, Carl!" (if room, add: "Have you been
drinking again?") [This dialogue might work as ext. car
shot, too.]
mark coale
- The non-Groundhog (assuming it doesn't have to be the
monster from the above panel) is revealed to be King Kong,
Godzilla or similar monster. This can lead, next time, to
the introduction of the helicopter as an homage to the
airplanes strafing King Kong.
Josh Dahl
- Carl squints heroically and finishes his sentence
from the previous panel
"...and I'm no coward. Stop the car!" Daisy is shocked.
Pete Strover
- Daisy: "And this is no ground vehicle!"
[as the car morphs, Transformer-wise, into a helicopter]
Håkan Storsäter
Al B Moore
[100% digital! I hope to have a FAQ list up soon and I'll give everyone my long list o' tools. --Scott]
Eric McLeod
- Daisy reveals she works for the CIA against
Microsoft's evil anti-trust case...
Avery J. Cohen
- The car crashes into a giant groundhog, with Carl
flying through the roof, up into the air.
Jonathan L. Miller
Piers Beckley
Mike Caprio
- CARL: "Let's take to the air!"
(points to sign indicating a HELIPAD).
- CARL: "To the Helipad -- It's our only hope!"
colin roald
Okay, so in the horizontal path, Daisy(?) asks
Carl(?)
about Groundhog Day, possibly referring innocently
to the date or to a lost videotape in the backseat.
Carl notices something unexpectedly pursuing, and
exclaims "That's no ground hog!" I suppose I'll go
ahead and suggest the simple plotline that'll at least
give some progress towards helicopters:
- Outside view of car speeding down highway, many-
tentacled horror in hot pursuit. An exit is visible
ahead.
Carl: "There! We'll be safe in the ARMY BASE!"
[I can't help but note that next week's panel is going
to be a bastard, because somehow it has to be consistent
with both the Momster/Groundhog plotline *and* the
multiple-Carl Mom-icide bridge-jumping plotline. Maybe
we should just say the heck with it, and send Carl off
heli-skiing in the Alps.:-]
dan wheeler
- carl waggles eyebrows "That's my wife!"
- daisy turns to carl "STOP SHOUTING IN MY EAR!"
- daisy & carl drive off cliff ala thelma & louise
Morgan Doninger
- Sorry, I couldn't think of nothin' last week, so
I bailed. This week... Same panel as before with the sound
effect "Ker-Thump!" Daisy: "No, but that was."
Mark Schlatter
Hmmm, we need Carl (and possibly Daisy, although
we're
not positive it's her in the copter) up in the air.
- Daisy shouts "But this is no car!" with a maniacal grin
as she pushs buttons, pulls levers, etc. to transform
the car into a helicopter. (This was independently thought
of, but dangerously close to Christopher Ekmann's idea
from last week.)
- Carl is seen leaning out the window, attempting to
lasso the (now flying) momster.
- Daisy's car goes off a cliff: "And this isn't fun!"
Lee Seitz
[So far, I've never combined two vastly different suggestions but I often combine variations on an idea, such as a panel description from one and a slightly better word combo from another. In fact the very first panel of Segment One turned out that way! --Scott]
Jeff McRorie
- From a position outside of and behind the car,
looking back at the pursuing monster, we see the creature
dropping down an open manhole. It probably makes an
appropriately suprised noise, such as "AAAAAAAAAA!" or "Ut!"
pHil Rittenhouse
- Bill Murray pops up from the back seat,
exclaiming,
"What's all this about a groundhog?" He hands Carl
a can: "Have a beer."
Michael Avolio
- The car is heading towards a cliff. (Daisy could
say, "Hang on!" or Carl could say, "Look out!" or "A cliff!"
or whatever.)
- The monster grows and surrounds the car with tentacles.
- Daisy looks behind them (saying, "Groundhog?") while Carl
frantically reaches for the wheel.
- Daisy says, "And I'm not Daisy!" turning into a monster
herself!
- Daisy says, "You're always seeing things when you're
drunk..."
- Scott McCloud pops out of the back seat, saying "And I'm not
Bill Murray!"
- Bill Murray pops out of the back seat, saying "And I'm not
Scott McCloud!"
- Carl says, "It's a space station!" (See, I'm making a
reference to Star Wars, when Ben Kenobi says, "That's no
moon. It's a space station." ...Nevermind.)
- Scott McCloud pops up for no reason whatsoever other than
because I want him to. (You can't blame me for trying!)
- Daisy says, "And this is no regular car!" or something like
that, as she presses a button(sound effects?)
- There is a loud THUD. (Or some other sound effect.)
- Daisy says, "I never said it was." or "What did you call
me?" or "Carl, that's your mother."
- Carl: "It's my mom!" (or Aunt Harriet, or something like
that)
- As the car speeds along, Carl opens the car door with a look
of determination on his face. Daisy, horrified, screams,
"Carl! What are you doing?"
TimmyC
Okay, the following things could happen --
- The monter says "Actually, I am!" The monster grows
groundhog teeth. (Simalar to my last idea)
- Daisy says "I'm taking matters into my OWN hands! Take
the wheel!" She pulls out a big gun, and she is poping out
the sun roof.
- Carl says "All I have to do is dream!" Carl tries to
sleep.
- The car heads towards the ocean, and drives off the dock.
"OMIGOD!" Carl screams, as Daisy jumps out of the car.
Steve Bolhafner
Jeff Clear
- Carl looks at Daisy and exclaims, "...And you're
no Daisy!" as Daisy turns into a monster as in previous
panels.
- Daisy drives off a cliff. (I'd just want to see what people
suggested for the panel following this one!)
Guy Nelson
- Daisy: "well, this is no Car!" (shown pushing a
button on the dash marked 'copter')
- Daisy: "Carl, are you Drunk again?!" (it seems she can't see
the Momster)
- Daisy: "of course not, Bill Gates doesn't own any ground
hogs... as far as I know..."
Patrick Downey
- Carl: "it's a SPACE STATION!"
Daisy: "No, it's a hideous monster from another dimension"
Avery J. Cohen
- Carl pulling a bottle-in-a-bag from the glove
compartment, "It's enough to drive me to drink!"
Daisy smiles back at him, "Amen!"
David Bedno
- Carl should say something like "It's gaining.
Only a helicopter
could save us now."
(On another note, it would be nifty (but oodles of work, I
know) if
you could click on any panel and see what was suggested for
it. I
mean, disk space is cheap, isn't it?)
[Once this section is done, I will indeed link each page to its suggestions as was done with section one.--Scott]
Avery J. Cohen
- External view of car, we see the top half of
Carl, standing up through the sun roof of the car, looking
back at the monster in the background. "It's my worst
nightmare!" From inside the car, Daisy exclaims "Look out,
Carl!"
- "Hang on, Carl!" We see the car transforming into
a gyro-copter with a "Sproing!" sound-effect, just in time
to avoid running into _another_ monster (or two).
Doug Waldron
Fish
- Daisy: What is that thing chasing you?
Carl: It's what I'm going to become!
- Daisy: I bet that thing can't fly!
(they drive toward Daisy's private helicopter pad)
- Daisy: Carl, this may be my last chance to say it- I love
you!
Carl: (Frantically looking back at the beast behind
them) NOT now Daisy!
- Carl: Daisy, this may be my last chance to say it- I love
you!
Daisy: (Frantically looking back at the beast behind
them) NOT now Carl!
Harry Lagoussis
- Daisy pushes a button in the car saying something
like "Hold on Carl. This might get bumpy!". The button is
meant to transform the car into a helicopter, but if you
want to draw *that* too, *you* figure it out.
Carl Fink
- Daisy says "No, THAT's a ground hog!" as the car
drives toward a huge woodchuck. (Isn't "ground hog"
a synonym for "woodchuck"?)
Jeff
- They pull up near a helicopter and Carl says
"Quick, get in the
copter!"
- Superman flies down and bends/contorts the car into a
helicopter.
- You see Kirk screaming to Scotty "Beam them to the copter!"
- As they are about to hit a tree, Carl yells "LOOK OUT!" The
car swirves and heads toward a cliff.
- The car heads off a cliff. (plain and simple)
Matt Ryan
Section 2 is half complete! More deaths are just
around
the corner! Will Carl ever break his promise? Where's
the second Carl? When will Bob Dole come through on
his flying pickle?
- Daisy pushes a button. "Don't worry. This is no
Honda."
- Daisy: "Isn't that the woman who keeps bugging you
about DUI?" Sign on side of road: TO AIRPORT.
- The monster pulls up short, noticing its shadow, and
says, "Eeek". In the distance the car heads towards
a structure where planes are taking off and landing.
- Carl: "It's gaining! Turn here!" (sign: TO AIRPORT)
Daisy's thought baloon: "I love him when he's hyper!"
(I mean, why IS she involved with this guy? Definitely
not for the family and settling-down prospects. Must
be a thrill junkie.)
Scott's permitting panel-winners one web-page plug.
Since I contributed to "Get in, Carl!", here's me:
http://world.std.com/~mbr2
[That's right, Matt. And remember, everybody: that's winners only ('cause we all know what would happen otherwise!) --Scott]
Paul Hanna
- They drive off a cliff.
- The car takes off like a flying DeLorean (I'm still all for
this one!) "Let's see if this bastard can do 90!"
Jason Fliegel
Love the second half of My Obsession With Chess.
Nice job, Scott.
As for Carl, a number of things can happen:
- Daisy says "But that is!" as she swerves the car to avoid
hitting a groundhog, who is ambling across the road.
- Daisy says "But that is!" as she plows the car into a 20
foot tall groundhog.
- Daisy says "Never fear. I'll get us out of here." The
art depicts Daisy's hand pressing a button marked "Transform
to Helicopter," or something like that.
- Daisy leans out the window, shotgun in hand, shouting
"Die, Hellspawned beast!"
- The Momster -- being a product of Microsoft, after all --
spontaneously dies for no reason.
- The caption says "The next day." We see Carl and Daisy
calmly sipping tea in a cafe. Daisy suggests "Perhaps we
should go for a helicopter ride today."
Catt Jan Roxxanne
- Daisy says "Darn it, I think we're lost. I'm
going to stop." And carl does one of those "!!" things.
- Show a back picture of the car with the licence plate
reading "monster 1", and have them say "I wonder why he's
chasing us?" "Say Daisy, where did you get this car?"
Winter (age 3)
- I pick plumy plum. Sky eptry (winter told me how
to spell that word...)
Sky (age 5)
- He looks at her and says "Who are you, anyway?"
Ivy (age -- does anybody really care?)
- Carl continues : "That's a road hog" as the
monster is about to overtake them with his foot up ready to
hurl the car up into the air.
David Goldfarb
- The car sprouts a big rotor and tail. Word balloon: "Helicopter morph is GO!!!"
Ethan Heitner
- (in preperation for Carl meeting Daisy in the Helicopter, Car Carl and Car Daisy are inside the Car)
Daisy: Don't press that button, Carl! It's the ejector seat!
Carl: Ejector seat? You're joking...
*FOOOOSH*
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