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Friday Morning Lights
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Friday Morning Lights

by Benjamin Birdie on September 10, 2010 at 12:00 am
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└ Tags: jerry, lydia

Discussion (25) ¬

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  1. MaxtotheMax
    MaxtotheMax
    September 10, 2010 at 2:36 pm | #

    Jerry stole my exercise playlist. Except I also have “Gonna Fly Now.”

  2. Mister Terrific
    Mister Terrific
    September 10, 2010 at 3:34 pm | #

    I prefer treadmilling to “Love Shack” and “Missionary Man”, myself. “Hole in my Heart” comes a close third.

  3. chadette
    chadette
    September 10, 2010 at 6:19 pm | #

    Jerry thinks hes being helpful by giving Lydia an old ipod of workout songs when really it’s just the same song over and over and then she is all like “wtf 5 miles” because thats a lot of distance for soeone out of shape like Lydia.

    ps I am chadette head of the legion of substitue chads and he couldnt make it today so i posted here instead to be helpful.

    • Katharine Tapley
      Katharine Tapley
      September 13, 2010 at 7:19 pm | #

      AH HA HA HA HA Oh, hey, real chad showed up. Still chadette, nice one!

  4. chadtar
    chadtar
    September 11, 2010 at 1:06 am | #

    I think Aaron wants to make linda happy so he gave her a ipod with a song about tigers.

  5. Phill
    Phill
    September 11, 2010 at 7:50 am | #

    Aw, jeeze. Time to shut that shit down, Kevin.

    • Kevin Church
      Kevin Church
      September 11, 2010 at 8:21 am | #

      No. No, I don’t think so.

  6. Chris
    Chris
    September 12, 2010 at 12:51 am | #

    I come for the comic, but I stay for Chad and the Legion of Substitute Chads’ meditations on the intricate complexities involved in sequential art storytelling.

    • Pat
      Pat
      September 13, 2010 at 5:34 pm | #

      I’m stoked for Crisis on Infinite Chads.

  7. Zachary
    Zachary
    September 12, 2010 at 4:01 am | #

    I’ve been reading The Rack for a while now (and enjoying it very much. Thank you.), and I don’t really understand the Chad hate. Is there something offensive that I’m missing? Seems cute(ish), mildly amusing, and essentially harmless. This goes for female and multiverse versions of Chad. If you’re counting votes, I say let the manchild live. Consider him your Bat-mite.

    • Kevin Church
      Kevin Church
      September 12, 2010 at 9:03 am | #

      OK, let’s pretend you went to work and every day, somebody from another office wandered in, picked up a document you’d written, read it, and then got on top of the table, summarizing it for the entire office loudly very slowly, as if perhaps the entire office didn’t realize what you had written.

      Every day. For months. And they frequently got facts wrong, like your boss’s name, or what the company made. And you tried being reasonable and asking them why they were doing this, and maybe you corrected them politely but still, every day, they came into your cube, grabbed whatever report you were written and performed this action.

      Now let’s pretend that instead of your work it was a thing that you had created from scratch, something you cared about a lot and really enjoyed putting together with a collaborator you’d come to think of as part of your family.

      It gets old. Real old.

      • Sylvar
        Sylvar
        September 14, 2010 at 1:16 am | #

        Hey Kevin, you might be interested to know that you’re not the only webcomic artist with this particular weird commenter/troll. Over on David Willis’s comics, particularly Shortpacked! and his newest one, there’s somebody who does the exact same thing. Over there he goes by Demoncat but the writing style is identical. I’m inclined to believe it’s probably the same guy. So if it makes you feel better, you’re not the only one who suffers from the plague of chad.

        • Kevin Church
          Kevin Church
          September 14, 2010 at 2:22 pm | #

          “Demoncat” is part of Chad’s email address, so yes.

  8. MichaelFromJamaicaNY
    MichaelFromJamaicaNY
    September 12, 2010 at 4:10 pm | #

    But don’t you see, Kevin? The Rack has reached the point of popularity in which it has moved from a thing you created to an emotional piece of it’s reader’s lives.
    It now belongs to everyone who shed a tear when Jerry married Abegail.
    Much like Batman belongs to all of Gotham, including it’s criminals.
    Chad is your Joker. Embrace him.

    • Patrick C
      Patrick C
      September 13, 2010 at 12:32 am | #

      I think Chad is Batman and Kevin is the Joker. Not sure where that leaves Birdie though.

  9. PhantomLongbox
    PhantomLongbox
    September 13, 2010 at 7:11 am | #

    Well, Birdie is obviously Penguin.
    Or the scarred-half of Harvey Dent.

    Either/Or.

  10. chad
    chad
    September 13, 2010 at 10:21 am | #

    looks like in some small way Jerry is gettting some fun seeing how Lydia is not looking forward to the training now. espically having to run five miles. also odds are Lydia will be throwing the ipod away after hearing eye of the tiger over and over.

    • Kevin Church
      Kevin Church
      September 13, 2010 at 11:16 am | #

      oh my god

      • Shadrach
        Shadrach
        September 20, 2010 at 3:09 pm | #

        Here’s what I don’t understand: as writer, you presumably have WordPress/ComicPress admin privileges. So if he bothers you that much, why don’t you just I.P.-block him?

        • Kevin Church
          Kevin Church
          September 21, 2010 at 1:25 pm | #

          It’d be very different if he were saying anything bad about myself or anyone here, but he simply doesn’t — context is very important and I’m enough of a fan of free speech to let someone comment as long as they’re not being a troll.

    • chadette
      chadette
      September 13, 2010 at 10:27 pm | #

      see this is why chad is the man abn I am just the substitue I never would have figured out that Lydai would throw the ipod away after seeing all those songs.

      everyday I learn from the master

  11. Chris
    Chris
    September 13, 2010 at 11:20 am | #

    Kevin and Chad. I’ve seen this movie. It’s called Fight Club.

    • William Day
      William Day
      September 14, 2010 at 12:34 pm | #

      Your proposal fills me with unrelenting horror, and also the giggles. The idea of a DID patient tormenting himself via various internet identities is too funny not to be true. Kevin! Don’t shoot yourself in the face! There are less messy ways to resolve this!

  12. Rob
    Rob
    September 13, 2010 at 7:08 pm | #

    Anywho, back on topic. So what music would be on Lydia’s playlist? Should be thankful she didn’t get Rick’s playlist.

  13. Katharine Tapley
    Katharine Tapley
    September 13, 2010 at 7:20 pm | #

    I think Lydia would have a workout playlist of music that she secretly likes but is ashamed to admit she owns. Like Kesha.

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