Comic Sightings

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Contents 1 8-bit Theater 2 33 Variations on a Theme by Strong Bad (a Teen Girl Squad Comics) 3 Accidental Centaurs 4 Adventurers 5 Aminal Crossing 6 Blankism 7 Bruno the Bandit 8 Captain SNES 9 Clearwater Clan 10 Commander Kitty 11 Digimon 12 Dominic Deegan 13 El Goonish Shive 14 Final Stupidity 15 GameCheetz 16 Hawkman 17 Mid-Shift 18 Natch Evil 19 The Neopian Times 20 Penny Arcade 21 Phil Likes Tacos 22 Pokemon X 23 Purple Pussy 24 PvP 25 Questionable Content 26 Random Access 27 Random Codes 28 Real Live Dead 29 Room 30 Roy the Duck 31 Runaways 32 Slackers 33 Sluggy Freelance 34 SMAX 35 Sore Thumbs 36 Teen Titans Go! 37 Theater Hopper 38 Under Power 39 Universal Voyage 40 VG Cats 41 Walking Is Still Honest 42 Witch's Brew 43 The Wotch 44 Zebra Girl 45 Zelda comic

8-bit Theater

A dark elf explains how evil a monster is, and Trogdor comes to mind. 030520.png

In Twinkin' Out, a confused fan asks Red Mage how Strong Bad types with boxing gloves on (Last letter on the page). Twinkin' Out 21

A guest artist strip contains Thief wearing a Strong Bad mask.

Episode 566 is entitled "Spelunk'd!", a reference to the death exclamations in Teen Girl Squad.

33 Variations on a Theme by Strong Bad (a Teen Girl Squad Comics)

This is an actual fan made Teen Girl Squad comics, done in the same way Strong Bad would have drawn it. [1]

Accidental Centaurs

In a crossover with The Wotch on March 26, 2005, The Wotch's Robin (transformed into a dragon) shouts "BURNINATE!!" as he breathes fire at some winged monkeys. [2]

Adventurers

The title of this strip is "PIANO'D", an apparent reference to Teen Girl Squad.

Aminal Crossing

In the 16th comic, "Were taking this baby to the mooooon!" is a reference to Strong Bad Email personal favorites

At the bottom of the 18th comic you can find the text "Oh, there are two of them."

Also, in Episode 22, the main character gets MONKEY SLAM'D!! an unmistakeable TGS reference.

Blankism

In #23 a fake credits scene appears and it reads "Produced by A. Chimendez". This is a reference to A. Chimendez, the fake writer of the Cheat Commandos cartoons.

Bruno the Bandit

American politics are parodied by comparing them with other regimes. Few places are as oppressive as Strongbadia. [3]

Captain SNES

In the comic for 21st March 2004, Mother Brain asks King Hippo how he can type with boxing gloves on his hands.

Clearwater Clan

The comic for June 24th, 2005 shows the cast drawn as stick figures. One of them, a dragon named Taku, comes out looking like Trogdor.

Commander Kitty

In an issue of the Commander Kitty comic, one of the characters is wearing a Strong Bad mask. Unfortunately there is no current reference since as of May 20th, 2005 the website was down.

Digimon

In the fourth and final volume of the Tokoypop manga adaptation of the third season of the Digimon animated series, Rapidmon utters What's Her Face's classic line: "My blood hurts."

Dominic Deegan

In the September 23, 2002 comic, Strong Bad makes a cameo appearance as one of Dominic's customers in the last panel. 20020923.html

El Goonish Shive

In a filler comic posted on February 3, 2005, an alien character named Minion shows up to answer reader e-mails, telling the readers to just call him "Strong Minion." [4]

Final Stupidity

In the fourth comic, "Obligatory Pop Culture Reference," Dangeresque too makes a small cameo on the last panel.
The fifth comic's title, "Burninated", is an obvious reference to Trogdor.
The seventh comic's title, "Got Witch's Brew?" is a reference to Homestar's obsession with witch's brew.

GameCheetz

The seventh panel in comic #15692 is taken from Parsnips A-Plenty.

The title of comic #00224 is a reference to "Those loonies are gonna BLOW UP the ocean." from The Cheat Commandos.

Technochocolate is mentioned in the fifth panel of comic #00297.

Hawkman

In the December 2003 issue of DC Comic's Hawkman (page 16 of issue 20, volume 4), an abusive spouse is seen wearing a black T-shirt featuring Strong Bad's face and gloves, and the text "FHGWHGAS." Unfortunately you'll have to pick up an old issue of the comic to see it. Oh well. date. [5]

Mid-Shift

This strip is not available online, but if you purchase the book, and turn to page 19, you can see a Homestar Runner mainpage on the computer. Official website

Natch Evil

Comic#109God mentions getting an email about how he types with boxing gloves on. Extra menu Rather remiscent of the main menu and it even says apologies to Homestar.

The Neopian Times

In this comic from Neopet's Neopian Times, someone is "Pillow'D". Someone else is "Dunged" in the same issue. Check that one out here. These are both references to Teen Girl Squad, and the things that happen to the girls.

In three comics made by _lordofthefrogs_, the owner himself wears a duckie shirt (Comic #1), Homestar's star shirt (Comic #2), and in the 3rd comic a salesperson wears the same skirt as Marzipan (Comic #3).

Penny Arcade

Tycho closes his post on Mar 25, 2005 by saying "trogdor was a man" [6]

Phil Likes Tacos

Homsar is among one of the characters to make a cameo in this strip.

Pokemon X

In the April fool's special, the characters are 'FOOLED!' by Arrow'd Guy.

Purple Pussy

In the Oct. 12, 2002 comic, Purple Pussy is seen wearing a Homestar mask.

PvP

On the Sept. 11, 2003 comic, Francis is forced to write an apology letter and notes that he is sorry, even if the individuals he's apologizing to give him the jibblies

Questionable Content

In comic #265 [7], while Faye and Marten are discussing what will be the next indie rock band to break up, Faye mentions that the head of Win Butler (from The Arcade Fire) will explode during a live performance, forcing them to replace him with a Homestar Runner puppet. Also, in comic #317 Steve is wearing an "Eh Steve!" T-shirt.

In comic #333 [8], Raven wants to be left alone to close the coffee shop. She exclaims, "I can do it! I can totally do it nine times!" This is a referance to The Cheat's crazy cartoon in crazy cartoon, where it is said by Strong Bad.

Random Access

The title of the 35th is "Everything is fine, nothing is ruined"

Random Codes

At Codejunkies.com they have a webcomic called Random Codes. The first two lines of the 16th comic are "So from then on, it was all pork and beans." and "That's not very healthy..." which are close to the two lines of dialogue said by Homestar and Marzipan in helium.

Real Live Dead

In [9],comic number 9 and 10 in the fourth pannel the people are sent to heaven with a flash saying AFTERLIFE'D

Room

A recent update of this puzzling pixelart webcomic has an appearance of a pixelart Strong Bad and The Cheat. He's looking at a computer, but it doesn't appear to be any of the ones he's owned. [10]

Roy the Duck

• Explore Roy the Duck's math book to find Homestar Runner and to learn how to count (see page 4 especially).
• The new Ye Castle's Final Houre book says "...don't throw full glass wine bottles at the screen."
• It also has two references to homestarrunner.com on the zBay page. On it Bubs is selling the Slightly Shotgunned Compy. It also contains a link to bookazon.com which is part of homestarrunner.com
• The Palm State Times on the site contains an article about Thorax Corporation.

Runaways

In the July 2005 issue of this Marvel Comics publication, as the title characters head off on a mission to rescue the captive mother of their newest accquaintance, Victor, Victor himself remarks that he is "not sure why he should entrust his mom's life to the freakin' Teen Girl Squad!" Chase, the only male member of the Runaways team, corrects him with: "That's Teen Girl Squad plus one, amigo!"

Slackers

The title of the 92nd Issue of Slackers is "Teen Girl Squad."

Sluggy Freelance

The weekly filler Meanwhile in the Dimension of Pain shows the demons deathmatching. When Horribus uses the Unholy Hand grenade and the demons are all incinerated, the panel reads "And all was laid to burnination." link

SMAX

The Top Ten spin-off comic SMAX puts Jaafs Macksun and his partner Toybox in a world of fantasy. There are several references to Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Homestarrunner.com. A wanted poster for Trogdor is on a pole and the silhouette of Homestar and Pom Pom are seen in town.

Sore Thumbs

A drugged director quotes Strong Bad's "H*R and Marzipan Dating Simulation XR" from Strong Bad Email date. st20041220.gif

Teen Titans Go!

In the issue of this DC Comics comic entitled "Finding Nero," there is a fair game was Strong Sad plushies as prizes.

Theater Hopper

Tom Brazelton of Theater Hopper had himself in his comics on June 23, with a Homestar shirt. 040623.jpg

Under Power

In the May 19, 2004 comic, Strong Bad and the Cheat are the DJs in panel 2. [11]

Universal Voyage

In comic #2 there are sprites of Strong Bad and Trogdor as a team called "Burninators!" link

VG Cats

In Comic 100, at the end, click on 100 Comics to see a little cutscene with the Compy 386.

In the 6th panel of Comic 135, a The Cheat Talking Plush Doll is visible with the rest of the merchandise behind the glass.

At the top of the new layout, there is a rotating image, featuring quotes from somewhere. A few of them are [How do you type with boxing gloves on?], [We are the band LIMOZEEN!] and [Let's get ready to look SO GOOD!] [12]

Walking Is Still Honest

In strip #69, the power is out, and there is a picture of Strong Bad's head with the words "Power Failured!" above it. [13]

In strip #94, the trebuchet is nicknamed 'Trebdor, the Flinginator'. [14]

Witch's Brew

The origin of the Witch's Brew name came from Homestar's famous Halloween witch's brew line. (Alas, however, the phrase is not spelled correctly in the comic.) Also, in the first comic, Homestar appears on the last panel, and the third comic uses the CHILDREN! panel from Teen Girl Squad. The sixth comic tells us to not fake the funk on a nasty dunk, one of Homsar's quotes from interview.

The Wotch

In the June 24, 2003 comic, Lilly and Jennie are playing with Homestar Runner action figures. In particular they are acting out a scene from Teen Girl Squad Issue 3. 062403.html

Zebra Girl

In this Sandra's Journal! comic, Sandra answers an oddly-familiar reader email in a novel manner.

Zelda comic

Tons of sightings here.

• In Comic 136, Bub says "Ow! my stomach lining!!!"
• On comic 162, the characters are swamped by Cuccos with the caption "CUCCO'D!"
• Comic 164 is actually called "Yet Another Subtle Homestar Reference." The reference is "shut it up, you."
• Comic 170 is entitled "I'm So Glad the Bub is Not Dead."
• In Comic 191, third panel, the two soldiers said, "We are so cool" and "'sup."
• In Comic 193, the Miscreant decapitates Edgar with the caption "DECAPITAT'D!"
• On the 200th comic, they used the "Its almost over!" screen from Teen Girl Squad.
• Comic 212 is entitled "Yeah, Shut Up, Kid."
• On comic Comic 217, Link says "Rock, rock on!"
• On comic Comic 220, Link says,"That sounds re-zon-able".
• On comic 225, Link asks what would happen if Bub fights Lloyd. Bub answers saying "his head a splode?"
• On comic 227, Lloyd dodges an attack with the caption "Matrix'd!"
• Also in the bonus section, there is a thing called "Flame War 04" the first comic is a reference to the Strong Bad email dragon, and the state (California) with the underwear is a reference to Strong Bad email weird dream
• The Homestar Runner wiki was mentioned 4-25-05 with the following quote:

Just wanna give a shoutout to Homestar Runner Wiki for citing all the Homestar 
references ever made in Zelda Comic, 
Witch's Brew and Aminal Crossing. Well, most of them. *wink*