Fear Them
Feb11
on 02/11/2016
at 12:01 am
We see now… a frightening insight…
I had loads of fun with this one… creating panel three. I found a royalty-free photo of a spooky house… and then took a photo of my “office gnome” and then photoshopped what appears to be pack of evil gnomes ready to get-cha! Poor Randie has this in her childhood memories. We also learn the fate of her, ahem, birthday gnome.
Here’s the blessed event here:
Therapy time! Talk your way out of the fear, Randie! Expose your phobia to light and the dark gnomes must fade!
Not as much fun as taking an axe/shove/wrecking ball to the growing army, but you’ll still get paid!
*heh* Gnomes are buying your scooter!
She seems to have forgotten that… money equals Scooter… or at least goes towards one! It’s funny how our fears rob us of joy.
So the gnome sleeps with the fishes…
The birthday gnome sleeps with the fishes. See the link under today’s toon. You’ll see.
To this day I still don’t understand why gnomes are ‘a thing’. I really don’t. It’s interesting though, I recently found out a friend of mine has automatonophobia, which is a fear of things that resemble humans. Hers is very broad, including puppets, dolls, store mannequins, and lawn gnomes. She even has issues with some paintings like the Mona Lisa. Unfortunately she also has ruinously terrible impulse control and a number of other temperment issues as well. I have to warn her whenever your comic features gnomes so she can flag those pages as ‘no go’ zones to spare her computer screen from destruction. Sadly her phobias and other problems are a result of chemical issues and aren’t going away any time soon. Fear, in her case, truly does govern much of her life.
So if Randie ever goes the gnome killer route, she’s got a steadfast ally up here in Canada!
Wow, Trev… that’s pretty scary/serious/unfortunate! I’ve not heard of anything like that! I mean, I guess dolls… but not to this extreme. So I suppose this storyline hits home for some peoples.
Pediophobia (the fear of dolls specifically), Pupophobia (Same of puppets) and Gnomeophobia (Randie’s unfortunate tizzy!) aren’t uncommon, just uncommonly spoken about. Automatonophobia is the very broad and general phobia of all things humanish and ties into the ‘uncanny valley’ principle. It’s all very interesting reading! It’s something that is serious, but even so we laugh about it once things settle down.
They say everyone has a phobia. I’m a technophobe…… what technology can do scares the bejezus out of me, and I have to constantly resist the urge to crawl into a long book and never accomplish anything in this world. Lady Jenn had Asthenophobia, a fear of weakness or fainting. Anyone else got a fun one to share?
Well, Randie and I share spiders… I don’t like their creepy-crawly-ness. Bed bugs. Ants. Icky bugs.
I also fear “death” cranes. I won’t walk underneath them. Don’t trust them. There was one that fell in New York just recently. They are as I have implied. Death-y.
Much the same reason I don’t walk under ladders!
Triskedecaphobia has always bee one of my favorites -fear of the number 13!
That is a pretty interesting one, though I’ve never personally run into someone actually phobic of 13. I did know a japanese man who was scared of 4 though. 4 is the death number in japan.
Rich… interesting… I have a LOVE of the number 8. So if you can love a number… then you must be able to NOT LOVE a number… or fear one.
Underwater gnome…I see a re-enactment of ‘Carnival of Souls’ coming up (but hopefully not as boring).
Just the one… that pesky “Birthday gnome” Spill gave Randie years ago. Now it lives with the fishes. I’m sure it’s plotting revenge though.
Somehow, in spite of the fact that I always have a browser window open to Randieandryan.com – I completely forgot to read this week’s strips until this morning – which means I got to digest this sequence in one gulp without waiting! Wonderful!
I guess that’s good then! I do realize that with posting only twice a week, the story moves a bit slower. So I understand people maybe only reading it once a week or even every so often.