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Published: 2008-03-09 09:24:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1880; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 19
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Description **Delos Woodruff over at Art Patient gave DEAD DAYS a pretty bitchin' webcomic review! Click this [link] to check it out!**

Yay! The new Yearbook is finished! I'm way more excited about it than you are.

I wrote this strip some time ago, and since then I've kinda dreaded it because I knew it was going to take some work. I mean more work than the usual guys standing around and being smart asses. I kept rearranging the shot angles in my head trying the maximize the readability and funny-ness. It wasn't until early this week that I finally decided upon the layout you see above. Damn. who knew funnies were so complicate?

I love this strip because as a kid, the monkey bars were always the bane of my playground existence. While I wasn't quite "chubby" per se, I did have a tummy. That coupled with absolutely NO upper body strength made things like the monkey bars or the rings you swing from a physical impossibility! So bothered was I that a few years ago, I returned to my childhood playground and vindicated myself by completing those monkey bars. Sure I was now tall enough to touch the ground while I did them, but whatever. Vindication is vindication.

Anyhoo, enjoy the strip, friends! Part 8 (the final flashback) will be up next week with a goofy finale and you won't wanna miss that. Thanks for reading!
-Baby Fat
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Comments: 27

Worm22 [2011-05-14 05:16:12 +0000 UTC]

Nice. U R my favorite artist

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Worm22 [2011-05-14 05:12:05 +0000 UTC]

fantastic itΒ΄s looked as my ilustrated story

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Vasclev [2008-05-18 22:51:01 +0000 UTC]

hehe- me siento identificado.

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DBZMSI [2008-03-12 23:43:20 +0000 UTC]

haha... oh man... memories right there.
yay for being uncordinated.

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faceintheflame [2008-03-11 05:35:03 +0000 UTC]

monkey bars suck. nice strip. love your work

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alienbabe [2008-03-11 01:42:59 +0000 UTC]

Ha! Screw that - I always climbed on top of the monkey bars. I crossed them the right way once in my life, and then climbed on top for the rest of it.

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oICEMANo [2008-03-10 10:43:35 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the review. I love Dead Days

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sweetophelia18 [2008-03-09 22:22:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I never saw the appeal of the monkey bar. Or that metal bar that us girls were expected to hang upside down from (humiliating in a dress or skirt). I think such playground equipment was some strange cold war Soviet design, intended to make little tank soldiers out of all of us (well... those of us without the baby fat)

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Andre-chan [2008-03-09 22:09:06 +0000 UTC]

The elementary kids near where I live call their playground, "Ninja Warrior."

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deaddays In reply to Andre-chan [2008-03-10 00:43:24 +0000 UTC]

Haha! Love that show.
-John

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scapermoon [2008-03-09 21:51:15 +0000 UTC]

I had trouble with the monkey bars, too. I don't think I ever completely made it across them. Instead, I just climbed on top of them.

Great comic, as usual.

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devilwomens420 [2008-03-09 20:41:36 +0000 UTC]

finally. A comic I don't need a prescription for! I rocked those bars! yes! and I was totally a chubbers. I also rocked cherry bombs.

course that was then. Now my arms get tired even when my feet are on the ground! and the callouses! ouch!

I conquered my fear of jumping from the swings tho. Bent 'em over and made 'em my bitch! yeah.

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tassel [2008-03-09 19:17:42 +0000 UTC]

Monkey Bars were the best. Even more fun if you fell. But I only fell if I was screwing around too much.


Oh man, stuff you remember from childhood.

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westwardcloud [2008-03-09 17:57:55 +0000 UTC]

haha i always hated the monkey bars

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trelokthesheep [2008-03-09 14:04:10 +0000 UTC]

By the way, it's spelled "per se".
....someone had to say it.
And I always did love the ring swings.

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deaddays In reply to trelokthesheep [2008-03-09 17:09:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Marv.
-John

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trelokthesheep In reply to deaddays [2008-03-09 23:39:01 +0000 UTC]

no worries.
And keep up the good work.

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Rendan86 [2008-03-09 14:01:40 +0000 UTC]

being a skinny boy like me, those monkey bars wasn't difficult for me...^^
this is going to be the first one for the next printed book? man, i'm just waiting for the next contest so i can try to win one more of them, i have read the one you sent me like 50 times already

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ForgetfulRainn [2008-03-09 13:39:53 +0000 UTC]

Prepare to meet your maker! hahaha

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Scrawffler [2008-03-09 13:04:43 +0000 UTC]

*laughs* That's great! When I was a kid it completely threw me whenever I saw someone actually make it across those things. I'd always thought monkey bars were some impossible torture device the teachers used to mess with our heads.

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ThornedVenom [2008-03-09 11:42:01 +0000 UTC]

I didn't have problems with monkeybars, but several years ago while I was babysitting some kids at a local playground, I had realized that I just couldn't swing around as well anymore.

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marian0 [2008-03-09 11:19:56 +0000 UTC]

Monkeys gained my respect after I failed at the monkey bars.

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RedRoseGrace [2008-03-09 10:38:33 +0000 UTC]

they were hard but after trying a few hundred times, I made it XD

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lancekatre [2008-03-09 10:27:51 +0000 UTC]

Accursed monkey bars, indeed.

I reently went back to my old elementary school, and those things were at forehead level.

Sure, I'm abnormally tall, but it still made me feel like I blew things out of proportion.

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mikepav [2008-03-09 09:28:28 +0000 UTC]

i could never get the hang of those damned things either.

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punkie078 In reply to mikepav [2008-09-28 06:29:05 +0000 UTC]

me either.

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phonzik In reply to mikepav [2008-03-09 09:42:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, i had the same problem

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