124 – Premonition
First of all, I apologize for the simple background, but I can’t make ’em overly complex all the time.
Chloe is almost breaking the fourth wall today with her strange, straight out of left field trivia. There’s no denying that Clementine is overly popular with most of the Frivolesque readership. I’ve always joked that she might take over the comic at one point…
I might have said it before, but I have a deep love for Peanuts. It was one of the first comics I’ve ever read. It was also the first comic I read that wasn’t French or Belgian, and my mom even had some old 1950s-60s paperbacks in their original english language that my french speaking, seven year old self tried to decypher as best as he could.
So yeah, without Charlie Brown (and his underappreciated original friends) Frivolesque might not even exist today.
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They should all be worried. Soon they’ll all be phased out by Mr. Toad and Trainer Nick!
Mr Bear’s reaction to your post:
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The Bear is too much of a background character to care about this. :)
I wouldn’t say that to his face though.
He has proven a sore looser before, & loosing screen time to his fellow lesser characters as they advance might be a sore point…
..Perhaps a tuna in an iceblock will distract him tho…
The bear would be the villian, cause when Nick and Mr. Toad takeover, Frivolesque will be a gritty underdog type boxing series like Rocky or Million Dollar Baby. Mr. Bear would be like the Dolph Lungren! I guess Gaia would be in it too because she boxes but only a bit part! Remember who the stars are.
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Screw Frivolesque, I have another webcomic idea now!
But where would I get my weekly dose of cute girls with glasses?
Aw, you’re right.
What if I make a comic that only focuses on Gaia, though?
That sounds lonely.
You would get tired of drawing everyone else blurred.
Wow.
Shoot, part-time job girl is going to take over the strip. :P
I’m sure some readers would like that.
Chloe is kinda genre savvy!
Heh, loved Peanuts too, now even more ;) My favorite was Schroeder, also I do remember Patty and Shermy :)
Go Clem!
What no love for Pigpen? (；ﾟ(OO)ﾟ)
Was he ever a character?
Well he was pretty one dimensional I guess…
Despite the fact that Pigpen rarely appeared in the later comics he is still one of the top favorite characters.
My mom named her first four cars (all Volkswagens) after the Peanuts characters. They were:
Charlie Brown, a red 1962 Beetle.
Schroeder, a green 1967 Beetle.
Sally, a white 1968 Beetle. (We only kept her for about a week because she had a cracked engine block.)
Peppermint Patty, a blue 1966 “stationwagon”. (She gave us well over a decade of extremely reliable service. Not bad for a car that is apparently considered one of the worst Volkswagen designs!)
That’s all kinds of funny :) The original Beetle is one of my favorite cars.
Too sad Sally’s issues, that is an especially good name and personality for a Beetle, although remembering poor Sally’s unusual brain performance maybe your mother just tempted fate :P
That story makes you sound so much older than me…
Clem taking over the comic at some point. I all boarding that Hype Train! Woo Woooooooo!
Clem and the girls of many jobs.
She remains your favorite, huh?
I often joke about this.
Nearly my first comment here back then: “Clementine is going to rock, I bet” so seconded :)
Chloe, i think you need to blush more often to surpass Clementine’s charm :)
Fight orange with orange.
yes, indeed :D
Amen!
Especially if it is in a story involving Gaia. Other than maybe Marie, I think that no other character has better potential to bring out the blush than her.
It’s coming. :)
Clementine is the sweetest orange! :P
She’s the juice with the great caboose.
Chloe isn’t the type that blushes easily…
Being Marie-Neige’s friend for a while is bound to do that.
someone will find a way :D
Mimi ;)
Yes, Earth meatsack spawnlings can catch others rather unaware with their…observations…
and she’s around :D
now we’ll wait for Ben :D
You think he’ll show up?
he possibly shows up later, after all he’s your fav male character in Frivoverse right? :)
I relate to him…
Yes, I do think that Clem is as cute as they get. But lose the Big Five, even my darling Chloe?? NEVER!!!
I don’t think the big five is endangered… Although Chloe and Saki always seem to be the least popular ones. I’m glad Chloe has a fan in you. :)
Though I have preferences, all your characters are awesome, so the difference is not that much :) I think Chloé and Saki do get a lot of love from the readers, at least for me they do :)
I always feel like they’re not that popular. Maybe it’s just me.
Saki hasn’t always come off well, being as much of a loner as she is. But I like how she relates to her partner, and her relationship with Gaia is fun to watch, if not always fun for her.
I hope she gets better occasions to shine. :)
I think so; I’m awfully fond of them.
Marie-Neige deserves to rule your Web comic, not Clémentine. Though should could co-lead under Marie-Neige’s rule :P
I think Gaia should be tagged. (=
Saki is on it ;P
Hi, I’m back.
Sorry, I just had to get away from people for a while, sort of a sitting-on-a-mountaintop thing.
Most importantly, (for your fans), right now you are at 107 on TopWebComics.com.
You missed the top 100 by LESS THAN 50 VOTES!
C’mon, people, that’s ridiculous!
It only takes three clicks of a mouse to vote!
If you like this comic, then vote! Make it a habit whenever you get on line.
Okay, I’m calm now…
I remember Shermy and Patty as well. I used to buy the Peanuts paperbacks with my allowance.
It was the first comic that I remember reading for myself, and it answered the question that no one else could: “Why is it wrong to read upside down?”
Because it’s hard to look at the pictures that way.
It also taught me to question Authority (“Because no one else does” is not a valid answer.)
Peanuts… Teaching subversion one child at a time.
And yes, I learned to read upside down.
I vote every time I visit but It hasn’t been enough.
Great news, I voted again this morning and Frivolesque has re-entered the Top 100 and of this post is ranked 87th. YAY, hopefully we can continue to improve Frivo’s rank.
Today it’s down to 105th.
Reading upside down? Interesting, gotta try that. You humans have some weird tricks, but i like that…
My mother used to read to us at the dinner table while running her finger with the words. My brother sat on one side, my sister on the other, and I sat across the table.
So, I learned to read upside down.
My first grade teacher told me that I couldn’t read like that, I asked her why not, and things went rapidly downhill from there.
“See Spot run” is really boring when you’ve cut your teeth on “Treasure Island”…
Haha, awesome! :)
I wonder what your siblings learning was, guess they ended finding Chinese totally natural as well :P
Don’t apologize about the background, they are a welcomed bonus but not an obligation. Blank walls exist in real life too, you know :)
Also, I just cam… ran across four-skulls’ drawing about Gaia and Saki…
Wow.
Haha! I have it in my favorites on DeviantArt!
There’s where I saw it :)
Aww, main character angst? We all feel like that sometimes, i guess, also Nerd Alert!
Nerd Alert? Because Chloe knows trivia?
Any trivia that’s not about motor vehicles or popular sporting events is in danger of setting off that alert. I watched 80’s high school movies, they taught me how life works
I’m the nerdiest nerd that ever nerded!
And I don’t know anything about sports or automobile trivia…
my favorite character changes about every other week. though i think i’ll always have a soft spot for Flore. girls got imagination in spades.
I know, right? :) Every Frivolesque’s girl have one trait or another that attract me, but Flore’s imagination is indeed one of the things that made me fall for this comic ;)
yeah, curiosity and imagination for the win! also, she may be a magical girl so there’s that too.
YESSS!!!! <3
When I was a kid(but not as a squid), the comic BOOKS as in actual books not booklets I included things like Asterix, Tintin, The Broons and a bunch of others I cannot recall at the moment. As for Peanuts, when it comes to Charlie kicking the ball, I always wondered why he didn’t just use the heel of his boot to make a dent in the field and use that to stand the ball up so he can kick it himself without Lucy’s “help”.
“and a bunch of others I cannot recall at the moment.”
Lucky Luke? The Smurf? :)
And in a more generic way Metal Hurlant (Heavy Metal)
Man, memories.
It seems like the Franco-Belgian school did almost everything ;)
Lucky Luke YES, Smurfs NOPE
The Splatoon memes are even reaching Frivolesque…
Whoa, Asterix and Tintin? I always thought those never really took out outside of the french speaking world! :)
And Charlie is an idealist. He constantly thinks Lucy will tire of her game, and will let him kick it at some point. And Lucy knows that. She’s actually trying to make him learn that life is unfair, even if she might not realize it yet. So in a way, she is her greatest ally.
Chances are, even back in the 60s and 70s, you will find some Asterix and Tintin books in your local library and I found them when I was 6-7yo.
“Whoa, Asterix and Tintin? I always thought those never really took out outside of the french speaking world! :)”
You kidding, right? They are everywhere!
Most Americans I talked to didn’t know who there are. I always found it weird considering how ubiquitous they are in the french speaking world.
Astonishing o_O
Around here in South America I’m yet to talk with a person of any age or country that didn’t heard about them. Many were fans also.
Most Americans haven’t even heard of the awesome-sauce TV series that is Monkey, the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven.
I have no idea about sales numbers, but they’re well-known in the Netherlands. Tintin is known as “Kuifje”.
(Besides, they’re both sold in 100+ languages around the world, so I think that counts as taking off in the non-French world)
All right, folks, it’s a new day and Frivolesque is ranked 85 with 39 votes! Vote again!
(cracks whip – KCHOW! “YIPE!”)
I love you guys.
That’s because you have a sense of humor.
We love you too.
Same reason…
It’s a good wholesome love, without utensils. ^_^
No artificial ingredients, plenty of natural preservatives.
Oh, I guess I’ll vote again. Since I caught up and everything.
Hey, thank you for the vote!
And also, I welcome you as a new reader then! :)
Where did you hear about my comic?
Thanks.
I don’t quite remember how I got here, but it may have been Flaky Pastry. I seem to recall a lot of people coming from there and I was reading that before this one.
Well! Here comes good ol’ Clementine!
Good ol’ Clementine… yes, sir!
Good ol’ Clementine…
How I hate her!
whaaattt???? everyone loves vitamin C!
you’d get scurvy if she wasn’t around. you’re probably in season to have scurvy right now.
He was quoting the very first Charlie Brown strip. :)
ooohhhh!!!!
Nice reference. :)
Technically, in this context, Clementine wouldn’t be Charlie Brown since Charlie Brown was always the main character of his comic. A role better filled by Flore or Marie-Neige, even though they are nothing like him.
Clementine would be one of the main cast that appeared later, either Peppermint Patty, Linus or Lucy…
That quote your referencing was said by Shermy right? Lol first speaking role only to disappear early in the comic.
Yup! Those two kids in the first comic were Shermy and Patty!
Don’t really think that Schulz forgot about Patty. She made appearances throughout the run of the comic unlike Shermy.
Hmm, yeah, I guess, but she was more of a generic kid… And it’s kinda weird how he created another Patty character, breaking the “One Steve Limit” rule.
Yeah Patty and Violet pretty much became background characters by the late 60s early 70s I want to say. But they stayed in it unlike some character who straight up disappeared. Like the curly hair girl (forgot her name) that was a main character for a while then became a background character then disappeared. I’m guessing that Schulz liked the name Patty so he reused it since no one ever said the original Patty’s name again (I think) after the mid 60s
Curly haired girl was Frieda.
Too meta, Chloe. Far too meta.
This comic reminds me a bit of Lyman from Garfield, the original owner of Odie.