John's Commentary: Important guide to navigating single frame comics.
John's Commentary: Uninhibited Giddiness
John's Commentary: The reeds parteth and the creatures scattereth
John's Commentary: Sharp teeth are better for vicious biting.
John's Commentary: 1. Make sure to never disrupt a scared Indian Burial Ground. 2. If you find yourself suddenly covered in ants and gnats - you're probably standing on one.
John's Commentary: It'd be alot easier if fires could "accidentally" destroy the things that cause us strife.
John's Commentary: The 4 point fighting stance - similar to the triple threat in basketball.
John's Commentary: Will the ally do the right thing?
John's Commentary: I do a bunch of comics with the same setup. Leaf the scientist, performing tests on Shef (the subject). I like how Leaf is really relishing in his success in scaring Shef with the holographic Shef appearing in front of him - success on both fronts.
John's Commentary: Morgan believes himself to be helping Sir Charles Blake III branch out and make new friends, when in fact each new "friend" that is added to his basement air cage, he becomes increasingly more paranoid and frightened.
John's Commentary: The floating eyes say it all.
John's Commentary: It's anticipation that kills.
John's Commentary: If only hoofs had better traction.
John's Commentary: Scientist Leaf - always pushing the boundaries of what we know and seek to know about the true capabilities of the goats of the world.
John's Commentary: An abstract look at an age old question. Do we remain the same? Change? Or is is a little bit of both?
John's Commentary: Brainwashed, hypnotized and always smiling!
John's Commentary: Isn't if funny Shef secretly wishes to be that which he fears the most....with poly-morphic capabilities.
John's Commentary: Shef's posterior reacts to the gunshot without his knowing (you can tell by the surprised look on his face).
John's Commentary: Scotty has as hard a time making friends as Morgan does....for different reasons.
John's Commentary: Mind over matter (the birds don't feel as special).
John's Commentary: Morgan seems to be in an interesting place...in between good and bad....in the eye of the storm.
John's Commentary: Channeling something far beyond their natural physical beings (soar through the clouds....swim like the trouts).
John's Commentary: Sir Charles is in for a surprise when that tentacle touches his sensitive area.
John's Commentary: Does Morgan look satisfied to finally be closer to his true animal nature? Or do you think he wishes he was more pure bred?
John's Commentary: The bright and shiny all powerful cupcake machine!
John's Commentary: Great dreams sometimes include increased number of legs...and a mamma bird in your hands.
John's Commentary: Leaf is having a Jeff Goldblum ala Dr. Malcolm McDowell moment.
John's Commentary: Its the only way to get through the monotony.
John's Commentary: Leaf and Shef are wise enough to know every robot has a cold metal heart...and oil running through its plastic veins...and that it must be stopped before its too late.
John's Commentary: Ode to an amazing arcade game in the late 80s/early 90s...as well as a symbolic gesture of "sticking it to the man".
John's Commentary: One can only imagine the daily strain of being jolted to life each morning by this monster.
John's Commentary: Even though clones will have clone brains and will obviously act strange (possibly like droids), they may very well be physically superior to our true selves (i.e. fresh liver, lungs, kidneys).
John's Commentary: Sometimes being a villain can also be creative. Morgan sure put together an exciting first drop and loop for Sir Charles (who is prone to motion sickness). Light the sparklers and enjoy the show!
John's Commentary: The balloons will run out of air, yet the birds will run out of energy...it doesn't seem like Shef is aware of the latter statement.
John's Commentary: A snapshot of the daily life of Morgan, when amongst others of his species and human age....see how he drifts away to a happier place? (do you blame him?)
John's Commentary: Its not that Leaf and Shef are cheating as much as they're "outsmarting" their competition.
John's Commentary: This comic was made well before it became officially known that Charlie Sheen had spent a working mans' fortune on call girls (note the women's bathing suit top in his hands)...and yes that is a huge clam that has ingested Shef's upper torso and that eel has fallen hard for his beautiful tail.
John's Commentary: Note to readers: Tigers are only friendly if they have blue noses.
John's Commentary: A frightening look into the psyche of Morgan...when everyday moments summon the need to express his love for animals...in crippling waves of anxiety and passion.
John's Commentary: If your kidney (or any other vital organ) fails in the water...wrap your leg around your torso and kick.
John's Commentary: There is no equality even amongst the pups...You can imagine how Sir Charles ego develops from this point onward.
John's Commentary: Morgan is simply trying to fit in better with "his kind."
John's Commentary: owwwwww....something bit me (southern drawl).
John's Commentary: Morgan knows that old friends sometimes need to be replaced with new friends...especially when they can no longer move their limbs and don't react to violence in the same fearful manner.
John's Commentary: A scary realization....Ted Danson should never be so proud as to enjoy his bald spot with such unbridled joy.
John's Commentary: The equivalent of a kid in a candy store. The feather pulling and strangulation in full effect...however it looks like Oscar is about to counterattack with a vicious chest peck.
John's Commentary: Big dogs don't play nice with little dogs.
John's Commentary: A naturally occurring symbiosis (note Morgan's tentacle-like arm for advanced herring manipulation).
John's Commentary: Bringing your own popcorn to the theatre (genius). Not knowing there is a motion picture made about you (priceless).
John's Commentary: The river is life....the boat is the vessel....the brain is the battle.
John's Commentary: All you need is love.
John's Commentary: The most basic form of not knowing or caring about anything.
John's Commentary: Goldblum still has a portion of his human wit about his fly body...which should lead him out of harms way.
John's Commentary: The other fish get scared when big willy gets upset. Morgan's professional seal cry has someone scramblin'.
John's Commentary: How'd they get on that whale you ask? They were obviously trying to save Pinnochio after he turned into that donkey thing.
John's Commentary: You're never too old to be making lego castles...so stay young, or you might lose your hair early and dress the same everyday.
John's Commentary: Shef is quite expressive in goat-speak, but parrots speak english better.
John's Commentary: Morgan's gonna crab walk his way into a good pinching....and how! (giddy knee slap).
John's Commentary: Now as long as Shef doesn't scream this could turn out ok.
John's Commentary: Everyone needs a place of solace away from reality.
John's Commentary: Hey...it worked for Columbus....
John's Commentary: It looks as if Leaf is actually still engaged in fixing the problem...a few more bashes should do it.
John's Commentary: Morgan is eerily calm after cup #6...eerily calm.
John's Commentary: Morgan's death grip (after the chase) or the relentless bite of the flames....a touch decision for poor Sir Charles.
John's Commentary: Sometimes best friends are so close they are inseparable....literally.
John's Commentary: Whether you squish them or feed them large rocks, sea anemones are always more entertaining when out of the water.
John's Commentary: Who knows what you'll find.
John's Commentary: Never underestimate the organizational skills of the lesser phyla.
John's Commentary: The dream of sleep or the dream of life?
John's Commentary: Shef likes trucks...and to sleep on dog mats.
John's Commentary: Its just an owl....its just an owl (tremble)
John's Commentary: Always remember to drink enough water when playing tennis in the summer....heat stroke can be terrifying.
John's Commentary: My favs. are the bottom 3 and 4 boxes..Shef going for the horse-like tail whip, and the face to face stare down.
John's Commentary: Jedi Leaf makes Shef envision himself with a permanent rain cloud over him, while having just eaten another of his own kind. Jedi Shef makes Leaf imagine himself as a fly caught in a momma spiders web.
John's Commentary: Always remember to focus on the good in any bad situation (especially during Armageddon).
John's Commentary: Joy erupts in shaky jiggly purple spasms :)
John's Commentary: Late night walks in the forrest can be scary - but only if you're already scared of something to begin with.
John's Commentary: Morgan's always out looking for new friends for the "playchamber".
John's Commentary: Good old Saint Nick gets a season's anti-greetings for pure evil Regis - as a result Rudolph takes a nose dive.
John's Commentary: Don't think about them too much...or you could find yourself socially isolated and misanthropic...or you will just pass out.
John's Commentary: Its easier to build them up than break them down.
John's Commentary: Leaf often finds himself experiencing periods of mental instability...whereas Shef often imagines himself being outside of his body literally.
John's Commentary: Its fun for animals to make friends with each other, especially if they are instinctually predisposed to dislike one another...sometimes the laws of nature need a little loosening.
John's Commentary: Morgan ops for a swift 200 volt kick down the spinal cord, while Leaf enjoys the good old fashioned choke chain...learning is fun!
John's Commentary: Morgan treats Sir Charles like his own child....his own re-headed stepchild.....with severe diabetes.
John's Commentary: A more weighted version of the Old Testament's "an eye for an eye". In this case the bird seems to be getting it alot worse than Shef.
John's Commentary: There are two ways to approach what comes your way in life.
John's Commentary: Jimmy Stewart had it easy comparitively.
John's Commentary: Nothing can stop a predator from seeking its prey....not even sudden mid-air traverses.
John's Commentary: Proof that animal loyalty is easily betrayed for food.
John's Commentary: We just can't resist the sparkle...the sparkly sparkles.
John's Commentary: They always are....
John's Commentary: The powerball incites glorious dreams
John's Commentary: The birds go for the chips....the cats go for the one that brings the chips....good strategy by the cats.
John's Commentary: Bomb = three parts oak, two parts acorn fibers, eight parts lost family members, and four sour pickles.
John's Commentary: Dr. Leaf gives Morgan the body of a gray wolf, Shef contemplates how this may change things for him, Morganwolf dreams of his parents, who have become a hot dog and french fry due to the distorted mind of his heavily drugged wolf body.
John's Commentary: The only upside of Sir Charles life is the wonderous human food diet he is fed by his psychosexual, maladaptive, adopted father - Morgan.
John's Commentary: Small fry relishes basking in the role of the hero.
John's Commentary: What was the first birthday wish?
John's Commentary: If only fur was feathers and whips were doggie niblets.
John's Commentary: 8 legs, fangs, web-making abilities and savvy charm - unstoppable baby.
John's Commentary: Lohan loves the bad boys, the booze and black leggings...Leaf loves the chase and making the moment feel cinematic.
John's Commentary: Its fun, scary, surreal, painful, exciting and beautiful...and redheads always burn the fastest.
John's Commentary: Even best friends can get a little hot and bothered....Leaf looks ready to blast off.
John's Commentary: Reality check - the orca is a killing beast - the the best friend of 10 year old boys - sorry Disney.
John's Commentary: Alternate Title: Dying Whale Noises and Fits of Despair.
John's Commentary: Its a tricky game, this thing called love, You gotta use whatever tactics you can to make your heart sing.
John's Commentary: Somebody's gotta do it and it just so happens Shef's antlers form the perfect launch pad for a grade A U.S. missle.
John's Commentary: Saving lives stirs up an appetite of determination and double cheeseburgers.
John's Commentary: Having 5 legs makes hang-15s with aerial possibilities in the same maneuver a reality....top that off with snaking Laird and not thinking twice about it.
John's Commentary: Its a shame the weak and innocent are the ones that get it the worst.
John's Commentary: Pain is poetry.
John's Commentary: Perverse evolutionary cartoon art in fast motion.
John's Commentary: Leaf can't handle the pain - Shef attacks the system and is momentarily victorious.
John's Commentary: Past the void - the journey deepens.
John's Commentary: A visual pun!
John's Commentary: Everyone reacts differently to 130 degrees and extreme solar radiation....frogs boil, fur turns to hay, bird charcoal, and redhead/machine hybrids rule the world.
John's Commentary: Its always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
John's Commentary: The crashing of the waves and the intense focus of de-shelling a crab hides the sounds of the fast short breaths, and the hollow thuds of sand echoing deeper down the hole....to freedom.
John's Commentary: Page 27 of Official Biology Textbook of Shanghai High School.
John's Commentary: Childhood nostalgia drips from overflowing ponds....
John's Commentary: Morgan's ancestral chain is more in line with the birds than the apes.
John's Commentary: Its doesn't list "violence" in the recipe for rabbit stew, but we know its the first ingredient.
John's Commentary: Ego orgasm.
John's Commentary: Physics made fun!
John's Commentary: Leaf lets off some steam the old fashioned way.
John's Commentary: The Brave Little Toaster - The Horror film.
John's Commentary: Especially when they move in color flashes.
John's Commentary: The realization that can set off numerous conjoining nervous breakdowns.
John's Commentary: The Chuckee-Cheese skill set finally comes into use in the real world.
John's Commentary: We're all a palette of different colors, shades, and saturations.
John's Commentary: Morgan allured by the gurgling purrs of the monster is savagely taken prisoner.
John's Commentary: If you can.
John's Commentary: Always loved the big dusty dust ups.
John's Commentary: Balloons = acceptable weapons for children (and animals with human-like abilities).
John's Commentary: Genius is seeing several steps ahead of everyone else.
John's Commentary: Lead is credited as the sole creator of the advanced sorcerer combat tactic "the fake shadow".
John's Commentary: Tomato soup gets old fast when you're forced to live with your friends in a bomb shelter and you're not vegetarians.
John's Commentary: Mountain Ants are always the biggest and fastest...and when honey gets stuck on fur - they become warrior kings.
John's Commentary: Our story lies in the pages of our past (especially the ones that are dog-eared emotionally).
John's Commentary: All small furred mammals have the same instinctual mechanism to fan out their bodies, appendages and skin flaps to try to fly to safety when forced to jump from towering heights.
John's Commentary: Life is a competition....and you have to beat the small guys before you become the big guys.
John's Commentary: With glee!
John's Commentary: Super-hero psychological crisis.
John's Commentary: Shef's is a powering grace much like the rumblous tumult of the big bear.
John's Commentary: The stuff of which legends are made.
John's Commentary: Its a part of life.
John's Commentary: The supreme realization.
John's Commentary: Expect retaliation.
John's Commentary: Foot long hoagies ....always fresh in Shef's mind.
John's Commentary: Where does it go?
John's Commentary: Chasing the fluffy white tail cannot be resisted.
John's Commentary: A technique passed down through the horses of ancient years.
John's Commentary: They start early and steadily build.
John's Commentary: Morgan always has fun with animals.
John's Commentary: Extra legs help generate incredible feats in the organized sports arenas.
John's Commentary: Goat on fire = Goat in scorching hot desert wearing a fur coat.
John's Commentary: Freedom
John's Commentary: A monocle usually helps....
John's Commentary: Add cream and sugar for extra pleasantries.
John's Commentary: Not only does Angelo turn the birds against each other - he is feeding them their own kind in crispy fried glory.
John's Commentary: Morgan is engorged.
John's Commentary: The wrong guys always get all the credit.
John's Commentary: Be prepared, be flexible.
John's Commentary: Sometimes freedom is a flight into the unknown.
John's Commentary: You can't do it on your own.
John's Commentary: Heston seems eerily peaceful.
John's Commentary: Someone's gotta put them in their place.
John's Commentary: In the dream world you may encounter strange versions of yourself.
John's Commentary: Oh how Shef basks in patriotic glory!
John's Commentary: A necessary psychological release for socially inept redheads.
John's Commentary: The x factor = Azrael
John's Commentary: Its like finding the mother of all hot dogs.
John's Commentary: Sir Charles desperately looks for a gopher hole while running at full speed.
John's Commentary: Whipping a plan into action in animated terms.
John's Commentary: Keep drinking that coffee......(scream).
John's Commentary: We like today too much.
John's Commentary: Sir Charles was not made for the water, but Morgan knows his dunking technique will get him swimming like an otter in no time.
John's Commentary: In a brilliant display of colored lights and magic.
John's Commentary: Twins have to try really hard to differentiate themselves from one another.
John's Commentary: Even amongst the lower phyla.
John's Commentary: Go where you are going before you get there?
John's Commentary: A tragic hero in a deeper shade of purple.
John's Commentary: Butterfly fights.
John's Commentary: Larry's battle plan involves flanking, psych-outs, and vicious face scratching.
John's Commentary: To the bluer skies above the nonsense.
John's Commentary: The pink bow sets Sir Charles little heart ablaze.
John's Commentary: Hypnotism and the dark side of human nature - together at last.
John's Commentary: Merlin is calculating the exact moment to turn into a billy goat and head butt that vile beast.
John's Commentary: Gather some carrots and hope for a calm resolution.
John's Commentary: Sometimes its nice to just be by yourself.
John's Commentary: Big beards, big pupils, big ideas.
John's Commentary: Getting in touch with the nature of being.
John's Commentary: An out of shape Leaf devises a brilliant strategy to outrace Shef.
John's Commentary: Booze and beards...two things that make successful hitchhiking unlikely.
John's Commentary: Pilot games are always the same - although the point breakdown could be different depending on where you are in the universe.
John's Commentary: Morgan scampi ...a true middle-eastern delight!
John's Commentary: To be on top you gotta just keep climbing.
John's Commentary: Do not google the names of these women while at work.
John's Commentary: Its nice to know that such successful figures had so much fun in their teenage years.
John's Commentary: There's no avoiding a few crashes along the way.
John's Commentary: Where's the pellet gun when you need it?
John's Commentary: Americans - fat, lazy, and loving it.
John's Commentary: Scoutmaster Leaf summons chilling tales and Shef makes appropriate scary sound effects by rustling in the bushes.
John's Commentary: Donald may have met his match.
John's Commentary: The prison of your own mind.
John's Commentary: Shef's horns may have thrown off the wind currents.
John's Commentary: Lost Dali' masterpiece (evil Morgan lingers behind a hollow rock).
John's Commentary: Liquid courage - helping soldiers fight the good fight for centuries.
John's Commentary: The subtle tail jingle is Shef's specialty.
John's Commentary: The red hair flickers like flames in the rush of breeze.
John's Commentary: Croquet can turn best friends into worst enemies.
John's Commentary: 5 legs help to navigate the shadowy labyrinths.
John's Commentary: Peewee and Mr. Peabody have strangely similar looks.
John's Commentary: Watching them run until exhaustion is the best part.
John's Commentary: Deja vu = time travel in small doses?
John's Commentary: Do they? (are female horse ponies or are ponies mini horses?)
John's Commentary: The previous cartoon beings to make more sense (or less).
John's Commentary: It all comes crashing down at once ...everyday (sigh).
John's Commentary: Which Shef is real?
John's Commentary: Pierced wings - the only way to go.
John's Commentary: With expresso.
John's Commentary: Sociopathic training exercises are confidence builders.
John's Commentary: Imagine "The Fugitive" starring Sir Charles Blake and Morgan: Now cue the heart wrenching leap to freedom: ACTION!
John's Commentary: Yet so inextricably tied to reality.
John's Commentary: The snake's maneuver from branch to horns is one of nature's delicacies.
John's Commentary: Sometimes when you get to where you're going, the reason you were headed there fails to register.
John's Commentary: Cue up Boyz II Men - spoken word bridge section.
John's Commentary: Its not what you live, its how you live it.
John's Commentary: Its unfortunate for Sir Charles that Morgan considers all of his bites, love bites.
John's Commentary: A strikingly prominent moment in Van Morrison's life.
John's Commentary: Being larger than life is all "smoke and mirrors".
John's Commentary: Superheroes multi-task too....just at much higher speeds.
John's Commentary: Ropin' them little doggies.
John's Commentary: Take the money and run.
John's Commentary: True justice is above the laws of man.
John's Commentary: Small dogs everywhere - keep the fight alive.
John's Commentary: Kings of the night life, slaying the honeys, keeping it real.
John's Commentary: Fly away to where the palm trees sway
John's Commentary: Once you go green - life becomes a dream.
John's Commentary: Educating criminals of the future.
John's Commentary: Bask in the praise.
John's Commentary: Even the greatest villains finally gets whats been coming all along.
John's Commentary: And ribbit laughs.
John's Commentary: From God's POV.
John's Commentary: Shef's favorite workout routine.
John's Commentary: The red fur sprouts and spreads its animal fibers throughout his human nerves.
John's Commentary: Testing hypotheses.
John's Commentary: A celebration of karma.
John's Commentary: Like gracefully gliding over the cascading waters of the world in perpetual sunshine....(deep sigh at desk).
John's Commentary: Always a step ahead of the Russians.
John's Commentary: Another American saga comes to a familiar end.
