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--STBJD

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Phil ABD is my first foray into the so-called 'soap opera' genre of strips.

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--STBJD

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So, it's been three weeks since the last comic and my promise to return us to our regularly scheduled programming. Yeah, yeah, I'm a liar and we're going to lose our readership cause we don't post enough. Sue me.

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-STBJD

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Anon. 5:58 from the July the 4th thread asks:

"i can has sunday robot cartoon???"

Yes, true believer, you can. Additionally, I would like to take this opportunity to hereby suspend my extended hiatus from the Sunday Comics (or, to state that, at the least, I have the best intentions to return to our regularly scheduled programming).

Besides, PGOAT already ruined my vacation anyway. Overachievers, pfft!

(For those who forgot how to make the comic BBBIIIIIGGGG!!!!, just click it.)

--STBJD

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"Ain't Life Grand?"

Non-comic related note for the true believers: Bear with Team PJMB's sporadic postings during and around this ever-so pleasant time of the year, if y'all would please. We here at the PJMB know that we have y'all's sympathy. And know that we return the sympathy.

Non-comic related note for the trolls: Sorry Team PJMB hasn't given y'all fodder to complain about (including, but not limited to our whiny, bad, out-of-touch- with-the-real-world, privileged attitudes) as of late. We're just too busy being insufferable assholes whilst we complain amongst each other about how incredibly crappy our lives our as philosophy graduate students and how we should just be given jobs cause we earned it after working so hard for so long. But, worry not, I assume we'll be back to imploring people not to feed you or look you directly in the eye lest they incur your snarky wrath on a regular schedule soon.

(Wouldn't you like to know how to make the comic larger?)

-STBJD

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"With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound /
He [knocks] the [listless, dissertation-hating Philbot around]... /
Oh no, [this dissertation's] got to go /
Go go [Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator], yeah"

-Adapted liberally from BOC, Godzilla.

--STBJD

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Update: Anon. 2:22 in comments improves upon my original hijacking of BOC:

"With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound /
They dash our job market hopes on the ground/

Neophyte philosophers crying out in pain/
Please don't make me defend this again!

We pick up a theory and we throw it back down/as we quantify and generalize all over the town"

Oh no, this thesis got to go /
Go go and publish (yeah)
Oh no, there goes my last hope/
Go go and finish!"

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Hey, kids! Sorry about the lack of a new comic now, and probably until later this evening. Why the delay?

You know that feeling that surrounds us all like the cloud of dirt orbiting around Pigpen (comic idea!)? That ever-present feeling of guilt casting shadows over whatever it is that you're currently doing and sucking joy out of it all? The feeling that you should really be working on your dissertation instead of drawing comics, watching your fantasy baseball scores, and posting on the PJMB? Well, I feel the feeling overtaking me.

And so, I'm going to cozy up with the dissertation for a while; grateful that my guilt has (at least temporarily) awakened me from my productivity coma.

--STBJD

(Update: It's not happening tonight, folks. Sorry. And, you know, I'd feel a lot better about it if I had written a few more pages, but I have no good excuse, as it were. We'll see if I can get something for the true believers in the next day or two.)

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Look, I know many of you are sick of this discussion, and as CW points out in comments:

"[M]uch of this discussion is being driven by people frustrated with the job market."

Meaning, I take it, that those making the sort of comments under consideration aren't blinded so much by poor, oppressed white man rage, but more by the infuriating beast that is the job market.

Yeah, fair enough; but fuck if I wasn't going to draw a comic about the implications behind this outpouring of rage, be it from indignation about one's lack of melanin and/or possession of a penis or the job market.

Enjoy and let's all play nice now.

--STBJD

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After much deliberation, this week's comic remains without a title (and also without [blatant, or otherwise] copyright infringement). Though after drawing it I can't get that damn song from the beginning of The Hills out of my head. I'm not sure what that means other than I should probably spend more time writing my dissertation and less time following the slightly scripted lives of twenty-somethings in the Hollywood Hills.

Or should that be vice-versa?

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--STBJD

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I was told by my attorney that I can't be sued if it's an homage. So, if you never hear from me again, or from Team PJMB after today, blame it on my attorney, and PGS for giving me posting privileges. I hope he doesn't rue that day (and that I used rue correctly).

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--Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator

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"Spring Break!!!" Drawn by Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator, with a credit for the idea to his GF, the Ambivalent Psychbot. I don't know about you, but I don't think you can really understand logical positivism unless you read it in a thong.

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No, it's not Sunday. What's your point? Here's an untitled effort from Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator. (Click to make it big.)

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This week's comic from Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator is untitled, but it speaks for itself. (Click to make it big.)

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Apropos of people's advice for prospectives, here's "Get Paid", from Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator. (Click to make it big.)

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"Dreamin' Man." By Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator. (Click to make it big.)

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"A Valentine's Story." By Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator, with a credit to his GF, the Ambivalent Psychbot, for the idea. (Click to make it big.)

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Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator tells us we need to "watch out for search committee pirates." Sounds smart to me. I sure as hell feel like holing up with some real work for a while, and not having to worry about search committees. (Click to make it big.)

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"There Can Be Only One." Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator says that title comes from his room mate, who around these parts goes by Fellow Grad Student, and who's apparently still feeling the Robbie Burns' day spirit. "We're the princes of the universe!"

If only this applied to my life, and not my embarrassing fantasies about sword-fighting.

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Untitled. By Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator.
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"Smoker." After a much-deserved Festivus hiatus, Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator's back, with this vision of the smoker.

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