Its the little things that make the difference...

[Lucid_Archon]

Erfworld has a lot of little sight gags and goodies hidden in its pages, and you be missing out if you overlooked them. So here is a far from coprehensive list of visual gags.

Issue 2, Panel 1: Lord Manpower's breastplate has a large bulleye on it.
Issue 2, Panel 1:Lord Manpower the Temporary is a reference to Manpower Professional - a professional temporary service company.
Issue 2, Panel 6: The arrow has penetrated all the way through Manpower's head. It is poking through the other side.
Issue 3, Panel 2: Lord Manpower now sports an eyepatch, and an unhealthy green complextion.
Issue 4, Panel 2: Wanda makes the sound effect 'balk', which is exactly what she does in the next panel.
Issue 4, Panel 6: Stanley's desk, throne, and guest chair are all hideous faces.
Issue 5, Panel 7: The doorway to Stanley's throneroom is also a face.
Issue 4, Panel 10: The Arkenhammer looks much like a child's toy rattle.
Issue 5, Panel 2: The nut coos when swept off the desk.
Issue 7, Panel 3: Ansom's tent bears a strong resemblance to a radish. There is also a radish on his breastplate.
Issue 8, Panel 10: That is a spork. Not that Jillian would use it...
Issue 10, Panel 9: The command word "Hoffa" seems to be a reference to Jimmy Hoffa.
Issue 10, Panel 11:The command word is "Livingston" appears to be a reference Dr. David Livingston.
Issue 11, Panel 1: The magical Kingdom's colors expand onto the sea around them.
Issue 13, Panel 1: Sizemore stands in a circle of light in the otherwise dark forest.
Issue 13, Panel 5: There is a mexican wrestler in front of the blue portal.
Issue 13, Panel 8: The area in front of the portal looks like the teleporter from Star Trek.
Issue 14, Panel 1-3: There is a poster of Hamstard on the wall. Neat.
Issue 14, Panel 4: The song playing in Parson's car is "Re: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton.
Issue 14, Panel 4: "Jesus saves, he takes half damage." says the bumper sticker on Parson's car.
Issue 14, Panel 5: The check engine light is on.
Issue 14, Panel 5: Parson has one of those calculator watches. Nifty.
Issue 14, Panel 6: Parson is reading an issue of Dragon magazine.
Issue 14, Panel 6: Parson is wearing a Kinko's shirt across from Kinko's
Issue 14, Panel 7: Parson's room contains the following interesting items:

• A PS2, with two controlers.
• An object that looks like a Nintendo Wii, but is not.
• A Hamstard poster
• The hex grid for his strategy game.
• A large circular stain
• A Dunny
• A bust of a Zaku

Issue 15, Panel 5: The yarmulke worn by the guy with the grey shirt and glasses is the bloodied smiley face from Watchmen. It is much easier to see in the next issue.
Issue 15, Panel 7: The second guy from the right bears a striking resemblance to "Applegeeks" character Hawk.
Issue 15, Panel 8: Parson's eyebrows are set indentically to Hamstard's.
Issue 17, Panel 1: The scene is a referance to the movie Tron.
Issue 17, Panel 8: The command word, "Scruby" seems to be refering to Jack Scruby.
Issue 17, Panel 9: The 'plot' sound effect is styled in the fashion of the movie Tron.
Issue 18, Panel 4: Parson speaks with a different text than the erfworlders.
Issue 21, Panel 9: The Eager elves are almost exact duplicates of Link, for the Legend of Zelda series.
Issue 22, Panel 1: The creature on the ground is in fact a literal battering ram. A ram (male goat) used for battering.
Please note that I am aware this is almost completely pointless, and that I have made glaring mistakes, in grammar, spelling, and content. Feel free to state anything I missed, misspelled, or was mistaken about.

[The_Old_Fox]

nice list, it shows you, have attention to detail as well as the comic artist.

It is stuff like this that makes me like this comic more and more.

[Om]

Issue 4, Panel 6: Stanley's desk, throne, and guest chair are all hideous faces.

Now that is well spotted. Erfworld is certainly a webcomic that rewards numerous reads.

[Maurog]

Parson's room does not contain A Nintendo Wii.

[Xaspian]

It really does...

[Madalin]

I believe the artist has stated that is not a wii. I may be remembering wrong though.

[Xaspian]

I can see what I assume is a PS2. But is that white blob a Wii?

Indeed and indeed!

Erm, wish I had noticed that. If it is, we've got a continuity problem.

Ah poop! I mean, Wii? What Wii? I see no Wii here!

That's how it went. So it was probably originally intended to be a Wii, but now is and undefined blob/console with some wii-like qualities. But definately not a wii in the slightest.

[jami]

Heh, to be totally truthful, it was a Wii. But that wouldn't fit with the timeline we're working with so it's not a Wii. When we got to publish the thing in dead tree form, I'll probably make it magically disappear and replace it with something.

[SmartAlec]

A couple more 'little things':

The Arkenhammer (most clearly seen, page 4, panel 10) does look rather like a baby's soft hammer for hammering coloured shaped bricks through identically-shaped holes.

Page 4, panel 2, the effects of Wanda's walking are 'walk, walk, walk, balk' - to balk is to 'to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified', which is exactly what Wanda does.

The 'radish' seems to be something of a symbol - it's on Ansom's chest, Sir Webinar's chest and the chest of a cloth golem (page 10, panel 13)

[Lucid_Archon]

Added SmartAlec's suggestions and changed the text regarding the Wii. Thanks for the input, everybody!

[Erk]

I haven't seen any others, yet... not all of these are easter eggs of course; the Kinko's shirt, I assume, is there to show he works at Kinko's. That would certainly be a job that felt like an endless training video.

I have a squeaky hammer toy exactly like the Arkenhammer. I use it in my classes (I'm an English as a Second Language teacher) for games. Luckily I don't hit my students with it; presumably I would have converted 20% of them to pigeons by now. The wrinkles are there so that when you smack something it accordions in, pushing air through a whistle so it makes a squeaky toy sound.

Also, I notice that one view of Parson's room - the one facing inward from the door towards the game consoles - shows a messy disaster area (e16p4) while the other side (e16p10) is totally empty, and not even all that dirty (well, we can't see the floor, but the walls are not too bad). It gives an interesting artistic effect: when Parson vanishes from the room we get a sudden extremely empty view of the room. He really filled it up, both physically and mentally.

Clearly the guy doesn't care about anything in the room but the console-corner.

[Estelindis]

Never noticed the radish thing before. Good spotting! The little details really make this comic stand out.

[5tephen]

Wow! Thanks for all these!

[Vaniel]

Probably everyone was noticed this
Issue 12: Panel four
OMGWTFBBQ: Oh my God What the **** BBQ :D

[SmartAlec]

Another one I spotted -

Comic 2, Panels 3 and 4. Lord Manpower the Temporary's chest insignia is, quite clearly, a bullseye.

No wonder someone shot him.

And not really a sight gag but a detail that only just 'clicked' for me now: The thing on page 2 panel 7 and the scenery on page 3, panel 3 - it's the mountain on Parson's game map, clealry seen on page 16, panel 6.

[Erk]

I knew that was gobwin's knob but i hadn't gone through to see if there was a good from-erfworld view of it yet. Good spotting Alec

[xv bones]

Issue 15, Panel 5: The hat worn by the guy with the grey shirt and glasses is the bloodied smiley face from Watchmen. It is much easier to see in the next issue.

That's not precisely a hat, it's a yarmulke, which makes it even more infinitely badass.

I wish I had a Comedian Smiley Face yarmulke back when I was a kid.

[Mr Wizard]

Very Little thing:

In the last panel of this comic Parson and Hamstards eyebrows are set the exact same way, enhancing his resemblence to the hamster.

Compare his face to the one in the background or the one on his shirt.

[Rolaran]

A couple more...

Page 14: The song playing in Parson's car is "Re: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton.

Page 15: The second guy from the right bears a striking resemblance to "Applegeeks" character Hawk, who is himself an in-comic representation of artist Mohammed Haque (same bandana and skintone).

[penguinreich]

alot of things in the game are toys or households things. Examples

The martbits in comic one are latter revelaed to be the marshmellows from lucky charms
The gwiffon is a peep, it loses it's head the same way the one parson eats does.
Weibinars troops in page 10 are all stuffed animals, one might be a sock puppet.

[chionophile]

Actually, four of Webby's troops in that panel are stuffed (the two bears, the giraffe and the elephant - cloth golems), two are made of glass (the unicorn and the cat - the tcochtkes), and one is a sourmander which I am assuming is flesh and blood.

[TheAnimal]

Very Little thing:

In the last panel of this comic Parson and Hamstards eyebrows are set the exact same way, enhancing his resemblence to the hamster.

Compare his face to the one in the background or the one on his shirt.

Long live Hamstard the Warlord! :

Got to love these little visual gags. There sure is a lot of fun in this comic - if you keep an eye out for it.

[Lucid_Archon]

Added in the 17th page, a few things there. Also added in everything that you guys caught. There is an amazing amount of support for this list.

Page 14: The song playing in Parson's car is "Re: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton.

Page 15: The second guy from the right bears a striking resemblance to "Applegeeks" character Hawk, who is himself an in-comic representation of artist Mohammed Haque (same bandana and skintone).

Very Little thing:

In the last panel of this comic Parson and Hamstards eyebrows are set the exact same way, enhancing his resemblence to the hamster.

Compare his face to the one in the background or the one on his shirt.

Wow, nice catches, both of you. Added 'em in.

That's not precisely a hat, it's a yarmulke, which makes it even more infinitely badass.

I wish I had a Comedian Smiley Face yarmulke back when I was a kid.

Thanks, couldn't spell yarmulke.

[Mr Wizard]

I only noticed this when the frame was blown up:

In this blow up frame from episode 14 You can see a poster on the wall of a woman wearing something that looks a lot like Jillian's costume. She also seems to be on something serpentine, possibly a dragon. I have no clue where this poster comes from. Anyone have any ideas?

[charles]

It's a poster Jami did some time ago. Here:

http://www.jamihn.com/artdump/displa...up&cat=4&pos=4

Cloud Watching "Audrey and Fahlc check out some clouds. WHEEE!"

"This piece was accepted into the 13th Annual IC Exhibition in Washington, D.C."

BTW: love your new avatar/symbol Mr Wizard

[Scatha]

The little extinct volcano on Parson's game board resembles Lord Stanley's headquarters a lot.

[Grug]

I got another one. The "magic kingdom", with it's different colored zones and castle in the middle, Greatly resemble Dinay's "Magic kingdom" theme park in Florida.

Also when Wanda and Stanley are talking with the books, Stanley is using AOL speak, as the books simuate the famed Instant Messenger

Oh and Hamstard.com really exists. No wonder nobody looks at it, though. It's bad.

[InaVegt]

Not to mention it's way newer than the dates imply, it's made in late 2006. (I'm talking about hamstard.com)

[Mr Wizard]

It's a poster Jami did some time ago. Here:

http://www.jamihn.com/artdump/displa...up&cat=4&pos=4

Cloud Watching "Audrey and Fahlc check out some clouds. WHEEE!"

"This piece was accepted into the 13th Annual IC Exhibition in Washington, D.C."

BTW: love your new avatar/symbol Mr Wizard

Thanks, for both the explanation and compliment.

[Tephlon]

Issue 14 panel 7/Issue 16 panel 4 : The red and white bunny on the bookcase is called a "Dunny" and is a so called "Designer Toy".

http://www.tokyotoystore.co.uk/desig...ch/cat_30.html




One "little thing that would make a difference" would be to have a page where you can see the latest comic. Like http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript for the Order of the Stick.

But maybe that's just me.