Vikings Invade the Playground
Yes, I know they’re not being very nice…
But what do you expect? They’re VIKINGS….! 😉
– Friar
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The Deep Friar 
October 3, 2008 at 9:28 am
Dang, I feel sorry for that little girl on the swing.
October 3, 2008 at 9:39 am
@Writer Dad
Oh, don’t worry. He’s just going to cut the chains and wreck the swing, like he did with the other 2 kids. 😉
October 3, 2008 at 9:40 am
@WD: Yea, but that see-saw thing looks like it would be a blast doesn’t it!?!
October 3, 2008 at 9:50 am
@Sal
…Lucky for the screaming kid, someone was there to catch him.
Not that the Vikings would have been concerned, though 😉
October 3, 2008 at 9:59 am
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
This is HILARIOUS!!
I love it when you go to boring seminars paid by work. They have to send you on these things more often. And you can say, oh, yes, they’ve helped me tremendously…(my portfolio’s getting done!)
October 3, 2008 at 10:00 am
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I just can’t stop laughing! Everything is perfect! The stances, the emotions…it’s all too funny!
October 3, 2008 at 10:49 am
I was sitting beside Friar while he was developing this one… it was all I could do to not burst out laughing and interrupt the instructor 🙂
October 3, 2008 at 11:06 am
Friar,
This is fantastic! What a great way to start a Friday. The viking at the bubbler (do you call them “bubblers” in Canada or “water fountains”?) is my favorite. He’s enjoying that way too much.
(and it even looks like Basil got in on the fun!)
October 3, 2008 at 11:55 am
It’s even funnier to picture you and Brett surreptitiously giggling away as you doodle.
October 3, 2008 at 2:59 pm
@Steph
It’s funny…I cant’ draw pictures like this at home.
I do the best ones when I’m stuck in a tedious, boring environment (like courses, or school).
I spent my entire university career doing pictures like this. (Somehow, I managed to remember enough of the course material to pass).
Maybe I should deliberately enroll in a shitty night class at a community college, just to inspire me to do more cartoons.
@Brett
I think you sitting next to me, egged me on. I had a built-in audience.
@Rebecca
Oh, no. Nobody here in Canada calls them “bubblers”!! :-). They’re just water fountains.
(But the doggie isn’t Basil…Basil is a lab…this one has pointed ears. Probalby a shepherd mix).
@Steph
Brett is one of the best (or worst) influences in my life right now. I still haven’t figured out which it is. 😉
October 3, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Something about a Viking saying “Boo!” that is just too silly.
You can’t say you weren’t productive at that meeting. 🙂
October 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm
@Karen
Maybe the Viking should have pronounced it as “Bue” (to sound more Scandanavian).
PS. You should see all the Basil ideas I got at the meeting too!
October 3, 2008 at 3:47 pm
That’s awesome! Maybe mind-numbing meetings *can* spark creativity. 😉
October 3, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I’m with Writer Dad… I feel sorry for all of them.
😦
October 3, 2008 at 4:07 pm
@Karen
Mabye I need to keep my present job, then
(At least until my book gets published!) 🙂
@veredd
Aww…I figured some of the sensitive parents would feel this way.
Don’t worry…I checked the playground later…the Vikings went home, and the kids all survived. 😉
October 3, 2008 at 6:01 pm
They may have survived, but I’m sure they’re traumatized for life. They’ll have to be treated for post traumatic stress disorder — where’s the counselors?
October 3, 2008 at 6:48 pm
@Mike
Oh, there will be grief counesllors out in droves.
Then the townsfolk will hold a candle light vigil to commemorate the fallen swing-set, and schools will hold a “Viking Awareness Week” 😉
October 3, 2008 at 8:47 pm
This made my day. A!
October 3, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I like the merry-go-round. LOL
Basil’s pointy-eared side-kick is pretty cool.
October 3, 2008 at 9:47 pm
@Amy
If it was a Great Dane, then he’d welcome the Vikings instead of running away from them!
October 3, 2008 at 9:47 pm
@Peter!
Pretty good. A!
October 4, 2008 at 1:28 am
Is that an old grandma sitting on a chair in the second picture? Can you explain this?
I have to say your comics are really funny!!
October 4, 2008 at 10:02 am
@Evelyn
Hahah! Good eye!
Yes, that’s an old grandma sitting there. Frowning, and clucking disapprovingly at the whole scene.
But of course, she’s not actually doing anything about it!
October 4, 2008 at 11:56 am
I don’t want to play anymore! You baaaaad. Is that any way to treat man’s best friend (at bottom)? Huh?
October 4, 2008 at 11:58 am
@Davina
Ohh…it’s probably actually good for the kids, to learn a Life Lesson like this.
It BUILDS CHARACTER. 😉
October 4, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hey, it’s kind of like a comic strip! Viking superheroes!
October 4, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Friar,
I spent SO much time here, trying to figure out which comic made me laugh the hardest. Each time, I laughed so hard at ALL of them, that I gave up! Friar. this is delicious! I LOVE IT! MORE! MORE!
Rita
October 4, 2008 at 5:54 pm
@Melissa
You might be onto something there…Vikings acting like heroes, but they’re fallible (because of their inherent Viking nature). Kind of like a Spiderman/Peter Parker theme. 🙂
@Rita
Oh, there definitely WILL be more.
But in the mean time, you can get another taste of Viking cartoons on Brett’s recent post:
http://6weeks.ca/2008/10/04/bubblegum/
October 4, 2008 at 8:43 pm
My favorite is the merry-go-round, with all the kids flying.
Come to think of it, my elementary school playground sometimes seemed like this.
October 5, 2008 at 2:01 am
@beth
I have memories of my Dad doing this. We didn’t quite fly off but it the ride was AWESOME! 🙂
October 5, 2008 at 10:01 am
Friar – you crack me up. You have a whacky imagination. I don’t know how you and Brett keep coming up with all this viking stuff.
October 5, 2008 at 10:08 am
@Cathy
Thanks! It always makes me feel good, when someone tells me I crack them up.
(I have NO IDEA where this Viking stuff comes from, though. It’s all Brett’s fault).
October 5, 2008 at 1:17 pm
ha ha! genuine lols here. Would’ve liked to see that kid landing in the bin.
Also, a bit disappointed that grandma is immune to the chaos. Grandmas on swings or playing with balls are consistently on Funniest Home Videos. Hilarious.
Sean.
October 5, 2008 at 3:11 pm
@Sean
I think Grandma had enough of the Vikings, from the previous week. As shown here:
http://6weeks.ca/2008/09/26/viking-fridays-be-sparing-of-speech/
January 12, 2013 at 7:26 am
Love the spinning roundabout – my daughter used to get me to spin the one in our local park so she was hanging on to the bars and her body was flying out horizontally!