Oh now I see – all that “pre-checking” bollocks from yesterday about removing Fred’s speech bubble; the removed bubble was Fred saying “use the Bike, Luke…”
Have to say if ya look close enough there is something in the wheel borrow part of the bike he is on! Sad this happened to the good ole kickstand. Hope whatever he has in there was worth bodily injury .
So Yehuda escapes in true Yehuda fashion, by the skin of his teeth and incorporating a bicycle. Whatever he grabbed is stuff that probably will help save the Kickstand. Like tools.
He still doesn’t look too hot, I hope he’s okay. (No pun intended.)
Crikey, ten months ago it was dying of hypothermia with a broken arm in a snowdrift. Now it’s second and third degree burns. Yehuda is a little accident prone. I can only hope that Fred reappeared to tell them about the $600,000 dollars in gold krugerrands buried under the basement floor.
I actually laughed out loud. I’d been in danger of forgetting that this is a comic strip! Genius.
He’s ALIVE! Plus both arms look in tact. Stopdropandroll-stopdropandroll! Legs are gonna be smoother than the Razor-Brigade for a few days!
Phil Ligget is neither cheap nor annoying, though you are entitled to your opinion. I completely disagree with you on this point.
That said, you have excellent taste in online comics and your screen name has always amused me. Ride on.
The cat went out at the start of the party, being a typical cat and only liking humans in small numbers. It will be back where its dish is kept early in the morning expacting to be fed even though the rest of the building is gone.
At one time we had 14 cats in the house, and no pests or other things that were not wanted, aside from fewer cats. We’re down to 2 now.
That’s exactly my thought. Fizz did not want to leave the party, had trouble to get to sleep at home, probably overheard the parents discussing that Thistle had to quit the kickstand, and went there for a last visit to sleep in the bakfiets.
The Kickstand sells Bakfiets, so it doesn’t have to be Thistle’s bike that Yehuda is riding. In the http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20100905 strip she returned to the open house on a road bike, so presumably her Bakfiets is safely at home in the garage.
I think this selection of lyrics from Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell fit the occasion, especially with Sister Sprocket:
The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling…
Oh Baby, you’re the only thing in this whole world
That’s pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There’s always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it’s over you know
We’ll both be so alone
Like a bat out of hell
I’ll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I’ll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I’ll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight’s shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I’ll come crawling on back to you
Hurray! This was a great morning – I’ve been on the road for business and finally got to return to my morning routine: coffee, boot up the computer, check Yehuda, get to work. Today, YEHUDA LIVES! And he only appears to be medium well. Good on him.
I don’t wonder why Yehuda grabbed a bunch of stuff and rode it out of the flames. Don’t forget, the Kickstand is the only thing he has for a home other than the tent, sleeping bag, or whatever he pulls out of the hammer-space of his handlebar bag.
I would buy one!
Just think how cool that would look!
A black cap with ‘go-faster’ flames
I want two, so the missus can have one as well on our Tandem!
Awesome scene and yeah, it should be put up on that site where you get all the trinkets stamped with it! I just love the sight of Yehuda racing heroic from the flames, bakfiets filled with the really important stuff (didn’t rescue the sister but he didn`t let that go to waste) I bet the poor guy’s in a world of pain but it looks like he can recover from this.
The art work has remained consistently great, but the writing of this comic has diminished greatly–plot lines, dialogue (cliche), pacing, all aspects of language in the strip–the writing–is not as good as it once was. I know, the sentiment here is to just say how great it is: “Yehuda” , love it or leave it, but it has to be said. Overall, the writing quality in the strip has gone downhill.
Hey man, that’s all left to perception. You’ll see what you want to see. I’ve enjoyed the dialogue and plotlines to this comic very much, possibly more than some of the artwork- although there have been jaw-dropping illustrations, as well.
For example, just a few days ago, Yehuda exclaimed, “Creakin’ cranks!”
That was a wonderful bit of writing and I smirk every time I think about it.
I want Yehuda to be great, and Yehuda is great. It’s the placebo effect.
If you want to be a snarky contrarian, great, but you have the burden here — give us some specific examples of how the artwork was better, the plotlines were better.. when I reread the work from the beginning I see greatly improved artwork over time, and much more variety in material, maturity in character depiction, much more interesting experimentation in storylines.
This makes for some good writing! What’s next for the Kickstand? Hope they have Fire Insurance! Rebuild…Rebuild I say! Rick, make sure the new Kickstand has soul like a real bike shop and not some new, souless “concept store”. How about adding a tiny cafe that serves coffee and has some cute barista/cyclist to drive Yehuda crazy and possibly SS as well?!!! Maybe make the Barista girl a Mountain Biker! Lord knows you really haven’t covered that genre of cycling at all. Just Roadies and Commuters…not that there is anything wrong with that!!! Great job guys!
Seriously-What kind of fool rushes into a burning building to rescue someone, then, on seeing that person is safe, wastes precious time gathering up STUFF? It’s just stuff, FFS! It can be replaced.
My bet is that the earlier speculation is correct: Fizz was in there. Fred walked into the shop and told Yehuda that she was sleeping in the bak, so he rode it out to rescue her. (Otherwise, why was Fred even shown?)
I doubt Fizz was able to sneak out of the house and ride the Bakfiets all the way back to the Kickstand in the middle of the night by herself. As for Fred, I think he was there to show Yehuda the safest way out.
tired, stilted, homogenized, appeal to the masses art; like these homogenized comments. the freshness, the unexpected, against the grain of popular culture–that energy that the comic once had, is no more. But perhaps it will return. Interesting that since the tree fell on the shop, the quality of the comments has been low, the same thing over and over,”thrill me with some flames, yeah man, flames on a t-shirt! just like the motor bikers. homogenized commentaryof mindless praise. not the kind of interesting substantive comments I used to see here.
Although I agree with your intent for your reply Becci, there’s really no need to go profane in a reply. Don’t stoop so low, it lowers you and then leaves you open to doubt.
Oh right, “art”. Sorry, thought we were talking about a comic strip. But what the hey; these days you can piss on a crucifix and call it art. Hell, kiss the right asses and the gub’mint will even pay for it with stolen money.
And it’s still about the stupidest thing a person can do to fart around in a burning building gathering up material goods. Don’t matter if it’s an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, written on the real shroud of Turin and framed with wood from the True
Cross. It ain’t worth a man’s life.
That’s good ol’ Yehuda for you – EVERYTHING shall be done on bike, including cinematic escapes from burning buildings. Suave wheelie there too.
Now roll those flames out, dammit, roll ‘em out, Yehuda!
-Stinko
P.S.: Grabbed the Park tools, too, eh?
p.s. Thanks Fred.
Oh now I see – all that “pre-checking” bollocks from yesterday about removing Fred’s speech bubble; the removed bubble was Fred saying “use the Bike, Luke…”
: P
Lighten up, Frenchie.
-Stinko
15 mm wrench!
Have to say if ya look close enough there is something in the wheel borrow part of the bike he is on! Sad this happened to the good ole kickstand. Hope whatever he has in there was worth bodily injury
.
Yep, I’d grow a beard over that too! Hahaha!
Wow. Just…wow.
escape by cargo bike! classic.
Now that’s one amazing strip.
I’m torn as to which is a more appropriate song for this scene:
this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A
or
this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEF4zH6XHCk
Theme music to Superman the Movie will do just fine.
hahahhahahahhaha.
final countdown ftw.
Can’t listen from here, but are any of them Chariots of Fire? That’d have to be my choice!
Given Yehuda ran in there to rescue Sister Sprocket I think this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTrbSo3hS4
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3r6lSqYMXo
or perhaps, most appropriately, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otk3uwxnn74
Given that I watched Return of the Jedi at the weekend, it reminded me of the escape of the Millenium Falcon from the exploding Death Star….
For the music I think you need to look at the name of todays strip – MEATLOAF anyone?
Aw c’mon Mom, Meatloaf again?
Anybody know what I’m referring to?
Bat Out of Hell… referred to in the strip title.
“Last meas IS a condemned man…”
dr. scott gets it, brad gets it, janet gets it, rocky doesn’t get it….
No Meatloaf for you… it’s STEAM!
Awww, mom! We had Steam LAST night!
Another SLICE anyone?
cue top gun music.
cash in on insurance…
build kickstand 2.0…
regrow face pubes.
LONG LIVE YEHUDA.
Where’d fiesta Fred go?
And he comes flying out ablaze……
LIKE A BAT OUTTA HELL!!!!
ha! called it this morning!
OH thank God.
Yehuda = badass. rides out from the flames barefooted, on fire, on a bike.
So Yehuda escapes in true Yehuda fashion, by the skin of his teeth and incorporating a bicycle. Whatever he grabbed is stuff that probably will help save the Kickstand. Like tools.
He still doesn’t look too hot, I hope he’s okay. (No pun intended.)
Thank heavens. I stayed up late for this.
Believe you’re right. The Bak has a purpose- to carry stuff, and I wonder what Yehuda scooped up.
He’s like the Ghost Rider version on bicycle!
Crikey, ten months ago it was dying of hypothermia with a broken arm in a snowdrift. Now it’s second and third degree burns. Yehuda is a little accident prone. I can only hope that Fred reappeared to tell them about the $600,000 dollars in gold krugerrands buried under the basement floor.
wouldn’t those be ingots now?
Only ingots if Yehuda has become a charcoal brickette!
Now we know what Sprockets he went in there for, and whatever other spare parts he thought needed saving.
This was my thought too! LOL! Excellent!
I actually laughed out loud. I’d been in danger of forgetting that this is a comic strip! Genius.
He’s ALIVE! Plus both arms look in tact. Stopdropandroll-stopdropandroll! Legs are gonna be smoother than the Razor-Brigade for a few days!
THANK YOU RICK! : ) A cheery start to my day!
“And Moon roars out of the flames like a grand prix motor car”
- with all apologies to Mr. Liggett
Get that boy some Aloe Vera
I’ve always felt that Ligget is a cheap and annoying ripoff of Jackie Stewart.
Phil Ligget is neither cheap nor annoying, though you are entitled to your opinion. I completely disagree with you on this point.
That said, you have excellent taste in online comics and your screen name has always amused me. Ride on.
I hope he brought out the cat. One can not rescue something from a house on fire without rescuing the cat.
Is there a cat in the shop? I remember seeing a cat just once in the cartoon, in a house that Yehuda was watching.
OMG! I forgot about the cat! Where’s the cat, Rick?
The cat went out at the start of the party, being a typical cat and only liking humans in small numbers. It will be back where its dish is kept early in the morning expacting to be fed even though the rest of the building is gone.
At one time we had 14 cats in the house, and no pests or other things that were not wanted, aside from fewer cats. We’re down to 2 now.
Yehuda emerges from the flames, like a phoenix….
Just like the Phoenix – he will be stronger and better!
Uff… Yehuda’s OK… He’ll just need to grow a beard…. and he’ll need a new cap.
I wonder if Fizz in in there.
That’s exactly my thought. Fizz did not want to leave the party, had trouble to get to sleep at home, probably overheard the parents discussing that Thistle had to quit the kickstand, and went there for a last visit to sleep in the bakfiets.
Fizz might have curled-up in Yehuda’s bag?
Safe then…
I thought that, too, when I saw the cargo bike. I wonder if she’ll pop her head up from under a blanket in the next panel.
The Kickstand sells Bakfiets, so it doesn’t have to be Thistle’s bike that Yehuda is riding. In the http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20100905 strip she returned to the open house on a road bike, so presumably her Bakfiets is safely at home in the garage.
The title for this strip is indeed impressive. Kudos!
I think this selection of lyrics from Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell fit the occasion, especially with Sister Sprocket:
The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling…
Oh Baby, you’re the only thing in this whole world
That’s pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There’s always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it’s over you know
We’ll both be so alone
Like a bat out of hell
I’ll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I’ll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I’ll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight’s shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I’ll come crawling on back to you
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning’ bak
“Bak” out of Hell … Clever.
Yup! A good title – methinks it feits.
best. strip. ever.
“Roll him” – heard quite often in Cleveland.
“He’s afire! Bring that blanket!” Sounds like that balloon is attached to one of the Shakers. Sister Sprocket? Brother Pilot?
I thought it was Kevin.
It was!
Hurray! This was a great morning – I’ve been on the road for business and finally got to return to my morning routine: coffee, boot up the computer, check Yehuda, get to work. Today, YEHUDA LIVES! And he only appears to be medium well. Good on him.
That’s gonna hurt in the morning.
I don’t wonder why Yehuda grabbed a bunch of stuff and rode it out of the flames. Don’t forget, the Kickstand is the only thing he has for a home other than the tent, sleeping bag, or whatever he pulls out of the hammer-space of his handlebar bag.
Yehuda is now homeless.
bike rider..aka like ghost rider[the movie;nichols cage]
The plastic bucket on my Madsen would never make it through that…
Rick, you should hire out to do flames on cars and motorcycles. Very cool stuff.
Or a Walz cap. It’ll keep you extra warm in the winter.
I would buy one!
Just think how cool that would look!
A black cap with ‘go-faster’ flames
I want two, so the missus can have one as well on our Tandem!
And a sample at the top here, instead of a Brown cap?
This strip was so engaging, no one objected to the missing pedals!
Wooo Hooo! Oh thank you Rick!!! I think the first frame would look “hot” on a t-shirt… HINT HINT!!!
Rock on Yehuda, rock on. (although I hate Meatloaf and his stuff IMO)
Is it me or would the first panel make an amazing spoke card? Someone (Rick) laminate that and sell it!
Awesome scene and yeah, it should be put up on that site where you get all the trinkets stamped with it! I just love the sight of Yehuda racing heroic from the flames, bakfiets filled with the really important stuff (didn’t rescue the sister but he didn`t let that go to waste) I bet the poor guy’s in a world of pain but it looks like he can recover from this.
OK — they’re going to roll out the flames with a wool blanket, right?
Absolutely love the title of today’s strip.
If he wasn’t bald under that hat before. He is now.
Naw – the cap protects him.
But don’t cap wearers go bald anyway because of the cap? (funning)
The art work has remained consistently great, but the writing of this comic has diminished greatly–plot lines, dialogue (cliche), pacing, all aspects of language in the strip–the writing–is not as good as it once was. I know, the sentiment here is to just say how great it is: “Yehuda” , love it or leave it, but it has to be said. Overall, the writing quality in the strip has gone downhill.
Hey man, that’s all left to perception. You’ll see what you want to see. I’ve enjoyed the dialogue and plotlines to this comic very much, possibly more than some of the artwork- although there have been jaw-dropping illustrations, as well.
For example, just a few days ago, Yehuda exclaimed, “Creakin’ cranks!”
That was a wonderful bit of writing and I smirk every time I think about it.
I want Yehuda to be great, and Yehuda is great. It’s the placebo effect.
Nah, you’re just getting snootier, ranyu.
If you want to be a snarky contrarian, great, but you have the burden here — give us some specific examples of how the artwork was better, the plotlines were better.. when I reread the work from the beginning I see greatly improved artwork over time, and much more variety in material, maturity in character depiction, much more interesting experimentation in storylines.
“Epic” gets overused a lot in biking.
But you know. This.
This makes for some good writing! What’s next for the Kickstand? Hope they have Fire Insurance! Rebuild…Rebuild I say! Rick, make sure the new Kickstand has soul like a real bike shop and not some new, souless “concept store”. How about adding a tiny cafe that serves coffee and has some cute barista/cyclist to drive Yehuda crazy and possibly SS as well?!!! Maybe make the Barista girl a Mountain Biker! Lord knows you really haven’t covered that genre of cycling at all. Just Roadies and Commuters…not that there is anything wrong with that!!! Great job guys!
I think the first panel should be a T-shirt with the title. Bak Out of Hell!
Seriously-What kind of fool rushes into a burning building to rescue someone, then, on seeing that person is safe, wastes precious time gathering up STUFF? It’s just stuff, FFS! It can be replaced.
My bet is that the earlier speculation is correct: Fizz was in there. Fred walked into the shop and told Yehuda that she was sleeping in the bak, so he rode it out to rescue her. (Otherwise, why was Fred even shown?)
I doubt Fizz was able to sneak out of the house and ride the Bakfiets all the way back to the Kickstand in the middle of the night by herself. As for Fred, I think he was there to show Yehuda the safest way out.
I do wonder what’s in the bakfliet, since 4h30 this morning. If it is just STUFF, then Mongo and SS will have common cause.
The answer, Mongo, is ART!
tired, stilted, homogenized, appeal to the masses art; like these homogenized comments. the freshness, the unexpected, against the grain of popular culture–that energy that the comic once had, is no more. But perhaps it will return. Interesting that since the tree fell on the shop, the quality of the comments has been low, the same thing over and over,”thrill me with some flames, yeah man, flames on a t-shirt! just like the motor bikers. homogenized commentaryof mindless praise. not the kind of interesting substantive comments I used to see here.
Yes, well, you know, I think this is about the time you should fuck right off.
Rick works his ass off drawing this so that you can be a twat about it?
How about you start your own comic, and we’ll judge whether yours is any good…
Although I agree with your intent for your reply Becci, there’s really no need to go profane in a reply. Don’t stoop so low, it lowers you and then leaves you open to doubt.
Oh right, “art”. Sorry, thought we were talking about a comic strip. But what the hey; these days you can piss on a crucifix and call it art. Hell, kiss the right asses and the gub’mint will even pay for it with stolen money.
And it’s still about the stupidest thing a person can do to fart around in a burning building gathering up material goods. Don’t matter if it’s an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, written on the real shroud of Turin and framed with wood from the True
Cross. It ain’t worth a man’s life.
Does this mean we’re going to get to see Yehuda’s face? Kinda line seeing Darth Vader before he put his helmet on?
Abolutely brilliant Title!
Yep… Just noticed it.