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No Parking Web Comic
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| No Parking Web Comic | |
| Creator(s) | J Sheehan |
| Website(s) | http://www.bymagic.com/ |
| Update Schedule | Monday, Wednesday & Friday |
| Launch Date | March 2006 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Rating(s) | G to PG |
No Parking Web Comic is a three times a week gag-a-day about a park ranger and the animals who talk to her. The comic started in March of 2006 by J Sheehan.
The strip is a satire, much in line with Doonesbury and Bloom County. The main difference being the after mentioned strips seem to be left leaning, No Parking Web Comic will attack both left and right, sometimes in the same strip [1].
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[edit] Controversial Strips
No Parking Web Comic has cause some controversy since it's start in 2006.
One of the strips most controversial strip involved 9-11 conspiracy theorists [2] . J. Sheehan has said this strip generated so much email that it nearly took down his provider's email server.
Another storyline [3] involved the gang going back to Dallas 1963's Kennedy Assassination to stop a future version of Pax (who they find in a 1963 head shop) from being seen as the man on the grassy knoll. The November 19th 2006 strip [4] ended with Pax on top of a building in Dallas in 1963 aiming a rifle at some unseen object. Again emails clogged his account. The next strip showed that Pax wanted to take out Oswald, and saving Kennedy. Barney talked him out of changing time and they returned to the present.
The December 12th 2006 [5] strip took on Creationism, with Barney appearing on Larry King to put forward his theory that man was created by ducks.
The December 22nd 2008 [6] strip featured a rant against proposed new taxes the New York Governor wanted. The strip became quite popular with New Yorker after appearing on the http://nyobesitytax.org/petition.htm [7] web site that is fighting the new taxes.
In the summer of 2009 people attending town hall meetings about health care printed out the August 14th 2009 [8] strip and handed it out. The strip was critical of congress and the government's health care plan, became a hit with those who opposed the government option.
Sheehan has said he sometimes wonders if he has fans or just a bunch of easily ticked of email writers who read his strip.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Barney Duck
Barney Duck is a tall white mallard that believes he is the ultimate anarchist, although his stunts amount to just pranks. In the past he has change the winner of the Best Song Oscar and got an arsonist who got off scottfree arrest by the fed as a terrorist. In 2008 he ran for President of the United States of America under the Creative Response Anarchist Party (C.R.A.P.), but lost.
Barney has a time watch from his adventures in the past [9]. Everyone else thinks it's broken but it is still working, although Barney has yet to use it for any purpose.
[edit] PAX
Pax is a hippy rabbit, who seems out of it all the time but is really an intelligent scientist, although it is unknow what his doctine is in. He worked as a science adviser to the Clinton administration, and introduced the president to his intern Monica Lewinsky.
In the January 9th[10] and 14th[11] 2009 strips Obama asks Dr. Pax Rabbit to be his Secretary of Weird Science. His main scientific theory is about Perpetual Peanutbutter.
in the February 9th strip [12]it's revealed that Pax has a wife who he married during the 1999 Woodstock Festival. Pax had apparently forgotten about her all these years. They are still married, but she decided to give him his space and doesn't live with him [13].
[edit] Amanda
Amanda is the young park ranger who plays straight man to the antics of the animals. She dates Agent Stephen Coldphish of the F.B.I.
Amanda also is a fan of dirty Japanese comics.
[edit] Penny
Penny, a pre-teen goth, is the ranger cadet. She is always drawn in black and white even in the Sunday color strips. Originally she was to grow up to be evil [14], but that changed when she found a lost egg and helped save it. The baby bird from that egg, Lovecraft, considers Penny its mother.
[edit] James T. Kaat
James T. Kaat is a orange alley cat who pretends to be the park's police officer. He first appeared in the March 21st 2006[15] strip. During the 'Empire of the Park' story line he took control of the park, renames it Furdonia and became it's God-Emperor [16] . This ended when Amanda came back and took control again.
James dates a alien cat named Kitka, who he met at an ICON Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in 2007 [17] .
In the November 14th 2008 strip he is killed in an explosion. The EPA declared that James, a Republican, died of "Spontaneous Combustion due to Obama". In the November 19th 2008 strip [18] Mouse talks to God and discovers that James is not in heaven.
On Christmas Eve 2008 [19] Barney tries to use the time watch to go back in time to save James, only to have the watch error. The watch repeatly says "Error, can not comply" as Barney leaves the room. After he is out of ear shot the watch says, "Error, can not comply because...James T. Kaat is not dead!"
In the March 18th strip [20] we learn that James has been transported to another planet, where he becomes a Conan like character called James the Untamed. The gang at the park still think he's dead.
[edit] Mouse
Mouse is a religous mouse that lives in the park. J. Sheehan has stated at the I-Con Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention that "Mouse was a background character so I never named her. Mouse has just sort of stuck." Mouse can be seen talking to God, who often answers her.
Mouse is currently a TV Horror Movie Co-Host on a local tv station.
[edit] Nomi
Nomi is a dog in the marines stationed in Iraq. Pax was against his joining up and hasn't talked to him since.
[edit] Kitka from the Planet of Sexy Cat Women
Kitka is an alien cat woman from the Planet of Sexy Cat Women that James met at a sci-fi convention. After she discovered that James was dead (or so she thinks) she decided to stay at the park.
[edit] The Barney Duck Taskforce (The BDT)
The BDT [21]is a task force housed in the Pentagon, who's sole mission is to neutralize the anarchist Barney Duck. To keep their identities secret they wear monkey masks, although they want to change it to dragon masks but they don't have it in the budget. They toyed with the idea of letting Barney win the 2008 election, thinking that with him as president he'd be under their thumb. The abandoned this plan and made it look like Barney lost the election, even though he got 92% of the vote.
[edit] Lou
Lou was Barney Duck's campaign manager for his 2008 election bid. From the primaries on she stood by him helping him with his campaign. After the end of the election, in a wrap up strip [22], it was learned that Lou was a memeber of The BDT.
