Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 28, 2012

FIRST!!!

Vlad, you were great! In honor of your first cartoon, I am posting your picture all over GoComics today!

working on my 5th gallon

Vampires suck.

Hi, Vlad! Sorry, I’m not allowed to donate blood anymore … I’m told it’s bad for me, especially if I to donate Vlad’s way….Aside: re: 20th Century Fox Flute Edition, it’s not a flute, it’s a recorder. No, really. ;-)

Not only does Vlad draw his own strip, but he puts out a public service announcement, too!

Vlad, your whole macho thing is very unevolved. You should try to get in touch with your feminine side before you give yourself high blood pressure.

Aw, Teresa, you say the nicest things!

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2012/01/honeymooning-in-hawaii.html

(I have been known to do some world class trolling on Yahoo Answers, but my posts were far more upsetting.)

Bloody good job Vlad!

Does Vlad shave his body hair? No armpit hair. No chest hair. No… um.

You look fat in black, Vlad.-———-I’m running now——————

How much interest does the blood bank place on loans?

He forgot to add that “if you are in hurry, Vlad will give manly hug to squeeze blood out faster”.

I want one of those tree grabber things!

Am think, is good to do what Vlad says….Congratulations, first-time stripper, Vlad! You knock my socks off, no?

I’m just too scared to not post on Vlad’s first strip, especially considering the subject matter!

hooray for Vlad!

Does anyone know what the “resolution” was re Gweedo?I got an email saying that it has been resolved, not what the resolution was.

Not bad Vlad, in fact, rad. I hope you get results that make you glad, not sad and your work becomes a fad.

Re: Dixie cups contest on the Blog: Can I use my time machine to go back to 6 months before I was born and enter the contest?

Congrats Vlad. I try to give when I can (when they have drives on base, which isn’t as often as you would think). I am still able to, even though I’ve lived overseas for 14 years because I just make the cut-off date.

Once again, Vlad, bloody good. Oh, and you can skip me—I gave at the office.

Dear Vlad,Blood is it I am donating every 8 weeks, please with your fist do not take too much. And please to give orange juice after.

Vlad is my cousin three times removed. And if he gets out of hand at this years Easter celebration, we’re going to have to remove him a fourth time.

I like your comic, Vlad, and I love you for doing this. I’m anemic and sometimes I need blood. Keep being awesome!

Vlad’s first effort really pumped me up . . . . . ☻

Somehow I can’t get past Vlad’s means of extracting blood. They don’t refer to him as “Vlad the Impaler”for nothing.

Does Vlad’s first comic rendition make him famous or infamous?

Congratulations Vlad.

Vlad – now get busy fixing the FAX blog…..

That Vlad is such a giver! Err, taker in this case.

Blood does a body good.

Vlad Haiku!

Vlad flexes muscles.Weak citizens bleed in fear.Innocent lives saved.

Has he become Vlad the Impeller?

So cool! Vlad combines a public service announcement with an offer of physical harm. It seems so appropriate!

LOL! BTW, Gweedo tried to post, no luck, but at least he can read the comments again.

Congratulations Vlad! Excellent first public appearance. I am looking forward to seeing you again.

Congratulations, Vlad! I would say you did very well, even without Teresa’s help. Your panel lines are no worse than a lot of others here on GoComics.

Good job, Vlad. Keep up the good work.

I thanks you, Vlad, for your donation of vital human fluids advocacy. You good are spokesman.

Vlad, your advocacy of the divine nature of vital fluids is noted in dispatches to the Home Office. Without eternal vigilance it can happen here. Thank you for your service.

Vlad! You scare at me, but I love at you anyway…

Vlad, I see you have already added to your maim count for 2012: The first of many incentivized donations.

And thanks for giving Teresa a day off, though it seems she spent quite some time attempting to assist your grammatical delivery. Your message, however, was as they say, crystal clear.

Whooooooo!

I gave my first pint on January 13th this year.

Only found out my Blood Type yesterday.

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No way do I believe for a minute that the picture on FrogBlog is actually Barbara Bush. If it is, how did she turn into the Quaker Oats guy in her age.

And the first part of that Leadbelly film, where he hums along with his guitar, the song is Black Girl (in the Pines):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yCEsDsGx4&feature=related

And be careful with that weightlifting. Always have a spotter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X2GKwoHOSA

Vlad, Blood, & seems to be something in your blood that’s not too tasty?

Re: Rape

Prior to 1977, rape was a capital offense. In Coker v. Georgia, Justices White, Stewart, Blackmun and Stevens wrote the plurality opinion that rape could not be considered a capital offense because rape does not cause serious injury. Put those justices in a state prison’s general population for 24 hours, and they’d soon have a different idea.

In 2008, the Supreme Court went a step further and ruled that capital punishment could not be applied to child rape, because life was not taken. If they might only stand before a tribunal of the millions upon millions of children whose lives have been shattered by violation.

The thesaurus does not contain enough adjectives of excoriation to describe how repugnant these decisions were. For me, the question is less about whether to apply the death penalty, but rather the trivialization of rape as a crime. In today’s society, it has become almost less than a misdemeanor. And that’s just wrong on every possible level.

@vlad: I gave at the office.

I am so happy that Vlad has turned his enormous people skills to the art of cartooning. It’s refreshing to see his tender side…rather than his tenderizing side. His Knuckles of Death can rest lightly on paper instead of against someone’s face. So proud of you, my manly mangler.

Vlad you’re welcome to some of my go juice…welcome to the toons…

Good luck on reaching 100 comments Vlad.

good man vladnow go help wonder woman battle crimethen have fun with lasso later

VLAD CAN ALSO KNOCK OUT A KIDNEY OR LIVER TO HELP THE GROUP ‘DONATE LIFE’.

A worthy cause, Vlad. I gave at the orifice, though.

Good job, Vlad. According to my calendar, I’m not eligible to donate blood again until 2/11/12. Sorry to disappoint today.

Castration and death for child rapists. Lengthy prison sentences or death for other sexual predators.Where in the U.S. is a 14-year-old not considered a child?If the 14 yo was your daughter and the 30 yo was your sister, you might feel differently.

Rent a bus and drive people to the blood bank, Vlad. How you get them on the bus is up to you.

Only 9 more comments to go, Vlad!

Well then, I shall donate to the cause of raising 100 comments.

If Gweedo could comment, this is what he’d say:

Gweedo Murray said, about 16 hours agoI already gave at the office….. Vlad’s office. He didn’t even give me the after dinner mint.Fell dizzy on the sidewalk and almost needed that blood ’fused back myself !

come on Vlad, suck it up, you can do it….you’re almost there..

Nice premier, Vlad!I agree with fear-ciuil about the instrument used on 20th Century Fox Flute Edition. It is definitely not a transverse flute but it also does not sound like a recorder. I think it’s a penny whistle or perhaps a slide whistle.

The NASA aircraft on the blog is a Super Guppy. It’s a highly modified C-97, which in turn was a modified version of the B-29. NASA used them in the Sixties to transport various spacecraft and rockets. Aero Spacelines built and operated about two dozen of them for NASA back then. NASA now owns one and uses it to transport components for Project Orion.

My grade school was right next to the Los Alamitos NAS, which in turn was adjacent to the Douglas plant which built the S-IVB stage for the Saturn rockets. Every so often you could look across the field between the school and the runway and see a canvas-covered S-IVB being loaded into a Super Guppy. The rear section of the fuselage was designed to detach for the loading process. I seem to recall that the two fuselage sections were held together with only four bolts. Very large bolts, but still only four of them. I always wondered how the pilots felt about that.

i guess i’m comment 101….vlad—you can have some of my blood. ihave a gigh hemoglobin level—thick blood. but no cancer. take a few pints, maybe i’ll feel less sluggish.

Next goal is 200

They use slugs called leeches to bleed someone. One of Vlad’s slugs bleeds you to death. But think of the lives you will save.

I’ve been known to inflate the comments, but I don’t know if I can do 97 more on my own!

I could try.

Really I could.

I could write a poem:When I see VladI feel so gladThat he’s not sadOr I’d be…some one help me here?

Post your comments at Frog Applause, or you will feel weak from lack of blood.

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Comments are great. All writers love them. Especially beginning writers like Vlad. But it is much nicer when you have something to say.

Vlad probably set a goal for 100 comments because that’s as high as he can count — or it’s his IQ.

It’s easy to make fun of Vlad when my comment is buried in 130+ comments.

Nicely put, Vlad.

The clot thickens.

Eight gallons – most at blood bank. Congrats to Vladimir.

Some pictures of a Saturn booster going into a super guppy here.

Some good comments on the rape issue. Do not misunderstand me, I’m not unequivocally supporting the death penalty. However, I am against the trivialization of the crime. About the only thing in *brownshoes*’s commentary that I would argue with is that rape is never justified. Ever. Regardless of what a woman wears, or how she acts. When it comes to violation of that nature, there are no mitigating circumstances. I know that there are many who disagree, but that’s how I feel about it.

I just have to introduce nudity into the strip. :-)

I always had the hots for Ingrid Thulin. She always got me agitated.

Agitated for wild strawberries. WILD BABY!

Vlad-Me like you.

Guys! Guys! Guys! I just noticed!

This strip is a forgery! It’s not signed by Vlad. It’s signed by Teresa.

(Gasp)

Shika, MY FRIEND! I think Number 6 is a friend, so no worries! He usually looks like the late great Patrick McGoohan, that handsome hunk of an actor, from back in the day!

Vlad, I’d give blood, but it makes me weak to do so. You aren’t going to hurt me now are you?

I’d hate to bleed all over your wonderful strip. Such a handsome man!

Your body suit is awesome.

Teresa, you shouldn’t pose as Vlad and sign your name. He might have to hurt you.

Good night all. I pass the torch to other worthies to reach 200 tonight. Good luck Vlad, or ….Teresa?

I am very dissapoint.

Way to go Vlad! Very exciting. And exsanguinating.

The banking system has already bled me to death Vlad, I don’t think your fists can pound anymore out of me.

Vlad! Where can I do my blood banking here in Omaha?

~gabriel

Hey Vlad, I just had to return to push you to 175

My ‘page down’ finger has a blister…