Jerkcity

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Jerkcity
L-R: Spigot, Pants, Deuce, Rands
Author(s)	Rands
Website	http://www.jerkcity.com/
Current status	Updating every day
Launch date	August 17, 1998
Genre(s)	Humor of the absurd

Jerkcity is a webcomic that started on August 17, 1998. It was created by Michael Lopp, aka "Rands", and continues today as a group effort. Jerkcity is updated daily and has an archive of over 3,000 strips. The strip is generated with the long-defunct application Microsoft Comic Chat which features the artwork of Jim Woodring, and as such almost entirely consists of characters standing around, talking.

Jerkcity contains no character development and almost no storyline or continuity. Primary themes it has in abundance include drinking, drug abuse, masturbation, homosexual or homophobic activities (particularly oral sex), gluttony, dick jokes and programming. Dialogue tends towards being absurd, incomprehensible and/or obscene.

1 Content
2 Cast of characters
- 2.1 Main
- 2.2 Supporting
3 Trivia
4 Music
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Content

The strip features a central cast of four characters — Pants, Rands, Deuce and Spigot—and a dozen or so minor ones. One-time characters have included John Ashcroft, Adolf Hitler, and Brian Peppers. Sometimes the players act out scenes from an invented T.J. Hooker-like cop drama called Spigot The Bear.

Sometimes a running joke which demands some level of continuity asserts itself, such as in the Big Faggoty Dick series [1][2][3][4], a period in the autumn of 2000 in which the characters went on strike, and a series of strips not featuring Pants or Deuce due to them being "arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D" [5]. In another instance, Spigot and Deuce poke each other in the eye[6]; subsequent strips portray both with an "X" over one eye. Once or twice a year, comics are substituted with cupcakes (moist) [7] without explanation. The strip sometimes comments on mainstream news ephemera, such as the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, the Terri Schiavo case, the Laci Peterson abduction, and even a woman left in a makeshift grave after the flooding of New Orleans.

The site also contains an official glossary, which helps to explain various slang used in strips, like "HUGLAGHALGHALGHAL" (the sound that "dicklicking" makes) and "T" (chat lingo meaning "Tell", followed by the person's name).

In November of 2004, some cast members went to Disneyland and left contact information for Jerkcity fans to send messages while in the park. Staff replied to many of these messages with pictures taken from a cellular phone's built-in camera.

[edit] Cast of characters

[edit] Main

Pants — A nine-eyed "Christmas tree monster", arguably the weirdest and least tactful character.
Rands Pantalones — An alien and the most level-headed character, which amounts to slightly more programming talk.
Deuce — A fellow in a tiki mask, often the most aggressive. Bites and clamps.[8] He wears his mask to hide the shame. [9] It is advised you do not feed him.
Spigot — A beatnik with a beret and a goatee. Likes pancakes w/ blueberry compote.

[edit] Supporting

Adolph Hitler [10]
Atandt
Brian Peppers [11]
Bung
Cock Zombie [12]
Dick — Often refers to fundamental tenets of Constructivist epistemology.
Effigy
Hanford
Harriet — A prostitute.
Inebriated Crustacean
Jean-Charles — A bumbling French waiter, an off-screen character with no dialogue.
Net
Ozone
The Peeing Man
Renaissance Man - A caveman.

[edit] Trivia

The book The Big Book Of Jerkcity was released on April 20, 2003 and is out of print. The book contains a glossary that has since been updated and added to the website.
The masthead of Daily Rotten conceals an image of Pants which links to Jerkcity.
Strips have included OpenBSD bug reports and corrections to this Wikipedia entry and ridicule of Wikipedia admin FCYTravis.
The official motto of Jerkcity is "Slurping and drooling and hurrrr." [13]
Jerkcity created its own schedule of holidays[14]