Patrick D Ryall

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Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 15h

Bob Farrell is the Rocket Racer.

A piece of pixel art with four colours (yellow, red, black, and brown) showing Marvel's minor character the Rocket Racer jumping on his skateboard toward the screen

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 4d

Is Adventure Dennis your role model? Is this already your motto? If so, you probably don't have anything to learn from Adventure Dennis Level 5. www.bookofpdr.com/comics/adven...

An image from the Adventure Dennis webcomic showing Dennis running up a mountain with a cyborg's head impaled on his magic sword. The text says "KILL EVERYTHING THAT STANDS IN YOUR WAY!"

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 7d

Adventure Dennis has been busy lately. Maybe a nice nighttime walk in the woods will help. www.bookofpdr.com/adventure-de...

A screenshot from the webcomic Adventure Dennis. Dennis (wearing suspenders reminiscent but legally distinct from those Mario wears) is standing on the branch of a tree and on another nearby tree a monkey brandishes a knife at him. The text says "OH! IT'S A MONKEY!"

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 11d

People are always asking "What if back in 2005 you used MS Paint to make a webcomic that was supposed to be like a haunted house from a video game?" and I'm sick of repeatedly explaining that I actually did do that in 2005, so here's Adventure Dennis level 3: www.bookofpdr.com/adventure-de...

A panel from the webcomic Adventure Dennis, showing Dennis brandishing his magic sword at four zombies. The text says "OH NO! THE DEAD HAVE RISEN AS FOUR ZOMBIES!"

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 15d

Making good on my threats, I have put the second level of Adventure Dennis up in a clearer format. This will continue until my demands of one million dollars are met. www.bookofpdr.com/adventure-de...

A panel from the Adventure Dennis webcomic. It shows Dennis (with a bleeding head wound) using his magic sword to bisect a goblin and the text says "ADVENTURE DENNIS USES VIOLENCE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM"

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 18d

Cyclopes are all the rage now, yeah? I'll take advantage of that by bringing Adventure Dennis Level 1 to a new, simpler webpage. Remember Adventure Dennis, the webcomic from 2004? No you don't, liar. Over the next month or so, I'll put the whole thing up like this. www.bookofpdr.com/comics/adven...

An image from the webcomic Adventure Dennis. It's drawn in MS Paint to seem a bit like an old platformer game. The titular hero, Dennis, brandishes a sword at a cyclops.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 25d

I somehow got more worked up than usual doing this Superman vs Bigots article, but I got there in the end. bsky.app/profile/the-...

Three panels from a Superman comic from 1941.

Panel One: Superman leaps as he carries a screaming man in a Nazi-like military uniform.

Superman: Why not display some of that Dukalian courage you did so much raving about?

Panel Two: Superman leaps away, leaving the Nazi hanging from the top of a flagpole.

Nazi: You can't leave me here!

Superman: Don't like it there, eh? Well, you're free to let go ay time you want!

Panel Three: The Nazi clings desperately to the flagpole as he calls down to his Nazi underlings.

Nazi: Get me down! Hurry!!

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· 28d

A colouring book page of a robot holding a flower labelled ROBOT. It is Stanislav Blue, a robot from the webcomic Secret Government Robots though in black and white to be coloured.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Jun 12

@pushinguproses.bsky.social @mattaukamp.bsky.social Relevant to the latest episode of Save Your Game:

A three panel strip from Ryan Pequin's Three Word Phrase Webcomic entitled "Unfathomable Comics"

Panel One: The Elder God Cthulhu, as he is typically drawn, looms over a town and two people look up at it.

Person 1 (pointing): Oh wow. It's Cthulhu

Panel Two: The two people continue looking up, with no hint of fear or terror.

Person 1: I know it's Cthulhu because of the tentacles.

Person 2: And the little wings.

Person 1: Mhm. The wings.

Panel Three: They continue looking up at now-dejected looking Cthulhu.

Person 2: That's him for sure.

Person 1: Yeah

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Jun 2

I should have known it would be a famous comic character.

A panel from a comic depicting Harry S Truman, drawn by Frank Robbins.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· May 22

www.bookofpdr.com/2012/12/13/a...

An image made with Star Trek title screen generator. It shows the TOS Enterprise in orbit around a planet and the title is "The Frog Of Fortosia"

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· May 14

A comic strip titled: "The Malevolent Meanheart"

It has two characters. Meanheart is a big figure in a purple cloak with claws and his head is a floating red face. Henchley is a a diminutive green sidekick type.

Panel One:

Meanheart: Henchley! I have a new scheme to destroy those bothersome do-gooders!

Henchley: Yes, your creepiness?

Panel Two:

Meanheart: We shall pose as pumbers and gain access to their homes!

Henchley: Yes, O Foul One.

Panel Three:

Meanheart: Of course, we shall plumb nothing! Instead we shall install a wide variety of tricks and traps!

Henchley: Of course, my Deplorable Master. Your vile bidding shall be done.

Panel Four:

Meanheart: Look, I already apologized for forgetting your birthday. All this namecalling is petty and frankly unprofessional.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· May 13

I have been informed I am not in this. I have been a living joke for decades, what more do they want?

A photo of the cover of a magazine called Canadian History with the feature being "Canada's Comedy Greats".

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 13

2023: Comical Comedy Rabbit Comics www.bookofpdr.com/2023/04/15/c... A rabbit stars in a comic strip and doesn't know why.

A three panel comic titled Comical Comedy Rabbit Comics. All three panels show just a badly-drawn rabbit that has been copied and pasted poorly instead of being redrawn.

Panel 1:

Rabbit: Look, I don't know I guess I like to eat carrots, I guess.

Panel 2:

Rabbit: Or maybe something funny?

Panel 3:

Rabbit: Maybe I eat pad thai

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 13

2022: Planet Gurx www.bookofpdr.com/tag/gurx/ I very much enjoyed doing a sort of speculative alien biology thing fleshing out the planet Gurx, homeworld of the Strondovarians.

A drawing of a landscape on an alien world. In the foreground a little squirrel-like alien sits upright on a hill as little alien bugs walk around it. Past the hill there is a vast field of purple grass with some sort of megafauna grazing, sort of like an elephant with a shell on its back. The sky is sort of a grey-blue and a white star casts shadows.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 12

2020: The Official PDR Desert Island Comic www.bookofpdr.com/2020/04/04/t... You're not legally allowed to call yourself a cartoonist until you do a comic set on a desert island with a palm tree.

A single-panel comic with a tiny desert island with just a single palm tree that has some coconuts. A shipwrecked guy in shabby clothes with a beard is sitting at the base of the tree. On the tree is a picture of the guy labelled "Employee of the Month".

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 12

2017: Pete Nancy: Agent of HINDER www.bookofpdr.com/2017/10/23/p... This was when I really leaned into making Phone Guys too complicated by telling a year-long story of Pete accidentally joining a terrorist group devoted to ruining society.

A Phone Guys comic in which Pete is wearing a supervillain-style costume.

Pete: Hey Jeremy, It's Pete.

Jeremy: What's up, man?

Pete: Just so you know, I will be out of town for a while. I got a new job!

Jeremy: Nice. How'd you find this one?

Pete: They actually sought me out. I got a call yesterday. They said they had seen my previous work and were very impressed.

Jeremy: What work have you done that would impress anyone?

Pete: I figure they probably meant my nude modelling.

Text: TO BE CONTINUED

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 11

2016: Senator Lizard: Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Drums www.bookofpdr.com/2016/09/12/s... In addition to being the front man and only member of the band Senator Lizard, I also make the album art.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 10

2013: Physical Comedy Award www.bookofpdr.com/2013/02/11/f... Here's a comic I did in 2013.

A sketchy six-panel comic depicting the stage at an award show and some stairs lead up to the stage. The characters are just barely above stick-figure level. The audience can kust be seen.

Panel 1: The presenter is holding a little trophy and a little card that he opened.

Presenter: And the Physical Comedy award for "Best Funny Injuries" goes to... Bobby Bongus!

Panel 2: A larger figure starts coming up the stairs.

Presenter: Come on up here, Bobby!

Audience: (applause)

Panel 3: Bobby trips on the stairs and falls onto the stage.

Bobby: whoops!

SFX: SLAM!

Audience: (laughter)

Panel 4: The presenter and the audience react with glee to Bobby's fall. Bobby doesn't move.

Presenter: Haha!

Audience: (laughter)

Panel 5: Bobby remains unmoving and blood begins to leak out from his head.

Presenter: Bobby?

Panel 6: A safe falls from above and lands on the presenter.

SFX: CRUNCH!

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 10

2012: Snowgasaurus www.bookofpdr.com/2012/03/17/s... While I continued doing comics and stuff, I was also apparently more likely to include photos in the blog posts. To represent the year I had to either choose this one or the series in which I wrote about getting my finger caught in a machine.

A photo of a pile of snow shaped into a roughly stegosaurus-shaped mass, with pennies for eyes.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 9

2011: Secret Government Robots www.bookofpdr.com/comics/secre... Another long-running webcomic I did for years, it began as a gag strip and was that way for about four pages and then I started doing complex stories with a huge cast.

A three-panel webcomic showing to robots, one Green and one Blue, talking in an office environment.

Panel 1: Green walks into a room where Blue is working on a computer.

Green: Hey Cyril. We just had a meeting with the Secret President and it was decided we're going to have to cut your budget thia year.

Panel 2: Blue stands up, enraged.

Blue: What? You're cutting the health department budget again? How can you possibly justify that?

Panel 3: Blue looks dejected as Green produces a small flag.

Green: We're increasing spending on flags.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 9

2010: Phone Guys (A Date For Mom) www.bookofpdr.com/2010/12/20/i... In this year I brought the Phone Guys to the site, which for some sort of self-sabotage reasons I intentionally make as difficult as possible to enjoy or follow, but still bother making to this day. Over 800 of them at this point.

A webcomic showing two guys on each side of the page speaking on a phone. Their conversation is shown in the space between them.

Pete: Hey Jeremy, It's Pete.

Jeremy: What's up, man?

Pete: Is your mom still single? I met a guy who would be perfect for her.

Jeremy: I don't think she would be interested. She's still sore with you because of the time you set her up with that guy you said was an animal doctor who turned out to be a Nazi war criminal.

Pete: Hey, I never said he was an animal doctor. I told her that he was a veteran Aryan.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 8

2009: Adventure Dennis www.bookofpdr.com/comics/adven... This was the year I started putting my Adventure Dennis comics on the Book of PDR, starting with Level VI, the ice level. Adventure Dennis, for all its flaws, is one of my most complete and self-contained projects to this day.

A page of a webcomic called Adventure Dennis consisting of three panels trying to look like a 2D platform game, but done in MS Paint (and to this day PDR regrets it wasn't done in a more pixel art-looking style).

Panel 1: Adventure Dennis, wearing green pants and a black headband but no shirt and holding a blood-covered sword, runs into a snowy landscape.

Title: LEVEL VI

Caption: ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN IS THE ICE LEVEL!

Panel 2: Dennis runs further to the right and encounters an orange beast with hooves and horns that may have been inspired by the demons from Doom.

Caption: OH NO! A TERRIBLE DEMONIAC COW!

Panel 3: Dennis stabs the beast in the face with his sword.

Caption: ADVENTURE DENNIS WILL SOLVE IT.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 5

2006: If I Had Four Arms www.bookofpdr.com/2006/05/28/i... a poem

A screenshot from bookofpdr.com that shows a poem.

Title: If I Had Four Arms
(Sunday 28th May 2006 @ 5:31 PM)

If I had four arms,
I would wear a glove on one.
That would be my glove arm
and I would call it number one.

If I had four arms,
On one I’d keep a shoe
in case I ever lost a leg.
That would be arm two.

If I had four arms,
On one a duck would be.
He’d keep me out of trouble,
from there on number three.

If I had four arms,
I’d cut the fourth one off.
As nearly as I can tell
Three arms would be enough.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 3

Robot related, eh?

A panel from an old web comic showing the Vice President of the Secret Government (a robot with a moustache) talking on an intercom:

VP: They can grow to be like eleven feet long!
Intercom: That is quite interesting, Sir.
VP: And their horns aren't bone! They're made out of keratin, which is like the same stuff as hair! Crazy, right?
Intercom: Yes, Sir. Crazy, Sir.
VP: The book said that they're vegetarians, but if I was a human and I saw a rhino looking at me, I'd probably piss myself in the pants!

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Apr 3

We beat the Taskmaster Escape Room, getting a score of 3. This is probably about how I'd score on the show, so I am calling it scientifically accurate.

A photo of the Taskmaster Escape Room game, which looks like a board game recreation of the Taskmaster house. It is seen here with little cards and bits around relating to the puzzles of the game.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Mar 15

Hey, I got one. And in spite of taking that picture, I absolutely did not remember to go to that.

A poster for a horror movie festival called Hellifax from 2024. Its main feature is a smoky skull with stars in its eye sockets.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Feb 20

This is my latest pixel thing.

1-bit pixel art in black and an extremely light blue that is close to white. It shows a two-story urban home and part of the building next to it. There's snow on the ground and on the roof and steps of the home.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Feb 12

Another 1-bit piece featuring the inimitable @wuckajuice.bsky.social. After the amount of time I spent on that hair I will be doing a robot or something next time.

A 1-bit image done in turquoise and black depicting a femme figure looking over her shoulder toward the camera. Notably the texturing of the figure's long black hair is a complex mishmash of turquoise pixels on black.

Patrick D Ryall@bookofpdr· Feb 11

I'm enjoying doing 1-bit art lately. May start tinkering with more colours soon, but for now this is nice. (this image featuring @wuckajuice.bsky.social )