Garbage Time All-Stars

Celebrating with the champs

2008-06-20T12:37:00.000-07:00

So, the latest strip is up on Ball Don't Lie. Check it out if you please.

And with the end of the season we'll be easing off on the weekly comics. Still, it wouldn't hurt to check back here every so often (or subscribe to the RSS feed even) as we ruminate, illustrate and dominate. I'm sure we'll post some summertime goodies.

---Josh

David Stern and the Golden Age

2008-06-13T19:18:00.000-07:00

Originally posted at Ball Don't Lie. Home stretch!!! Finals!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keys to the Finals

2008-06-05T19:11:00.000-07:00

Originally appeared at Ball Don't Lie.

Kevin Garnett sits down with Bill Russell. So Powerful.

2008-05-30T19:20:00.000-07:00

Originally appeared at Ball Don't Lie. If you you haven't already had the "pleasure", this strip references a goofy series of interviews from ESPN.

---Josh

Phil Jackson's book club: Kobe Dick

2008-05-23T19:28:00.000-07:00

Originally appeared over at Ball Don't Lie.

Understanding Home Court Advantage

2008-05-16T19:33:00.001-07:00

This strip originally appeared on Ball Don't Lie

Home court advantage in the 2nd round of the playoffs is officially STRAIGHT-UP BANANAS. Home teams are currently 20-1. How does that happen? Read a comic answering that very question over at the Yahoo! Ball Don't Lie blog.

---Josh

Don't look at Coach Pop

2008-05-09T17:18:00.000-07:00

This comic originally appeared at Yahoo!'s Ball Don't Lie.

And if you want an eyeful of scary, peep Coach Pop in the previous post.

---Josh

Please Gregg Popovich Don't Hurt 'Em

2008-05-06T19:23:00.000-07:00

This is a fairly unflattering drawing of Gregg Popovich, and, well...yeah. By many accounts "Pop" is an affable, loyal guy, and he does a good job of coaching a basketball team. Still, any time he's interviewed, no matter what words are coming out of his mouth, his barely-concealed message seems to be, "I can't wait to piss on your gravestone."

Which I love. It's sort of like one of those restaurants that have elevated rude service to the level of performance art (I recommend Top Dog in Berkeley for all of your hot dog, cigarette and comical bad attitude needs). It becomes dinner theater.

Stay surly, Coach Pop! I salute you!

---Josh

Trash talk!

2008-05-02T18:10:00.000-07:00

This comic originally appeared on Yahoo! Ball Don't Lie.

We're talkin' out the trash! Go ahead, get a little rowdy in the comments. 'Tis the season.

---Josh

Only science can tell us the real MVP

2008-04-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

This comic originally appeared on Ball Don't Lie.

I'm sure some people will read the strip as an endorsement of Kobe for MVP. Wrong. What we are endorsing is drinking. Everybody drink!

No, OK, what I'm saying is that I hate the MVP debate. Lebron, Kobe, Paul, KG: these men are artists. They are unique. To argue that one is Most Valuable is just partisan bickering in the void. I guess it keeps sports talk radio from going silent, but it gets way stupid. Those guys ... they're all pretty good at basketball.

---Josh

The State of the East

2008-04-25T12:11:00.000-07:00

This comic originally appeared on Ball Don't Lie.

Double Oden

2008-04-23T21:43:00.001-07:00

Hey! Our strip from last week is up at Ball Don't Lie on Yahoo!. And our next strip will be there this Friday. Every Friday we'll post a reminder here that the new strip is up over there.

We're also going to try to post additional stuff over here as much as possible. Stuff like these Odens I just drew, one happy and one classic expressionless:

Like a lot of internet dudes, I've fallen for Oden. I'm not particularly a Blazers fan, but I still want him to come back and win, like, 15 championships. Get well Greg!

Yeah, so anyway, look for the strips over at Ball Don't Lie, and keep checking this site because we are not going away.

---Josh

The State of the East ... huh, where did we go?

2008-04-18T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hey, we've got our Eastern Conference comic for you but it's over at the Yahoo! Ball Don't Lie blog. We've been assimilated!

We're still going to post our comics on this site, only a week after they've run at Yahoo!. And we'll still be posting other NBA-related art stuff here too. But for now, travel at the speed of light over to Ball Don't Lie and drop some juicy kisses with tongue into the comments there.

---Josh

The State of the West

2008-04-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

Ain't no conference like a Western Conference 'cause a Western Conference don't stop!

---Josh

Tanking and You: A Fan's Guide

2008-04-01T23:01:00.001-07:00

Let's get rid of tanking. How about a reverse food reward: if the team reaches 100 points, the fans give the players free tacos.

---Josh

T.G.I.The End of the Season

2008-03-25T17:09:00.001-07:00

We didn't want the season to slip away without doing a Knicks strip.

Also, I just did a little behind-the-scenes post over at the art blog.

---Josh

In Boston no one can hear you scream.

2008-03-10T12:34:00.000-07:00

Cassell emerges. We were thinking of showing a press conference at which Kevin McHale proudly welcomes Sam's jumbo balls to the Celtics, but went with this instead. And now Rajon Rondo is the most portrayed player in our strip, with 2 appearances. Weird.

---Josh

Yao Ming by Mark

2008-03-04T20:48:00.000-08:00

Fantasy Yao

2008-03-03T18:52:00.001-08:00

Kevin Garnett by Josh

2008-02-25T20:46:00.000-08:00

Paul Pierce by Mark

2008-02-25T20:41:00.000-08:00

Trade party!

2008-02-22T19:13:00.000-08:00

I don't want to hear about trades any more. Smash the trade machine. Anybody got a Tylenol?

---Josh

The Name-Forge of Destiny

2008-02-15T19:18:00.001-08:00

I feel bad for players who get saddled with lousy nicknames. Or players who get stuck with one joke about their haircut that gets repeated a million times by lazy writers who can't think of anything better. I cringe whenever I hear Nowitzki (seven-time all-star, league MVP, franchise player) referred to as "Dirk Diggler." Good one! Calling Kyle Korver by the name of the doofus actor from "That 70s Show" is so old that even pointing out that it's old is at this point old.

Complaining about bad nicknames is old too, I guess. But damn it, the Garbage Time All-Stars are gonna crank up the old Name-Forge of Destiny from time to time and see if we can't come up with something a little better for the unique stars of the NBA. Keep an eye on our minty-fresh art blog for further nickname outbreaks.

---Josh

Coach Nellie and the C-Webb Kid

2008-02-07T14:07:00.000-08:00

C-Webb has yet to play his first game for the Warriors, so we don't know how it's going to work yet. There's a real last stand in the Wild West feeling to it. I had the healthy skepticism about Webber's evil knees with the run-n-gun W's when he signed, but this Shaq business really upped the ante. Webber to the Warriors seems completely reasonable by comparison. But I hope things turn out well for ol' C-Webb. I'm rooting for him.

We've also done started a b-ball art blog. Mark and I kicked it off with some love for Golden State's bearded cannonball Baron Davis. Enjoy!

--Josh F.

Run-T.N.T.

2008-01-29T16:51:00.000-08:00