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A Less Pleasant Example of an Uncomfortable Truth
April 21, 2006
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I apologize for this comic. No, really. I was in a writer's block, and a conversation - one of those just-lying-in-bed, drifting-off-to-sleep ones that usually are a specific breed of silly - between Josiah and I wouldn't leave my brain, and I found myself helpless in it's power. And the day after I'd completed the comic, and a lunchtime conversation with co-workers (in no way steered in that direction) wherein they suggested that Wolverine could use the regrowth of his healing factor to actually save others from starvation if the X-Jet crashed in the Andes (provided nobody was averse to a little cannibalism), and slice off sections of his thigh deli-style, then just BANG it grows back. I realize that last visual may have put some of you off deli-style meats for a while, and I heartily apologize for that. Once again, I was not the one who came up with it, and I certainly hope you weren't eating when you read that. But all that scariness aside, it seemed like a confirmation that I did the right thing. I had hesitated - I don't like to do jokes of this nature all that much, and I tried to veer as far away from Explicittown as possible - but I think it works out okay here, and that the humor of it all remains intact. And she does have a point, if you think about it, which you probably shouldn't. It's creepy, but a point she does have.
Also? The comic I mention, and the setup, is ENTIRELY real and true and I didn't make it up in any way at all. It's Uncanny X-Men - Annual, came out in 1999 (I think it's #111), "Guest-starring Jubilee!" (God save us all) and really DOES have that scene. In fact, it make me yelp really loudly in the middle of the comic store, and I kept giggling about it all day. Actually it's not a very good comic at all - the art is sub-par, the story is retarded (Exodus comes back, after he literally went through re-entry on a shattered part of Magento's FORMER space station, Avalon, and CRASHED INTO THE GODDAMN OCEAN. Plus Exodus sucks balls, and nobody cared that he came back)... and it guest-stars JUBILEE, for fuck's sake, and her dialogue is used to hack out every out-of-style catch phrase from the early 1990's, including "What's the dillie-o?" and "don't homey play dat no mo'?" Hell, I'd even go so far as to say it SUCKS. Honestly and truly, I can say that I bought it for the Wolvie naked bit, because it was so unexpected and "WTF?! How did they get away with that?!" (because this was 1999, and Marvel had not yet bucked the stupid outdated Comics Code Authority - I still see its archaic little symbol on the top right of the cover). And because I yelped really loudly in the middle of the store, and I wanted to smooth over relations with the staff, so I bought the damn thing. Who knew that seven full years LATER, it would help to make today's comic? Life, she is a strange beast, no?
Anyhow. Before our time here is done, it seems we have a LINKSTRAVAGANZA to get to!
* Some amazing art, inspired by classic games - WARNING: some nudity (including Samus Aran wearing only her helmet and gun. What the fuck, people, leave Samus alone). Some really amazing work in there though... I'll let you guys guess which one I'd like the most ::grin::
* Holy crap - the entirety of Dragon's Lair, beginning to end! Now if only I could go back in time and save myself all of the quarters I wasted trying to beat that damn game... ::laugh:: And holy crap, just watching it, it's like... bitch ain't worth it! ::wry chuckle::
* I'm not linking this news story because it's cool, or even funny. I'm linking it because it is possibly the lamest thing EVER. Just read it and laugh derisively. Oh no! POS! I better BTC! LOLLERSKATES! How the hell good is cybersex in all code, anyway? Shit, I better not speculate: not that it's a twisted idea or anything (it is) but that there might be a comic in that concept, and I don't want to waste it on you wastrels before it's ready ::wink::
* Dear god. This video is so good, and so GOD DAMMED CRAZY, words cannot describe it. ...Well, maybe three can: Titanic - THE SEQUEL.
That's it for me - although I do recommend that after you finish reading this comic, you run over and read Ursula Vernon's Digger, because it is a god-dammed FANTASTIC comic, and I'm seriously considering getting a membership for Graphic Smash just to read it. And? It's been nominated for an Eisner Award, which is a pretty big fucking deal. And it DESERVES it. Seriously. Read my meh comic, then go read her awesome one (but beware: it is long), which she very VERY kindly put up FOR FREE with consideration of her Eisner nomination. But yeah. SO GOOD.
Be well, folks - be sure to tip your wait staff member of indeterminate gender!
Playing It By Ear,
Annie "Blue" C
Maybe you love me when I fade to black
- Danger Mouse
"December 4th
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