The Kea's Nest

Quik Shot

2007-05-17T10:34:00.000+12:00

It's going to be sporadic like this, but I wanted to share my Classics Geek joy at this semi-recent Bigger Than Cheeses comic.

300 is over the top and only vaguely historical and melodramatic and wtf with the scottish sounding Greek king?! And yet, despite it all, you exit the theatre with only one word on your lips, tumbling out over and over.

SPARTAAAAAAAA!!

Not about webcomics but I do have something in mind.

2007-04-26T16:44:00.000+12:00

Kia ora,

This post is a day late. I'd like to say it was because I was busy attending the appropriate Anzac memorials, but in fact I was recovering after a hard night at a friends'. I digress.

One of the things I find good about the Anzac tradition down here is that it remembers a great loss due to hideous blunders in World War One. But there's something about a screw up of this sort that binds people together.

Last year a comment reminded me that the Turks must have lost many times the young men that the Allies lost at Gallipoli and that was a good point. Somehow this attempt at invasion that ended in bloodshed for both sides resulted in a kinship even with the enemy.

The leader of the Turks, Ataturk, made this speech after the end of the war.

"Those heroes that shed their blood
and lost their lives;
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies
and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side
here in this country of ours.
You, the mothers,
who sent their sons from far away countries,
wipe away your tears;
your sons are now lying in our bosom
and are in peace.
After having lost their lives on this land they have
become our sons as well."

As Neil Gaiman said recently: There are no Other People, there's just Us.

Ka kite

Dead Comics: Anne Frank Conquers The Moon Nazis

2007-04-21T17:10:00.000+12:00

Kia ora,
One of the things that I love about webcomics is the amazing breadth of form that can be found in one basic setup. I have seen plenty of blog/real life comics and yet the boundaries are huge. Then comics with a story and characters in a set location can be interrupted by these self same 'real' interludes and sometimes even single gags with no relation, also a whole extra catagory of comic.

But we'll talk about some of those another time. What I'd like to take the oppourtunity to discuss with this Dead Comic post is high concept comics.

I don't know if I've been looking in the wrong places or if my temperment attracts me to the simpler sketchier gag type strips, but I haven't seen many original complex stories on the web. Goats has certainly sprung into that realm. Girl Genius could count but from what I've seen I could lazily claim there were plenty of steampunk stories out there. Family Man (which unfortunately fell away from my check up schedule) likewise, though well executed, could be tempting to place into a niche somewhere.

Which is why I was delighted to run across Anne Frank Conquers The Moon Nazis. When some one says High Concept or Original, I have to assume this is the sort of thing they mean. A comic wherein a janitor becomes friends with a replication of Anne Frank given exceptional powers and they both set off to destroy the Nazis hideaway on the moon. It's hard to say you've heard that one somewhere else isn't it?

With such a brilliant concept under its belt I would not have been surprised to begin reading Anne only to discover that the art was incompetant and let down the story or that the story was an incoherent mess that didn't live up to the concept or a meld of the two. But, thankfully, my fears stayed unrealised.

The very first strip introduces a pencil shaded lumpy bulgy cartoony style that one recognises from older animations. That loops stretchy sort of reality where Goofy might reach across a ten metre gap to grab his hat or something. We know this is going to be a fluid universe we are entering. But then the punchline for the strip is good too. How can one recognise the fact that Nazis and Jews are two subjects that will just automatically inspire powerful feelings that aren't humour when you want to make something funny? By making it up front. The camps finished, see that bulldozer? But still, they are trying to pretend it didn't happen in the most unsubtle heavyhanded way, simply putting a new sign over the old one. It might be a tight smile, but its bringing that conflict straight out before it can laugh at anything else going on.

The strip is poignant and crude, beautifully presented and the text beneath the panels is almost like watching a subtiled movie. I love this comic and its one fo the few story based comics that pulls hard enough to make me want to come back and find out where the artist is taking me. I'd don't have enough time to be hooked by story but I can easily be hooked by gags that don't need plot to understand. For Anne, I'd make the effort.

The strip ends just as Anne and Fleisch have met and mutually been shocked and angry and then gotten themselves sorted. We haven't seen the resturant seen with Anne as just a head that is on the cover and we've seen no sign of them venturing forth to stop the return of the Nazi's, under Walt Disney's command. And, dammit, I want to know why and if we ever will!

I'm not sure why the flashes of some other comic (Firefly fanfic?) keep showing up though...

Ka kite

New Statement of Intentions

2007-04-18T16:29:00.000+12:00

Kia ora,

Syndication
Animation
Plagirism
Commentary
Wikipedia

My my my, the world of webcomicry has gotten busy hasn't it? Along with the storylines to be found in classics like Order of the Stick, Sluggy Freelance and Elf Only Inn, it looks like I left the blogging business at just the wrong time!

I love reading comics and the stories going on behing the scenes are just as intriguing. But for the foreseeable future I think I'll be limiting myself to commenting on strips and such that I love on any particular day rather than trying to analyse and comment on the lifestyle.

This couples with the fact that I don't have as much time to read as many comics as I used. So, I'd be pleased to hear recommendations of moments or new strips, but I may not get round to doing large reviews or even mentioning them.

Ka kite

I knew this had to be coming since I saw the Guitar Hero and SingStar plugins.

2007-04-15T12:41:00.000+12:00

Here in New Zealand we sometimes find ourselves lagging behind the rest of the world. Things don't make it down to us until the hype has already faded in internet conversation. Well, there are some exceptions, movies such as Children of Men and Black Sheep were visible here before the States, so that helps.

What that means is that this christmas, as I was looking for something to act as a consolatory balm, I decided to get the Guitar Hero game for the PS2. Yes, everyone else has loved it for ages, but even my more with it friends had only picked it up about a month earlier.

That game is wonderful, my mates and I refer to it as SingStar for guys. I spent many hours buttoning away to the mighty strains of DethKlok and the Trogdor theme song.

Anyway, this is meant to be about webcomics. And so I shall turn my subject to Penny Arcade. We all know Penny Arcade and its hard to think of anything new to say. Sometimes the comics require that you have a fairly in depth knowledge of gaming news. The blog posts are very wordy.

But what this recent post and comic made clear for me is that Penny Arcade are really my gateway into the world of gaming that I haven't actually been a part of for a long time. My computer is old and crappy and I don't have money for PS2 games very often. But by reading Penny Arcade, I know what I'll like if I get the chance to grab it.

So. Not very much on comedy or webcomicy-ness but an aknowledgment of the role Penny Arcade plays for me.

Also, they're making a computer game now?! WTF? Awesome.

Mallory Celery snerk

2007-04-14T14:26:00.000+12:00

There was something wonderful about the little sketches my friends and I used to draw in our school books at college (that's New Zealand College which equals High School. Not to be confused with University). They were quick and there were silly and sometimes they incorporated the day's subject matter in ways that seemed much more high brow than one might expect from a classroom doodle.

When I was first reading The Mulberry Gallows Project, that same sense came through. Now, that was about 6 months ago if not more and so there has been a shift. As I go back through the archives right now, looking to remind myself what I'd like to say about it, the memories of the comic that was seem brighter.

Maybe its that the artist has improved on his visuals. The addition of a Russian (?) marionette with an amazingly familiar open personality must take up a lot of time to make the wobbling flailing limbs seem suitably complex. And many of the other simpler characters (Angry Chef, Abacus the Gnome) are showing a little more movement than earlier days. While this is good for the reader in that it looks much nicer, could it detract from the immediacy that those college sketches acheived? That line that smeared the truly absurd with the fiendishly clever? There are still moments that make me double over like when my friend in school did a small funny scene that had a tree in the background and he wrote "Look! A Tree!" next to it for no reason. In fact, that example is remarkably like that.

In his book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner talks long and in detail about his idea of Pop culture. He shows the clash between high culture and lowest common denominator through specific examples found in the show, often involving Lisa, Sideshow Bob or some ancient anachronism that no-one knows about invovling Mrt Burns. But his point is that these two extremes are not really seperate cultures but are both elements of Pop, as represented by the show.

I think that something webcomics have thrived on is the culture of the internet that grew up in that same cultural space as the Simpsons. The humour doesn't have to be 'clever' but it might be. It doesn't have to be crude, but it can if it likes. The examples of this abound and would be as simple as asking you to open up your favourite comic and look for something crass and then a flash of high minded intelligence.

And that was something I remembered from my earlier reading of Mulberry Gallows. Single strips such as this. Storylines like the one where the gang decide to dig up and revitalise the corpse of Duke Ellington in order to discover what his opinion on downloading music is. A blurring of the simple and gag-riffic with the thoughts and ponderations of someone with a mind they enjoy using. This is very much a good thing, all my favourite comics manage to ride this mixture with verve and style.

For awhile it seems Marien got bogged down with the mysterious story behind Anastasia and Angry Chef, and as I read over the archives I began to think that this is an area he might be pushing to work on for himself. A longer, more involved story than a series of related jokes. If so, then I wish him well because I have certainly noticed his learning curve and admired it since I first read the comic. I would be interested to see what Fleen's opinion is now also.

What gives me ongoing hope and expectations for Mulberry Gallows is this latest strip. Mallory has drunken a beaker of logic and begun to devolve to binary. Let's see what xkcd do with that!

Last One Dead, Turn Out The Lights

2007-01-08T13:06:00.000+13:00

I know it's not webcomics, but I had to get the word out.

Children of Men is phenomenal. I got to see it in November, but I know you are all over the planet and I hear the states only just got it recently.

Go and see it. You won't regret it.

I am curious about that girlfriend's comment though.

2007-01-07T09:02:00.000+13:00

It's been a long time and my analysis skills are rusty.

But I love Elf Only Inn. It's gone through so many changes in style and yet each time it brings something that is quality, even when it was cutouts.

And the current incarnation, as players in a MMORPG rather than people talking about each other in a chatroom, has created an absolutely massive space for possibilities of deception and intrigue.

We are watching players betray each other all over. One of the aspects that makes it most interesting is the 'real world' effect on the game, the livejournal posts, the phonecall to Woot.

The revalation that he is playing, on a different server, already is... Great. I don't know what other word to use.

But I am very curious to find out who Barbi is and why she wants a Dungeon Boss to use (other than raw power. Which may in fact be the only motivation).

There are plenty of comics that have been building stories that really get you on the edge of your seat recently, but Elf Only Inn has me.

The Return

2006-12-18T21:54:00.000+13:00

What the...

WHAT THE...

YAY!

AAARGH!!!

FINALLY!!!!

Edited to add, it restarted way back here. I am so pleased, and it looks like a really clever revamp of the old way the strip worked.

I feel so happy!

Is Anyone Still Watching?

2006-12-12T12:23:00.000+13:00

I just saw this over at the Wikipedia lite that is Everything2.

I thought it offered an interesting look at some webcomics in general terms, but wasn't sure how many people would notice it. So I'm directing it to your attention.

Good day.

Good-Bye

2006-09-24T12:03:00.000+12:00

I know I said that I should be back to this eventually. It's great fun tlaking about comics and what I liked and didn't like.

But the internet is encroaching on my real life in bad ways. My wife isn't part of the web and a wedge is growing between us. So I won't be coming back to The Kea's Nest unfortunately.

I wanted to talk about The Mulberry Gallows Project but never got around to it. Suffice to say, I loved it.

Good bye. Enjoy your webcomics, but never forget to make sure your not leaving anyone else behind when you delve onto the web.

Woo Hoo!

2006-08-23T21:01:00.000+12:00

I walked past the Dannevirke Public Library today and was pleased to discover a fairly well stocked Graphic Novels section (!), including The Sandman, V for Vendetta, a bunch of Batmans and Daredevils and...

A Girl Genius book.

I haven't checking which one it was yet but suddenly I felt so proud of the people who are doing that webcomicry stuff. Go you!

It'd be tought to choose just one character... I'm leaning towards Mr. Glass right now.

2006-08-18T20:11:00.000+12:00

Snakes on a Plane, really doesn't seem that enthralling. I mean, not as a movie. For some reason we've all latched onto it (is it just because it has Samuel L. Jackson? He is pretty damn awesome after all) but I'm not likely to go see it at the cinema (given my budget allowed me to see one moive in the last six months...).

It's made for some neat running gags and little in jokes that aren't fundamental to a strip, which is nice. That sort of whimsy that the internet does so well. But, like those Chuck Norris and Vin Diesel jokes, it gets old remarkably quickly. Mr. Brazelton gets it right in his blog with this Theater Hopper comic, the film didin't actually match pace with the spreading of the meme and now it's just a bit sad.

Of course, that doesn't stop me grinning when I see the latest Popcorn Picnic (which I can't directly link to for some reason...), a fill-in-the-blanks contest to win a Samuel L. Jackson character drawing from Mr. Shadoian. Regardless of Snakes on a Plane, Jackson is cool and having some 'to spec' cartooning done would be briliant.

There seem to be two ways to win (two winners or one but two paths?), one being the most accurate to Jackson the other being the funniest. See you in the winners circle.

The Art of Substitution

2006-08-17T15:57:00.000+12:00

Over the... months? How long has that site been going? Anyway, over the last period of whatever, Websnark has been well known to create clever little names for various things that happen in and around comics. Some of the best known would be Cerebus Syndrome and First and Ten. As I understand these terms, they both refer to a shift from gags and whimsy to more depth and seriousness in a comic. However, one is said to have acheived Cerebus if the result is good and succumbed to First and Ten if it becomes laborious and tiresome.

Neither of those would apply then to what's been happening with Yirmumah.

Yirmumah barely had a plot before now (in the short space of time when I've been reading it anyway) and could at times seem like a journal comic. Sometimes it made silly gags, like the bunny who says Fuck, and other times it used recognized characters in a funny situation.

Then, all of a sudden, we get Origins. A biker who reads the bible and gets into brawls with the seeming intention of knocking the stuff he doesn't like about himself into submission. All the stuff that led him away from his girls.

I think what makes this into a new 'syndrome' is the fact that it doesn't draw upon the characters that have been used before. It isn't like a journal comic, although it has the same feel as an autobiographical piece (I'm fairly sure Mr. Coffman never smashed and burnt a phonebooth because his daughters were being kept from him though*). It something entirely new but put into the same space a readers used to find something quite different.

It would be like Mr Kurtz over at PVP deciding to do a nuanced epic tale of sky ninjas searching for the last rain dragon but putting the comic onto the PVP website and ceasing to run strips about those magazine workers we've grown to love. Only I think that particular transition wouldn't go down as well as Yirmumah's experiment.

It would be interesting to find out if the readership has gone along with Mr. Coffman on this. I get the impression they have, but it seems like such a gamble in retrospect.

The only complaint I've seen was on the LJ feed here. A reader says that the story had been good up until this transitional comic, and I agree. That piece doesn't match the tone of what has gone before, though the shift into the 'present/future' does rematch that tone. The problems are things like 'Heck's Angels' and 'many adventures/many a locale' which undercut the serious detail that we had seen previously. Glimpses of those adventures leave the reader feeling a little cheated, missing out on something that looks promising. I was going to say that we could ahve jsut about skipped it completely, but that would have left some in the dark about how respected or useful Deacon became. It's a toughy.

Incidentally, Yirmumah might want to think about reorganising its archives somewhat. It was really tough to browse through for comics I wanted to link to...

*Just wanted to say that I think there is a strong biographical thing going down, but I'll just leave that to settle and then take a look at it.

My homeboy.

2006-08-16T10:41:00.000+12:00

[Teaching training going well, thanks]

I'm sure you are all aware that I'm from New Zealand. And that I'm more than willing to shill any connection to this country in the realm of webcomicry.

Which is why I was delighted to find out about Cheshire Crossing. Yes, the update schedule looks like something that will take some getting used to, but the conceit that (unfortunately?) begins somewhat similarly to Lost Girls is just too appealing.

Obviously that's not the Kiwi connection.

But the 'asylum' where the girl's have been brought? Is run by Ernest Rutherford. Check out his wiki page and then come back saying 'thanks for the brainiac New Zealand!' I felt kind of chuffed, even if he probably thought of himself as British but from a distant part of Britain.

One thing that concerns me is the association with fiction. As you can (hopefully) tell from the wiki article, Rutherford was a very real and influential man. But every other charatcer I've seen in Cheshire Crossing so far is fictional. Now, Rutherford has leant himself to stories about other worlds and strange things happening due to his atomic research (the title story of this collection is great, but the whole book is decent too) but I feel a little uncomfortable with how he has been brought in so far.

Now, I'm only about halfway through this first issue (I think) so it'll be interesting to see what happens with Rutherford. But I'll be watching.

Um...

2006-08-11T23:03:00.000+12:00

Nothing cracked me up today. No stories on my regularly checked list had anything that made me sit up and take notice.

And I've been too busy with assignments to think of what to say in a review of a new (to me) comic.

So... This is jsut to let you know I am trying to update daily. But today was a bust.

A Comparison

2006-08-10T15:14:00.000+12:00

So, apaprantly there's some new game that involves zombies? Or something like that? Frankly, it's not important. What is important is that both Penny Arcade and Ctrl-Alt-Del appear to be making jokes in reference to it.

At first I thought they'd both just decided to go on Zombie benders, like you do, but then I actually realised what Gabe was saying in the Penny Arcade comic and the Ctrl-Alt-Del suddenly made more sense. Yes, that means I totally accept a comic which devotes a period of time to an injured friend of the main character and his attitudes and reactions to potential dates and then simply changes to watching some zombies go shopping. Nothing strange or abrubdt (... how the hell do you spell that word?) there, no.

Anyway, I just like the way it's been done from the two comics. Penny Arcade has given us the oppourtunity to see a popular recurring character in a fresh light. Suddenly his anger seems a little more based on history. And, frankly, don't you just know you're going to ask Mabel to dance next time you manage to get your clammy little fingers around the handle of some sort of firarm? Pop guns and Oozinators are acceptable. The comic almost doesn't need the beginning bit with Gabe and Tycho trying to fend off zombies by hurling cellphones. Though it does get a little Alanis Morrisette gag in there. Obviously they've used that to provide a little setting and context, but I would have totally gotten just the final panel with a Daed Rising display in the window behind Frank.

Ctrl-Alt-Del have started a little storyline with its version of events and I particularly love the way its coming from the zombie perspective. It reminds me of the sort of humour Shaun of the Dead came with, seeing the normal things that get shaken up, but never quite vanish, in the middle of a plague of the walking dead. So a zombie flicking through a catalogue while his friend gets bored is such a true telling of mall shopping that a chainsaw is really the only plausible next step. And then, who doesn't love making fun of the speed of zombies? You could run up, smack them in the half-flesh face and run away again without risking anything worse than dead skin coming off onto your palm. I hope the story has a couple more in it because I'm liking it.

Anyone seen any other Dead Rising, zombie/mall comics?

Drawing from the Amores might have been interesting. Isn't there a new adult webcomic portal now?

2006-08-09T16:28:00.000+12:00

Unfortunately I missed Maroon ending about a week or so ago. I really enjoyed checking in on that one, because it always seemed to be willing to try something a little different. It wasn't about bringing the funny, but it did seem to carry a bittersweet overtone most of the time, as you can tell by the last sentance in it.

So that's sad. But then we find that Derik Badman has moved on to a new project, one that looks to update more often and draws upon the Metamnorphoses by Ovid, called Things Change. As a guy with a degree in Classical Studies, this makes me happy, though I am sad to see he doesn't expect gods and monsters to go tromping through the comic (Why not Derik? Why not!?).

Given his willingness to take time and create a gentle rhythm that carries you back over and over I think this will be a good one to watch. It certainly makes a change from the 'fit in all the gags and still have enough energy left for a rimshot' pace that is more typical for webcomics. The inspiration should also lead to wonderful artwork, as we can see appearing in the echoing images of the first strip.

Let's watch.

Monkeys and Hitlers and Vikings, oh my!

2006-08-08T23:05:00.000+12:00

I wonder about disclaimers like this one from Rob and Elliot. Would it relly matter if this comic was or wasn't aprt of an 'official' continuity? I'm assuming that iMonkey's are fairly interchangable, as their mass produced store display would suggest. So, if this one diued and they got a new one, would we notice if they didin't tell us?

I know it's 'funny' (hah, they say they don't have the balls but here the comic is!) but it just makes me wonder a little. But thenn, I tihnk too much sometimes.

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I love how crazy scifi/fantasy Goats is now. I didin't really know about it until it was already going crazy so I don't know how the trasition went down, but just having the concept of Gigahitlers available for my everyday conversation now is going to make me a very happy camper.

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Doesn't it always happen? It does at Cat and Girl, anyway... I bet Hagar is about ready to bury an axe in some skulls.

Got the cartoon on VHS a month ago. Great stuff!

2006-08-07T21:50:00.000+12:00

I like Dilbert and I don't care who knows it.

I've seen some pretty mean jokes about Dilbert in various places and, although they certainly deserve to be made, I think there's a feeling thatdilbert isn't really good comics.

But I don't know how you can pass stuff like this up? Seriously, the dog is putting the boot in after carefully pushing over the guy. Classic.

The last few days have made me really glad I read Dilbert and Scott Addams' blog makes more more interested. It's funny, sure, but it usually has some really tricky things to think about. He phrases questions to really ge thte mind working and I love it. I even used one of his more serious books in a philosophy essay last semester.

So. Enjoy the cubicle drone humour. I do.

No excuses but one thousand apologies.

2006-08-05T12:41:00.001+12:00

Man, what a week (ish) to get overwhelmed with my own stuff. I am in the early stages of training to be a teacher and discovering its even more intimidating than I had anticipated. And being stuck without resources due to a missing order form. Incidentally, this will likely mean I'll be missing some updates during my in-school experience in a month.

Anyway, it couldn't have come at a more momentous time. I'll just run through the things I wish I'd noted during the time off and had a chance to think about and talk about.

PVP won an Eisner.
Yirmumah 's D.J. won the Comic Book Challenge.
Eric Burns stepped away from that Modern Tales thing and hopefully will be getting order in his life back soon.
Least I Could Do had Fraggles(!).

Once again, I'm sorry I've missed out on posting for so long and don't have a chance to really talk about those events. Suffice to say that they are all amazing acheivments (or noteworthy events anyway) and there's going to be a lot to look foreward to next week, (including, hopefully, a proper review of a new comic I've been reading).

Swords and Sorcery.

2006-07-23T23:10:00.000+12:00

That's touching.

And carries just the right amount of humour in it.

Order of the Stick is one of the best fantasy stories I've read in a long time. Comic or not.

Sliding into disrepair.

2006-07-22T00:41:00.000+12:00

(Technically I'm an hour into Saturdya but I figured most of you were still living in the past and wouldn't mind so much.)

I've only sporadically been following Day By Day, and it's not because I don't see poltics in quite the same terms they do. It never quite hooked me and, today, I noticed something that might have shown me why.

Today's comic is set on a beach, with a redhead in a bikini. And I wondered 'Why?' There hadn't been any mention of beach going as far as I could tell. The characters weren't talking about beach related subjects. It just seemd like a way to get a female in a bikini onto the scene. Which isn't necessarily bad, but idicated a strange mindset to me. One of the stangest things I've noticed in newspaper comics is the strip that has a really crap pun placed in speech bubbles around a naked chick in a bath, perhaps with her man taking off his shirt as he walks in. The cheapest form of humour. It'd be sad if Day by Day was slipping into that.

Also, the time saving aspect of the art seems to me to be too clear. The characters are beginning to look like cut outs that get placed on the canvas then have words placed around them. Chris Muir does seem to be able to put together a more interesting image, but so many time saving buildings or faces that look the same in every comic are showing up that I feel a little cheated. Again, this is something that isn't necessarily bad (PVP appears to have templates, StarSlip Crisis does if I remember correctly, and Dinosaur Comics is a prime example) but it adds to the other problems I have.

Now, granted I'm not the audience for the political humour that is being dished out here, but am getting confused by some of his recent strips. I enjoy reading more conservative cartoons usually, such as Cox and Forkum, because I get the point of view even if I disagree. But I just don't know what Muir is talking about recently.

I guess I'm saying Day by Day comics is a strip that is losing what little interest I had.

Apologies and two that made me chuckle today.

2006-07-20T14:30:00.000+12:00

Zach Miller kindly pointed out that my single issue with the recent kidnapping storyline was a mistake. Way back here the same newspaper headline is visible. Chronologically it seems close (not long after they arrive at the playground the kidnapping takes place (although it put them in a perfect place for such an event to happen, now I come to think of it)) but it's quite a few comics distant which is good. If you actually read the comic closely like I obviously didn't then the strips in between serve to put that information into the back of your head, maybe leaving you with a slight concern. Exactly what I was trying to say I wanted yesterday.

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Now that's a beautiful guest comic. I must take a good look at Silent Kimbly soon.

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Asterix as a Roman toady? Where do you creators get your wonderful ideas?

CulturePulp

2006-07-19T21:08:00.000+12:00

I love RockStar. It's the closest reality TV has come to creating something I want to see, namely heavy music and hot chicks. And it blends the two into one glorious whole.

And in my depraved search for more images of some of the hotties on the show (and previous material from them and the guys too, but let's not pretend we don't wanna see hotties...) I found this.

It's a comic strip review of one of the contestant's gigs from before the show. And it's funny and well drawn and interesting. So I go to the homepage of this creator and what do I see? A link list that could mirror my own interests. Including a huge variety of webcomics.

And an interview with the guy making the next Philip K. Dick movie. In comic form of course.

Oh this blog is going in the bookmarks and I mean now!