You know what time it is boys and girls? THat's right! It's rank on random webcomics time!
I have so many evil comments running through my brain all the time, it's important to let some of them out. Like...uh, like an- EVIL EMERGENCY RELEASE PRESSURE VALVE(tm)! (cue lightning and manical laughter, followed by anti-climactic gentle hissing)
Anyways, so I was flipping through random webcomics and there was this vote incentive for one of them and the FIRST thing that entered my brain was this: "If you added an arm cannon to one arm, She'd look just like megaman's transsexual sister". (If you really wanna see it, it's here. you'll have to vote for it. it's the crayon-ish drawing on the right, the old one:http://www.buzzcomix.net/in.php)
But the point is, that is probably the first time those words have ever been spoken in that ordering. Now that would be an awesome way to confuse people. Go ahead try it this week.
Like this:
Pizza Guy: "Here's your order. That'll be $18.95.
YOU: "Thanks megaman's transexual sister!" (take pizza, give money, close door. Make sure you look through the eye hole to see his expression.)
I wonder who I have to fear more from about posting this article, Megaman fans, the webcomic in question, or well, the other group. My guess is hardcore megaman fans are lacking in hardcore firepower, as well as basic motor skills.
He'd show up at my house, in his late thirties, a cardboard funnel painted blue and tied to his forearm and say-
Megaman fan: "How dare you desecrate the name of Megaman-sama! SHINE!' Then he'd run around outside gesticulating wildly with his cardboard plasma gun, yelling "BEW-BEW! BEWBEWBEWBEWBEW!"
On second thought I take that back. I wouldn't wanna cross megaman fanatics.
*** Incredible Un-PC post concluded***
posted by Mitch @ 6:52 PM
5 Comments:
Nope, you can bash Megaman and Mario all you want. But Sonic the Hedgehog is different. Then I'd have to get some of my Sonic homeboys in on it.
Oh by the way Mitch, are you still working on those webcomics? Are your artists being flakier than delicious pastries? I still check the sites once in a while, hoping there may be something updated.
~ Nick
Heh nice metaphor. I don't know what happened to John, I guess I should email him again but it'd be like the 5th time i've bothered him about it. He'll come back when he's ready methinks. Or not.
Jordan, I dunno. I keep sending him edited strips and he keeps saying thanks. So i have no clue.
Me and andrew are working on a graphic novel called "Shanghai-ed" about the practice of crimping in the 1870's. It's pretty fascinating and under-done I think in fiction. The stories I've read so far in research are UNREAL. The one i jus tread tonight involved this one crimp ( a crimp is basically like a one-man temp agency for crewing ships, only more evil) was under a bet with a sea captain that he couldn't fill his crew in under a week. There were like 25 spots. "Bungo" Kelly came across a group of men in portland, oregon who had broken into a funeral home, thinking it was a bar storage building. They passed around what they thought was booze and had already started drinking it for a few minutes when Bungo arrived on the scene.
It wasn't booze. It was EMBALMING FLUID. The group of them were dead or dying when Bungo found them. So he rounded them all up in sacks or somesuch and sold them to the Sea Captain telling him that he'd drugged the lot of them. The captain immediately sailed of course, as was standard to keep the forced labour from running away. All 20 of them were dead by the next day. I might use a modified version of that story in the novel.
Hmmmm, sounds like a cross between kidney-thieving and slavery, yet with a certain macabre humor to it too. Definitely a good idea for a graphic novel, yeah. I didn't know that sort of thing ever happened in the United States, I had just heard of the British doing it to Americans overseas, and that being one of the causes of the War of 1812. When do we ever hear about bad things that the U.S. did in high school though, heh?
Anyhow, I think history is a jelly donut minefield (the kind of minefield that you want to stumble across) of good ideas for graphic novels ("300", for example), and it sounds like you came across quite the juicy topic. You should post excerpts of it here in the Funny, or in your LJ!
~ Nick
Portland Oregon was known as "The Forbidden City" in the late 19th century. They had SECRET TUNNELS that transported people to the port from inside the city. They'd be drugged with opium laced whiskey at bars inland dropped into holding cells under trapped doors, and then shipped to ships at dock that would immedaitely sail. Some of them had no experience sailing at all and would get sick and/or get beaten within an inch of their lives by annoyed Deck Captains.
DUring that time period, thousands of sailors and others were sold into at least a year of captivity that way under the tunnels in oregon. So yeah, we're hoping to explore it a little. heh.
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