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Steve's the only one who made me hug my cat. But yes, there's no winner.

Next Fill In The Comic activity (at least, Helm's  ) in 6 months or so.

When it's down to knock-knock jokes it's pretty clear that the thread has exhausted itself. Here's the original.



"I'm glad to see you again grandpa!"

"Me too son." "Your grandma okay?"

"At first she was really sad, but now she's feeling better... kinda."

"Good. Are you doing well in school? "Yes grandpa." "Do you eat your food?" "Yes gradpa." "Do you love grandpa?" "Yes!"

"Good..." "Good."

"Grandpa, where did you get the airplane?"

"I stole it from the military museum!"

"But.. these aren't supposed to even work?! Is this loaded? With what fuel?"

"It's running on the power of denial!"

"But grandpa... this is impossible."


"Grandpaaaaaa!"

Ahaha Steve, oh man! I like that one probably more than the original. It's funny, sad, and well-done. You make me hug my cat.

SmootH: yes, the bubble is coming from the kid.

About the goggles, they're more closely linked to one's prime physical plane presense, both due to how tight they're on the skin and also because they much people connect with their goggles. A scarf is a scarf, but goggles are forever.

[Song]

after Lionel Richie, let's take a left turn

Song: Univers Zero - Heresie - 02: Jack the Ripper

Comment: Univers Zero were one of the original Rock In Opposition progressive bands from the '70s along with Henry Cow, Art Bear, Magma, so on. They're from Belgium, they have a very rich history I will not recount here, but I do suggest you do on your own time. They bear little resemblance to anyone else, though bands like Art Zoyd, Present and Shub Niggurath followed loosely in their footsteps. They're a progressive rock band which mutated into very dark, chamber music using strings, winds and percussion instruments, mostly no electric guitars (but electric base) and so on. They summon the Great Cthulhu.

How I discovered it: They visited me in a dream.

Fun Fact: The band had an ad out during the early 70's looking for a hearse, to lug their equipment around for live shows.

I will post the Univers Zero track to the song thread soon.

The music has a creeping (not creepy) quality that is enduring, but not much else. There's lots of shifting and unresty bits, and a lot of timbral qualities to the playing that I enjoy, but on the whole, I do not find something to hook me into following the interval progressions and harmony. It seems a bit random. It's unstable without being interesting, mutating without promising meaning.

I would suggest you listen to an old Belgian band, called Univers Zero. If you can, find their album 'Heresie'. If you want, I can upload a song. I am asking this so you may hear what they do with instrumentation you'll be intimately familiar with, and with compositional premises you're intimately familiar with, but an end result that I can only say is so so so interesting. It's just a comparable starting point that I think you'd benefit from looking into.

Gladiator Quest - one of the more original ags games made, but then anything with c-64 style artwork makes me happy.  And who couldn't appreciate nigh-impossible bosses like the old days?

Appreciated, Progz. Let's just say it wasn't a big hit with most ags people, to the point where someone in private correspondence told me he 'doesn't consider it an adventure game at all'. That was really an eye-opener.

Gore, I really like your entry! For panel manipulation, it's subtle and works well.

Steve, your first one didn't do much for me, but the second was one of my favourites so far. The meta-humour thing is a bit overdone on the internets, but that panel where the ship parts talk about themselves is hilarious. Generally, great entries so far!

MrFibble: I'm sorry you couldn't resist a movie reference.

Squinky: hehe when you see the original, you'll be surprised too. I enjoy it mostly, though I stronly object to stuff like 'WTF' or 'LOL' making it in comics. Internetspeak needs to die, much less sneak into art.

Steve, I agree biothlebop better start making appearances!

Limpingfish, nice entry, again close to the original as you'll eventually see. I see a lot of people interpret the very last bubble as being the words of the evaporating grandpa, whereas it was supposed to be the child screaming out something.

Also if some of you people have problems with the grandpa dissapearing in the second to last panel, just edit it out. I know it fucks up with a lot of could-be scripts, so don't be afraid to alter stuff to make it work.

Progz, enjoyable entry. The subjectivity of existence is the actual theme from the original comic, so I guess it carries through a bit even without the text.

Strange Visitor: nice visual-textual play on the 'watch your mouth panel'.

[lgm], it reads well but it doesn't make sense.

Thank you everybody that has participated so far! This is a great turnout.

Hehe I'm glad you're all enjoying the fifth panel fast-retort-mode. Fuzz I really like yours, and it sets a trend of people making the child into an ASSHOLE. Pesty's probably the most assholeish so far. The panel 7 closeup in hers is just creepy!

I liked how Vesper used the santa claus thing, he'll find the original text funny when I post it.

Yeah I noticed the talking cat and japanese swordmaster anime anime anime. I really can't take that cookie-cutter stuff.

It takes a special tolerance to enjoy a game though the aesthetics annoy you, I guess you have it, I don't.

Yes yes, you know how this works! There's no longer a winner or anything, and I will try to comment on all of them, and at the end show the original text version. You can edit bubble shapes and whatever else about the comic, but try to do only text versions before it all degenerates into slapping penises on grandpa's face or whatnot.



Funny is appreciated. Well-done is appreciated. Well-done and funny will make me hug my cat!

[Song]

Song:
Silent Cries by Fates Warning

Comment:
Here's something from a bygone era for you. The album is "No Exit" which is not critically acclaimed (Both 'Awaken the Guardian' right before it, and 'Parallels' three albums after are are rather considered their peaks, I agree with 'Guardian'). This shows Fates in quite the middle period of as a band. Moving away from their power and proto-progressive metal of 'Awaken' and into a thrash-informed but still very lyrical mood. Very bad guitar production, that 80's gated reverb snare, but still amazing. Their singer, Adler, the successor of the sublime John Arch at the time looked like Prince!

How I discovered it:
Fates Warning discovered me, not the other way around.

Amusing Anecdote:
Dig the trainers.

This isn't the first time (or place) where I've pimped these titles, but...

The DS adventures I've played that deserve an english translation:

Kenshuui Tendo Dokuta: A doctor 'em up! Plays like a cross between Phoenix Wright and Life or Death.

oh! a slightly inept but lovable doctor! Can you help him anime his anime without anime anime anime?



I played some Phoenix Wright and it was fun, though every anime anime anime cliche was in there. I suppose similar games could be created about almost any profession.

I am terrified of them.

I am really really sorry to hear that. It makes me feel awful, and I can't even begin to try to understand how that would be like. I don't know what else to tell you. I hope your wife is found safe.

I wasn't really serious about the alpha male thing.

I used to like Virginie Ledoyen a whole lot.

Yes! My healthy inclination is to be the alpha male, not accept the dominance of others!

I'm comfortable enough with my sexuality to admit that when I look at Brad Pitt, I say to myself, "Now there goes a fine specimen of hot, hot manhood."

This is such a strange thing. I am confident enough with my sexuality to look at Brad Pitt and detest him for being this handsome. I feel that's quite healthier than the recent apologetic streak our kind has decided is good form in such occassions.

[Song]

Song:
Symphonaire Infernus at Spera Empyrium by My Dying Bride

Comment:
The very first song My Dying Bride apparently wrote, it's 11 minutes. The version above sadly is clocks at chopped 5 minutes. This song is really important to me for many reasons. Well before this brand of romantic doom metal has been saturated by clones of the 'original three' (british Peaceville artists My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Paradise Lost) there were no photographs in sleeves, no interviews, no silly vampire lyrics, nothing but a very esoteric promise that only heavy metal can make, but rarely holds. The lyrical material here is, top-notch:

The destroying genius of idols
Will shroud the world with utter lies
Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis
Portraits have spoken their masters distress

Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this
Failing Enochian tapestries
Depict the prince of fallen virtues
In almost poetic rhapsody

Masturbate to the sound of the knell
The Patchetic stench of dying children
Perhaps our fall is certain
Limbs entwined in absolute contrusion

Please put off your veil
Your heart is blameless
And I shudder for knowing it

A hot May makes a fat churchyard
And Lychfowel breed in chaotic frenzy
Her cry was the saddest of all earths sounds
Trauma bites hard the hearts of Kin
Swept away by a moments sadness
They say rage is a brief madness
By way of the beloveds farewell
Give back to nature what we first did take
And monuments would slowly fill
The agendas' of Kings and Queens
In silence our faces bleed
The holy voice torn away by the gale

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you...

Love is a game where both players cheat
Gone is the tale of Hero and Leander
Women are angels yet wedlock's the devil
To have and to hold but death no longer parts
Harlots and sluts, whores of our world
Expose their stinking vaginas
Many who have no will of their own
Hold their souls towards the sinister bloom
Are you rich oh lord of vanity
As you peddle your wears of cruelty
Dressed up so you look the part
So blind, it's ignorance you wear

Quite brutal beyond belief
Sores that weep their septic tears
Dragged out through war torn lifetimes
And death shall feast on us all
The mills of God grind slowly
The adorable light of that which is most divine

The fascination of her shape
With mansions of awe and splendour
Elegant in simplicity
So at last your faith rewards you
Through fields enriched with pastel shade
And fragrant lavenders soft to smell
You laugh and drink wine of no great age
Nature does scent the farthest shores
Face to face your angelic host
All hopes in you imperishably kept
Is God your wish and all your dreams
If your body is frail then yes by all means

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you...

Sorry for not putting just a snippet, but how do you do that with this sort of work?

If experienced under the right circumstances ( youtube isn't it. ) this music is magic. Full of an incandescent malevolence, a cruelty of life, and more.

How I discovered it:

By bying the first EP.

Amusing Anectode:

When I witnessed this song live, and I was in the front row singing the lyrics and headbanging all the while, My Dying Bride recieved numerous rounds of applause. It wasn't because the audience was so appreciative of this track, it was because they were unfamiliar with it, and every time a rest came they thought the song was over. For them I guess My Dying Bride played 3 different songs close to each other.

It will eventually become acutely apparent that there's a swarm of nobodies humiliating themselves, and that they can do nothing but humiliate themselves because they aren't really interesting for anything else. Will there be a top (or bottom to be more precise) to where this humuliation will lead before the next cultural phenomena occurs and diverts the public attention, or is this really the face of the new culture and new media for the next 50 years? People showing off their new bracers in youtube and somebody lighting their fart?