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Our Stupid Comic this week is a short story that appeared in an anthology of furry comics, and it's about the terrible tragedy that befell mankind when one of our most talented and beloved spiritual leaders was cruelly struck down in the prime of his life.



Yes, Poppa Bear, Jerry Garcia, leader pro tem of the Grateful Dead Incorporated Entertainment Conglomerate Limited, departed from our spiritual plane in 1995. What better way to express your sorrow than a furry comic? Along the way our little story gets in a few digs at how MUCH MORE awful Jerry's death is than the deaths of other public figures of lesser importance. Get in a few snide digs at that awful 'Generation X' along with the furries today at Stupid Comics!

This is the first Stupid Comic where I might actually have met someone involved, although years and years ago. Sorry man, nothing personal, it's just business.

Not to be callous at celebrity death, but this comic is so over the top brimming with baby boomer generation attitude - that Our Heroes of the Psychedelic Era were Way More Important than any previous, or any that would later come, that Our Woodstock Nation was the most important fifteen minutes of time ever and those who missed out are just jealous - the sanctimonious, welfare-check-cashing, patchouli-scented, blissed-out losers too stoned to realize that standing around barefoot in a muddy field listening to a forty-five minute version of 'Fire On The Mountain' isn't changing the universe, except for the various small parasitical worms currently entering the open sores on your feet, it's changing their universe plenty.

Also, and this is in no way connected, there's a great whack more Peter Sellers comedy at Found Sound. So go here and get Seller'd!

I had a big whack of time off and now I'm back to work, I work tomorrow, and also Sunday, and then Monday I'm back on my regular schedule again. So I'm kind of punchy right now and expect to be so pretty much throughout the upcoming week. PEACE, MAN.

Date: 2011-08-20 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Why is "Kurt Coltbain" the only one to get a "Captain Carrot & His Amazing Friends"- style pun name? No "Hairy Garcia" or "Jerry Gar-Seal"*? I feel like this might could have used a second draft.



* This would of course open up the possibility of drawing a fat hippie creature combining aspects of both a gar and a seal.

Date: 2011-08-20 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spook-town.livejournal.com
That was me posting a second ago. One good thing about this strip: it makes Jim Valentino's somewhat-similar strip about his reaction to Lennon's death seem less clumsy by comparison. Hey, they could have name checked "John Lemming!" SO many missed opportunities!

Date: 2011-08-20 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
In Re. The Dead's MMO community thingie...

Ya think buying drugs will be an 'undocumented feature' or will some crafty player find a way to create same?

Because...dude.

And was I seeing things or was one of the dudes who hooked up with mom-rabbit 'back in the day' kinda macking on daughter-rabbit?

Date: 2011-08-20 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ferricide.livejournal.com
i was going to say "furries ruin everything" but i feel like this couldn't be ruined. it's already too self-indulgently stupid. i'm not sure what furries even add or detract. i couldn't really read it. i mean, make myself.

or understand why it's a comic. who the hell would buy this? why?

Date: 2011-08-20 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
Ya know? I suspect some would buy it just because there's rabbit chicks with big breasts.

Doesn't even matter they don't get nekkid.

Date: 2011-08-21 10:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ferricide.livejournal.com
yeah, i guess, maybe in the past when there was no internet. but it's still like, who wants to read this? baby ... boomer ... furries? okaaaaaaay

Date: 2011-08-21 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] warpig1979.livejournal.com
Yeh. Touch the right fetish bases and a certain number of people will read it regardless of what else is there.

This is also why a certain number of anime fans back in the '90s bought Antarctic Press comics.

Date: 2011-08-22 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
This is truth.

Altho I would still buy 'Twilight X' today, I really liked that book.

Date: 2011-08-23 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davemerrill.livejournal.com
That's the one about the Russians invading Texas using giant robots and the scrappy Texans who sally forth to battle the Russians in their own giant robots, right? I think that scenario was playing in the heads of everybody I knew in Texas throughout the 1980s, this wargaming techno-military fetish mindset. When Japanese cartoons came along they fit right in.

Date: 2011-08-23 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
No, no, Twilight X was the comic about this guy who meets this girl in a post-nuke world, he rescues her from some drug runners and they meet some other 'Special Service' guys and link up, find a submarine and...

Oh, and there's Hostess Ding-dongs involved.

It's kinda sorta part Shirow, part John Ringo, a dash of Ben Dunn, some cribbing from the Twilight 2000 RPG with a smattering of John Woo and Stanley Kubrick.

Dude's art kept improving too. Then he got a Mac and started to really go wild. :)

Date: 2011-08-24 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davemerrill.livejournal.com
I was thinking of "Tiger X", my bad.

Date: 2011-08-25 01:36 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I guess the implication is in this furry realm, Kurt Cobain was a horse? No, no, he DID horse. DRUUUUUUUG humor...

--C.

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