machines of flubbing grace
Here is the problem of drawing giant robots. First, you get the idea. “It’ll be cool/ awesome/ hilarious to draw a giant Voltron robot,” you think, and so you make a comic script about the giant robot finally, and you start drawing it. And drawing it. And drawing it.
Because drawing giant Voltron-type robots takes fuckin’ forever, right? And forever, my friends, is enough time – to reflect.
You ask yourself how, at this point in your life – for you are at least nominally a grown-ass adult human – how at this juncture you have come to draw a giant Voltron robot. Willingly. At your option, right? You could have drawn something else. What does it say about you, that you’re by yourself, drawing a giant toy robot, instead of like driving a nice car to somewhere, and – oh, fuck, you forgot to connect the actuator to the wingding, crapnuggets, well, you’re drawing it ironically so people shouldn’t notice, and what does that say about you?
Drawing hott girlz tends to go similarly for me and that’s one of the reasons1 I barely ever do that or try very hard when I do – it’s extremely irritating. I’m not really scared of drawing anything, but there are things that enrage me, trying to get them right.
Anyway I also want to mark that comic as one that will mysteriously woooooh change a bit as it lurks in the archives for a while. I screwed something up, there. It’s not the robot.
1 Other than basically being really bored of objectifying female characters in comics/TV/movies – I hope it’s sort of clear that however many times Sara and Jane get it in the neck it’s not because they’re women. This has been your Verry Serious Footnote.
IRONIC MOVIE NIGHT, YEAR 2018 EDITION
The upcoming remake of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you know, the one where they take out all the elements that made it so much better than the title made it sound – because that is why it’s got geek cred, fundamentally, it was a show that was better than it had any right to be – they take all that out, and reimagine it, starting with the core idea, which is terrible. That is the first movie. The second is the sequel to Heathers. Unless of course God is just and strikes both of these movies down in the development phase.
NOBODY SCORES IN OUR CULTURE VAULTS
We have recently made a number of acquisitions.
Footage of Kermit the Frog’s abusive father has been released.
Evidence that the Japanese have seen fit to upgrade perfectly good Ninja Turtles.
You put your middle finger in the air and you wave it like you just don’t AW GOD NO THE OBSCENITY OF IT STOP JUST STOP
If I ever have physical booths selling physical comic-type objects, such booths will be designed by Adelbert Ames. Figure 1, Figure 2. It will be fun times!
Did you watch the MTV Movie Awards? Me neither. But I’m pretty sure this was the good part, so I have acquired it to share with you.
This comic is about to e x p l o d e.