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I wonder why "Fightrack : fight stuff for fight fans" is advertising on your site... does it seem likely to them that your readers would be "fight fans" ?
Posted by Wood at May 2, 2007 07:08 AM
90.31.165.20
Uses every day products to produce similes (Paraphrasing- "His guts spilled on the ground like a can of Campbell's Chunky Soup").
Shot
Posted by michael j patrick at May 2, 2007 07:09 AM
141.150.246.160
I'm on page 50 of The Shining and I'm rat-arsed already (hic!).
Posted by Billy at May 2, 2007 08:57 AM
138.38.54.23
You know, I had an inkling that the voice on the previous page was Gene! He's the only one who talks in all lowercase :-P
Posted by Bremma at May 2, 2007 09:26 AM
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Oh oh. Sounds like riot police.
And there's Benny, standing around with orange paint all over his face.
This could get interesting. Scratch that. Even if it's not how I think it might go, it'll be interesting.
Posted by stacey at May 2, 2007 11:16 AM
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I may be late in realizing this, but isn't Scip REALLY HIGH STRUNG, too much so in regards to being a bodyguard?
Can you imagine having him as your bodyguard? The running commentary alone...
Or maybe it's just being around Ray.
Posted by Jason at May 2, 2007 11:36 AM
67.170.208.203
"I wonder why "Fightrack : fight stuff for fight fans" is advertising on your site... does it seem likely to them that your readers would be "fight fans" ?"
Maybe Google Ads knows more about the story plot that we do.
Woo... that's pretty creepy.
/shot
Posted by Malex at May 2, 2007 11:49 AM
75.61.120.215
Someone wishes the nagging voice they hear in their head would shut up, and for a wonder it does, for now, shot.
Author who used to be drug-addicted and alcoholic, double shot.
Worthless object with great importance for the protagonist shoots RAYS OF LIGHT and kills the bad guy, triple shot.
The guy who ran King over OD's mysteriously on Kings birthday, shudder and wonder to yourself.
Posted by Kingolf at May 2, 2007 12:35 PM
62.243.207.210
Hey Spike, we -totally care- how you make the pretty. In fact, if you ever wanted to do a Making Of page (even if it was just webcam timelapse) we'd be all over it... seriously!
Thanks for the heads-up, i'm almost out of ink so I might give the acrylic a shot.
-j
Posted by Jasonf at May 2, 2007 06:15 PM
192.240.14.3
Here’s the Spike drinking game.
Every time there's a large, fat woman in the comic, take a drink.
Every time there's a thin, morose slacker guy with the fat woman, take a drink.
Every time a character smokes, take a drink.
Every time Charla explains some obscure cultural reference in the comic, take a drink.
Every time Charla drops the name of a famous artists who says her work is Da Bomb, take a drink.
Every time Charla spouts praise for another artist, take a drink.
Every time Charla derides her own work as not worthy, take a drink.
Every time Charla complains about how hard this or that panel was to draw, take a drink.
Every time Charla makes an excuse for the comic being late, take a drink.
Every time Charla plugs the book or some place where the comic was mentioned, take a drink.
Posted by Me at May 2, 2007 07:52 PM
65.170.125.225
So.... they ARE talking about YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT.
Awesome!
Posted by AstroZamboni at May 2, 2007 07:53 PM
70.176.182.140
Two shots for every obsessive, cowardly stalker tho, right?
Poor baby. Keep watching, I get a kick out of it.
Jasonf: The new IN thing these days seems to be "How I draw!"YouTube videos. I don't have a webcam, tho. Or rather, one decent enough to make a how-to vide worth recording or watching.
Jason: Yeah actually, Scip isn't suited to the work at all. Of being a bodyguard, I mean. Fortunately, he doesn't get very important assignments. Part of it's that he's not technically qualified, and part of it is that he just hasn't got the personality for it. That's something I'll show later.
Posted by spike at May 2, 2007 08:46 PM
68.20.33.23
Is it wierd that I imagine Gene's voice as something like Jasper's from The Simpsons?
Yeah?
Okay.
Posted by Magnolia at May 2, 2007 10:11 PM
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Aw, why did'ja have to get all apologetic at the end of the Stevie King rant? We really need someone to stand up and say: "Hey! Steven King! You're only a sorta-O.K. writer!" I'll drink to that!
Seriously. Anyone here ever see "Maximum Overdrive"? He wrote that. The only good thing I can say about that movie is that at least I didn't have to READ it.
Posted by CounterHegemony at May 2, 2007 11:46 PM
24.105.181.129
Honestly, it's because even though I'm ragging on him some, I am basically OK with Stephen King. I once heard his books described as the literary equivalent of a cheeseburger, and that's really accurate. They're quick and pleasant and easy. I mean, if I'm goofing about reoccurring themes, I must have read enough of his books to notice, right?
And King audiobooks are the ideal brain-occupier. Everyone who inks comic pages should have the whole library.
(PS: Maximum Overdrive! Magical cars! One drink per!)
Posted by spike at May 3, 2007 12:27 AM
68.20.33.23
Spike,
Yeah, I didn't mean youtube - i just meant a half a dozen stills or so. I'm pretty curious to see how it happens, for the longest time I was *sure* you did it all in illustrator with all those sweet curves and that palette. Boy was *I* wrong.
Anyway, don't let me distract you from more Templar!
- j
Posted by jasonf at May 3, 2007 12:44 AM
72.130.255.150
So... I have this S. King Theory. I actually enjoy reading his books, though I'm buggered if I can pin down why. Maybe his characters.
My theory though, is the "King 9th inning changeup", which is the literary equivalent of a nice date ending with your boyfriend turning off the road onto a wilderness switchback away from the view of witnesses where he horribly and brutally rapes you.
It almost always happens in the last few chapters of a book King writes, but he's been suprising me. Hell, Cell was damn near ALL a 9th inning for me.
Posted by Metz at May 3, 2007 01:37 AM
24.17.28.83
Any time everyones favorite reluctant hero, Nick, sacrafices himself for the good of the rest of the nondeserving dumbass cast, take two shots of the hardest thing you can find.
Posted by Yasei at May 3, 2007 01:41 AM
24.17.28.83
I posted earlier but it never showed up! O_O
Well I'm a huge King fan, and while you CAN enjoy him like a cheeseburger, you could also think about it too much and end up with something as deliciously tangley as a fancy spaghetti.
Mostly his more recent stuff.
But that's what I like about King, you can take it either way.
But YES, he does have repetitions. A lot of them are because the majority of his books are linked by the Dark Tower series, which is frikkin amazing. There's only a few stories he hasn't woven into that world, and those are pretty early ones.
Wow, I'm rambling. Sorry!
Anyway, so here's one:
---Take a shot every time someone clenches their hands into fists so tightly that they end up with crescent-shaped cuts on their palms left by the nails.
I swear it happens in more than half of the books. I should know. ^_^
(Oh and movies he's involved with pretty much ALWAYS suck. It happens to most writers actually)
/end fangirling
I have no idea what "YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT" is... can't wait to find out!
Posted by Steffox at May 3, 2007 02:43 AM
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Fun fact: Stephen King plans nothing in his books ahead of time. He just writes it as it comes to him. He considers this the only way to write.
It explains so much about his writing, doesn't it?
Posted by Railoc at May 3, 2007 12:01 PM
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You want fun? try suming up Stephen King's books in one sentence.
Coojo: An Evil Dog kills people.
Christine: An Evil Car kills people.
It: An Evil Clown kills people.
......yeah.
Posted by Billie at May 5, 2007 02:47 PM
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That's Cujo, and not everything is evil. Cujo isn't evil, he's rabid and it drives him nuts and he does what any crazy dog would do: bite. He just focuses on a few people he can't get his teeth on.
But one's motives can go beyond just being evil, because few people CHOOSE to be evil. Sometimes what you want, while justified (to you), is just not very helpful to other people.
Yeah, Pennywise is evil in IT. Christine is a car, and possessed or something, so the nature of a possessing demon is to be evil. But look at some other stuff too. Like Jack from The Shining or the zombie people in Cell.
Posted by Steffox at May 6, 2007 03:44 AM
67.42.100.99
For the sake of nitpicking in dead threads:
Take any author ever, sum up their books with one verb. They're gonna sound pretty repetitive.
Not that Mr. King isn't very repetitive.
Posted by Anonymous at May 9, 2007 05:38 AM
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