I'm really pleased with how this page turned out. All those hours spent watching lurid documentaries about skid row have finally paid off! Now, I can finally enjoy my birthday.
Yup. My birthday. I'm 30, today. Horrible.
Naw, really, I'm not at all bothered. Even with working on the comic, it's been a lovely day. Among my presents was a book straight off of my Amazon Wishlist, The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square. It arrived anonymously, but whoever you are, I'd like you to know I basically died when I saw what it was. I have a ton of Jan Bondeson's books already and they're uniformly excellent reads; this really made my day. Thank you.
And I wanna thank everyone who's wished me a happy birthday on Twitter and Facebook. You guys are great.
Also, KC is gross.
I hope you had a nice birthday, eh.
Happy birthday - and oh god EJ hasn't blown so many veins that he has to shoot the junk into his junk, right? Please say no to this. The image of a junkie's pecker shot through with atrophied veins: I'm sure Burroughs would approve.
Femoral artery or vein. This is all I ask of you, Spike. Femoral artery or vein.
Would EJ really risk his sexual potency for smack or whatever that is?
...actually, thanks to Anomie, now I really want to see "junkie's pecker shot through with atrophied veins".
It's probably one of the more discreet places to shoot up, as he seems to be good at hiding his habit this may be the motivation.
Hapy Birthday.
That KC picture is somehwat similar to what Warren Ellis put up on his blog today. Enjoy!
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6757
That book was all Metz and I, Muz Spike (I wanted to make sure we got you something out of print, before it was all gone). HAPPY BUFFDAY!
Happy birthday!!
Yasei:
Dang! I didn't know they had the cameras rolling! I was drunk! How embarrassing.
Happy birhtday !
I hope good things come for you on this special day so you may continue to illuminate the world with all the nice clever things that you write/draw.
It's not that bad. We've still got to see Doctor Bash, Sunny, Mose, Kaspar, Arthur, the Cook dude, Claudius R. Graves, EJ, Nicky Collision, Cully, Mark, that old Jakeskin guy and Shep in their birthday suits.
I didn't just rattle off all your male characters -cross-referencing them with nude scenes- off the top of my head! I think I'd remember something like that.
Happy Birthday, Spike! I hit 20 in July and I've been assured our 30's will be awesome!
Oddly enough, junkie junk doesn't freak me out. Instead my brain immediately latched on to the needle he's got and started shrieking "NEEDLENONONONO" in a three-year-old panicky voice. *shudders* Don't like 'em. It's also uncomfortable because it's like watching a train wreck, albeit one that must keep happening over and over and you can't do anything about it. You can tell by the way he doesn't even break stride in what he's doing. It's just dismaying, I guess.
Also, is it weird I feel sorry for EJ in this page? He just looks so . . . sad in a resigned, "I-Get-This-Every-Day" sort of way after Biggs gets angry at him.
I've been poaching the mailman everyday waiting for my Templar books. I think my husband's resigned to the fact that he's probably going to have to cook dinner for himself the day they show up. Oh well. Do 'im good. I'll leave out a can opener or something. :D
Happy birthday, Spike!
It occurs to me that I misidentified Elliott "Horse Dick" Biggs as EJ "The Stupid One." Anomie regrets the error.
You've got to love this "Of Mice & Men"-like interplay between the two Elliotts - I just wonder which one's going to shoot the other as an act of mercy.
Aw man, don't tell me the guy's other veins are all so dead he's gotta pump it right in the vein of his soldier. I saw a guy I was living with back at the Y in Chicago do that once. That was some rough stuff to watch.
Awesome. A good comic to have a birthday on - a social degenerate shooting heroin into his cock.
Happy birthday Spike!
I know I've been sheltered from this sort of thing all my life, but Goodness Gracious! He hasn't been eating nearly enough! And for some reason, I fixate on that more strongly than the heroin to the cock.
Just so long as there's equal opportunity in the nudity department.
And happy brithday!
I'm not watching enough junkie documentaries, apparently. What he's doing there... is that seriously something people do? Don't make me google this.
Tony Breed; When you put enough junk (heroin) in your veins, eventually they blacken and die on ya and can't be used to pump yourself with junk anymore. Eventually, only vein you got left is the one on your pecker. You gotta be desperate to do this, not cause of the pain or anything, but because if you do it enough eventually your soldier wont be able to stand at attention anymore, if you know what I mean. Not to mention the chance of cysts or infections that might result and ya having to lop it off. And yeah, people actually do this. I've seen someone do this. It's not fun to watch, but you just can't look away.
Thanks, Junk Dog. I kinda figured something like that. That's depressing. But life is like that.
trufax: most people on heroin have reduced sexual drive, so not being able to get an erection is pretty much a non-issue. However, this is totally irrelevant to the situation at hand because he is not, in fact, shooting up Heroin. Rather, he is shooting up the cremated remains of a Mexican hooker. As everyone knows, the cremated remains of Javanese hookers give the best high. He's pretty down on his luck, though, and has to resort to the cheap stuff. It's tragic. Of course, if he were out reclaiming scrap iron and reselling it he'd be able to afford better junk, but... well. Cremated hooker remains have a side effect of ennui and lassitude that is very hard to shake.
PS holy crap, what is the use of captcha if THE LETTERS ARE CUT OFF AND ONLY HALF VISIBLE? I hate captcha. I get the reasoning behind it, but hot damn.
I've heard a place where junkies shoot up is like-- right next to their balls.
So I dunno. Maybe?
Happy birthday spike!
Man. EJ's gonna snap, in't he. Just ... don't let him kill one of the characters I like !!!
(and also: happy belated birthday)
Happy belated birthday indeed!
Also, oshi--!
I know that coat!
Dang, I just realized I forgot to wish Spike happy birthday in my comment posted above.
Sorry, Spike! Hope you had a great one. And that you get lotsa more cool gifts for Christmas/Channukah/Kwanzaa/Saturnalia/whatever.
Wow. I get Templar in between cooking my turkey and cooking the stuffing? Sweet! Have a great day whatever you get up to, Spike!
Somehow, Jackie is scarier than that gun/device/dealy-bobber Feather handed over in the last chapter. Poor Bigelow. He's kind of an ass, but I like the pair of Elliots. I hope they don't get too roughed up, but I'm curious to see what "business" they got into with the Jakeskins.
By the way, got my books earlier this week! And they are AWESOME. Diggin' the footnotes, because I am the nosey "how did they come up with that one" type. I can't wait for the third.
Oh-oh...while Biggsie seems only unpleasantly surprised to see Jackie, he's definitely worried that certain Jake males might be in the vicinity. Methinks this doth not bode well.
I love how everybody (except Reagan) gets that crazy, hunted look when Jackie is around. I think that may in fact be one of my Top 5 Favorite Things About Templar, AZ.
Hay Spike, I think I see skip in the 12-3 sorcery 101 strip.
http://sorcery101.net/d/20081203.html
So, Spike, Templar, AZ is located in the United Providence of Hyperia, eh?