Or should this go under comics? Eh. Don't matter.
Seein' as how I've been sorta, kinda wrangled into heading out to Ohio for Fallcon this year with m'buddies Dirk and The Marvelous Patric, this tends to resonate. Link stolen from Lea's Livejournal, on account she always finds the good stuff first.
Tomorrow: All my characters are Mary-Sues. And I have proof.
Been a while since we went gawping, hasn't it? Let's fix that.
You might already know about Snopes.com, urban legend debunking site of choice for intarweb skeptics and killjoys everywhere. But maybe you didn't know about their forums, such as the "We've Got Mail!" messageboard, dedicated to some of the more unusual emails that show up in the site's mailbox.
The site recently began getting emails from an anonymous man claiming to be the true creator of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, The Mushroom Kingdom, Kirby, and pretty much every other major Nintendo icon of the past twenty years. It turns out that Mario is based on a friend of his from the Navy who died of brain cancer, but then some art students stole all the drawings and sold them to the Japanese, who changed Mario's name to "Jumpman" for the original Donkey Kong game, but then changed it back to Mario and added Luigi and the rest of it in follow-up games just to mock him in his powerlessness. Oh, and they've been slowly strip-mining his 30-year-old sketchbook for concept art for the past three decades, bilking him out of millions.
I think. Or something. I dunno, he's not a big fan of punctuation.
It goes on for thirteen glorious pages, and it starts right here. The artist in question is posting as "apachearrow," and he really starts losing his shit around page four.
Also, he blames the Navy for causing him "mental problems."
Shocking.
