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VENTURE BROTHERS Storyboard Art
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Hardy Boys
Tom Swift
Danny Dunn
Those are the three references quoted in the last couple reviews that I read. Interestingly, those books WERE my youth. Yes, I grew up in the fifties via the eighties.
Growing up in the eighties makes me old enough to have my own Fred Savage sitcom. Never mind. Go watch the Venture Brothers.
“The Life Aquatic with Thaddeus Venture”
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
Hmm. A blog from some random dude that combines the Venture Brothers with the Life Aquatic. Highly entertaining - and probably the sort of thing that my English Composition instructor would revel in. That’s probably the reason that I reveled in it.
Ugh. Like two days until I am in school. MF.
Me as South Park
The Norwegian man.
Um, just… um… I suppose that I should post something witty and/or interesting. Lots of luck with that. People have already made comments about h0bbel’s man-boobs, so I’ve got nothin’ left to comment on. On which to comment.
Child�s Play
Penny Arcade is working with the Seattle Children�s Hospital and Amazon.com to make this Christmas really special for a lot of very sick kids.
Buy something for those kids by buying something from their wishlist. Do it for the kids.
A [excluded] work of [excluded] genius
I like Penny Arcade. Remember when you lived in a geeky apartment full of computers and gaming systems, and you played Need For Speed with your best friend every day? Penny Arcade is all that and more, and if you don’t read it at least once in a while you are sorely missing out.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2003-9-29
In what starts out as a madcap romp of a post, Tycho takes us down the Oregon Trail of youthful romance that leads to a sensation of poignant loss. I’m commenting on it simply because I can.
Tycho posits that he often excludes 50% of his vocabulary when he talks to people. I think that we all know that the percentage of discarded vocabulary more closely approximates 99% rather than 50%. People don’t got words, so you gotta talk with small ones so they get you.
From what I have seen, this is Tycho’s best work.
“Just as the man who is gutshot is made instantaneously aware of previously unknown internal geographies, it became suddenly clear that there was a vast expanse in me, a region, a continent, perhaps even a universe that could contain a truly stunning volume of pure pain.”
I’m afraid that I have thrown away the words to properly describe the genius of this sentence, so I will use the small ones that I have left: fucking awesome. On the sixth word I was instantly feeling every crush I’ve ever had over again - every woman for whom I’d ever pined - every crazed obsession that forced me to walk past a girl’s house on the way home from junior high (or out of my way) - all of that in one elaborate unraveling of emotion.
Okay, some of this is just hyperbole because I’m inspired, but hell, Penny Arcade deserves it. Thanks for the wang jokes, guys!
Also, Tycho inadvertantly introduced me to Built to Spill, which was a real act of kindness indeed.
Starboy no more
Narrator: When last we saw our stalwart hero, he was finishing up a certain Big Book of Starboy Action. Let’s see what he’s up to now.
Starboy
I had planned to put my own comics here, but it seems that the name of my fave character has been taken. Oh well.
I’m not really a fanboy. I haven’t read superhero comics since I was just a wee lad poking around in the closet and discovering my (now ex-) stepfather’s stash of comics. Marvel, DC, all that good stuff. Nowadays I like the indie stuff- personal comics with an intimate bent. Either that or wicked humor.
Reduction was a local publication that I dug. Now it is something else.
Okay, no one really asked for it, but I have made the Big Book of Starboy into a .pdf file. Download it and print out your own copy! (some assembly required)
Instructions: Assemble the pages in order. For a really pro look, copy the cover onto cardstock and do the rest of the pages front and back on plain paper.