Before we get into all the stuff below this that I just wrote I want to tell everybody about Worlds Beyond, a Science Fiction anthology that features a short story of mine called Prisoner of War and it’s hot off the presses and ready for your consumption. To purchase a copy, click on the link to the right, under the calender, yeah thats it. It’s got a whole bunch of stories and some great art. The critics have raved that my story is “science fiction” and “40 pages long”. The whole anthology is almost 300 pages long and my story is a big chunk of that so, If you like this comic then you won’t regret picking up Worlds Beyond. If you want to know more, click on the “other projects” link above the comic.
Apparently I have a knack for making obscure references to movies from the eighties and nineties that are funny only to the people who get the reference and the only people that would get the reference are me. This is what’s going on in panel 4. A reference to a piece of dialogue in a’90s movie that is so obscure that I am probably the only person that will appreciate it. It’s not a huge deal that you don’t get the reference mind you, your only missing out on a half chuckle of recognition. Really the point of the thought process in panel 4 is to send up the trope that I have exploited on this page, which actually gives me the perfect segue (that word’s spelled weird) into the topic of last week.
Perfect might be a strong word though, as I promised last week to discuss the second type of webcomic blog that I like when really I have segued into two of the types of webcomic blogs that I loathe which is…
The Webcomic Blog That Explains What You Have Just Read!
and…
The Webcomic Blog That Points out Everything That the Creator Doesn’t Like About the Current Page.
A 2fer which is kind of impressive in it’s own right. I have avoided writing a blog up until this point because I didn’t want to fall into the trap of picking apart or explaining every page that I publish in exhaustive detail. I’ve read Webcomics where I liked the page, then read the author’s analysis in which they tear apart what I just enjoyed and made me realize that it actually sucked.
Worse, though, is the blog that follows a page that goes something like this… “Isn’t this always the way it is, you think that you’re in over your head and then you find a way to tie an unfamiliar and daunting experience into a familiar experience which allows you to find the strength perceiver.”
By the way, if you write a webcomic and you’re reading this and you think that I am talking about your webcomic, I’m not, relax.
I guess I will save talking about a type of webcomic blog that actually like for another time.
If any of you vultures want to guess what movie panel 4 references, have at it, the first person who does gets a present. If you’re my wife and you guess because I told you then I’m deleting your comment.
Oh wait I have bigger news about a short story I wrote! I should probably put that at the top of the blog…
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I miss Chris Farley. I must search through the boxes of VHS in the attic.